evan thomas. >> guest: i'm fascinated to hear that. i knew that mix -- didn't know about that but i knew that mixon had a much better civil rights record than people think. politically nixon is known for the southern strategy and for trying to stir up a white votes in the south in unattractive ways and that's true. but at the same time, nixon is such a contradictory figure you always have to look at the "but" in his case. he was a guy who actually made integration happen in the south. even though the supreme court ordered in 1954 it hadn't happened by 1968. nixon made it happen and you can say he did that because the courts ordered it. well other, presidents hadn't done it. nixon did. and interestingly to the point of our viewer here, in the '50s, nixon really reached out of to the black community, republicans in the 1950s, the party of lincoln, had some ties to black community that the democrats didn't have. the democrat -- we forget all this, the democratic party base what the south. the white south, and nixon, partly for political r

host: evan thomas?uest: i've used them a lot over the years and i hope to use them in the future because he is a wonderful, wonderful resource. he is a gem. host: next call comes from heart pearl and highlands new jersey. >> caller: my question is about nixon. xou mentioned nixon was brought down by woodward and bernstein. don't we know that it was in the fbi who fed them the informati information, there was probably a wash in the fbi feeding that stream of information and bernstein was simply dukes of the fbi. like what the fbi had tried to do to trump. host: thank you carl. guest: certainly true that he was deep throat by bubble board. that was an important source. he was not the only source. woodward and bernstein talk to a lot of. people. yes woodward talk to mark felt, yes, and he also talked to sandy smith at the time magazine and maybe some others. but woodward and bernstein were knocking on a lot of doors, they had multiple multiple sources. so this is not by any means purely in fbi thing. the b

there were times best-selling author evan thomas observes the year 1941 must've been the greatest and stupidest year of modern times. with eye-popping revelation to show us why character is destiny. please join me to welcome our author. [applause] join me to welcome our author. [applause] thank you very much and to all of you for being here. break from the intensive political news. [laughter] i really appreciate the hospitality for inviting me for this event i'm sure most of you have done it but it was my first tour and was particularly struck me is writers tend to be a possessive about things. and the of sessions about the house and how to design it and the gardens it is all there at the library and it is magnificent to see the autographs of henry james and others to underline in various places makes it feel very familiar. the other thing is with the product of her upbringing she was back and forth between europe and the united states she did grow up after a few early years in new york i society her obsession with the socialal mores of that high society and social relations were cond

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with me today to share their reporting and their insights, julie pace, evan perez, shawna thomas and karen demersion. i want to come back to the president and his behavior, i'll leave it for now. let's listen first to the attorney general. he says we'll get to the bottom of this and someone is going pay. >> we will get to the bottom of what happened, and there will be accountability. but let me assure you that this case will continue on against anyone who was complicit with epstein. any co-conspirators should not rest easy. the victims deserve justice and they will get it. >> what do we know about that, in the sense that epstein's victims very much wanted this trial. >> yes. >> for closure. and to have him held accountable for his heinous reprehensible crimes. that doesn't happen. he obviously can't cooperate now and name names, so what happens? >> right, exactly. so he is obviously -- was a very valuable witness in this case. you know, it is the nightmarish scenario for prosecutors because at the very least they were hoping that perhaps over time working with his lawyers they could

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evan shelby, married elinor shelby. they were longer in pennsylvania and came down later. certainly my own ancestor, thomas polk came down quite early down around 1754 or five. william polk, as i mentioned, we do not know where he settled, we do not know where he died, we do not know the exact date of his death it was probably around 1758. that is all i can offer on that. >>can i ask a second to someone else? elias was he genetically a polk i did not catch anything about his parents. >> i personally do not think he is. there will be nothing to confirm or deny it. we know that when samuel polk marries his father, ezekiel, gift him in mecklenburg county, when his wife's father, james knox, when he died, in his will, two women's names name violet and lucy it is transferred to his daughter's husband, so samuel polk get to those two women. around late 1805, late 1806, those two women were the only ones living on the property. about 1805, 1806 two slave men come on the property. around 1806 elias polk is born. we are not even 1% sure who his parents are. >>you can say he is possibly a north carolina native. >> h

evan shelby, married eleanor shelby. they stayed longer up in pennsylvania and came down later. but i think certainly my own ancestor, thomas polk, came down quite early and was down there about 1754. i think the other brothers about that time too. william polk, we don't know exactly where he settled. and we don't know where he died. we don't know the exact date of his death. but it was probably around 1758. >> okay. >> so that's about all i can offer for that for now. >> alliance, was he genetically a polk? i didn't catch anything about his parents. >> i personally don't think he is. of course, there's never been anything to confirm or deny anything. so we know that when samuel polk is married his father gifts him attractiveland in pineville, and when his wife's father, so james knox, when he dies, in his will two enslaved women named violet and looucy are transferred to h daughters. samuel polk gets those women. around late 1805, early 1806, we see -- those are the only two enslaved people on that property at that time. but about 1805, two enslaved men come on to the property. and around 1806 alliance polk was born. so we

thomas l berkley way on the night of august 20. the victim died at the hospital. police say mcallister is state escaped in a honda driven by evans who has also been charged with murder. he claims he and mcallister were looking for more robbery items that night. hours before the shooting, police say they followed a 67- year-old jewelry store owner as he john drove from chinatown to his house. mcallister robbed him it gunpoint of three bags of groceries. in a phone interview, the jewelry store owner said he was shocked to learn the suspect's father was a police chief vicki said, "it is unbelievable. the police are supposed to make people feel safe and yet his son is doing this." mcallister, is the retired police steve, darrell mcallister who is expressing concern for the families of the victims. last year, mcallister was sentenced to jail and probation for trying to rob a 71-year-old man in men take a. at the time, he had been estranged from his father and his father says he began to lose his way and was involved in a bad crowd. ernie castille is tyrone mcallister's attorney . >> he is a young kid so there is a lot for us to look