and buy contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. please welcome sash sasha polakow-suransky, he s the author of the book go back to where you came from, white n s nationalism. i read that. what kind of backlash did you get from that? i got some creepy message, something that i don t want to see on facebook and twitter. it got under a lot of people skin. give me some sense of what you heard? there were a lot of backlash of white nationalist groups. i got a lot of comments looking into my own background and insinuating things of jewish people. it was uncomfortable but i was not entirely surprise. i think there were people out there who were offended by it because i was calling them out. is immigration like, i am going to say the new third rail, although there is nothing new about the debate. is it a new third rail in politics? it is a central issue in this century and all throughout europe. most o f the reporting that i did was in pla
and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. the recent ambush of u.s. troops in niger put a spotlight on africa. and, nick turis, author of tomorrow s battlefield u.s. proxy wars and secret ops in africa. and next time they will come to count the dead war and survival in south sudan he joins us in new york. thank you for joining us. thank you for having me on. excuse the raspiness of the voice. i think i can get through it. an important conversation, why i am here. sure. let me start reviewing what happened on capitol hill today very quickly. so, general mattis was on the hill today testifying. and was essentially pressed on whether or not these troops, these american troops in niger were operating under the military authorization put on the books after, after, 9/11. he essentially set they were not operating under that war authorization of, of 2011. but instead were operating what he referred to as title 10. this would be the u.
and buy contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. please welcome sash sasha polakow-suransky, he s the author of the book go back to where you came from, white n s nationalism. i read that. what kind of backlash did you get from that? i got some creepy message, something that i don t want to see on facebook and twitter. it got under a lot of people skin. give me some sense of what you heard? there were a lot of backlash of white nationalist groups. i got a lot of comments looking into my own background and insinuating things of jewish people. it was uncomfortable but i was not entirely surprise. i think there were people out there who were offended by it because i was calling them out. is immigration like, i am going to say the new third rail, although there is nothing new about the debate. is it a new third rail in politics? it is a central issue in this century and all throughout europe. most o f the reporting that i did was in pla
warning no watches or warnings in effect with regard to weather. head back to alison. alison: thank you, steve. the heat is causing problems for some commuters out there because rail and csx issued heat-related speed rediction on the camden and the brunswick line for the remainder of the day. prepare for delays. leon: in other news, funeral services were held for three family members murdered in a northwest d.c. home last month. at this point one arrest has been made in the death of savvas savopoulos and his wife amy and their 10-year-old son phillip. rebecca cooper is in the northwest to look at how the family is being remembered. rebecca? rebecca: this massive church was filled to capacity. hundreds came here today. not only to by a their respect at the funeral but to show support for the two daughters left behind. they were at boarding school when the rest of their family was murdered. today they gathered to say goodbye. government business and the community leaders all
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