ladies ladybird johnson betty ford rosalyn carter nancy reagan hillary clinton, laura bush michelle obama and melania trump watch first ladies in their own words saturdays. pm eastern on american history tv on c-span 2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. all right. so without further ado i will very happily introduce our author this evening bo breslin is the joseph c pelham mountain junior chair in government and the former dean of the faculty vice president for academic affairs at skidmore college up in saratoga springs, new york. he holds a phd in constitutional thoughts from the university of pennsylvania. he is the author of the communitarian constitution. from words to worlds exploring constitutional functionality which was part of the john hopkins series

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reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and marshall. watch first ladies n their own words, saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now mobile podcast. >>> in the dedication of his book "the heart of caring" dr. mark vonnegut tells his patients, teachers, and parents everywhere, thank you for letting me have such a good time when i go to work. dr. vonnegut is a pediatrician who graduated from harvard medical school in 1979. this was after he had been diagnosed at age 25 with severe schizophrenia. he has had four psychotic breakdowns in his life but has managed to successfully practice pediatrics for close to 40 years. mark vonnegut, whose parents famed him after another mark, with the last name twain writes in his current book with patients, currents, and insurance companies. >> dr. mark vonnegut on t

ford rosalyn carter nancy reagan hillary clinton, laura bush michelle obama and melania trump watch first ladies in their own words saturdays. pm eastern on american history tv on c-span 2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. all right. so without further ado i will very happily introduce our author this evening bo breslin is the joseph c pelham mountain junior chair in government and the former dean of the faculty vice president for academic affairs at skidmore college up in saratoga springs, new york. he holds a phd in constitutional thoughts from the university of pennsylvania. he is the author of the communitarian constitution. from words to worlds exploring constitutional functionality which was part of the john hopkins series in constitutional thought and his latest work, which is why he's here this evening a constitution for the living imagining how five generations of americans would rewrite the nation's fundamental law which came out last year. in addition to writing about constitutional issues. he has also publ

reagan. >> let me state clearly, i don't believe the american people will ever allow legalization of drugs in our country. consensus against drugs in the u.s. has never been stronger. we clearly understand drugs must remain illegal at every step of the chain. >> explained the american story. watch american history tv saturday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. ♪♪ >> books tv every sunday on c-span2 teachers leading authors discussing the latest nonfiction books. 8:00 p.m. eastern, founder and executive director of the danish think tank and host of the podcast clear and present danger talks about his book, free speech, history from socrates to social media. 10:00 p.m. eastern on "afterwards", former u.s. ambassador to ukraine, marie yovanovitch and author of lessons from the edge, a member reflecting on her career. u.s. russia relations and her congressional testimony during the first impeachment hearings are former president donald trump interviewed by new yorker staff writer, susan. watch tv every sunday on c-

exactly funny story the baker is at nancy reagan's funeral. nancy asked him to do her ulg. he did in the background. he's talking with newt gingrich. brian mulroney was at former prime minister of canada and george schultz. i think it is and they're talking about this new guy who's trump getting that new but this guy was storming the republican. primaries donald trump and baker says something that i he's not come to regret but i think a lot of people would say is not the best analysis ever made, which is he says, well, i kind of think of him as a little like reagan in the sense that reagan was entertainer you've seen as an outsider seen as a warmonger and gosh he came to town and he wasn't really all the things people were afraid of and maybe you know, maybe trump is the same ways or outside or he's an entertainer, but and i think we could all agree that that's there's no comparison between reagan and trump if you like trump fine, but it's they're not the same person by any stretch. but anyway that got communicated back by mulroney to trump who lived near him and hit palm b

reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >>> now we're going to shift a bit moving to our next session, a panel on the evolving relationship between germany and the soviet union from the inner war years through the second world war. we have dr. ian johnson, the assistant professor of military professor at the university of notre dame. pretty cool. and dr. sean mcmeekin. welcome. we'll provide a new interpretation on this topic and then our very own dr. nick mueller before opening up to questions and answers. with that over to you nick. >> well, good afternoon. it's great to see everybody again. it's been my pleasure to welcome our distinguished speakers here. first-time speakers ought our international world war ii conference ian johnson and sean mcmeekin. great to add new historians with new discoveries. we look for

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this week we'll feature nancy rae reagan. >> let my state clearly not withstanding a few on the fringes, i don't believe the american people were allowed the drugs in our country. the consensus against drugs has never been stronger. we clearly understand that drugs must remain illegal in every step in the chain. >> exploing the american story, watch "american history tv," saturday on c-span 2. and find a full schedule on program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org/history. >> president and ceo here. i have been in the museum industry sense 1997. started out as executive director of the museum in pennsylvania. a site that preserved the horse drawn vehicle facility. and then in 2000 moved here. i'm from hutchinson and became curator. been here for 17 1/2 years. i was named ceo in 2018. did not have one bit of understanding of space exploration when i started here. so early on i read everything i could and today really enjoy early space exploration. so for those of you who haven't opinion, we house the largest collection of u.s. artifacts outside of the smithsonian and the largest

we will for -- we will feature lady bird johnson, betty ford, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words. watch saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2 or listen to the series is a podcast on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> "washington journal" continues. host: at the top of the hour ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky will be addressing congress, 9:00 a.m. eastern time and you can watch our coverage on c-span, c-span.org or if you are out and about on your day, watch on our video app, c-span now. this is a room where the lawmakers are beginning to gather, both house and senate lawmakers, only lawmakers in this room this morning. it is in the capitol visitor center, not one of the chambers and they will hear virtually from mr. zelensky. he has addressed other bodies of government and he started out with european leaders and then he went and addressed virtually the parliaments in the united kingdom, and then yesterday he went before the canadian government and received a standing

library features ladybird johnson, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies. in their own words, saturdays at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ ♪ >> law enforcement and homeland security officials discussed attacks on houses of worship and other people and institutions including synagogues, bomb threats against historically black colleges and universities and violence against asians during the covid-19 pandemic. [inaudible conversations] gh the committee will come to order. in recent years we have seen an unacceptable number of violent threats and deadly attacks on some of our most vulnerable public places in communities all across our country. these targets have included spaces where americans are going about their daily lives and where they shouldt have no reasn to fear for their safety. places like shopping centers, entertainment venues, schools and, frequently, houses of w

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reagan, hillary clinton, michelle obama and milania trump, watch first ladies in their own words. saturday's 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> local news executives testified on the negative impacts of tech giants using their content before senate subcommittee. >>> thank you, everyone, i'm called tots order this hearing the subcommittee on competition policy, antitrust in consumer rights, entitled "breakic the news, journalism, professionalism and the power ou free press," i want to welcome ourr witnesses, we have votes going on now so scenarioer aileo and i will be going back and forth as with other senators at this time but i want to thank him and his staff working with us to put together this hearing as well as my own staff, mark and avery and kaegen for the work they do everyday. some of you will know my dad was a newspaper man as a reporter and columnist in the twin cities. heew covered it all in an estimatedro 8,400 columns and about 12 million words in which he interviewed ev

directly to children so you had a proliferation of sugared cereals. >> you didn't eat eggs because of nancy reagan and your brain on drugs >> exactly you had mike waves so latchkey kids could cook. and ranchers carryin over massive debt into the '80s. beef became more expensive chicken started appearing on the food menus and people started getting european flavors in there. >> what did you bring today? >> this is my version of another '80s classic, sloppy joes. >> you saw this on the lunch menu, sloppy joes. >> you like it >> yeah. if only. start cooking while we talk. is this a chili? >> no, it's essentially similar. not different than taco meat we have ground beef, oil browning in there. add the onion first. we'll sweat that a little pinch of salt and stir that when the onions start getting translucent, we will add in. 80/20 chuck. you can do turkey or ground chorizo. you can do a combination break it up there. when the meat starts to brown i guess roughly five minutes we will move on we have cumin. we have, obviously, you want to add a little bit of chili powder, add a little bit of pepp

reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies. in their own words, saturdays at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ ♪ >> law enforcement and homeland security officials discussed attacks on houses of worship and other people and institutions including synagogues, bomb threats against historically black colleges and universities and violence against asians during the covid-19 pandemic. [inaudible conversations]

this week we'll feature nancy rae reagan. >> let my state clearly not withstanding a few on the fringes, i don't believe the american people were allowed the drugs in our country. the consensus against drugs has never been stronger. we clearly understand that drugs mu

this week, we will feature nancy reagan. >> let me state clearly, i do not believe the american people will ever allow the legalization of drugs in our country. the consensus against drugs in the united states has never been stronger. we clearly understand that drugs must remain illegal at every step in the chain. >> exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at c-span.org/history. >> book tv every sunday on c-span2 features leading authors discussing their latest books. at 8:00 p.m., the founder and executive director of the danish think tank and the host of the podcast "clear and present danger" talks about his book "free speech." at 10 of 5 p.m. eastern, former u.s. ambassador ukraine, maria voss edition effects on her career. and congressional testimony during the impeachment hearings of president trump. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2 and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at booktv.org. >> weekends on c-span2 are an intellectual feast. ever

. >> we will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, betty ford, nancy reagan, rosalynn carter, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch "first ladies, in their own words," saturdays on american history tv on c-span two, or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> every sunday on c-span two, authors on their latest nonfiction books. a discussion on democratic party leaders and democratic ideas purposely misleading the country, interviewed by armstrong williams. 2:00 p.m., author talks from the 2022 savannah book festival in georgia, including the book beautiful country, volunteers in the forever war, a better man, a mostly serious letter to my son, and "spymaster of baghdad," watch book tv every sunday on c-span two and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online anytime at book tv.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: philip brasher is our guest this morning, the executive editor of "agri-pulse ." he is here to talk about food prices and the impact of the conflict on the

. >> we will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words on american history tv on c-span two or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app. >> washington journal continues. host: two reporters join us to talk about the week ahead. siobhan hughes covers congress for the wall street journal. joey garrison covers the white house for usa today. thanks for giving us your time this morning. guest: thanks for having us. host: what do you suspect the white house does as of today and into this week in response to the president's statements in warsaw concerning vladimir putin? guest: president biden unexpectedly to aides and white house officials in his speech in warsaw with the comments this man cannot remain in power, that was in ad lib.. but the white house quickly sought to back trap. -- backtrack. an official clarified he was referring to a good not continue to exercise power in the ukraine region. i think we will probably see m

we will feature lady bird johnson, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2, or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app. where were ever you get your podcasts. >> "washington journal" continues. host: welcome back. i am joined by jamie fly, the president and ceo of radio free europe -- radio free europe/radio liberty. welcome to the program. guest: thank you for having me. host: tell us a little bit about radio free europe/radio liberty, what is its mission and what is its history? guest: we were set up about 70 years ago to provide truthful information to audiences at the time in the soviet union and in the captive states of eastern europe, who were under communist control. we evolved into a multimedia news organization. as the name indicates we used to do a lot of radio, but today audiences across 23 countries in 27 languages receive our news information mostly online. we still do some radio and have a 24/7 russ

this week we will feature nancy reagan. >> let me say clearly, notwithstanding a few voices on the fringes, i do not believe the american people will ever allow the legalization of drugs in our country. the consensus against drugs in the united states is never been stronger. they clearly understand that drugs must remain illegal at every step in the chain. >> watch american history tv and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online, anytime at c-span.org/history. >> "washington journal" continues. host: welcome back. i am joined by mike soraghan, a reporter with e&e to talk about the biden administration energy policy. welcome to the program. guest: thank you for having me. host: biden announced in brussels yesterday that the u.s. would ramp up its liquefied natural gas exports to help europe wean itself off of russian energy. explain to us what liquefied natural gas is, and how it gets overseas. guest: natural gas is not something you can put in the back of a pickup truck or the hold of a ship, you have to chill it. she'll is an understatement -- chill is an understatement,

reagan, hillary clinton, maura busch, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two, or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app over every the podcasts. washington journal continues. host: if you want to text us your thoughts during this open forum, (202) 748-8003 is the number to do so. a meeting resulted in the committee deciding to hold two former trump aide's in criminal contempt. committee voted unanimously to recommend the charges against peter navarro. bass will soon vote on whether to refer them to the justice department for prosecution. that news came as a federal judge in california was ordered to turn over documents to the house committee investigating january 6 in a ruling that concludes that former president trump "more likely than not committed crimes to obstruct the counting of electoral votes." wrote memos outlining options in which mike pence could change the outcome of the 2020 presidential election. that decision yesterday by that california judge

reagan. hillary clinton. laura bush, michelle obama, and marshall. watch first ladies, in their own words, saturdays at 2 okay p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >>> at least six presidents recorded conversations while in office. hear many of those conversations on c-span's new podcast, presidential recordings. >> season one focuses on the presidency of lyndon johnson. you will hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the 1964 presidential campaign, the gulf of torchingan incident, the march on selma, and the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly, johnson's secretaries knew, because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact, they were the ones who made sure that the conversations were taped, as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and theirs. >> you will also hear some blunt talk. >>

reagan, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturday at two :00 p.m. eastern, on c-span two, or listen to the podcast on the free c-span now mobile app, or wherever you get your podcasts. >> now available for preorder in the c-span shop, c-span's 2022 congressional directory. go there today to order a copy of the congressional directory. this spiral-bound book is a copy of your guide to the federal government, with contact information for every member of congress, including biontech in mid he assignments. preorder your copy today at c-span.org, or scan a code with your smart phone. every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operation. >> washington journal continues. host: joining us this morning is gretta goodwin, from the government accountability office . the gao recently conducted a report looking at u.s. capitol security following the january 6 attack. ms. goodwin, what was the scope of your report? guest: good morning and thank you for having me. for this report, we wanted to

reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two, or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. c-span offers a variety of podcasts that have something for every listener. weekdays, washington today gives you the latest from the nation's capital and every week, book notes plus has in-depth interviews with writers about interviews. and our occasional serious features extensive conversations with historians about their lives and work. many of our television programs are also available as podcast. you can find them all on the c-span now mobile app, or wherever you get your podcasts. washington journal continues. host: our guest is the senior fellow and geopolitics team head. thanks for joining us on the program today. both scolded a little bit about your organization, what does it do as far as looking at energy issues, and who is financing it? guest: it is a program under the german marshall fund of the united

this week will feature nancy reagan. >> i don't believe the american people will ever allow the legalization of guns in our country. guns must remain illegal. >> watch american history tv -- watch online, any time at c-span.org/history. >> book tv. every sunday on c-span2 features authors discussing their latest nonfiction book. founder and executive director of the danish painting on the host of the podcast clear and present danger talks about his book free speech, the history of socrates from social media. and the former ambassador of the u.s. to ukraine reflects on her career. u.s.-russia lesions, and her testimony of the impeachment hearings of former president donald trump. watch book tv every sunday on c-span2. or watch online anytime at book tv.org. >> minority leader mitch mcconnell says he will not support the nomination of judge ketanji brown jackson. following senator mcconnell's remarks, we will hear judiciary chair senator durbin's response. sen. mcconnell: the committee has completed the hearing for judge ketanji brown jackson. we went into the process with an open

nancy pelosi around since the reagan area. schumer has been around george hw. around for generations. why is the answer they throw more money at it and don't track it out the door? it is red fire aim? >> i don't understand. it is frustrating. when we come bacllion was stole. call me a skeptic joe biden announce as solution to the problem they will create another bureaucracy within the department of justice. hire another person whose sole responsibility is to try to track down waste, fraud, abuse. that is what the house oversight committee should be doing. democrats don't want to provide any oversight. they're not concerned about waste, fraud and abuse. they're concerned about what happened with donald trump and what may or may not have happened in the trump administration. elizabeth: this is the second anniversary of the pandemic. four million jobs short. 11 million job openings. we poured six trillion dollars into the economy. just two months ago the president was warning of a winter of severe illness and death. now the cdc said 98% of americans can stopwaring

nancy pelosi has been around i think since right after the reagan administration. how long has this been going on with the pelosi family making money with stock trading on the side? how long do you think it has been going on? >> she is one of the richest members in congress. i believe her net value is over $115 million. it has been going on for quite some time. you're right, she finished advocating championing a bill, a spending bill that put tons money into electric vehicles. she is telling people to buy teslas. did it at same time demonizing the oil and gas industry. obviously that will directly have a net effect on what is happening with electric vehicles, specifically with tesla. then her husband buys those shares. we have to have a lot more transparency. we need to update our ethics laws to prevent this from happening in the future. how long has it been happening for nancy pelosi? i don't know but the fact she is one of the richest members of congress and she has been there for decades. elizabeth: now the speaker, critics are saying, has a vested interest in t

and now more than ever we need the policy of reagan and trump, and that's peace through strength. and again, i'm not talking about starting world war iii. under no circumstances should america ever put a single boot on the ground, should we had all ever enforce a no-fly zone. that's a nonstarter. we should have learned a lot in the last 20 years if not the last 60 years. we cannot and will not be the worlds police force, and i have said this for days. joe biden needs to get off his ass and get ukraine though migs, let poland give them the migs and anything else they need militarily. they seem very willing and able and capable of defending themselves with the right equipment. and instead of joe's veto of the pole and migs, he needs to get out of the way and let every country do what they believe is the right thing to do. this is europe, if their backyard. they should have a greater sense of urgency over the u.s. let's be clear, this won't escalate into russia's invasion into a global conflict. let me just -- let me give you a little history here. during the korean war, the vietnam