she wanted to go as ruth nichols. and this mother was reaching out to say do you have any photos or artifacts or letters that you could share with my daughter sarah so that she could do her report? and so of course, i was very excited. i sent her what i could and you know, i asked her when this this wax museum was going to be and she told me the dates. and by total luck i was doing an event that very day at wellesley college. which was a mere 15 minute drive from this girl's school. and so of course i had to i popped in just to say hello to the new ruth nichols. and i really do think about these women. a good bit actually and and always when i fly. and i think a lot about ruth nichols. you'll see here on her her pilots license from 1930. it's signed, of course by orville wright. um, and you know when this book first came out i was in new york for the launch. for the first day and i had a busy day, but that morning was unscheduled. and so i decided to do something that morning that i had never had a chance to do during

and joining us now on book tv is author tom nichols. his most recent book is called our own worst enemy the assault from within on modern democracy. he is recently retired as a us naval war college professor. professor nichols last couple years. we've been hearing that democracy is in danger. do you agree with that? and if so, what does that mean? absolutely agree with it. and i think it's in danger because of us. we are under attack. our electoral system has been under attack from authoritarian systems that have tried to influence the public and to interfere with the public debate in the united states, but the biggest danger is that we ourselves. we the people citizens i think have become less civic. we've become more narcissistic. less participatory more transactional and i think that those are not the kind of values and behaviors that can sustain a liberal democracy. well, i'm going to have you expound on one of those points and i'm going to quote your book first and you write that the most important ingredient in the decline of mode

how but nichol are searching for fresh dung. here we have a fairly old patty. mike, you can tell the surface of the party is dried out and has a relatively thick crushed what we are already able to see. the 1st larval stage is developing inside. you can see that here, fly larvae like that, that grows in the dung is in turn food for other insects. if we mainly find these bugs inside amazon here, for example, we have a clown beetle on, it's relatively small, but there are significantly larger species. 2 of these are purely predatory english . they have a very large mouths, similar to a butcher's cutting machine limit with which they dropped larvae into small pieces and then eat them. this is a very complex food. web cow patties are little islands of life. the dung provides food and shelter for thousands of creatures. the colonization of a patty starts after a couple of seconds of his existence already with the arrival of dung flies that want to lay their eggs and the warm patties. so in the 1st dung beetle appear, they did passageways for their offspring. these i

how about nichol wants to take stock of who was living on this pasture? with a modified leaf blower, he vacuums up a sample and finds over a 100 different species. it isn't open this sample if they are often cicadas and bugs as integral, there are also beatles and very often a spider left you with everything that jumps around above ground behind you look inside and you can't imagine it. you can no longer find that kind of diversity in a normal meadow. maybe. there is a normal cow pasture near by. the meadows of this operation were recently mowed. the biologist takes another sample for comparison. and he can't even find a dunsen species as if you really are far fewer kinds. exactly. it's a disaster for insects and birds. there's almost nothing left. and what about the col, patti's themself? many animals in this pastor are given medication to ward off parasites, which affects the done of his ini. financing case, i don't see a single battle. i don't see any beetle holes. low, no creatures at all. welcome back to the wild meadows and the nature reserve. habit

plus, stephen welcomes: hannah gadsby and musical guest buffalo nichols featuring jon batiste and stay human. and now, live on tape from the ed sullivan theater in new york city, it's stephen colbert! ( cheers and applause ) >> stephen: hey, what's up? hello, friend. hello. what's up? what's going on, lewis? what's going on. happy tuesday. please have a seat, ladies and gentlemen. thank you. ladies and gentlemen, welcome, everybody to "the late show." i am your host, stephen colbert. and we right now-- is this true? i do have this right-- we are almost five weeks into russia's three-day conquest of ukraine and while putin's monstrous war against the ukrainian people continues to grind on, there have been some interesting developments in the peace talks taking place in istanbul. here's one thing: to signal their willingness to compromise, the russians have announced they will sharply reduce military activity near kyiv. an area where-- and i'm sure this is just a coincidence-- they are getting their ass handed to them by the ukrainians. ( applause ) nothing to do-- in a related story fro

joining us now is tom nichols, professor at the u.s.uting writer at the atlantic. tom, your piece is an emotional piece which i think grasped the emotions we're all feeling, the frustration, the agony of watching what's happening in ukraine knowing that we have the kind of military might that ukraine needs, but knowing that we cannot engage using our military might directly with russia because of the nuclear threat. this is something that we've lived through in the cold war repeatedly. but it is now feeling new to a new generation who have never lived through it before. >> yeah, i think for a long time, lawrence, we assumed that the united states has almost unlimited power and that when terrible things happen and we don't act it's because we haven't acted by choice. that we've chosen some conflicts to get into, we've chosen other conflicts to stay out of. the problem here is that it's a natural emotion, and i feel it. i have walked the streets of kyiv, i've even been to--. i've been to ukraine and i feel that sense of rage and helplessn

jesse nichols for seat 5. rita semel reappointed to seat 6, alexandra madrid to seat 9, sasha bitter to seat 11 and robin wilson-beattie to seat 13. >> clerk: i have vaccination confirmation for all members except for ms. hernandez. >> chair peskin: pending, we'll have until april 5th to receive that. there's no board meeting next week. this is not being sent as a committee report. subject to that verification as it relates to ms. hernandez for seat 4, a roll call on the motion please. >> clerk: on that motion. [roll call vote]. motion passes without objection. >> chair peskin: next item please. >> clerk: consider pointing one member term ending july 21, 2023. one seat one applicant. >> chair peskin: this committee made recommendations to the full board for a number of other seats specifically seats 7, 8 and 11 to the children youth and families oversight and advisory committee. we're hearing today seat 10 for an individual who withdrew her appointment application in january. this was authorized under a measur

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if we can the choices for men and for couples, i think that would be really wonderful. >> that was nicholerting for us tonight. nike and vanessa bryant, the wife of the late kobe bryant, have announced a new partnership which will put kobe signature shoe back into production. in addition, the company will also be launching a new gianna bryant shoe series. kobe and gianna gigi bryant, as she was known, were killed in a helicopter crash, of course, along with 7 other people last january. the announcement comes after the relationship between nike and the bryant family seemed to be fractured. vanessa bryant said last year after kobe died that the shoe company made stickers dedicated to her daughter gigi, without her consent. 100% of the proceeds from the john, a shoe line will be donated to the mamba and sports foundation. a nonprofit dedicated to creating positive impacts for underserved boys and girls who play sports. >> a high school basketball game in michigan became even more exciting than march madness. when a blind a student made this basket. seventeen-year-old jewels, google and is bli

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joining me now, tom nichols, contributing writer to "the atlantic."ow and your perspective. let me read some of your column. what biden was doing, of course, being joe biden. speaking for all of us from the heart. one of the more endearing things about the president, those that admire him, no inner monologue and enters in a gaffe impolitic but true. this was not a time for such a moment. most agree but prime example the impact of the words of a president of united states carries, even when it may be something everyone's thinking, maybe saying, but thinking. is that how you ultimately see it? >> yes. presidents sometimes have to watch their words. ed president is never off duty. biden was a senator. the currency, i was a staffer in the senate. currency in the realm of the senate is words, talk, speak. control the dialogue. there are times when presidents just can't do that, and i've always, for the many years i watched joe biden whether agreed with him or not, always liked those moments where he clearly says something he really believes and thinks is t

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one of these include nichol, i took out of the head of energy giant trans napped as well as billionaire are cody rothenberg and his brother. there are also visa restrictions on 19 other russian billionaires the f b. i is specifically looking for him. he have jenny prego, jin. he is known as putin's cook, running a catering company that serves meals to the kremlin. he is also said to be one of the founders of the wagner group, a paramilitary unit that recently sent $400.00 soldiers in an attempt to assassinate ukrainian president flawed, mere zalinski. so alexander, a lot of pressure. well, we can now speak to anna grossman. she lectures in governance and entrepreneurship at le, for university in the u. k. as great have you on the program. can you just explain to us the rationale behind targeting, specifically oligarchs? well, in the russian economies, organized in the network of interconnected orders and the government. so it's extremely concentrated economy as well, meaning that a very few individuals control large chart chunks of the economy. so even targeting $300.00 individuals is a

the day of the invasion nichol reached the already high price of $26000.00 per tonne. in early march pricing started rising steadily spike into $100000.00 on march 8th before settling at $80000.00 burton. the london metal exchange, which sets global prices for industrial nickel, halted all transactions for the whole week. with an unprecedented decision. it also canceled all traits from march 8, capping the price at $48000.00. the nickel crisis sent sparks flying through the whole industry. chinese ty comes young wanda, who bet on michael price is falling, now has to find a way to bailout his company in schon holding as it struggles to cover short positions worth around $8000000000.00. the pressure on the industry so high that even vladimir baton in the head of russian mining giant nor nickel fell the urge to common in an interview with russian brit custer, r b. c. a warned against russia responding by seizing western properly as it would take the country back to the isolation of a century ago with all over. so let's look at the with those, the blue, the recovery on the

about $60000000.00 and a supposedly, allegedly function as buttons, business advisor, and then also nichol. i took her up on that list of 8 who ran state owned russia, oil pipeline company transient, which carries 90 percent of the oil extracted from russia. and was even his daughter maya, who leads a real estate business that's valued at more than $50000000.00 in moscow alone. some interesting names are i so not just the individuals themselves, but family members as well. james, you know, we talked about, or saki, i should say, just mentioned that there's going to be more people target probably in the future. what's left for biden to sanction outside of wealthy individuals. so it, it seems like the world a sanctioning everything russian right now. assets, yachts, businesses, bodka and you know, what hasn't been sanctioned yet, and there's a lot of folk about it. russian oil, especially here in the united states. you would think that would be one of the 1st thing sanctioned, but so far it's not. and here in the us, it's very rare that you have both sides. republicans in some democratic lea

i'm nichol for like, it's good to have you with us. it was a marathon of talks and brussels with back to back meetings of nato, the g 7 and the you for the 1st time in history. these 3 summits were held in a single day with us president joe biden traveling to europe to take part as the war in ukraine enters. it's 2nd month blindness, pushing for russia to be kicked out of the g 20. an e. u. leaders are accusing moscow of war crimes. the day began at nato headquarters way beyond the handshakes photo ops and display of unity. that 30 lead is of the trans atlantic alliance, also reaffirmed their support for ukraine to day ali. this also agreed to provide further support to ukraine, helping to uphold their from a month, right to self defense, eyes or also equipping ukraine with significant military supplies into the anted tank on air defense systems and drones. which are proving highly effective. as well as substantial financial on humanitarian aid. for moscow, they promised more punishment and isolation were also announcing new sanctions

to take a closer look at who you're marching with, with the employer actually validating digitize nichol. i believe the coven has presented an opportunity to put the existing rejection of the government on a bigger footing. also by mr. in december, opponents of the corona virus restrictions marched with torches outside the private home of stockton, his health minister, petra copay, the intimidation attempt, evidently by the far right outrage the whole of germany the far right to not so present to the hum backed i my you want to see the symbols of the left like the unsafe are flags. the rejection of corona virus policies cuts through all political camps which complicates matters further. the long hold of the latest compulsory vaccination for health and care workers across germany is likely to further fuel the corona virus controversy. ah. seems to me, russian oligarchs, many of whom, to close times to flooding your protein, have long parked there and gotten from his outside their own country. now russia's war in ukraine has government 3 think they're lacks rules on for investment. why san

none of these include nichol. i took out of the head of energy giant trans napped as well as billionaire arcot. he rothenberg and his brother. there are also visa restrictions on 19 other russian billionaires the f b. i is specifically looking for him. you have jenny? prego, jin. he is known as putin's cook, running a catering company that serves meals to the kremlin. he is also said to be one of the founders of the wagner group, a paramilitary unit that recently sent $400.00 soldiers in an attempt to assassinate ukrainian president flawed, mere zalinski. now russia's war with ukraine is threatening the global food supply . both countries are major suppliers of food commodities like wheat prices for we'd have searched to new records as the war, strep shipments and the planting season. countries in the middle east and north africa are particularly dependent on weight from russia and ukraine. without it, experts fear widespread hunger up to 10 bags of flour for customer. they buy what they can despite record prices,

ah m nichol fairly. she's good to have you with us. on his 2nd day in poland, you as president joe biden has delivered a fiery speech on the war in ukraine denouncing russian president vladimir putin biden said the west was more united than ever in the face of prudence aggression. but warned the world to prepare for a long battle, just over a month, into russia's invasion. he's dra, the united states continued support for ukraine. after calling fulton a dictator, a war criminal and a butcher, and recent days by me used to speech in warsaw to take direct aim at putin in a different way. let's listen to his closing remarks. prudent has the gall to say he did not to fire in ukraine. it's a lie, is just cynical, he knows that and it's also obscene presence. zalinski was democratic, you're elected. 6 he's jewish, his father's family was white, proud of nazi holocaust. and po has the audacity like o r autocrat before him. to believe that white will make right. ukraine will never be a victory for russia. for free people refused to live in a w

mika, tom nichols actually has been talking an awful lot about this. >> so, tom, you have a piece innato can save putin." quote, nato intervention in russia's war on ukraine could halt that country's barbarous attack goes, but it would mean war between putin's regime and the west, and this war would be such a gift to putin that we should expect that he will do everything he can to provoke it. the u.s. and europe should resist such provocations. putin knows that the terminate owe can still produce a visceral response in russia. nato is a traditional enemy and one many russians have blamed for their troubles in the past, although some observers may believe that putin would fold before he approaches the nuclear threshold and others worry that even the smallest nato action will inevitably spark world war iii, such arguments at both extremes ignore the role of chance and risk. putting so many military assets in play with combat breaking out all over europe could spark a catastrophe that neither we nor putin intended. >> tom, explain. >> putin's created a disaster for himself. he wen it in

nichols, big german made easy. ah ah visa, most dish i've even included. but dawson quadruple grain in a movie. national group escalade is vulgar. she's group for the rest of society. so to live with mercedes shoot in e as in against my ordinary school related number. so, but i do this crazy sportswear bush and bring it that is area. hopefully he gets early. why in the appearance the the, whenever she puts up the door, you would, you know, to such a venal zucker, human, democratic and st. them with him. you know that i see probably in the, to the she today and they're all in there. i hear an automobile like rushing you can see on the the the early this morning, russian truth invaded ukraine. the free and sovereign country once again in the center of europe, innocent women, men and children are dying of fear for their life. they condemn this barbaric attack and the cynical arguments to justify it. it is president putin was bringing war back to europe. and in these dark hours a european union and its people stand by ukraine and its people you put down your d

pushes further into the besieged port of mary opposite the aftermath of a russian missile attack and nichol live. it's believed 200 soldiers were inside. at the time the base was struck. rescuers raced to find survivors in the rubble, but are forced to seek safety. when an air raid siren rings out, the constant threat of bombardment has forced people here under ground ideas that was lovely. i can't tell you how scared we are. we will live in the cellar now, when the bombs hit the army base, everything shook to the east. russians are pushing deeper into the besieged city of mario pole. ukraine says 90 percent of the city has been damaged or destroyed by russian bombardment. it's thought over a 1000 people were sheltering inside this theatre when it was destroyed by a russian strike. hundreds are still missing. the city has no heat, water or power. the mayor said that fighting in the city center made rescue mission impossible. those who were able to flee said the situation was desperate immediately, but we sat in the basement for 10 days without going outside, even once we didn't have water o

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