Phil, thanks. Appreciate you being here this morning. Thanks for having me. And new day continues right now. Im John Berman with brianna keilar. It is thursday, august 5th. And this is where we are this morning. Nearly 59,000 people are hospitalized with covid. Those are numbers we havent seen in almost six months. I. C. U. Beds are running out in louisiana, mississippi, and arkansas. Cases rising sharply among children. Now Asa Hutchinson the governor of arkansas says he regrets signing a law banning Mask Mandates. Our cases were at a low point. Everything has changed now. And, yes, in hindsight, i wish that had not become law. He signed it. This morning the biden administration is considering a Vaccination Requirement for most international passengers traveling to the united states. There is also a debate this morning after the World Health Organization declared there should be no Booster Shots for americans, third vaccine shots before the rest of the world gets its share of vaccines
To join him in what would have been a soft coup to try to compare this election to those who have been validated for other reasons that there would be wide enough corrupt fraud to be nullified. This is proven. These are now public today, you can see the note here. This is damming evidence revealing, relief of the first time at this level of internal pressure that trump was ordering the Justice Department to say the election was corrupt and leave the rest to me and the republican congress. I am going to read that again, this is evidence that we do not have during the Impeachment Trial about this very issue. These are independent notes within the highest levels of the Trump Administration outing them President Trump for ordering the doj to say quote, the election was corrupt, leave the rest to me and the r, congressman, the gop. It is a level of fraud that had not been found in internal evidence written before. This is the kind of thing that would big and many people would like to sweep
Museum. My name is Joel Westfall and as my honor to serve here as the Deputy Director and welcome you on behalf of the archivist of the United States. Were very pleased to have you with us for tonights program. Tonight our future speaker is Scott Kaufman. Who was a Francis Marion University board of Trustees Scholar and chair of the History Department where he teaches american diplomatic and military history here in this doctorate at ohio university the other ohio university. In 2014. Kaufman was awarded a Ford President ial Foundation Research Travel gap. Much of the research for this book that he wrote came from the archives. And manuscript collections of the Ford Library and Ann Arbor and he is grateful also for the assistance from president Fords Son steve. He is the Author Coauthor and editor of 11 books on us foreign and foreign Policy And Diplomacy and history of the presidency and first ladies a few of his publications include Project Plowshare the peaceful use of nuclear explo
Foreign policy and how environmental issues influenced domestic policy. He also reflects on president Fords Pardon of Richard Nixon, in light of current events. Good evening. Welcome to the Ford President ial museum. My name is Joel Westfall and it is my honor to serve here as Deputy Director and welcome good to have you here. We are pleased to have you with us for tonights program. Tonight the featured speaker is Scott Kaufman, who is a Francis Marion Board of Trustees Scholar and chair of the History Department where he teaches american diplomatic and military history. He earned his doctorate at ohio university. The other ohio university. In 2014, kaufman was awarded a Ford President ial Foundation Research Travel grant. Much of the research from this book he wrote came from the archives and manuscript collections of the Ford Library in Ann Arbor and for the assistance of his son steve. He is the coauthor of 11 books on u. S. And foreign Policy And Diplomacy and history of the presid
History. He earned his doctorate at ohio university. The other ohio university. In 2014, kaufman was awarded a Ford President ial Foundation Research Travel grant. Much of the research from this book he wrote came from the archives and manuscript collections of the Ford Library in Ann Arbor and for the assistance of his son steve. He is the coauthor of 11 books on u. S. And foreign Policy And Diplomacy and history of the presidency and first lady. A few of his publications include project share, the presidency of james Earl Carter Jr. And Rosland Carter equal partner in the white house among many others. Kaufman is currently writing a monograph on the environment due to be released in december of 2018. Kaufman is a featured expert on the carter administration, cold war, u. S. Foreign policy, the ford administration, nuclear testing and the office of the first lady. With regard to Scott Kaufmans new book ambition, pragmatism and party, Smu History Director Jeffrey Eagle stated, no one u