what's happening in the manhattan project? there are also opposing views there about the atomic bomb. there is a group at the university of chicago. that's led by james funk, who wrote a memorandum known as the frenk report that argues that the atomic bomb shouldn't be used on japan, because if we ever expect to cooperate with the soviet union after the war, such an action will make it impossible. and just to quote a few sentences from a very long report. if we consider international agreement on total prevention of nuclear warfare as the paramount objective if we're thinking about the piece in the post war period as our paramount objective, and we believe that it can be achieved, this kind of introduction, that is using the bomb as a weapon, atomic bombs against the world me easily destroy our chances of success. russia and even ally countries which bare-less mistrust in our ways and intentions, as well as neutral countries may be deeply shocked. it may be very difficult to persuade the world that a nation which was capable o

the manhattan project? they tried to keep that, i know they try to keep the list as small as possible. years ago, after we went to japan, i visited oak ridge, tennessee to see the facilities where they refined the uranium. one of the chilling facts that came out of this -- of course they were scientists and scientists have family, they brought their kids with them, and they had a high school and the high school had a football team, and the high school football team never played a home game and never had names on their jerseys and were never allowed to talk to kids on the other team. they came, they played, they left. a lot of secrecy. i don't know about a list of who knew what, but they kept it as small as possible. the term was used in oak ridge as well, that they were making alloy rather than refining uranium. even the women who were calibrating the machine who refined the uranium, they did not know what they were doing with those machines. one i think was told it was an ice cream maker. they tried to kee

>> yeah, or about the manhattan project. >> about the manhattan project. they tried to keep that -- i know that tried to keep that list as small as possible. just as an aside, years ago i visit -- after we went to japan, i visited oak ridge, tennessee, to tour the city and to see the facilities where they would find the uranium. one of the chilling facts that came out, of course, they were scientists. scientists had families. they brought their kids with them. and they had a high school, and the high school had a football team. the high school football team never played a home game and never had their names on their jerseys and never were allowed to talk to kids on the other team. they came, they played. they left. so a lot of secrecy. i don't know about a list of who knew what, but they kept it as small as possible. that tube alloy term was used in oak ridge, that they were making tube alloy rather than refining uranium. even the young women, the calutron girls, the women who were using -- who were calibrating machines that refined the uranium, they did n

truman did not know about the manhattan project. it takes him becoming president before he is told about the project. there had not been a successful test but the work has been going on in two or three different locations. --y started to adele developed the atomic bomb. this is the first document i wanted to share with you out of the 10 artifacts that i will share tonight. it really provides the context of when truman first finds out about the manhattan project and those interesting anecdotes. he did not know why he was vice president. he had come closer to it as a senator. it is about two weeks after he on sitsident where stims down and give him all of the detail. he worked in the fdr administration and is the person that is in charge of the whole operation. here is the one -- he is the one that is supervising the development of drones. stimson has come between the white house and what is going on in new mexico. he is an important, key figure in all of this. the second document we will look -- you can see the date at the top of the

host: where did the manhattan project get its name? guest: well, a lot of scientists were in manhattan at the time. the basic history is, that in 1939, let me back up. you have a number of jewish erman refugees who leave germany as hitler rises to power. they understood that as jews they were not long for this world. they go to england where they go to the united states. that includes albert einstein. there's an increasing fear as we get to the late 1930's that germany, which still has a lot of brilliant scientists, may develop a nuclear weapon, and at -- an atom bomb. and the last thing any of these scientists want is to have hitler to have access to the nly atom bomb in the world. so in 1939, albert einstein writes a letter to fdr, and basically says, we think this technology is out there. and the united states, the free world needs to develop it before hitler and the nazis do. oosevelt sits on until 1942, some winston churchill and of the scientists in great britain, in 1942, and the scientists in manhattan. and they started dusty a

not only did he really head up the manhattan project and overseeing it. he was groves supervisor in a sense. he was very much the first person to find out what was happening with the manhattan project, but he was also a very close confidant to truman. you some my first document in the presentation. he's the one that tells truman about it. when the interim committee meets in the summer, stints and is really the one that is certainly at the forefront of those decisions. he was a really key player. i would not say one person over another made those decisions, but stinson it's certainly among those who truman goes to for advice and leans on for suggestions on what to do. stinson is involved in discussions about sharing the information with the soviets and the setup of the atomic energy commission. all these things that stinson was already seeing the world would look like with this new power. stinson was rather far reaching in that regard. >> all right. we have time for a few more questions. our next one comes from ... it says, how did truman's family react to

project creating the most devastating weapon in history the first time vice president hears of the manhattan project. not just as he struggles but even the scientist at los alamos they don't even know if this would work until 21 days before and the flight crew of the enola gay who was on a mission to hiroshima don't know when they drop it if the aftershock will knock them out of the sky. so that's what i was trying to do in the fact that you say it is a page turner and a thriller, i am thrilled's. >> my father was a b-29 bomber so i was riveted but you have to be in the army air corps to like the book. it is very well done. you put us right where it happens on many occasions. >> there are dramatic moments he has a meeting with his were cabinet on june 18 and george marshall as they are. all the top brass discussing the nazi that surrendered on may 8 how they will finish the war against the japanese. for 45 minutes there is a long discussion how long it will prolong the war, hundreds of thousands of casualties on both sides than the assistant secretary of war who ended up becoming a major fig

the president tried to block the manhattan d.a.'s subpoena, taking his case all the way to the supreme court. arguing that he, as president, had total and complete immunity from criminal investigation. but last month, the supreme court ruled against the president, saying that the president does not have immunity from cy vance's subpoena, and in making their ruling, the justices were clear, the president is not above the law. their ruling made the manhattan district attorney basically the only entity in the country with a clear path toward finally prying loose the financial records that the president has fought tooth and nail against handing over. but there was a catch. see, the president could still go back to the lower courts and make other objections to the subpoena. so, that was exactly what the president did. he urged a federal judge to toss the manhattan d.a.'s subpoena, because it was, quote, wildly overbroad. trump's lawyers, essentially, said to cy vance, these records you are demanding go way beyond your investigation. so,

he will be talking obviously about fdr and the manhattan project. our second guest is clifton truman daniel who is the eldest grandson of president harry truman. he is also a truman scholar. he has spent quite a bit of time studying the life and career of his grandfather and he currently serves as honourary chairman of the board of trustees and at the harry truman presidential library and museum and independence, missouri. so today we'll give a great opportunity for question and answer. please weigh in with lots of questions. we've already been talking quite a bit off camera about our topic today and i guarantee you there's gonna be a lot of interesting ideas and discussion. i will begin and introduce y'all to our program. thank you >> thank you ed. thank you clifton for being part of this today. i'm very excited this is one of those topics that is generated enormous amount of debate throughout the years. background for franklin roosevelt of courses that he was struggling in the late 1930s to convince americans who are very isolationist that they ha

but in his diary object to july 18th the talks about manhattan. he goes on to say i will inform stalin about it at an opportune time. he does tell style and briefly, not really in detail, about the fact they have a new weapon they could use against japanese. truman did not think that stalin knew anything about that, but as we know now, in 2020, stalin did in fact have spies in new mexico. they were passing information about the manhattan project back to him. a week later on july 25th and his injury, he goes into a lot more detail and talks about how the weapon needs to be used against the japanese. the diary entries are very revealing as truman expounds upon the information that he has been given by lieutenant groves. we have got to contrasting documents here. one is a little misleading and we will do that in one second. i will try to things are moving quickly as you can see. you can see this. it additional bombs would be delivered on the above target system is they are made ready by project staff. we found out later that in the early part of augu

the manhattan institute has been very much involved in this over the years.hey were big proponents of the broken windows theory of policing decades back. so what is the institute thinking as the country rethinks policing about the best way forward? guest: we have a number of scholars who work on policing and criminal justice issues including heather mcdonald, rafael, jim copeland, among others. we have journalists who work on this set of issues as well, so there is, as you might expect, a range of opinions. we always want to encourage our scholars to go where their ideas take them, provided they are confident, with our deep belief in the central importance of public safety, and i say, when you are looking at this moment and looking to the future, it is very important to keep in mind that effective policing is vitally important. you can change society in any number of different ways, but effective policing, that sense of public safety is a foundation for economic growth or a flourishing civil society and everything else we care about. so then the question is w

so the first information that truman has about the manhattan project comes in april just 12 days after he becomes president on april 12th. this very famous letter some of you are probably familiar with, when henry stimson, the secretary of war, writes to truman to tell him about this highly secret matter, as it mentions in that first paragraph. now stimson had mentioned this to truman after his inauguration april 12th after fdr's death, just in passing, tells him they need to talk about it in the future. just two weeks later, he sends this letter to truman, telling him they need to get together quickly so he can tell him in the project. you can see some interesting handwritten notes here. at the bottom what i like to point out in harry truman's own handwriting, matt, put on list tomorrow wednesday the take 25th, hst. that's matthew, the appointment secretary, he's telling mr. connolly to get henry stimson on his calendar for the next day. interestingly truman did come across the manhattan project when he was a senator in charge of the truman committee looking at overspending during wor

whether the manhattan project should be at a historical park.an tend to lend a celebration to something that ultimately resulted in the paragraph production of the nuclear weapons. it really offers us an opportunity. and then halfway between me and the olympics they have a largest stop pile. we could destroy it. we are getting some questions here. we were supposed to encourage you to ask some questions we are gonna take going to take a look at those. the first one is really interesting. i think we can both take a hack at this. do you think they would've taken as many risks with exposing people downwind if the managers were not protected by the secrecy surrounding the plant. reconstructing the cold war mentality. i'm not cannot pull my slides back. both the reactor the chemical separation plants that are right next to them. you generate those. you cannot keep them in the plant. they will hope that the wind was blowing hard. they would disperse the the managers during the 50s and 60s new that they were releasing what was at that time would've been

paul, fdr stood in charge through the first several years of the manhattan project. it was his administration that brought it to fruition. one of the most important things that he accomplished was the funding correct me if i'm wrong, it cost $2 million to bring the project to completion. that's $2 billion in 1945 money. you can imagine it was by astronomically more now. can you say something about how fdr made that happen? this was something that was concealed from congress. fdr was a master of the mechanics of government. as he famously said, if it doesn't work, try something else, just make it happen. during this period, prior to the start of the war, prior to pearl harbor, he had been consistently raising military budgets, building up a relationship with both democrats and republicans on capitol hill, both his secretary of navy and secretary of war were republicans that he appointed in 1940. so he had a pretty strong coalition. after pearl harbor, really it was unlimited checkbook. one of the things he was really very astute on was the ability to keep everything c

so a man was appointed to the head of the manhattan project and had just finished building the pentagon. groves talked to different physics department and asked who would be a good leader. oppenheimer was probably not high on the list. actually, oppenheimer had not even been in charge of the physics department in berkeley before he was chosen to be the head of the central laboratory, but there was something about oppi that people like. i think a couple things grew. there were nobel prize winners that were being considered. they already accomplished the nobel prize. groves wanted somebody who was hungry and maybe would have worked a little harder, and also on a train trip across the was able toppi describe what needed to be done in terms that a layman could understand. so groves picked oppi. to puter thing is where the laboratory. you could not have it in chicago. what happens if an accident happens? toxic security. what happens if you're walking down a street involved in it? involvedue who was not in it, walked up, and said, "joe, what are you doing?" so they looked around. they went ou

july 18th he talks about manhattan appearing over the japanese homeland. then he also goes on to say i will inform stalin about it at an opportune time and, in fact, join the potsdam conference he does tell stalin briefly, but not really in detail, about the fact they have a new weapon they can use against the japanese. truman didn't think that stalin knew anything about that but of course as we know now in 2020, that stalin did, in fact, have spies in new mexico that were passing the information about the manhattan project back to him. then a week later on july 25th, on his diary entry there, he goes into a lot more detail and he talks about how the weapons are to be used against the japanese between now and august 10th. so, those diary entries are really very revealing as truman expounds upon the information that he's been given by lieutenant groves. now, we've got two contrasting documents here or two documents that one is a little misleading. we're going to do that one second. i'm trying to keep them in chronological order if i can. this is from the na

the army corps of engineers was devoted to create this new weapon so our goals was appointed the manhattanject and he had just finished building the pentagon, he talked to different physics departments and asked people who would be a good leader and oppenheimer probably was not high on the list, actually he had not even been in charge of the physics department at berkeley before he was chosen to the central laboratory, there is something about his life, a couple of things, he saw that he was hungry and the noble prizewinners that were being considered that they had already accomplished, he wanted somebody who is hungry or it maybe could work a little bit harder and also on a train through the country, he was able to describe what was needed to be done in terms that they could understand. so he picked him and the other thing was where to locate the central laboratory, he cannot have it in chicago because what happened if an accident happened or it would be easy to breach the top security, they come up and say hey, what are you doing, that would be an easy way to break top secrecy, so they l

and that was a scientist on the manhattan project and turned out to be a russian spy. tell that story. >> yes. one of the issues for churchill and truman because the british in the us were involved togethe together. when the bomb explodes truman gets word and so does churchill almost at the same time that they are discussing when do we tell stalin? he doesn't know anything. we don't want to tell him to early or too much but if we don't tell him anything if we are supposedly allies he will reason to and create more problems and they already have major problems between russia on the one side and britain on the other. they will not give it up. so after one of the sessions, truman goes over to stalin to tell him about it. and he doesn't bring his translator uses the russian translator and and stalin says something basically to put it to good use with the enemy and then turns away. and truman is dumbfounded. churchill comes up and says it's a very short confrontation. he said i now. and even truman's russian translator is wondering if they translated properly. the truth is

. ♪ host: reihan salam, president of the manhattan institute, in a recent column for "the wall streetournal," you wrote the twin crises of covid-19 and the recent civil unrest represent a turning point for urban life in america. explain how. guest: if you go back to 1980, and you were thinking about the future of america's cities, you would have seen, potentially, a very bleak future. that was the time when, particularly our urban cores, cities like new york city and los angeles, were in the middle of a bona fide crisis. you had seen years of deindustrialization ravage the working and middle-class publishing's of those cities, and you had seen an enormous middle-class flight to other regions entirely. that was very hard on the fiscal foundation of the cities and also the civic life of those cities. but then, in fact, you saw a tremendous renaissance over the subsequent decades. that renaissance was not even. you did not see it in every single american city, but you did see it in a handful of cities that had a renaissance in governance. the manhattan institute, where i'm president, was

history which is the first inkling vice president, now president truman has a the existence of the manhattan project. and to take you not just truman as you struggling and making the decision of the scientist at los alamos who don't know whether the gadget as as a call the atm bomb would even work until 21 days before the bombing and the flight crew of the enola gay who on the mission during their mission to hiroshima, 1500 miles to hiroshima from tinian island, don't know if the bomb when the topic is us as have been droppd out of the plane, but the aftershocks will knock them right out of the sky. that's what i was trying to do and the fact the use of the people john, have said it was a page turner and a thriller. i'm thrilled. >> chris, my father was a pilot in the army air force so i was riveted as you can imagine, but your father doesn't need to have been in the army air corps to like this book. so really well done. you put us in the room where it happens on many occasions and that's just a masterful job come so well done. >> thank you. that's exactly what i was trying to do. there are

so he snuck in and they gave truman a detailed document to read, which really explained the manhattanproject in historical detail and technical detail and truman complained he said, i don't like reading long documents like this. groves said, mr. president, we can't say it any more briefly or simply, it's a complicated project. that's how out of touch he was with it but by the end of the time that it counted when he made the decision, he knew had mastered all of it. >> another remarkable fact i found from reading your book was 125,000 people, americans, working on this manhattan project and not a word gets out. that's just amazing. >> you are exactly right it's one of the things that astonished me too. people say to me, what was it you covered trump in your covering all the ups and downs in the ins and outs of washington today, what was it like writing this book? i said one of the things i enjoyed most about writing, researching, writing and talking about this book is that it has absolutely nothing to do with donald trump. [laughter] it's not a knock on the president. just to say that

there is power on parts of manhattan. it appears. part ofry large manhattan without power.ll continue with powerful conversation through the morning here on this job stay. so much going on. futures -18. stay with us as well, in a very dark new york city. this is bloomberg. ♪ tom: good morning, everyone. bloomberg surveillance. francine lacqua and tom keene, with power. we are on generators, i think. huge black out across manhattan right now. we will keep up-to-date for our global audience and new york wall street as well. will speak stay, we to a lot of economists. stephen joins us now with ts lumbar. we are going to talk to a lot of fancy people today, including you. you have a gift are saying, ok, we don't know what's going on, but here is the choice set or set of outcomes. what are the set of outcomes at 8:31? >> i think the main outcome that we have to watch is the number of jobs. people who are unemployed where the jobs have been lost permanently. just at the beginning real recession. normally gets around four to five indy 07, 08 it got to around 8 million. unemploymen

that was something throughout the manhattan project. you were only given enough information to do what you needed to do to the best of your ability. there was a level of -- this obviously varied from person to person -- most people had a certain level of curiosity but it was also drilled into them that if you got to curious and too curious and asked too many questions, you could lose your job. you did not get to curious too often. some people did. many people saw people get physically taken out of work in the middle of the day with zero explanation and never saw them again. so there was this idea that i am not supposed to ask any questions so i not going to ask am any questions. there was also a fair amount of what i might call self-censorship that has happened. everybody was told this is a very important project for the war. that is what they were told, they were not told what it was. told it was important that they did not talk about what they did. if you ever talked to anyone who lived through world war ii, most -- everybody knew som

meanwhile general leslie groves who is the real military commander of the manhattan project is snuckough underground tunnels and one of the reasons was they'd given this a lot of thought at the pentagon they thought of the two come in through the front door together that people are gonna wonder what if groves, who built the pentagon, he was the big mission man, what they were doing together so he snuck in and they gave truman a detailed document to read which really explained the manhattan project in historical detail and technical detail and truman complained he said i don't like reading long documents like this and groves said, mr. president, we can't say it any more briefly or simply it's a complicated project. that's how out of touch he was with it. of course by the end at the time that it counted when he made the decision he knew he had mastered all of it. >> another remarkable Ãfrom reading your book is 125 thousand people, americans, working on this manhattan project and not a word gets out. it just amazes me. >> you are exactly right. it's one of the things that astonished me

the manhattan da isn't. the attorney general of the state of new york got elected on a promise to prosecute the trump family, the trump organization. where does all this lead? if the manhattan da has stuff, what does it mean? >> well, the clear immediate thing for your viewers is that what it means is that no pardon is possible because the state, any state, is a separate sovereign. so the president has no ability to pardon himself or anyone else. not an end state, not any people. so he can't protect people from what the manhattan da's office, you know, digs up. it still remains to be seen, of course, whether there is criminal liability, whether they can make a case. but if they can, they're not going to have to deal with the issue of the president dangling pardons to try and thwart the cooperation of witnesses. >> tim, this has long been a source of intrigue for a lot of people, the relationship between the trump companies, the trump charity at the time, the trump family and the business that they did in new

your ago the man had to -- the manhattan -- a year ago the manhattan district attorney try to get a holdf the trump organization tax records. the president fought that and argue he wanted to move to federal court. he argued a president is essentially above the law while he is president and that was smacked down by the second court of appeals and the supreme court decided last month in favor of vance. the supreme court allow this to go back by making the same arguments he did last year. he has won the race in terms of running out the clock for the next two months, because even if vance got the tax records, there is no way they will become public until there is any public action out of this. david: do not hold your breath. thanks to bloomberg's great farrell. ons is "balance of power" bloomberg television and radio. ♪ david: this is "balance of power" on bluebird television and radio. another stumble on the long load to recovery. jobless numbers came in unexpectedly high. over one million jobs, with new york, new jersey, and texas posting the largest gains. we bring in michael mckee. as i

, but on his diary entry of july 19th, he refers to manhattan. he also goes on to say i will inform fallon about it at an appear tune time. the trust that stalin did have spies in new mexico, that they were passing information about the manhattan project back to them. a week later on october 25th, he goes into a lot more detail and talks about how the weapon is to be used against the japanese between now and august 10th so there's diary entries are really very revealing as petroleuming expounds upon the information that he's been given by lieutenant groves. now, we've got two contrasting documents here, two documents that -- one is a little misleading. we'll do that one second. i'm trying to keep them in chronological order. this is actually from the national archives, which the truman library is part of, rather than the collections of the truman library. this is the closest you would get to the ordering of the use of the atomic bomb. this is a meism mo memo from thomas handy, the acting chief of staff why marshall is at potsdam. he's writing to

obviously this case of the manhattan d.c. could issue a subpoena to the president of the united states went all the way up to the supreme court and the supreme court said yes, you can. and now they are fighting about it back again in the lower courts? >> right. well, because the supreme court said you can go ahead now and try to object to the subpoena itself, not the fact of the subpoena. so that's what's happening. >> right. >> trump filed a complaint, a new complaint saying the subpoena was too broad and today was d.a. vance's reply to that. >> i have always thought of this case that michael cohen pleads guilty to a federal crime and implicates the president. i think what we thought was that the manhattan d.a. is looking into that same fact pattern that happened around that. today's filing just sort of seemed like a remarkable document insofar as you have the manhattan d.a. saying, look at all of this, look at everything you know about this guy. we're looking into all of it. >> well, yes and no. the d.a. in his court filing

big thing here is that the manhattan d.a.'ce is one step closer in getting the tax documents and tax information belonging to the president and his organization. >> understood. so the president likely to appeal this, but you're saying prosecutors there expect the supreme court to move quickly on this as well. the would that mean prosecutors could receive access to these documents before the election? i mean, we should note it's a grand jury investigation so those would not be public, but do they expect to receive them in that kind of time frame? >> certainly the prosecutors -- the folks investigating the organization and the president, they anticipate getting this before election day. they want it before election day. the thing is a lot of the arguments here, jim, that the president's lawyers have opinion making have already been made before this judge who dismissed the case today. his feeling is these are the same arguments that the president has been making all along, so really what's left? the question is will the appeals c

true which is the first inkling vice president, now-president truman has of the existence of the manhattanject. and to take you not just truman as he's struggling and making the decision, but the scientists at los alamos who don't know whether the gadget, as they call the atom bomb, would even work until 21 is days before the bombing. and the flight crew of the enola gay who, on the mission during their mission to hiroshima, the 1500 miles, don't know if the bomb, when they drop it -- because it's never been dropped out of a mane -- -- of a plane, whether the aftershocks will knock them out of the sky. that's what i was trying to do, and when i hear it's a page-turner and a thriller, i'm throughed. >> my father was a b-29 pilot in the air force, so i was rivetted. but your father doesn't need to have been in the army air corps to like this book. really well done. you put us in the room where it happened on many occasions, and that's just a, you know, a masterful job, so well done. >> well, thank you. that's exactly what i was trying to do, and there are so many dramatic moments. truman, he

i am an adjunct fellow at the manhattan institute. thank you for taking the time to tune into this event today with the general membership. i'm so sorry we cannot all be together in person but in the meantime it's nice to connect and stay tuned the manhattan institute is putting together virtual content over the next few months so look in your inbox those coming to you shortly so in the interim slow pleased to welcome our guest douglas murray this afternoon a journalist and i am sure many of you if not all have read his work in the national review and associate editor also an author and is with us in person at the manhattan institute in early 2018 just after the publication of this book the strange death of europe. and a critic and while an observer of all things come i'm not sure he knew the subjects of those most recent book would come into play so much during this moment in time but they have. and for that reason it is my pleasure to welcome you to this event this afternoon. >> it's a great pleasure to be with you and your members.

lewis decided that midtown manhattan was not safe. so they moved progressively and eventually to harlem. they became -- then he moved to riverdale and the colored orphan asylum building in riverdale ultimately became the hebrew home for the aged. it is a multi generational transformation but always devoted to care. >> interesting. we are ready right now for our queue and a. the first question was paying your way out of the draft out of the revolutionary war as well -- was the civil war the last time that was acceptable? it was not conscription in the revolutionary war. the draft was introduced by abraham lincoln. take the bad with the good. he introduced us to the military draft and federal income taxes. this was the first time. again, the richmond's exemption was a big mistake. it was never employed again. >> actually, almost as a follow-up to that, that the wealthy people cough -- during the city riots? >> there was not much mobility as there is now. when we did the lincoln in new york exhibition we came across accounts of wealthy p

federal judge has rejected mr trump's latest attempt at shielding his tax records from the manhattan district attorney he's now filed an emergency motion to delay handing them over and it's unlikely they'll be made public before the election in november the request for mr trump's tax return stemmed from a criminal investigation into mr trump and the trump organization still to come on this program a blow to the opposition the russian politician alexina valmy is in serious but stable condition after becoming seriously ill on a flight to moscow. and global condemnation of a military coup in mali the u.n. calls for the release of its tamed president. but. we're still having major flooding problems into parts of china said the central areas this thick area cloud here that is the seasonal rains and it certainly brought some very nasty conditions in just one province recently sinkhole a developed 21 cars getting sucked up into that sinkhole thankfully no one was hurt in the process we are going to see further showers and longer spells of right into central and eastern parts of china as we

interrational couples who lived in the lower west side of manhattan. and ultimately, african-americans were just dragged from carriages, chased down the street. some were driven off the docks and just drowned. and in this infamous scene, one african-american was lynched. set afire and [ inaudible ] it was hideous. there was sexual mutilation going on. open you know, blatant murder without punishment. and any time the police did try to intervene to protect new yorkers of color, the mob turned its wrath on the police as well. >> we have another image, actually. of the police at the tribune office. describe some details from these four days and by july 17th, what happens? >> it was also an anti press riot. the two papers are silling just north of city hall park. it's called newspaper row. and here, you see a crowd being disper dispersed. both newspapers arm themselves. henry raymond, the founder of the times, was on the roof of his building with his investor, leonard jerome. if that name sounds familiar, he had a 9-year-old daughter, jenny, who was destin

henry highland garnet was a great black orator who lived in manhattan. his daughter, when she heard the rumblings, went outside and pried his nameplate off of his door, which probably saved his life. horace greeley, the editor of "the tribune, " walked into the crowd and was beaten up. so this was absolutely the low point of new york history, i think. >> repeating. >> by the way, i think this is a serious problem for us in memory, as we have heard in the past two days as we speak, of more confederate statues being earmarked for removal. and there is no monument or plaque that attests to the draft riots, and the toll they took on the honor and civility and lives of new york and new yorkers. we have to have a movement to remember even unpleasant parts of our history, because ultimately, if they didn't make us better right away, at least they struck appropriate shame into the hearts of the rest of new yorkers. >> >> it is hard to tell, we assume there were no casualties, but how can i say this? how can i say this, black lives didn't matter in 1863, even in

. >> welcome to the manhattan institute podcast on race and riots in the police. thank you for joining us for this important and timely conversation. i am senior fellow and throughout the program ask your question on any platform you are watching and we will wrap them into instant discussion or save them for q and a at the end of the event. so of course this cannot be a more important conversation we have today. since the death of george floyd last month in police custody. and natalie here in america and also we have seen a certain narrative take hold. it starts with the assumption the only way is through racial lines. actually and it is the narrative to assume the behavior to a black that with every the man what happened to him happens to black people all the time. essentially they have left things the violent encounter. the media has run with the narrative that has a very real pushback with the little skepticism and that the law enforcement is at the root in america. so now we find ourselves with a conversation about policing. to abolish president, police and le

the manhattan project.he father of the atomic bomb directed the laboratory during the manhattan project. under his leadership, he directed nobel prize-winning scientists, engineers, military personnel, and civilians who worked on the atomic bomb project. >> in 1938, two german physicists working in berlin bombarded this lump of material called uranium. they got a curious result. it released a lot of heat and it created a different element. an element that was farther down on the table of elements. the word about this spread through the nuclear physics world like a forest fire that scientists had split the atom. and that it was science in nazi germany that had split the atom. there was a lot of knowledge that germans had split the atom. england was working on splitting the atom and harnessing that into a military weapon. it was not until pearl harbor that the manhattan project was created. then a lot of these sources, under the control of the army corps of engineers, was devoted to create this new weapon. th

look at lower manhattan, what the city is doing. mayor de blasio is saying the city is not taking any chances. this is called a tiger dam. it runs about a mile, essential cutting off part of lower manhattan from any of the storm surge that could come here. major concern right now is what happens in the next several hours, downed trees in this area, could cause massive power outages in such a densely populated area concern for the jersey shore, and this comes after the damage that bill karins was mentioning. horrible damage in north carolina, katy. >> it ravaged the jersey coast, the rockaways in new york city and also did damage to a case where gabe is standing, flooding subway station cutting off power to half manhattan. gabe guidier, thank you very much. >>> now to the breaking news out of lebanon. a series of explosions in downtown beirut were caught on camera by multiple witnesses from multiple angles, one of blast sent a massive mushroom cloud over the city. is the damage and the injuries appear to be extensive. right now there

one red light, and that annoyed us. >> reporter: the duo leaving manhattan at 6:00 p.m.oss the midwest under cover of darkness. >> we had an incredible team of scouts lined up that had our backs, that wanted to see us get the record. >> reporter: those scouts taking one for the team when necessary, speeding past state troopers and exiting to get a ticket, clearing the way for arnie and doug to keep pace. >> across the midwest, we were hauling. that was where we had a couple of 125-mile-an-hour averages across multiple states. >> reporter: by the time they reached denver, their average speed, a casual 120 miles per hour. >> at no point did we exceed 175 miles an hour. >> reporter: something the national highway traffic safety administration points out is incredibly dangerous. in 2018, speeding made up 26% of total traffic fatalities. but the guys maintain they never put anyone in danger thanks to traffic-free roads during quarantine. only once did someone figure out their car wasn't actually a police car. >> he knew it was an audi dressed up to look like a patrol car, and

the manhattan da is asking its case and asking this of the judge. any sense when you get an answer? >> the president's reply due by august 14th and the district attorney filed this about a week or so ahead of its schedule largely because they want to move forward so quickly. the president has a week or two here, steve too, file his reply to this and the judge may have a hearing or issue a written order. this may appeal to the second circuit court of appeals here in manhattan meaning we're another month or two away from a decision on that. the chances are it's possible the manhattan's office does not get the president's returns until after election day. but, of course, this schedule is fluid and could change and that could change, as well. >> tom winter with the breaking news there. thank you for in joing us. appreciate that. >>> the university of kentucky is welcoming its 30,000 students back for the fall semester with mandatory coronavirus testing on campus. we'll be in lexington with more on that after the break. >>> plus, new hopes for a coronavirus vaccine in the coming months b