Know about his sons business dealings in ukraine. He is backpedaling on that. Twitter and facebook now accused trying to suppress this news. The fireworks on the final day of questioning for judge Amy Coney Barrett as democrats remained outraged that they failed at blocking her. Senator Kamala Harris and democrats trying to delegitimatize judge barrett for refusing to discuss her personal views on policies while democrats led by senator harris refused to discuss how they want to delegitimatize the Supreme Court via ideas like Court Packing. Remember, Nancy Pelosis ice cream in the freezer moment while 30 million lost their jobs during the pandemic . Remember nancy pelosi blaming a little hair salon after pell lows got caught getting a blow out there during shutdowns. Pelosi with blow back trying to shut down wolf bitter, why she is freezing up covid19 relief. Doj probe ended Obama Administration of unmasking of individuals like general Michael Flynn, the controversies have only just be
Include jesse hollands, reporter for the Associated Press and author of marvels the black panther. I do not know if we will have questions about that today. [laughter] dr. Berger where the Vice President and Founding Editor of and a professor of law at Georgetown University law center and executive director of the center on conventional studies at georgetown law. She is chief Legal Counsel for Vice President biden and the legal staff for the Senate Judiciary committee. Thank you. A pleasure to be with you. Thank you for being here. We would like to get started right away by giving an opportunity for one of our panelists to speak to a question that has not come up yet the original purpose, if you will, of government long before we thought of government as making policy. People looked to government for the protection of their rights, and you have written about this. Tell us more about what is meant by that, the original purpose of government. Thank you for letting me be a part of this ev
Constitution. And now it is such a pleasure to introduce our extremely distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery
Distinguished panel of americas leading lincoln scholars to discuss lincolns speeches and the american idea. Michael birmingham holds the chancellor naomi b lynn distinguished chair and lichen studies at the university of illinois springfield. Hes the author of several books on lincoln including and lincoln observed the inner world of Abraham Lincoln and the two volume american Abraham Lincoln a life as well as his new book, which hell be discussing tonight. The black mans president Abraham Lincoln African Americans and the pursuit of racial equality. Noah. Feldman is the Felix Frankfurter professor of law chair of the society of fellows and founding director of the Julis Rabinowitz Program on jewish and israeli law at harvard university. Hes the author of nine books including the three lives of James Madison genius partisan president and his latest book which will be tonight the broken constitution lincolns slavery and the refounding of america diana. Shall is professor of Political S
from msnbc world headquarters here in new york. welcome everyone to alex witt reports. we begin with breaking news, overnight vladimir putin s military facing another critical setback as this massive explosion was showing severely damage to a key bridge between crimea and russia. part of that bridge has collapsed into the sea, disrupting a main russian supply route. let s go right back to kier simmons joining us from moscow. what can you tell us about this? well alex, it s another dangerous moment in this conflict in ukraine. 48 hours after president biden mourned of the escalation could lead in his words to a nuclear conflict. well now we have this bridge attack, now the ukrainians are celebrating and not taking responsibility for it. the russians are furious. with a nuclear threat looming, a major fire on the bridge linking russia to crimea. the blaze visible for miles reports of a, huge explosion at around 6 am local time. russian authorities saying that it was a truck