so washington rides back. he has all his finery and his commission, and i should say one of the other particular things but washington is silver lace,, is whenever he gets a new command, almost the first thing he does is sit down and he designs and officers uniform. and he really likes fancy officers uniforms. this is where silver lace comes in. anyway, he's collecting silver lace along the way. so now he writes back from boston back to the virginia frontier. for far more serious problems had just begun, now that he returns attention to the frontier, the responsibility that had been his all along to protect the front your settlers from massacre landed suddenly and crushingly upon him. he rode fast over the blue ridge to winchester, the shenandoah valley. he found the indians threatened front your settlers up and down the valley formally safe from indian attacks. they had abandoned their homestead and fled to small forts for the town of winchester itself. no one knew if the indians would attack winchester washi

rather this is the on washington but not the washington of the bedtime story. this washington is ambitious, temperamental, same damn thin-skinned petulant, awkward, demanding, stubborn annoying, and passionate. this washington has not yet learned to cultivate his image or contain his emotions. here instead is a man struggling to maturity with close friends. this is the washington of emotional need and personal ambition and mistakes. many mistakes. everything about washington's life is askew to most people including his maturing during his younger years most people make mistakes many learn from them. but the difference with washington is the mistakes he made occurred in the arena that was expanded to regional and global with reaping those historical consequences the overly mature washington would be the continental army as he personally bears responsibility for inadvertent striking the spark that the tender that exploded into the french and indian war. he was accused of being a war criminal and assassin and murderer and incompetent leader in negligence and an in

c-span's "washington l," live everyday. coming up monday morning, kaiser health news washington correspondent julia rogner discusses changes to the affordable care act and the state of health care in the united states. and as the national debt reaches $21 trillion, we will talk about the fiscal health of the u.s.. be sure to watch c-span's "washington journal," live at 7:00 eastern monday morning. join the discussion. announcer: next on "the presidency," we hear about the evolution of decorative arts and design at the white house and its british roots. are the surveyor of the queens works of art with the royal collection trust, and white house curator. this was part of a day long symposium hosted by the white house historical association and focused on the history of british and irish connections with the white house. this is an hour. >> for those of you who are here this morning, i'm dr. curtis sandberg. i direct the rubenstein center. i mentioned earlier that we spent the morning, for those of you who are back from the a.

since its purchase from the washington family in 1858. the mount vernon ladies association is a nonprofit organization, having operated continuously for the last 160 plus years. today it remains the oldest historic preservation institution in the country. the ladies association is neither sponsored by, nor beholden to the federal government, nor the state of virginia, it stands alone. its original charter having been granted in 1858, when women or not yet allowed to vote, much less capable to be considered of conducting public affairs. since those pre-civil war days, the ladies association has, without government financial support, steadfastly chartered its own course to not only restore, but to preserve and protect mount vernon for future generations. today, as we stand amidst the quiet a restored splendor of mount vernon, much as it appeared in washington's time, please note that the association's course has not been easy. but it has never been wayward. we are inspired by our forbearers, even beginning in 1861 when sarah tracy, one of f

inn and so washington won. they cut the plan down. the house would have been about four times the size it is now because the plan called for a grant avenue right outside decatur house that went up to it and came from three streets and join joined as one with gates and bollards and the usual idea of french palaces. this didn't work, but washington was going to have his house, and he also realized it was more likely to be able to finish that house than the capitol so he put all -- a lot of his interest into that and doing it. he -- when the plans were being made for reducing the house, he wouldn't step back on the carving. carving was personally very important to him, and so that had to be kept, and as hoban was a very easy man to get along with, and had different ways of doing this. well, it happened to be, as the way the world works, at a meeting at fountain inn, john suitor, a scot, overheard one of the meetings and realized they were after stone cutters and he told them he had a cousin named williamson who wa

of james hoben met washington p. all of the men t five men who recommended him knew him and all were involved in the society there and hoben had built buildings there will. there was no documentation of what he built but did court building seeming likely since all of his recommendations were on the board of the building of the courthouse. so he was taken to hampton -- out to hampton i think. that looks like him. and whatever the case, he shook hands with washington and washington came back and told his commissioners that he met a man in charleston and he was actually very good and had many lands of his own. that was an american qualification. hoben headed to philadelphia to meet with washington. it was a successful meeting. there were many curious entries. one had a throne in it. one by the great carver none new england but hoben of course won: washington came down. and so washington won. they cut the plan down. the house would have been about four times the size it is now. the plan called for grand avnue right outsi

that is washington dc, not the president. he writes on his major unbuilt projects in washington history magazine. he is preparing a publication for a book. don's contribution to the book includes a special section of maps. most of which he compiled andrew himself. there are some of them on display up at the room. you can see them when you look at the book. tells about -- tell us about your work on the maps. me and asked me to do a nap of some of the caroll family's attachment to the land, here. this is a book about family. it is a book about money. it is a book about building, it is about politics. -- there is no other way of dealing with this. it is about space. this is about space in this area that we knew in all kinds of ways. i am really an architect. look when how things i was first starting washington formally. thesomething looks on ground, what its shape is, what the spaces like cannot be dealt with in any other way other than by drawing maps. you have to have a map. imagine somebody trying to describe -- take any map

washington's correspondence about that in this book. carroll: we have a photocopy of the letter so that you can be certain of our sources. >> let me know turn the podium back to don carlson. [applause] don: i hope you all enjoyed the commentary about the book as much as i have tonight. i encourage you to take the time to meet the authors and purchase the book and prepare to join one of our capitol hill tours. i think you all for coming tonight on behalf of the capital historical society, for your support of our work and your support of this book. thank you. [applause] weekend on american history tv, on c-span3, at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the civil war, william marple, author of the book, lincoln's mercenaries, explains the economic factors that drove northerners to volunteer. at 8:00, san diego state university professor on the militaryar from the escalation in 1965 to the fall of saigon 10 years later. at 11:00 a.m., military historian and his book, the unknown and the untold story of the unknown soldier and the most decorated heroes who

and i started pushing stories to "the washington post" or washington city paper and others. i liked it, it just was fun. and it's fun, you know, i got a rush from seeing my byline, from people enjoying my work. but i wrote a lot of different stuff. i did a lot of lifestyle stuff. i mean, you can find stuff on the internet. i did a story about when the stairmaster was invented. [laughter] about, no, that's not even the premise. [laughter] the women were complaining that there was a phenomenon called stairmaster butt where their butts were getting big from doing too much stairingmaster. this is in "the washington post," so withhold your judgment. [laughter] but, i mean, i wrote anything. you know, when you're a young freelancer, you'll write anything about any subject. and then i liked it. and then because i knew a lot about politics, i kind of gravitated towards politics. but i got into the business because people were not writing the stories that i wantedded -- wanted to read, and i think now i am in it because people are not asking the questions that i wanted asked. >> you

tom: it is interesting, they refer to as the "washington post" as the washington compost and jeff bezos is not on their favorites list either. partially, just the exposure, partly out of curiosity. they were surprisingly open with me. i was up there more than other reporters, but that blessing ceremony, which attracted the media attention, and were very good. there were very few restrictions, and the restrictions were common sense restrictions. like "don't walk down into the well of the church while a ceremony is going on." i was not -- you never get full access to the things you want on a story, but they were more open than i expected. i was also somewhat surprised, we caught more flak on this story from people who are opponents of the unification church and reverend moon feeling we did not go hard enough on sean moon. i was surprised that sean felt it was fair and balanced. brian: those who want to read it, it is from the may 27 magazine of the "washington post." they can read it online? tom: it still lives online. our goal was a more nuanced approach. we were not out to do a cartooni

cigar den, and back then you could smoke in bars in washington. so they redid wit the wing backed chairs and the dark burgundy walls, and somebody had the brainstorm they wanted to do cartoons for art. the original genesis was on the walls with some artwork. we made an arrangement with the hotel to loan them a bunch of classic caricatures of the collection. since then, i got involved in 2008, thanks to my buddy richard thompson, when they wanted to update the caricatures to stuff that was more current. the collection mostly went back to the '60s, '70s, and '80s. and then there was a big gap. the thing that happened in the bar, people would come in and the newer clients didn't recognize the people from the nixon and reagan administrations. so they wanted people from the clinton and obama administrations. so that's when richard thompson who unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago was brought in. and richard was just an astounding caricature. he was the top -- caricaturists at the time. so e came in with some drawist and i got some of those.

well, fireworks time well north of washington. 91 d right now. fireworks getting underway the temperature of 85, feeling more like 90. jim, i'm going to have much more on the storm outlook and thursday and friday coming up in 10 minutes. >>> police are urgently trying to find witnesses who might help explain what led up to a horrific crime at this gas station. it's where a clerk was murdered overnight and friends tell us the 40-year-old husband and father wked two jobs. customers are remembering his warm smile this evening. news 4's no longer west virginia reporter david culver is for us with details. david? >> reporter: jim, they have turned this gas station into a memorits memorial of s this is all about remembering that familiar face behind the counter. t'stomers tell me t why they came out here today, just to honor him, honor his fe. we'v learned a lot more about him. as you mentioned, he was hardg, work worked two jobs. he had a little daughter and he was married. so tonight, the community is working to figure outhe how can help provide for

the gentleman from washington. mr. newhouse: mr. speaker, my friends on the other side seem to be focused on closed versus open rules. we hear that time and time again. ignoring that the structured amendment process has routinely been used by both parties when they're in the majorities. this majority has made it a priority to make in order amendments for floo consideration, which i -- floor consideration. which i might point out, a majority of those amendments have been democratic sponsor order co-sponsored. fact, as of -- or co--- sponsored or co-sponsored. in fact, as of this year, we've considered over 1,650 amendments on the house floor. 745 of those were democrat amendments. 630 were republican. and 280 were proudly bipartisan amendments, mr. speaker. so, by no means are we stopping the process. and that doesn't even count the thousands and thousands of submissions that members make, both republican and democrat, to committees for consideration. so i would take exception to the fact that this is a totally closed process. it is

i'm carl bernstein of "the washington post." i just want to ask you a couple questions. >> you don't want me. you want my sister. it's for you. it's carl bernstein. >> oh, my god. he's the guy from "the post." >> can i just borrow one of your cigarettes there? >> sure. >> you've really got to go. >> sure. could i just get a match? i understand your being afraid. there's a lot of people like you who wanted to tell the truth but some people wouldn't listen. certain people have gone back to the prosecutors and the fbi to give information which they were never asked. you were hugh sloan's bookkeeper when he worked for maurice stans up at finance. we were just wondering if you were promoted to work for mr. stans immediately after mr. sloan quit or whether there was some time lapse. >> i never worked for sloan or stans. >> can i get you some coffee or something? >> yeah, thanks very much. door sticks. could i just sit down for a second? >> sure. you can sit down, but i'm not going to tell you anything. >> okay. i was just curious why

amorality basket to leave the united states to leave the middle east is something that i think few in washington have any illusion is really going to work and this is the problem with with with carter it's dramatically show who is the failure of saudi power the saudis you not only are they found in yemen but i think their perspective in washington is they couldn't even take on doha that's not a winning strategy for the united states to to rest its entire security architecture in the persian gulf on so there are many in washington think tanks who like to talk about this there are some in the pentagon as well in the defense department who see it as a last ditch attempt by the united states to be able to continue to sell the hundreds of billions of dollars in hardware and our missile defense systems particularly in light of the recent competition we're facing from russia in its s four hundred defense system but those those pieces are not i think they're not going to come together with any kind of real summit or real organization for an air of nato that is focused on saudi arabia and the united arab

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our correspondent chris buckler sent this report from washington. america's intelligence agencies have never wavered in their belief that the kremlin interfered in the 2016 presidential election and that, through cyber attacks and campaigns of disinformation, russia remains a threat to democracy in the us. but donald trump's own view has been a little harder to pin down. he said he misspoke when he appeared to back vladimir putin's denials over the word of his own intelligence chiefs. but it is clear that he still wants a relationship with russia. getting along with president putin, getting along with russia, is a positive, not a negative. that being said, if that doesn't work out, i will be the worst enemy he's ever had. but his recent actions have unnerved donald trump's political friends and foes in washington. the resolution is agreed to. the senate unanimously passed a motion opposing president putin's proposal for russia to question us officials, after mr trump seemed to briefly consider it. yet, despite all the fallout from that controversial

talking we're able to now i'm joined by my guest way mcgovern in washington he's a former cia analyst and co-founder of veterans intelligence professionals for sanity also in washington we have joe lauria he is the editor in chief of consortium news dot com and author of how i lost my hillary clinton with forward by julian assange and in london we have alexander make yours and he's a writer on legal affairs as well as editor in chief of the duran dot com all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it ray let me go to you first in the swamp in washington d.c. how do you what do you make of this. story here because it is the timing is very interesting she's being charged for not being a. registering under the far a law which i find quite interesting is that about half of washington d.c. does some kind of influence peddling for foreign countries in they're not registered as a foreign agent is she just being picked out because she's russian go ahead. peter first full disclosure i want you to hear this from me rather tha

the washington post. on the white house has not officially reacted to the reports but one of the president's surrogates kellyanne conway has tried to play down the importance of the news saying that things don't change overnight she was echoing earlier statements by secretary of state compay oh the american foreign minister who had sat that the nuclear rising north korea and getting rid of the threat from its long range missile program would not be a quick achievement and that both the government and the public had to have patience he had of course does not want to trump said after his summit with kim jong un as we've said and in a treaty pointed out that everybody now can feel safer than the day i took office there is no longer a nuclear threat from north korea unquote that was on the trumpet only a few weeks ago he also said great progress was being made that was obviously a slight overstatement his critics probably this evening feel vindicated you know they've said that he's being taken for a ride i me

vernon with the washingtons. so i just wanted to understand how latrobe was not so well thought of. >> who can take that on latrobe? >> it's an interesting question on the basis that latrobe, i think, his real problem was twofold. he had a very acerbic temperament. in fact, he lost his temper very easily. he was opinionated. he was good. he was actually very confident. but as a personality, he tended to laud it over others. he was coming at a state he was falling between the aristocracy. and the peasantry. he was in between the two. that was a proper rising status in france at the time. in england as well. what was happening was that the profession of architecture was shifting from the idea of a copartnership, as existed between hogan and washington, that is the old order where you had the gentleman master. and then when he saw it he did know what he wanted and you had the person who could give it to him without telling him what he wanted. on the other hand, you had latrobe coming in who was coming in fully educa

whatever the case, he shook hands with washington, and washington came back and told his commissioners that he had met a man in charleston, and he was obviously very good and had many lands of his own. an american qualification. hoban quickly headed to philadelphia to meet with washington. it was a successful meeting. a competition was held for the president's house. it was fixed. there were many curious entries. one had a throne in it. all sorts of buildings were proposed, some by major architects, one of them the great carver from new england. but hoban, of course, won. washington came down and hoban was actually working in the commissioner's office. so washington won. they cut the plan down, the house would've been four times the size it is now. l'enfant's plan called for a grand avenue outside decatur house. it came from three streets and joined as one with gates and the mansion and the usual idea of french palaces. this did not work, but washington was going to have his house. he also realized it was more likely to be able to finish that house than the capital. when the plans were

tina pigeon, what's your view of washington now that you are further away? >> guest: i'm glad my experience went along the path that it did which was to have the opportunity to work and experience washington dc and being able to take that experience back here to the company here in anchorage and over time i would say obviously participants change in players change in dc but what i see especially in the telecommunication space is that the important thing is to continue to have conversations in open minds and keep the public interest at the forefront. no matter what the change i think navigating with those things in mind has really served me in this committee while and is always means i enjoy getting to washington dc and we can get a lot done in advancing the business bringing broadband services is deeply about the state as possible. it's a shared mission and i think navigating between anchorage alaska in washington dc is not that hard to keep that in mind. >> host: john malone, a well-known name and telecommute occasions, recently purchased gci. has that chan

announcer: this is "washington week."nd g is provided by -- newman's own foundation, donating all profits from newman's own food products to charity and nourishing the common good.o d patricia yuen for the yuen foundation. committed to bridging cul differences in our communities. the ethics and excellence in journalism foundation. e corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. once again, from washington, moderator robert costa. robert: good evening. special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russian interference has had lopping stretches of quiet andh then are days of sudden action. today was one of those days. based on mull ear''s work, ther dent of justice charged 12 senior russian intelligenceh officers w hacking democratic officials during the 2016 c fpaign. theeral indictment. sheds new light on the emlin's sophisticated scheme to ma nip late the latest election. joiningw me develin barltse, who has been busy at the "washington post"ewoom. do

the tip for tat game begins from stair of sunshine a kick in beijing accuses washington of launching what it calls the largest trade war in history. and after a day of talks in the country britain's government agrees to a post brecht citrate plan a free trade area between the u.k. and the european union. it's time for business on the u.w. and how you got to get us welcome to the program china has imposed a thirty four billion dollars in retaliatory measures on u.s. goods it was an immediate response to american tariffs which took effect as washington's clock struck midnight on friday china's measures matched the american levies dollar for dollar instead of making trade truly free and fair and says he wants it to be the measures could end up causing a downward spiral of trade barriers as american partners retaliates the chinese say they had no choice. the response to trump's tariffs on chinese goods was swift. but at a meeting in bulgaria premier league chan was quick temper size his country's reluctant resolution to come out on top. our view is that creed war is never a solution for

chris and st ephen, politics editor for the washington times. we will also look talk about the cost of safeguarding nuclear materials with john donnelly. c-span's washington journal, life beginning at 7:00 a.m. eastern monday morning. join the discussion. >> david hawkins joins us. he is senior editor with cq and roll call. as congress comes back from their break, what do you see as the priorities for mitch mcconnell in the coming weeks? david: to keep things running as smoothly on drama-free as possible i think would be the overarching desire. there is not a large legislative agenda in the weeks ahead. i think mcconnell and ryan went -- more than anything want to make some progress on the annual appropriations bills. the house announced they will take up another appropriations bill the week of july 16 that is a combination bill, there is supposed to be a dozen bills. they already passed one the combined three of the least controversial bills. they are going to take up another that contains two, one of them not financial services bill. the senat

washington d.c. . a researcher at amnesty international claims that human rights violations by the country's army are systemic and go unpunished it is indeed one of the most shocking and despicable the just that i've ever watched in my entire career we spent a lot of time at amnesty to analyze didio we have collected on testimony sent in from our sources hundred ground and we have compounded these testimonies with the analysis of our experts including military experts in terms of weapons for example you can hardly be mistaken. the video depicts uniformed personnel from the army weapon such as in just over twenty one which is a serbian made weapon consistent with those used by becoming. very surprised and shocked by the fact that the minister of communication s dismissed the d.d.'s fake news even before launching an investigation on the case and recorded systematic torture extrajudicial executions. arbitrary arrests cases of enforced disappearance and all these cases have never been dealt. we asked the

from today's "washington journal." ur monday roundtable with stephen dinan. he covers politics in congress for the "washington times." and chris cadelago, who covers the white house for politico. regardless of who the president nominates tonight, the white house will hit the ground running. how so? guest: the white house has been preparing for this for quite some time. there was obviously talk of justice kennedy potentially retiring at the end of the term. i think we have seen them really withit into gear, starting this list they have of 25 potential justices. now, they have -- they are modey moving in to the pr of this, distributing bios of potential nominees. to the audience that really matters, the folks on capitol hill. and then all of the outside activist groups that they will be activating. really scores of groups across the country that will be spending big money on tv to really push this across the finish line. host: your piece is titled "the super bowl of politics." the neil gorsuch playbook that you write abo

car industry stands up to trump's tariffs in washington. workers from america's biggest car makers come out in force to protest the multibillion dollar judy's saying their jobs could be on the line also coming up italy's new government is taking a tough stance on migration but we meet small business owners with migrant backgrounds who are thriving. i'm daniel winter and this is your business update there were protests in washington as the u.s. commerce department launched hearings into import duties as import duties on cars and here's why trump's tariffs don't just affect imported cars but vehicles made in the usa too because his measures put a levy on parts as well as look at two cars honda civic and an audi q five the compact car today costs just over seventeen thousand dollars but see what happens when we slap on trump's judi's the price shoots up by almost one thousand seven hundred dollars the luxury s.u.v. comes off even worse a price increase of almost nine thousand either the consumer all the company will have to eat that cost of hi

to washington so let's collude again. and there's been no let up in the russian meddling allegations to secure the secretary of homeland security told reporters the government needs to prepare for further into ferentz coming from russia trying to quickly find back at that statement saying most scary might meddle in coming elections but only to help the democrats. and there you can see russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming election based on the fight the new president has been tough from russia to me they will be pushing very hard for the democrats they definitely don't want trump in the latest larry king show politicking c.n.n. journalist jake tapper says that chunk still does not believe the allegations against russia after president trump had publicly sided with putin. over the u.s. intelligence agencies over whether or not russia interfered in the election dan coats put out a letter affirming that it was in fact russia. president trump tried to walk that back but as we saw just recently pr

. >> but now you are very likely going to be going to washington, and you'll have to sort of build out some of those foreign-policy positions. you, in the campaign, made one tweet or made one statement... >> mm-hmm. >> ...that referred to a killing by israeli soldiers of civilians in gaza... >> mm-hmm. >> ...and called it a massacre, which became a little bit controversial. >> mm-hmm. >> but i haven't seen anywhere -- what is your position on israel? >> well, i believe absolutely in israel's right to exist. i am a proponent of a two-state solution. and for me, it's not -- this is not a referendum, i think, on the state of israel. for me, the lens through which i saw this incident, as an activist, as an organizer -- if 60 people were killed in ferguson, missouri, if 60 people were killed in the south bronx, unarmed, if 60 people were killed in puerto rico, i just looked at that incident more through -- through just as an incident. >> mm-hmm. >> and to me, it would just be completely unacceptable if that happened on our shores. but i am... >> of course, the dynamic there, in terms of geo

on washington, as well. usually not in a positive way. there was talk about the negative tone of solidarity day, and an angrier tone. but this is 1968, not 1963 and i think that is to be expected. people, the media talked about ralph abernathy's lumbering and terrible speech. it was not the "i have a dream" speech, it was smaller but there were all of these comparisons to the march on washington that were relatively unfair. to me, solidarity day is important, but not one of the most important legacies or moments of the campaign. again, it was really about the interactions people had with each other in monday and moments ndane moments that i think are illustrative. after solidarity day, you had to have a park permit and the department of interior to have this encampment on the washington mall, that ended, and five days later, the government chose not to renew it. the police came in and even evacuated those in resurrection city and flattened the place. this is important, because it affects what historical docu

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this is, again, at medstar washington hospital center. we can also tell you that we've heard from t hospital that it is not on lockdown. >> news 4's megan mcgrath is on the scene for us right now. what do you know? what can you tell us? >> reporter: let me step out of the way. you can see for yourself here the activity that we have re. now, within the hour, that report of a possible active shooter situation came in. that's what brought authorities here. we have both police department responding here to the c ccerenter at washington hospital centert now a this point, it is very important to emphasize that nothing has been found. a hospital spokesperson says that the hospital is not on victims have no been found. police, however, on the scene investigating the call. and a little bit of conflicting inform about the lockdown. the spokesperson says they are not on lockdown, what we are seeing here onne the s is that police are not alling anyone on scene. we've seen people on the street trying to access the campus and they are being turned arou

joining us a reporter for "the washington post", eugene scott. good to have you with us. >> thanks. >> let's talk a little bit about mike pompeo, secretary of state. he had a testy testimony yesterday on capitol hill, talked about a lot of different topics. what stood out the most for you? what was the, i guess, most interesting part of that confrontation? >> i think what stood out the most for me was mike pompeo saying he had complete knowledge or understanding of what happened in that personal meeting between trump and putin because no one else seems to, and we would like to know what he actually said. the next question will be, will he play a part in making that available to people even on the national security council who feel left out of the loop. >> well, you would think when there's so many questions about what was actually said between the two leaders they would want to make it available in order to clear up any sort of misunderstandings that may be out there. >> indeed. >> i think it would be the logical next step, but doesn't seem they'

a "washington post" reporeoshot this v people jumped down the emergency chute. the plane headed to houston was evacuated after smoke in the cabin. no injuries reported. united is looking into what went wrong. >>> day, the media and fans will meet thest newe member of d.c. united. wayne rooney is expected to be introduced today. he arrives at dallas from the english premier league aate last week very excited crowd. the all-time leading goal scorer is coming at a great time. >> the new d.c. united stadium opens one week from friday. and i love that we're having all tsis good sp news in sports other than the typical washington basketball and fon'tball. >> i know a thing about soccer. but you get interested when there's a big name coming >> learning here. >>> 5:37. coming up, about to get more crowded than usual on the roads. holiday crowds joining commuters. we'll warn you about the worst times to leave your home, stil ahead. >>> plus, a i boat blast the bahamas. details on the fire on the watea e d wwe'r >>> you're watching "news 4 today." someone get the boat. br

washington journal continues. host: we are joined by representative john sarbanes, democrat of maryland serves the third district and is the chair of the democracy reform task force. upst: the task force was set a couple years ago and the idea was to look at the broad opportunity to put in place significant reforms to democracy in three main baskets. one has to do with voter empowerment, making sure voters feel respected in terms of how we operate, making it easier, not harder to vote. fixing partisan gerrymandering. making sure the voting rights act is enforced. these are things that say we respect the voters. that is one basket of reforms we looked at. a second is ethics and accountability. transparency in government. those are the rules about when you come to washington as lawmakers how to behave and there ought to be standards and norms in place that govern behavior so that's an important piece of reform. the third which we brought attention to is money in politics and campaign-finance reform. there's way too

the museum opened up last year in washington, d.c. and it is three blocks from the nation's capital. there are 97 museums in our nation's capital and the museum of the bible is the third largest museum. it is also the most technologically advanced. i hope you get a chance to come and see it. the thing that takes it distinct is that it is privately funded. we receive no private funding. i hope you will come see us soon. the museum of the bible is founded on this conviction, that the world is a better place when people read the bible. regardless of your background or your political preference or your religious affiliations, that we see time and time again when people engage with this book, it causes the flurry sea of society. thatnight we had a lecture shows some recent scientific research that shows that when the bible was introduced into prison and an prisoners. morale began to increase and behavior began to improve. that is not just true in our presence, but also true in life as well. the bible, you cannot imagine our world outside o

you can read the archdiocese of washington's entire statement on our nbc washington app. we're going to continue following this story on air and online and bring you any new developments as they surface. let' switch gears and turn to the weather. want to take a live look at the tidal basin. e got a break from the rain this weekend. it's not for long. we have your forecasttonight. hello. >> hey, erica, it was a beautiful weekend for late july. humidity was low. sun was rishining. t now on storm team 4 radar, i'm tracking isolated showers showg up in the panhandle of west virginia and this is the thing, they're going to stay west of i-81. most of us completely dry tonight. make sure to enjoy the next few hours because we're tracking heother rainy pattern that is setting up for work week. take a look. this is monday through friday. tomorrow we'll be tracking scattered showers moving in starting around midday hours. and then continuing at times on into the evening hours wit more rain at times tuesday, wednesday, thursday, and fray. coming up, erica, i'll have more on the timi

before you make plans this week, we encourage you to download the nbc washington a. you'll be able to access our live interactive radar. plus, you can watch amelia's hour-by-hour forecast in the palm of your hand. >>> attorneys generalrom ross the country are suing the trump administration in an effort to block the designs for 3-d guns from being made plic. the trump administration gave permission for a website to publish blueprints beginning wednesday. news had's mark segraves spoke to attorneys general inur area asking that that decision be reversed. for some people like cody wilson seenhere, this is a gun rights issue and free speech. >> ion think you or anybody should have the ability to control it. the trump administration has cleared the way for plans of 3-d guns to beli ped online. attorneys general wrote a left saying allowing 3-d blueprints to be published is deeply dangerous wound haven unprecedented impact on public safety, adding that it would help terrorists and criminals get guns that would be undetectable by security screening at airports in government

they're a washington pr firm that specialises in government affairs. the chairman is william nixon, who's listed on the film's credits as executive producer. official records show that in late 2017, a uae company paid him to lobby the us congress on america's relations with qatar. in a written statement to the bbc, mr nixon said: the hudson institute told us that a member of the film's production team asked a hudson staff member if they could distribute the film. thinking nothing of it, he agreed. in retrospect, the institute say they prefer it hadn't happened. lobbying and controlling the output of television stations are just two fronts of the battle for influence. but a new and important struggle is also taking place online. in recent years, arab audiences have flooded onto social media to get their news. every month, over 100 million users access facebook. in saudi arabia, three quarters of the population are using the messaging service, snapchat. but can they trust the information they are getting there? at the university of exeter, professor mark

sir john anderson arrived washington and reported to churchill on his negotiation with bush. the message arrives from stalin requesting a meeting of the big three. in the course of this dinner churchill was very candid with mackenzie king about his intentions were quadrant and atomic sharing in about roosevelt's and nearly on the eve of the meeting with the vice president at hyde park which makes it an interesting 12 page memo. you can read this online if you go to the library and archives in canada. he left us a detailed account and in the context of negotiations with roosevelt churchill said quote, i can do more with the president by not pressing too hard at once. he's a fine fellow, very strong in his views but he comes around. walking mackenzie king to the door as the evening ended churchill said of fdr he really is the one friend that we have and we must keep him in close touch as we can. churchill arrived at hyde park on the evening of august 12 with his daughter, mary and his personal staff which was rather small contingent for churchill to bring. fdr would hardly be a

welcome to washington, i'm bret baier. president trump is engaged in executive level damage control. this afternoon the president tried to clean up his news conference in helsinki, saying he does except the conclusion of america's intelligence agencies that russia interfered in the 2016 election, the president saying he wanted to clarify, and in his eyes it came down to one sentence. when he said he did not see how russia would be responsible. >> my people came to me, dan coats came to me and some others, they said they think it's russia. i have president putin, he just said it's not russia. i will say this, i don't see any reason why it would be. >> the sentence should have been i don't see any reason why it wouldn't be russia. a sort a double negative. you can put that in and i think that probably clarifies things pretty good. >> bret: the president made a lot of other statements that rate eyebrows and that news conference and afterward. in an afternoon surprise statement read carefully from a script came as the administ

we are lined up in washington may be visiting washington. that is old news, two days ago. also fed independence. prime minister may in northern ireland here in a bit. on bloomberg daybreak, bloomberg radio, your morning briefing, the morning. robert known, karen moskow. this is bloomberg. ♪ belfast,many faces in northern ireland. you can go back to the turmoil of july 1922 the bombings of world war ii and the tension between ireland, northern ireland, and the united kingdom. prime minister may to speak in northern ireland. we will touch in on that conversation in a bit. nejra cehic in london. i'm tom keene in new york. with us is viraj patel with ing. this shows us the second derivative on pacific rim weakness. pacific rim currencies as shown by adxy, a bundle currencies without japan. it has some acceleration and some velocity. it is amazing the weakness in pacific rim, down to standard deviations plus. what does it mean? viraj: the source of the risk of that move is the weakness in the yuan. by extension, when we look at the catalyst for this move in the chinese yuan,

and when he got to washington. there was a special stone landing. on the creek there and they took a little creek, and they put, made a locks. the stones were lifted up and then oxen put them to the building site. please remember in all of this, these stones were. extremely heavy. and they had none of the conveniences we do. here we are in the quarry again. here's some apparently inferior stones this is a wonderful one at the top of a tree root running through it that split it. it was one of the first issues was splitting the stones. it's a sandstone. here's the only house i know of that was ever built out of it and that's just the facade. that's replaced today by limestone. it was originally a quarry stone and it was so deteriorated, since 1976, they replaced it with limestone in the restoration. you'll be interested to know that general braddock came here. he was the home of john carlyle, another scott, a very prom net scot. one of the leading people of alexandria. and general braddock headed for what became the

he returns to washington, d.c. once that series of meetings concludes. >> this morning, washington journal talks with ben rhodes about his new memoir as well as trump administration policy decisions. >> ben rhodes is former national security adviser with the obama administration, speech writer, as well, for the duration of the obama administration. joining us this morning to talk about his new book "the world as it is." you write in that book that the whole reason for coming to washington in the first place and later meeting then senator barack obama was your experience in new york on september 11th. tell us about that and how that brought you to washington. >> you know, i was on a totally different course in life. i wanted to be a writer. i was working on political campaigns. and on 9/11, it was election day. i was standing at a polling site and had a clear view of the second plane hitting and the first tower falling and i knew whatever i was going to do in my life -- i was 24 years old -- was going to be about wh