our tradition of progress? or will we move forward continuing to expand and envelop? rights of individuals in a changing world which is bound bound impact upon those individual sense of who they are and what they can do. will these nobeline human rights and human dignity, which is the legacy of the past two centuries continue to mark the journey of our people. and so judge as you well know. this is no ordinary nomination. not merely because you were there and i must say to you that. it must be somewhat daunting as is experienced as you are? sit there and with an array of people here about to question you it s not an easy position to be in a confident. i m not being solicit this you will handle it. well, but nonetheless there s not an easy position. but this nomination is more with all due respect judge and i assure you agree then about you. in the passing on this nomination of the supreme court we must also pass judgment on the weather or not. your particular philosophy is an
can t imagine my parents. give me a name like that but backwards is spelled suffer. and and i was the deputy chief counsel of the senate watergate committee under center sam irvin the man i m worship most in public life. and we were also proud to work for him. on may 17th 1973 out of this very room. chairman, sam irvin began hearing from the watergate scandal these hearings touched the heartstrings of america and ended up helping mold. what we thought would be the future of constitutional government. as then minority leader mike mansfield said no one in the entire senate was better equipped. to handle this thing called watergate than senator sam j irvin. i worked for center sam jay irvin for 10 years. and i can personally attest. that things were different then than they are now. civility reigned remember that word civility and all of and all the people who were here some 60 years ago know that that is the case. too much civility is absent today. consider the level of viteral
because we don t have that sort of media system anymore. it s not that way. but i think people will watch, and i think some minds will be changed and others, it won t matter to them because they ve already made up their minds. but at least the information is out there, and we re going to get to hear from those who are involved. we ll see you tomorrow night, laura coates. looking forward to it. bye, don lemon. bye-bye. just in to cnn, federal prosecutors now have an email revealing the trump campaign told so-called fake electors in georgia to keep what they were doing a secret as they tried to overturn joe biden s win in the state. we re going to have much more on that in just a moment. this is just coming in to cnn. more about it in just moments. it comes during what just might be the week when we see whether we can come together as a country and still have a functioning government. can we do something finally to solve gun violence? it may come down to what four key s
mark thompson his face faithfully been on standby for two years for our festival through the cancellations in this darn pandemic. as i said at the opening of the show today, it s been both terrifying and boring this pandemic. it s done a number on our festival. we are humbled to finally have mark here. he is the former ceo of the new york times where he presided over an expansion of its digital and global operations. under his leadership digital subscriptions grew from 500,000 to nearly four million subscribers. before joining the times mr. thompson served as director general of the bbc. i could go on and on about mark, but i think you get the point. i told you our moderators there is about as exciting as our authors today. okay, garrett graff. his book has hit the new york times bestseller list twice in the last two weeks. so that s exciting. it s good to know that people are still reading 800 page history books. we maybe he will tell us how watergate measures up to today s
subscribers. before joining the times mr. thompson served as director general of the bbc. i could go on and on about mark, but i think you get the point. i told you our moderators there is about as exciting as our authors today. okay, garrett graff. his book has hit the new york times bestseller list twice in the last two weeks. so that s exciting. it s good to know that people are still reading 800 page history books. we maybe he will tell us how watergate measures up to today s political scandals. garrett graff a distinguished journalist and best-selling historian has spent more than a dozen years covering politics technology and national security. today he serves as the director of cyber initiatives for the aspen institute. and it s a contributor to wired cnn and politico. he s written for publications from esquire to rolling stone to the new york times. garrett graff is the author of multiple books including another new york times bestseller the only plane in the sky. ple