to maintain that respect for a rule of law that ever since andrew jackson refused to carry out jon marshall's opinion saying northern georgia belongs to the cherokees but instead sent troops to evict the cherokees that we have made progress in that respect. and how to continue to make that progress and how to not to retrofit is the question i raise. it is not a question i can answer. i have a few ideas about it. but they are certainly not gospel. what i can do though is i can go back and say i want to tell you how i have seen this institution in some detail. with some history, with some explanation of the word politics in the elaboration to which it isn't to the extent to which it isn't. and the suggestion of things that might be done. see what i know you did it in your book and i want to get a couple from her audience here this is from david who was watching on zoom. onset of the justices conserve the many actions the republican party is taking nationwide to lessen voting rights and even throwing out legally cast ballots? rex we are concerned. my job as a justice. as a person in mind of othe

i can't say things are great deal better here but as one of my law students but he knew about jon marshall. and he said wasn't he the author of martial law? >> guest: having said that the ignorance of the battle of winston churchill asked who wrote or who commanded the american forces in the american war of independence? in many of them said denzel washington. [laughter] >> host: one thing that stands out in your biography, is that your new sources of material. i would have thought that history of winston churchill had been so thoroughly in mind there'd be nothing more to be found. for the life you had access to some of george the sixth diaries including his notes and meetings with churchill. >> yes. >> host: how did you manage to get them? >> guest: well, her majesty, the queen, allowed me too be the first churchill historian to use them. it was a tremendous honor. i think that after 75 years they recommend that the time had come for somebody to be able to use them. it wasn't because i had any special pole at the royal archives at all. i just happen to be that i was the first at the time.

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marshal is investigating what happened. but it looks like it was a cry christmas tree and faulty wiring on those lights. jonill have a new police commissioner. the first female to ever serve in that position. and she'll have a lot to tackle. commissioner saffer, you seat headlines and the numbers. what does the incoming commissioner need to do to bring down crime in this city? >> she has a high hill to climb. what we accomplished in the late 90s and early 200s has been destroyed by the deblasio administration. they are letting parolees out paroled on murder only to murder again. she says she believes in broken windows which is very important. pay attention to small crimes as well as watch crimes. but it will be a tough job. jon: broken windows policing is the term for going after small of crimes like broken windows, jumping turnstiles. if you have catch the culprits behind small crimes you often catch the same culprits behind much larger crimes. do i have that correct? >> absolutely. we found by going after turnstile jumpers, aggressive beggars, people annoying people of on the street, that very often they