thomas jefferson: mr. light, you asked me about robert hemings. robert hemings, who accompanied me to philadelphia those years of 1775 in 1776. do i remember him? do i consider that, as he was my property, as his family were my property, that it is a terrible contradiction to the principles of our declaration? well, mr. light, i can assure you that i had inherited, if you will, the hemings family from my late wife. they were part of her dowry. they became my property in 1772 when i married. and, if you will, those few years later in 1775, yes, robert hemings was my coachman. and he drove me up to philadelphia. do you know he was only 15 years old at that time? i remember as we entered the city, one of my first interests was to have him inoculated against the smallpox. and so, i paid dr. william shippen to pursue that inoculation. dr. shippen had inoculated me nearly 10 years earlier. yes, and robert returned in 1776. he remembered all of those individuals, all of us who met there in the old state house in philadelphia. he knew who they were. he pe

thomas: can i jump in? seth: yeah. thomas: going to provoke a few viewers did a lot of americans today think the russian election interference of 2016 resulted in donald trump coming president. -- becoming president. basically the russians install donald trump through their sophisticated tools. the evidence we have does not back up that conclusion. it is an unknowable fact to what extent the russian election interference had an impact on donald winning the election. we have a lot of people in the u.s., especially on the democrat side have an emotional issue with the president. probably many republicans as well. --h the default to quickly extreme disinformation. i am thinking probably foreign influence, certainly back in 2016 and actually 2017, that was a huge tendency. of course, that is a risk. thatld go as far as saying our perception of russian interference is creating more of a problem than the russian interference itself. why? because if a democracy starts blaming domestic problems on foreign interference, then it

thomas paine's pamphlet, "common sense." all of this together provided a foundation, nonetheless the virginia declaration of rights written by my friend colonel george mason. he wrote that virginia declaration of rights at the same time i was writing our declaration of american independence. a further question, if you will. >> how long did it take you to draft the document? thomas jefferson: that is a very good question. if i can recall, it took me some time. you asked me how long it took me to write the declaration. well, i believe it took me three days. three days to write that declaration. in fact, i have here one of the first drafts. there were several drafts. three days to write the declaration on four sheets of paper. many of you may wonder, mr. jefferson, that is quite a long time to simply write a declaration of independence. as you just said, everything was there for you to utilize. you were not designed to put forth anything new or original. citizens, i will tell you i am guilty of something that you all are guilty

thomas jefferson: oh, my, i have finished. welcome to monticello. aslight, as you refer to patriots' day, nothing could please us more in virginia than to be reminded about our original associations with massachusetts. yes, patriots' day is something that we are happy to be reminded of, as i know all of our friends in massachusetts continue to be reminded of that occasion in which the citizen body there stood staunchly against the encroachments of the british upon their rights, upon their property. if i remember, it occurred in three particular villages. lexington and concord, and let it not be forgotten, metotomie. i believe they now refer to it as arlington. i hope that is not forgotten because that is one of the three where the british actually surrendered. i think they lost about 25 souls that day. but overall, amongst the three villages, 500 british lost their lives. i was here at monticello and i started on my way to williamsburg. from williamsburg, i was then going to journey to philadelphia for the second continental congress. well, i had be

it's important to hear justice thomas' own words. you know, my grandfather's son with his book that was beautifully written, and everyone should read that book, but this is like the compendium to that. by the way, i want to play this. this is what he said about the people who tried to destroy him. watch. >> we know exactly what's going on. and to pretend that it's for some other reason, do i have like stupid written on the back of my shirt? i mean, come on, we know what this is all about. this isn't about what they say -- people should just tell the truth. this is the wrong black guy. he has to be destroyed. just saying. and now at least we are honest with each other. >> laura: michael, they still don't admit -- the campaign had nothing to do with sexual harassment and everything to do that he was an african-american and wouldn't do what they wanted him to do as perhaps others would. >> well, that's right. beginning when he became a public figure in the '80s in the reagan years, he was come as he says, the wrong black guy. they have

thomas, well, as usual, downright prophetic. joining me now, director and producer of the new film, "created equal." clarence thomas in his own words. i'm not an unbiased observer here. i consider justice thomas one of the greatest living americans, forget just greatest jurists, as a person, as a humanitarian, as a mentor to so many. but i want to get to this prescient warning from justice thomas. >> it's a tactic and when people see it being successful, they don't realize, they're going to be the next ones in the tower of london. it's just a t matter of time. you allow this to be a precedent in your society and people might say, it's wonderful, this particular guy is getting tarred and feathered, well, there's a lot of tar and is a lot of feather and eventually you will be there. >> laura: michael, how ironic that biden is now the other side of this. >> indeed. he's got his own anita hill. but actually, it's the clarence thomas, anita hill hearing that is the first time the sexual harassment charges were weaponized. the very fi

thomas jefferson: my favorite plant. oh, well, you asked me, benjamin, something that i do not think i can give an immediate or ready answer. so much of nature's wonders are my favorite plants and flowers. i continue to enjoy the hollyhock. i enjoy that snowball bush that you see behind me. the digitalis i think is properly named one of my favorite flowers. the foxglove. i say properly named because it may be used medicinally to slow down rapid heartbeats. you know, benjamin, i wish i had known that during my younger years when i was first courting. [laughter] your next question. >> we have a question from lynn asking if there's anything you tried to grow at monticello but could not because of the climate. thomas jefferson: you are asking me of my many failures in the garden. i say, yes, many. but know this. i always try to plant an overabundance, a great variety of flowers and plants. the reason is because i know there will be a failure. but rest assured, we will always have successes. i am afraid i have failed, if you

thomas: is a tough question. because what we see certainly, is politicians and top officials from china and frankly also from the united states sometimes. trying to spin the covid-19 and holland question or come up with theories of the origin of the virus. but i hesitate to call that disinformation are active measures. to use an old term of art. because not looking it appears, and a system for systematic professional of intelligence spirit receipts here. were looking at spontaneous spinning sometimes lying in order to solve or salvage the reputation and personal for the readers. there's a difference between intelligence and bureaucracies and running a covid-19 operations. in disinformation campaigns. and 2016, spontaneous lying. host: so briefly, how would you just be clear, but how would you define active measures and disinformation for example and how to distinguish it from just political leaders lying. thomas: 's limited book i talk about the questions up front. and what i'm looking at in the book, extensively

thomas: they keating in brussels, thank you very much. here in france, the coronavirus has already killed over 28,500 people, and as the path to lockdown easing continues, lawmakers havave a key decision this wednesday. the national assembly will soon be called to order to debate the nenew piece of f smartphone techlogygy. t thisets rubberstamped, application will alert usesers when they come closese to an infected person. for more on this imminent debate onon paris's left bank, we can head to switzerland and speak to an expert in viruses and a professor in public health at the university of geneva. think you for being with us. french mp's are gearing up for this difficult and divisive debate. are such phone tracking applications worth this headache? could they actually stem the spread of this deadly virus? w we can say that because the applications of this i in asia, particularly soh korea, and also hong kong has used thesese kinds of devices. the point, as you mentioned, is aa legal point, an ethical poin. should that keep all the confi

thomas jefferson had the good grace to essentially withdraw. rerun of00, there is a that, and that is where jefferson comes out as the only again after an election where it is necessary to mollify the electoral college, to indicate that votes for president and vice president have to be separately discerned. i want to read you both a paragraph in our book. wood, and is gordon historian. is on what your take he says. he says he was a realist. he thought all men are created unequal. he did not believe in american exceptionalism. better, nons are no different than other nations. we are just as vicious, corrupt." this is not the american myth, the american dream. he took on every myth that america lived by. we cannot live on adams's message, says gordon wood. words, adams did not know about genetics or dna, but he believed that people were unequal from birth. he was all into nature, not nurture. james: that is intriguing. ira -- i am reluctant to disagree with anything gordon wood says. but, john adams was not a democrat, that is the truth. in the s

and he worships thomas edison. he forces his way almost on to ford is working for one of edison, almost, at a company banquet to say, i have done this wonderful thing i want to tell you about. edison, who's used to dealing with young whippersnappers who have some great invention, said you've got, it that's the thing. keep at it. and he completely forgot it. ford decided that he had edison's blessing with his project. some years later, when ford has introduced the model t, which is one of the most famous and wealthy americans, he writes asking for an autographed picture of edison and edison not only sends a picture, but says, i'd really like to meet mr. ford, he seems interesting. he had forgotten the whole thing. but when they met, it was an instant warm bond for this reason. they are now the two most famous men in america. they've accomplished so much, everyone knows their name. but no one else but the two of them can understand the pressure, because once you produce a miracle for the public, then you are expected

thomas jefferson had the good grace to essentially withdraw. but in 1800, there is a rerun of that, and that is where jefferson comes out as the winner, but only again after an election where it is necessary to mollify the electoral college, to indicate that votes for president and vice president have to be separately discerned. brian: i want to read you both a paragraph in our book. the author is gordon wood, and historian. i want what your take is on what he says. he says he was a realist. he thought all men are created unequal. he did not believe in american exceptionalism. "we americans are no better, no different than other nations. we are just as vicious, corrupt." this is not the american myth, the american dream. he took on every myth that america lived by. we cannot live on adams's message, says gordon wood. it would be too much to bear. jefferson said what we needed to hear in some respects because you cannot have a nation based on the notion that we are in equal from birth. in other words, adams did not know about genetics or dna, bu

thomas, can you take up the other point. the point that lyse was making about hand—wringing from international leaders about what is perceived as a g—zero international response. obviously, a decade ago, we saw, after the global financial crash, a big cooperative effort to get the global economy back on track. what do you think is going to happen this time? let me get in on this point. very much so. because it is all very well to wring your hands, as has been said, where is the united response here and so forth? i think there is a response, a global response, and that is in the medical field. there are medical researchers the world over desperately trying to catch the source of this illness and find a vaccine against it. about economics, every country is responsible to its own populace to begin with. they are comfortable as democracies and first try to look at the situation of their countries that needs to be remedied. before you arrive at a global sort of staged response and there is a great deal of domestic issues to a

so their opening up and telling people if you set up your new company whether scooters or thomas cars or flying ships, you can trade on los angeles. >> that happened in santa monica with the bird scooter? >> yeah, a lot of people were unhappy because one day the bird scooters disappeared in santa monica and they looked at them and they are riding around without helmets, getting in the way of traffic and making some people very mad and the funny thing about it, a guy who had previously worked at uber in the way that uber traditionally has worked is barging, offer your service, get a lot of people who like it and then deal with government once you have a constituency and a fan base. that's what brooded an angered officials into mnemonic. i was there a few days ago and lots of people are zipping around on scooters. >> if governments failed to assert their control with taxes and regulation, cheap ubiquitous materially services could overwhelm the entire region much the way the automobile did. but mr. baker, someone argued that ubiquitous services what we want. >> it is to a degree but if

justice thomas? justice thomas: the respondent seems to argue that your guidelines -- your affiliate guidelines support their argument. what do you think of that? mr. michel: justice thomas, i don't think that they do as a judicial matter. even if they did i think that would be at most a basis for challenging the guidelines, not the constitutionality of the statutes. the guidelines which are reproduced on pages one a through iiia of the reply brief supply that an entity can affiliate with a separate entity that has a different policy on prostitution and sex trafficking if it certain requirements. there are five nonexhaustive requirements spelled out there. four of those would generally be satisfied by an entity that has legal separation. it would be a rare circumstance that these regulations would ever result in the denial of funding to a foreign affiliate. the respondents themselves are no longer subject to the policy of requirement as a result of their prior decision in this case. if they run afoul

one of the characters in your book is chris thomas who is he? >> chris thomas is a young man -- mikey is still young man who went to ford -- it was a graduate student at yale he is from detroit. he asked for an internship at ford. he went to ford and got the most boring internship you could imagine. we sent e-mails to all of the top executives at ford sync and i have a half an hour of your time to talk about what i want out of this internship? he gets to talk for half an hour with the chairman of ford, billy ford. and tells him how boring his internship is and begs him for an interesting job. billy ford eventually puts him in this project which is the skunk works which is to scope out the future of transportation and megacities. in soap chris thomas sees this mobility revolution we are talking about, and he convinces billy ford and others to set up a venture fund that will invest in all of these new technologies. and so that is what he did. when we wrote the book, he will still doing that. but later, he quit the venture fund and is now setting u

thomas jefferson: oh, my, well, i have finished. and good afternoon indeed, mr. light, and to all of our friends, welcome once again here to our house, to monticello. mr. light, as you refer of course to patriots' day, so we have heard it now referred to ourselves in virginia, nothing could please us more in virginia to be reminded, if you will, about our initial associations with massachusetts. yes, patriots' day is something that we are happy to be reminded of, as i know all of our friends in massachusetts continue to be reminded of that occasion in which the citizen body there

in 1994 biden said he acted with fairness to thomas which in retrospect he didn't deserve. those are biden's words. now he wants this fairness standard for himself. your thoughts? >> that is right. justice thomas did not feel that then senator biden acted completely fairly with him at the time, neither did anita hill but joe biden did not believe her charges and he said that to many other senators at the time and when it was convenient he apologized to her and said he regretted that he didn't take a more active stand against justice thomas and now it is not so politically convenient, things twist and turn, the iron is that make politics an exciting thing to watch, a good lesson to all of us that we have to be careful what tactics we employ. shannon: you have been nominated to head up the us agency for global media overseeing the voice of america, the president has talked about what he feels is not proper reporting, they say they represent all viewpoints and bylaw they are supposed to but your nomination has been held up. this is from the president, april 15th, talking about

thomas, boris johnson in challenges and all of these areas. thomas, borisjohnson in downing street. new baby, happy news and saying that the uk is past the peak. but still beset by a range of challenges going forward. what do you see as the biggest? well, the biggest challenge is not to fall in the trap of euphemisms and overoptimism. and when he says we are trying to get past the big things like that, in light of the re ce nt things like that, in light of the recent mortality figures, there were 27,000 deaths in britain, it is going to be the top country in europe for mortality rates and so you have to be very careful not to over the issue and say there is optimism and getting beyond the peak. you have to unite the two counts of opinion in britain. the ones who keep focusing on the health of the nation and the other camp which is focusing on the long—term economic province if this lockdown continues unabated for too long. and so that is the biggest challenge. come together and bring the two camps together so they are singing from the same hymn sheet, in uniting their forces to de

thomas could answer the charges. in 1994, biden acted with fairness to thomas with in retrospect he did not deserve. those were biden's words, now he wants the fairness standard for himself, your thoughts, michael? >> i think that's right. justice thomas did not feel that then senator biden acted fairly with him at the time. neither did anita hill, but it seemed at the time that joe biden did not believe the charges, and he said that too many other senators at the time. and then when it was convenient, he apologized to her and said that he regretted that he did not take a more active stand against justice thomas, and now it is not so politically convenient. things twist and turn. it is the irony is that make politics and exciting thing to watch. but it is a good lesson to all of us that we have to be careful with tactics we employ and we stick to our principles. >> shannon: what our underlying principles are, you have been nominated to head up the agency for global media that heads the voice of america, the president

justice thomas: does it make a difference when it goes to a third party? mr. sekulow: not here, the respondents at either forfeited or waived it and conceded that they are seeking the documents print these are the president's documents. he is the real party and he has the burden including review with counsel over any existing privileges and what these documents might entail. justice ginsburg: we have said in the grand jury context that the public has a right to every man's evidence. is it your position that that is safe for the president? every man's evidence, and there ,s no privilege involved here these are nonconfidential papers , so is the grand jury right every man's evidence, except the president? that is one question. and then i want you to answer jones heldy, paula that the president was not immune from civil suits for conduct occurring before he took office. courtes had sued in state rather than federal court, would clinton have had absolute immunity? mr. sekulow: two the second question first, this court in clinton said that if the case were brought

thomas is doing the best job so i'll jump right into the topic. to the pandemic has really become another reason to target asian communities a communitiese country. it's our hope to turn the table around in education. ethnic study's courses have been instituted in all of san francisco school district high schools to give students an introduction to the experience of the ethnic communities that are rarely represented in textbooks. we need to work with project-based learning on racial justice in cross-cultural relationship buildings, such as by educational documentaries, and also chinese exclusion acts. what most of our youth programming have moved to virtual settings, most of our youth are still dealing with fear, isolation and this triggers depression and other mental health symptoms. and many of our youth couldn't even talk on the phone with our staff to share their feelings due to the lack of privacy and space. it is crucial to prioritize the offering of cultural competent mental health services to students at the schools and community settings

justice thomas? justice thomas: thank you. just a preliminary question. should we ask ourselves whether or not the state is granted the authority to regulate the vote of the elector or should we ask ourselves whether the constitution prohibits the state? mr. lessig: i think you can ask the question both ways and it is the same answer. the only argument the state has made in washington, in the washington case, is an argument -- the question is whether the appointment clause gives them the power to control, and we believe they do not. as an elector given the obligation to vote by ballot, does that obligation entail a protection from legal operation. we believe it does. we believe it creates an immunity from being punished for how one votes. justice thomas: when you make your federal function argument, does that depend in part on your view that the elector has discretion? mr. lessig: the federal function establishes the discretion, your honor. it is exactly the same as in the cases of hock and lesser where the question was a state legislator's discretion to

few individuals in the united states, not members of the court , as thomas jefferson. what does johnson do? he pins his opinion on natural law, not on what thomas jefferson condemned as john marshall's have it of twist -- john marshall's habit of twistifications and distortions of the constitution. johnson gave an explanation which i think is not terribly credible. he wanted to talk about the difference between the obligation of contract and the regulation of contract. there are problems with that theory on the part of johnson. i think it is a make place quibble. first, in fletcher, marshall expressly said, states may regulate. two years later in a companion case, he said it more elaborately. onlyin 1827 in his constitutional dissent, marshall at length talked about no inconsistency between the normal regulation of contract and the notion of the contract clause and the extinguishment, the revocation of a contractual agreement. so i think johnson's superficial explanation is a placeholder. the true explanation to me is his attempt to try to walk this fine line, find a w

thomas chittum, a.t.f.'s assistant director of field operations, gave us rare access to its west virginia weapons repository and told us the latest additions here are ghost what's the difference between these two guns? >> chittum: well, this is a firearm that was manufactured by a licensed manufacturer. the law requires them to mark them with certain markings, including a serial number. this is not marked. no background check is completed when you purchase it. it's made at home by somebody using commonly available hand tools. >> whitaker: so, they both do the same thing. >> chittum: they both shoot. >> whitaker: as chittum says, usually, if you bought a gun at a store, it would have a traceable serial number and you would need to pass a background check under federal law. a ghost gun can circumvent all of that, because it's put together from unfinished, untraceable parts. it's virtually invisible to you and government. >> chittum: it also makes it challenging to keep it out of the hands of people who are not

he also wants to appeal to his patron, thomas jefferson. how does he walk the line? fletcher versus peck is renowned for three things. the notion of a state statute can set up something that is contract similar to the contract clause, even though it is not a private agreement. the traditional common-law understanding. fletcher is the first time the supreme court declared a state law unconstitutional. third, the johnson concur. the first two are wrong. what of the first opinions johnson participated, it was a case where anticipating fletcher, john marshall held a state statute could in fact create a contract and be subject to contract laws interpretation -- clause interpretation. united states versus peters, john marshall again, a state law is unconstitutional. the first two about fletcher, been there, done that. they are simply not true. what is true is johnson wrote an opinion in which he said i wholeheartedly agree with the court, this measure is unconstitutional. the parameters of fletcher i won't go in to. they are vaguely familiar to most of us. it is in every c

political correspondent thomas sparrow he's standing by for us at our parliamentary studios and he's here to break this down for a certain most likely expect from this unusual event you mentioned terry already one of the key elements those discussions on how to recover the economy in the european union in particular and in the euro zone that is something that we'll probably hear in a few minutes from both corn and merkel and this comes as european countries step by step gradually reopening and changing some of those restrictions that we have been covering both for a very long time obviously all focused on national circumstances so each country obviously making decisions based on those national circumstances so that means and now the focus more and more is on how to fight this internationally and in particular when we look at the economic aspect of it all because it is clear that the european union countries and again in particular the eurozone will suffer very hard from this crisis there are already reports that the eurozone could contract 7.7 percent this year we've also heard for e

country more now let's bring in political correspondent thomas sparrow who is covering this story for us from for a lens of thomas as we just heard there people environment are are already enjoying more freedom again soon other germans will as well is the country breathing a sigh of relief right now i do think that is the case there was some impatience if you will here in the country especially as germans saw the numbers decreasing they were asking for more easing of restrictions in the country so i do think that at the same time there is this sense of relief however i do believe that there's also some concern among many germans that this could be accompanied in many ways by a further spike in the number of infections if people are too relaxed hence the very important message by chance i'm going to merkel and regional leaders that despite germany being on a good track german still in a way have to follow some of the social distancing measures they still have to wear their mosques if they're in shops and public transport so yes obviously it is good news for germany but this does not me

spear with the latest here in berlin thomas thank you. or here's a brief look now at some of the other stories that are making headlines around the world the u.s. justice department has dropped the criminal case against president trump's former national security advisor michael flynn he was facing charges of lying to the f.b.i. about contacts with russia's ambassador flynn was a key figure in the investigation of alleged ties between russia and trump's 2016 presidential campaign poland's parliament has agreed that the upcoming presidential election can be held exclusively by postal voting the ruling party suggesting the 12th of july as the date of the election and this announcement comes a day after the governing coalition gave up on holding the election this coming sunday germany's biggest airline with tons of says it's negotiating a 9000000000 euro government bailout in return the government wants a 25 percent stake in the airline and as placed on the advisory board the lockdown has grounded the airline at a cost of billions in lost rev

thomas: interesting. i have a concluding question which is a fantastic question, and i am interested in your answer. it is a question about the future of federalism. it is asked by john newell. he says, since the new deal, the concept of federalism has become antiquated and today most people don't understand the concept. he goes on to describe what he defines as antiquated. maybe the pendulum will swing back toward state and local authority. what is your general prediction? professor yoo: i agree with john's description of what has happened. what is going to happen in the future is a prediction, people predicting a revival of federalism for the last 30 years, ever since president reagan came into office. the pendulum has swung back a little from the new deal and great society, but nothing approaching what was before the new deal. before the new deal, basically the federal government couldn't regulate production, agriculture, manufacturing, within a state. that is why baseball was not considered to be unde

captain sir thomas moore. and when that letter arrived, he says he was overawed. >> i thought this can't be true. i've always said this won't happen, and now it appears it actually had, but i certainly would never anticipating that that letter wrote arrive for me. >> reporter: the world war ii veteran captured the heart of the nation and the world by walking laps of his garden to raise roughly $1200 for british health care workers. >> anxious to go, and there he is. >> reporter: he ended up raising 40 million. he was given an honorary promotion toe colonel on his 100th birthday last month. i asked then whether he entertained the notion of knight hood. >>> there's a lot of talk about giving you knight hood. i know how i feel about t. what do you think of sir tom? >> the idea is rather nice to be called sir thomas moore, but it isn't going to happen. >> reporter: it's got a nice ring to it. i don't know. >>> for the moment, the ceremony of kneeling before the queen is obviously on hold. >> i'm looking forward to

. >> justice thomas? justice thomas: how exactly would you go about, or secular cord go about determining whether employees' duties and functions are religious or important? mr. rassbach: i think the best way to think about it is, with respect to the religious part of it, i think -- i think you can look at the list of things that this court talked about in hosanna tabor, teaching, preaching, as well as the list that was in concurrence by justice alito. and get that as a kind of safe harbor in terms of if one of those is present, then it clearly isn't an important religious function, but then, let's say you have something where the church, or the religious defendant is raising other thing as an important religious function, then i think you probably -- you would have to look and do some difference to the church's understanding of that. so, this is pointed out in the brief by professor mcconnell where he talks about substantial difference about the importance question and the religious question. justice tom

justice thomas? justice thomas: my question is similar to that. i am >> as to what you do with a chemistry teacher who starts hail mary, or the chemistry teacher who is a non- -- nun who starts chemistry mary, or thehail teacher who teaches religion but does it in a straightforward and objective way. how would you handle those? i do not see what standards a secular court would use to is anine which of those important duty or function, a religious duty or function. theratner: with that important religious functions are those of the type i have mentioned before. then the question and some of these cases that have been hypothesized, isn't really a missile part of a person's job, or as patricia called it, a minimal part of a person's job. the job is in one of your hypotheticals, then of course the answer is yes. something is teaching in a secular way and we are talking about one prayer, the answer may not be yes. there have been three main buckets of recurring claims. principals and teachers of religious schools, worship musicians, and leaders of cong

knowledge on by a political correspondent thomas proud thomas you've listened to that speech by the german president today what struck you the most. i think one of the key words there today was responsibility the fact that in germany remembrance comes hand in hand with the acknowledgment of that historical responsibility not only learning what happened 75 years ago but also learning what lessons can be drawn in today's world from that period whether it is strengthening germany's democracy or strengthening multilateralism and the role of europe those were all that it meant hard. time i have mentioned today in his speech and we already saw one of the most powerful statements in our report the fact that he said that you can only love this country with a broken heart that gives you an idea of what exactly the historical responsibility means in this country. the thomases the significance of world war 2 starting to fade from public consciousness here in germany 75 years after nazi germany was defeated. 63 percent of germans according to a recent poll believe that world war 2 still plays an impor

philosopher thomas metzinger has proposed pragmatic solutions for dealing with this new technology. and the frog available for example the options for using a robotics in geriatric care he should maintain the dignity of the patients and that's a kind of money often i could ask individuals if they'd actually feel more comfortable having a machine change their diapers rather than a family member and just going to do it shows as a sign of a school whether that enjoy having a machine read the newspaper to them or ask questions about their medication or if they find that the grading i believe that we are now at the beginning of a major learning process we've been on some i'm from and this is torsion down foregrounds. metzinger says that humankind is now on the threshold of a new age that is filled with uncertainty he lives in frankfurt a city that aims to take the lead in european ai development. there are plans to set up an artificial intelligence research center there. are desert rats your own volatiles people are rushing to get into this new technology. like they're running for the ai

thomas jefferson, as you can see, is probably the third most decayed president here. you see that he is starting to fall apart pretty good. and he died, so i've heard, on the same day as john adams, four hours apart. albeit on july the 4th. i thought that was an interesting piece of history. on dry days in the summer, often we allow our guest to walk through here. you can see that this area is pretty wet. we have some significant weather here lately. we have never seen snakes back here, but it looks like it is an area that is completely conducive to snakes. i always make sure that my guests are mindful of that as they are walking through here. there are all kinds of different weather where we will conduct these tours. the neatest thing i have seen is a bald eagle circling georges head. we have been out here in electrical thunderstorms that night, where it looks like there is these crawler lightning strikes that are coming out of fdr's mouth. i have not been back here in the wintertime, but i know there's a lot of people that would absolutely die to photograph or see t

and let's get more on that we're joined now by political correspondent thomas sparrow who's standing by in berlin times we sot there we heard their school is really not the same these days do we know when all of the students will be back sort of the goal is that all students should be back in some way or another before the beginning of the summer holidays when germany started a few weeks ago to think about the possibility of easing restrictions the issue of reopening schools was one of the most important but also one of the most controversial issues school were asked back then to devise a plan with which they could reopen gradually at the beginning the focus for example was on school leave us who had to present certain exams and then obviously now as as a result of the latest measures all schools should be able to reopen at the same time this is one of the most difficult issues because the schools across the country have to guarantee on the one hand that all peoples time go back on the other hand that they can do so but at the same time respecting some of the most important issues wh

are for more now i was pulling our political correspondent thomas sparrow he is in berlin on the story for us tonight so were you told us do we know when all german students will be back in school brandt we know when the goal is the goal is for all judgment of pupils to return to classes before the beginning of the summer holidays here in germany the process has been gradually and that's the key would he have gradual a gradual reopening of schools in germany schools had a few weeks to prepare for that reopening the focus at the beginning brant was on school leaver so in other words pupils who had important exams to take on gradually the pupils have been returning to schools again the goal as agreed on by the german government and regional leaders is for all pupils to return to school before the summer holidays start although there has been criticism and that's important to stress as well because apparently at least according to parents some of position leaders not so much focus has also been placed on kinda got ins for example something that parents and opposition politicians have been