john ross is talking about washington. washington is no longer president. andrew jackson is president. a very different set of propositions. john ross calls one of his sons george washington. the things that has intrigued me in getting at this story is not that it could be a simple story in which george washington was everybody's hero. merely just a bad guy, and instrument of white imperial aggression. which perhaps he is. there is a lot more going on there. what it gets us to is wrestling with this dilemma. this dilemma that the brits had. and that the united states had. 1790, congress passes the indian trade and intercourse act. it says, you can't trade with an indian country without a license from congress. it is the proclamation of 1763 over again. washington railed against homeroclamation and now that held the south indian people as a new era of government will protect your interest in secure your future. the challenge of american history has been the government in washington by trying and wanting to do in indian country played out very differently. th

george washington. and so, i started working on it. and now, i remember one time when i was working on this, i told a friend of mine what i was doing. they said -- what is a literary life? if you are writing a biography of an author, that is, of course a literary life, but if you are writing a literary life of a statesman or a scientist or someone in any other field, then a literary life is looking at how that person interacted with literature, how they read, what they wrote, and all of the things about their life that concerned books and writing. that's what i have tried to do with george washington. my book is subtitled -- "a life in books." i am looking at george washington not only as a reader, but also as a writer. i think it is something that has not been fully understood or appreciated, was that george washington really was a good writer. not just a letter writer, but some of his pamphlets are really of very fine literary quality. what i thought i would do today is give you a general overview of

washington tried. the horse stayed in the sling for about two days but then it wrestled itself out on -- washington had no choice but to put the horse down. and it broke his heart. but i got all of that from one entry in his diary and then evidence of the checklist of books that he added to his library and suddenly, i was able to put together this whole story of george washington after the accident and the horse breaking its leg and george looking through his most recent book about treating horse diseases. not finding anything in the new book and then going back to the old library and following that recipe -- or that prescription as closely as he could only to be disappointed in the results. the biggest addition to his library after his marriage was when he acquired the books of martha's husband's library. daniel custis. the custis family had generations of book lovers and daniel's father was don custis who was a friend and brother-in-law of william burke. greatest library in the south. after the death

listen to washington's words. "the alternate domestic nation -- domination of one faction over another sharpened by the spirit of revenge is itself a frightful despotism, and opens the door to foreign influence and corruption which finds a facilitated access to the government itself through the channels of party passions." thus the policy and the will of one country subjected to the policy and will of another. no action of washington's did more to avert dictatorship than his voluntarily retirement at the end of two terms. the poet robert frost said he was one of the few in the whole history the world who is not carried away by power. power. the man who could have been king insisted ultimate sovereignty lay with the people, however imperfect their judgment. the 1796 campaign to succeed washington did little to encourage the friends of democracy. long before the first negative commercial hit the nation's airwaves thomas jefferson was branded a coward and infidel, whose election warned one connecticut newspaper would

but will washington lawmakers get the message? last week congress enacted some new school safety measures and made modest changes to the background check system for gun purchases. is this all they can get done in an election year? it was another head turning week at the white house. on friday president trump first tweeted out a threat to veto a massive spending package then changed course and signed it just four hours later. saying he wanted to protect military spending increases. >> i say to congress i will never sign another bill like this again. i'm not going to do it again. >> brennan: the disagreements with national security advisor h.r. mcmaster led to his ouster he'll be replaced by ambassador john bolton. presidential attorney john dowd is also out mr. trump said he'd like to be interviewed by special counsel robert mueller but dowd reportedly didn't want him to. worst week in two years as concerns about a trade war intensified after the president's steel and aluminum tariffs went into affect. $60 billion worth of tariffs

but washington county, they are scanning. they are counting those ballots are flying through the machines. i hope they're trying through the machines. and any minute now we are going to find out those 1,195 absentee ballots, how did they go? does saccone still have a chance? or is it over? stay with us. you've made it this far. be right back. >>> all right, folks. here is the deal. we are coming up against the top of the hour. we are running out of people here who can even put tv on the air. a couple things i want to say right now. number one, i am not going anywhere. if you have made it this far to try to find out where these absentee ballots land in washington you can stay up and i promise you i will stay up. and the second we find out i will come on and tell you. what's going to happen in a few minutes is i think they're going to go to taped programming. stuff that ran earlier in the evening. please know, stay tuned if you're interested in getting these numbers, because we will break in as soon as we get them. i will do it

chief cartoonist for the washington post. seven years later, he was hired i the washington evening star, the rival newspaper. at the time, that was the most widely circulated paper in washington. clifford berryman continued to draw for the washington evening star for the next 42 years. his cartoons appeared almost daily, usually on the front page. he had quite a illustrious career. he won many awards, most notably in 1944, he was awarded the pulitzer prize for editorial cartooning for a world war two related cartoon he had drawn. a wide rangerew on of subjects and he drew a lot of different people and he often gave his cartoons away to the people he drew. there are many collections that have berryman cartoons. in 1945, he gave a collection to the library of congress and that was the largest collection up until the 1990's and our collection came to us in the early 1990's when his daughter, florence, who lived in the family home passed away. when they were cleaning out her house and preparing her possessions for auction, they d

washington's mission, washington's first foray into the ohio country, comes with a command of militia to defeat the french, which is a disaster, and resulted in the murder of a french ensign. it is described as if washington is orchestrating these events and is given credit for the skirmish that started the war that made america. i and other scholars believe the person who really orchestrated that event was the half-king. he had boasted to the french he would drive them off the land. he had to the indian peoples of the ohio country behind him -- had the indian peoples of the ohio country behind him. this didn't happen. i assumed this was primarily to bolster his declining influence. in the course of the skirmish, in which virginians squared wtih the french, george washington, who is usually pretty meticulous about military engagements, describes this. but according to other accounts we have, french officers were wounded, and there are documents of the one -- is similar to the one washington had carried, asking the english to withdraw. he woke up to him and spoke to him in french sayin

this march is going to take place in a few weeks in washington. but what do you want to achieve by helping the students go down? >> so first let me say thank you for the invite and it's good to be here this evening with you. our goal is to allow young people's voices to be heard. we didn't even know the young people were marching down to city hall, but when we did hear that they were coming i thought it important to receive them because when you have these many young people who are afraid and frightened to be in our classrooms, or asking you to help them go out and want to have you hear their voices, they did not necessarily even know about the margin washington, some of them, but many of them wanted their voices to be heard in terms of the violence that's happening in our city, in our country and throughout this nation. they want their voices to be heard and we thought it was important to address them, to welcome them and at the same time we reached out as a city close to washington asking if we would be interested in helping young people to get

he has spoken at george washington's mt. vernon, valley forming, yorktown and historic sites in boston, new york, philadelphia, and washington, dc. mr. unger is a graduate of the yale university and was a editor at the new york her herald times beforecoming an author. you can find books on his web. he'll discuss "furniture founding father." >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. nice of you to come out in this rain and it's always an honor for me to stand in the footsteps of george washington here at fraunces tavern museum. as the lady said, my views may not reflect those of the museum, and nor do they reflect the views of the president or the members of congress. actually he don't know whose views they reflect other than own. >> america hat many founding fathers but unknown, william withel, joseph hughes, 56 who signed the declaration of independence, each of them of enormous importance to their community and state in the 1770s, '80s and '90s. most of them are forgotten today along with the 39 founders who signed the constitut

olympia, washington. joining us now is fifth-generation washingtonian governor jay in sleep -- governor jay inslee. >> good morning. ofnow that you are the head a state, before that you were in the house of representatives. how does policy made in d.c. affect things happening in washington state? >> we have decided to be masters of our own destiny. we are not waiting for the d.c.s happening in washington fake washington. we are the real washington state and we are seizing control of our own destiny and not paying that much attention in some sense. we are passing net neutrality. we are passing an opioid crisis intervention. a better way to finance college education. we have an infrastructure plan that is improving our transportation sector and we are andg all of these things not waiting for the other washington. our view is the real washington is here. the most beautiful washington is in washington state and we are moving the needle and i am very excited about the progress we have made. i just finished a l

washington had been beaten out of new york city. he had lost a battle in white plains in upstate new york. he had retreated across the state of new jersey and across the delaware river. the british had reconquered southern new york and new jersey, and they expected in the spring they would cross the delaware, take philadelphia and wrap this revolution up. but at the end of the year, washington and his troops turned, recrossed the delaware and attacked the hessian these were hired soldiers from germany who were fighting on the british side. they attacked the hessian outpost in the city of trenton, captured 900 soldiers and went on to win the battle of princeton. this wasn't the beginning of the end of the revolutionary war but it was the end of the beginning. it meant the cause would not be itsled in his cradle -- in cradle, that meant the americans could fight and fight back and win and the struggle could go on. speech to the's new jersey legislature, he mentions the crossing of the river, the hessians and the cold and suffering of

she also spoke at today's march in washington. they both marched in washington today. from parkland, florida is another of their fellow students, junior adam bookwall who spoke in parkland, florida. edna, you were up on that stage today. >> i was really nervous. who wouldn't be? >> can i say something about that? you did not appear to be nervous. fl none of these high school speakers up there in washington today appeared to be flefrs. i've got to tell you, we were all standing out there when you would be introduced with your ages and grades. when we were juniors in high school, we couldn't do this. >> i was very nervous. i asked for god to give me the strength and make sure my voice is loud. now i'm here sitting with you. >> some of the people stayed in parkland. how did you make the decision about whether to come here or stay there? >> well, i made a discussion or had a discussion with my advisor. we made the decision that it was best for me to use my skills as a journalist and my passion as an activist and someone that wants to create change to come here where the ac

burg in retaliation for a similar move b washington. so far more than 20 countries have kicked out more than 00 russian intelligence officers in solidarity with the.k. the back story, the kremlin is believed to be behind a chemical poison attack on a former russian spy and his daughte who are living in england. both are now recovering. yet tensions flare on friday when rusha tested its new missile. p presidenin claims the new mitchell is capable of reaching any point on the match. and remarks we've been studying the president and reportsing on him i russi for over a year now. and now this new chip. what toof makt? andrea: the president is sendsing mixed messages. first of all, it's been more than three weeks since that attack and he's not said o word about it. he didn't say a word about to it vlad near putin on the phone and much of the -- to the surprise of his own advisors, he congratulated putin on his own sham ee ctions. weld that he's actually been tougher on the t phonen has been let out. saying if you wa to have an arms race, i'm

he wanted to make it clear that george washington had profited from slavery. in the mural in which he depicted the march of the white race from the atlantic to the pacific, that's a quote of his, he put those gray pioneers literally walking over the dead body of an indian to demonstrate that the settlement of the west was an act of conquest that involved the slaughter of native americans. that was a very bold effort on his part to counter the kind of textbooks that students were seeing and we hope -- i hope he won't be penalized for that in the future. >> thank you. thank you for the public comment. commissioners, no comments? okay. commissioner walton. >> so the things that we're being asked to separate here tonight, one of the very -- one -- thank you to the planning staff for your report this evening and for coming out and explaining the details. one of the -- there are a few major issues i have with the landmark designations. one as a district, regardless of whether or not state rules apply to -- city rules apply to us as state entities, we all know their

in washington d.c. level off that interference and effectively buy influence or what it should be bribing people close to the president for interestingly this is a different catalyst for it the middle east absolutely government eyes kind of the possible rule or russia. and the recent american election i think does a scandal or at least issue what initially can be way more significant and way more serious for for american politics and also makes you realize what we seeing happening here in this region it's just not going to end anytime soon there is a lack of trust of this administration or the thing so there are they know they are you know the they are. the believe on the american is sincere on the finding solutions the different dynamic in the administration the changing of politicians this actually makes things more complicated i don't think so this lack of trust will increase up at the of the mr nation i think this will make most of the crisis actually on hold for for for maybe a long time. unfortuna

and to talk about the tone in washington. one of the things i have pointed a lot about since my return in september is a fact that even though we have real divisions in our politics, there are true, genuine friendships. whatever you might see a. -- whatever you might see up here, we do build relationships with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle. if you look at the friends we have had that have come out in support, even nancy pelosi war and al issued hat when all members went to second base and said a prayer before the start of the congressional baseball game. [applause] thank you for that. think mike doyle -- i want to thank the two coaches for the teams, republican and democrat, 50 the game raises about $500,000 which is pretty impressive. for local charities. it generates support for a lot of people. you get about 10,000 people to come out. maybe that is a lot for a few teams that are having trouble out there. maybe the padres might enjoy 10,000 people. for us, 10,000 people, that's a big deal. after the shooting, th

i mean, this is what i don't understand about washington. again, you know, i'm not from this place, but the places i come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense. and then there was the public undermining of the secretary of state by the president, sending family to do work that would normally be done by america's chief diplomat, and public shaming on twitter, like this. "i told rex tillerson, our wonderful secretary of state, that he's wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man." there's not much love lost between donald trump and rex tillerson, they disagreed on policy and didn't much like each other personally. mike pompeo will be much more to donald trump's taste and it's vital they do get on, given the importance of subjects like north korea. but will he be the man who says to the president "i think you're wrong" as rex tillerson did? tillerson was isolated, traipsing around the world with little support in washington. in his previous life, the former ceo of exxon was a corporate titan, but he's now politic

washington, to a white house dinner. a generation earlier lincoln, less famously, created a similar outcry when he received african-americans at the executive mansion. the best known episode of the color line enforcement at lincoln's white house is the experience that frederick douglass had on march 4th, 1865, later douglass memorably described how the entrance was guarded, and how the president overruled the guards and how he heartily welcomed the famed black orator. well, douglass, i saw you out there in the audience as i delivered my address. what did you think of it? i have this fantasy, that douglass was thinking, actually, mr. president, the syntax was garbled there toward the end, but otherwise a sacred effort. actually, he said, mr. president, it was a sacred effort. though douglass did not mention in his account of that event the presence of other blacks at the 1865 post inauguration levy was noted in the press, indicating that some other black people were admitted to that reception. the new york herald, for exa

to tell us of all naaman in washington cost and then now we know who he is what can we expect from my secretary of state pub pio. well i think my poem play a would be much closer aligned with donald trump than his predecessor so the put it positively we might see a more coherent approach in this administration when it comes to foreign policy because the problem with rex tillerson was for all allowances stretches of his tenure that the people who met him foreign leaders were never quite sure whether what they heard from rex tillerson and what his views were really played along with want on the trump thought and said and so this might change a little bit i think. my compare you and don and trump i'm much more on the same page and also within the state department there is some hope we hear that because my campaign has the ear of the president at the state department and its expertise might be more in demand here many civil servants in the state department that day was left out because their boss the chief diplomats was left out of the on the trumps in a circle so there are some of them i

washington county you got 53%. kbreen county got 58% if you round that pup impressive at first glance, underperforming president trump in each of the three most republican areas of the district. here is the issue. when you count the absentee ballots to make up that 847 -- again ball park still waiting for a precinct or two here so the numbers could change. but sick cone needs as high as 63% among the absentee ballots when you add them up. if it drops down to 60% you didn't get 60% here. got 57. got 53% here. he got 58% here. if the count of the absentee ballot ongoing now, ongoing now not clear. i believe they will do tomorrow. we haven't heard if they're changed. ongoing, ongoing. rick saccone has to get 60% perhaps as high as 63%. he has to overperform among the absentees over the live vote. >> we are told the absentee ballots in west moreland could come in the half hour. >> you spoke to the gentleman who said he is counting. they take an oath and count them. that's again 57% in the vote count. said at the beginn

like it in washington. tell us about what happened in parkland today. >> the turnout was so unbelievable. we had about 30 thousand are rr people come today. it was so unbelievable. we had people all around town, other towns. it was so great. we had several students come canning up today. >> president and michelle obama tweeted today "michelle and i are so inspired by all the young people who made today's marches happen. keep that. nothing can can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change." what does it mean to you when the former president and first lady send that message to you? >> it means a lot. it really means a lot. even people who didn't know my name until now, it meant a lot. it it showed me that my words do matter and my voice especially does matter and people like even got emotional about the words i was speaking, the truth i was speaking. it's something magical, empowering and something that makes me feel more resilient than i already am. >> there's a lot of talk on the stage about

senior here in washington, d.c. i'm here to represent the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of students who live in every day in constant paranoia and fear on their way to and from school. at this moment, please raise your hand if you have been affected by gun violence to honor the ones you have lost. today i raise my hand in honor kelly.win brother zair was shot on september 20, 2017 on his way home from a competitive college afterschool program called college-bound. would a personality that light up a room. he was energetic and full of dreams and aspirations. he was our team captain on the track team. he was running for student governor president. he was a youth councilmember. he aspired to be a reference excited and attend florida a&m university for undergrad. best dressero the i knew with the best style. [cheers] he was a person, a leader, and aspirer, not just another statistic. i was in contact with zaire while he was home, contacting him through the night was that about 20 to 30 minutes went by and i became

a rare night in washington for us. featuring two of the very pillars upon which the newspaper of mrs. graham and mr. bradley currently rests. is that an overstatement? ashley parker, white house reporter for the "washington post." phillip rucker, white house bureau chief for the "washington post." we are also so happy to welcome to our broadcast one of the best-known and most widely read journalists in this city, susan page, washington bureau chief for "usa today." susan, we'll begin with you. you wrote today about -- asking the question whether today was a show of rising confidence or a rising sense of peril. >> or both. because i do think we see the president trusting his instincts, going with his gut, getting rid of people who tell him you can't do that, you shouldn't do that, that's not a smart thing to do, and surrounding himself increasingly with his legal team, his economic team, and his national security team with people who will say you're exactly right, trust your gut, do what you think is the right thing to

i can tell you, though, when i went to washington to work for bobby kennedy, washington was a cd place. it wasn't filled with money. there were no beautiful restaurants and rich places that were watering holes with heavy silverware and napkins. washington was, it had cockroaches, a lot of them, and when we went back in the 1970s to work at the federal trade commission, it was already changing. washington was already getting richer and richer. in the 1980s, something happened to the american corporation and american politics. i don't know that they were directly related, but they are important in terms of understanding this precedents to donald trump because the american corporation we had the phenomenon of the corporate raiders, people who took out big loans, we call that junk loans, junk debt and used it to purchase companies and made companies forget they had responsibilities to their employees as well as their shareholders. in fact, i don't know how many of you recall the raiders, i used to argue with them on television and i said no, you don't want to do this pretty can't just take

doug joins us from washington, d.c. where that inner circle term oil could be on full display today. doug. >> reporter: good morning. well, ivanka trump and her husband came to washington with the big splash and members of the president's immediate family, the closest of the advisers now the roles are in question at a critical time. president trump's inner circle is growing tighter by the day. and what once seemed to be unbreakable white house bonds between the president and first daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner are weakening. >> questions about with jared cur kushner have unsettled that dynamic of family and trust that is so important for any president to have. >> reporter: kushner whose portfolio includes spotting a new way forward for mideast peace should be front and center with benjamin netanyahu visiting the white house. but he faces new questions about his family's business interests and security clearance was recently downgraded. some who have been close to trump saw the potential for these kinds of

saturday, c-span has live coverage of the march for our lives rally in washington. activists and participants join politicians to rally against gun violence and recent mass shootings. see that live saturday starting at noon eastern. >> this sunday on 1958, america in turmoil, the president election of 1958 began with eight -- 1968 began with eight candidates. by the end, the sitting president bowed out, aren't kennedy was assassinated, television coverage was dominated by protesters at the democratic national convention and richard nixon won a decisive victory. joining us, pat buchanan, author of "the greatest comeback," and barbara perry, co-director of the presidential oral history program at the university of virginia. watch "1968 america in turmoil" live sunday at 8:30 a.m. eastern on c-span's "washington journal" and on american history tv on c-span3. >> next, today's white house briefing with budget director mick mulvaney and legislative affairs director mark short. they awe a -- they announced president trump will sign the $1.3 trillion government spending bi

they're on the stage in washington. and you wonder, as you watch this, everyone seems to be angry and united against gun violence and agreed, it's difficult to find anyone who is for more gun violence, everybody typically agrees that that's something that needs to end. the debate how to end it is a lot more complicated. noteworthy part of the manifesto that "march for our lives" put out, talking about demands. one is ban accessories that simulate automatic weapons, aka bump p stocks. that's something that the white house has already done in terms of fixing background checks and trying to close loopholes. the white house will tell you that that's something that they've already done as well, with the latest omnibus funding bill, trying to begin to close the crack that things have fallen through. speaking of the white house, president trump is not in washington right now, he's down in palm beach spending the weekend at mar-a-lago and then at one of his clubs nearby. that's where we find our kevin cork travelling with the p

if that holds in washington right now, rick saccone is winning 53% in washington county. if lamb improves 11 points there as he did in westmoreland, and lamb is winning absentee, maybe by substantial margin. opportunity if this pattern holds to build on the 579. between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. expecting to get the absentee ballots from washington. they're up late and promised to get us the numbers. are greene, 2% of the district down here. 200 absentee ballots there. we'll see but on paper hard for saccone to make up the 579. only thing after that, provision provisional ballots, went to the tend to favor drats, maybe a big margin. historically, military ballots, maybe dozens, maybe 100, 150. tent to favor republicans. but looking at probably military ballots canceled out by provisional. to get that 579, hard to see saccone come up with it. see why he's waiting, we all will. maybe wants recount and that law come into play. but lamb is holding to the lead. if you're democrat got to be feeling good, if you're republican, up against it at this hour. speaking of -- sorry, going to

it did not run in the "washington post." the post pulled the curtain because it was a pro eisenhower paper. mr. block was pro stephenson. they felt that mr. block's opinion of eisenhower failing to control mccarthy and nixon went too far. might perhaps persuade voters not to vote for him. it didn't run. it did run in the areas where mr. block was syndicated in the other newspapers. what you need to know about this cartoon, "washington post" readers missed it. they knew a cartoon had appeared elsewhere. it hadn't appeared their home town paper. they are angry. "washington post" ran every single cartoon that mr. block chose to draw after that. he had a lot of power at the post as a cartoonist. web see that mr. block's art style evolved from that midwestern pen and ink drawn to very loose drawing style. he used whiteout both as a way to control his mistakes and enhance his i believe. on this canoe being guided by president kennedy, he's got budget written in whiteout on top of the ink and pencil so that it stand out in his cart

people are still mad at washington. even though trump is in the white house, there's a lot of dysfunction. >> one of the things that happens in these is you're worried -- there was a lot of concern in the party, can a conor lamb take advantage of the energized democrats while still reaching over and appealing to republicans? would there be sort of a -- you know, less energy on the democratic side? that's clearly not happening either. it didn't happen in alabama either. in fact, we had massive turnout on the democratic side. it's actually possible to have all this energy on the democratic side at the same time with the right messenger pull in enough republicans or at least scare the -- >> 65% of the vote in. conor lamb ahead. still too close to call. the race is tightening. we're going to take a look at exactly where the votes have already come in and where they have yet to come in. obviously that's crucial. we'll continue our special coverage right after this. there's little rest for a single dad. and back pain made it

i'm chris matthews in washington. it's the latest sign that the party of trump should hit the panic button. democrat conquer lamb pulled off a stunning upset in last night's special electioning in pennsylvania. deep in the heart of trump country. nbc news declared lamb the an apparent winner early this morning. an ominous sib for republicans in november. trump carried that same district by 20 points in 2016. overall democratsage overperformed in the eight special elections since 2016 by an average of more than 12 points compared to the presidential race in '16. last night's contest became a litmus test of sorts for the president and his party. today some republicans expressed a sense of dread. >> if you're a republican in a safe seat, you'd better be ready. >> i don't think you need to be alarmed but certainly need to be reflective on what happened. >> every race is a wake-up call. see what we did right and what we did wrong. >> the president who travelled to the district twice dispatched two of his children there, hi

the age of micromanagement from washington for sacramento is over as far as i'm concerned. governor brown is right because the imperative to do something shouldn't have to come from washington. it shouldn't have to come from your state capitol. the imperative to do better comes from the students. we are accountable to them. better to try something new than to just hope for a better result because hope alone is not a strategy. students don't have time to waste while adults hope the plan will work. that's why our plans aren't set a ceiling. there is no ceiling on what students can achieve. these plans merely established the floor. let me put it this way. we don't evaluating foot tall team solely on who has the better game plan on paper. we evaluate them by what happens on the field. the real work lies ahead because there is much more to be done. we must all do better to prepare our students for success in the 21st century and beyond. students need learning environments that are agile, relevant and exciting. every student deserves a customized and challenging lifelong learning

we see thousands of kids coming to washington, joining our kids from washington, d.c., demanding we get federal action on guns, we couldn't be happier to support them. >> mayor this is not just, we talk about guns in schools, but there are kids here from cities around the country like chicago, we've been talking about, who say, let's just get smart about guns in general. it's not just in the classroom. it's outside the classroom where a lot of kids in this country die from gun violence as well. >> absolutely. we're here. not only to support safety in schools, but safety in cities across america we had a young man in our city killed, zahir kelly, whose brother is going to be here to remember him. we want to have common-sense gun laws, there's no reason to have assault-style weapons in our city, or bump stocks, high-capacity magazines. no reason why we can't have universal background checks, so from state to state, we have some unanimity. right across the bridge is virginia, we can control our laws here. we need to have a federal law that protects everybody. >> we look at this aerial view

let's go to gary o'donoghue in washington. they are expecting hundreds of thousands of people, that's what the organisers say here in washington as well as those other rallies right around the country, and indeed, around the country, and indeed, around the country, and indeed, around the world, too. there's one in london. we expect them in other places as well. they are asking for something sippel, they are asking to go to school and safe when they go to school. it doesn't sound like much but it is a controversial area, gun control in america, it is incredibly hard to do. what florida stu d e nts incredibly hard to do. what florida students have managed to do since the shooting on valentine's day is keep their school, their tragedy and the wider issue of safety in school right at the top of the agenda. here is my colleague chris buckler. parkland students have travelled hundreds of miles from florida from the school where their classmates and teachers were killed, a shooting that many of them survived. in washington, they've a

morning on "washington journal"," certainly getting under way at 7:00 a.m. eastern as it does every day here on c-span. coming up in just over 15 minutes, 20 minutes or so, we're going to take you lye to american university here in washington to hear from former national security advisor susan rice, that's at 4:30 eastern. just a bit later on, christine lagar, the managing director of international monetary fund in conversation on this international women's day. she'll be interviewed by opinion writer katherine rampel of "the washington post" coming up at 6:00 p.m. eastern. while we wait for the event at american university to get under way at 4:30, part of today's "washington journal" focusing on trade as a matter of fact. peter desk, a democrat from vermont. issue ofin with the guns, a lot of talk about potential or new legislation in recent weeks. is anything going to happen at this point? guest: it's up to speaker ryan. there is a majority in the house that would vote for what i would call commonsense gun legislation, if the speaker would be willing to p

the president is not here in washington. as we look at the pictures of, you know, chris matthews, just looking around said this appears to be a million people in washington today. we don't know that. the park service is out of the business of crowd estimates, because it proved dicey and divisive after the million man march. so the crowd is whatever the best guess will be at the end of this day. the president has been golfing at mar-a-lago during much of this event. this was his tweet today. our thoughts and prayers are with the victims of the horrible attack in france yesterday. and we grieve the nation's loss. we also condemn the violent actions of the attacker and anyone who would provide him support. we are with you, emmanuel macron, the president. so, a disconnect. here is one of the emerging voices from parkland. >> six minutes and about 20 seconds. in a little over six minutes, 17 of our friends were taken from us, 15 were injured and everyone, absolutely everyone in the douglas community was forever altered. everyone

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said well washington's no no you guys have to sit down and work this out here i mean earl isn't it remarkable how many borders around the world the united states protects and it doesn't protect its own border go ahead earl finish up. you know it's. interesting. we have more concern over other. countries security than we do our own sometimes but. you know there's other political regions in that because there's both lobbying groups on the military side lobbying groups for for other countries that have a significant influence on what's going on and it's not necessarily for america first unfortunately i think would be better handled maybe facilitating regional discussions and actual talking to people would be much more beneficial i think for global peace but i don't necessarily think global peace is is the major objective i think it's almost a disruption you know what is the objective well it's a gemini is the goal ok i mean that's that's the goal in washington you know dan you know if i could just go astray just a little bit here you know i'm sure you've been following the ups and downs in the s

finally, it's tough to be in washington as we've already heard. and i'm not talking about those shrinking budgets. the president has called journalists the opposition party. there's confusion caused by fake news, reporting mistakes, social media bots, social media vitreeal. we don't really understand all the complexities and psychologies of communicating in the digital world. and we're a little bit stuck. the country's broken into tribes. there's no clear path forward towards a unified front. and in these times the country needs good and reliable journalism more than ever. today i'm more of a news consumer than a journalist, but i've come to deeply appreciate how wise the founding fathers were to give the press the protection they need to fulfill the absolutely necessary and essential role in our democracy. [ applause ] i remain a very optimistic american. there are so many good people who are determined that we will find that way forward in this chaotic time in our national life, whether it's the ladies marching in their pink hats or the sheer nu

you notice this does continue and encompasses parts of washington. certainly philly, new york city, even boston will not be left out of this one. when you bring in the totals, again, conservatively six to eight inches for washington. upwards of a foot for places like philly and as much as a foot for places like new york city. guys? >> another snow day here, folks. we'll have more from austin, texas. >>> coming up, the serial bomber believed to be dead having blown himself up. more all morning on cnn. >>> and against the warnings of top national security aides, president trump congratulates vladimir putin on his re-election. what other advice is he ignoring? ♪ the fastest samsung ever demands t-mobile, the fastest network ever. right now get the new samsung galaxy s9 for half off. ♪ ♪ can i get some help. watch his head. ♪ i'm so happy. ♪ whatever they went through, they went through together. welcome guys. life well planned. see what a raymond james financial advisor can do for you. of being there for my son's winning shot. that was it for

of people here in washington. i am not sure. it is a good question. why would that hold interest for you, that they were acquainted? >> i was wondering if they influenced each other in any way. or what have you? 8 i am not aware of that. -- james: i am not aware of that. eastman was not a colorful character. he was diffident, taciturn, serious. down easter. anyone from maine? i am unable to answer those questions. but i invite anyone who is interested in continuing a discussion about eastman to feel free to contact me. i can be contacted through my website, www.mcelhinneyart.com or i'm sure chuck would be happy to share my contact information with anybody here today. >> thank you to james for joining us. [applause] good, good. >> the question i would've asked -- [indiscernible] 1968, america in turmoil, starting next week and, american history tv will air a nine week series looking back tears the vietnam war -- looking back 50 years. a fractious presidential election, women's rights, civil rights. we will take you

>> no, that was washington county. washington county we knew came in,al ganl allegheny we knew ca we were waiting on two in westmoreland. i say the other possibility here, and i'm trying to get word as fast as i can. the other possibility here is that westmoreland and allegheny are going to be counting their absentee vote. there is the possibility we just got something from the absentees but i think this might have been the last two precincts we were talking about. that might be the election day vote. if that's the election day vote, then what we were just talking about goes doubly because the lion's share doing well in allegheny, the democrats doing especially well in the absentee ballots. >> i have to ask you graphically over your other shoulder the viewers can see, it says 98% in. is that us? will that automatically update, and is 98% kind of the dead top of election day? are the others absentee? >> yes, we're looking at a total here, just some quick math, 53, 55 -- we're looking at about 6,700 absentee ballots here

. -- in washington, d.c. for about 15 minutes. susan: this is the bicentennial of the birth of frederick douglass, and ka'mal mcclarin has a role to play as a museum curator for the national arcs service facility that is the frederick douglass home in washington, d.c.. nice to meet you. ka'mal mcclarin nice to meet you. how are you doing? . susan: i was surprised to learn that frederick douglass chose his birthday and his last name. tell me about that? frederick douglass was born in maryland, and he was born frederick douglass washington bailey, but he did not know his actual birthday. he thought he was born in 1817, he wasrent scholars show born february 1818. how he acquired his name and his he onlyhat we find is saw his mother on two or three occasions, mainly in the guise of night, and his mother visited him in february, and referred to him as her little valentine. so he pretty much shows valentine's day is the day of his birth. in terms of his name, being -- being born frederick augustus washington bailey, when he left slaver

washington. [applause] ken: and i am so honored to be with you this evening to commemorate and celebrate the bicentennial of my great ancestor, frederick douglass. and i would like to thank leader mccarthy and frederick richman for bringing us together this evening so we can talk about this great american hero. know, when i introduced myself to people and i say i am the great-great-grandson of frederick douglass and the great-great-grandson of her t booker t., -- of washington, not only is it a mouthful to spit out all those greats, it makes me feel far removed. you may be sitting there having a hard time trying to imagine what our connection is to douglass and washington. it is like trying to picture what $1 billion looks like with all of those zeros. but many people knew or know of grandparents, and some of you may even have known a great grandparents. that is how close that feels to both of my ancestors, because my great-grandmother, fanny douglass, with whom i was very years she lived to be 1