doug brinkley, you know, it was building up to that. you know, one of the great healing, talking about foundation documents, the adams, jefferson correspondence when they get published because here were two adversarial minds arguing all the they had to run against each other and the 1800 election which was very brutal to have a political party system like that and how moving in their senior years they started befriending each other with an incredible correspondence that with you read it. it sends a symbol of our democracy as our best. how do you have a partizan warfare but then heal? dr. brinkley. great. please. well, you're not going to get through history or now like today. but what's just how you grade our democracy today? our democracy today. today? hmm. i'd have to give it a lower grade than i'd like. i would say b-minus. i think we're we're sniping at each other in a way that we've got to stop. we're not working in a in tandem and worried since the advent of of trump that he has worked to help. it's a divide and conquer kind of pe

guests on the initial panel included historians h w brands from the university of texas, brent brinkley of rice, joanne freeman of yale, and edna green medford of howard university. one point of the discussion was the mount vernon pole that found two thirds of americans pessimistic about the country's ion and dissatisfied with the political climate. >> historians hwb and, douglas brinkley, joanne freeman, and edna green medford on this episode of notes plus. look notes plus is available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your broadcasts. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government funded by these television companies and more. including. >> fast reliable internet connection is something nobody can live without. wow is there for customers with speed, reliability, value, and choice. now more than ever, it all starts with great internet. >> w supports c-span as a publicervice along with these other television providers, giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> former u.s. supreme court justice sandra day o'connor has died at age 93. friday in phoenix, arizona. sh

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hayden's doug brinkley.ou may be familiar with his presidential biographies, his books on hurricane katrina or the space race, and many other topics. but i want to mention his 1993 magic us book. that book led directly to the c-span bus which were 25 years plus traveled the country educating students in schools, thousands, on civic education. one more reminder this evening, as with many c-span programs, this will be interactive. you will have the chance to question dr. hayden and brinkley by the notecards that will be passed out and you can submit those if you have questions for them this evening. now, here is librarian of congress carla hayden and presidential biographer doug brinkley talking about books that shaped america. [applause] >> thank you, peter. it is a joy at the national book festival to talk about books and they do have to give us the hook, you are right. and i was so glad you also mentioned that c-span selected the 10 books. >> they did, so don't write the library of congress. the idea that c

seeing -- i went through the handwriting, too, even though we've seen the anderson books and the brinkley edition of the diaries and tough, but makes a difference when you immerse yourself in his handwriting because that's his strength. >> i've done analysis of the speeches in the 1980's, and consistent with what i've said, and some cite the famous debate with robert kennedy in the '60s. speech writers say consistently that the first place they always started with mining reagan's previous speeches because they agreed that there was consensus that reagan was his own best speech writer. so, i see-- now, as reagan assumed office this happened most when he became governor of california and became president and, you know, he said things with more nuance than he did as a private citizen. and, but to some extent that change happened when he was running for president. >> if i could add quickly, on that tony dolan even says in various places, interviews and so forth, that when people asked him how did you write so well for reagan, he said because i went and read reagan. >> if you ever -- you shoul

joining me now, douglas brinkley, presidential historian and professor of history at rice university. so, here's the question, doug. is this a turning point for american democracy? or have we already run off the road? >> i don't think we run off the road yet, i think there's still a lot of resistance to a republican nominee, presumably donald trump, claiming he wants to be a dictator on day one. i think we will have to see what the american voters feel about that. we have to remember that donald trump lost the last election by millions of votes. so people will get more engaged over the summer, but it's dangerous. i mean, it's been a bad year for democracy around the world. i, mean look at what's going on in nature with the government just figuring out the coup, or in india where people are being arrested and repressed, or russia with what's going on with their hammering at the ukraine, and china sending balloons over the united states. it was not a great year for feeling the power of democracy and the future. but the u.s. is still the citadel of democracy, and we're going to run an el

the presidential historian, doug brinkley, is joining us. what's your reaction, first of all, to this moment? trump, a former united states president, a current candidate, being removed from a state's ballot? >> well, it tells you we're still living in the age of january 6th. there are a lot of people that feel donald trump was part of that insurrection. and if he was or if he led it in any way, then he is going to find himself not on some ballots. but the catch here is that this will probably go to a supreme court, and that's a court that you had -- you know, trump had three conservatives on, who he thinks will back their action. colorado is leading the way of a lot of states that are going to say trump can't be on a ballot because of the 14th amendment of 1868. >> this 14th amendment, as you correctly point out, was passed, became the law of the land after the civil war to make sure that confederates, those who opposed the united states, would not be allowed to take office. is that going to be a factor, do you think, in this decision that'

a former white house secretary under president obama and an msnbc political analyst, and douglas brinkleyesidential historian and author. welcome to you both. hours after making these remarks, the former president doubled down and wrote a post saying illegal immigration is poisoning the blood of our nation. as i mentioned, president biden and the white house are comparing this to the words of adolf hitler, and specifically the words that were written in mein kampf and i want to read for folks the comparison we see so they understand the gravity of the situation. the poison which has invaded the national body especially the strong influx of foreign blood. that is from "mein kampf," as a historian, doug, what did you hear in the former president's remarks? >> i heard a former president who is jiving on fascism. there's no question about that being a line from "mein kampf." he knows it. he has deny dabbling in adolf hitler his whole life, keeps his speeches at his bedside. it's heinous because it's the kind of language meant to be little people, behumanize them, and when we're not taking an

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley has more on the results of these new inspection shows. >> valuable caltrans land under our maze of urban freeways are leased out, letting caltrans over $34 million a year. >> we have about 600 and about 600 sites across the state where we lease out areas underneath the freeway, what we call airspace leases. half of those sites are in the bay area. >> but after the massive i-10 fire in los angeles in mid-november, caltrans decided to re inspect some of those airspace leases. >> what happened in the in i-10, in la, in is we had inspected the site and we were actually in litigation with the tenant for being out of compliance. >> 13 sites were identified as warranting a closer look at safety and compliance in the bay area. five of them in san francisco and five in oakland in the last week, additional inspections were completed. some of the sites in oakland are piled high with everything from wood pallets to rvs and vehicles . there are parking lots and dumpsters. there are fences with prominent signs saying no dumping, no trespassing by caltrans. and i h

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. >> here's abc's seven news reporter leslie brinkley. >> a streak of relentless, brazen violence continued in oakland on friday night when a security guard at this 7-eleven on harrison street confronted a shoplifter who allegedly pulled a gun and shot and killed him before escaping. oakland police say they've made no arrests as they're investigate continues coworker say they're now scared to be at work after 59 year old james johnson died inside the store despite efforts of paramedics, those who work here at the 7-eleven told me that johnson lived just one block away at a homeless shelter and that he worked here at the 7-eleven as an unarmed security guard. >> it was really nice, dude, he begged the people there to get a job. there and they denied him a couple of times until they finally let him. >> people are feeling less safe, less secure. lynette mcelhaney served this district on oakland city council for eight years, and she thinks the escalation in violence correlates with the lack of a police chief this year. leadership matters and what we say matters. and we really need people to mov

. >> here's abc's seven news reporter leslie brinkley. >> a streak of relentless, brazen violence continuedd at this 7-eleven on harrison street confronted a shoplifter who allegedly pulled a gun and shot and killed him before escaping. oakland police say they've made no arrests as they're investigate continues coworker say they're now scared to be at work after 59 year old james johnson died inside the store despite efforts of paramedics, those who work here at the 7-eleven told me that johnson lived just one block away at a homeless shelter and that he worked here at the 7-eleven as an unarmed security guard

and thank you, doug brinkley, bill brand's joanne freeman and the mentor. our topic today is not a small one. it's the founders and democracy. and, you know, i was thinking about it for days, but then i was thinking about it even more closely as i was looking at listening to the previous conversation with brian lamb and the other historians. and i was taken back to my graduate student days, which now is almost 15 years ago. and i remember one of the things that we always did in grad school was something called define your terms. you'll probably remember that. and we have two very big terms. the founders and democracy and our first panel was talking a lot about democracy. and one of the themes that often came up is what does democracy mean? and i thought that might be a good way to actually start this conversation is with the idea of democracy and to ask what democracy actually means. what is it that we're talking about when we evoke it so frequently as we did in the last panel, as we do in our everyday lives, and worry about this idea of democracy. but what

>> brinkley, we have not seen volodymyr zelenskyy on such a diplomatic effort for a while now, he isg to instill momentum into the ukrainian story. it's no secret that it has been sidelined by other geopolitical events that have taken place ever since. he is going to the united states today. he will meet with president biden tomorrow. we understand he will also address u.s. lawmakers. remember, some of the funding story in the united states is connected to republicans not signing up for it unless there is more money that goes into border security. he is hoping to make a case for ukraine. it's not the only meetings he will have, because remember yesterday he was in argentina. he met with latin american leaders, including the newly elected argentine president javier millet, remember, for zelenskyy it has always been important to reach out to the global south to spread support for ukraine beyond what is seen as the traditional, classic western world. for him there was value going into latin america, specifically also yesterday, this was unexpected but nonetheless important, he had a mee

guests on this initial panel included historians, doug brinkley of rice, joanne freeman of el, and medford of howard university. one point of the discussion was the mount vernon pole that found that two thirds of americans are pessimistic about the country's ion and dissatisfied with the politi climate. >> historians on this episode o book notes plus which is available on the free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> up next, the vice chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral christopher grady, he talks about threats as a result of the israel-hamas war. he talks about designing a future joint force capable of meeting the challenges. this is just over one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome, everyone. my name is mike anderson and i am a director here at the atlantic council. on behalf of the atlantic cancel'-- council, i would like to determine the future with admiral christopher grady. thank you so much for joining us today. when we first launched the series in 2009 to mauer vision was to establish a flagship speaker's forum for senior military and defense leaders to discuss

brinkley: a federal judge in los angeles ruled the so-called "family hour" on television from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. was unconstitutional, a violation of the first amendment guarantee of free speech. the first amendment was upheld in a most important decision, and it's really, truly a victory for everybody. "thehe rookies"" will n not be seenen tonigt so that we may bring you the following special program. grimsby: tonight television takes a look at itself. we are looking at what you watch most of the time, entertainment programming on the three commercial networks. what are you looking at, and is it good for you? somewhere around the middle or late '70s, it's like people got tired of talking about real stuff. well, , if the gooood lord prprovided us s with berriries, i think we ought to eat them. connelly: there was a longing for a simpler time when it didn't seem like there was so much anger and contentiousness, when people weren't so m mad at e each other.r. grimsby: dururing last s seas, "t"the waltonsns" caught on. girl: good nightht, john-boyoy. jojohn-boy: gogood n. this year there'

brinkley: a federal judge in los angeles ruled the so-called "family hour" on television from 7:00 to0 p.m. was unconstitutional, a violation of the first amendment guarantee of free speech. the first amendment was upheld in a most important decision, and it's really, truly a victory for everybody. first time i connected with kim, she told me that her husband had passed. and that he took care of all of the internet connected devices in the home. i told her, “i'm here to take care of you.” connecting with kim... made me reconnect with my mom. it's very important to keep loved ones close. we know that creating memories with loved ones brings so much joy to your life. a family trip to the team usa training facility. i don't know how to thank you. i'm here to thank you. "thehe rookies"" will n not be seenen tonigt so that we may bring you the following special program. grimsby: tonight television takes a look at itself. we are looking at what you watch most of the time, entertainment programming on the three commercial networks. what are you looking at, and is it good for you? somewhere a

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley checked it out. >> it was the worst flight ever. >> passengers had plenty of tales of travel. woe to share at oakland airport today because of what airport officials called an irregular fog pattern. a dense bubble of fog shrouded the airport all morning while everywhere else nearby was sunny . here you see a ghost town at baggage claim. by mid-morning. by midday, all the delayed flights finally started landing. as of 11 a.m, oakland airport reported 22 delayed departures and 24 delayed arrivals. a couple of cancellations, but there's still a spillover into the afternoon hours. by 2:00, the tally was 40 incoming delays and 51 outbound delays with plenty of stories to tell. >> we actually tried to land here in oakland first and the pilot pulled out to say, nope, can't do it. and then we tried san francisco and they got rerouted to san jose. >> they said, we're running out of fuel. we got to go to sfo, got to sfo. they said, hold on a second, we'll figure it out. then they said, we're going to deplane. we don't know when this plane is going anywhere, si

here's abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley with the story. >> a streak of relentless, brazen violencetinued in oakland on friday night when a security guard at this 7-eleven on harrison street confronted a shoplifter after who allegedly pulled a gun and shot and killed him before escaping. oakland police say they've made no arrests as their investigation continues. coworkers say they're now scared to be at work after 59 year old james johnson died inside the store. despite efforts of paramedics. those who work here at the 7-eleven told me that johnson lived just one block away at a homeless shelter and that he worked here at the 7-eleven as an unarmed security guard. >> it was really nice, dude. he begged the people there to get a job there, and they denied him a couple of times until they finally let him. >> people are feeling less safe. less secure. >> lynette mcelhaney served this district on oakland city council for eight years, and she thinks the escalation in violence correlates with the lack of a police chief this year. >> leadership matters and what we say matters. and we real

abc7 news reporter leslie brinkley is live outside the sunol glen school district where a board meetingerway in about an hour. leslie >> hi, dan. yeah, that's right. in about an hour and we're expecting castro valley pride to be out here. they say they're going to rally outside the meeting where tonight the board of three members is planning to elect a new board president and discuss bringing in an outside law firm after they voted in september for to not allow pride flags on campus. >> the way we describe it is we feel like there's a dark cloud over our school at this time. and the teachers, all of us, we really just want to be about the business of teaching the students. >> molly barnes is the superintendent and principal of this one school school district of 270 students. >> we try to keep that political stuff at bay. all students are welcome here. the lgbtq plus community, whether we fly a flag or not, they are still welcome, she said. >> the community division hit a peak in june when a pride flag on a fence was stolen. so they raised one on the flagpole. by september, two of the th

. >> abc seven news reporter leslie brinkley checked it out. >> it was the worst flight ever. >> passengersy of tales of travel. woe to share at oakland airport today because of what airport officials called an irregular fog pattern. a dense bubble of fog shrouded the airport all morning, while everywhere else nearby was sunny . here you see a ghost town at baggage claim. by mid-morning, by midday, all the delayed flights finally started landing. as of 11 a.m, oakland airport reported 22 delayed departures 24 delayed arrivals, a couple of canceled options, but there's still a spillover into the afternoon hours. by 2:00, the tally was 40 incoming delays and 51 outbound delays with plenty of stories to tell. >> we actually tried to land here in oakland first and the pilot pulled out to say, nope, you can't do it. and then we tried san francisco and they got rerouted to san jose. >> they said, we're running out of fuel. we got to go to sfo, got to sfo, they said, hold on a second, we'll figure it out. then they said we're going to deplane. we don't know when this plane is going anywhere, sir,

guests on this initial panel included historians, doug brinkley of rice, joanne freeman of el, and medfordf howard university. one point of the discussion was the mount vernon pole that found that two thirds of americans are pessimistic about the country's ion and dissatisfied with the politi climate. >> historians on this episode o book notes plus which is available on the free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> up next, the vice chair of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral christopher grady, he talks about threats as a result of the israel-hamas war. he talks about designing a future joint force capable of meeting the challenges. this is just over one hour. >> good afternoon and welcome, everyone. my name is mike anderson and i am a director here at the atlantic council. on behalf of the atlantic cancel'-- council, i would like to determine the future with admiral christopher grady. thank you so much for joining us today. when we first launched the series in 2009 to mauer vision was to establish a flagship speaker's forum for senior military and defense leaders to

guests on this panel included historians h w brands of the university of texas, dov brinkley of rice, and -- of howard university. one point of discussion was the mount vernon poll that founded two thirds of americans are pessimistic about the country's direction and is satisfied with the political climate. >> historian brands, douglas brinkley, joannereeman and edna green medford on this isode of footnotes plus. footnotes plus is avai on the c-span now free mobile app or reverie get your podcasts. >> book notes plus is available on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> c-span has a number of podcasts for you. on the afterward podcast, and on q and a, care wide-ranging conversations with nonfiction authors and others who are making things happen. book notes plus episodes are weekly, our long conversations that feature fascinating authors of nonfiction books on a wide variety of topics and the about books podcast takes you behind the scenes of the nonfiction book publishing industry with insider interviews, industry updates and bestsellers list. find our

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you know i went through the too even though we've seen both you the andersons books and and the brinkley edition of the the diaries and stuff, but it still makes a difference when you can immerse yourself in his because that's his brain as robert was saying. and let me add that i've done an analysis of the campaigns in 1980 that i think are consistent with the argument. i've made some of his speeches cite the famous debate. what robert kennedy and the sixties and the speechwriter say consistently that the first place they always started was mining. reagan's previous speech because they agreed that there was that reagan was his own best speechwriter. so i say, i see continuity now as reagan assumed office. this happened both when he became governor of california and became president. and, you know, he said things with more nuance than he did as a private citizen. and to some extent that happened. that change happened when he was running for president. i could i just very quickly on that, tony dole and even says in various places interviews elsewhere that when people asked him how, did you

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. >> historians hwb ran, douglas brinkley,oae freeman and edna green medford on this episode of bookplus. book notes plus is available on the free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. friday night, watch c-span 2024 campaign trail, a weekly roundup of c-span campaign coverage providing a one-stop shop to discover where the candidates are traveling across the country and what they are saying to voters. this come along with first-hand accounts from political reporters, updated poll numbers, fundraising data and campaign ads. watch c-span 2024 campaign trail on c-span, online on c-span.org or download as a podcast on c-spannow, or wherever you get your podcasts. c-span, their unfiltered view of politics. weekends bring you book tv, featuring leading authors discussinghe latest nonfiction books. uc berkeley law professor john you author of "the politically incorrect guide to the supreme court" joins in-depth talk and take calls on the preme court, executive branch authority and more. then, sty professor jennifer burns shares her book milton friedman: alas conservative about the

. >> historians hwb ran, douglas brinkley, joanne freeman and edna green medford on this episode of bookplus. book notes plus is available on the free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. friday night, watch c-span 2024 campaign trail, a weekly roundup of c-span campaign coverage providing a one-stop shop to discover where the candidates are traveling across the country and what they are saying to voters. this come along with first-hand accounts from political reporters, updated poll numbers, fundraising data and campaign ads. watch c-span 2024 campaign trail on c-span, online on c-span.org or download as a podcast on c-spannow, or wherever you get your podcasts. c-span, their unfiltered view of politics. weekends bring you book tv, featuring leading authors discussing their latest nonfiction books. uc berkeley law professor john you author of "the politilly incorrect guide to the supreme court" joins in-depth talk and take calls on the supreme court, executive branch authority and more. then, history professor jennif burns shares her book milton friedman: alas conservative abou