the cardinal himself, as he put it, called down the power of god on the previous editor of the boston globenew it could subject the globe to accusations of anti—catholicism. so that was the sort of environment in which we were operating. i would not say i received threats or anything of that sort, i certainly didn't, but we knew that this was a story of great sensitivity and that it made us potentially vulnerable to accusations of being anti—catholic, which in a very catholic city like boston is a substantial reputational risk. the globe wrote follow—up pieces for several years after that initial investigation. how do you know, how do you make the judgment of when it is time to wrap up a story like that? well, we made thejudgment that it was not enough to just document that many priests had been accused of abuse. there was a desire on the part of some on our staff to publish at that point, because we had indications, i think it was about 60 priests had been accused of abuse and we could document that and that was stunning in and of itself, but i felt that we needed to show more than that. i

he had an op-ed in the "boston globe" and in the nick, the atlantic and others. he is the recipient of the national book award pen award the scrips howard worried. he is joined by mike rezendes. he is with the global discretion team at the "associated press." and previously worked for the boston globe spotlight team and shared a pulitzer prize for revealing the coverup of sexual abuse any catholic church. mike has been a pulitzer prize finalist twice. recently he posted an article exposing the church for taking ppe aid during covid-19 while sitting 0 billions. they're discussing the truth at the heart of the lie. james looks at him, his faith and the catholic church itself. he argued that a male supremacist clericalism is the root cause and the ongoing enabler of the sexual abuse crisis. this book is both an exposure of the problem and a call for the much needed reform. i'll leave you with this quote from city green green. this book written from a deep personal experience takes us to the heart of one of the great institutional and existential crisis of our time a

kimberly, you write about this as well in "the boston globe" yesterday.uits like the ones filed by officers blassingame and cyd my hem by could not only provide a way to bring a sense of justice but also to allow the truth of the day to prevail over the lies that trump and his allies continue to spew. these suits can be a way of showing that no one, not even a former president, is above the law. this is an important point you make, kimberly, because as of now we don't have some adjudication about donald trump's behavior on january 6th and the days leading up to it. we have an election but not a legal adjudication of this. >> that's right. not only does the complaint layout in detail the injuries, the beatings these officers took, the racial slurs hurled at the officer. it opens the door for witnesses and documentary evidence that details and put's donald trump's actions in light of the insurrection on january 6 it, what he said, who he said it to, it is a way that evidence can be obtained to push back on the lies that donald trump continues to say there w

one was a man named joe howard, jr., who was -- who covered the case for the boston globe. he was at the time the highest-paid correspondent in america. he traveled, it was said, with a blonde stenographer, and he devoted a great deal of attention to bringing his readers into the courtroom so that, so that people could follow along in the proceedings, not what actually happened while the court was in session, but also the sense of urgency that so many felt in their attempts to get into the courthouse. the fact that so many women were in the audience. the numbers of women steadily increased throughout the trial so that by the end, more than half were women. some even put the number higher. and he would scan the crowd for, you know, pretty faces as he was wont to do. and other celebrities of the day would receive mention. he turned minor court officials into characters so that the readers would have the, you know, the pleasure of reading about their -- the familiar, the familiar people and the pomposity of the sheriff or the eloquence of the lawyer. he even reported on the ac

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speaking of the supreme court and new boston globe op-ed argues to unpack the supreme court. expand it. language we had before. how harmful is it for the legislative and executive branches to do this. >> court packing has a long and unhappy history in the united states, not just fdr who tried to pack the courts who didn't like early decision striking down the deal programs in the 30s though he was overwhelmingly reelected, hugely unpopular and democrats lost big in 1938 midterms after that. in the early days of the republic as we expanded, the court started at 6, because of political shenanigans between thomas jefferson and john adams in the early days when people tried to fiddle with the court, did not benefit the country, some things relating to slavery and reconstruction afterwards. we had been at nine since 1869, 150 years, and act of congress to change that, packing the court which means expanding for political reasons is very different than the political hardball democrats are unhappy with that mitch mcconnell did under the trump administration. jillian: it is interesti

>> he flew with that great boston globe fred williams. >> ted williams? >> and with that in itself, they said williams was so far superior to everyone else. everybody wanted to gather around williams and join him and his plight. it could not be managed of course but a lot got to fly with williams and he was a very good leader. >> go ahead, cathy. >> i want to push back on what you said about john and how he acted the way he did because it was not the first courageous thing he did. that made it a factor, but every time i was around john, talking to folks, talking about space life, he did not react the way he did because he did not do that -- for him, he did this as part of being in american. this was advancing the country. it was about all of us. it was about serving the country. i don't think it had anything to do with whether he was, first second or had done something before. he just did not see it as him standing out. you cited him doing his part to help all of us to help this country. >> video we said, would happened to me was what would have happened

kimmerly atkins of the boston herald and now a member of "the boston globe" editorial board. at gaetz came out swinging at literally everybody. the establishment. the fbi. >> i think he is learning the hard way everything he learned for years about trump's loyalty going one way has come true. but i think that it is true in the discussion that you were having before that this op-ed is literally the handbook of donald trump. matt gaetz is a rich kid whose dad took care of his problems and in his interviews with tucker carlson and in this op-ed he believes he can talk his way out of this problem that he has a right to. but the line in the op-ed that is so telling about this era and how much trump has changed the party is that line where he says that i are not coming for me. they are coming for you. >> right. >> and that is exactly what trump tells his voters. tomorrow they are going to bust through your door and arngs kuz you of sex trafficking. believe me they have the power to ruin your life. and that is the theme of matt gaetz' response. tell the voters i am going to be fine

the boston globe found the boston police department concluded rose likely was guilty of sexually abusing a 12-year-old boy in 1995 but took no action. last year, teenage girl reported she was abused by rose from the age of seven through 12, leading to at least five more survivors coming forward. in maryland, 16-year-old peyton alexander ham died tuesday after he was fatally shot by a state trooper in st. mary's county. few details of ham's killing have emerged, but police cited a witness who said ham appeared to be pointing a gun toward a trooper, who then shot and wounded him. another witness told investigators the boy then got up, pulled out a knife, and was shot a second time by the trooper. police released photos of an air-soft plastic pellet gun and a small knife recovered from the scene. in washington, d.c., gun control advocates placed 40,000 silk flowers on the national mall wednesday to mark e numberf u.s. residents who die by shootings each year. the memorial was unveiled by gabby giffords, the former arizona congresswoman who surviv a gunshot to the head during a mass shooting

. >> joining me now is shaq in minneapolis, "boston globe" opinion writer, kimberly atkins, chuck rosenberg and paul butler. welcome all. shaq, the reporters in the courtroom, the pool, about the testimony for tomorrow and how the jury is reacting to all of this? >> you got a sense from the two reporters allowed in the room as miss ross was testifying, she really connected with the jurors. she explained how floyd was a security guard and when he saw she was in distress, he came up and prayed with her. and she told about how the pain led to opioid addiction. she said that is a classic american story. she helped humanize george floyd but also opened the door for the defense to talk about their point, that drugs were a contributing factor to his death, he talked about what kind of pills he had and what they would do together and you heard cross-examination ask about that and dig down on the factor. we also learned that the prosecution expect to call the minneapolis police chief to the stand tomorrow. we knew that would be somebody testifying. they teased that in some of their opening statement

. >>> and now for tonight's episode of defendant trump, our next guest wrote an op-ed in the boston globest case against donald trump. the lawsuits filed by two capitol police officers directly against donald trump for their pain and suffering when the trump mob attacked them on january 6th, to the lawsuits filed by two members of congress against donald trump for inciting the insurrection. professor tribe finds the police officers have a simpler and more emotional case as described. officer hemby was crushed by the doors trying to hold the insurrectionists back. over and over he tried to tell them that the doors opened outward, and pressing him into the door would do no good. but they screamed, fight for trump, stop the steal, and various other slogans as they struck him with their fists and whatever they had in their hands. things were being thrown at him, and he was sprayed with chemicals. a surge slammed officer blasingame against a column. and people were yelling into his face, calling him the n-word repeatedly and throughout the attack. he lost count of how many times the racial slu

joining us now is "the boston globe" columnist kimberly atkins. she is an msnbc contributor.watch all of this yesterday, especially with officer billy evans, two young children, logan and abigail sitting there. they carried their stuffed animals with them. at one point appear a gail wiped her mother's tears away. she is 7 years old. president biden, of course, stepping into the role that he has had to play in his own life far too often in mourning this man and offering, trying to offer sympathy and empathy for what they are going through. what stood out to you the most about what we saw yesterday? >> yeah, we have talked over the course of a four-year period about how consoler in chief is one of the jobs of the u.s. president when that president chooses to take on that job. it was yesterday when i realized how long it had been since the nation had in its president a consoler in chief, someone who can simultaneously speak to a nation, which is still reliving that trauma from repeated attacks on the u.s. capitol, who could speak to this family in such a personal way. you could

kimberley atkins, columnist with the boston globe and nbc news contributor as well as former trial attorney. daniel gern, a civil rights attorney, and capehart. they include a police officer, a paramedic involved with the arrest of george floyd. they brought up a prior arrest. now we're also hearing a witness who is an expert telling us exactly the opposite on use of force that we heard from the prosecution witness. what did you hear today? was there something that said to you that they're building a case for reasonable doubt? >> the way that i would -- and thank you so much, chris, but it's a great question. the way i would look at it is the defense is taking their shot. whether it's effective or whether it's not is not what i would take away from that. they're doing what they can. i think when you start off with a prior arrest like that it's important for folks to know it's not so much about the incident as it is about trying to make george floyd look like a person that has a history of brushes with the law, that he's got a serious drug problem. all of these things are aimed at the overal

you won a piece of the gala -- boston globe for what you are calling a civilian climate core.r year of service up to $50,000 to either pay down student loan debt or pay for higher education. they would earn at least $15 an hour, we see full medical coverage, and have access to other services such as childcare. this is obviously targeted at recent college graduates and others younger in the workplace. how do you think you can make that work? >> the most popular part of fdr's programs in the 1930s was the civilian concentration corps. 1 million young men who went out and did great things for our country, like the works in progress administration well that we are still proud of and benefiting from today. this ability and climate war will do the same thing. this time, it won't just be restricted to white young men. we put this out there for men and women of any race in our country, and give them the opportunity to not just begin a job, but a career in this new field that will open up dramatically. and to give them the kind of salary, on the one hand, and financial assistance to go

and renee graham, associate editor at the boston globe. good evening to you both. now, paul, we are at the end of week two and are getting near the end of the prosecution's case. they may rest early next week. where do you think we have come in the last week? >> the prosecution had another excellent week. that should be expected because the defense has not had its turn. but the jury has heard some of the most compelling evidence in any trial of a police officer in recent history. last week there was the emotional testimony from eyewitnesses who all suffered from survivor's guilt because they could not save george floyd's life. and this week, a parade of experts. ten police officers using excessive force and four medical experts who said that chauvin killed george floyd and not drugs or heart disease as the defense claims. >> renee, let's look at this more broadly. there are people that like to point out to me that there's been social justice movements around this, this remains the case of one man in the death of another man. but there are things happening at this t

joining me now, is boston globe columnist kimberly atkins and she is also an msnbc contributor.age to ceos, although he continue to happy to take their money as campaign contributions. what is your take on what he had to say there in terms of, you know, he is talking about coca-cola, delta airlines, obviously, major league baseball, and this georgia law. do you think this is something that democrats need to be concerned about in terms of the debate that we are, obviously, having here about cancel culture and all of these other issues? >> yeah. it seems that leader mcconnell is trying to sort of do two different things here. politics are happy to accept a big check from corporations and republicans have fought hard for corporations to be considered people for political purposes in the vein of citizens united. in this case he is sort of issuing this threat, it's not thinly veiled. he said it himself that while if corporations take this move then republicans perhaps can boycott them too. that is the very free marketplace, open market/free market approach that corporations are alrea

named the best book of the year by "the washington post," atlantic, entertainment weekly and the boston globe. she's the executive editor of the new yorker since is 1996, ao writes for the magazine and hosts the weekly podcast politics and more. she and her husband live in westchester, new york. h.w. brands holds the chair in history at the university of texas at austin. he has written more than a dozen biographies and histories, two of which -- the first american and traitor to his class -- were finalists for the prettier prize. his -- pulitzer prize. his latest book -- [inaudible] okay. we're going to talk about these fantastic books, and let me get our two authors to interact with each other, talk to each other. both have theories about strong individuals that are working to end the nation's greatest sin, which is slavery, and also do more than that. it was the wonderful for me to be able to sit back and read these books because together you know, they would kind of bounce off each other. i was getting a full understanding of the complex issues, complex times, interesting people. so let me

joining me now, is "the boston globe" columnist kimberly atkins and also an msnbc contributor.lot of investigations into some of these police-involved shootings. what is your sense of what that says about how the biden administration's approach to handling these very tragic cases is different than what we have seen in recent years? >> it's remarkably different from the last administration. if you recall, the last administration really brought to a halt the sort of civil rights investigations into police departments that led to things called consent decrees when there have been broad problems found within police districts that the justice department goes in the city and enters an agreement to make changes and we are seeing those investigations take place. in addition to the fbi investigating individual cases such as the one you were talking about here in north carolina to ensure that no civil rights violations took place and that a full investigation is countered. so this justice department is very motivated, very activated and is acting very quickly. we saw attorney general mer

official historian of the boston red sox, and before that he covered the team for 18 years for the boston globe and espn. before we begin, i will mention a couple of protocols that we use with zoom, there will be a program that will run about 45 or 50 minutes, we will then open it up to the audience for q and a. if you'd like to participate, you can use the q and a function at the bottom of the screen. type in your question and make sure to read the question and we'll try to get to his many of them as we possibly can. we will try to get too many, but with over hundred 50 people attending, we may not be able to get all of them. thank you all for joining us, and without further ado, i will toss this off to gordon. hi, gordon. >> hi, thank you so much, welcome everyone. catherine told me just before we started that if i do one more presentation i will be eligible for health insurance. so i am hoping to stick around for a sixth next year. needless to say, i wish we are in different circumstances and that i would be leading you all on a short walk from massachusetts historical site on the corner ove

has been the team historian since 2015 and before that covered the team for 18 years for the "boston globe" and espn. before we begin, i will let you know about protocols we use with zoom. there will be a program that will run 45 or 50 minutes with our panelists speaking. then we will open it up for q and a, you can use the q and a function at the bottom of your screen and type in your question and we should be be able to read the question and get to most all of them as we possibly can. with over 150 people attending we may not be able to get to all of them. thank you for joining us. without further ado i will toss this off to gordon. hi, gordon. >> thank you so much. and welcome, everyone. catherine told me just before we started that if i do one more presentation at mhs historical, i will be eligible for health insurance. i am hoping to stick around for six next year. needless to say, i wish we were in different circumstances and that i would be leading you all on the short talk from mass historical over to fenway park, which we have done for the past events. we live in hope that that da

joining me now, suhill kapoor for nbc news, and kimberly atkins, a columnist for the boston globe opinionr. she's also cohost of the #sistersinlaw podcast. >> redistricting could reshape the power dynamic in congress. districts seats could be added. demgraph, changes could mean democrats lose seats in northern and coastal states. does this set the stage for a more urgent showdown over voting rights? >> yes, it certainly will in the minds of democrats. and part of the issue, part of what they're trying to do in hr-1, this massive voting rights bill, is to create independent redistricting commissions in states basically to take the task of drawing these lines out of the hands of partisan actors. republicans have a substantial advantage here in redistricting. there are several states that are poised to add seats, like texas and florida and georgia, where republicans will have the final authority over redistricting. there are as many as ten seats according to some experts that could flip in the house just by drawing new district lines. even if the landscape does not change a single point from

>> he flew with that great boston globe fred williams. >> fred williams. >> and with that in itself, they said that williams ' eyesight was so far superior to everyone else's that everyone wanted to gather around williams and join him in his flight. and it couldn't be managed, of course, but a lot of the guys got to fly with williams, and he was a very good leader. >> you know -- go ahead, kathryn. >> i want to push back on what she said, john reacted the way he did because it wasn't the first greatest thing he did. that may have been a factor. but every time i was around john, talking to folks, talking about spaceflight, talking about -- he didn't react the way he did because he didn't do that for him. he really -- he did this as part of being an american. this was advancing the country. it was about all of us it was about serving the country. and i don't think it had anything to do whether he was first or second or had done something before. he just didn't see it as him standing out. he thought it as him doing his part to help all of us, to help this country be all [inaudible] . >>

." >> reporter: marty baron, the editor of the "washington post," and before that, "the boston globe"ld", is packk it packing i. under his leadship, they won awards, like "law breaking by the n.s.a.," and "predator priests in boston," as seen in the oscar winning time "spotlight." live schreiber played baron. >> we are going after the system. >> reporter: you were made famous in that movie, "spotlight." you're a hero? >> my heros are the people that i worked with. >> reporter: you're embarrassed? >> i'm embarrassed. it is not a one-person show here. >> reporter: when we visited marty baron in february, it certainly looked like a one-person show. i haven't seen another person, outside of you, in this building today. this is completely empty. this is covid. >> absolutely. everybody has been working from home. it has been that way pretty much since march 10th. >> reporter: even before covid, there was a sterile look to the new modern newsroom. >> the old newspaper offices had a lot of charm, history, dirt, grease. >> reporter: grunge. >> grunge. my first newsrooms were the manual typewri

joan walsh, producer of "the sit in" on peacock and kimberly atkins, senior opinion writer at the boston globehe sisters-in-law podcast. thank you both for coming back to "the sunday show." you've seen the first seen the our show. your thoughts? >> it's just been such a traumatic week. i'm honored to be here on dr. sunday and the anniversary of dr. king's passing. it's rare they come together but it means we have to pay attention to what is going on. the chauvin trial may be the trial of the century. it's been incredibly traumatic. i feel responsibility to watch it as a white person because so many of my black friends are having a hard time with it. i think it's been devastating to see the grief of witnesses suffering and crying talking about how they wish they could have helped. how guilty they feel. to see the chorus of police officers, at the end of the week, saying derek chauvin did the wrong thing. told have stopped kneeling on george floyd's neck and should have rendered aid. i hope he's convicted. this week alone he should be. >> yeah. kimberly, your thoughts? >> yeah. i echo what joan

correspondent cal perry with us on the ground, and kimberly atkins is back, a columnist for the boston globesnbc contributor. cal, take me through what's happening there today and your reporting on the reaction to the announcement of these charges. >> reporter: so we have what's happening at the hennepin county jail, which is former officer potter has been booked in. those charges are now official. here is how the charges read in minnesota state law. culpable negligence, whereby the person creates an unreasonable risk and takes chances of causing death or great bodily harm to another. i think protesters wanted heavier charges. the second degree manslaughter charge is something the district thinks they can make stick. the protesters here wanted heavier charges and they want legislation to be enacted like we've seen, for example, at the state level in kentucky after breonna taylor, like we're seeing an effort be made in the name of george floyd on a federal level when it comes to justice and policing, which is why we saw junior members of the state assembly out earlier today talking about the

field of dreams," was released, our good friend, mike barnicle wrote this bit of poetry for the bo"boston globe landscape and at the far edge of the sky, a pastel light outlined by the faintest traces of sun held the promise of baseball days ahead and in the city streets that groan today under the heavy weight of all the used up seasons past will tomorrow crackle with the hope, the spirit, the promise that comes with each new journey, where our dreams are transported across all the days of summer, on the bats and the backs of men named yas and rice, remi and opening day. t mike joins us. mike, boy, is that perfect well said. today's opening day. the yankees, i know you and jonathan are very excited, open in just a few hours with garrett cole on the bump against the blue jays at yankee stadium. i was excited to see jonathan lemire using the hash chase for 28th he's excited about now a 28th world series title for the new york yankees >> you know, willie, i don't think we as a country, as a culture culture, ever needed baseball more every aspect of it, the spring, the start, the fresh start to a n

. >>> let's bring into the conversation boston globe columnist and co-host of the hashtag sisters-in-law mike barnicle is back with us as well. we want to start with your new piece for "the atlantic" entitled "welcome to the new progressive era." and you write in part this, the conversation i've had in recent weeks have painted a portrait of an improbable coming-together of people and forces. a moderate president with an ascendant progressive movement at his back and at his throat, facing a once in a generation window of opportunity. it's still early. it remains to be seen if this momentum will continue. if the infrastructure plan musters the votes, if the ungainly sanders dimension coalition holds, but for now, a capitol that has been defined in recent years by the absence of useful action bubbles with generative possibility. and many of us who thought we knew what a biden president would look like and didn't expect much from it are suddenly asking ourselves, how did we get him so wrong? anand, it seems like biden's experience over the past 30, 40, 50 years has led to a lot of stories a

boston and former secretary of state james baker iii. secretary baker was a powerhouse in washington, d.c. in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united states secretary of state and also further served four united states presidents over the course of three decades. secretary baker was scheduled to be our capstone speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership conference. however, he and mrs. baker contracted covid-19. i'm pleased to report that they now have covid-19, the illness, in their rear view mirror. today the secretary will be noted by talmage boston. talmage is a high-profile persona in texas and across the nation. he is a leading trial lawyer. he is known in our profession as what we call a go-to lawyer or a super lawyer. talmage is also a historian, and he has a special focused interest on the qualities of leadership in the public and the private square. recently he authored a book in which he sat down with presidential historians to examine the qualities of leadership that have characterized various united states presidents. i'm also pleased to announce that this is the sixth lecture in the star fede

obviously, when you were working for the globe and on the beat in boston, all the cases that you've actuallyofold through the years, i wanted to talk about the impact of having law enforcement officers on the stand, actually testifying against another police officer. so often jurors don't want to charge or send a police officer to prison. don't want to charge them with a serious crime, because they want to do their jobs. sometimes it's tough, sometimes it's difficult. we're not there. so you have jurors more often than not lining up with police officers. i'm curious, what is the impact of one law enforcement officer after another law enforcement officer after another law enforcement officer saying, what this guy did was inconsistent with training, was inconsistent with the law, but most importantly, it was inconsistent with our values as a police department. what type of impact do you think that ultimately has on those jurors? >> i would think it would have to have a powerful impact on the jurors, joe. i mean, first of all, police officer s pretty good on the stand. they're on the stand in th

boston university school of medicine, dr. nah ichlid bedelia thank you for getting up early with us. i saw that you tweeted about cases rising across the globeend the pandemic why do you think we need that, and also, could you briefly address this johnson & johnson issue? because this is a vaccine that could potentially be a key part of that. and i'm sure that there are some americans out there who are nervous, seeing these headlines. should they be >> yeah, so kasie, good morn recognize johnson & johnson they're now going to take tighter control of emergent bio solutions work being done around the vaccines, and i think that's important. my understanding is that the current projections from president biden in terms of all adults being able to get vaccinated if they wanted to by may still hold but they've been, in terms of the exact delivery dates of the johnson & johnson, i think it's going to be harder to sort of assess as a country, trying to make up for this potential delay. it's also good to know novavax, another vaccine distributor, might be submitting their data at some point in april you may remember they had international trials that

at the golden globes, and just this month, beyonce won the most grammys of any woman and any singer ever, 28 if we're counting and then just last week, kim janey was sworn in as boston'sst black and first female mayor. echoing vice president harris in her acceptance speech. >> every little girl watching today can see that boston is a city of possibilities. >> possibilities for these and all women. >>> some developing news out of myanmar now, according to reports the military has announced a nationwide cease fire, but they say they'll continue to defend against actions that would disrupt government security as they put it nbc news has not confirmed these reports. the announcement comes as the united nation's security council held a meeting today over the crisis a u.n. official warned the country faces the possibility of a civil war, quoting now, at an unprecedented scale. according to a human rights group, the military has killed more than 500 people since overthrowing the government just last month the southeast asian country now faces a refugee crisis international coverage from our sister network sky news and their reporter reports from the bob border near myanmar.

boston and former secretary of state james baker iii. secretary baker was a powerhouse in washington, d.c. in the beltway and literally around the globe as he served as the united states secretary of state and also further served four united states presidents over the course of three decades. secretary baker was scheduled to be our capstone speaker at the 2020 vision for leadership