Hello, my name is kai bird, from cuny, City University of new york. And were from the foundation to do events like this to promote the arts and crafts of biographies. And weve been a sponsor of the National Book festival for some yea years. Were here on a session off the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival and the theme this year is american ingenuity. Were going to be talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals. Harold holzer is one of the leading lincoln scholars. Currently the director of the Roosevelt House Public Policy Institute at hunter college. Ted widmer, the author of eight books. Professor widmer is on the faculty of mccauleys honors college. Today well discuss his latest book, lincoln on the verge. A story about the 13day train journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington d. C. To be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books. Im going to hold up each of them. This is literally a mini biography, well, not so mini, its a subst
On the executive director of the center for biography at the university of new york and we are sponsored from the leave the foundation to do events like this to arts and crafts of biography and a sponsor of the National Book festival and we are here with the 20th anniversary of the National Book festival talking tonight with two notable public intellectuals Harold Voelker the leading lincoln scholar and the director of the roosevelt house Public Policy of Hunter College today we will be discussing the latest book lincoln on the verge the story of the journey that lincoln took from illinois to washington dc to be inaugurated as president. These are two very different books this is a many paragraph the and this is harolds work on the president s. And that is the notion that american politics that is contentious and downright toxic. Toxic. Lets begin with you. So with the description of the dangerous train journey and at one point you refer to the toxic climate of 1860 is a worse toda tod
They align with the current nationwide campaign for police reform. And he goes a step further on the, police accountability. It works to to certify officers for serious misconduct. Right now california doesnt have that in place. His recommendations come less than 24 hours after Police Unions put out a fullpage ad on sunday calling for Police Reforms and rooting out racist Police Officers. Unfortunately there is racism in our communities. The first step is to admit we have racist Police Officers working in our profession and how do we prevent them from going from department to department. It would basically list people that have gross misconduct whether it is racism, biases, just dont have the temperament to do the job so they dont go from agency to agency. He says that he appreciates the union speaking out and his recommendations are similar. He is urging local Law Enforcement agencies to adopt practices before sb 820 would require them to maintain those policies pick lets see if we ca
We have a lot of staffing to make sure we have the level of coverage throughout the city. We are also using the online reporting tool ourselves. Reporter there have been 130 reports over the last month, up from last year. Downtime resident, jeff levine has reported many of them. Mike weir prison of her we are prisoners of our own house and i want to make sure the house doesnt burn down. Reporter he is hopeful this year will be different and that there will be more citations but until then we are on guard tonight. Reporter one thing residents did say is they noticed fewer fireworks in the weeks leading up to the fourth. You can find the online reporting tool on the San Jose City website. In san jose, ann rubin, ktvu fox2 news. In oakland, police plan to use Shotspotter Technology to track skyline has lit up with dozens of illegal fireworks displays. This is video from previous years. Already this week, police in oakland have confiscated more than two tons of illegal fireworks. There is
And i didnt see a viable pass to victory. If changes we will correspondence. Cruz has advised the states, 32 states and territories in all that he intends to hold on to the delegates as to shape the Party Platform and rules to reflect the cruz brand of conservatism. They are all negotiating with donald trump. Ted cruz has important voice in the party and a conservative champion and he will take this message to the convention to make sure that the Party Platform stays much like it is. In a speech focused on foreign affairs. Ted cruz swore off on taking shots. The Cruz Campaign met a five p. M. Deadline on monday to file a slate of delegates for the california primary next month. The state director told us that was just to keep faith with the supporters. In washington, James Rosen Fox news. Donald trump has narrowed down his list of possible runningmates. Trump said there are five or six candidate that he is looking at as potential candidates. Todays announcement comes after several repu