Authors discuss then < 1955 mur of emmett till, and the role of these events in the Civil Rights Movement. Cspan recorded the panel at the 2018 festival of books in nashville, tennessee. Greetings. My name is lee williams, jr. Im an associate professor of africanamerican and public history at Tennessee State university, and i will be the moderator for this panel. First id like to welcome you to nashville. If youre not a nashville resident, welcome, welcome. And welcome to the greatest library in america. This session will run precisely 50 minutes i am told. So we will give both our authors 20 minutes to speak, and well allocate ten minutes for question and answer. I was also admonished to remind you if youre really enjoying yourself this southern festival of books depends upon individual donations. So if you really enjoy what youve seen over the past couple of days id encourage you to donate as much as you can. Were in for a treat today. I asked these two gentlemen for bios a couple of
Important discussions we have had this week. The Supreme Court has agreed now to consider former President Trumps claim of president ial immunity in his federal Election Interference case. We it will further delay a potential trial. The high court has scheduled arguments for april 22nd, and a final ruling might not come until months later at the end of the term in june. If the court ruled in favor of trump the special counsels charges would be dismissed. The u. S. Court of appeals unanimously ruled trump does not have absolute immunity. The Supreme Court does affirmed that, the delays still would push the start of the trial probably into the fall. Lets bring in former litigator and msnbc Legal Correspondent lisa rubin, and former u. S. Attorney and msnbc legal analyst joyce vance. Good morning to you both. Lisa, lets pause for a moment, i think this was shocking used a lot of people, lets talk about what the decision is and what it is not, it does not mean the supreme agrees that donal
We begin with a look at the continuing story of the russian probe in washington. We talk to dan balz, chief correspondent for the post once you go down the road of having a special counsel and degree to which this is an expanding investigation, it will slow down the white house. Everybody will have in a sense the dual responsibility, they obviously have a responsibility to the country and to the president to help in the governing process but they will also feel an obligation to themselves to take whatever precautions they may need or simply to be as open as they feel they should be to cooperate in the investigation. As you say, it should not be a suggestion that they have something to hide. But its wise to have your own counsel when youre in situations like this. We continue with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor and chief. This one of the Little Secrets of much of Donald Trumps support. Its as i think there are a lot of people who voted for him who looked at this administration and do understa
We begin with a look at the continuing story of the russian probe in washington. We talk to dan balz, chief correspondent for the post once you go down the road of having a special counsel and degree to which this is an expanding investigation, it will slow down the white house. Everybody will have in a sense the dual responsibility, they obviously have a responsibility to the country and to the president to help in the governing process but they will also feel an obligation to themselves to take whatever precautions they may need or simply to be as open as they feel they should be to cooperate in the investigation. As you say, it should not be a suggestion that they have something to hide. But its wise to have your own counsel when youre in situations like this. We continue with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor and chief. This one of the Little Secrets of much of Donald Trumps support. Its as i think there are a lot of people who voted for him who looked at this administration and do understa
Counsel when youre in situations like this. We continue with Jeffrey Goldberg, editor and chief. This one of the Little Secrets of much of Donald Trumps support. Its as i think there are a lot of people who voted for him who looked at this administration and do understand analytically that its dysfunctional. Hes not delivering. But that feeling is outweighed by a feeling of just loathing and repull shun for his critics. In other words, there are people who voted for donald trump who quite possibly saw donald trump as the very flawed figure that other people see him as. But they just see the other side as worse. And we conclude with author and new Yorker David Grann his new back is called killers of the flower moon. The osage murders and the birth of the fbi i was shocked that i had never read about this in school. It was not part of my history books and when i saw that photograph at the museum where a portion had been cut out because it contained one of the killers, the osage had remov