. >> mike heaney is head of the group that represents a lot of the programs using the pool.ne, not just to replace the old one, but to also turn it into one of the top aquatic centers in the bay area. well there's a huge need for facilities that can host competition. >> there are few and far between believe it or not, most of the facilities in the bay area are older facilities. >> no one from the city was available to do an interview, but they did tell me this old pool has to go. they're spending way too much money to maintain it, and the best thing they could do now is to build a new one, heaney says. about 300,000 people use it each year, he says. not only would the new design support those currently swimming, it could bring more people to the pool. >> this facility would be able to host usa swimming meets, united states masters swimming meets. >> if the council approves this plan, they will begin drawing more renderings and get a better idea for when construction will start in walnut creek. ryan curry abc seven news well, that's not really going to be swimming weather the

seamus heaney, wrote a poem. and history teaches us, do not hope on this side of the grave, but then once in a lifetime, long for a tidal wave will rise up and hope and history rhyme. 2024, we have a chance to make history rhyme again. are you ready to do that with me? [cheers and applause] look forward, not back? [cheers and applause] are you ready to choose unity over division? [cheers and applause] dignity over demolition? choose truth over lies. choose freedom and democracy because that's america. folks, i have been doing -- i know i look like i'm 40 but i have been doing it a long time. never more optimistic about our future. remember who we are. we are the united states of america. there is nothing, i mean it sincerely, i'm a student of american history, that has come out of every crisis stronger than when we went on. there is nothing beyond our capacity when we do it together. may god bless you all. may god protect our troops. [cheers and applause] [crowd chanting "four more years"] ♪ ♪♪ >> our cameras are

. >> mike heaney is head of the group that represents a lot of the programs using the pool. he says the city needs to build a new one, not just to replace the old one, but to also turn it into one of the top aquatic centers in the bay area. >> well, there's a huge need for facilities that can host competition. there are few and far between. believe it or not, most of the facilities in the bay area are older facilities. >> no one from the city was available to do an interview, but they did tell me this old pool has to go. they're spending way too much money to maintain it, and the best thing they could do now is to build a new one, heaney says. about 300,000 people use it each year, he says not only would the new design support those currently swimming, it could bring more people to the pool. >> this facility would be able to host usa swimming meets, united states masters swimming meets. >> if the council approves this plan, they will begin drawing more renderings and get a better idea for when construction will start in walnut idea for when construction will start in walnut

heaney -- called for it many times, he was denied.hey had interview the secret service agents driving president trump that day and they -- they kept it from the public that donald trump never tried to come under the vehicle. anyway he introduced legislation that would prevent donald trump and his family from getting the secret service protection. i mean, this just beyond the pale anyway joining us now the head of the judiciary committee, jim jordan is with us. sir, welcome back to the program. you know, he have your committee looking in to the weaponization of our justice system. jonathan turley a democrat called this trial today and embarrassment. he watched and set it out in disbelief. when -- is over eight years ago that this case smack another bring it with just 196 days before an election. there trying to use our federal law that doesn't exist, that was related by by his own dj. -- weaponization of justice, jim jordan, i don't know what is. >> it sure is -- >> sean: and by the way there are flames breaking out nuclear right now.

it's a series that included speakers such as keith brookes, randall general auden and seamus heaney. today, we're happy to welcome fred kaplan to the west oval room of the rotunda to speak on his designer thomas jefferson. fred kaplan is distinguished professor emeritus of english at queens college and the graduate center of the city university of new york. a scholar in century literature, kaplan has become best known as one of the most distinguished biographers of our era. he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls amon