to washington. ross is persuaded largely by the fact that he has met very little resistance as he moves from benedict to upper marlboro. they have had look on sector all with american forces at all. no defenses were set up along the way, no ambushes. there were many positions where the americans could have slowed down the british advance. he was astonished that nothing of the sort had been done. this encourages him. he is almost suspicious of being lured into an ambush because of the lack of american resistance. general winder is moving his forces back and forth. he moves them from washington into maryland and at a point where he can position himself between the attacking force in the capital. but then he loses his nerve, marches back to washington. his force gradually is getting larger. it had only been about 2100 when the british land that benedict. between for five days, enough forces had been together that they now outnumber the british force. through a series of faints -- feints, ross continues

washington. she worked for the committee where she handled historic preservation legislation. and do you remembering the clinton administration, she also directed the american heritage river's initiative. today, ms. newman will discuss the post-war impact on the forts, the surrounding neighborhoods and evolution into parks chl and kim elder. ms. ed ser the national parks services program manager for civil war defenses of washington. she is responsible for the management and oversight program development for 16 of the remaining forts and batteries owned and operated by the national park service. today, ms. elder will provide us with a preview of this weekend's activities. let me begin now with dr. cooling. >> good afternoon, folks. you don't want to hear about that today. i'll mention the national archives in just a second. in a dincht context. to say that for four days now, i have listened to the national park service now, having been privy to the developer with a couple of blooks, i fear that i

of washington. this is one of the best preserved of the various forts that were in the defenses of washington. these parts of it are fairly well taken care of, but once we get to the northwest bastion, you will see what the fort would have looked like at the time of the civil war. but these are all parts of the fort that we're actually in. it was a large one, so you have a large area. there is also signage that we will see as we walk through explaining what each resource we run into was. such as a sign here which is pointing out that there was a bombproof right here which collapsed in. but a bombproof basically was for men to go in when the fort was being shelled and it would protect them. depending, it would at least be made out of earth. sometimes they had a basement from something they used or bricks or whatever they used in it, but it had dirt over top with grass growing on it, and if you got inside the bombproof, you were pretty well safe. that's what's underneath here. we are coming to the nor

because washington was in captivity. and so that's why the residents of brookville described their village as the capital of america for one day. but they never caught him, they never caught his wife, dolly, who was also roaming around, unknown to a lot of americans. they did come back. the british arrived at sunset on wednesday. they retreated on thursday night. madison came back on saturday morning after he had been told that the british had left. and it took him five hours to ride from brookville to washington, about 25 miles, and then he didn't leave any written commentary of what he felt like. that distressed me, i wanted to know what this person thought. there are descriptions of melancholy. that is a description that appears time and again. and shame and embarrassment and graffiti, and it went on and on. but not from madison. he kept his peace. dolly came back on sunday, the day after, and she was disguised in the clothing of another person. she had lost eight of her bodyguards, who decided to get drunk rather tha

if you can picture washington, d.c. as shaped like a diamond, we are right at the very top of the diamond, in the northwest portion of washington, d.c. early about noontime was out of the gates of fort stevens right out here. he had the capitol dome in his sight at noontime, and what did he see? he saw this very impressive series of forts. he saw this fort and it was connected to several other forts around here. it looks impregnable and he saw troops here. early did not know these were 100 days men and the call went out for civilians to come out and help man the barricades, so you had clerks from the state department, men from the quarter master corps, people who have never fired a weapon in their life. the word motley comes up more than once, but early did not know this. his men were strung out way along back on the georgetown pike. sorry, not the georgetown pike, the 7th street pike, they cut off the georgetown pike in what is now wheaton, maryland, and cut out to the 7th street pike, georgia avenue, so early, unchara

washington agreed to fortify and reinforce fort washington, the last bastion on the island. howe overran the fort resulting in american soldiers being captured. many died in prison. fort lee fell to a british force. these were some of the worst disasters of the war suffered by americans. at this point, lee confidence in washington as commander-in-chief. he recommended no reinforcements be sent to fort washington. washington was not yet the mythical figure he is today. lee appears to have made the decision he deserved to replace washington as commander-in-chief of the british army. after the fall of fort lee, general cornwallis began to chase the remnants of washington's army out of new jersey. outnumbered, washington differently needed help. -- desperately needed help. he left lee commanding 7000 troops in white plains, new york, to protect new england. he asked but did not order lee to join him. during what was probably the most dangerous time for washington's army, lee delayed. while he was too smart to leave a paper trail, it appears he wanted to maintain an independent c

but none of the crew set foot in washington. so either he exchanged booty with another briton or archibald kanes, the canadian, is mistaken, as is the white house. we then went to see the portrait of george washington. about 20 away the rope -- that keeps people about 20 feet away. for the first time, i saw the artist's amazing mistake. in the painting, george washington is facing you. there is a table next to his right leg. under the table are books. the title painted on one of the books reads "laws and constitution of the united states -- sates." can you believe it? gilbert stuart made a spelling mistake. [laughter] extraordinary. when the british arrived on capitol hill, they were confronted by the buildings of the senate and house linked by a 100-foot covered wooden walkway. as they entered, they expected to find signs of duplicity. instead they found evidence of maniacal splendor. -- monarchal splendor. i go into detail of what the building was like because it was not a normal building. it was like the great cathedrals in m

he should have burned washington. he got in trouble for not burning washington. one final thing. i am sure there are loads of wasle -- admiral cockburn exceptionally greedy. not only did he open to get a ransom, washington would've been humiliated by being surrendered. there was ransom in lieu of burning the public building. in other words, we should've gotten the money. [inaudible] >> thank you. question? write up here. >> i have a question for peter snow. you had -- you do a lot of tactical analysis of battlefields. we talk about american militia and that failure of the militia, but it is more a failure of the american command. i am particularly looking at the final stages, where winder orders the withdrawal of the third line, without a rallying point. then we have barney continuing to hold artillery against infantry, which is usually a massacre. if we had not had the left flank of breaking, would this not necessarily have been such a defeat that it was? >> i would say two things about that. winder, to be fair to it was monroe, the future president of the u.s., who changed, mov

towards washington. meanwhile, you have the other squadron underneath captain james gordon, sailing up the potomac. and still other ships moving up the chesapeake bay to threaten baltimore. they had this three pronged operation. the main attack is accompanied by 4000 troops. admirable -- admiral cockburn and the marines. by water, andntly succeeded by traveling -- in trapping barney. he scuttled the flotilla, and escapes with his neck. this isresult of all of int american commanders washington were utterly paralyzed as to what they should be doing. they had one squadron coming up the potomac, a force they ,eren't quite sure how large with forces that have been landed. there was a lot of hope they were just after barney, and that after destroying arteries flotilla, they would reboard their ships and move back into the bay. one of the results of all of this in decision was that the general commanders, william winder, doesn't do a very effective job of doing setting up terms of defenses around washington, i

washington, d.c. is based on democratic principles and how it has come to its greatest fulfillments when it has sought to fulfill and realize those democratic principles. we had a new country and the founding fathers wanted a new capital for the country. they couldn't agree where it would be. and the disagreement over this decision became so extreme that there was some concern that it would break the young country apart. they wanted the capitol to be somewhere near the center of the united states, but then they couldn't agree on what was the center of the united states, for the southerners, they wanted it near the geographic center. for the northerners, they wanted it nearer, that would have placed the capitol closer to philadelphia and new york. >> just when things were getting really heated. thomas jefferson invited alexander hamilton and james madison to dinner. alexander hamilton was then secretary of the treasury, and he was a new yorker, and the northern states wanted the federal assumption of t

we need people to get to the barricades of washington. so that was the situation in washington. now back down in richmond, grant, when he learned what was happening here, did not want to send troops outside of richmond and petersburg, this was his grand plan to win the war. you can read the telegrams that went back and forth between washington and outside of richmond. you can read the memoirs of people on his staff. you can read the letters that they wrote. grant would not send troops, and finally he gave in at the last minute and he sent two regiments of the 6th corps, woke them up in the middle of the night, marched out to city port, got on these steamers, went down the james river, out into the chesapeake bay, up into baltimore harbor, they got off the ships, they marched to the railroad station, camden station, now camden yards where the baseball stadium is, and they arrived here at the monacacy junction at 1:00 in the morning on july 9th, 1864. union intelligence was not very good, but one man figured out through the intelligence and more or less what was happening, and tha

by 1864 washington, of course, is much more than that. it is the fortress of washington. a fortified mr. lincoln city. 60 odd, or more, forts, 93 unarmed batteries, miles of military roads, entrenchments, infrastructure for logistics, hospitals as well as the political capital of the nation, the united states. had it not been for 1814 and the battle of bladensberg, there would not have been the attention paid by 1864 in part to protecting the city. indeed, through the intervening years there had been constructed in the area of the most possible threat to the capital, that is to say the river approach, fort washington. by 1861 it was completely neglected and of no use whatsoever in a brothers war of -- a civil war, especially where, in fact, maryland, a southern slave holding state was five miles away from us right here surrounding the capital of the union or the old united states. by 1864, as i said, there's a ring of fortifications around the city which happily today are park lapped. they're preserved. we have something we can point to from the civil war and suggest that

in that memoir he quotes washington from that evening, and washington says, i cannot come to all of you, but if you could come to me and shake my hand. and this is a stoic man, this is the father of our country, and there claims to be tears on that evening. so that happened here in this long room at fraunces tavern, which you can visit today. and it's set up as it would have been back in the colonial times. if you were to rent a room at fraunces tavern for a private event, we have some tallies of what was served at those private events. so if you had a party of 10, there would be about 10 bottles of rum, certain number of bottles of beer, and you would pay for your candlesticks, and obviously the playing cards. so also what they would serve here would have been oysters, they claimed in the hudson river at the time the oysters were a foot long. so these are roast beef sized oysters. you would use pewter ware, some china. if you came to fraunces tavern, not everybody -- there was no public education, so not everybody could read or could count with numbers. so they would use playing cards

the other context, and i go back to, is washington, d.c. washington, d.c. is our nation's capital. is our nation's government. all the foreign embassies are here. national government. all the cabinet agencies here. 435 member of the house of representatives here. the senate is here. there's an international press here. there's a national press here. which means there are more eyes on me than any other person in america. in america. and i've survived that. and i've overcome that. i'm not going to let it get me down. i want to thank the people of washington, d.c. who are bright and beautiful. for having the sense and understanding to cut through all the bs. understand that. and also this major press here. we have a few berry haters. probably about half a dozen. some are here tonight. and what the berry haters do, they can't find anything good. there's always good in something, isn't it? one columnist had not read the book. they wrote on the book. that is not right to do. i think in some instances it helps me sell books though. just keep on doing it. back to you, miss harmoan. >> i wa

washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by marines and was manned in one sort or another during the war but was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington, the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would have had an effect also. if you look at the map here, or actually plan, it will give you an idea of the way the fort was located on the river. you have the fort, itself, and some of the buildings associated with it behind. its main focus was the river, itself, even though it anchored the other civil war defenses of washington. this is the way it would have looked to have someone that would have come here during the civil war. this is a national park. at times it has been quite overgrown. right now, you can see if you look around, it still needs some manicuring, but it is better than i've seen it in the past. but you saw at ft. ward how well taken care of it is. it's a city park, actually, and the city does a very good job

the washington journals she wrote were a citizen's guide to watergate and washington as the nixon presidency was unraveling. i have to tell you, though i read them at the time and reread them some years later, i have been rereading them now, and they really fit the goal that she had which was to explain to people what was going on in a way that would be understandable and comprehensible and illustrative

still washington forts are yet another of washington's many monuments that have transitioned you purpose. they want recognition from all of us, appreciation. for commemoration for with a they did there an probably both sides lost thousands of people on both sides. so just what they have become and what the soldiers did there 150 years ago certainly warrant our gratitude, our recognition and some consideration in the pantheon of heroes in the confederacy including officers and personnel. the veterans like louis white did after the war, worked in the pension bureau. the most immediate great entitlement program, built a house and preserved what he is going to el ytell yo tell you a now. [ applause ] >> thank you frank. everything i'm going to show you -- i'm the picture girl. i've learned from you and a few others like him but mainly from frank. especially for the civil war defenses of washington, there's a bible. wally owens his coauthor wrote mr. lincoln's forts. if you really care about these issues, that's the book to read. i encourage you to get that book. so what i'm going to do is go

andcover the white house washington for many years. it's a president every really away from his job? >> never really. george washington broke off from his desk in philadelphia. to mt. vernon. chesident kennedy's spee writer and special counsel at many presidents have said, that a president's office is wherever the president maybe. unlike congress or the supreme court, the presidency never assurance. politics playoes in presidential vacations, presidential getaways? >> i am not sure what. ishink the need to get away probably predominant. as we have see recent presidencies. if you have your own home, you tend to go to it. otherwise, like president obama, you go to a place of interest you. and because of security concerns, you have to get a rented property. >> do you think it is just the press or the public, does the public understand that the president needs to get away from the pressures of the job or is focusingess that keeps on what the president is doing on vacation and what is happening in washington and elsewhere? >> i think both.

adam laroche, two run home run tonight. 3-0 washington. nats break open the close game in the sixth inning. danny espinosa, say goodbye to that baseball, 6-0 nationals. the two teams will finish up that 12:30 tomorrow afternoon. the orioles tonight could not figure out the blue jays pitching. swing, that is all the blue jays would need. that was a rocket to the moon, to run home run. the orioles could only muster one hit tonight, the birds lose 5-1. the redskins tomorrow night take on new england. the new england patriots at fedex field. used to it, i have to say it all day tomorrow. jackson turned his ankle in practice and is questionable for the game. will not play because of a sore hamstring. jay gruden, what can we expect tomorrow against the pats? >> we're just trying to put them in a situation where they can line up and succeed. the biggest thing is when the lights come on, how you perform when the pressure is on. people are watching. it will be a great atmosphere, i'm sure. >> in baltimore, the ravens are putting their final prepara

a lot of development in washington. the good news is that the high point of population in washington was after the term of franklin delano roosevelt, who grew the federal government massively, and washington grew along with it. then the population of thisngton declined until last census. it's the first time the population again grew. threats that has come to buildings. explained it is 12 chapters. there is a brief narrative in each chapter, and then you go to the site that illustrates the narrative. we are also fortunate because there were so many buildings that were almost torn down that were at risk, whether it was the eisenhower executive office building, the patent office was , andt torn down fortunately, many of them were saved, but not all of them. -- i think it was yesterday, we have an example of the old post office, which was a very ungainly building. most of washington government architecture is this kind of -- i'm going to blank on it -- classic style. here you have the old post office pavilion, which is roma

washington. police say 38-year-old frederick miller came to the home and shot his 3-year-old daughter's maternal grandfather and great grandmother. he then took off with his daughter. it didn't take police long to catch up with miller. there was a chase and an exchange of gunfire. now miller was killed, and when police took a good look inside the car, that's when they discovered his young daughter. police say the child had been stabbed and shot by her father. she was pronounced dead at an area hospital. miller was involved in an ongoing custody battle over his 3-year-old daughter. now we're going to be here for the state's attorney's comments. we're going to bring you an update coming up in the next half-hour. in ft. washington, megan mcgrath, news4. >>> and we're following a developing story in missouri right now. governor jay nixon deployed the national guard to ferguson after an overnight of clashes between police and protesters. before that, breaking news in landover. >>> police are on the sc

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corporate funding for washington week is provided by -- gwen: additional corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by big ham brigham and women's hospital, the annenberg foundation the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations fr viewers like you. thank you. once again live from washington moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. if you ever doubted that the united states is sen central to almost everything happeningever where, especially the tough stuff this week should have put an end to the questions. intervention is now the watch word. in iraq where the american military is carrying out air strikes and in afghanistan where the secretary of state had to step in and in israel and georgia standingsgazawhich seemed like it was winding down until the rockets starting flying again. start with the presidents it explanation of why the u.s. is stepping back into iraq now. >> i have said before the united states cannot and should not intervene every time there is a crisis in the world. let me be clear about why we must act and act now. when weigh face a

the washington journals she wrote were really a citizens guide to watergate and washington as the nixon presidency was unraveling. and i have to tell you, though i read them at the time and i reread them some years later, i've been rereading them now and they really fit the goal that she had, which was to explain to people what was going on in a way that would be understandable and comprehensible and illustrative to them of what have that time was about 40 years from now. and she captured the anxiety and really the insanity of that era. and the thing that's really remarkable about elizabeth is she just never stops reporting. her 14 books about washington rival's bob. when i first started writing v

in 1790, washington, president washington, reached an negotiated settlement, a treaty with the creek indians. and he could do this because he had been newly entrusted with powers by the recently ratified constitution. and with these powers, he negotiated this peace treaty with the delegation of chiefs that represented some of the creek indians. this treaty would be contested later on, but it was viewed as legitimate by the president and his administration. now, the creek indians were the most powerful indian tribes of the southeast with a group of over 10,000 warriors. for decades the creek indians had managed to successfully play the various european powers off against one another and to resist defeat. and the creek held the balance of power in the region up until the revolutionary war. president washington understood that the united states having just fought a war of independence was in no shape to take them on. president washington and members of his administration then, the treaty with the creek, this treaty of 1790 represented a major achievement. it freed the united states up f

washington also was a gentleman. and and i'm not suggesting that townsend wasn't or anything like that, but you're right, that concept of it's beneath me to spy. i think, frankly, today it's still true. >> now, this is directed toward the french. in the world wars, you think if we would and have cried out for french to help us, do you think the wars would have gone quicker and more swiftly? >> the french government was in a position where they were not adequately prepared to actually declare war on the british until after the battle of saratoga where the american forces proved that they were strong enough to defeat an army in the field. and it was really touch and go. i mean, we came so close in december of 1776 to totally dissipating as an army that it is remarkable. the fascinating aspect of saratoga is that historians estimate that 80 plus percent of the gun powder used by the american troops during the two battles that comprised the saratoga campaign came from hot less and company. -- hotellez and company. that a

the attack on washington is all here. if you have an opportunity to come out and visit with us, please do so. as we've noted, just this week tomorrow, today and tomorrow, we've got a lot of great things going on. we just learned that cspan will be out tomorrow evening on fort stephens to cover of the historian's round table. we're looking at fort stephen's day which we've been hosting for the past three years. fort stephens on steroids with mr. lincoln, mrs. lincoln. we will be firing a canon from fort stephens. the first time in 150 years a canon will be fired in a d.c. fort. you've got to come out and share with that. as i mentioned on sunday, we'll have the memorial program at the battleground national cemetery where we will pay respect to the 38 soldiers who are buried there and the others who have given their sacrifice for this country. we didn't have a lot of time but i do encourage you all to tell your friends about it. visit us on our website at www dot nps.gov. again, thank you all so very much. [ applause ] i th

blowen jarba in washington d.c. and here's what's coming up tonight on the big picture according to a report put out by the republican controlled house permanent select committee on intelligence there is zero evidence that the obama administration is guilty of any wrongdoing in the benghazi attacks so why do summers have republicans want to continue the big bengazi which wastes taxpayers money in the process that and more in tonight's lone liberal rumble also new estimates in nato suggest that as many as twenty thousand russian soldiers have amassed at the ukraine border as the crisis in ukraine continues to unfold the real causes of all the unrest in the region and just when you thought you only had to worry about the n.s.a. snooping on your internet activities google has decided to place share what are they doing to anything be done to stop the war on that and i'd still take.

live for fort washington, darcy spencer, news 4. >> thanks. the police will also give an update tomorrow. they have had a huge increase in domestic violence cases. two years ago, a man allegedly shot and killed his estranged wife and another woman inside a home, then turned the gun on himself. one week ago tonight, another 3-year-old girl was shot and killed in landover. she was the unintended target during a fight between two men. her killer is still out there. that same day, police say a man shot and killed his girlfriend in their home. he turned himself in the next day. >>> back to our breaking story in missouri. live now to ferguson. we have been looking at these pictures for the past 40 minutes. police in armored vehicles and riot gear throwing tear gas into the crowd and forcing demonstrators to run. they handcuffed at least one person. some protesters are refusing to leave. the new curfew in ferguson was not supposed to go into at hour. police felt it was necessary to clear the area before that. it's been more than a week since michael

washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by marines and was manned in one sort or another during the war but was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington, the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would have had an effect also. if you look at the map here, or actually plan, it will give you an idea of the way the fort was located on the river. you have the fort, itself, and some of the buildings associated with it behind. its main focus was the river, itself, even though it anchored the other civil war defenses of washington. this is the way it would have looked to have someone that would have come here during the civil war. this is a national park. at times it has been quite overgrown. right now, you can see if you look around, it still needs some manicuring, but it is better than i've seen it in the past. but you saw at ft. ward how well taken care of it is. it's a city park, actually, and the city does a very good job

post" and nia-malika henderson of "the washington post." the tea party had one big win at the ba ballot box but it proved it is still the tail that wags the daing you in washington. house speaker john boehner and his new leadership team faced the first big test on the border crisis and once again they had to retreat in the face of a tea party revolt. is it, robert costa, they can't count votes or is this proof these guys just can't govern? >> i think it's partly a little bit of both. i think house speaker boehner is constantly struggling to get the conservative right within his conference on his side, and he has to capitulate to them constantly. he met with michele bachmann and steve king late thursday night to try to get them to come along. if you have to grovel to king and bachmann at the 11th hour that says something about your power. >> it says something also, mike, this was a recalibration and when eric cantor got beat, he gets beat and leaves the leadership, they bring in steve scalise, he's from the tea party, knows these guys this i

why are you in washington? guest: i came here with my wife and three kids, and we're still on washington. we're going to see the sights of washington. yesterday we were in old alexandria. we went out to mount vernon. that was the first time i took my kids there and spent time there. we've been doing the monuments and memorials, the national portrait gallery. we're excited to go to the zoo and dealing with the pandas and nixon, one tape to try to deal with mating habits of pandas, which is a tim cal moment in the tapes, but then we went about to the zoo, see the pandas, and just trying to en jew our summer for a while or so. host: gary from florida. guest: pleasure to talk to you, mr. brinkley. i admire your work, been a great admirer for many years. i wanted to reflect on the fact that the rape congress has now sued president obama. it's come up on the anniversary of the time when the united states congress has sued richard nixon. would you do a comparison, and what's the net involved with this? i'll take my co

i believe washington is seeking integrity of iraq. they do not want disintegration because they know if there is disintegration pin and syria were iraq and then the region would be vulnerable to further disintegration. it is very clear. >> okay. um hmm three in a row. >> first, i have noticed you have not offered a word of gratitude to president bush for having taken care of iraq and saddam hussein for iran. maybe he deserves a bit more memory. i do wonder whether he may exaggerate a bit the intentions of the u.s. to plan of the region which i have not seen signals of a wholesale yet. let's focus on the region itself. must be a blow to the iranian sense of importance that for all of the convulsions of the arabs during and the rise of would be islamists democratic movements nobody looks to the islamic republic of iran as a constitutional model for anybody in the arab world, even islamist democracy which then raises the kutcher -- question what are iranian purchases in the broader region? what kind of influence does it really exert on a

rules benefits washington. even if it doesn't benefit the american people. adherence to the washington rules delivers profits to the military industrial complex and adherence to the washington rule is useful for the institutions comprising the national security state. helping them to justify their prerogatives, to justify their pledges. adherence to the washington rules allows ambitious senior military officers or ambitious civilian officials to imagine that somehow they are occupying the cockpit of history and doing god's work. i think adherence to the washington rules is something that even mainstream journalism has embraced. nobody gets more excited about the prospect of american soldiers being sent into harm's way than do reporters for the mainstream press. for all of those reasons, washington, which is deeply invested in the existing national security consensus, will be reluctant to permit any departure from that consensus. but, there's a second reason, i think. one that gets a little bit more closer to ho

love does not make washington go round. it does not bring home the bacon, the tax subsidies shs the loopholes, the special privileges. to get those things, people need money and use money. so many of the people listening to us right now are going to be scratching their heads and say how can arthur brooks be comfortable in an environment where money is the prime it f not sole of the power of the rich and privileged corporations in washington today. does that create any tension in him? >> money always creates tension. the fact of the matter is, it shouldn't create tension. we should have an uneasy relationship with material prosperity. we can also use it at the government level to alleviate poverty. this is one of the recommends i declare peace for the poor. but not for others. >> what does that mean? >> basically we have a concept of a safety net that's either in comic book form or against it because it creates dependency or it's a good thing we should expand to include everybody. upper middle class people, corporations, peo

and newsweek who now edits the online news site consortium news dot com also in washington we have jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for intra press service and director of a blog on us middle east policy called low blog dot com and in champaign we cross to francis boyle he is a professor of international law at the university of illinois college of law are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it robert to go to you first in washington you wrote an article recently obama's true foreign policy weakness what is that weakness. well president obama has been willing to fall into the control under the control pretty much of the neo conservatives and some of their liberal interventionists friends he has instead of asserting more of a real break from the george w. bush policies he has he has adopted them he has avoided perhaps some of the more extreme problems but in many ways he has not challenge them in any fundamental way so why is that why well it's a good question and he he i think he basically is trying to avo

actress kerry washington. have a good "jimmy kimmel live". actress kerry washington. have a good night >>> from hollywood, it's "jimmy kimmel live." [ cheers and applause ] tonight, kerry washington. "this week in unnecessary censorship," and music with tom petty and the heartbreaker. with cleto and the cletones. and now, what can i say? here's jimmy kimmel. [ cheers and applause ] [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: hey, thank you. hi, guys. i'm jimmy kimmel. i'm jimmy. i'm the host of the show. thank you for watching. thank you for -- [ cheers and applause ] -- for being here tonight. you're very nice. and you're here on a good night. we have quite a lineup of guests for you tonight. kerry washington is here with us tonight. [ cheers and applause ] back to work. shooting new episodes of "scandal," which is excellent. kerry plays a washington, d.c. fixer, who manages to survive on wine, popcorn and sex with the president of the united states. i'm not going to interview here tonight. i'm going to keep yelling, tell me what you know. [ laughter ] and when our interlude w

so that sounds a lot like washington as usual to me and i know that we can do better in washington and i know that we must. i know that we must work together. you know, david's allies have been running a lot of tv ads. you've probably seen me standing with president obama. what's interesting about that picture is it was taken at president george h.w. bush's library and if you widen the lens, president george h.w. bush was there. so i have the experience of working together across the aisle, of getting things done, even when there are differences of opinion and i think that's what wee need, people who are going to problem solve and not prosecute and i pledge to be a fierce advocate for georgia's citizens' rights. thank you. >> thank you. \[applause] >> since this is an opening statement, i'm not going to have rebuttal. there will be a closing statements and programs you could work in some responses during the course of the q&a. if a candidate is mentioned by the other candidate, there is a chance to respond but the opening statement is a little sacrosanct, but let's move into questions.

washington which is basically located about across from mt. vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war, it was manned actually by marines and was manned in one sort or another during the war but was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington, the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would have had an effect also. if you look at the map here, or actually plan, it will give you an idea of the way the fort was located on the river. you have the fort, itself, and some of the buildings associated with it behind. its main focus was the river, itself, even though it anchored the other civil war defenses of washington. this is the way it would have looked to have someone that would have come here during the civil war. this is a national park. at times it has been quite overgrown. right now, you can see if you look around, it still needs some manicuring, but it is better than i've seen it in the past. but you saw at ft. ward how well taken care of it is. it's a city park, actually, and the city does a very good job

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traffic will be bard here in washington -- bad here in washington. >> when you're the capital of the free world says randy sanders, spokesman for ddot, it comes with the territory. plan ahead. >> if you expect to move downtown, you should plan for more time. i would use metro instead of driving. >> the areas most heavily impacted will be downtown especially around the white house and world bank. foggy bottom, and southwest washington with participants coming and going from the mandarin oriental hotel. yes, even on baseball game days. these district residents normally take the bus from foggy bottom to fort totten. while metro trains won't be impacted many metro buses will be shut down or delayed. >> the option to telecommute, but she's an unlucky employee who is considered essential. >> i'm going to do the best i can and hopefully get to my parking garage and call it a day. >> so that commuter normally has an hour and a half drive each way every day from stafford. next week shipwrights it will take several -- she predicts it will take servile hours to get into work -- several hours to