i want to thank the children's book authors who are here. we hope you listen to those who read books to you. we want to encourage you to read a lot. at matter of fact, we think it is more important that you read then you watch tv. [applause] i want to thank the entertainers who are here. and i of course want to thank the easter bunny. of theant to thank all embassies that are highlighting their spring traditions. i want to thank the volunteers who have worked so hard to make this a successful easter egg role. things thate of the children say to me all the time, they say they want to come and see my home and i say, this isn't our home. this is your home. and you are welcome to the yard of your home. we are so glad you are here. [applause] did you know that since 1878, presidents have posted this event. and it is our honor to continue this tradition. the first president to did so was a guy called rutherford b. hayes. he decided to have the easter l here at the white house because the congress didn't want to host it anymore on the congressional

at yale, who taught the history of architecture. i was, as were thousands of students over the years he taught, swept off my feet by his lectures. unbelievable. he made it possible for you to see in a way you had never seen before just by showing you what he saw, what he could translate from the visual image for you into the english language. he was a genius. is a genius. he is still living. brian: were you a straight a student? david: no, i forced around a around at -- i horsed little bit. i wasn't very good in physics. i wasn't very good and the subject's taught by teachers i thought were boring. bad, but i did find. e. -- i did fine. i graduated with honors. i loved to paint. i still think. my enthusiasm was divided between writing and painting. still is. for me, painting is a release from my work because in painting, you don't have to use any words. brian: your book on the northwest ordinance, what is the timetable on that one? david: i hope to have it finished by the end of next year to be published in the spring of 2018 -- of

can you ever forgive the people who did that? no. nope, i can't, forgive the people who did that? no. nope, ican‘t, i forgive the people who did that? no. nope, i can't, i don't think i am man enough to. i know the pain and suffering that was inflicted for no reason, no reason whatsoever, there was no threat. there was no enemy. they might have all grown up to be enemy, but that's not what a soldier doesin enemy, but that's not what a soldier does in any country. it's just not. imean, you does in any country. it's just not. i mean, you think of those who walked away from it, got on with their lives, had children, set up businesses. they've got to live with themselves. i imagine some of them don't have an easy time. i'm ok with what i did. ijust, you know, i know they're unnecessary what i did. ijust, you know, i know they‘ re unnecessary pain what i did. ijust, you know, i know they're unnecessary pain and suffering, i know how fragile human life is. we probably all have that experience of leaving an interviewee and feeling incredibly emotional, possibly crying. the only time

of the 179,000 black men who served, 38,000 were born free in the north. probably all of you have seen the film "gloria" because everything wrong you could possibly get wrong in a movie, and of course it gives the impression all of these soldiers in the 54th are run away slaves from the south. the largest contingent, tate contingent in the 54th is from here in pennsylvania. new york is number two, ohio is number three. these men are serving, fighting and dying and living in states that do not allow them to vote. so when it comes down to whether it is a successor a failier, if you are a black soldier who comes back to ohio and the 16th amendment is ratified, you never lose that right to rote. it is one of the things that reconstruction gets right, is in franchising black men across the north. >> thank you very much. [ applause ] >> and professor edna green medford from freed blacks point of view, what was their reaction to what was going on after appomattox? was there anything positive about what was dreamed about or anticipated in the efforts for reconstru

who had stopped the suicide bomber from entering, the officers who had stopped the suicide bomberfrom entering, the head of egypt's coptic church had already left. in rome at palm sunday prayers pope francis condemned the bombings, he is going to visit egypt later this month. a recent upsurge in attacks on egypt's coptic christians is causing concern, they are one of the oldest christian communities in the oldest christian communities in the world and they make up one in ten of the country's mainly muslim arbitration and in fabry hundreds fled the so—called islamic state group which also claimed the latest bombings —— in february. in december nearly 30 were killed in this church explosion in cairo, and coptic leaders say christians feel increasingly threatened. i'm very blessed to be part of a church that has faced discrimination systematically now for decades, and the response to that has always been quite gracious, no retaliation and no violence and i pray this continues, because if we return with violence more people will get hurt. egypt said this is another attempt to destro

there were a few republicans who sided with the democrats who were the majority of that point. treated as traders -- s by all theraitor other republicans because the republicans clearly will acknowledgment, they saw their job as to defend president reagan and and his policies. someone like me who was young at that stage watching these hearings, i had to be schooled in the notion that congressional investigation is about something other than trying to find out what actually happened. i happen to believe the democrats by and large were trying to figure out what happened. it is in their interest to discover things that don't make the opposition look good. on the other hand i think you will be maybe not in this day and age but back then it was stunning to see how much of their precious airtime was used witnesses forning those against reagan and supporting his policies and so on. no interest in finding out if any laws were broken. the story of their attitudes towards north put them in the doghouse. it was shocking, even at the time, to go back and look at it again. maybe even more s

up an the judge gorsuch, a man who violat every day for individuals who are violating the law, judge and gorsuch has a power to say no and he would not make that choice.rm an colleagues voting to confirm a individual on the lifetime aga supreme court with judges gorsuch has stood for and against over the course of his career, we all go into this debate and we will have to reflect on. i a history in support for secretn illegal and unconstitutional programs is an unacceptable record for someone seeking a seat on the supreme court. i am reminded in the senate again and again in this talk held the supreme court has rubberstamped the executive excesses of our executive and legislature over the years rather than to defend individual liberties. that's the record. supreme court rubberstamping the excesses of the executive andlie legislature rather than protecting individual liberties of the american people. lying to you is it is our job as senators to ensure the supreme court does not repeat the errors of yesterday enshriningof the disenfranchisement and discrimination and denying equal prot

america needs judges who can follow the law, who apply the law, who will have the highest ethical standards, who value the independence of our courts. to me that's a description of judge gorsuch. that's him in a nutshell. we saw throughout his career and we saw it again at his confirmation hearings in the judiciary committee. democrats on the committee asked him to answer hypothetical questions, hypothetical questions. they asked him about issues that are probably going to be coming before the supreme court of the land. now, there are ethics rules that say that judges and nominees cannot answer those kinds of questions. and of course judge gorsuch followed the rules. that's exactly what other nominees have done in the past, nominees who were nominated by republican presidents, nominees who were nominated by democrat presidents. it's what ruth bader ginsburg did at her confirmation hearing in 1993. she said, quote, a judge sworn to decide impartially can offer no forecasts, no hints. she said this would display disdain for the entire judicial process. and, of course, she was confirmed, sits

is it the polluters who are cheering his cuts to the epa? the polluters who sacrifice the next generation and the name of next quarter's profit. polluters who put money into republicans and they give us a asthma, lead poisoning. know -- what trump is hiding him who he is working for? today, there are 200 -- a cross of the towns and big cities -- across town for big cities because we are fed up. we are set up with the billionaires bragging they pay next to nothing in taxes. we are fed up with fortune 500 companies paying their lobby is more than they pay in taxes every year. we are fed up with our families and neighbors and getting stuck with the bills and told there is not enough money to fix it be once andflint and the was virginia and arizona and all around the country. [applause] donald trump's friends and family, his goldman sachs cabinet and the members of his country club in palm beach, the bankers who bail out his bad deals and the russian oligarchies he is swapping favors with -- they are all part of a cobol that is achieving america

who is going to be made to pay? the people who made the diesel car, the people who drive them? or the taxpayer? either way, the best time to present such a massive bill is not right before a general election. one group that represents drivers fears that diesel owners will get punished for the simple reason they are the easiest to tax. 0nly10% of the problem comes from diesel cars. 90% comes from buses and trains and roadside construction equipment. even, you are looking at boilers from commercial outlets in london. 90% of nitrogen dioxide comes from those source, only 10% comes from car, that what we are concern about. those owners are all expected to pay a tax hike, and that is wrong. the government we are told hasn't decided what to do next. but, as things stand, ministers will have to publish their draft plan, injust 12 days' time. ed davey is a liberal democrat mp who served in the coalition government as secretary of state for energy and climate change from 2012 to 2015. matthew pencharz was london's deputy mayor for environment & energy under borisjohnson — and now work

on one of the judges who put a hold on the travel ban. jeff sessions expressed shock a judge in hawaii could block the executive order. judge watson was one of several to block the second version of the ban. listen to the top prosecutor told conservative radio host mark levine. >> i really am amazed that a judge sitting on the island in the pacific can issue an order that is blocking the president of the united states what appears to be his statutory and constitutional power. >> the justice department says sessions only meant there is a problem when a flawed opinion by a single judge can block the president. adding for the record, hawaii is in fact an island in the pacific. hawaii's democratic senator not amused. mr. attorney general, you voted for that judge and the island is oahu. that island is my home. have some respect. >>> protests in venezuela spiraling out of control as opposition groups to nicolas maduro planning to follow demonstrations with more sit-ins. they blame maduro for the staggering crisis and now blames the government

john: and the tree grows in brooklyn story, the parents who broke the rules are never caught, the daughter graduates from a good school. but kelley was caught because the government school monopoly, we're starving for money, but they spend more money to hire private detectives who follow kids and parents around. >> the district hired a private investigator who shot this video of the kids waiting for a bus near grandfather's house along with their mother kelley williams-bolar. they followed her to her house in akron believing she lied to the district about where they lived. john: which did you do? >> i did lie. i wanted them at my father's school district. it was a good school district and my father could watch them while i was attending the university. john: would you do it again? >> absolutely not. it is too costly. i lost my father behind that. john: he got investigated for that. they found some law breaking in his past. put him in jail. >> they sentenced him to a year in the penitentiary and never came home. john: he died in jail? >> yes. >> what is so crazy and sickening about this, th

who belongs to the federalist society? who finds the federalist society? to appointment over and over by senator whitehouse, and other donors to remain anonymous at some to publicly disclose that they contribute. who would they be? try the coke brothers, try the richard mellon skate family foundation, try the mercer familcounty which i'm reading me and more about. billionaires who believe they want to control this political process. do they have an agenda? of course they do. we know it. we see it all the time. and that is what this decision process has become. .. not just the corporations cannot provisionally. can you demonstrate you will be an independent check on this president or any president? can you repair to disappoint the president who chose you in the right and groups that have taken credit for your name coming before the committee. you need to be forthright about what your values are. today's opening day at the baseball season a few blocks away from here and unfortunately for those four questions, judge gorsuch win over for. he told us he wants t

they're the ones who fund the candidates; they're the ones who fund the parties; they're the ones who hire huge armies off lobbyisists to work on an ongoig basis with whoever gets elected. and they fund all these think tanks that produce endless resources and reports and researchers and specialists for the radio and the television to shape the consciousness of what americans see, hear, and think. and the e end result are events sort of like the two political presidential conventions in which not a word is said about the system, not a word is said of the sort i've just finished telling you about in which they each blame each other as if the politicos had the power to do much about all of this. but there's no systemic analysis, no systemic recognition. what else about this system is bizarre? well, one of the results of the shaping of consciousness is the following kind of really strange idea. it goes like this: if you give corporations a chance to make profitits, then good thihings will happen. so, for example, we have to create a profitable business climate because then businesses, say

what was in it for the people who were doing the bringing? >> oh, well, there were a number of different things. that's a great question. many, fame, and love. some, you know, sometimes they wanted the women too. so it was like we all draw lots to see who's going to be the person whosh goes out east to bring back the brides because we're all lonely here and there could be money as well. so i'll go back and organize the bridal expedition and each of you chip in a certain amount of money and then i'll take my fee from it. asa mercer who bricks out the largest group of brides, he winds up -- he's elected president of the new college, he winds up being a state legislate -- -- i peen they love him. if you bring out women to lonely men like you're political career is set. so there were lots of incentives do it and not real lfs the only downside would be is if you fail at that time then you're not liked. so if you, you know, say you're going to bring over these women and you ask for month and then you don't really bring aught any, that could be a ba

all those who put their lives on the line defending ourfreedoms. but he was also a husband, a father, a family man, and so today is about both national reflection and private grief. pc palmer's wife asked that the family's privacy be respected inside southwark cathedral. but the sound of the service was relayed to the streets outside. keith laid down his life for each one of us here. each one of you who have lined the streets and filled the bridges of this city today. in her first public engagement in her new role, metropolitan police commissioner cressida dick honoured a fallen colleague. an amazing life. he was clearly very kind, very good—hearted, very hard—working, a very, very talented police officer. police constable keith palmer's name has been added to the national police roll of honour. the grief will lessen. his bravery will endure for generations to come. mark easton, bbc news, southwark. police in california say a teacher has been killed and two children wounded during a shooting in a primary school classroom. the gunman is also dea

who agreed 99% on the bench? colleagues who came from appointments given by republicans president and democrat presidents? the arguments over whether or ss not judge gorsuch as going to be with the little guy or spends too much time defending thew jug bigger, let me go back to the people who know judge gorsuch w the best. attor who practice in front of his court. here's a statement from a democrat attorney in the denver post statement he issued a decision that most certainly focus on the little guy. yet, this right from the opposition in 2700 cases is, this is a person who has never defended a little guy. this is someone who practiced in front of him and his court, who absolutely believes he focused on the little guy. so, we have a judge who agrees with the majority of the court the most of the time, 97% of the time it is a unanimous decision. lawyers practicing in front of him believed he represents the little guy. we've heard from leading democrat voices in colorado who support him. the highest qualification ra

william: the silent generation were the ones who were refined and added nuance to what the g.i.'s were doing, and they, too, felt the pressure of what the initial g.i. stand for, which is general issue, the regularity of the society. they came of age in a world that they felt was overly con formist and set about on a life mission of adding nuance and complexity and other directiveness and cultural pluralism to a society that, when young, felt over simple to them. they fused the white and afro cultures to produce rock 'n' roll. they were the leading early proponents of the civil rights movement, the nonviolent movement. virtually all the prominent african-american leaders of the civil rights movement from the first children who degrated the schools of little rock up through the jesse jackson and douglas wilders of today have been members of the silent generation. but they had the misfortune to reach mid life, all the silent generation did, at the time when the consciousness revolution of the 1960's hit. and this was when they were the guardians of the family, and splintered famili

in georgia, the man who had to sign off on every execution. a man called allen ault, who for years did this job, and actually, in essence — not literally, but in essence, pushed the button to electrocute a series of prisoners on death row in georgia. and he, overyears, came to find thisjob was destroying him. i still have nightmares, not every night, but on occasion, i still have nightmares about it. it's still a — it's a very ha rd pill to swallow. and it's — stays in your psyche for — i guess forever. it's the most premeditated murder possible. but the — the manual is about that thick, and the progression that you go through to execute someone... everytime i think it's behind me, then something happens, and it all comes back with a rush, and i was out at the lexington airport the morning — i had a 6:05am flight. and the 6am flight left. by all rights, i'd always been on delta airlines. this morning, i was going someplace else, and was on another airline, and i checked in with all these people. and the plane crashed, and killed ev

sheriff, they kind of rotate the sheriffs who say what you say all the time. judge, you're a new experience here. thank you for the advocacy for our immigrant community. we're not here to solve a problem. we're here to say immigrants are drunk drivers, murderers, rapists, and gang members because it doesn't change, but that shouldn't surprise us since we had a president who said all mexicans are murderers, rapists, and drug dealers. >> the gentleman from illinois will comply with the rules in referring to the president. >> i'll say donald trump. is that okay? >> no, it's what you said whether it's president or donald trump. >> he did say it. >> the gentleman will comply with the rules and not cast aspersions on the president because those are the rules of the house and the gentleman from illinois knows that. >> let me repeat that. we have a president of the united states who said -- and i can bring the youtube video -- that mexicans are murderers, rapists, and drug dealers. let's move on. it doesn't really surprise me the conversation we're having here. it's n

one is it seems like the key person who educated him on the complicatedness. north korea situation was the president of china. >> who has a stake in the particular version of the story. >> right which is not the one that aligns directly with american interests. >> this is the thing i worry about with everything. who is telling him about explaining something about tax policy to him or the health care bill to him. who's doing that? they're going to have tremendous power to be like, actually, this is the way it works. >> it's who's explained it to him last. he can agree and say oh, that's my understanding now and then the next skpinz they're nicer to him. >> this happened with the health care bill where it was put front of him and they were like that is good bill and then he sborsz it and it's going to be great. when the bill started to go side weighs, he was asking people in meetings, is this really a good bill? and he was too old it was a good bill by the people who were the supposed experts, but the republican party is full of people who don't know. >> and the

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of the african mystery kitchen staff who served in the us president. he sat down for an interview at the schomburg center in new york city. this is just over an hour. >> hello there schomburg family. how are you doing this evening? [applause] thank you. good evening and welcome to the schomburg center my name is novella and i man did publications here. thank you for joining us in the lines featuring author adrian muller and his most recent, the president kitchen cabinet: the story of the african-americans who have fed our families from the washington the obama's. as as you saw in the video, it is a one-of-a-kind research institution dedicated to the collection, preservation and interpretation of the global experience. also you may have heard in january the schomburg center was named the national historic lamech by the national park service so they know what you all know, the landmark status recognizes the vast collection of materials that represent the history and culture of the people of descent through the global transnational perspective. through pu

who was living there at the time? what is the conceivable relationship between the things got out of the ground of the people living there and what did this mean to them. i mean, this obviously, this bowl meant something to the humphries. so we are getting a little insight to who they are. i think you will be elaborating on the humphries in this space. telling the stories. we know enough to be able to bring them to life. in a three-dimensional way -- >> but of course, life goes on after the revolution in philadelphia. >> it goes on. and mrs. humphries, even though she'd done the three months of hard labor. if she had done it, we don't know. she lived into her 90's in that same house at that same address. fortunately, there was another privy closed after her death and after the death of the people who lived with her. her great-niece lived with her and her husband was a mariner. they had very different kinds of things. this is staffordshire. this was imported from england. what i love best about this group of artifacts

he wanted to find out who wrote the letter. the internal people said, you should not stick your nose into this. he came back when it looked like they had gotten over this issue, he thought, that means i can find out who sent this letter. he tried to involve us law enforcement officials. the regulators will take a dim view of this, because even if he thought it was a malicious smear, it is not his business. leave it to the compliance people. in the post—crisis environment, whistle—blowers are a highly protected species, they are seen as very valuable as a way of bad things coming to light. whether it was whistle—blowing or a malicious smear was not for him tojudge. the bank has come down hard on him, they have stocked his bonus, he will lose over £1 million, and he has had a serious reprimand, but whether that is enough for regulators, who see this asa enough for regulators, who see this as a serious breach of new regulations on protecting whistle—blowers, remained to be seen. sweden has observed a minute of silence in

the people and the staff who work with the press. and we always, every year, try to get the stenos who prepare the transcripts, the people in the travel office who take care of the luggage, people who are out of the spotlight, we try to give them a night where we can say thanks. so i find it troubling the staff's not coming. host: we'll look at some of the moments over the years. julie, how is that impacting this dinner this year? guest: actually, we have sold out once again. and when i started in 1993, the room was sold out. t i'm afraid it has impacted our media companies who bought tables and expected that they would get guests from the white house the way they always have. it didn't impact us, but unfortunately i believe it did impact our members and the organizations. host: let's talk about a you >> milestone years to take a step back. 1924, why is that year significant in your research on the book that's coming out. guest: because that's the first year that a president of the united states attended. calvin coolidge it also was

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who were the people who thought it was a good idea for the u.s. to have the biggest stockpile of nerve gas? fortunately we never used it, but you don't stockpile that stuff unless you have the intentions some day of using it. >> on friday nikki haley said this might be the beginning, there could be more action that we would take. how concerned is senator rand paul that the net-net of all this might be ground troops, american ground troops in syria? >> i asked nikki haley very clearly during her confirmation whether or not she would advocate for war not authorized by congress, and in her testimony to me she said she wouldn't and so i take her at her word. she may not quite be understanding 59 cruise missiles as war, but i certainly hope that she and others will understand that increasing and escalating ground troops in syria is obviously war. the great irony is, look, we just appointed justice neil gorsuch because all the conservatives said he's an originalist and he's going to obey the interpretation as the founding fathers believed it. guess what

sometimes lost is the fact that colson who wounded the suspect who was shooting at the police. >> he is is a brad: they honor those who save lives but the ceremony marked by the deep emotion. the firefighter of the year went to john ulmschneider who was also killed in the line of duty. iz ulmschneider died a year ago entering a house on check welfare call. >> he paid the ultimate sacrifice. the rest of our family is behind them. both men will receive national honors. >> award winning director demmy is remembered tonight after winning oscar for "silence of the creative forces as well for other movies. he was 73. >> time to end the abusive practice. >> why it could mean the end for dozens of the national monuments. larry: later why serena williams says you shouldn't have seen the snapchat photo to reveal e is pregnant. >> $39,000 missing from the p.t.a. checking account. the following ad for your viewing convenience. i finally switched to geico. oh yeah? ended up saving a ton of money on car insurance. i hear they have a really great mobile app. the interface is remarkabl

>> the very understanding of who is acceptable in american society goes to the very heart of who americans are and who americans can be. so, issues like excluding immigrants based on a religion test, which is against various laws in our country, not only threaten those who would like to come to the united states but also it threatens those who are within the united states. >> narrator: fueling this division is a misconception that our country was founded as a christian nation. >> now, if you think about the preamble to the constitution, "we the people." it doesn't say in the name of god, it doesn't say with the blessings of jesus christ, it does not invoke a supreme being. the constitution is shaped by we, the people, and we, the people, are a diverse lot. >> we find that folks like thomas jefferson and others were quite clear that there was going to be no discrimination whatsoever. he very clearly stated that we need to be welcoming of jews and gentiles, gentews-- which is actually a term for hindus-- and muslims. so, just absolutely no interest whatsoever in any kind of delimiting notion

the people who supported him don't see this as a problem. what are your thoughts on the potential for conflict—of—interest here? it is surely a concern, particularly when it comes to mar—a—lago, the family hotel. what are the oversights over these assets? the oversight right now is likely in the hands of reporters likely in the hands of reporters like me and my colleagues at the new york times and washington post who are writing about this on a day in, day out basis. the republicans in charge of congress are not giving this much brutally. we saw a bit when president trump hosted the japanese prime minister a couple of weeks ago back at mar—a—lago, and it was a security situation when they responded to the korean missile crisis by doing security in front of the public. but largely, it has been democrats asking for investigations that are not happening. so at this point, it is a drip drip feed and a lot of headlines about the conflict of interest, but it doesn't seem like that has penetrated much beyond the other stories that have

guy who wrote "the art of the deal"? you mean tony schwartz? oh, no--the other guy. so trump, the billionaire business boss, is ready to fix the economy for everyone... like, for example, the 1,400 carrier workers who will be laid off next year when the plant moves to mexico. after a video of them losing their jobs went viral, trump became obsessed with helping them. - i'm the one that brings up carrier all the time. carrier's my baby. carrier people... i fell in love with them. they fell in love with me. - i sat down with some of these carrier workers, aka trump's new baes, to find out how their relationship is going. so you guys must love donald trump. - hell, no! [laughter] [cheers and applause] - we don't endorse him. we want someone who's gonna be tough on china, but, you know, this guy's known for using his own clothing line that's made in china. - there's thousands and thousands of stories. he has people do work for him, and then he don't pay 'em, and then he lawyers 'em out of business. - he's a smart businessman

the story of a slave whose first name is peter who is actually the person who told the famous revolt in charleston in 1822. he would be rewarded for becoming a major old slaveholder. he was biracial. there were black people who own slaves. it was very rare. slaveowners in particular white slave owners were trying to create a narrative of right freedom of black slavery. select slaveowners, just like free black people disrupted peta that. >> was the white only black slaves universal at one point? >> mean was it not just in the u.s. but everywhere. >> to a certain extent but then there was talk in the panel there are native american people who enslaved black people and just like they enslaved native american people and in africa there is a history of enslavement. slavery changed with the emergence of slavery andlack capitalism it began to shift in which slave labor became a product or a commodity. people became very rich off of that i wanted to defend it with racist ideas. >> host: another calling in from arlington, virginia. >> caller: i had a question about indian slavery, but i was w

who make payments to the president's businesses. that might run afoul of the constitution. guess what? remember the house intelligence investigation on russia, which congressman devin nunes appeared to essentially try to sabotage and then had to recuse himself? it's back on track. so says its ranking member, congressman adam schiff. the committee issuing letters inviting major officials like the fbi director, the national security adviser, the former acting attorney general sally yates. remember her? who was fired by the trump white house. to testify. hearings will begin as early as may 2nd. but if you're looking for potential conflicts of interest for the president of the united states, the most obvious place is in some ways hiding in plain sight. the white house is not being very forthcoming. luckily, someone did some digging. that's next. instant. but with lightning fast shifts and dynamic track-tuned suspension, what the road demands, the gs delivers. experience high performance through high technology, in the lexus gs 350 and g

it is important who your alderman is, who was on the county board, who is the mayor and the state legislature. one of the areas where eric holder is spending time is on this whole issue of redistricting. we have gerrymandered our lines in such a way the american people are not getting their fair voice. my optimism comes from the opportunity and potential for civic engagement. when the american people decide they want to get involved and elect people who they think represent them and turn out to vote, then that is when things will change. i am hoping that happens. [applause] and we want to create debt part of what president obama is really interested in is creating a mechanism by which young people can find out the best practices to run for office. i meet people across the country who are interested but don't know where to begin. they want to get cynically involved but how do you do that? the key is teaching committed engagement in the way he started his career. it is a way for people around the world for the younger leaders and who are the ones we should all be nurturing and encouraging to ru

friends of the ruling class, that's who gets it. john: donald trump got a permit to carry a gun, so did howard stern and robert de niro. maybe you've done work for someone who knows a senator, they will get you in front of a judge and within two to three days you will have a permit. john: connections, cronyism, bribes. bad rules hurt us? in so many ways. so i suggest one new rule, i call it the stossel rule. from now on every time a politician adds a rule, he must get rid of five old once. that would be a start. and that's our show. thanks for watching. >> found in grandpa's attic... >> it was a dirty, dusty old box. and then it's like, "wow. i don't know what it is." >> ...a discovery that will make the baseball world flip. >> you've got honus wagner, ty cobb, cy young, christy mathewson. >> i'm thinking to myself, "oh, my god. i have $1 million sitting in a chair." >> but is it almost too much of a good thing? >> it certainly changes the market in a negative way. >> i'm jamie colby, and today, i'm in northwest ohio, on the edge of

out of the 13 defendants who will are indicted in the u.s. attorney's office, five of whom were indicted for murders that i described lisa makin and nikita cuevas, seven were folks who came through the unaccompanied children program. 11 came here illegally. >> tucker: this problem has been growing for the last ten years, do you think even getting the federal support that you need? >> we work closely with our law enforcement partners, our strategy is very clear, it's all about intelligent spirit we collect as much intelligence as possible, we identify gang members and we target them aggressively.nt we utilize gang members and they suffolk county police department who are highly effective officers, utilize our firearms suppression team which are very motivated and highly trained officers and we make history to arrests. we've made over 170 arrests of known gang members all the while working with our federal law enforcement professors partners to build those rico cases. >> tucker: it killed the mafia. >> it's effective because it carries these pe

americans should be excited about a man who is going to go on the court who was to serve as a judge, not a super legislator. there were people on the committee who had obviously decided the judge would begin all until proven guilty. they tried to find something to support their preconceived view. they did not find anything. judge gorsuch will be a great judge on the u.s. supreme court. >> judge gorsuch is a great man and a great judge. i was fred to support him in committee and i am proud to support on the floor of the senate. >> it is unfortunate we had a bipartisan vote today. we've had a phenomenally long processor. three days of testimony by judge gorsuch. 30 hours, 20 witnesses. now this. it truly is unfortunate that it has devolved into a bipartisan probe. a lot of members on the other side had agreement today on why they would vote no. some of my colleagues have said it was a strained argument. there is a difference between voting no and filibustering. it is important to realize that there has only been one filibuster successfully of a supreme court issue. this was a nominatio

all over the world who have made this country what it is and who shocked the world 240 years ago by doing the impossible by defeating the mighty empire. i can't think of a more fitting tribute to their memories and i'm glad pennsylvania will play home to this new treasure. i want to thank everyone who made this project a success and i want to thank michael quint who's been up here. can we give a round of applause to michael quint. [ applause ] >> michael will lead this museum to great success right here in philadelphia. thank you all for being here, thank you for helping us celebrate this great moment in american history. thank you. [ applause ] >> please welcome noted author and two-time recipient of the pulitzer prize, david mccullough. [ applause ] >> what a morning. what a morning to be grateful we are americans. [ applause ] >> what a morning to celebrate our past and what that teaches us about how we should move forward into the days that come. the american revolution still goes on. the american revolution was one of the most important events of all time and very much of it ha

on the one hand, there are all the people who had economic dislocation, people who suffer income inequality, who really have not seen the kind of improve nment their life and their lifestyle thark they had hoped, cases in which children are not as approximately off as-- as well off as their parents. that's one thing. there is the other thing which is part of what, apart of what has an appeal that's nasdaqier than that. it is the far right. in american politics. does steve bannon speak to both of them or is it just the people who are great read ares of breitbart. >> i don't have enough of an understanding to say what his intentions are, from the point of view of who responds to the rhetoric of breitbart and the rhetoric of bannon. it's both for sure. >> it's both. >> in terms of who responds to it. >> witness the fact they won. >> witness the fact they won but constant need is in political journalism to not overinterpret things that happened. donald trump won because the country did not, i think, most primarily because the country did not see hillary clinton had someone who would change thin

who will remain the leader of syria. this was not the first time we have seen those terrible images but it was the first time we got a sense that the president recognize the gravity of his office. same were very much the kind of photos president obama was confronted with and of course, president trump at a different reaction when he was not the commander-in-chief and now he is. i would strongly caution the make thistion not to a military effort to change the regime. i fully concur the regime has to isthe goods as long as assad there, the terrible war will go on but this is not something that can be accomplished via the air at a standoff location. at most, we can hope this will deter the regime from using chemical weapons again. that probably most significant thing you can hope for as well as a deterrent to other regimes in the future of for using chemical weapons. there are still many issues to be resolved and one of them for congress is all of this is being done, not just the attack today, but the presence of our troops

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on the other hand, he is very likely to put people on the court who are great lawyers, who have had great experience, who will bring great distinction to the court, and who will without telling us how they're going to vote and how they're going to rule, do the job that we all count on the supreme court doing. the supreme court to me is a sacred institution. we've had great justices on both sides, on all sides, as a matter of fact. we've had great democrat justices. we've had great republican justices. and no one knows how great a nominee is going to be until that nominee actually serves on the court and does the job that is so difficult to do as a member of the united states supreme court. neil gorsuch i have every confidence will be one of the all-time great justices for that court. he deserves confirmation. he deserves overwhelming confirmation. if we weren't in such a dispute tif -- disputeitive mood around here, if we didn't have so much problems with each other, he would be a -- he'd be an easy person to support. i hope we can put our politics aside and look at the man, look at his e

who in another interview in the washington examiner who came out today called the russia story a faux story, made up. and he goes back to the democrats and the election, and using the russia story as a way they lost the election, fake news, but sally yates, who was the acting attorney general during their time when they came into the white house actually went to them, to the white house and warned them that michael flynn was a problem that he was having these dealings with russia that he was not mentioning. is i probable in your view that this is something that donald trump knew nothing about, meaning michael flynn's activities? >> i have no idea what president trump knew, but there are people high up in this administration who obviously know what is going on with the russians and are not disclosing it. and we need to get that information. all the relevant documents concerning flynn and the russians need to be turned over to congress right now. and if they are not turned over congress needs to subpoena them and enforce the subpoena. it is critically important to get all the informatio

who first hired him at the white house. you guessed it, michael flynn. joining me white house counsel john dean, neira hack, senior analyst, msnbc contributor and author of "how to catch a russian spy. malcolm nance, msnbc contributor and author of "the plot to hack america." a mega panel, as it were, to discuss these issues. i'm going to start at the table with you, john dean. the bombshell news that michael flynn wants imun. you have baseball down this road before, sir, in the watergate hearings. explain to us the difference between the kind of immunity you can get from congress, from one of those committees and the kind of immunity you can get from prosecution. >> i was involved in writing the statute before i ever needed it for myself. two types of immunity. one is called transactional, which really takes care of any kind of -- very broad. the other is use immunity. this is what congress typically grants, which is use immunity, which is just for the testimony you give before congress. in other words, you can still be pr

>> you know who is on the other end, someone who is going to report back to the company and make sure they retaliate. that is who is on the other end. >> this is a complete red herring. look, i don't care about fox news shareholders or rich a arrogant rights like bill o'reilly's, we're not just talking about comments up to and including sexual assault which has been alleged. we're talking about women's careers, women over and over again accusing people of sexual harassment, and then been driven out not only at fox news but at other organizations. we had in-depth interviews with these women, that is why it's so important. we have to protect human rights. >> did you hear what he said, he said if welcoomen come forward,y never work again. >> i know lots of people who wanted to file discrimination charges, whether you're african-american women, but they don't do it because they think they can never get another job. >> lisa has a good idea. if the state board does an investigation they can set up a hot line where fox is obliganly obligat obligated. where there is a state agency that can pr

the ability to eavesdrop and on who and who makes the call? is it english-speaking? for a while, we only looked at foreign websites an in foreign languages because if you are english-speaking it could be an american. 90% of the world speaks on platforms that are english based. most people have a cell phone in here. most people have a smart phone. you might be amazed at how those could be related. you're taking a picture, how do you know the picture gets captured in your camera. how do you know the picture, when you're looking at it doesn't have the ability to be transmitted in the airways so people can look at not only you but we are taking a picture of. the ability in the control of it is what has changed. those are societal questions that we have to ask. at what point are we going to mitigate risks. at what point is it going to prevail. who will make the call? what checks and balances are there? rob o'neil was watching. it was carefully orchestrated. the commander, it was nearly flawlessly executed but they had trained over and over and over again and they sent the

somebody that they can rely on the ground who understands the traditions on the ground, but who they could actually pull the strings on if necessary. the romans put herod into power. the romans support herod. they're the one who grant herod legitimacy and climate king ship. >> herod is a successful ruler, great segment of the population, really, support herod, really like him. >> he wanted to be like alexander the great or the great kings of the past. he had this vast building program set up to demonstrate his power and authority. >> herod builds vast theaters and mountain forts. and in 23 bc, herod begins expanding. >> he tries to get with himself by renovating the jewish temple and he does succeed in making it into the one of the most beautiful buildings in the ancient world. >> today, herod's temple is gone, but part of the platform on which it once stood remains, the western wall is still one of the holyiest sites in judea. >> one cannot over estimate. it was the religious center. the place where god's presence was understood to reside on earth. >> despite herod's achievement. ea