philip bobbitt , who was legal counsel to the iran contra committee is the co-author of impeachment, the new addition handbook, which was originally published in 1974 during the watergate crisis. the new york historical society hosted this one hour of the. -- event. [ applause ] >> good evening everyone. will come to the new york historical society

. >> >> next, on american history tv, constitutional scholars philip bobbitt and akhil reed amar discuss and interpret how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. philip bobbitt, who was legal counsel to the senate select iran-contra committee, is co-author of "impeachment: a handbook, new edition," which was originally published in 1974 during the watergate crisis by the late charles black. the new-york historical society hosted this hour-long event. [applause] alex: good evening, everyone. welcome to new-york historical society. i am alex kassl. i am manager of public programs, here. as always, it is a thrill to welcome you to our robert h. smith auditorium. tonight's program, "the presidency and impeachment" is part of our bernard and irene

>> next on american history tv, hostages and scholars philip bobbitt and akhil reed amar discuss and interpret how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. philip bobbitt , who was legal counsel to the iran contra committee is the co-author of impeachment, the new addition handbook, which was originally published in 1974 during the watergate crisis. the new york historical society hosted this one hour of the. -- event. [ applause ] >> good evening everyone. will come to the new york historical society. i am the manager of the public programs and it is a thrill to welcome it is for you to the program. the program tonight as part of our bernard and irene schwartz distinguished speaker series and is always, we would like to thank mister swarts for his support which has enabled us to invite so many authors and legal scholars here to the new york historical. i would like to recognize and think our -- think our trustees as well as all of our chairman council members who was with us for all of the great work and support. the program tonight will last one hour an

>> next, on american history tv, constitutional scholars philip bobbitt and akhil reed amar discuss and interpret how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. philip bobbitt, who was legal counsel to the senate select iran-contra committee, is co-author of "impeachment: a handbook, new edition," which was originally published in 1974 during the watergate crisis by the late charles black. the new-york historical society hosted this hour-long event. [applause] alex: good evening, everyone. welcome to new-york historical society. i am alex kassl. i am manager of public programs, here. as always, it is a thrill to welcome you to our robert h. smith auditorium. tonight's program, "the presidency and impeachment" is part of our bernard and irene schwartz distinguished speaker series, the heart of our public programs. as always, we would like to thank mr. schwartz for his support, which has enabled us to invite so many prominent authors, historians and legal scholars here to new-york historical. i would also like to recognize and thank our trustees, patricia klinge

., constitutional scholars philip bobbitt and akhil reed amar talk about how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. on the c-span networks. listen to c-span the weekly podcast. this way, part one of a two-part interview with three nationally known presidential historians. douglas brinkley, edna green medford, and richard norton smith who share historical context for the trump presidency. >> i see him as an andrew johnson like president. he is someone who has impeachment swirling around him and somebody who is not able to close or heal a racial divide in the country. >> there is a real animosity between the press and president as early as john adams. because he is the person who is pushing for this act of 1798. what that does is it actually tries to prevent criticism of the government. c-span's commend the weekly come on the free c-span radio app under the podcast cap or wherever you go for podcasts. coming up tonight on c-span, steve bannon and david from debate globalism versus cheneylism, then dick and land panetta discuss national secu

and sunday at 9 am, constitutional scholars philip bobbitt talks about how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. things giving weekend on the c- span networks. >>> next on the civil war we hear from the editor of the war outside my window, the civil war diary of leroy wiley gresham. he was a 12-year-old boy from a slaveholding family when he began keeping a diary is a civil war got started. despite

also, there will be a book signing tonight with philip bobbitt. they will be signing books in our smith gallery. that is written books will be for sale. they will be selling the books. we hope you join us for that. we are happy to welcome back professor atbitt, columbia university school of law and the director of the columbia center for national security. he has served as associate counsel to the president, counselor on international law to state department, legal counsel to the senate iran contra committee, and a senior committed to the national security council. he is the author of "the new "impeachment: the handbook." he serves as sterling professor of law and legal science at yale university. he is the author of several books on american law and the constitution, and with the forward to the second addition to "impeachment." in 2017, he received the outstanding scholar award and the howard lamarr award. --is also a member of the member of our board of trustees. he was the principal author of the 1974 book published by the association of the ba

and sunday at 9 am, constitutional scholars philip bobbitt talks about how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. things giving weekend on the c- span networks. >>> next on the civil war we hear from the editor of the war outside my window, the civil war diary of leroy wiley gresham. he was a 12-year-old boy from a slaveholding family when he began keeping a diary is a civil war got started. despite health issues he continued to keep a diary and capture a civilian perspective on events until 1865 when the war ended and he died of his ailments. the jimmy carter evidential library and museum in atlanta hosted this 50 minute talk. >> good evening i am tony clark from the carter library. and glad you are here. i find this interesting. i really like diaries. i didn't really start reading a lot until i was reading william scheiber's berlin diary. ever since, i have thought diaries are great way to learn about events as they happen. which is i think really wonderful. having janet here at the carter library is really cool because we are also a

., constitutional scholars philip bobbitt at akil lamarr talk about how the constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. that's thanksgiving weekend on the c-span networks. >> who was martin van buren? >> good question. a lot of people need to ask that question. he was the eighth president of the united states. he is forgotten, his presidency was only four years long. >> sunday, ted witmer on his biography of martin van buren. >> he spent a lot of time with erin burr, hamilton's murderer. there were even persistent , sors throughout his life persistent that gore of it all planted them in his novel that martin van buren may have been the illegitimate son of aaron burke. we don't know, no one will ever know, but john quincy adams once wrote in his diary that martin van buren looks a lot like lot like and he acts a ehrenberg. sort of always trying to southerners and northerners in political alliances together. >> sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on "q&a." >> the national archives foundation gave laura bush the record of achievement awards last month. before the presentation she sa

constitutional scholars philip bobbitt and akeel reed omar talk about how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. thanksgiving weekend on the c-span networks. >>> up next on lectures in history, baylor university professor thomas kidd teaches a class on the the first great awakening a period in the 1850s of christian revitalization that spread through the colonies. he explains how the salem witch trials led to traveling preachers. his class is about 70 minutes. >> we have been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and we ar

bobbitt and akil on our talk about how impeachable offenses for the president are defined, thanks giving weekend on the c-span networks. >> the senate commerce committee is considering legislation to protect consumers privacy online. they held a hearing to look at regulations enacted by california and the european union which could serve as models for a federal bill. this is about 2 hours. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. today we are holding a second hearing on needed safeguards for consumer data privacy as we consider potential federal legislation on privacy it is essential we hear from stakeholders and experts of varying perspectives to inform our work. we heard from major technology companies and internet service providers th

constitutional scholars philip bobbitt and akeel reed omar talk about how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable offenses for the president. thanksgiving weekend on the c-span networks. >>> up next on lectures in history, baylor university professor thomas kidd teaches a class on the the first great awakening a period in the 1850s of christian revitalization that spread through the colonies. he explains how the salem witch trials led to traveling preachers. his class is about 70 minutes. >> we have been talking about the founding of the american colonies, and we are getting now into the 1700s today and this week. i want to focus mostly on religion in the late colonial period and the coming of the great awakening in the 1730s and '40s. i know it is on your mine since you have a paper coming up about that. we are going to give a background to religion in the colonial period, the leadup to the great awakening, the overview of what happens in the great awakening. hopefully that will set you up better for your papers. you can see here on the screen we have an iman of

bobbitt and akil on our talk about how impeachable offenses for the president are defined, thanks giving weekend on the c-span networks. >> the senate commerce committee is considering legislation to protect consumers privacy online. they held a hearing to look at regulations enacted by california and the european union which could serve as models for a federal bill. this is about 2 hours. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. today we are holding a second hearing on needed safeguards for consumer data privacy as we consider potential federal legislation on privacy it is essential we hear from stakeholders and experts of varying perspectives to inform our work. we heard from major technology companies and internet service providers how they are seeking to address consumer privacy and efforts to comply with european union data general data protection regulation in the new california consumer privacy act or see cpa. the spirit of such companies is important to consider it is important that the next federal privacy law will not be by industry. any federal privacy laws incorporate use f

., constitutional scholars philip bobbitt and another talk about how the u.s. constitution defines impeachable addresses and ovens is for the president. -- and offenses for the president. >> washington journal continues. host: mark holden at the table, chair of freedom partners. president last week throwing his support behind prison reform, that is called the first step act. guest: a lot of great things. first it is important to note, what is in this bill is based on what has worked in the states in the past 10 years. texas, south carolina, georgia have transformed their societies and criminal justice systems through common sense evidence-based practices. that is what this is based on. years,s, in the past 10 eight prisons saved over 4 billion tax -- over $4 billion in taxpayer money and they have a crime rate that is not been this low since the 1960's. that is what we want at the federal level. this is rehabilitation based on evidence-based practices. the idea is that people come out of prison better than they went in. people coming in and out of the federal s

bobbitt was the legal counsel to the iran contra committee and is the co-author of "impeachment, the new edition handbook, originally published in 1974 during the water rate -- watergate crisis. the new york historical society hosted this one hour-long event. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. welcome to the new york historical society. i'm the manager of public programs here and is always it's a thrill to welcome you to our robert h net auditorium. tonight's program is part of our bernard and irene schwartz distinguished speaker series and is always the would like to thank mr. swartz for his support, which has enabled us to invite so many scholars here to new york

. >> next, on american history tv, constitutional scholars philip discussand akil lamarr and interpret how impeachable defenses are defined for the president. bobbitt was the legal counsel to the iran contra committee and is the co-author of "impeachment, the new edition handbook, originally published in 1974 during the water rate -- watergate crisis. the new york historical society hosted this one hour-long event. [applause] >> good evening, everyone. welcome to the new york historical society. i'm the manager of public programs here and is always it's a thrill to welcome you to our robert h net auditorium. tonight's program is part of our bernard and irene schwartz distinguished speaker series and is always the would like to thank mr. swartz for his support, which has enabled us to invite so many scholars here to new york historical. i would like to recognize and patricia andstees, alan, as well as the chairman's councilmembers who were with us for their great work and support. tonight's program will last one hour and include a q&a session, question and answer. of some of our volunte