john adams wrote only a moral and religious people can self-govern. we've enjoyed self-governance now for 242 years. that moral religious high ground that john adams was referencing is founded in the truth of the bibles -- truths of the bible. if each of us is free to decide what is true on our own, we're in brig trouble. because that's when -- big trouble. because that's where our nation is leading us today. we're separating ourselves from that moral high ground that's laid out in the bible in very clear and convincing terms, to our own peril. there are lots of things going on in this nation that god can't bless. most of us, i would argue, would say we're a blessed nation. blessed with resources. blessed with oceans on both sides, that protected us during infancy of our nation. blessed with hardworking people. but are we in fact a blessable people? when gods looks at america today, does he look at a people who are blessable? or worthy of being blessed? we've got things going on in our nation today, mr. speaker, that are an abomination. we have killed

jackson had more than 40,000 votes than his closest competitor john quincy adams. it's pertinent to the constitutional prescriptions for the referring of these men to the question. they ge had beaten crawford in e popular vote at more than 6,000 but he had one louisiana on part of the adams and jackson camps in the legislature. they are going to go before the house. this clearly shows comparing the popular vote to the orange of the electoral ones was in short a pointless exercise because of the complicated nature of the question which i'm sure you'll agree is fairly complicated for the manipulating public opinion. consequentially the pressure to influence house members with these claims was intense and persistent. the house would take up the question until february 9, the team 25 which gave the supporters of adams and crawford more than enough to cobble together the simple majority in the house necessary fo house nee victory and they also quoted one another with promises seeking pledges of support and the operatives moving between the other two, bending the truth a

john adams reads the speech, says it's the best speech he has ever read. it's going to be read 500 years from now. it should be read at the end of every year, reread. sent to all of the schools. it does get sent to all of the schools. the pilgrims are the origin of america because as he says in this speech, the moment they arrive, democracy arrives with them. the moment they arrived, christian institutions came with them. you see this sense of an origin as a pure origin, with the moment of arrival is the key step, the key beginning in the whole history of america. he of course sketches that forward all the way to the present day. what you see after that is the spread of all of this stuff through education. and education is this important way of how do you get ideas from someone like justice speaker and a speech like websters to a much broader population of the public? one of ways you do that is through education and through textbooks. and one of the first sort of histories of america, even though it's this sort of pilgrim-centered history of america is web

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you can unpack each of those only a virtuous people john adams says capable of freedom. today that's become good. for them and included honesty, loyalty, patriotism and above all character, because of those values. character. i have a gun in front of me, but john adams loves words like inalienable, indefeasible, but there is one sentence where you put them all together. you read it and think of the movie have to freedom, right? nope. indefeasible right of the people to know the character of their leader. if you think character is the bridge between followers and leaders, followers will never know what a leader is making his or her decisions. if they can trust the character they trust the leader in the dark. equally, some leaders are so powerful virtually nothing except character. if you look at the history of american presidents, character is often the crucial flaw. take the nixon nixon presidency was nixon's insecurity, whatever, you start to see the problems they grow. it's always coming out of character. now that is rejected totally today. you remember in the clinton

john quincy adams wrote in his burenthat martin van looks a lot like aaron burr. he acts like him. organizeing to factions in political alliances together. at 8:00 on q&a. on c-span, the fda talkssioner and others about the latest advances in cancer treatment and patient care. you can watch the event tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span. podcast.o c-span's part one of an interview with three nationally known historians. they share historical context for the trump presidency. johnson.this as andrew somebody who has impeachment swirling around him and is not able to heal a racial divide in the country. >> there is animosity between the press and presidents as early as john adams. he is the person who is pushing for the sedition act. what that does is actually tries to prevent criticism of the government. the weekly on the free c-span radio app or wherever you go for podcasts. >> with the new congress with the new congress starting in january, the brookings institution hosted a discussion on how the makeup of the new members could impact the defense budget.

john quincy adams once wrote in his martin van buren diary that looked a lot like burr. and ask a lot like him. he is always trying to organize factions and get southerners and northerners and political alliances. that is how you build a political party. you can call it sneaky or party building. van buren also met jefferson and the 1820's when he started to think of a great national party. he went to monticello and strategized with his hero over a couple of days. he loved visiting jefferson. he used his time in the senate to meet a lot of people from different regions. he met virginians especially. that was where the idea of the modern democratic party began. a new york-virginia alliance. van buren pulls in new york, which has a ton of electoral votes. if you want to win the election you need new york. and was a guy named thomas ritchie, they became friends. this is how the new party is going to work. they pick andrew jackson as their candidate. jackson wins. he is grateful to van buren. and after all of the social turmoil in the first jackson administration, jackson orc

why didn't john adams sign it? he was in london. so a lot of people think -- of course you're thinking of the declaration of independence when you're talking about thomas jefferson. interesting little tidbits there. as you all know, the bill of rights were not included as it was signed by those delegates and promulgated in 1788. it went out to the states, the ten amendments for ratification and they were ratified in 1791. three years after the constitution, the bill of rights was added. another interesting tidbit here, there were not originally ten amendments, there were 12 amendments. but they went out for ratification. the requisite number of states, three quarters of the states ratified ten of them. there was an 11th amendment b, was an interesting amendment. it said that no member of congress' pay could be increased until there was an intervening election. makes sense, doesn't it? yeah. but it never made it. 1982 a young sophomore at the university of texas by the name of gregory watson was doing a term paper, a history term pap

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our first ambassador was john quincy adams. we have been involved with a new library, including this new library that president putin said he is going to build. it is going to be in st. petersburg. it will be named after yeltzin, his predecessor. i was asked to give industries on that, which i did. and we have a program hatched bite the library called open world that has brought more than 11,000 emerging young leaders from the former soviet union for short, but intensive stays in different communities to stay in people's homes. so we have a lot of projects, most of which are library centered that we were celebrating there. and the concert that he gave, and also the 75th anniversary of the spaso house, a great place for russians and visiting americans. so we had an intense and interesting time there, consolidating some of the programs we have with them. >> let me interrupt you and ask you. you made a comment about 11,000 russians coming to this country. explain how that works? >> it is called open world. it is modeled on the mar

there is an animosity between the president as early as john adams as the person pushing towards the sedition act and what that does is absolutely tries to this criticism on the governmenof thegovernment and t. the new book on reading well how literature can cultivate virtue in readers and she talked about the boothe declared worthless py institute in washington. this funds for 45 minutes. i'm the president of the clare booth luce center for conservative women and i want to thank you all for coming and welcome you to october. the coalition relations coordinator standing up for heritage today. heritage and clever fluids have beeclear fluids havebeen puttinn with outstanding conservative women for almost 20 years now and it's a pleasure for us to come here once a month. i am pleased to introduce the speaker karen swallow prior discussing her new book, it is a little one but a good one on reading while finding the good life through a literature. in her book she chooses a number of great books of western literature and explorers in each one a single virtue of justice, love and the result

president john adams nominated the 36-year-old, bushrod washington, to the supreme court. >> a new category, supreme scandals. let's first check in with madison. we have a tie. all right. team madison, are you ready? >> this is the best category. >> who is the only justice to resign under threat of impeachment? >> [inaudible] light he hadame to accepted a bribe in exchange for seeking a presidential pardon for a former client who was faced with securities fraud charges. >> all right. killed a man in a duel? in fairness, there are two possible answers. >> surprising though it may be, there are two. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> maybe we should go with that. >> go with your first instinct. >> marshall. i'm sorry, it's not marshall. there are two. >> let's see if team madison wants to steal. team madison? >> our first answer is stephen field. >> no. >> can we give another one? [laughter] >> why not? >> livingston. >> that is correct. do we give them half a point? duel, iselds wasn't a that the idea? why don't you share what happened in the two duels? >> justice henry was punched in the nose by

and benjamin franklin and john adams review that work and they make 80 changes. 80 changes, mr. speaker. it just shows that no matter how good the author is, once it's turned over to a committee, there will be change. and of those 80 changes, about 25% of the declaration of independence that we know today, one of those changes speaks to the heart of the friendship, the underlying friendship between the british and american people. for one of their changes was jefferson's poignant lament and it reads as this. we might have been a free and great people together. so that was taken out of the document, even though jefferson outlined the 27 grieveances, why america should separate itself from great britain. so i like to reflect on that when we flash forward to winston churchill coming to america in 1946 and speaking at westminster college in missouri, and he toasted what he called the fraternal association of the english speaking peoples. he said in that talk, we must never cease to proclaim in fearless townes the great principles of freedom -- tones the great principles of freedoms

franklin was on first design committee which also included thomas jefferson and john adams. in the end, the secretary of the continental congress, charles thompson, used ideas from three different committees to come up with the great seal. that's it for this edition of "matter of fact." we will see you back here next week from washington, d.c. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ robert handa: hello and welcome to a special edition of "asian pacific america." i'm robert handa, your host for our show here on nbc bay area and cozi tv. today, we help join the fight against hunger. today's show focuses on the annual food drive as nbc bay area kntv and telemundo 48 ksts team up with safeway's "feed the need" food drive for a campaign to end hunger, a drive which started yesterday, november 17th, and will continue all the way through christmas day. last year, the food drive collected more than 350,000 bags at safeway stores across the bay area, amounting to more than 4 million p

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and dependence, john adams thomas jefferson, old arch rivals, second and third president both die. and you have all of these speeches celebrating, of course, the declaration, right. so come them ration through the a big booming business. there are speeches and memorials the time.orations all this is again the building of a public history, right. memorials and monuments are super important. t's how a people make their identity and remembers it in all of these civic rituals and all these ways to building a cultural identity. one of those commemorations 1820 because, of course, it's 200 years since the pilgrims.f the so one thing to keep in mind is the pilgrims were celebrated but mostly in new england. from s, if you're charleston, you're like the pilgrims who? me, s this important to right. nd by -- in 1820, partly through the work of this guy daniel webster, the pilgrims nationalized.me they start to become a national origin story. in speech that he gives 1820 is one of the ways that begins to happen. daniel webster, anyone remember who daniel webster is? you guys cover daniel webs

. >> there is a real animosity between the president and congress as early as john adams. he is the person pushing toward the sedition act of 1798. what that does is try to prevent criticism of the government and the president. >> find c-span's the weekly on the free c-span radio app, or wherever you go for podcasts. welcomeuld like to michael ferrin for coming here today, were going to talk about what arlington, virginia, and new york city gave out to amazon. study of the large-scale bidding war that went on around the country for hq2 for amazon. guest: what i found is the average size of the bid was billion, at least the probably available bid. many were secret. if you look at the academic research, it finds they don't actually change the location decision. the vast majority of the time cities and states are wasting aliens of dollars every year. host: what is a company like amazon book for? what were they looking for and what it arlington and new york city have that they would have with or without the subsidies? guest: the number one thing firms look for, and the researc

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john quincy adams once wrote in his diary that martin van buren looks a lot like aaron burr and ask a lot like him. always trying to organize factions. announcer: sunday night at eight eastern on c-span q and a. and the runoff election for mississippi senate seat, republican cindy hyde-smith faces democrat mike and their only scheduled debate. neither candidate receives 50% of the vote and the general election prompting a runoff. do to healthnted reasons. this debate is about 50 minutes. welcome toning and the senate debate 2018 with republican senator cindy highsmith and democrat mike sp. have jeff and courtney and jackson and caleb. the canada's have chosen at random the order for the opening and closing statements. and you will take the first question. they will let two minutes to answer east and one minute for rebuttal. candidates may have an additional 30 seconds to respond to questions. the league of women voters will take care of our time and we want to get right to our. >> thank you. to our timekeepers, to the senators, thank you for green to the debate. and to the audience th

just a year after president washington left office, president john adams nominated the 36-year-old, bushrod washington, to the supreme court. elizabeth: all right. we are moving to a new category, supreme scandals. let's first check in with madison. we have a tie. all right. team madison, are you ready? sheldon: this is the best category. [laughter] elizabeth: who is the only justice to resign under threat of impeachment? >> [inaudible] elizabeth: that is correct. after it came to light he had accepted a bribe in exchange for seeking a presidential pardon for a former client who was faced with securities fraud charges. sheldon: all right. which justice killed a man in a duel? which justice killed a man in a duel? in fairness, there are two possible answers. elizabeth: surprising though it may be, there are two. >> [inaudible] [laughter] >> maybe we should go with that. sheldon: i think go with your first instinct. >> marshall. sheldon: i'm sorry, it's not marshall. there are two. elizabeth: let's see if team madison wants to steal. team madison? >> our first answer is stephen field. elizabe

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people -- john quincy adams once wrote in his diary, i saw it, that martin van buren looks a lot like aaron berger. he is always trying to organize factions and get southerners and northerners in political alliances together. announcer: tonight at 8:00 eastern, on c-span's q&a. weeklyto c-span's podcast care this week, part one of a two-part interview with three nationally known presidential historians. douglas brinkley, and richard norton smith who share historical context for the trump presidency. >> i see him as an andrew johnson like president. meaning someone who has impeachment swirling around him and someone who is not able to close or heal a racial divide in the country. -- a reals a real animosity between the press and president as early as john adams. because he is the person who is pushing for the sedition act of 1798. what that does is it actually tries to prevent criticism of the government and the president. announcer: find a c-span's the weekly on the free c-span radio app under the podcast or wherever you go for podcasts. now, from harvard law school, judges and legal

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is there an evil thing sends with the scholarship of john adams and those that are educated and throwing it and in many ways flawed but is less well-educated but more humility than any of them? >> in the subtitle and referred to the genius of george washington that he was a very different kind of genius from someone like hamilton. he could just dive into things and washington had that ability to sort through the static of life and figure out what was the most important thing to do in the early years of the revolution it was hard for them but he came to the understanding that laid it all out in the interest of this country he would have to put his tendencies aside and write a defensive war. they realized the naval superiority it is the only way we can win this thing. particularly when it came to the chesapeake and new york it was that strategic understanding that would be realized in a situation in which no one had control. they would look back and say he didn't understand we have it all figured out. if he decided with the arrival to retrieve to the carolinas he would have escaped and tha

you can unpack each of those, only virtuous people, john adam says, capable of freedom. by virtue, today that's become a goodie. for them, and included honesty, loyalty, patriotism and above all, character. they had been a person of integrity because of those values. character. there is a -- john adams, he loves words like indivisible, indelible, there is one sentence where he puts them altogether. you read it and you think is he moving up to freedom? right? no. he's talking about the indivisible and valuable, whatever. right of the people to know the character of their leader. if you think, character is the bridge between followers and leaders, followers will never know why leaders making their decisions. if they can trust the character, they trust the leader and the job. equally, some leaders are so powerful, nothing christine restrains him. except character. if you look at the history of american presidents, characters often crucial crucial -- nixon presidency, with his insecurity, whatever, you start to see problems, it's always coming out. character. that's rejected

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i think about the diplomatic career than if i think about john adams. it may be because that reputation preceded him as a man of genius and science. i think you'd sell you sell him a little short in the assumption of course it was only possible because the french had such a huge regard for him. that was how he really made his name in france. people often say the greatest country in the world is great britain. france was still the greatest power in europe. but by no means. the greatest empire. but the french head. it was the sign that one them the respect. the diplomacy certainly had to be done. you should always remember it was the french navy that really sort of won the revolutionary war. so do you think there's anything left now to do about franklin do you think we now had a sort of complete understanding or complete enough understanding of him that we can sort of close the book on him is there something more you would think of. there is still so much control and there. about exactly what role he played in politics for example. the point about this bo

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and eventually as a compromise a government of national unity was formed a former finance minister john adam on piano is promising the poor nation a new phase in his development if elected but his government was accused of corruption transparency international has accused him of being involved in the trafficking of endangered rosewood in accordance with constitutional requirements he's since stepped down as president in order to stand for reelection. on the entry to the start of what do all's i was never involved in the road would story you think if i was involved we wouldn't have hesitated to send the president to court but i tell you i was even the person who was fighting obvious route trade was. also contesting the presidency is the man who preceded it has gone out on piano as president. came to power in two thousand and nine following a military coup young and known for his charisma the former deejays popular attracting big numbers to his campaign rallies once the mayor of the capital antananarivo he says his rise to power what was the result of a popular uprising he replaced presid

john quincy adams once wrote in his diary that martin van buren looks a lot like aaron burr. and that's a lot like aaron burr. and would get southerners northerners and blood alliances. announcer: sunday night at eight eastern. listen to c-span's the weekly print this week part one of a two-part interview with historians. douglas brinkley, edna green and richard norton smith. >> i see him as an andrew johnson like president. meaning someone who has impeachment swirling around him close orne not able to do what the racial divide. >> there is a real animosity between the press and presidents as early as john adams because he is the person who was pushing for this edition act of 1798. what that does is tries to predict racism of the government and president. announcer: on the free c-span radio app. or wherever you go for podcasts. new congressen the starts in january, there we more than 100 new house and senate members for the democrats will binge on the house, the republicans the senate. new congress, new leaders. watch the process unfold on c-span. announcer: former president

. >> there is a real animosity between the press and the president as early as john adams because he is the person pushing for the sedation act of 1798. what it does is try to prevent criticism of the government and of the president. weekly"c-span's "the under the free c-span radio app. >> now, a roundtable with political journalists on media and politics, the media landscape and how reporters jobs are changing. this is about an hour. kevin: ladies and gentlemen, thank you. i want to introduce myself. my name is kevin butterfield. i am the new executive director of the washington library. the national library for the study of george washington here at mount vernon. [applause] kevin: thank you. i think you can sense i needed that encouragement. i have been on the job for five weeks. [laughter] kevin: i am thrilled and excited by it. i want to thank you for your support of washington library and being here tonight. we had great events like this on regular occasions. we have a three lecture series called the george washington lecture series. we've already had one, but there are two more

as early as john adams. he's the person who is putting for this act. what that does is, it applies to prevent criticism of the government. >> by c-span on the freak c-span radio at. under the podcast tab. >> the state department countered terrorism, was questioned on capitol hill. the subcommittee on terrorism, trade, asked ambassador nathan about the administration of counterterrorism policy.

mark: and yet, this president has been relatively passive with action, on media, john adams. locked up journalists, be a abrm lincoln order, new york news paper prinked printed a fake pt at proclamation, he ordered his generals to arrest the journalists. woodrow wilson set up an intelligence operation again the media, and obama after reporters, trump has not done that. >> he has an affect psychologically on the journalists, he conveys idea he has no respect for him, he has contempt they have violated their journallive -- journalistic ethical. you remember obama went after ap reporters and james rosen at fox, he said in a campaign trail, you should debate sean hannity, i think he said you will tear him up, if trump said, you would tear somebody up, for them, something about trump, his speech, mannerism, appear answer, is not just journalists he is an a4 affront to their -- >> could it be his existent because he fights back and calls them out by name. saying fake news that is the enemy of the people. >> i think so. sources -- we know a lot of cases it did not happen, a person w

one of the great men of this place who doesn't get enough credit, john quincy adams. he'd been president of the united states and after he stepped down in a not particularly notable presidency, the people asked him to stand for the people's house to represent them here in the house of representatives. he thought about it and he served here with distinction as a cantankerous old man and the right of the people to petition the congress. he was censored for it and for 15 years the house would not hear petitions against slavery. ultimately, he prevailed. he led the trial on behalf of the mute ineers rate down the hall in the old supreme court where the terrible dread scott decision was rendered and john quincy adam his a rare victory against slavery in the case all right here in this building. let's hope, as we celebrate this great occasion that we will all do honor to the memories, that we will rectify the wrongs and pick the rights to champion that this place will always live up, ultimately, to the beacon of hope it represents not only for our people, but for those stru

john quincy adams once wrote in is diary that martin van buren looks a lot like aaron burr and cts a lot like aaron burr. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. c-span where history unfolds daily. in 1979 c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and today we continue to bring you unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c-span is broug to you by your cable or satellite provider. when the new congress starts in january, there will be more than 100 new house and senate members the democrats will control the house. the republicans the senate. new congress, new leaders. watch the process unfold on -span. >> each week, american artifacts takes you to museums and historic laces to learn about american history. in 1619, 35 english settlers arrived in berkeley, virginia. upriver from jamestown. we talked to graham woodlief, descendent of the group's leader, captain john woodlief, about how these colonists celebrated the first english thanks

. >> there is a real animosity between the president that as early as john adams he is the person who is petitioning toward the sedition act. that tries to prevent criticism james freeman writes about citigroup in the history of government bailouts taking part at the cato institute in washington d.c.. this is an hour.

john adams put in place the sedition act. he put journalists in prison. lincoln putton executive order. they shutdown 300 newspapers and put the journalists and editors in prison. and woodrow wilson, he had the sedition act of 1918 and did the same thing. put journalists in prison and some of his opponents. donald trump has not done anything like this. he is not rounding up legal immigrants or putting journalists in prison. they refer to him as hitler and stalin. then, we have this policy where we separate children from their parents who come here illegally not because we want to put them in cages like obama did but to protect the children from coyotes and kid snapper. -- kidnappers. it was roosevelt who put japanese-americans in internment campus. they don't call him hitler or stalin. i will even go here. they attack our president. they say a womanizer and bring stormy daniels in front of tv left and right. this president has been our president. he conducted himself in the oval office with great accumen. people are laughing. jfk had affairs constantly wi

is a real animosity between the press and president as early as john adams. he is pushing for the sedition act, and what that does is it actually tries to prevent criticism of the government and of the president >> find c-span's the weekly under the podcast cap or wherever you go for podcasts. >> on tuesday, the senate judiciary committee held a confirmation hearing on five of president that -- president trump's nominees. this is just over two hours. >> [inaudible conversations] chairman grassley, ranking member leahy and colleagues thanks for being here on a cold wet morning to allow me to voice my support for the louisiana native james came who's been nominated to be united states district judge for the western district of louisiana. a junior at the university of texas and a freshman at smu. he attended the state university in lakstate universityin lake cl scholarship where i think this is the most interesting thing he was roommates with future star james dumars. after getting his degree in finance he went on to attend law school at baton rouge where he gra

by john quincy adams once wrote in his diary that martin van buren looks a lot like ehrenberg -- aaron burr, and he asked a lot like aaron burr. he's always trying to organize factions and get southerners and northerners in political alliances together. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> on tuesday, secretary of state mike pompeo briefed reporters on issues, including iran sanctions and north korea's nuclear program. secretary pompeo: good afternoon, everyone. happy thanksgiving. i want to touch on five topics today. first, the united states today sanctioned an international network that the iranian regime and russia are using to provide millions of barrels of oil to the assad regime. this is in exchange for the movement of hundreds of millions of dollars to the irgc quds force. that money is then passed on to terrorist organizations like hezboallah and hamas. the united states, in its continued efforts, will not allow these dirty dealings to flourish. iran will not be allowed to exploit the international financial system, to hide revenue streams it uses to fund terror

john quinncy adam has a stroke in the house. lincoln's assassination, french at the bedside. it's amazing. actually gettysburg address. i get to brag about the photos i found. there are a couple of photos in the book i really -- when you write a book you think to yourself this took two months but no one will know that. there is one image in the book of a congressman named john dawson from louisiana who is scarey. he is a fighting man. he is the bowie knife guy. i see -- this is good. >> i read the book. >> i can totally tell. >> i like the fact you act it out for me. feel very encouraged. very encouraged. thank you. and the shirt, too. so, no -- but he is scarey. when you look in the book and see the portrait he looks like a disturbed individual. well i wanted to show what he looked like. he is a pretty obscure guy. i tracked down -- thank you very much -- there he is. i tracked down the one portrait of him, one portrait of him. it was sold years ago at an auction house in louisiana. i tracked it to the auction house and haunted this poor woman like, hi, it's me again. i real