was a terrible mistake and if you were to go back and look at the interview that he gave to the atlantic magazine you would see he highlights that's good enough for ruining the country i think you misunderstand the the way these foreign policies work he has a very clear understanding of how the decision was made and why the decision was made it was a close run decision he's not happy with the way it turned out and in fact the lesson that he learned from libya shaped very much his policy towards syria which was the point of the argument that he was making in the atlantic interview and to argue in that context that american intervention in syria explains the turmoil in syria is a complete mistake right because it was american non intervention in syria that allowed the syrian conflict to evolve in the way it did now we could argue that if america had intervened that would have been disastrous in its own right and i think that there are many voices who would believe that to be the case but but the fact of the matter is that the obama administration did exactly the opposite thing in syria for what it

the u.s. magazine the atlantic it's seen as another sign of warming ties between sidey arabia and israel in it he said i believe the palestinians and the israelis have the right to have their own land but we have to have a peace agreement to assure stability for everyone and to have normal relations there are a lot of interests we share with israel and if there is peace there would be a lot of interest between israel and the gulf cooperation council palestinians protesting on gaza's border with israel they are going to stay camped there for the next six weeks fifteen people were killed by israeli troops during protests on friday and more than fourteen hundred were injured demonstrators have gathered near the barrier that runs the entire length of the border israeli soldiers including around a hundred snipers on the other side. the former catalan the former leader of the catalan parliament could soon be extradited to spain the german prosecutors have applied for. extradition following his arrest there last month and he's facing charges of rebellion in spain not just beheading catalonia independ

the u.s. magazine the atlantic it's seen as another sign of warming toys between saudi arabia and israel it he said i believe the palestinians and the israelis have the right to have their own land but we have to have a peace agreement to assure stability for everyone and to have normal relations there are a lot of interests we share with us well and if there is peace be a lot of interest between israel and the gulf cooperation council. well palestinians protesting on gaza's border with israel say that they're going to stay camp there for another six weeks fifteen people were killed by israeli troops during protests on friday and more than fourteen hundred were injured demonstrators have gathered near the barrier that runs the entire length of the border israeli soldiers including about one hundred snipers on the other side a boat carrying dozens of reading the refugees arrived in malaysia the boat was intercepted by the navy and brought to dock on to the island malaysia's maritime enforcement agency director general said the refugees would be allowed to enter on humanitarian grounds the un re

the u.s. magazine the atlantic it's being seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel. also tributes are being paid to winnie. and the and the apartheid campaigners who played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she'd been married to the nation's first black president nelson mandela. train commuters across france will be experiencing a difficult time getting around with rail workers kicking off three months of rolling strikes four point five million train passengers will be affected with state rail employees planning stoppages two days every week they're angry at french president manuel merkel's plans to reform the industry around half of france's rail stuff are striking the tasha butler is following events forrest she joins me now from paris and commuters will be at the forefront of the disruption what will they be facing on tuesday morning. well i'm outside one of paris's main train stations and i can tell you is a lot quieter than it normally would be on a weekday morning no surprise because as you say four and a half million peo

today,ht on magazines and we are focusing on the atlantic magazine piece written by our guest robert atkinson, a contributor. is big business really that bad? why did you ask that question? guest: most people now seem to have that interview. if you want to demonize something today, you put the word big in front of it. if something is big, we see it as that, not treating to -- bad, not contributing to society. big businesses actually contribute more to the economy. we have a problem by demonizing big businesses. we have policies that favor and exempt small companies from ulcerative things, giving them lower taxes, tougher enforcement on large companies. that leads to slow economic jobs, lesser competitiveness. we need size neutrality. industrialend favorability based on size. host: big is beautiful, debunking the myths on big business. how prevalent is this viewpoint? when did it change? guest: for a long time, politicians praised small businesses because it is a good sound bite. over the last decade, what you have seen is this increasing campaign, particularly among some progressives

terrible mistake right and if you were to go back and look at the interview that he gave to the atlantic magazine you would see he highlights that's good enough for ruining the country but i think you misunderstand the the way these foreign policies work he has a very clear understanding of how the decision was made and why the decision was made it was a close run decision he's not happy with the way it turned out and in fact the lesson that he learned from libya shaped very much his policy towards syria which was the point of the argument that he was making in the atlantic interview and to argue in that context that american intervention in syria explains the turmoil in syria is a complete mistake right because it was american non intervention in syria that allowed the syrian conflict to evolve in the way it did now we could argue that if america had intervened that would have been disastrous in its own right and i think that there are many voices who would believe that to be the case but but the fact of the matter is that the obama administration did exactly the opposite thing in syria for what

peacefully on their own land mohamed bin solomon made the comments in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic is being seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel he said i believe the palestinians and israelis have the right to have their own land but we have to have a peace agreement to a show civility for everyone and to have normal relations there are a lot of interests we share with israel and if there is peace there would be a lot of interest between israel and the gulf cooperation council now the number of people killed by israeli troops during protests on girls is border on friday has risen to sixteen more than fourteen hundred others were injured friday was the first day of a sit in that's expected to last several weeks protest as a camping near the barrier that runs along the entire land border of gaza israeli soldiers including snipers a station their protests are set up their camps about seven hundred meters away and plan to stay there until israel's independence day which is may the fifteenth or abdul hamid ripples from gaza. people here in gaza are pinni

peacefully on their own land mohamed bin solomon made the comments in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic is being seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel israel's prime minister has suspended a deal with the u.n. to resettle more than sixty thousand african asylum seekers in europe and north america benjamin netanyahu made the u. turn live in hours of announcing the agreement apparently under pressure from members of his own government twelve members of one family of being killed in a saudi led coalition air strike in yemen seven of them were children the missiles hit buildings housing displaced people in the city of the data a manual crossing by central american migrants into mexico has prompted a storm of criticism from the u.s. president the so-called easter caravan is organized by activists who aim to highlight the plight of people escaping crime and poverty donald trump accuses mexico of failing to do enough to prevent them from entering the united states police in thailand say they've made their biggest ever seizure of illegal drugs with an estimated st

shhis viewers or s employer well, since that dramatic revelation in court yesterday today the atlantic magazine reported it's not just michael cohen. mr. hannity also obtained at least one other of the president's lawyers for his own matters. it's good. disclosure is a good idea. it does raise the question as ho why he wouldn't disclose it. why in fact is michael cohen saying he was directed by his client to keep their relationship secret? he says to the court officially that mr. hannity told him he should appeal any legal order no disclose hannity's name? why did he go to such lengths to keep his relationship with michael cohen secret? and because the spring of 2018 is clearly drunk and needs to go home one of the women who mr. cohen says he paid with his own money to stop her from talking about her alleged relationship with the president, she is not only part of this court case in lower manhattan, she now has every reason to go everywhere to tell the story that michael cohen paid her $130,000 not to tell. >> i worked very very hard the last ten years or so to be known as a female director in

then in the past year, the "atlantic" magazine turned up information. manafort e-mailed a business associate of his own asking if oleg deripaska had seen the press clippings about manafort becoming trump's campaign chair. he asked if there was some way he could use that to get whole with oleg deripaska. he offered private briefings on the campaign to deripaska. manafort's business associates, someone who prosecutors assess as having current ties to russian intelligence, then e-mailed to say he spent five hours meeting with deripaska and had several important messages from deripaska that he needed to deliver in person to manafort. he said those messages concerned the future of his country, meaning deripaska's country, meaning russia. so manafort and his business associate then met up in new york in early august 2016 to discuss whatever those messages were from oleg deripaska. at the time manafort was trump's campaign manager. well, deripaska is now sanctioned by the u.s. government, and his business empire has just had an anville dropped on it by these sa

then in the past year, the atlantic magazine turned up e-mails from when manafort was running trump's campaign and manafort appeared to link the job on the trump campaign to his outstanding unsettled business matters with oleg. he e-mailed a business associate asking if oleg seen the press clippings about manafort becoming the campaign chair and asked if there is a way he can use that to get whole with oleg. he offered private briefings on the campaign to him. his business associate and say they assess as having current ties to russia intelligence. the business associate e-mailed manafort to say he spent five hours meeting with oleg and had several messages he needed to deliver. he said those concerned the future of his country meaning oleg's country meaning russia. manafort and his business associate then met up in new york in early august 2016 to discuss whatever those messages were from oleg. at the time, manafort was trump's campaign manager. well, oleg is now sanctioned by the u.s. government and his business empire has just had a drop today and he's close to putin and nobody kno

the "atlantic" magazine reports that he gave huge raises to staffers he brought with him. fe drinking water act to get them the money out of the epa budget, even though the white house -- this white house -- wouldn't approve it. now the "washington post" adds that one of those staffers who got a $30,000 pay bump, one of her duties was to help scott pruitt shop for housing in d.c. and now we've learned about another way pruitt used power granted to him through the safe drinking water act to get around the rules. that's next, including its particular resonance for people for whom the safe drinking water act is life and death. stay with us. ♪ with esurance photo claims, you could have money for repairs within a day. wow! that was really fast. so it doesn't have to hurt for long. that's insurance for the modern world. esurance, an allstate company. click or call. i'm actually closer to my retirement daysing. than i am my college days. i just want to know, am i gonna be okay? i know people who specialize in "am i going to be okay." i like that. you may need glasses though. sched

but "the atlantic" magazine reports today that internal e-mails suggest pruitt very much did know about of those raises, according to the atlantic, one of the staffers who got one of these giant raises wrote to hr in an attempt to confirm that her pay raise of over $56,000 was being processed. the staffer definitively stated that scott pruitt approves and was supportive of her getting a raise. so pruitt said he had no idea about the raises. internal e-mails say oh, yes he did that will be interesting to follow up. then there is samantha bradis, one of his senior staffers. she quit last week shortly after senator tom carper of delaware sent this letter to the epa asking the inspector general there to investigate reports that miss davis had not shown up for work for three months, from november 2017 to january 2018, all while getting paid the full time. this is when pruitt took davis and others to that amazing trip to morocco by way of paris. the allegation is that she didn't make to it work for three months, but she did make to it morocco and paris. tonight senator carper got an answer fr

well, since that dramatic revelation in court yesterday, today, the atlantic magazine has reported that it's not just michael cohen, mr. hannity, on the fox news channel, has also retained at least one other of the president's lawyers for his own legal matters. jay sekulow. mr. hannity disclosed on the air that he has used him for his own legal work. that's good. disclosure is a good idea. it does, however, just raise the question as to why he wouldn't disclose it for the president's other lawyer, with whom he also had a professional relationship. why, in fact, is michael cohen saying he was directed by his client, sean hannity, to keep their relationship secret? he says -- he says to the court, officially, that mr. hannity told him he should appeal any legal order to disclose mr. hannity's name. mr. hannity was willing to disclose his legal relationship with jay sekulow. why did he want to keep his relationship with michael cohen secret? and because the spring of 2018 is clearly drunk and it needs to go home, one of the women who mr. cohen says he paid just days before the election wit

their own land where they've been banned selman made the comments in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic is seen as another sign of warming ties between the saudi kingdom and israel he said i believe the palestinians and the israelis have the right to have their own land but we have to have a peace agreement to assure stability for everyone and to have normal relations there are a lot of interests we share with israel and if there is peace there would be a lot of interest between israel and the gulf cooperation council. following maven as a lecturer of foreign policy intercession relations at lancaster university joins us now from there says simon how significant a change is this in the saudi position towards israel well i don't think that the crown prince is comments that were published in the atlantic or particularly. a really actually reveal a seismic change but they are the latest step in a long process of the current recreational between the saudis and the israelis but what is what significance of course is that the crown prince acknowledged that the israeli state the jews have a ri

my concern is there's numerous articles over a year and a half ago in the atlantic magazine about the culture of the cfp be into this mindset. you said great things about the mindset of how dedicated they are and i appreciate the comments. this mantra of the business is bad and is not the prevailing thought of the bureaucrats. >> i think that we would agree on probably more than he recognizes which i do agree that the personality of an organization often takes on the personality of a man and woman in charge. and to the extent that mr. cordray had that attitude of business at the bureau, i think that predated the operation of the bureau. i have an entirely different attitude towards which financial services are and what they can do to help people. so we are going to look at this with a healthy balance of the folks who make loans and take loans and do our best to protect consumers without removing the choices from consumers. >> you also talk about the process and you say where do the people go to get the time, money and good games back of the company closes its door was about the worker

distributed over his career one tribute i saw today in the atlantic magazine cited his ability to capture humanity in almost any situation other reporters photographers and cameramen from one t.v. michele t.v. asahi radio and solo news were killed an al-jazeera camera man was also injured in this attack christopher war he's the secretary general of reporters without borders says that this is the worst slaughter of journalists in afghanistan since the beginning of the war and the afghan journalist safety committee considers these killings crimes against humanity and according to their data this problem in afghanistan keeps getting worse twenty seventeen was already declared the bloodiest year for journalists and media workers in afghanistan's history eisel killed at least eighteen journalists and media workers last year while the taliban killed two . but i saw the taliban in the commie network aren't the only culprits in many cases of violence and intimidation of journalists in afghanistan according to the a.g.'s see government workers police army and local officials were responsible for a

the u.s. magazine the atlantic it's seen as another sign of warming ties between the saudi kingdom and israel he said i believe the palestinians and the israelis have the right to have their own land but we need to have a peace agreement to assure stability for everyone and to have normal relations there are a lot of interests we share with israel and if there is peace there would be a lot of interest between israel and the gulf cooperation council the u.n. secretary general is calling on the evans warring sides to reach a political settlement until you get terror issues speaking at the second donor conference on yemen in geneva and it's pretty good gupta reports aid is desperately needed. the u.n. says the conflict of yemen is the world's worst humanitarian crisis and it wants the world to pay nearly three billion dollars to help the people of the middle east poorest nation caught in the conflict saudi arabia and the u.a.e. have already pledged nearly a third of that money to help the victims of a war they are heavily involved in in march twenty fifteen they launched a military campaign afte

i love this in "the atlantic" magazine with a cute photo of the little takes.elationship yo. some counties could suffer job losses as high as 40%. stayed with a couple in a farming community of 20,000 people, sleeping in her son's bedroom, whose walls were covered in football themed philadelphia eagles wallpaper. this is the reality that the president has to do with. former governor branstad going to tell mr. trump? kevin: you would argue that they would say he has the back off. if you look at the policy, senator chuck grassley from iowa has been very much against what the president has been doing because they know this hurts farmers. president trump -- he did not win iowa during the campaign, but he had a strong showing in the iowa caucuses. it was a large part because of the farmers that got behind him as was the energy sector out there. this hurts the middle of the country. people are going to make that case. he has got to sell this as something that is ultimately going to help them. he also has to sell that he knows what direction he is taking the country a

tom: stephanie, while we have you on set, we saw on extended note last night in the atlantic magazineure of rod rosenstein. does he make it to monday morning? stephanie: very good question, i would not dare for take that. been -- we know he has been considering firing robert mueller, most legal analysts believe he cannot legally fire robert mueller. you need to fire ron rosenstein and install somebody who could then oversee the special counsel 's investigation and that person could either fire robert mueller or perhaps, curtail the scope of the special counsel's investigation. whether or not he does that is impossible to predict. he is clearly not happy with neither rod rosenstein or jeff sessions. but he knows the political risk of moving against them are quite high, especially now that you have this bipartisan group of senators moving to restrict his mueller.o fire they want to pass legislation that would make sure there's a judicial review tom:. tom:tom: you are planted in london. help us with the allied effort. why does it sound like three days before the allied invasion. the alli

entitled to live peacefully on their own and mom had been the comments in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic is being seen as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel. and tributes are being paid to winning. the anti-apartheid campaigner who played a leading role in the battle against white minority rule in south africa she had been married to the page nation's first black president nelson mandela. wednesday is the fiftieth anniversary of this awesome nation of u.s. civil rights leader martin luther king jr the latest in our series looking back at his life from washington examiner the range of his ambitions. in the struggle to end segregation in the united states in the one nine hundred fifty s. and nine hundred sixty s. martin luther king jr was at the head of the marchers and the boycotters a powerful symbol of nonviolence pushing for legal and social improvements for african-americans. but according to the new documentary king in the wilderness king had a vision of achieving more a vision still unfulfilled fifty years later taylor branch is king's biographer and one of

the u.s. magazine the atlantic it's seen as a sign of warming ties between the saudi kingdom and israel this is what he actually said i believe the palestinians and the israelis have the right to have their own land but we have to have a peace agreement to assure stability for everyone and to have normal relations there are a lot of interests we share with israel and if there is peace there would be a lot of interest between israel and the gulf cooperation council. well i'm joined now by our senior political analyst marwan. mowen just explain to us why this is such a pivotal change because this isn't just about recognizing israel as a country it's about well the land itself the actual phrase you used to tell us about for a century now but the. others have claimed this is the zionist movement is a colonial movement that it's a mother nationalist movement born in europe supported by the colonial power of the time britain and france in order to settle jews away from europe and in the near east in palestine and that the jews continue to settle in the beginning of the twentieth century through the m

my concern is there's numerous articles over a year and a half ago in the atlantic magazine about the culture of the cfp be into this mindset. you said great things about the mindset of how dedicated they are and i appreciate the comments. this mantra of the business is bad and is not the prevailing thought of the bureaucrats. >> i think that we would agree on probably more than he recognizes which i do agree that the personality of an organization often takes on the personality of a man and woman in charge. and to the extent that mr. cordray had that attitude of business at the bureau, i think that predated the operation of the bureau. i have an entirely different attitude towards which financial services are and what they can do to help people. so we are going to look at this with a healthy balance of the folks who make loans and take loans and do our best to protect consumers without removing the choices from consumers. >> you also talk about the process and you say where do the people go to get the time, money and good games back of the company closes its door was about the worker

peacefully on their own land mohammed bin simon made the comments in an interview with the us magazine the atlantic the crown prince has been touring the us to encourage investment in his country and to support and support rather to contain iranian influence in the middle east his latest comments as another sign of warming ties between saudi arabia and israel. let's bring in palau media producer i did tell us about the reactions to the crown prince's comments about israelis and palestinians living side by side well those comments of certainly created a stir online because of a few words now mohammed bin selman used the word rights saying palestinians and the israelis have the right to have their own land now why does this matter well former peace negotiator dennis ross who's also quoted in this piece you're about to see says that arab leaders have often spoken of israel's existence as a reality but haven't spoken of any sort of right to jewish ancestry a land until now so that's why that's very significant and during his visit the crown prince also met with several organizations that have spent mil

columnist for the washington post david ignatius and eugene johnson and editor in chief of the atlantic magazineith us. >> before we can move on, we have to go to jeffrey and see if he'll smile this morning. >> no. not this morning. ah, well -- no. >> jeffrey, why don't you lean in and tell us what you think. why don't you join in on the syrian conversation. obviously a lot of concerns yesterday the president of the united states talking about actually surrendering a lot of gangs that we've our troops and allies have achieved in syria. what are your thoughts about the comments that were made yesterday? what's the impact on the united states, our national security and actually isis? >> can i do this without smiling? >> you sure can. >> yes. >> this is serious. i don't know why i need to gin up a smile. >> don't gin it up. no need to be perky. >> please don't smile here. this is about isis. >> no smiling. sorry. so remember back in the days of the obama administration when he would put sometimes the president would put time limits on military engagements. he said when we're getting back into afgha

john dickerson a familiar face here will be joining us to talk about the cover story he's written for next month's atlantic magazine. for "face the nation," i'm margaret brennan. (announcer) you work hard to give your children something to build on. i was always trying to think "how am i gonna get her through college?" i wanna have a mechanism in place to make sure that my daughters are well taken care of. i hope to leave my children with something to help them get set up. (announcer) don't let it get eaten away by unexpected fees and legal expenses. my husband did not have a will and everything went away. when my father passed away, he did not have a will or a trust. we're not as prepared as i had hoped we would be. (announcer) every year, tens of thousands of people lose what's rightfully theirs because the right paperwork is not in order. is your property safe? i had absolutely no guidance. i just feel like i did the best i could under the toughest circumstances. (announcer) you could hire an attorney,

his work garner awards including best american crime ratings, "the new york times" magazine and atlantic, "washington post," "boston globe" and "the wall street journal." he's a staff writer at the new yorker. [applause] next up, eric armstrong dunbar, author of the 2017 national book award finalist, "never caught the washington's relentless pursuit of their runaway slaves." she is the charles and mary beard professor at rutgers university. her first book in fragile freedom african-american women and emancipation in the antebellum treaty was published by yale university press in 2008. she also served as the director of the program in african-american history at the library company. [applause] >> erica? [applause] and last but not least, kevin young, author of "bunk the rises of the plagiarists, felonies and fake news." finalist for the national book critics circle award and the gene zion award which is also one listed for the national book award in 2017. he's also the author of a previous book of nonfiction, the grey album and numerous books of poetry, which was long listed for the natio

magazine. for the past decade and he's been a journalist whose work has appeared in harper's, "new york times" magazine, gq and the atlantic among others. his book has received praise, and i would like to add it to the accolades this book is a beautifully written biography of a place describing with exceptional clarity the rise and fall. but the heart of the book is the intense stories of human people who lived and breathed the community. they are dolores wilson, kevin cannon, annie and william fleming. jr joins us tonight and today he is a seasoned community leader and human rights defender who actively worked on housing issues with the chicago coalition to protect public housing and the center on housing rights and evictions. in 200 2009 when they dreaded tk force of the city to investigate its housing conditions after the anti-conviction campaign and currently serves as the executive director of that organization, his mission, and i love this kind is to place the homeless people in people with homes. among several initiatives, the campaign has helped those facing department buildings where they are closed into the commu

. >> reporter: the atlantic said pruitt filed a formal application. the magazine said pruitt made a provision in allowed him to hire up to 30 people without white house approval, so he ordered th get this money. prtt now denying any involvement. the white house said they're investigating it. >> dana: ed, last year, pruitt had some questions raised about private jets for official travel, and now there are questions about some of his living arrangements in washington. >> reporter: yeah. abc news first reported last year he was renting a room in a condo from the wife of a lobbyist for $50 a day. anyone who has lived in washington knows that's below market. plus renting from the wife of a lobbyist, pruitt seems -- seems questionable. pruitt tried to tell me the lobbyist had no business through the epa, except one of its clients has been exxon mobil. this runs counter to the president vowing to drain the swamp, which is why two republicans yesterday called on him to resign or be fired. carlos provello saying, pruitt's, quote, corruption, saying this is an embarrassment

my concern is there's numerous articles, a great when you never go in the atlantic, the magazine, aboutthe culture of the cfpb and it politically motivated culture and this mindset. you said great things about the bureaucrats and a talented and dedicated they are displayed and appreciate this comment i can you comment on the culture? are you able to change the culture so this module of business is bad is not the prevailing thought of the bureaucrats? >> if you you are still your mr. delaney and i would agree on more than five you would recognize which i do agree the personality of an organization often takes on the personality of the man or woman in charge. to an extent that mr. cordray had that attitude about business and of a banking and the rule of the cfpb, the bureau, i think that predated the operation of the bureau. i have an entirely different attitude to what financial services are and what they continue to help people. we're going to look at this with a healthy balance of the folks who make loans and the folks who take loans, and try into our best to protect consumers without

he told me -- and this is, we're talking about before the piece on reparations in atlantic magazine -- that he had submitted a number of articles to new york magazine, and none of them had been accepted. none of them had been accepted. there's a book, for instance, that was published a couple of years ago about the first black police officer in new york city. fascinating topic, you know -- it was written by a white guy, irish guy. >> i think that's a beacon press book. >> written by author brown. >> yeah. that's a beacon book, yeah. >> uh-huh. the same thing with the fire department. there's one about the vulcan society of firefighters. wonderful book too that i really related to written by a white person. i mean, is that perception that the odds are stacked against black writers, is it wrong? or, i mean, as i say, i'm really hopeful, and seeing you really does a lot of good for my experience. [laughter] sometimes it seems or, you know, it's tough out there. >> i think, i mean, i think what you're saying is one of the reasons that you mentioned the children's book that i wrote with an

director of protestant welfare agencies and a writer for the atlantic who wrote about the whitewashing of king's athat is nation for the magazineng this month. you and the federation do a great job in policy analysis. from a pure policy point of view, when you look at voting rights of dr. king, his efforts around open housing and his efforts around the civil rights act, which includes criminal justice, how does this administration weigh just on the policies that made dr. king dr. king? >> when you think about all of those policies that you just spoke to, everything from housing, education included, health care, what we're seeing is a dismantling of some of the gains that have been made over the course of the last many years. we are seeing if you take an example education, there's less of an interest in quality education, they talk about choice. but what we've seen across america is that choice by weigh of charter schools or vouchers is not enough. what we're seeing in the area of housing, one of the greatest gains that can be achieved through housing is homeownership. and for lower income americans, blacks, what we're seeing wi

the wall street journal" shelby holiday. editor at large for reason magazine, matt welch. in d.c. writer for "the atlantic" molly and betsy woodruff. thank you for being with us on this easter sunday night. betsy, you and the news. i think the president we're not clear what prompted the tweets this morning and might have been seeing something on fox fews about folks making way to the mexican border. he sends off the series of tweets and says no more daca deal f. you're a democrat or if you're a republican in washington, thinking there's a compromise to be worked on here, what's your reaction to this tonight? >> it's certainly a reaction of pessimism for democrats. the tweets and miller for years back to his time on capitol hill under then senator jeff sessions is one that people are coming to the united states because they want to get daca, there's scant if any proof that daca was a driver of illegal immigration. however, that line is something that stephen miller and folks in his broader cohort have been pushing for years, that daca was the reason for all sorts of bad things that happened at the border,

atlantic magazine. brittany packnett is an activist and educator. she's thefounder of campaign zero, a police reform initiive associated with "black lives matter." she also served as a member of president obama's task force on 21st century policing.rk and vann newis a writer at "the atlantic," covering politics and policy. nn played a leang role in the creation of "the atlantic"'s special commemorative issue "king." issue features a collection of stories about the nuances of dr. king and the civil rightswe movement, anthank all of you for being with us. vernon jordan, i'm going to start with you. let's start with the assassination itself. my calculation, you were 32 years old at the timof his death, and you were heavily involved in the civil rights movement working with the voter education projects. you were not in memphis when he died, but how did the news of his death affect you and the people around you? >> i was on my way that evening to speak at the naacp memrship campaign. i was a keynote speaker. when was tying my tie to get ready to go, the news came

her magazine features writing, her feature writing has been recognized with prizes from the society of professional journalists and her work has appeared in the atlantic, new york times, boston globe, philadelphia inquirer as well as reports and acumen trees for npr and voice of america. she has been a frequent correspondent for the science monitor and her writing gardener her and editor's choice award. her first book, fruits of victory, the woman's land army in the great war was excerpt in the smithsonian magazine online and featured on c-span and public radio stations nationwide. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome alain. [applause] >> thank you so much. i am really delighted to be here at the national archives, returning here and, as you know it's the wellspring of knowledge for anyone who is interested or anyone who studies or writes about american history and american government. the archives collect and preserve and protect the document that of foundations of my work from the sacred documents over nationhood to the most mundane but perhaps very useful bureaucratic memos. here are constructed the haystacks in which we search for those very valua