the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c., and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. here on c-span, "the communicators" is next with a look at telecommunication and health care innovation in the state of alaska. that's followed by former president barack obama speaking in africa about the life and legacy of nelson mandela. later, the national governors association meeting in santa fe, new mexico, to discuss race equity in the workplace. seter: as part of c-span' alaska we can, we thought we would look at some of the tech and communication issues faced by our 49th state. pidgeon,s is tina senior counsel of a company called gci. what is gci? is aidgeon: telecommunications and technology company that serves statewide in alaska. -- wen serving the state have been serving the state since the late 1970's and we focus on delivering services as broadly and deeply as possible. started,w did they get and what was the vision when they got started? ms. pidgeon: ron duncan, who is ceo, and bobent wolf are the founders

whether in washington d.c. or moscow the next summits will be the second official encounter between the two presidents the first held in helsinki two weeks ago led to an onslaught of criticism in the u.s. media of the way trump handled the meeting was accused of not defending his country's interests the summit. his national security adviser john bolton later announced that a washington meeting would not happen until two thousand and nineteen when quote the russia which antes over trumps encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject of a heated senate hearing where the u.s. secretary of state clashed with senate. has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting in helsinki did you did he tell you did the president at this meeting call upon president putin to withdraw from crimea or in eastern europe where did the president say they were going to change our force structure in syria good what took place you speak to the translator that the president di

it's in washington, d.c. but that kind of innovation isn't being driven by the white house -- >> no -- >> because we -- connect your work to the white house. >> oh, well -- well, first of all, walter washington reported to bud crog. whatever was going on in washington was on bud crog's agenda, absolutely from the beginning. i can't impress that to you enough how what we were doing was front page news in washington, d.c. day after day after day. there was incredible focus on the crime issue and the methadone program. bycept of 1970, we had an expose on the cbs television station, an hour long talking about how methadone was poisoning the city. it was an amazing -- young guy just started this thing. and now all of a sudden, i've got an hour long prime time documentary against me. >> enemy of the people. >> and racial issues were involved in this. it was very difficult. what happened at that point was very striking and that is "the washington post" and "the evening star" put their top people on this question of

and there are people in washington, d.c. that just don't want to see that back over to the american people because it scares them. that is what the whole tea party movement was about. it was not a party movement. it was a philosophical movement that talked about the relationship of the individual to the government, and it was really about fiscal issues and that's kind of like how this country got started. you know, the tyranny of taxation and the other things we saw from the british. so i think that the republican party has kind of tried to, you know, walk an incredible balancing act, but they tend to teeter more so to washington, d.c. and the power that's inside this beltway. mark: so you run for congress the first time and you lose. >> yep. mark: in a very tough district. >> yep. mark: you run the second time and you win, you're a tea party favorite. your principles you espouse them now and back then, same beliefs, same values. you run for re-election and you lose by 2100 votes or something in what was, in my view, very su

washington, d.c. for the morning rush hour. you have already had there in d.c. about six inches of rain, half a foot in the last three days. that's why we have 34 million people in flood watches. southern tier of new york through central pennsylvania, eastern pennsylvania including philadelphia, baltimore, washington, d.c., all the way through raleigh to charlotte and eastern north carolina. here are the rainfall totals. another two to five inches of rain in eastern north carolina. washington, d.c. could get another four inches in the next 48 hours including areas of the poconos and the catskills and that's where the greatest flo flooding concerns continue throughout the day today. we will look at the excessive heat. >> i was going to say between the heat and the rain, you can feel how muggy it is here in the city. >> it is gross in the east, yeah. it is as humid as it gets and it is not going away until the weekend. >> thank you for that. >>> one mlb pitcher's marv less return to the mound after over

washington d.c. . us trade rules romney agenda ten ton of bricks summit russian president vladimir putin's delivered his speech at the annual gathering of the world's top emerging economies comprising brazil russia india china and south africa you don't have sent this report from johannesburg. this year's gathering will be quite unlike compared to anything that we've seen previously and that's mainly because you have to look basically out the goals that the brics countries are pursuing when the world's leading developing economies were of bonding together and they defined their goals as celebrating their own economic growth and the past few years have shown that the countries are very much committed to that also they formed a new global bank under the name of the new development bank one of the main goals is of course being serving as sort of a counterbalance to the more traditional economic powerhouses and mainly the united states since twenty sixteen in fact you have trump in charge in the white hous

there's a shared mission there, and i think navigating between anchorage and alaska and washington, d.c., is not that hard when you keep that in mind. peter: john malone, well-known name in telecommunications, recently purchased gci. has that changed your mission at all? ms. pidgeon: no, it hasn't. for us, this is really in a way a full circle transaction. mr. malone -- dr. malone was an early partner in gci's beginning, so we are happy where we are right now and expect great partnerships to continue. peter: finally, we had talked a little bit about tele-education and telehealth. those are pretty fast fields, aren't they? ms. pidgeon: yes, both of those are tremendously fast-growing fields, but i think they are both great examples of that old adage that necessity is the mother of invention. here in alaska, we have been at the front edge of telehealth, tele-education, and, really, it's out of necessity. in many of our small communities, there really is not the ability to foster -- sometimes, there's no dr. delivering care to community residents, and when an emergency comes their way, the

it was one of a dozen lawsuits that went from rural texas to kansas to washington d.c. and virginia in the late 40s. most of these cases never went to the supreme court but these were the cases that first got the attention of thurgood marshall and lay the groundwork for brown v board of education. as they approached the white schools the hostile white principles would turn around and have a meeting with lawyers if you have you know how long and boring they can be so my apologies to any lawyers in the room. and they talked about their cases with conviction to both the black and the white press they wanted to know from all of the school plaintiffs do you want to go to school with white students? do you think you'll become friends friends with white students will that be difficult and explosive questions to ask and the girls did well. so the essential question at the heart of the book is why did girls ask for desegregation first? there are two primary reasons. first girls disproportionately believed the idea of school desegregation and believed that segregated schools was

washington d.c. are manning their battle stations all prepared to face an on coming on slot but what are they worried about well it could be the twenty sixteen presidential elections let's not forget that james clapper the former director of national intelligence said that in the twenty sixteen supposed intervention none of the vote tallies were in any way affected they did not change any tallies or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact that sort of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact on. choices the electorate made furthermore it's not exactly clear who russia is supposedly going to be supporting now the democrats say that russia is going to be supporting donald trump but tom says that the pending kremlin subversion will be in support of the democrats why would he say that well because it makes just as about sense as what the democrats it was true everybody wants to blame another country for the probably another reason why thirty million americans don't

that is something that had been opposed in washington, d.c. for years, and it had been sought by the state. there has been for years, resentment by state officials that the efforts to develop state resources have been stymied. anytime you have more than half of your state owned by the federal government you are going to have a complicated relationship which speaks to the significance of the alaskan delegation because of the role the government plays. host: how has it changed under the trump administration? guest: the president will sign the bills that the congress passes. the obama administration, consistent with democratic environmental positions, the arctic national wildlife refuge drilling had been opposed. and the president would have the don't provisions. president trump was not particularly aware of the details, but it was something important to senator murkowski and others and he signed this is part of the tax bill. which is the centerpiece of his legislative agenda. has, you mightka say, a friend in the white house. and it is seen in t

i'm just going to read quickly to you one case in 1947 in washington d.c.. on the morning of april 13, 1947, the 14-year-old went with her father to elliott junior high school, the white school closest to her home in washington d.c. and attempted to enroll. the principal tipped off that she was on her way, met her on the steps. as she stood facing him, the white students pressed up against the windows to see what would happen. across the street, teachers, students, genders, pta and the principal of her junior high, brown junior high school, stood on the sidewalk. to their minds, it was something made up. something fantastic. but here, this child is just coming on. engaging a situation, she recalled what her parents had taught her about how to act in polite company. and so she says, i smiled nicely. and when the principal told her, you don't want to come here, she responded, respectfully, but firmly, i do want to come to the school. the response carried within it, the contradictory attributes that were required in these kinds of confrontations. she smiled. a

buster will not play in next tuesday's all-star game in washington, d.c. instead, he will rest his sore hip. and the a's still waiting on wourd word of jed lowrie. it will be a shame if he doesn't get named. frankie montez pitching. and they are tied 0-0 in the sixth inning. >>> 49ers can look forward to new swanky editions. they released renderings of the hospital space located underneath the south end zone grandstand. the so-called green room is an exclusive club that serves as the hospital room for beyonce and others. box seats feature reclining leather seats. nobody's reclining during a football game by the way. they're all standing up and cheering. >> go from fancy to fancier at levi stadium. >>> tonight at 11:00, where is angela hernandez. her family says she had been driving from oregon to southern california but vanished without a trace. why investigators think she may be in the bay area or near us. the search is under way this iepg. that's coming up at our 11:00 newscast. >> we are being looking at 90s coming back. morning fog on wednesday bringin

she taught history at two largely african-american public high schools in washington, d.c., mckinley tech and hd woodson. her example taught me the example of equality for all americans. my mom was a trailblazer. when i was 10, she went to law school and became a prosecutor. my introduction to law came at the dinner table, when she practiced her closing arguments. was, "useark line your common sense. what rings true, what rings false?" that's good advice for a juror and for a son. one of the few women prosecutors at that time, she overcame barriers and became a trial judge. the president introduced me tonight as judge kavanaugh, but to me, that title always belonged to my mom. my dad went to law school at night while working full-time. he has an unparalleled work ethic and has passed down to me his passion for playing and watching sports. i love him dearly. the model of my jesuit high brothers.""men i have tried to live that treat. i spent my career in public service from the executive branch in the white house, to the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. i have served with 17

liz: a big thunderstorm clearing up in washington, d.c. washington, d.c. thanks for having us in your home. charles payne is next. charles: the day after the helsinki summit, the economy continues to soar. first president trump responding to critics insisting his controversial meeting with vladimir putin and nato, that they weren't a success. moreover, trump says he fully supports american intelligence agencies and he clarified comments made about meddling. president trump: i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 elect t

the national archives in washington, d.c. hosted this one hour talk. our topic for today is the lost indictment of robert e. lee, the forgotten case against a american icon by john reeves. john has been a teacher, editor, and writer for over 25 years. the civil war has been a passion the americant read picture history as an elementary school student in the 1960's. recently his articles on robert e. lee have been each are gone and theington post history news network. earlier in his career, he taught european and american history at

washington d.c. well the meddling story continues to be hugely divisive i gone at the. media around this line and political consultant which it did state liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well if you believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us how there are other divisions what do you think rich and. look i don't think people are blaming russia for anything that happens in the united states other than what our intelligence community concluded unanimously which with which of the russians attacked the united states to mock or see in the way that they. meddled frankly makes it look kind of pity. kind of really kind of piddly. it's meddling in the way that osama bin laden meddled with the world trade center that was an attack dick cheney. fan of generally ira had said that what our actions did was an act leak was of war against united states so so again but i think we should segment that out i think i think what happened i'd say it's whether it's racial bias or you know in inequality in terms of incomes that's not because of anybo

and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c span is brought to you by your cable and satellite provider. >>> you're watching american artifacts. joining us in our studios is michael alexander kahn. thank you for being with us. what was puck? >> puck was the most important weekly political cartoon magazine of its time. it was the innovator of political cartoon magazines and was widely read and very influential. >> we'll talk about the publication. let me talk about you and your involvement in the book. why did you do it? >> i came to washington for ucla. and my professor had on a cartoon. he said, this cartoon decided the election of 1884. it was a beautiful cartoon and i was hooked. and since then, i collected the magazines, literally, for over 40 years. >> we're going to talk about the magazine. first, let's talk about the media. for a century, late 1900s. early 20th century, what was it like? >> there was no tv. there was no internet. the newspapers, a lot of newspapers, but they weren't very colorful, they weren't very fun

joins us now live from washington d.c. no doubt those kinds of remarks should be raising some concern in washington what are you hearing kimberly. well it is a holiday here in the united states so we don't expect that there will be immediate reaction to those specific remarks but certainly this is something that the administration has been talking about in recent days most recently the u.s. secretary of state mike pump a on monday backing off sensually what the sort of assertion was by the united states when it first withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement sort of softening and recognizing the turmoil in the oil markets and so when it comes to certain allies like south korea india among others including turkey there is a recognition that there is an enormous amount of oil imported by those nations from iran and so that deadline that was put in place semi of november fourth for that to be cut off maybe i'm realistic what we've seen as well in recent days is a call between the u.s. president and the kingdom of saudi arabia

the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., july 16, 2018. i hereby appoint the honorable mike bost to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 8, 2018, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. ill, for five minutes. mr. hill: i thank the speaker for the time today. i rise in honor of mr. howard marshall, former deputy assistant director at the federal bureau of investigation. mr. marshall recently concluded a 21-year career with the f.b.i. this, after growing up in a household where his father, brian

. >> if you are looking for integrity in washington, d.c., it will be a long search. this is the daily fare in this city. lou: i know i may appear otherwise, but i am not a babe in the woods. i have seen a thing or two. there has to be some repository of integrity and the national and public interest in washington, d.c., because it doesn't exist with the special counsel, that's clear. and it's clear that mcconnell and ryan are part of the problem and have no interest in solving anything. >> they are not part of the problem. they are the problem. they have a constitutional duty to engage in oversight in all these matters, and you seat most of anemic, what threat i can leadership from them. they have an affirmative obligation under the constitution to engage in oversight and they are awol, they are asleep at the switch. lou: on the part of the congress and the republican conference. they are tolerating a lame duck speaker who is defying the president of the united states. who is rolling him on many of his agenda items and fighting him more effectively than the left and

somebody that's a living, breathing person in washington, d.c. what does that distinction say to you, that that was hatchippe in washington? >> this is a full spectrum effort by russia, it is not just manipulating twitter and facebook, this is actual human beings. we have a whole range of things, this is hacking into e-mails, this is influencing people on social media, it is spreading money around, what we see with paul manafort, attempts at money laundering, see a full spectrum across a range of things. this is why investigations are important. we need to figure out exactly what russia was doing to try and manipulate the americans so that russia's choice would wind up in the white house instead of who the american people might naturally choose. >> great to speak with you. thank you very much. with the think tank third way in washington, d.c. >>> from the classroom to the capital, i will be joined by the national teacher of the year that's now running for congress. alright guys let's go! let's do this directions to the greek theater (beep) ♪can

joining us from washington, d.c., executive vice president of axios making his first. what is our one big thing this morning? >> jared and ivanka are in it for the long haul. after speculation they might move back to new york, we have sources that tell us they'll, indeed, stay here as long as the president is here. we saw that this week with ivanka shutting down her business and her message to really committing on policy on washington. >> how has the rise of jared and ivanka impacted the dynamics inside the white house? >> what we've heard from sources is that you've seen jared and ii ivanka outside the oval office and in the residence and these meetings have happened without white house chief of staff john kelly. as you see john kelly's power in the white house waning you see jared and ivanka rising. it's not a great surprise that someone who comes from a family business and relies on family in his business would also rely on his family here in washington and in the white house, especially when pressure rises. >> what will be the impact of jared and ivanka stepping ou

d.c. alex i want to go to you first if i mean we often describe events as historic but what did we just witness to seventy two hours after the american department of justice accused russia of cruelly acting against its very democratic process the president standing next to russia and calling for closer cooperation. well i think what we have just witnessed to something that has not served the u.s. interest and that is being disquietude by many of us many analysts. and to start being just let's take one main issue here russian meddling in the you asked presidential election the russian president president was able to stand next to donald trump and once again to deny any involvement and the russian interference in the electoral process although all the you asked intelligence agencies say that they are convinced that that was the case and the you as president did nothing to contradict the russian president instead he thought of trashed his own intelligence agencies saying and suggesting that h

. >>> and tonight on the cbs evening news from washington d.c. part two of our interview with the president. what he says about his relationship with vladimir putin, the u.s. intelligence community and russia's meddling in the u.s. election. that and a lot more coming up on the cbs evening news from washington d.c. >>> we'll look for that. thank you for watching at 5:00. >> alan and i are back in 30 minutes. see you then. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: on the "cbs evening news" this wednesday, from washington, d.c., our interview with the president. you say you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. >> i would say that that is true, yeah. >> glor: what he told putin one- on-one. what did you say to him? >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have any of that. >> glor: but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? >> certainly, as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. >> glor: and how he responds to the

washington d.c. . so when president bashar assad said members of the activist group who want helmets who refuse an amnesty will go to him be one of the terrorists. the fate of the white helmets will be the same is that any terrorist they have to pass on to lay down their arms and take advantage of the amnesty will be wiped out like other terrorists well the syrian president bashar al assad has reiterated his position on the white house being a controversial group now in the past he's regarded the white house mrs agents of western powers that have links to jihad this great finn he said that the world has been warned of the groups dangerous this comes as the syrian government has condemned the evacuation of the white house minutes from the south of the country and damascus has described the move as a criminal operation by israel and its tools but these routes defense fulfill said that they were acting on a request by the u.s. u.k. and other european nations as well but the evacuees were taken to jordan b

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and if you look at the vistas, you see washington, d.c., there. you see the lincoln memorial and the capitol building or the white house, right? well, back then, think about people that were coming into the cemetery to pay their suspects. maybe they don't understand what this was. so, unfortunately, about 1925, the veteran of the war comes around the corner to pay his respects to the unknown soldier, and what does he find? somebody having a picnic on that big white marble flat piece. if there's veterans in the room, i know what your response would have been. it would have been the same as mine. probably just as colorful. to let them know that what you're doing is inappropriate. however, this person went down to the white house, knocked on the door, walked in and told the man, this is wrong, you got to do something it, something we all probably wish we could do today going down to the white house and talking to the president. the president said you're absolutely right, that is wrong. we need to fix it. congress had originally intended to put someth

and ireland and they are currently teaching at the american university in washington d.c. we appreciate it thank you so much thank you. the death toll in greece's worst forest fires for a decade now stands at more than eighty relatives and rescue crews are searching for bodies and survivors among the ruins correspondent charlotte charles impel sent us this report from the worst affected town. where residents and tourists escaped the flames by a stream of supplies grease those battling the eye watering smoke and ash to reach the by this time it's a small token for a community that's lost so much from rescue teams who know all too well what they've enjoyed the volunteers like these week lifeguards it's been an unrelenting hey when the fires broke out they took desperately searching for survivors then came the search for bodies now they're joining the many hundreds of volunteers handing out food and water to those in need. those still scouring the waters can do little but wait with dozens still missing fears a growing that many who sought refuge in the waters instead lost the

we go live now to washington d.c. and our correspondents are mira comes samir a talk us through what we know. well from what we know so for the next time the two leaders will meet for sure is at the g twenty summit in argentina or provided all goes well president putin will be meeting with trump right here in the nation's capital national security advisor john bull in will be working out logistics on his next trip to moscow but the last time the two leaders met of course was just last week in helsinki and the peace summit provoked a mass hysteria in the u.s. trump was universally condemned for meeting with putin and he was accused of treason and called a traitor a weak puppy a kremlin stooge putin's puppet and f.s.b. agent and even k.g.b. but despite the media frenzy a new poll showed that the majority of americans support the upcoming meeting between trump and putin and sixty one percent are in favor of better relations with russia let's check out what trump had to say about this. are i don't know which side is the b