And philadelphia. Good morning everyone. Welcome to this mornings discussion, from the moscow with. To nancy pelosi. Around the table on women, wielding the political power. Im Greta Brawner from cspan, American History tv, on cspan three every weekend. Its happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion, and of course it could not come at a better moment in history, with the 19th minute granting the women the right to vote. Passed by that u. S. House in the un that senate in 19, and ratified in 1920. If we are 100 years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up ever, making up a quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speaker for the second time. We have four women still for running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women, and the key turning points for women in the wake of politics. Others you do see to our panelists, i will come back through and have each of them tal
Women yielding political power. Im with cspan, American History on tv on cspan 3 every weekend is happy to coordinate with the organization of american historians to moderate this panel discussion. And of course it could not come at a better moment in history with the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote passed by the house u. S. And u. S. Senate in 1919 and then ratified in 1920. Here we are a hundred years later, the 116th congress has the highest percentage of women ever making up a roughly quarter of each chamber. And we have a female speakr for the second time, and we have four women so far running for president. Todays panel will look at women, the role of women and the key turning points of women in american politics. I want to introduce each of our panelists and come back through and have each of them talk about their books or the period of time theyre writing about for about five minutes and then well open up the conversation to all of you. So let me introduce you t
Okay. Good evening thank you for being here tonight, bookseller here its my pleasure to introduce peter who presents his new book a place outside the law it is a remarkable and important work in the literature showing human stories behind life at guantanamo as a professor at the university of San Francisco school of law and founder and director of witness to guantanamo please welcome him back. [applause] thank you for organizing this we are grateful that you all showed up. I appreciate it. This book is of a decadelong project starting back in 2008 and i did it when john mccain and barack obama were running for president both said they would shut down guantanamo if elected i was fine with that i had done a lot of work on post 9 11 issues after the 2001 attacks but the problem was i was afraid it would fade away and be forgotten my father is a refugee from not see austria and in the 1980s you may know steel one Steven Spielberg went to document the stories of people who escaped or surviv
Evening we will be on the drier side, still in the area it will start to move ves inland it sta a lot of rain with it, theres a pretty good rain already. Santa clara valley, Santa Cruz Mountains, maybe santa cruz proper. I think that is the focus of the heaviest, some of will be lifting over the diablo range along the ultimate pass, moderate to heaviest rain, as it moves north it loses energy but still it produces some light rain with cloudy skies and light rain, 50s on the temperatures, cooler than yesterday. 5 01. Sal and he is going to tell us about . The commute looks good through vallejo, lets go to it, traffic will be busy on 37 already heading away from the vallejo area towards marin county. As you look at the rest of the commute getting to the east shore freeway, it is lights but it is wet as steve mentioned. At the toll plaza we already have a delay, lets go back to the desk. We are followin news in the east bay. Police and sheriffs deputy is now investigating several crime sc
That looks maybe 34 inch amounts. This is mainly a morning event and will decrease the afternoon and evening. Then moving into Central California around San Luis Obispo. It is starting to lighten up a little bit to the west and the north, but not to the east. The sierra is getting son sun but its mainly a rainmixed level, and then 50 other times today. 7 01, where would you like to start . Starting at the bridge, then you can see the bay bridges backed up. Moving too fast, now let me move it to a 80 we will dive into the south bay commute which has its issues. We are still following developing news in the east bay. Law enforcement busy investigating crime scenes in two different cities. We have someone at one of the crime scenes, sarah, what is going on . Reporter good morning, this scene is clear here at the 711 on redwood road in Castro Valley. We talked to the clerk and they tell us someone went into the store early this morning with a gun. They stole money, cigarettes, and then ran