And is a historian who has contributed a couple of great books but lincolns last trial if you wonder why im interested in having him. [laughter] but he has written a book that fdr called my fifth cousin by blood and set it at the very trial that dan abrams has written about in this extraordinary book of a littleknown episode in Theodore Roosevelts life and that is an extraordinary legal episode at the defense of a charge of liable argued here in new york state. Welcome. Its great to be here and always honored to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. Its better when we dont talk about lincoln. This is all new. I promise. It will be considered new to everybody else. So start with the obvious why this book and case . In the context of working on the lincoln book with his last trial we used this transcript arguing from nine months before he got the nomination and david fisher my coauthor brought me this and set a fascinating transcript only discovered 1989 know it has written abou
Good evening. Im Howard Walter and i have the honor of serving as director at roosevelt house and we are thrilled to have you here for what we think will be a special evening as we welcome our guest who as you know provides regular legal analysis to abc news and on the a e network constantly including this evening. And is a historian who has contributed a couple of great books but lincolns last trial if you wonder why im interested in having him. [laughter] but he has written a book that fdr called my fifth cousin by blood and set it at the very trial that dan abrams has written about in this extraordinary book of a littleknown episode in Theodore Roosevelts life and that is an extraordinary legal episode at the defense of a charge of liable argued here in new york state. Welcome. Its great to be here and always honored to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. Its better when we dont talk about lincoln. This is all new. I promise. It will be considered new to everybody else. S
Swim ashore after a migrant boat sinks off africas west coast. Mass strike some protest against Pension Reforms take a violent turn in paris and other french cities. And with a week to go until election day a boost for Boris Johnsons conservatives. Following an historic step Speaker Nancy Pelosi has asked the u. S. House of representatives to draft articles of impeachment the formal charges against President Donald Trump she says he abused his power by withholding military aid to pressure ukraine into investigating a political rival a vote could be held in the next couple of weeks setting up a fight in the senate over whether to remove trump from office how do you know castro reports from washington d. C. Its official sadly that with confidence and humility with allegiance to our founders and in fact full of love for America Today i am asking our chairmen to proceed with articles of impeachment. Donald trump will become the 4th president in u. S. History to face formal impeachment char
Has on the and a network, constantly including this evening. [laughter] and he is a historian who has contributed already, while a couple of great books but most recently lincolns last trial. You wonder why i am interested in having him here. [laughter] but he has switched gears and written a book about the man whose home we are in. Fdr. My fifth cousin by blood and my uncle by law. In fact he said it at the very trial that had aprons have written about in this extraordinary book about very little known episode and Theodore Roosevelts life in the twilight of his life. Its an extraordinary legal episode in defense against a charge of bible that was argued here in new york state. So dan, welcome. Soon i think you. Its always an honor to be interviewed by you and always intimidating. The fact a little better though that we are not talking about lincoln. Then i would be in fear. Have no fear. I think its going to be considered new by everybody to who we meet. Start with the obvious. Why th
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