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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 ....
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 Correspond ....
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Hillary. [ laughter ] in order to reinforce his warning to Vladimir Putin about vote tampering, president obama reportedly used the socalled red phone that connects moscow to washington. Thats what that does . Said someone whose pizza never arrived. [ laughter and applause ] shouldnt have made it pizza hut red. John mccain recently said that a friendship between donald trump and Vladimir Putin is unlikely because reality is going to intercede at one point or another. But i ask you, do these two men look like they are at all concerned about reality . [ laughter ] [ applause ] i live in a gold house. I ride a horse, no shirt. I am in fantasy novel. Im also in a fantasy novel. Netflix began streaming a biopic of president obama this weekend called barry. Theyll also air a documentary about trumps president ial win called barely. [ light laughter ] [ as trump ] the reason that jo ....