the response was, of course, to file a lawsuit against ackerman mcqueen that largely targeted oliverth, putting them in an impossible position and effectively forcing him to resign his post as president of the nra. overstate how crazy this is. modernrm created the national rifle association as you know it. whatever the case may be, whatever issues have been going payments,atuitous vague billings -- "issues that are not just specifific to that firm but a wide vavariety of contractors and people connected to senior management, that firm made wayne lapierre -- he is ,ffectively saying right now the wool was being pulled over my eyes. i did not know this was happening. i did not know oliver north had his contract. i did not understand the business arrangements that weree playing out for r the last few decades. do that justifies gradual you never possible way. amy: explain more what you have uncovered about the nra's financial dealings and corruptions. you have oliver north accusing wayne lapierre of gross corruption and vice versa. lack of alear, for better phrase, no one's hands are rea

former ackerman folks work for the nra. nra people work for ackerman.ecutive positions at the nra also have stakes in ackerman affiliated companies. >> how much money was ackerman make? >> 2017, the most full accounting we know of, that came to more than $40 million. >> they make more than $40 million. they also pushed nra tv. >> they kree create it, produce. they pay people you're familiar with, north, the nra's president was getting paid some million dollars a year through ackerman. >> i was wondering, because i know a lot of nra members. i grew up with nra members. in fact, i grew up in mississippi and alabama, georgia and northwest florida. i was surrounded. in the pews of first baptist churches, they were all nra members. >> right. >> then i see people coming on and threatening journalists. >> right. >> one actually said to us, your time is running out. they turned over an hourglass. i sat there thinking -- >> why? >> i understand why lobbyists in d.c. would do that, but what about all the people sitting in the pews? do they want death threats agai

the incident brought down several riders including sprinter pascal ackerman — which could mean he mightrance's arnaud demare went on to win the stage. tributes are continuing for the three time formula i champion nikki lauda who's died at the age of 70. he was one of the best—known figures in motor racing, winning the title for ferrari in 1975 and 77 and for mclaren in 1984. he'll be remembered for his remarkable recovery and return to racing just a0 days after a crash that nearly claimed his life. here's former world champion sirjackie stewart. it was a huge accident, it looked like a mechanical failure. it was a huge accident, it looked like a mechanicalfailure. he it was a huge accident, it looked like a mechanical failure. he was trapped in the car, the car was on fire, it had been a high—speed accident at the same time, several of the to get them out of the car. he was still badly burned, but i think what happened there with the inhalation of toxic as well as heat is the cause of him no longer being with us, i think he died twice i understand it at that time i laze around that peri

be able to understand what's going to change after the ratify or become signatories to the trade ackerman's but this is taken longer than expected you know they also said that you know they were seeking specific technical assistance and also. against external shocks should there be any where the countries are not how can i sing in terms of border controls as well as other trade abdomens or i just very briefly joy how big an impact does this delay of nigeria joining have not much of an impact if you're going to look at the bigger population of the african continent $1200000000.00 people on the continent that's about $2.00 and us dollars worth of g.d.p. saw in nigeria delaying is actually a disadvantage when it's parked right joy the reindeer out there in nairobi for us thank you so much. i think kenya of course was the 1st to ban plastic bags that was last year tanzania will be following suit next month other regions still have a long way to go to stop the avalanche of plastic waste malaysia is also a major plastic waste important but now the country's prime minister has taken a stand agains

ken ackerman has been a writer and attorney in washington, d.c. since the 1970s and is a long timew writer. he's authored five major books on americana including "dark horse: the surprise election and political murder of president james a. garfield." and as you just heard, garfield ranks 29th on the survey. david stewart, to his right, spent many years as a trial and appellate lawyer arguing before juries, the u.s. senate and the u.s. supreme court before becoming a best selling writer of history and historical fiction. his histories have explored the writings of the constitution, james madison and the western expedition and treason trial of aaron burr. he is also the author of "impeached: the trial of presidentnt andrew johnson and e fight for lincoln's legacy." andrew johnson, of course, second to last on the list. finally, brian lamb, c-span's founding ceo can and chairman and longtime on-camera interviewer. his 40 years have been the basis for nine books with public affairs including, of course, b"the presidents." i should also note that brian

i'm going to bring in bruce ackerman, a constitutional law scholar.untry right now. do you agree with chairman nadler, is it a crisis? >> the -- nadler's lawsuit will force the -- will be a moment of truth for the supreme court of the united states, which is now dominated by originalists. crucial to the founding vision is that the president of the united states is not king george iii. king george iii treated -- assaulted the independence of the colonial legislatures and the parliament and made war without the consent of parliament. it is precisely the question brought by nadler's lawsuit, is the new roberts court serious in its originalism. and this will also be raised by another lawsuit that nancy pelosi should bring on behalf of the house of representatives challenging the president trump's decision to make war against the explicit command of both houses of congress. the self-conscious principle of the founders was that it was congress that had the exclusive power to make war, and this was reaffirmed and a crucial decision by the supreme court in 19

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well that candidate ackerman mamu is expected to speak later he said he's going to wait for an official confirmation by the election before he's going to make any statements or draw conclusions but others in his party already have called the decision quote plain dictatorship and one senior official was quoted saying that this decision is basically ignoring ignoring the will of the people it's neither democratic nor legitimate and the c.h.p. is also accusing the ruling party present admins party of having pressured the election authority into making this decision. thank you. well here's some of the other stories now that are making headlines around the world a turkish court has overturned the jail term imposed on a prominent critic of the heir to one government contributor and journalist paley that had been sentenced to a year for allegedly insulting a former prime minister says that she must now pay a phone instead russia's foreign minister sergey lavrov has warned that a u.s. intervention in venezuela would be catastrophic and unjustified lavrov was meeting his u.s. counterpart from pa

kid,assign this young ackerman, do it. it does not quite work out, he spends two years working on it. andy comes up with nothing. -- and he comes up with nothing. he writes in 18 page memo documenting how hard he tried. stuff that pops up, the purpose was not to do -- document the prosecutorial abuse, the purpose was to say look how hard i tried. i did not get famous, i name is not in the paper, but i tried. i did not come across as memo, he appeared on nbc, the 45th anniversary of something last year discussing this memo. from themo had come national archives, a bunch of names would be did -- would be redacted because they are still alive. there is not a single redaction in this version because it is nick's copy that healy -- that he leaked to talk about how great he was. he read it and it is the scariest document that i have ever come across. --says and extensive investigation was conducted in the initial decision was made in early july by phil, who were working on the plumber's task force. the decision to investigate wa

off the weekend now with a discussion on c-span's newest book, "the presidents," can with kenneth ackerman and david o. stewart. [inaudible conversations] [applause]

[laughter] >> question, can you tell me what some of these ackerman -- acronyms mean. what is mad?> mechanical amusement device. >> and bp? >> billiard parlour. >> okay. >> i will have to put you back in the entertainment commission school. >> shawn sean didn't used to have these on. >> just kidding. >> we did a big file overhaul, severe sending inspectors to get contact information. you are not doing anything wrong >> that is my only question. >> a question on amnesia. and major owners have been complaining about other musicians. what does that mean? >> that was the complaints that what came through 31. >> so the owner of amnesia, the owner of the club is complaining about -- >> i couldn't tell you because it was an anonymous complaint, and that's exactly what they wrote into 31. >> so it was an anonymous complaint. >> that one was. the inspector just went because it was an anonymous complaint, meaning he was out in the field, and he thought it was very strange to come through, but he responded and found that everything was in control. >> okay. all right. >> thank you very much. i

presidential historians that make up the content of the book in addition to your joined by historians ken ackerman and david stewart who both contributed to the book. at this time, please welcome susan swain. [applause] good afternoon, everybody. nice to see you. wwe had a have a long friendshid relationship with the freedom forum and the journalists who run it. it's a delight to be here with them and used to talk about a project that c-span took on about a year and a a half ago ts year is the 40th anniversary of the circuit in 1979 with coverage of the house of representatives. [applause] about a year and a half ago i went to brian lamb's office since i have a project idea for the 40th anniversary. we had done buying books of collectedks interviews and the most recent one was actually 2015 which is a collection of biographiesle of the first ladi. it felt like if we were going to do anything special for the university we ought to add the presidents to the bookshelf collection, but the icann was to actually use two resources when we were putting this together so we took the idea to the longtime pub

there is a commentator on msnbc named ackerman. he was a young lawyer. i don't watch msnbc. he was a young lawyer. he graduated from harvard in 1972. he joins the prosecutor staff in may of 1973. he has done something for a year but he was not a prosecutor. he was just a kid. i was just a kid. we were all just kids. he spent two years, his entire time on the special prosecutor staff investigating and trying to prosecute chuck colson for the may 3 incident. hoover died. you're not supposed to read this yet. it came up too soon. j edgar hoover died. he lies in state at the capital. on that day, there was going to be an anti-vietnam war demonstration. the republicans were gathering a counterdemonstration. they met and there was a clash. the police arrested three cubans who were trying to save the american flag from the antiwar people. what they decide is maybe colson is behind us and we can get him on this. they assign this young kid, nick akerman to do it. it does not quite work out but he spends two years working on it. he comes up with nothing. what does he do? he writes a m

several people who we've done events with elliot ackerman and phil clyde, and some of them are writing fiction, and some are doing more nonfiction, journalist, reporting. but do -- have you found that, obviously, this is not your personal story, but dealing with some of those issues it's been a cathartic process having a project where you could filter some of those things onto the page in. >> god, i wish i could say that, but no. [laughter] no, it's the opposite -- >> because you're having to kind of relive it? >> yeah. and your sitting around, and you're thinking about -- you're writing about bowe bergdahl getting tortured, and that makes you think about the one time you left your flashlight somewhere, and you asked the american contractor, you know, if anybody had found it and you found the guy, and then you tortured the guy for fun, you know? and that was kind of your fault. and then you go back to writing about bowe bergdahl getting tortured. it wasn't -- my parents, my fiancee, they could all tell you that. >> that's another point where i think we should illuminate some things for

larry ackerman, tina, and janet. >> my name is tina hua, and i'm the owner of port side. the first thing i want to say is it might not be apparent in the room, but the overflow was just completely packed? not only were all the seats filled, but 15 rows deep made up of all these concerned citizens and neighbors, and i wanted to just make sure that the commission understood that. i have heard a lot today, and i have tried to keep an open mind in this process. unlike what some of people have tried to portray the homeowners of, they are very compassionate of helping the homeless, and not being unilateral lly oppos to having a project like this in our neighborhood. but the one thing that astounds me is what is the rush about it? i'm not saying delay for no reason, but in the actual report the mayor cites, it calls for specific items to be further researched because it wasn't covered in the report. so it would be great to have a delay so that you can answer some of these concerns. maybe if there was a plan to express why this is really just a temporary shelter, what the exit st

nick ackerman is here to explain. why is this happening?well, first of all, it is amazing that this is being before a republican dominated committee, the senate. that sends a very strong message. if the president thinks he will take over coming and pulley congress, it won't work. this is an extremely significant incident. what's important about this is the whole trump moscow project is because during this whole time period, donald trump had originally tried to stop his knowledge of the public aware kn know, the awareness. when you look at what he did in 2015 in terms of what he was saying about putin, what he was saying about nato, the positions he was taking on various foreign policy issues, such as nato, which were all extremely pro russian. raises the very extreme reference, or inference, that what he was doing was such a conflict of interest that what he was doing was playing up to the russian government so he would get trump tower built in moscow. >> you have to acknowledge that bob mueller looked very closely at all that and didn't fi

coach his but off now it's time for steve kerr to make some adjustments so we will see the coating ackerman from steve kerr well oubs fan i would be that worry the gods had a long way off their little rust they won their last 6 playoff game so don't hit the panic button just yet but they now are on alert this raptors team is for real and we'll see how it all plays out on sunday and of course will have coverage right here on kron four leading up to this game mark. thank you very much jason jason do masa live in toronto later on in the show will be hearing from warriors head coach steve kerr. >>um yeah i mean a number of take away from but here's the thing yet leak case and said it's only one game, only one game and it's a series. but tonight kind of showed how important home court advantages ran and nobody said it would be easy a year working on here reading twitter steve kerr no update on a good dollars injury status that will be tomorrow. >>the question though is going to be 10 kevin duran to play in the series and at what point especially now you've lost a game exactly and here's the thin

joining me is nick ackerman, former executive vice president of the trump organization, and david corn to you first, the feeling that i guess i have is that that trump managed to convince so many voters that he was successful and that was a large part that he was able to win. people leabelieved he was an economic success. now that that is pumptured, what do you think the result with will. >> i think there won't be much political cost for this. i think his base, his followers, have a consult like devotion to him. they say this guy lost a billion dollars and he still got a jet. he still got to do whatever he wanted to do in his personal luf. he still got to a president. i they're so enamored. and perhaps a way they would like to live their lives. don't think they will reexam their affection and dead diagnosis this guy. he says it shows how smart i am. i lost a billion dollars, i didn't pay taxes and look where i am today. >> were the signs evident? >> i worked in '78 for trump i believe. >> once his empire began to crumble, he was still on tv, still getting interviewed, still being menti