mean any moment. we will interrupt when we see the president and bring it to you live. we re also following two explosive fights blowing wide open today, both with a battle over donald trump s big lie at their core. one, the internal republican civil war. on the surface it is about the growing effort to oust liz cheney from her leadership position, but it is also about so much more. the dean of the washington press corps, dan balz, writes, it is a sign of political cowardice. while shocking, it is not surprising for a party that has lost its way. the majority of republican lawmakers appear to have stopped believing in truth or lack the courage to speak the truth. cheney is not among them. more on that in just a moment. the other big fight over donald trump s big lie is today s decision by facebook s oversight board to uphold for now facebook s decision to ban donald trump from its platform. the board has found that the suspension of former president trump was necessary
restrictive hours. colorado s constitution does discourage marijuana use openly and publicly, but it also does not forbid any kind of use around other people in an area that is available to the public. it is unclear whether there would be any sort of legal case someone could mount against this if voters were to pass it, but that is jumping the shark, we have to see how voters feel about it when it comes november. there is a second ballot question, to allow businesses to legalize cannabis clubs, that failed to get enough signatures for the ballot in denver. there is no debate over, climate change in a class on that subject at the university of colorado colorado springs. since the professor asked students who don t believe in climate change to withdraw from the course. uccs says the professors are being honest that their online courses a place to discuss impacts of climate change, not to debate what is a scientific consensus. they did offer to discuss get what the profess
thank you very much for that kind introduction and thank you for all your patience in advance. i woke up this morning quite nervous, more usually more nervous than i usually am when i am going to be giving a talk. i noticed that a number of your teachers. is that right? thank you. i appreciate that. i will just look at kevin. kevin is a teacher, in addition to blogging. to being insed front of unruly crowds and you may have some experience with a particularly nerve-racking speaking engagement. where you re not quite sure if the subject matter of your talk fits with the events at hand, and then you learn, i don t know, maybe that c-span is going to broadcast your event live because live television still happens, apparently. but if you have done any public speaking, you also know that moment when a sense of real calm settles over you. i know that pete does that because i have watched him speak beautifully in the last couple of days. i just want you to know that that is not
1970 s and he found when he created the layout that you see rings with the time telling a chronological story, he kind of painted himself into a corner because how do you end it. where does it end? of course, it does not and anywhere. time keeps marching on. states history keeps going on. that is one more reason why in the back of the museum there are pictures of things like the moonwalk in the atomic bomb and all those kinds of things, to show that history did not stop. thing that was what to do with the back wall. it was his wife who came up with the solution to that problem. they found they could commemorate the lewis and clark trail and it is still there today. leaving this now to return to our live coverage of the civil war conference in gettysburg, pennsylvania. very happy to have him. he is at penn state where he will be at the civil war center as a professor of civil war studies. he does a range of subject matter in classrooms, civil war reconstruction as well as en
memorials are almost always shaped by politics. contemporary concerns how history is presented. memorial designers look to be present and future as well as the past when they do their work. this is especially true of national historic sites. federal officials have long viewed memorials as a kind of patriotic alchemy. getsis about as good as it forcible where content civil war content. [laughter] i m kidding. you can take for example president lincoln s first inaugural arrest. he said if americans would pay grave to every art stone across this broad land, those chords would once again swell the union. sites throughout the united states, there is a sentiment in the abiding power of public memory cards into the stone. these monuments are supposed to serve the nation from interest by linking together it s peoples and also legitimating federal authority. common past, the theory goes, americans will continue to forge, and identities. memories of sand creek, the speaker suggested,