Quite as extreme as in your case but it did seem like for a long time no one was available. No matter where i was going to be where were going to go. Host i think we are out of time but thank you for spending the hour talking to me and the viewers for spending the hour of listening. Guest thing thank you. That was after words Signature Program in which authors of the latest nonfiction books are interviewed by journalists, Public Policy makers, legislators and others familiar with the material. After words airs every weekend at 10 p. M. On saturday, 12 and 9 p. M. On sunday and 12 a. M. On monday. You can also watch after words online. Go to booktv. Org and click on after words after words in the book tv series at topics list on the upper right side of the page. Edward baptist is associate professor of history at Cornell University originally from North Carolina also the editor with the new studies in the history of american slavery and of american capitalism for seidman is schuster. As
Good morning. Its monday september 17th. Im eamon mow hehyeldimohyeldin. According to the associated press, at least 17 deaths are being blamed on florence right now, the majority in North Carolina. One victim was a 3 month old who was killed when a tree fell on his familys mobile home. Meanwhile, hundreds have been rescued from the flood waters as florence sent feet into homes and businesses. It was waist deep inside the house. Once we got off the porch, it was up to our shoulders. The city of wilmington, North Carolina, became inaccessible after major flooding left all roads leading in and out of the city underwater. A local nbc reporter caught a group of looters on camera at a Family Dollar in wilmington. Police have reportedly arrested several individuals. Jo lets talk a little bit about the efforts that are underway. How is it looking where you are today. Let me show you how its looking where we are in the heart of downtown wilmington. There are trees like this one, gorgeous old t
Lets bring in jeff bennett who is standing live outside the white house. Jeff, tell us what the president has been up to in the midst of this hurricane and word of this deal from manafort. Good to see you. First a bit of news, the white house tells us the president has declared a federal emergency for North Carolina and just in the last 20 minute or so fema now says that federal officials are considering a disaster declaration for South Carolina, toor. N the president has been getting regular updates on the response effort, but hes been out of sight for three days now with no public appearances scheduled. On twitter, as you mentioned, the president has been focused on last years Hurricane Maria and his complaints about criticism of his federal response. He is disputing, denying the official death toll. Heres what he tweeted. Over many months, it went to 64 people and then like magic, 3,000 people killed. They hired George Washington University Research to tell them how many people had
Really raised the political stakes of what lies ahead, forcing the president to come out hard against him. The president , a he was leaving, repeated the Mueller Reports main finding of no collusion again insisted that there was no obstruction even though Robert Mueller laid out ten points that might have constituted obstruction and then the president went after mueller and his team. Listen here. I think he is a totally conflicted person. I think mueller is a true never trumper. Hes somebody that dislikes donald trump. Hes somebody that didnt get a job that he wanted very badly. And then he was appointed. And despite that, despite 40 million, 18 trump haters including people that work for Hillary Clinton and some of the worst human beings on earth, they got nothing. Its pretty amazing. Reporter as you can see, the president didnt hold back anything there. Among white house officials, the Mueller Report is midly seen as mueller handing a road map to democrats to proceed with impeachment