margaret macmillan. it was posted by the new york society. >> good evening everyone prayed of like to start with this event and i'm see you and i am thrilled to welcome you to tonight's virtual program at, "war" how it shows us and it's presented at. nineteen and the speaker series which is the part of our public program. i would like to introduce our speakers not want to recognize and thank the historical trustees for joining us this evening. first and foremostst the chair, and chairman of new york roger, and the chair of the committee, richard and. [inaudible]. and the team leads and the great involvement. i would like to thank members of our counsel for joining us this evening and we t are so very grateful to each and every one of you. for your encouragement and support especially in this challenging time. in ther programs, we are welcoming margaret macmillan professor of history at the university of toronto and narrative professor ofve international history at the university of oxford. doctor margare

i believe, margaret, we have won. we had a relatively small number of troops there enabling the afghans to bear the brunt of the fight and it's true, afghanistan was not denmark but afghanistan didn't need to be denmark. it just needed to be afghanistan. probably still needed to be a violent place but compare what we're seeing today to the sustained commitment we had to the 2020 capitulation agreement with the taliban. and i think most people would choose prior to 2020 than the horrors we're witnessing today. >> general hr mcmaster, thank you for your service to our country and our asesment. >> thank you, a pleasure to be with you. >>> the day before thettack on the kabul airport, i spoke to david petraeus, already expressing concerns about the threat of isis-k and what american withdrawal would mean for security in the united states and around the world. general david petrus, welcome back to "firing line" and thank you for your service. >> great to be with you again, margaret, thanks. >> you serd as the commander in

in the center margaret harding mcgill axios, and on the far right john hendel of "politico."e will start in reverse order and the want to start with president trump's suit. the suit that he filed against facebook, twitter and so many other other social media companies. john hendel, what's your thoughts on this and is a going to go anywhere? >> guest: hello, , peter. good to be here. great question. i think right now most people looking at the suit and not necessarily think, they don't really think it's going have many legs in court. but i think the important thing about it is really what it might mean two years from now, four years from now. right now look at this in some ways as a strategy for setting up what some of the rhetoric will be around the midterms, it president trump come former president trump runs reelection. i think he's going to be coming to these notes are bound big tech and what he sees as censorship and some of the concerns. that's going to be dominating a lot of the debate. for him is is a useful issued to come back to. his final year in office you saw him

i would agree with margaret. i think that there is interest, but the difference of views around that are key to why this is hard to make policy and i think some of that goes to the debated framing around some of that including the fact they do some content moderation and we will see many democrats saying this is essential to how they operate and what they envisioned it as being. so, yes, i think it is worth watching but things are very much in an early and percolating stage and nothing is likely to be moving in my view in the immediate months. >> host: you work basically for an old line the publication in many ways. but do you consider social media to be a competitor? >> guest: i don't think we've used social media as a competitor. it's a tool we use to push out our own stories and at the same time completely transformed the media landscape. so much of our thinking has shifted to rather than planning for the paper the next day, thinking about how we can get the news online and bring the latest information. social

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lord bakes _ margaret thatcher and now lord bakes i— margaret thatcher and now lord baker.ker. itell you, stories margaret thatcher and now lord baker. i tell you, stories like this make _ baker. i tell you, stories like this make my— baker. i tell you, stories like this make my blood boil when they quote a former_ make my blood boil when they quote a former chief_ make my blood boil when they quote a former chief examiner as saying, "a record _ former chief examiner as saying, "a record number of top marks render the results — record number of top marks render the results as meaningless stock". do these _ the results as meaningless stock". do these people know the incredible work that— do these people know the incredible work that goes into this? the truth of the matter is the telegraph in the story— of the matter is the telegraph in the story that's here, whether yet another— the story that's here, whether yet another reform of examination grades is in the _ another reform of examination grades is in the offing and it may be several— is in the offing and it may be several

the other, margaret fuller. and i want to talk about their experiences as influential, extremely significant women journalists of their day because with, again, it sets the stage for what's to come. if so sarah josepha hale, the first woman editor of a women's magazine. one of the most important magazines of its time, achieved circulations that had not been seen before. extremely important person in journalism of the 1800s. she was a widow. she was widowed by her husband and had five children to feed. he needed to work with. she needed to work, right? she started to write. she'd had limited education, mainly what she was able to get in her home. but she wrote pointly, and she wrote a -- poetry, and she wrote a really successful novel that enabled her to find some other opportunities. by the way, she eventually wrote mary had a little lamb, so there you have it. sarah josepha hale wrote mary had a little hamm are. but she was best known -- a little lamb. but she was best known as an influential editor. she was th

so margaret fuller is a different story. if margaret fuller remarkable brilliant woman educated by her father. who encouraged her and gave her classical education in greek and latin and french and italian philosophy history, village in cambridge. massachusetts right, home to harvard, where many of her male friends attended and she however was not able to attend. she had to rely on lessons that her male friends were able to bring home to her. and yes she was highly intelligent, and wreck again and trent recognizes highly intelligent in the family had strong intellectual circle around them except in her when broke it and moved to ended up having to take care of everybody. again a loss of a mail provider. they required her to become a teacher, that was one of the accepted jobs for women always was teaching because it was part of caretaking and bringing up children. eventually she got bored and went back to the boston area. she hung out with the transit, some of her friends ralph emerson, and this group made her editor of the di

howard dean and margaret carlson. margaret, what do you think about what joe biden is trying to do today, he's mixing the economy, that message with the vaccine push and as related, he's doing it in measurable styles, look, this is working and it is what he's doing that he says is working. >> it is definitely working and he had no help from republicans and they see fearless about going back to their districts. they didn't hand out the checks. sometimes they lie about having voted to send out those checks. they have not cooperated in any way of what biden is doing. he should be able to take all the credit. i think one interference slightly in the victory lap is the delta variant is back. the guy in charge gets blamed for what happens when he's in charge even though he does not have any control with it. the real struggle is to get this infrastructure bill through with the congress, through the senate, having to go off to a funeral and using that to perhaps, you know, not get down -- what is it, four weddings and a funer

>> "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by... and by... rporate funding is proded by... >> john mcwhorter, welcome to "firing line." >> thank you for having me, margaret. >> look, before we launch into critical race theory, which i'd love to talk to you about, i want to give our viewers a sense of your background and perspective. you are a prolific author, a podcaster, a professor of linguistics at columbia university. you've described yourself as a contrarian race commentator and a liberal democrat. but there are others who have called you a right winger. so, where do you put yourself on the political spectrum? >> i am a liberal democrat who only seems like a right winger to some people because my opinions on race are ones that are liberal and democratic rather than radical left. and somewhere around 1966, an idea settled in that typical good-thinking politics on race are radical left, and you're anywhere rightward of that, you're "a conservative." so i've been confusing people for 20 years on that, but i know what i am, which is somebody who would never have been

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this is the point margaret was making.ation of public trust is going to be criminal conduct. it's just not. there's very little at least based on what you're seeing that you can charge people with criminally. there are a few different things that can happen. there are a number of committees in congress, including the january 6th committee. but the house judiciary committee can and should investigate the operation of the justice department. they can refer charges if they're there. also at the same time the independent inspector general can investigate current employees who might have aided in this conduct and past employees and their role in it and they can take action against any of these people, bring them in for testimony and -- but sort of as margaret had said earlier in the interview, the biggest value here is its public exposure of this conduct. because, for instance, these are all elite attorneys sort of at the top of the profession. if you are a law firm, a major law firm seeking to hire one of these folks for the r

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so yes, i agree with the questioner. margaret, what's your favorite book on war? now that i've read your book, what's the next one you'd recommend to me? well, i start with the ad because it is both a masterpiece and a foundation, i think of world literature. but it also brings out the horror and yet the fatal attraction of war. you know, achilles is this great warrior and he's terrifying. and in some ways in human, but he's also greatly admired. and so i think i'd start with that, but i think i, it's hard to, to list all the things i think are wonderful. i tend to like the novels and the work for literature because they seem to me to capture something about war. i know she leaned on tim o'brien's the things we carried a lot. that's an excellent one. my favorite is we die alone about the, the norwegian guy, yon buzzword, i think it's no, i'm mispronouncing his name, john balls. rude. have you read that book? we haven't. know, well, make notes. i'm a great admirer, tim o'brien, that american novelist. i mean, i think his description in vietnam and in the things the

margaret maughan, britain's first paralympic gold—medallist, who sadly died in 2020.which helped change attitudes. in 1968, the first games for athletes with learning disabilities was held. they were promoted by america's famous political family the kennedys, one of whom had a learning disability. witness history spoke to organiser anne burke and to athlete frank olivo about a time when people like him were often feared or ignored. i was a teacher in the chicago park district in 1965 teaching physical education. teaching skills to special athletes like frank, and frank was in the very beginning of the programme. i was 20 when i was in the special olympics. i had spinal meningitis. it made me slow. back in the early �*60s, there was no activities and no schooling for people with disabilities, or they were in institutions at the time. i tried to get on with everybody on the block and theyjust looked and laughed. i wrote to mrs eunice kennedy shriver and asked her if she would donate some money to put in the first special games. she was very excited. i wrote a proposal t

thanks to margaret thatcher. globe so many coal mines across the country. we had to bake early start and we are now moving rapidly away from co altogether. of the context in 1084, the u. k. had 170 coal mines employing some 190000 people. just plans to close. 20 mines lead to a year long stand off with huge protest and violence classes. i 2015 all u. k. color is being closed, or johnson is being urged to apologize for this joke. latin communities in scotland were utterly devastated by patches and destruction of the coal industry to treat that as something to laugh about is crass and deeply insensitive to that reality. boris johnson's shameful praising of margaret, such as closure of the coal mines, brushing off the devastating impact on those communities with a love shows just howard of touches with working people. yet again, bars johnson has shown he's completely out of touch with scotland by making unbelievably crest jokes at the expense of our mining communities. we discuss the issue with chris kits in general, secretary of the national union of mine wor

margaret, - through. it's a huge challenge, thank you. margaret, thank- through. has reported another record number of coronavirus deaths in a single day — more than 680. the country is in the grip of what the officials call a fifth wave of the virus. over the past week government offices, banks and many shops have been shut in an effort to curb infections, but the restrictions ended on saturday. a government minister in new zealand has admitted the palestinian authorities in gaza say egypt has decided to close the rafah crossing in both directions from monday. it's an important route for supplies into the enclave, as it's the only border point into gaza not controlled by israel. the east coast of the united states has been hit by strong winds and heavy rain, as tropical storm henri made landfall in the state of rhode island. power has been cut to more than one hundred and twenty five thousand homes from newjersey to maine. flash floods have closed bridges and swamped roads. the storm is expected to move through parts of connecticut, massachusetts and maine as it

instead it is his comments about margaret thatcher that were leapt on by his political opponents andheads in their hands. the prime minister was talking to reporters and marvelling at the move away from fossil fuels over recent decades and he said, thanks to margaret thatcher, who closed so many coal mines across the country, we had a big early start and we are now moving rapidly away from coal altogether. now, and we are now moving rapidly away from coalaltogether. now, it and we are now moving rapidly away from coal altogether. now, it seems these comments were made fairly tongue in cheek but the political condemnation was swift. the scottish first minister and leader of the snp at nicola sturgeon said the closure of the man's devastated lives and communities and have nothing to do with climate change at the time for such she called the remarks crass and the labour leader dick sir keir starmer said they were shameful. the last couple of years the tories have done well at making progress in former coal—mining seats in england, but as the party tries to broaden its appeal across the

clicking] announcer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by a grant from anne ray foundation, a margareta. cargill philanthropy; the orange county community foundation; and the farvue foundation. [helicopter blades whirring] [flames crackling] [water rushing] [wind howling] man: every child born today will experience a fundamentally altered world, which will increase their probality of death and serious disease or illness because of the change in the climate. there are a great many efforts brought by young people around the world--cases brought domestically against governments for iling to do what those governments pledged to do in the paris agreement. but what forum would allow you to talk to all of humanity at one time? that's the united nations. we conducted interviews to basically put together the best diversity and array of young people from different parts of the world being affected in different waysy the crisis. a number of organizations, including greta thunberg, conveyed to us the desire to formulate, if possible, a single legal strategy in order to respond to a challenge that

i invested more of that story and i felt like i wanted the book to call attention to the real margaret but i didn't want to point to my book and say this is abiography or anything like that . with these two i knew i had b to use his taxidermy and you can go see her but i think it's a surprise to historical fiction but any kind of fiction and their conversations happening now about how stories are given writers to tell so i think because of how i wanted to depict them in the first place but also how i 'wanted to give them personalities one big thing i've done that i haven't seen anyone else do is i'm pretty sure he was gay . i'm almost 100 percent, on the biographer i wouldn't be able to find the smoking gun but he signed one of his suicide notes, there's an and that which at the time would have been away for someone to kind of come out without coming out. so i felt like i was under a huge obligation to be responsible to both characters. i've never been a pigeon and i've never been a gay soldier so i thought a lot about toni morrison, holler in the chat if you like toni morrison. she ha

different announcer: "earth focus" is made possible in part by a grant from anne ray foundation, a margaret a. cargill philanthropy; the orange county community foundation; and the farvue foundation. [surf crashing] [distant chatter] man: it was a big thing. it was a big tradition for generations, you know, just, for me, as 3 generations. i know some locals that are 4th generation of really kind of rock-picking and then evolving into diving and harvesting the abalone. and it's just--it's an incredible opportunity. it's--the ocean's free to go into. there's education, there's science, there's a physical workout. it's really just sort of a magical... opportunity, really a rich part of a lot of thlocals' lives he. abalonbrought lot of people here that--it was their big vacation of the year. come over with, you know, mom, dad, and the grandkids and camp out and relive the memories that they had when they were children. woman: abalone is a hot topic across california because the harvest of abalone is deeply embedded in the culture of californians, going back to indigenous communities that lived