. >> george and kate hirsch have 12 kids in their homes, all adopted.rade, attending four different schools. all of them have been learning remotely. miss hirsch says the whole process has been a bit of a rollercoaster. >> to us, like this is just our normal, this is our family. we're big, we're loud. there's nothing different about us from anybody else that has two kids and trying to do this. we're all working hard, and all we can do is do our best. >> combined, the children have more than two dozen teachers. the hirsches plan to send the kids back to in-person learning as soon as they feel it's safe. >> the hirsches are rock stars. 11 of the kids were in foster care, 2 are special needs. dad also works from home. they're in a hard predicament. >> a special family, and we hope they stay safe as so many families try to decide what they're going to do when it comes to their children returning to school in the fall. >> beautiful family. >>> coming up, is america really ready for mac and cheese for breakfast? >> no. >>> first, the fbi raid on the californi

but what about to the lives of people living there absolutely i mean this is in the southeast of hirsch's and the area where there are quite a number of people or all depend heavily on the sea with the fall tourism all for fishing mainly and this is going to affect the lives fall many many years so the human impact of this of this oil spill is going to be far reaching and i think thousands of people. so is the government on the right track in dealing with this mass well is trying to do the it can and all of the different units that are linked to do this to these trying to find a solution have been engaged. we cannot do it on our cell by ourselves and this is where we've been bringing in for an expertise we've had a lot of help and support from friends and help and support from japan is also coming but also there's a very strong civil union movement and surprised civilians a lot of people giving their advice and help in this you know the we do not have the advantage of having experience to deal with an actual oil spill despite the fact that we despite the fact that we had a national oil sp

so they dispatched john hirsch to get the story.china and endeavored to get into occupied japan from there to get the real facts. >> it was an extraordinarily jarring report in the new yorker. and as i said, the book so many of us grew up reading it. and what struck me when i read it, and you point this out, is how impassively hirsche told the story. he seemed to take extra care to not get in the way of the stories of those people he was interviewing. >> well, his idea was that, again, a lot of the reporting that had been done on the bomb was this very pseudobiblical language surrounding it. very eye of god. it was not really rendered in a way that readers and audiences around the world are reacting to. so he thought he would find a handful of blast survivors, just regular folks. a young widow with three school-aged children. a young female clerk. a young japanese medic and tell the story through their point of view because he thought, look, you know, not everybody can comprehend the physics of how the bomb works or, you know, visua

now i'm pleased to introduce tonight speaker professor francine hirsch is out Ãbat the university ofwisconsin madison. she teaches courses on soviet and modern european history, her first book "empire of nation and cryptographic knowledge on the making of the soviet union received several awards including the herbert baxter adams prize of the american historical association. joshua rubenstein has been professionally involved with human rights and international affairs for over 40 years as an activist and independently recognized scholar of literature Ãband politics in the former soviet union. 's books include soviet events, struggle for human rights in the last days of stalin and his writings have appeared in the wall street journal, new york times, boston globe and many more, tonight they will be discussing francine's book "soviet judgement at nuremberg", a new history of the international military after world war two called the copperheads of and celebratory new history by lynn viola, author of the stalinist perpetrator on trial. i'm pleased to turn things over to connect speakers

. >> second, hirsch. >> ok. and shall i call the role call? >> please. (role call) let's finish out the >> let's finish out the role call and maybe director haniney will get back in. pair pa pair (role call). >> i believe he just dropped out. >> he did. director hainey has rejoined. do we have a vote from you on this item. >> aye. >> thank you. >> vice chair, that's six ayes and item nine is approved. >> thank you, i appreciate it and i'll pass the baton back to you. >> let me her know to come back in. she has left the room. >> thank you, nila. >> sure. >> staff said that consistent with the community, the city has no intention of setting up safe sleeping site there and we have also learned from there there's currently to request to conduct covid-19 emergency response activities at the temporary terminal. at this point, i would like john updike present to you what we have talked about with the community, the survey the community did and also talk about supervisor hainey's community meeting that was held last week that we participated in and it was very g

i got to know the investigative journalist seymour hirsch in 1997 when i was a correspondent in washington. he was writing a book, an investigative book and not a flattering one called the dark side of cam lot. i recall with great energy and emotion, he pulls a memo from his files and puts it in front of me. he says, here andrew, here's my jack. his jack was somebody who wasn't the person i was seeing. he wasn't a person of honor and nobility. he was somebody else. i said, well you have your jack and i have mine. mine, i'd like to think, i tried to bring to some kind of consciousness in this book. it's a jfk who changes. who understands the two great forces pressing down upon him and his generation in 1963. the threat of nuclear war and the arrival of civil rights. how is he, as president, to get ahead of that? he finds ways. and he's not afraid because he, after all, is a student of history. he's someone who has read history, written history and now more than anything, and wants to make history. so when he thinks about the cold war, it's not using the same rhetoric he had used before. he

nadia walter, on behalf of harvard bookstore and pleased to introduce this virtual back with francine hirsch new book "soviet judgement at nuremberg".in conversation with joshua rubenstein. through virtual events like

i got to know the investigative journalist seymour hirsch in 1997 when i was a correspondent in washington, and he was writing a book, an investigative book. not a flattering one called the dark side of kamala. i recall with great energy and emotion, he pulls a memo from his files and he puts it in front of me and says, here is my jack. his jack is somebody who was not the person i was seeing. he wasn't a person of honor and nobility. he was somebody else. i said you have your jack and i have mine. mine, i would like to think, i have tried to bring to some kind of consciousness in this book. it is a jfk we changes. oh understands the two great forces pressing down upon him. and his generation in 1963, the threat of nuclear war and the arrival of civil rights. how was he as president to get ahead of that? he finds ways. he's not afraid because after all, he's a student of history. he is someone who has read and written history. now more than anything, he wants to make history. when he thinks about the cold war it is not using the same rhetoric as before. he does not want to win the cold war

>>you just do all the right things and then were asked to come and do this steve hirsch our has been taking shelter in place seriously staying home wearing a mask and request for jury duty. >>and i just didn't feel it was right during this covid-19 now he doesn't want to put himself at risk as thousands of prisoners are walking free for early release because of covid-19. >>steve says it's not fair the health of prisoners is being considered but not his own early release is because of covid-19. it just doesn't seem right like each of california's 58 trial court's operations at sacramento county court abruptly stopped in march because of covid-19 thousands of cases were delayed. now jury trials are back up and running but with safety changes that includes temperature checks at the door a mandatory mask policy and social distancing inside. but it's still not enough for steve, just don't quite feel safe. steve says he's not going to show up which is normally against the law not a good idea to just not sure law professor john myers says you could technically get arrested even now although

>>you just do all the right things and then were asked to come and do this steve hirsch our has beenin place seriously staying home wearing a mask and request for jury duty. >>and i just didn't feel it was right during this covid-19 now he doesn't want to put himself at risk as thousands of prisoners are walking free for early release because of covid-19. >>steve says it's not fair the health of prisoners is being considered but not his own early release is because of covid-19. it just doesn't seem right like each of california's 58 trial court's operations at sacramento county court abruptly stopped in march because of covid-19 thousands of cases were delayed. now jury trials are back up and running but with safety changes that includes temperature checks at the door a mandatory mask policy and social distancing inside. but it's still not enough for steve, just don't quite feel safe. steve says he's not going to show up which is normally against the law not a good idea to just not sure law professor john myers says you could technically get arrested even now although that's not like

. >> second, hirsch. >> ok. and shall i call the role call? >> please. (role call) let's finish out the >> let's finish out the role call and maybe director haniney will get back in. pair pa pair (role call). >> i believe he just dropped out. >> he did. director hainey has rejoined. do we have a vote from you on this item. >> aye. >> thank you. >> vice chair, that's six ayes and item nine is approved. >> thank you, i appreciate it and i'll pass the baton back to you. >> let me her know to come back in. she has left the room. >> thank you, nila. >> sure. >> staff said that consistent with the community, the city has no intention of setting up safe sleeping site there and we have also learned from there there's currently to request to conduct covid-19 emergency response activities at the temporary terminal. at this point, i would like john updike present to you what we have talked about with the community, the survey the community did and also talk about supervisor hainey's community meeting that was held last week that we participated in and it was very g

i'm guessing most of you are here because you couldn't get into the site hirsch evening last night.think i got assigned to overflow. which is fine although i should say if any of you are here expecting to get some major blockbuster earth shattering revelation on american foreign policy are in the wrong place. it was sometimes into dinosaurs and cartoon dinosaurs and. i was told us posted talk about my new book which is "blink", coming out in january. i hope all of you buy it in triplicate at that point. [laughter] it's about the power of thinking about thinkinr of thin without thinking what happens the first two seconds and in the counter in a person at a person or person an idea or person and situation. so far the book has been reviewed twice one of which said was quite good and the other of which said it was utterly forgettable piece of juvenile you. the question of its merits is still up in the air. this is one of my favorite stories in the book. i think it's a pretty good introduction to what this book is about and the kinds of questions trying to address in "blink". something t