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same supplies. >> stahl: john thomas is the president of blue flame medical, a p.p.e.r, mike gula, were republican strategists who jumped into the business as covid hit, despite having zero experience in importing medical supplies. you, right away, before you were even up and running practically, advertised yourself as "the largest global network of covid- 19 medical suppliers." now, that couldn't be true in a million years. >> thomas: well, so here's what i did. we started with my long-time relationship with a large chinese manufacturer. that was our base. and then i started working my connections, from vietnam to mexico to malaysia. so, we felt comfortable. now, was it a frenetic pace? yes. was the airplane being built while in flight? yes. but every claim we've made, i stand behind. >> stahl: their marketing brochure claimed they could" deliver our goods betwee happened. the brochure goes on, "we pride ourselves on taking care of" our clients. of the four specifically listed, three never got the p.p.e. they ordered, and the fourth just got part of their order filled

live direct from our studios in moscow this is our 2 international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. sports top court has rejected an appeal by russia's anti-doping agency after the world governing body banned its athletes from competing at international events it has been a saga of accusations starting with claims of state sponsored doping to tampering with databases peter oliver has of the story. 2 year ban certainly a lot better than a 4 year ban however you look at it there is some on happiness from the russian side that they say a number of their points weren't listened to the world governing body had wanted a 4 year ban the court of arbitration for sport opting for 2 years instead what it means though is that clean athletes those that can prove that they've passed drug tests over a set period of time will be able to compete under a neutral flag they will be able to have the name rusher on their uniforms their uniforms can also bear the the russian trickle flag even though that flag can't be flown those tournament's and the russian national anthem also can't be

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broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our to international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. and now less than $10.00 for covert immunity that is the price for russia's vaccine internationally as it was presented to the u.n. general assembly on wednesday moscow wants the job to be available to the whole world and has already agreed on deliveries to foreign countries we will be producing. those this was a week seeing already just starting from february in 4th. in brazil korea and argentina will radiate reach supply agreement and production agreements with those countries more than 40 countries have expressed an interest in buying sputnik v. however many western critics have already written off the russian vaccine artie's down hawkins looks at why. the media today is full of big headlines pfizer's covert 19 vaccine is officially the 1st to be approved in a western country with the united kingdom leading the way there's a sense of excitement that lives can be saved on the 1st steps towards codewords final defeat have been taken i would like to pay tribu

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is r t international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us the turkish president has lashed out at his french counterpart claiming he's a burden to his country and should step down it represents a new low in relations between. and comes as paris looks to crack down on radical islam following a wave of terrorism in france. macron is a burden on france and france are going through a very dangerous period actually my hope is that france gets rid of this mccraw in trouble as soon as possible well the spat between the turkish president at the one in france has been deepening for some time now you will remember that last week the french senate adopted a non binding resolution in which they officially recognize the independence of nagorno karabakh and they called for as a big shiny forces to need to leave the war on terror trees that had been captured in the disputed territory from september the 27th they're also calling for an international investigation into war crimes and at the same time prohibited weapons and senators a

are broadcasting live direct from our studios and also this is our 2 international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us now the e.u. and china have struck a landmark deal after years of talks it opens up the chinese market to european investment while giving beijing an inroad to some strategic european projects dubinsky picks up the story for us they steal is almost being several in the making between the e.u. and showing up and they've really pushed the boat out to get it done before the end of 2020 essentially it means that there is the opportunity for the e.u. for investment in certain industries this is companies within the e.u. to be able to invest in areas of china before it had barry is around just the financial sector and the health sector for china it means that there is this possibility of investing in renewable energy so this is something on the table for each side in this and this deal has been described by many as being the most ambitious deal that china has ever struck with a nation country tomorrow's post covered world needs a strong china relationship to build forwar

in broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is arch international i'm john thomas glad to have you with us as we recap the week's top stories with our weekly program. i now pharma giant astra zeneca and russia's institute have started clinical trials of a joint coronavirus vaccine it combines elements of jabs developed individually by the 2 sides astra zeneca c.e.o. explained why they decided to join forces with the russian team. we have 2 main goals the 1st one is to allow headscarf official notice doctors and nurses to use 11 vaccine all the although for the for the 1st injection and a 2nd to make the alex simpler and the 2nd go on is to hope pretty get better he just when you combine 2 different vaccines i don't think companies are competing against each other everybody is racing against the virus we would need many many vaccines because there's no one single company that can put you a cent of x. into the entire world and some of these vaccines have to be easy to use and they have to be cheap because the low income countries can't afford the expensive accident we wai

broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our to international i'm john thomas certainly glad to have you with us. right now he has tried an army of lawyers and every social media tool at his disposal now donald trump's pleading with the u.s. supreme court to step in and overturn the presidential election results the white house has released a lengthy video address in which trump again claims widespread fraud and a stolen election. this may be the most important speech i've ever made i want to provide an update on our own going efforts to expose the tremendous voter fraud and irregularities which took place during the ridiculously long nov 3rd elections if we're right about the fraud. joe biden can't be president it was a long awaited speech by donald trump supporters donald trump himself said it was the most important speech ever in a 46 minute address donald trump repeated his longstanding allegations of fraud and argued that essentially the u.s. presidential election was not valid that there were millions of illegal votes cast he called for the u.s. supreme court to st

in 1800, president john adams was defeated for reelection by thomas jefferson. john marshall would be replaced by john madison. the democratic republicans were on the rise. but the federalists were not giving up, marshall as one of adams final acts, was made chief justice. in the closing hours of the outgoing administration he was very busy assigning appointments filling new judgeships with faithful federalists. the commissions were sealed with the united states. but something went wrong. on the following morning, he found the commissions still on the desk. he presently discussed the matter with jefferson and a decision was made. some of the commissions would not be delivered. later one of the appointees became impatient. where was his commission as justice of the peace in the district of columbia? he brought suit against madison. his tours asked for a supreme court to compel madison to deliver. would it be enforced if madison refused to obey it would it not undermine the prestige of the court? in this dilemma, marshall made his decision backed by a unanimous cou

well it's safe to say that christmas brought and present christmas surprise for the paris st john coach thomas to show he's been sacked on christmas eve despite winning his last match for no to show what 6 trophies of p.s.g. and get them to the champions sneak a final season that was last season his team all currently 3rd in the french top division just one point to drift off 1st place to shell is expected to be replaced by former tottenham boss florists tino. and you have to date up next my colleague chris caldwell with your business taking a closer look at what breaks that agreement means for the economies on both sides seen except the bank. why are people forced to hide in trucks. there are many reasons but. there are many answers. and there are many stories. make up your. mate for mines. the deal is sealed after 4 long years britain and the european union agreed on a provisional divorce agreement the news means a decades long relationship will end on a friend of note than feared and major trade chaos can be avoided and we'll introduce you to a restaurant owner in germany who is confidently

john. clarence thomas on the supreme court and we would tag bad and he has said that he was wrong he has said unintended consequences we're talking 2530 years ago that i think he was wrong but i'm talking about somebody who entertains scalia proteges now so the question is are we going to hold biden to a standard of what he did decades ago and said at the misstep and therefore say we go with somebody that that supports that right now and i think given the choice is it would be unwise to go with the right now big and not the one that says this was not my intentions it did leave the wrong place when you're a reverend you believe in redemption clearly well how about something more or more recent than kemal a harris you very nice or in this book she fought to keep innocent people in jail she booked payments to wrongly convicted people as a prosecutor in california argued for keeping nonviolent offenders in jail as a cheap labor source she opposed d.n.a. testing to exonerate prisoners on death row why are you so nice about chemical harris which i think she did not is the impact of some of that i t

rush is trying to get john adams and thomas jefferson back together before one of them dies. because he believes the biggest concern about partisanship and what it could do to america, rush said if partisanship can destroy the relationship between john adams and thomas jefferson, who thought of this country, what is the chance of our country? so he did what i consider to be sort of founding father family therapy. he wrote to both of them to try to get them back together. and one of his crowning achievements the year before he died was that they started writing again. then wrote for another 13 years. and all of those letters that came after 1805, it is a whole new retelling of everything that happened in america. and a lot of it is driven by the friendship between rush and adams which is really just -- at a certain point in my biography i let the relationship between rush and adams take over the back of the book. there were so many letters and they were so interesting. normally when you write a biography of people in their 50's and 60's, their careers are over, not a lot is goi

in 1800 president john adams was defeated for re-election by thomas jefferson. arshall as secretary of state would be replaced by james madison. the federalists were in eclipse. the democratic republicans were on the rise. but the federalists were not giving up. marshall, as one of adams's final acts, was made chief justice. and in the closing hours of the outgoing administration he was very busy signing appointments, filling newly created judgeships with faithful federalists. the commissions were sealed with the seal of the united states. but something went wrong. on the following morning when james madison came to take over the office as secretary of state, he found the commissions still on the desk. through some error they had not been delivered. he presently discussed the matter with jefferson and a decision was made. some of the commissions would not be delivered. later one of the appointees, william marbury, became impatient. where was his commission as justice of the peace in the district of columbia? marbury brought suit against madison. his attorneys ask

to john thomas and danielle mcloughlin and back with jonathan hoenig. with you. as we are looking at this kind of exodus, there is a reason that folks are leaving blue states. they are leaving because of high taxes. they are leaving because they know the pandemic has crippled these governments and they have to raise taxes even more. they are leaving because of crime and quality of life issues. they are typically going to red states but they are taking their blue votes with them. >> yeah. it's true. in fact, there's a worry out here in texas that they say don't california on texas. the impact of the policies that a lot of these people are running from these blue states that if they bring them with them and vote party line, when they move to a texas or nevada or arizona or florida, it could end up destroying the same quality of life or the same benefits that they were seeking. so we do hope that the people might have learned a lesson about some of these disastrous policies but time will tell. jackie: danielle, that's only one of the issues. i'm going to sh

my thomas. my. john jay the. fifty's forms so money for summary judgment scores will be offered. but wait a minute. when i say i was the wrong on film you personally don't think there's no way almost and you're. going to say that if you want to support. this with an unreasoning and then use force. because i was more than fortunate right but if we are fortunate i feel it was and you have some personal. so naive that can believe it or that you and you don't know if you allow email or zoom zoom in the so you saw what was already there and who was with us and why so i did because there was a bride in the fiscal year newell's who. have all said i want to go. and. buy up to me when i'm the one who hurt. then. let us you know our knowledge. and even still. more only. sentence to mature their own a rifle before this will most of the world will follow you so these are all the result of all that was or what is all the worst is over when all was there and what it was possible called i was there but if you feel it will resist a new. heat those of the more recent the ball learns what's in thi

there was a public silence around john adams and thomas jefferson.hat that public silence did -- that's a vacuum. something needs to fill it. that is where "notes on the state of virginia" came in. it was a pot if he adjusted sales totals to our population, it sold the equivalent of half million copies. it was one of the most important books any american wrote in the 18th century. i'm not talking just presidents. it was a vital book that defended america to its european critics. people knew and respected that book. now that jefferson was running for president but not saying much about it, they looked to his book for what he thought. susan: we have a clip of a well-known historian, roger wilkins, talking about jefferson's notes on the state of virginia. let's see what he has to say and then come back to you. [video clip] >> in the end, you have to believe that what he wrote in notes on the state of virginia is his deep belief in black inferiority. he thought that blacks were smelly, stupid, and lazy. he said it more elegantly, but that was the gist of

chinese regulators announce a 90 monopoly investigation of thomas john and. so the new u.s. president donald trump has pardoned more of his allies the latest list of $26.00 include his 2016 campaign chairman paul money and roger stone his longtime adviser and friend he also pardon charles cushion of the father of his son in law jared it's the 2nd wave of presidential pardons in as many days speak to shepherd times he's live for us from washington d.c. and as she had the president quote on a bastion is ongoing issuing a policy. right presidencies usually are and as usual with the presidential pardons it's an interesting list of 26 people as you as you mentioned of a very well connected people who have managed to get the ear of the president including and in a very trumpy in a way a former border guard who was accused of violence against undocumented migrants and seems like a like a rather symbolic perhaps in some ways but clearly the the major the major attention is being given to those connected to the russia great investigation and gerrard don't trump son in law and senior

john's case the d. takes place almost exclusively indoors despite having large windows he always turns on the light but artificial light is usually very weak whereas goatherder thomas can reach 7000 lux bus john's level is just 220 bus general so spends most of his evenings in front of a t.v. or computer screen in addition to being low light the emit primarily blue light this lowers the wake sleep regulating hormone melatonin and reverses his inner rhythm essentially turning back his biological clock and the result for us john is this modest hour by hour exposure to light on a typical working day then cut in while working in the office we have 2 $100.00 to $220.00 lots which is far short of daylight bite and found that. what we notice is that he still has a relatively high illuminance after work until he goes to bed. who are. at this so and that he definitely has a negative effect on his sleep wake behavior. and he got the 5. not deemed as a doctor who likewise works with little light most of it artificial. and sometimes with practically none. and come out i'm just arrived for a night shift saturday night which no one likes to see but i'm not properly rested you do

and they did it years before john locke and thomas hobbes had gotten around to formulating the idea. not to mention doing it in a century and a half before the declaration of the independence , which proclaimed governments derive their just powers from the government. famous words. in that "it is the right of the people to institute new government laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form as to them will seem most shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness." but now having made this amazing connection, let me qualify it in some ways, important ways. first and most importantly, this agreement aboard the mayflower was not something being fashioned in a pre-political, pre-cultural state of nature. social the contract theorists would later posit. that we have to do is look close at the document to see that it very clearly the document begins with the words "in the name of god." he proceeds to identify signatories as loyal subjects of our dread sovereign lord king james. it identifies their voyage as having been undertaken for the glo

past john's case that to take place almost exclusively indoors just by having large windows he always turns on the light but artificial light is usually very weak whereas goat heard thomas can reach 7000 lux bus john's level is just 220 bus general so spends most of his evenings in front of a t.v. or computer screen in addition to being low light they emit primarily blue light this lowers the wake sleep regulating hormone melatonin and reverses his in a rhythm essentially turning back his biological clock and the result for us john is this modest hour by hour exposure to light on a typical working day then cut him while working in the office we have $200.00 to $220.00 lux which is far short of daylight bite and found that august least what we notice is that he still has a relatively high illuminance after work until he goes to bed. who are. at this so and that he definitely has a negative effect on his sleep wake behavior and. it's got the 5. now diem is a doctor who likewise works with little light most of it artificial. and sometimes with practically none. and come out i'm just arriving for a night shift saturday night which no one likes to go see but i'm not properly

can you tell us about it and did john adams welcome thomas jefferson to the white house? james: first of all, particularly the time we are living through right now with all of its challenges, i think it is useful and in some ways reassuring to look back at the election of 1800, which was, as you say, very contentious, very partisan indeed. and nearly came to violence toward the end. without getting into detail, most of us will remember from high school or college that there were two basic parties at the time, one was the federalist party, which was the conservative sort of pro-business, favorable to wealth and commerce, very favorable to britain, hostile to france, and generally more conservative, traditional party. the republicans, later known as the democratic republicans, at the time founded by jefferson and madison, were very similar in their differences from the federalists, as you might say the democrats are today from the republicans. kind of the mirror image of the federalists. or at least middle-class, favorable to france, hostile to britain, suspicious of wealth

representatives of so-called orthodox puritanism, such as the differences between leaders like thomas john winthrop and douglas. i accepted, without question, the idea that mentorship and colonial churches required a conversion narrative, rather than recognizing that the primary value of those relations was an evangelical tool to help others. recently, as i suggested in my lecture last evening, i have been questioning the assumption that the only stories of puritan women worth telling where those of dissidents, like anne hutchinson and mary dyer. it was with this background of questioning standard interpretations that i began work on the bradford edition and simultaneously on a study of the religion of the puritans, scheduled to be published in a few months. one of the things the evidence led me to question was the term "pilgrims," as it was intended to distinguish the plymouth settlers from puritans. there were two elements of this. one centered on the way the plymouth story was told by the generations after the revolution, who sought to identify the essence of the new nation. for the mos

that's going back to the thomas jefferson john adams elected and 1801. the civil war with abraham lincoln, the vietnam war with lbj. we are not our enemies. issuest to be arguing based on the outcomes and not about the value or worth of a fellow american. calling people names, diminishing their patriotism, all of these things are not helpful. we are supposed to be the united states of america, out of many one. we are becoming the divided states of america. a poll i saw a couple of weeks ago found 70% of republican said 20% of democrats believe that the november 3 election had fraud in it. courts,like to see some it doesn't have to be the supreme court, a lower court except all of these claims by the trump campaign for review. let's hear it under oath all of these people, more than 200 they affidavitshave filed under penalty of perjury, sworn an oath that what they saw was true, let's air them out. but the people under oath, put it on television, let's see what they have. if there was fraud, let the court decide. theot, it's move on to haydn administratio

they amounted to a real world dram dramatize, here they had done it, and done it years before john locke and thomas hock son had gotten around to forming the idea, not to mention a century and a half before the declaration of independence, which would pro claim they derive their consent from the government, famous words and that is the right to have people to institute new government, letting its foundation and powers in such form as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. now having made this amazing connection, let me qualify it in some ways, important ways. first and most importantly, this agreement aboard the mayflower was not something being fashioned in a prepolitical -- precultural state of nature, such as the social contract theorists would later posit. all we have to do is look closely at the document to see that very clearly. the document begins with the words "in the name of god." it proceeds to identify the signatories as "loyal subjects of our dread sovereign royal king james." undertaken "for the glory of god and add vancement of the christian faith and in

past john's case the journey takes place almost exclusively indoors despite having large windows he always turns on the light but artificial light is usually very weak whereas goat heard thomas can reach 7000 lux bus john's level is just 220 bus general so spends most of his evenings in front of a t.v. or computer screen in addition to being low light the emit primarily blue light this lowers the wake sleep regulating hormone melatonin and reverses his inner rhythm essentially turning back his biological clock and the result for us john is this modest hour by hour exposure to light on a typical working day there and not have to cut in but while working in the office we have $200.00 to $220.00 blocks which is far short of daylight vite and found that. what we notice is that he still has a relatively high illuminance after work until he goes to bed. people who are. at this so and that he definitely has a negative effect on his sleep wake behavior and. and they got the 5 was. not deemed as a doctor who likewise works with little light most of it artificial. and sometimes with practically none. and come back i'm just arrived for a night shift saturday night which no one likes to

john -- ambassador to india. edwin -- ambassador to japan, thomas -- nato ambassador, thes door -- alliance for progress -- allianceor progress head -- mr. williams, assistant secretary of state for africa, sergeant shriver, head of the new peace corps. adlai stevenson, u.n. ambassador. william foster, disarmament agency head and dean rusk, secretary of state. [applause] >> at his state-of-the-union address in january, mr. kennedy put his new programs squarely before the team. he had been a senator. now he appeared before his former fellow congressmen in the new role of president. [applause] >> why 1961 will not be easy. >> these were the elected representatives of 185 million citizens. the success of the new president's program rested primarily on their approval. he embodies the will of the people. these were the peoples' representatives. [applause] >> kennedy faced international problems from the beginning. in laos, communist guerrillas were threatening. at a press conference he said -- >> strongly and unreservedly support the goal of a neutral and independent laos tied to no outside power or group of powers. thr

thomas jefferson and john quincy adams were the only two presidents to be elected by a congressionalote. why do you believe the 2020 election should be subjected to this process? >> because it's quite clear to me that the order of evidence is overwhelming. if you were to count votes cast by eligible american citizens joe biden didn't win the electoral college. you've got a report from a georgia senate subcommittee on elections that discusses the election process in georgia.ey they had affidavits, they have live witnesses, they had documents and they concluded that george is on the election system of the movie of trust in november of this year. you got in pennsylvania, >> raymond: congressman, if i let you finish i will be totally out of time. look, we heard it in pennsylvania and i spoke to some investigators in nevada about the ballot harvesting they saw, about the irregularities all over the place but essentially gyou are trying to invalidate sx states electoral votes. what do you want to see happen? what's the process in congress? we would have to come forward and challenge it and

the leaders of the american revolution, including john adams, george washington, and thomas jefferson, were steeped in shakespeare's work. which they relied on to inform their political vision and sharpen their rhetoric. a particularly arresting imamg is from 1786, when adams and jefferson, both serving in european diplomatic posts, visited shakespeare's birthplace. soon they would be bitter political enemies. but for that moment they were together because of their love for shakespeare. members of congress frequently turned to shakespeare's plays to express themselves during debate. in 1837, the senate was considering whether to expunge its resolution censuring president andrew jackson. senator henry clay acknowledged those who wished to expunge the resolution appeared to have the votes. thus, he said, "the deed is to be done that foul deed which, like the blood staining the hands of the guilty mcbeth, all ocean's waters will never wash away." another example occurred in 1846. rival factions were seeking control of the new kansas government under the terms of the recently enacted kans

david knox about his new book on the killing of thomas needham our manager of northern ireland factory and then we examine without stuart donal one of john hume successors as leader of the s.-t. o.-p. about how northern ireland was pulled from tragedy to peace just after christmas in 1973 thomas needham i was bundled into his car i would say to school in west belfast he was never seen alive again by his friends or family it was in a deal of murder and tragedy in the province with $500.00 people a year dying as nationalist and loyalist paramilitaries mobilised against the power sheeting stunning deal agreement alex takes up the tragic story with journalist and author david blake knox who has published a new book on the killing. david yes this book where they get station of this book come from there you know the very height of the troubles 970 free this dreadful murder tell us a bit more about it. well i suppose part of the reason the crew moved to this story is as you say it was at the height of the troubles and i thought it reflected is a very unusual case it was sort of because they only german national to die in northern ireland and th

the thing to remember about john adams is that he like thomas jefferson are not here. they're not un-american shores. they are in europe securing funding, support, troops. they come back a decade later to a very changed world, to people who are creating a government who -- who they have not seen since the continental congress, a different media landscape, people actively thinking through their patronage networks and what is in it for them now that there is a federal government afoot, all the office seekers who fled his mail -- i almost said email because he gets these letters all the time. it is a complicated question for john adams and his cohort and he does not always mix easily with loyalist. he has a lot of interactions with them in london. his family doctor there is a loyalist but he lives actually in governor square -- grosvenor square. the first person to point out how awkward this situation is is abigail adams. you have a heightened awareness of what people's loyalties were but there is flexibility now about what they write be because often loyalists who emigra

and i also want to interview-- introduce another outstanding author, thomas rid who teaches at johns, whose book "active measures" is a history of what we've come to call disinformation. the ways in which our election systems, our politics, our very political fabric can be manipulated by foreign governments and the history of that kind of operation going back manile demanile-- many decades. i'm glad to have them with us this morning. and ask each of you if you'll begin with a brief one-minute summary of what you'd most like readers at this national book festival to know about your books and then we'll go on to a broader discussion. bart, lead us off. >> "dark mirror" is an attempt really to combine three books. it is a story of edward snowden, who he is, how he did what he did, why he did what he do, and it takes you behind the scenes of our interaction, generally and source. it's a story of the surveillance state and the content of the revelations that snowden made about the nsa and the change of boundaries that it secretly put into effect after 9/11 so that there were -- there were

boss john works in an office which means spending long hours in artificial light. thomas is a goat herd and is mostly outdoors. then there is not to be. a doctor who works as a surgeon in a hospital and she works at night when her body is telling her it's dark and time to go to bed. we equip our test subjects with a special device that measures the brightness and composition of the light they're exposed to. and then we track them around the clock for a week. we want to know how much and what type of light our test subjects are exposed to and when. sleep researcher alfred riata and light expert because it analyze the results. what will they show how much like to our subjects receive at what time of day. tomas the gold it tends to be out in the open with natural like the lord even in gloomy weather he's subject to several 1000 locks per day. after sundown he manages without a television or mobile phone which both emit a lot of blue light and are disruptive. this shows the amount of natural light thomas is exposed to over the course of several days in the. mall going on site

he pledged to vote for john 's, but instead, voted for thomas jefferson. his vote did not affect the outcome. jefferson still lost. published ans letter from an angry voter in the gazette of the united states, this wonderful line, do i choose -- did i choose is signal miles to decide for me? no, i choose him to act, not to think. the phrase i choose him to act, not to think embraces the understanding of electors early on. that they are supposed to be ministerial agents. they are not supposed to decide who the rest candidate is, which -- best candidate is, which some of the framers hoped. but instead, agents of the political parties will. there was a really important supreme court case from last june. please check it out because justice elena kagan wrote it for a unanimous court. it is so readable. she is kind of writing to you. it is kind of funny. she has some great lines in there about peculiarities of the electoral college. in that opinion, the u.s. supreme court unanimously said that states may punish faithless electors. they can fine them. in the case

independence, it is the delivery of the first draft of the declaration of independence by thomas jefferson, john adams and others on june 28th, 1776. why? well, it was the process that was still ongoing. we see here that jefferson, the key draft or, is handing the document to john hancock. and now begins the debate and the discussion and the controversy and the fighting over what exactly to say to the british and whether to sign this document. then we have to military scenes. but notice there is no battle. there's no fighting. there's no heroic military action. instead, the focus is on the surrender of the british. this is the triumphal scene here. we have the surrender of burgoyne in 1777 and another surrender of lord cornwallis. and then finally, i civilian image of general george washington resigning his commission. why so important? because rather than make himself a king, he relinquished military authority for civilian rule. so in particular, why a controversy about this? as i've just said, this scene is not the signing of the declaration of independence, which we often think it is, and wha

thomas davies, who's 29, travelled by car from john 0'groats to lands end in 2017.old the court the online post had been exaggerated. the environment agency has launched an investigating after a protected river in herefordshire was found to have been severely damaged. almost a mile—long stretch of the banks of the river lugg, which is home to rare wildlife including otters, appears to have been bulldozed, with trees and other vegetation removed. conservationists described the river as "immensely valuable" and said the damage would have "huge repercussions" for its ecology. police in edinburgh received hundreds of calls early this morning from worried people who'd been woken up by what they thought was an explosion. but the loud bang they heard was actuallyjust weather — and a phenomenon known as ‘thundersnow‘. here's our scotland correspondent james shaw. a flash of light, and then... rumbling ..a long, low boom. shaking windows and waking people up all around edinburgh and north into fife. but what had shattered the calm? was it an explosion? a collapsing building?