john turner is a professor of religious studies at george mason university. he has written a book about the pilgrims. he wrote an earlier book about brigham young. professor turner, as much as i would like to welcome you in person to cape cod, i am glad zoom allows us to do this remotely. , welcomeurther ado john turner. professor turner: i like the virtual applause, thank you for reading so many books. that is a wonderful thing. the pilgrims were originally heading for northern virginia before they went off course. inappropriate for me to be speaking you from here. as mark said, i would love to have a chance to answer questions from you, or discussed things, and it tends like we are going to use the chat feature for that. so punch questions in any time. that is my favorite part of any book event. athought i would start with full month -- a falmouth connected plymouth story. a story about one of the founders of the settlement that , a guy namedth isaac robinson. he was the son of john robinson, englishor of the separatists in the dutch city of leiden who becam

. >> author john turner talked about his book, "they knew they were pilgrims: plymouth colony and thentest for american liberty." he discusses the colony's views on religious and political liberty, as well as the residents' practice of enslaving native americans that they fought with. museums on the green hosted this event and provided the video. mark: this is the 400th anniversary of the mayflower voyage to plymouth.

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level thatappened helps us understand mahone and the john mercer langston intervention. dr. turner: the readjust her movement, it was virginias reconstruction. it was the moment where a coalition of lack and white were able politicians to gain control of the state legislature and of the state patronage to affect the changes of allowing black people to sit on juries. of establishing schools for black people like virginia state university. they carried out the work of adding the whipping post. it is often told through the story of william mahone who was a former confederate general who was able to mobilize the coalitions of black and white voters. he often sits at the center of the story. having state elected officials -- about readjusting the state debt. anas like this is such arcane set of municipal finance politics that how is it possible to build a coalition around these things. but they organize over readjusting state debt. the state is decimated after the civil war. the white farmers and white folks, this was a detriment to the state advancement but also for black folks. the fo

. >> cobb: sanders' clients were voting rights activists-- albert turner, who had marched with john lewisan see, that's him right there. >> cobb: and his wife, evelyn. they had been helping black residents fill out their ballots, and mailing them. >> both of us was indicted, myself and my wife, and another friend, spencer hogue, were indicted on 29 counts of what is called vote fraud. >> cobb: the turners were facing decades in prison. >> it was my impression that jeff sessions thought that those legal cases would stop black folks from not only using absentee voting, but would stop black folks from voting in the numbers that black people were voting. at every chance he got, he was talking about voter aud, voter fraud. >> cobb:essions denied that the case was racially motivated and insisted whathe turners did was illegal. in the end, the jury found nothing they did had broken the law. but the idea that absentee ballots were susceptible to widespread fraud would live . i talked about it with author ari berman, who's written extensively on voting rights. >> so this is a very old argument, vo

john trump collusion probe. the director of national intelligence is promising full cooperation and is backing that up tonight, correspondent gillian turnerells us how. >> good evening to you both come up bret and martha, the director of national intelligence john ratcliffe with his office provided nearly 1,000 pages of documentation to the department of justice to help with their ongoing investigation into the origins of the 2016 russia probe. now ratcliffe said these documents were provided in response to john durham. and the u.s. attorney leading the trump administration counter probe. in a statement tonight, ratcliffe said both he and i will support the doj with the classification consistent with their investigation. as you can see tensions tonight between the obama administration and trump administration intelligence communities is ratcheting up fast. newly released documents from operation crossfire hurricane with a political storm in washington. former cia director john brennan is taking aim at director of national intelligence john ratcliffe after he transmitted documents including handwritten notes to the house intelligence commi

later on we'll talk to louisiana senator john kennedy on the uphill fight likely ther first to gillian turner on this back and forth and where it's going. hey, jillian. >> hi, good afternoon to you. there's hope but not a lot of chance this afternoon for additional coronavirus relief. the big question is now really whether any money at all may ultimately make it into the pockets of the millions of americans that are relying on additional stimulus in order to bridge the gap between now and when the pandemic begins to abate. the white house is insisting today, there's still action. mark meadows emphasizing all the work going on behind the scenes. he says they're at $1.9 trillion. we know that they were in that neighborhood two weeks ago. he told bill hemmer last hour that the president is willing to lean in to this. now, the white house negotiating team is blaming speaker nancy pelosi. they say these trying to wait out president trump. she's unwilling perhaps to and a him a deliverable before november 3. the path to a deal in reality is choked up on the senate side as well. republicans there ar

john? >> it is a tad confusing. which is why we have shawn turner here.now the inside workings of the intelligence community very, very well. as you watched this last night. one of the knocks on the obama administration was they did not call out the russian interference in the last election more plainly. on the one hand good they're coming out and talking about this, but you have questions about the motives? >> right, john. look, i think we have to acknowledge upfront for the intelligence community to provide information to the american people about interference in our election is a good thing. whether that interference is foreign or domestic and we're seeing both in this case. but i do think it's a legitimate question to ask about the timing. look, as alex said, this event was put together hastily last night and we saw some information in this event that really didn't seem to ring true with what we're seeing. when it comes to election interference in the united states, there is no bigger offender than russia. it's not iran, not north korea, not china. we

when the mlb security raised the matter of being on the field with turner he emphatically refused to comply. >>> taking a look at the johns hopkins coronavirus tracker, u.s. has most confirmed cases in the world with 8.8 million along with 227,000 deaths. over the past week the country has been averaging more than 800 covid-19 deaths a day. >>> a surge sweeping across europe with confirmed cases and deaths rising sharply. in uk the prime minister boris johnson is facing pressure to tighten lock down measures as country reports. >>> france will enter its second lock down tomorrow, president there limiting out of home trips. in germany the country will ban public gatherings with more than ten people, make restaurants to go only, restrict nonessential personal trips. >>> if you think the housing market is expensive, wait until you hear how much this landmark sold for. the multi million dollar purchase. that's next on kpix5 and streaming on cbsn bay area. >>> the market opened about ten minutes ago. another check, the dow is down more since last time we checked in, about 130. diane king hall breaks down the numbers even more

justice john roberts, and immediately get to work including numerous last-minute challenges and mail in ballots and two high profile cases as the next round of oral arguments kickoff monday. jillian turner joins us with more from tonight's event with the newest justice. >> tonight just a month from the day donald trump announced his pick to replace ruth bader ginsburg, welcome judge covid-19 to take the oath of office and take her place in history as the 100 fifteenth supreme court justice. >> highly fitting the justice barrett fills the seat of a true pioneer for women. justice ruth bader ginsburg. tonight justice barrett becomes not only of the fifth women to serve on our nation's highest court but the very first mother of school-age children to become a supreme court justice. >> the first of judge barrett's two oath was administered by justice clarence thomas. he will officially become donald trump's third appointment to the supreme court tomorrow after a second oath, that one in private. tonight she was called and serena she took the stage in front of 200 or so guests number they all wore masks and were at a distance. among the vip, republican senators including mitch mcconnell and

interference after the director of national intelligence john ratcliffe says russia and iran are making efforts to sway american public opinion. gillian turnerive on that. >> intelligence sources told fox news overnight the threat of election interference from russia is real, dangerous and continuing to grow by the day. this comes in the wake of new disclosures yesterday from the intelligence community about russia and iran trying to meddle online in cyberspace. it came up last night at the debate. joe biden made the case to the american people it is quite obvious to everybody he is the target here. listen to what he said. >> what is going on about russia is wanting to make sure that i do not get elected the next president of the united states because they know i know them. and they know me. >> president trump made the case that russia and iran and america's adversaries are out to get him. take a listen. >> president trump: there has been nobody tougher to russia between the sanctions. nobody tougher than me on russia between the sanctions, between all of what i've done with nato. >> we're learning that the house intelligence committee is at