they can see that washington was important. recognize washington today? >> i think she would recognize certain parts of it. he might recognize some of the streets because he was part of that survey mission. but i think from washington's perspective, he had always envisioned the city as the capital of an empire, a great, international power. the u.s. had a lot of other but hisn its plate, vision of this place being a place of power, one that would andess visiting dignitaries a place to educate citizens, i think you can see those. questions from our audience. if you have a question, just raise your hand. anybody? >> i promised you a question. , some in prep fdr -- some presidents were entombed with their libraries. i believe the tombs of the museums are not part of the national archives system, but they are attached to papers. was any effort made after washington's death to link his legacy to his papers, that the nation could buy and own? try to washington family sell his papers to country? instancesere some with washington's paper is. said he would write t

>> the washington family. had the the ones who marthaty and this was -- had technically given her consent, she agreed to it. rotunda wasn't built so it was sort of a pipe dream and wouldn't be finished until sort of a was foregone issue and when it came things had changed a lot politically and sexualism so they said martha approved it, different different ives had perspectives of how the will should be interpreted or artha's letters should be interpreted and it boiled down say he nians tended to is in his native state. was virginian so they are their stamp on him. members of the national think ent liked to delaware has as much claim, or new york or pennsylvania. so, this issue of entombment the things happening between different political parties. how did word spread that george washington had died? reaction as the nationally? how did people mourn and grieve just mount vernon but across the country? pretty s picked up quickly starting with the then up to eorgazette massachusetts and south to georgia. week, soo

george washington. what was the relationship like between president george washington and mary ball washington russian mark . >>this is a great question . he's chosen as president of the united states. and he's got to go to new york now, new york being the first capital of the united states. he's got to go there to assemble a government , assume the first chief executive. but before he does, we format he makes one last trip to fredericksburg. and he knows and he goes knowing that his mother signed cancer she knows she's dying of cancer. there were two contemporaneous accounts of letters that the meeting, the last meeting between the two of them was very tender. very, very warm. and she basically acknowledged his, finally acknowledged what he had done in his life had been great and she basically gave her blessings to go to new york to assume the office of president of the united states to do what he had to do the whole country together by all accounts, his last meeting with her was a very warm one. now,

would we talk about washington, d.c. being one of the most heavily fortified cities in the world, this is what we are talking about. maybe not what the defense of washington look like. they were cheap. by the time the civil war begins, they could knock down stone walls. these were only temporary. we are going to build these forts, secure the federal capital and when the war is over, we will return the land back to the land owners. we have the wall itself. it is about six feet deep. you see the sharpened sticks. from the birdseye view you can see the fort. the men can stand there if they are under fire. you could see where they store the ammunition and the powder. these forts were designed differently. they adhered them to the ground they were sitting on. depending on what it looked like, they designed it to look a certain way. as you can see, there is an image here of what they call the arlington line. you could see the design covering as much space as they could. every avenue of approach to the city will be covered. the

so you see washington crossing the sea. up --n row, who ends james monroe, who ends up being a president. the betsy ross flag used in the painting. flag was not being used in 1776, but we already know how the story ends, so he includes that. variety of people in that boat, which was just like the makeup of the army, a variety of different types of people. ♪ ♪ ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] university of washington history professor margaret o'mara discusses her book "the code: silicon valley and the remaking of america." you have whatace, eisenhower labeled the military-industrial complex. that becomes the foundation for this entrepreneurial flywheel of incredible creation and innovation and private wealth creation. and in fact, an industry that is considered an industry that built itself on its own, that become almostrnment has invisible to the people who

i outside of washington i know i have to prove it. i have to prove to earn your trust and your support. through my vote, through my priorities, if my actions. and that is exactly what i am going to do. thank you and may we've god bless georgia and may we've god bless america. [applause] >> will see a couple of questions. [inaudible conversation] >> absolutely i will be running in november and here's why. you just heard that i am a defender of the american dreams and american ideals, i want to fight socialism. side-by-side with president trump. >> [inaudible conversation] >> no second thoughts at all. [laughter] i am here, with a conviction my beliefs and the greatness of america and i want to protect that. i'm going to fight very hard, but for americans and the ideals that made us) and redoubled my conviction that we need to win in november. >> let me just see this to some of the conservative pushback. now is the great opportunity to really see the truth and the facts to learn about the real kelly. you heard it here today, there is be

if you think of washington, d.c. as shaped like a diamond, fort stevens is at the tip of the diamond near where the old walter reed army medical center is. fort stevens is still there today. it's reconstructed. we will get to that in a minute. his is fort stevens today. the only one that still stands -- i can be corrected on this, but the only one that still stands is fort ward, which is in alexandria. it's open to the public. the other ones are all gone. you know the area of fort reno. there were lots of others. like i said, they were defensive forts. they were well fortified with guns. they were open to the inside. who was manning these forts? we have a problem if we are the union right now in 1864. basically every able-bodied man was out there with grant trying to choke out lee down in richmond. originally we think that those forts were designed to be manned by 40,000, 50,000 troops. but because the -- all of those troops were engaged elsewhere, because the confederates had never attacked washington before, what w

glover and his regiment stayed in washington. the first time after the disastrous model of long island, 9000r and his men drove men across the lower east river from brooklyn into what is the modern day brooklyn into lower manhattan. then again at pelz point when cornwallis was planning, he sailed up the east river and was planning to march and trap washington in manhattan. off 4000 british and hessian troops. they suffered somewhere between 700 and 800 casualties. >> we advance forward to the section of pennsylvania and around the 22nd of november glover marches into this area and camps of the hill near where the washington headquarters were. and washington called him to his headquarters and tells him what he wants to do. river.00 feet of iraqi , glover mutters to washington and says it is impossible. washington says to glover, i did not ask you. i ask you if you could do it. looks back and says colonel washington, my roughriders can do it. us that is when washington made the final decision to go ahead with this which did save th

--er the battle of manassas theiles from washington, defenses of washington are all but complete and you will get an excellent talk tomorrow. i will go over the highlights a little bit. there were 68 forts around washington. kind of like a beltway. took overunion troops northern virginia, a bunch of them were on the other side of the potomac and alexandria was considered part of washington, d.c. back then. defensive -- they were not extensive forts. they were open on the inside and we have a couple pictures from the time. this is fort stevens, which we will talk about later. , d cu think of washington as sheet like a diamond, this was the tip of the diamond near where the walter reed medical center is. .t is still there today this is fort stevens today. stands, one that still and i could be corrected on this , the only one that still stands and it is open to the public. you know the area of fort reno and washington. .here were defensive forts well fortified with guns. who was manning these four? with the unionem in 1864. basically every able-bodied man was with grant trying to choke

saved washington's army is from being encircled by the british. and then it tells coin and then he sealed up the east river, and was planning to march across, and trap washington in manhattan. never once again, with 700, men held off 4000 british and hessian troops. the british took between seven and 800 casualties i saw that he wasn't attacked to escape from manhattan and to fight another day. and then we fast forward to washington -- the section of pennsylvania and around the 22nd of december, glover marches into this area and he camps up the hill near where washington headquarters were, and washington calls him to his headquarters and tells him what he wants to do, cross 800 feet of iraqi i strewn river, or under cover of darkness, and by the, way the barometer is falling and we could be looking at some weather, and lover modest to washington and says, your excellency, it is impossible. washington says to clever, colonel, glover i did not ask you to assess possibilities, i asked you if you could do it, a colonel weber thanks for a second and sa

his washington in washington was in its 40th edition. he continually added more and more material based on folklore which today most historians regard as probably not accurate or not true. but it was a washington that people wanted to hear about. he was relatable. he seemed more ordinary and had worked really hard at improving himself and getting to the point where he needed to. now, weems doesn't really talk about how washington made his money. a big part of it is his marriage to martha. that is where a lot of his fortune came from. but again, putting out this different image of washington as being much more humble, much more folksy, it just resonated with more americans in the 19th century. and then we start to see these visuals where the new tomb, the old tomb they coincide with the rise of what is called hudson river school. and part of what this school of artistic expression was getting at was highlighting the bounty and the discovered richness of the american landscape. so you'll -- you'll probably see -- you can see examples of th

every life is a blessing and that is part of the reason i'm going to washington. [applause] we had one of the toughest fights we have seen in our state and a longtime starting with a heartbeat pill and i can assure you we wouldn't be sending anyone to washington, d.c. because of the belief the same thing we stood up and believed for. that is what the fight is about. us and our valuethis is about oe believe here in georgia. [applause] [inaudible] thank you for asking that. being raised on a farm in support of the fair trade and being tough on china and making sure we get the usmc a past and have fair treatment under the trade law. >> i have great appreciation the more i've learned about the trade fight with china i believe that as well. one of the interesting things in the due diligence that we did in this process i grew up on a family farm in southern illinois. my brother still calls me for advice. she said i knew more about the commodity pricing futures than i did when i was a child because my mother would write this down on a kitchen table napkin for my dad and

i am in the washington, d.c. offices right now, this came with an incredible opportunity for me to express my thoughts and views about the political climate as well as connect with local and state leaders. i'm extremely excited that you are interested in this and pursuing this. it is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. >> there is still time for you to enter the c-span studentcam video competition. you have until january 20 to complete a documentary that explores an issue you want the presidential candidates to address. we are giving away a total of $100,000 in cash prizes with again prize -- grand prize of $5,000. for more information, go to our website. sunday on "the presidency" university of texas professor at austin professor and produce university professor talk about impeachment including the current proceedings against president trump. always played a vital role in the investigation and adjudication of a legend presidential misconduct. congress has investigated many presidents for misconduct, following the

host: we talked about mary ball washington and a young george washington. will you talk a little bit about mary ball washington and adult george washington? what was the relationship between president george washington and mary ball washington? question.s is a good he's chosen as president of the united states, and he has got to go to new york, being the first capital of the united states, has to go there to assemble a government and assume the duties as the first chief executive, but before he does leave for mount vernon, new york, he makes one last ship to fredericksburg, and he goes knowing his mother is dying of cancer. she knows she is dying of cancer. there are two contemporary accounts of letters at the last meeting between the two of them warm, and shery basically acknowledged, finally acknowledged, what he done in his life had been great. she basically gave her blessings to go to new york to assume the office of president of the united states and do what he had to do to pull the country together, so by all accounts, his last meeting with her was a

washington? we've heard the story about george washington. why write about his mother? >> because she's a misunderstood figure of history. she's been badly treated by american history. there's never been a definitive biography done of george washington's mother which i find remarkable. it's not just because she had him. that would be too easy an answer. it's how she raised him. her husband, augustine, died when george was just 11 years old. mary was a single mother in her 30s raising 6 children. that alone i think would resonate with a lot of women in america today and the tough times she went through raising her children. there was a -- when she was referred to biographers from time of her passing until about the time of the civil war, she came across this kind of june cleaver, or mary, mother of christ, or whatever. after the civil war when realism began to take hold in american literature with "moby dick" and "tom sawyer" and all that, the biographers made her look more like joan crawford. bot

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hello and welcome to cross talk where all things considered i'm peter lavelle the washington consensus led by the united states says the liberal world order must be defended at almost all costs said differently the foreign policy blog demands the post cold war you know polar moment served but alas it would seem the multipolar world has already arrived. cross talking of multipolar world i'm joined by my guest james detritus in washington he's a former u.s. diplomat and former advisor to the u.s. senate republican leadership also in washington brian becker he is director of the answer coalition as well as host of loud and clear daily new show on radio or a gentleman crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate james let me go to you 1st i'm the reason i want to do this program at the end of the year is because we tend to look at events in a micro fashion you know what's going on in this country that country trump administration brags that you know which of course we do in the news media but i sometimes think that we love we missed the very

what you need to know is that it did not run in "the washington post." the post pulled the cartoon because it was a pro-eisenhower paper. and mr. block was pro-stevenson. and very adamant about that in his car toonz. and they felt that mr. block's opinion of eisenhower failing to control mccarthy and nixon went too far and might perhaps persuade voters not to vote for him. and so it didn't run. it did run in the areas where mr. block was syndicated, the other newspapers. what you also need to know about this cartoon is that "washington post" readers missed it. they knew a cartoon had appeared elsewhere, but it hadn't appeared in their hometown paper, and they were angry. and "the washington post" ran every single cartoon that mr. block chose to draw after that. he had a lot of power at the poe post as a cartoonist. we can see his art style has evolved to a very loose drawing style, but much more loose, he uses a lot of graphite, a lot of ink brush. and he's using a coquille board, a stippled board so it really grabs the pencil and grifbz it a nice textur

an author craig shirley discusses his new book "mary ball washington: the untold story of george washington's mother." washington journal mugs are available at these fans new online store. 02 c-span store.org and check out the washington journal mugs and see all of the c-span products. on the next q&a, the professor of medicine at columbia university takes a critical look at cancer treatment in the u.s. and how patient care can be improved. that is sunday at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span. after a two-day debate, the house judiciary committee voted 23-17 along party lines to improve -- to approve two articles of impeachment. headrticles of impeachment to the full house for consideration. here is the 10 minute session comprised entirely of to vote. >> the judiciary committee will come to order, a quorum being present. having agreed to the articles of impeachment against president donald j. trump. the pending business is reporting -- reporting quorum being present, the question is now in the motion to approve the resolution hres 755 to pass the motion favorably to the house. pursuant to cla

you could smoke in bars in washington. they did it with the wing back chairs, and the velvet booths and the dark burgundy walls, and somebody had the brainstorm that they wanted to do cartoons for art. the original genesis and collection on the wallace was from walls was from art wood, who ended up donating his collection to the library of congress. since then i got involved in 2018 thanks to my buddy, richard thompson when they wanted to update the caricatures to stuff that was more current. the wood collection went back to the 60's, 70's and 80's, and then there was a big gap. the thing happening in the bar was the newer clients didn't recognize the people from the nixon and reagan add strayings. so they wanted people from the clinton and obama administrations. that is when richard tom, who passed away a couple of years ago was brought information he was an astounding caricaturist. he was the top flight at the time. he did a lot of stuff for u.s. news and world report and the new yorker. so richard came in with portfolio

if you read "the washington post" between 72 and 1974 between the time the watergate scandal broke out and the time president nixon resigned, you opened the pages to see 174 cartoons attacking the president on watergate alone. he had drawn nixon coming out of a sewer during the eisenhower administration and with the exception of the free shave he gave him as a newly elected president which is now in the collection of "the washington post," he never relented and he did not see a good side to richard nixon which doesn't mean that he attacked him blindly. it meant he had real issues with some of the things whether it be corruption or wiretapping or things he just liked and he felt it was his job as a cartoonist to express his opinion and to share it with others, and that's the basic role of an editorial cartoon is to express an opinion and persuade people to your point of view and a good cartoonist does more than just illustrate the news, he gets his point across or she gets her point across. so here we have nixon throwing some tapes to an investigator who is represented by a hound dog, a

professor side randy from the university of tehran believes the drills are a message to washington that it can no longer dictate global unilaterally. the united states. still sees itself as the head of you know all of world and or wants to see itself as the head of the unipod world and the europeans of course are. will abide by the united states no matter who's in charge of the country whether it's who they most your leaders just like or anyone else but the reality is that we've moved beyond that stage the united states is on the relative decline countries like iran russia and china are on the rise and the united states is going to have to accept and recognize the new situation and i think that the fact that these 3 countries actually carried out these maneuvers together jointly all 3 together is of major significance and it sends a message to the united states that they can no longer dictate terms it's been a turbulent year for iran and that region as a whole by tough sanctions and the seizure of tankers with a look back his. for terror on the year 2019 was thrilling to say the least i

slammed washington sanctions on russia is not seen to gas pipeline to germany saying it's crossed the crucial line against its nato allies comes as berlin gives an angry reaction to the sanctions interference in domestic affairs. the us court rules that american spy agencies can collect data on citizens without a warrant if it's by accident. has been sentenced to 16 years in jail after stealing and burning l u b t flag from a us church we debate whether this. time fits the crime. 16 years for offending probably one of the most privileged groups in america when it came to courts he did not express. justify his actions based upon his particular extremist interpretation of the christian faith. good evening to you thanks for joining us here on our internet. there's been strong reaction from berlin and moscow over the latest u.s. sanctions targeting north stream to that's the russian gas pipeline to europe that's almost complete it. we're looking very closely at the us crossing a crucial edge of foreign policy as it starts imposing sanctions which russia has already become accustomed to ag

for the meeting between the foreign ministers there does come as tensions rise between washington and tehran iran has branded deadly american air strikes in iraq and syria as an act of terrorism the raid that killed 25 people and injured dozens. u.s. military aggression in iraq is a clear example of terrorism under strongly condemn in our discussion today with the president we discussed with the other options that are available and i would note also that we will take additional actions as necessary to ensure that we act in our own self-defense and we deter further bad behavior from militia groups or from iran where u.s. officials called it a defensive operation against the iranian backed militant group hezbollah according to the u.s. the bombing raids were a retaliation for friday's rocket strike base in iraq which killed one american contractor no group has claimed responsibility for the attack but pentagon has blamed a type as butler an armed group that emerged after the u.s. invasion of iraq and has recently been targeting american forces it is also one of the main shia forces figh

they came up to washington to save it from the capture. that'srly slips a rate slips away from washington, horacio right is going to take 21 hours before he can get his troops almost a full day so he's going to have an easy time with the exception of a rearguard action. that only have the sixth core but he will have the vanguard of the 19th army corps which was supposed to go from louisiana to st. petersburg but was diverted to washington because of the crisis induced by the invasion. time, right isn going to pursue him to the potomac river. at that time, he will find that he has already begun to retreat from leesburg. he had alluded to hunter's field but after lynchburg was forced to retreat into west virginia, he's going to show up in western andland about 13th and 14th coming up in harpers ferry in martinsburg which was off the map, there's going to be a large union force of 14,000 union men approaching him from the west. at the same time that horacio right is going to get up to 15,000 men moving on him pursuing him out of washington dc

there is chaos in the city of washington. bell, moment, daniel ash'sbrother, james brother-in-law, daniel bell decides to begin a delegate -- a delicate negotiation for his wife mary and their children. daniel bell was an enslaved blacksmith at the navy yard. there were about 13 enslaved african americans at the navy yard. there were some free blacks working at the navy yard. associates at the navy yard, a free black man named joseph thompson, had won his freedom in court on the provisions of a will. workedel bell side-by-side with joseph thompson and we can be sure they talked about these matters, right? yard, one of the foreman was a man named robert armistead. live right here, close to the navy yard. robert armistead was the slaveholder who held mary and the six children. ok? foreman in the yard. not particularly wealthy. wealth really was marianne the six children, mary bell. two thingsarly knew about robert armistead in the summer of 1835. he knew that robert armistead had signed a memorial for the abolition of slavery i

it's such a great history of washington dc. it goes into integration, school integrationshon any sort of tells the history of dce through high school basketball, so it's a terrificth book and i you know can't think andrea enough for finishing it. i thoroughly enjoyed reading it and i think anyone else that picks it up will love it. [applause]. >> think you. there are a few seats for those of you coming in later. next is rick snyder who also worked with jon this cover the redskins for 30 years or more and now it's a sports illustrated and he would like to read a segment oo the book. [applause]. >> think you. my notes are on a phone now. i met john sometime in the early '80s and i can't exactly say when, but only that we always assumed it to be on the sidelines together of the basketball games. we were at maryland at the same time and probably had a class together. it's been so long ago that i don't remember muchclbe, but john and i were at tons of games together and everyone liked john. i think he was probably the most popular s

jefferson is the most important figure you could argue in washington but after washington jefferson is the most influential figure in the united states, in his lifetime, other than washington. 1740s into the 1820s. second, virginia is the largest, richest, most powerful state in the union of that time. has the largest population. it has more wealth. just about all the president's, except for john adams, come from virginia, has the largest congressional delegation. virginians assumed they were going to be the leading element in the country, and it turns out they were right. when that starts to shift in the 18 teens, i they become very upt and that placed into why the established the university of virginia when they do. virginia is also home in 1790 to half of the enslaved people in the country, live in one state, virginia. 40% of o the population of virginia is held in slavery. it is a system then that isn't marginal to the state of virginia butal it is central to everything, central to the economy, central to the society, central to the culture. ito affects every image of life in virgi

i mean you can i don't i don't i don't know how much leverage washington really has over these things that we can do damage to people we can damage to companies that are involved in these things i don't know that we can actually put up with any more we pretend still that we're all powerful suddenly plenty of moving parts here and energy very much at the front line of chip political relations for me as diplomat jim chatteris thanks her insights and. and other news russia's investigative committee has released the identity of the gunman who opened fire outside the headquarters of the federal security service building in central moscow on thursday evening 39 year old afghani minear of lived in the moscow region he killed in f.s.b. officer before being shot dead himself another officer died later in hospital 5 other people including one civilian were injured at the moment the investigation into possible motives is still ongoing here's how the situation unfolded at the scene of the shooting. was usually when you get to the end we heard strange sounds we needed to realize that we should hid

an author craig shirley discusses his new book "mary ball washington: the untold story of george washington's mother." washington journal mugs are available at these fans new online store. 02 c-span store.org and check out the washington journal mugs and see all of the c-span products. on the next q&a, the professor of medicine at columbia university

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jefferson is the most important figure in washington but after washington jefferson is the most influential figure in the united states in his lifetime other than washington. 1740s and 1840s. virginia is the largest, richest, most powerful state of the union at that time, the largest population, it has more wealth, just about all the presidents except for john adams come from virginia, the largest congressional delegation. virginia's assume they will be the leader government in the country and turns out they were right. when that starts to shift in the 18 teens they become very upset and that plays into why that plays into the university of virginia when they do. virginia is home in 1792 have of the enslaved people in the country in one state of virginia. 40% of the population of virginia is held in favor. it is a system that isn't marginal to the stage but is central to everything, central to the economy, society, the culture. it affect every dimension of life in virginia including what is educational reform. jefferson is a key person, the book is in part about the education jefferson rece

in the george washington days, the press was highly partisan. it was the publishers and the printers who made the case for its being time to separate from great britain and king george iii. printers were being tarred and feathered. it was highly partisan, it was highly volatile. printers were being tarred and feathered. we talk about how divided we are as a country, being an msnbc person or fox news person, but back in the early years of our country, it was very much that way. susan: and even continued past the civil war era. >> absolutely. susan you have to read both sets : of newspapers to understand what was going on there. think in general about successful presidents, is there a correlation between presidents who know how to work the newsmen and women of the time, and how they are viewed in history? patty: i think presidents who understand the media of their day are able to deal with it smoothly, understand the press, makes friends with the press/ we saw with john f. kennedy how he had that relationship with members of the press who knew thi

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washington might pick and choose the battles that benefit its interests the most but at the end of the day fire is fire it doesn't care who it burns and when a whole continent is set ablaze it becomes extremely difficult to extinguish. and in 29000 latin america wasn't the only continent the went through some ultras period we'll bring you another recap of this year's protests on choose day 'd. well that is your update for now i'm rise on a low could not be bank a with the rest of the team at the top of the hour with more news from around the world see that. wow feel it 2020 should be a whopper. the world is driven by dreamers shaped by one person and those with. no dares thinks. we dare to ask. thousands of american men and women shoes to serve in the country's military and their decision little sheltered lives every one came to a complete. the day that i was raped be instructed you know told to shut up while they kill me and i see how it destroyed my life any screamed at me and he made me come in and you grab my arm and he write me with his birth and if you take into account that wome

that 6 pm and washington d.c. and we are into what's likely to be the final hour of debate before a vote on whether to impeach the president of the united states democrats and republicans in the house of representatives in making their case about whether donald trump violated the constitution he's accused of withholding aid to ukraine to pressure it into investigating his political rival joe biden and of obstruction of congress the democrat controlled house is expected to make trump surge president to be impeached and u.s. history will trump has dismissed the process as an assault on america. while the democratic speaker of the house nancy pelosi opened the debate she called for both sides to put aside their pashas and differences and vote in the interest of the country it is tragic that the president's reckless actions make impeachment necessary he gave us no choice what we are discussing today is the established fact that the president violated the constitution is a matter of fact that the president is an ongoin

think tanks and washington foreign-policy perspective. others who want to smash that system, smash the status quo. you see that in afghanistan where we have gone through cycles of he will make a bold declaration for getting out, then other people say we are not going to rush out and then we want to negotiate peace and the telegram elusive like that, peace talks are off, this is reflecting that he has different advisors and different impulses within the republican caucus. you heard lindsey graham and you will hear from rand paul in the opposite direction and that is what we are seeing in afghanistan, syria, iran and north korea. mike: we have expected a promised christmas gift, donald trump joked it would be a vase. a lot of us were thinking some rocket launches threatening its neighbors and crying out for attention. there is bipartisan concern about north korea with senators on capitol hill. listen to this. >> pyongyang has ominously promised the, quote, christmas gift if washington is not meeting its demands. so clearly the current strat

washington also slammed joint navy drills between around russia and china and the u.s. state department said it's time for sanctions not military games the 3 nations 1st ever joint naval drills which ended on monday took place in the northern part of the indian ocean as well as the gulf of oman and included antiterrorism an anti-piracy training shipping in energy supply routes run through the region sparking tension between tehran and washington amid the exercises around foreign minister javad zarif visited moscow for talks with her gay lover off the top diplomats on bilateral relations with the rounds foreign minister saying that they're at a historical high point and then focus though was around nuclear deal abandoned by the u.s. in 2016 valid the west must return to compliance with the deal. sitting on the start because. the us is forcing the countries not to fulfill their obligations despite iran's compliance with the reached agreements we demanded that the us and the e.u. both return to full implementation with their obligations voluntarily and then iran would do t

washington, it d.c. he december 10, 2019. i hereby appoint the honorable henry cuellar to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the of january 3, 2019, the chair will now recognize members from lists smithed by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip shall be limited to five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from minnesota, mr. scarborough, for five minutes. mr. scarborough: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise today to honor commander david wheat, a vietnam veteran and former prisoner of war from minnesota's eighth congressional district, who is about to celebrate his 80th birthday on december 16. david grew up in duluth, minnesota, and

well staying with developments affecting the middle east washington has slammed joint navy drills between iran russia and china the u.s. state department said it's time for sanctions not military games the 3 nations 1st ever joint naval drills that ended on monday took place in the northern part of the indian ocean as well as the gulf of oman and included antiterrorism and anti-piracy training key shipping and energy supply routes run through the region sparking tension between tehran and washington amid the exercises iran's foreign minister jeffords a refitted of moscow for talks as a lover of the top diplomats touched on bilateral relations with iran's foreign minister saying they're at a historic high point but the main focus was the iran nuclear deal officially known as the joint comprehensive plan of action or way that was abandoned by the u.s. back in 2016 lavrov stated the west must return to compliance with the deal. sitting on the start because nature the u.s. is forcing of the countries not to fulfill their obligations despite iran's compliance with the reached agreements we dem

after two years of losing he started the ymca team from the washington 12th street. so in 2013 the week before he was to be inducted into the basketball hall of fame the washington post magazine printed this. by eb henderson is there in the middle as the organizer of the team. atlantic city in new york to say that the color basketball world championship but on the last game that eb henderson played one is christmas eve the night of his wedding. he and my grandmother mary ellen henderson were both school teachers and didn't have a lot of money so they took the opportunity of going to new york city where they would play the game and have their honeymoon. but he also made a promise to his wife that after they got married he would no longer play. he retired from the game and concentrated on organizing and coaching. so this is the picture of the dunbar team 1922 that includes charles drew who drew blood plasma and a blood bank. we spent the rest of the career coaching and as the head of the washington dc public schools recreation and athletic departments. so he went aroun

to fight for us being a representative in washington. and what i've seen with the president, in all different groups, we got 29% of the hispanic vote, we're showing now he's above 40%. there's been seven polls out in the black community that show the president between 17% and 35% now. he got 8% in the election. and so what we've tried to do is employ a president for all americans and i think the policy that is we've put in place are working for all people. the president has a great argument to make. i would say over the last three years, we've probably been a lot better at doing than telling. but a campaign is about telling and putting the ideas out and articulating the vision. and we believe this country has tremendous potential and we're excited to hopefully keep going to make it happen. >> let me pose a question to you that came -- comes from adam johnson. it's a very broad but i think important question. our country is suffering. what is your plan for a return to civility and compromise? >> there's different schools of thought. i've

everyone in washington has been there from washington to new york. if it is daylight out, no denying the awful reality. the president of the rest of the world, baltimore, rodent infested hellhole, not to mention a corrupt mess. the mayor of the town went to jail again. the obvious follow-up is wise baltimore so bad? how did it get so poor and hopeless? part of the answer is 50 years of uninterruptible hasn't helped baltimore very much. it would be embarrassing to democratic party so apologists don't want to have that conversation. they attack the man who tried to started. >> raging from the president's twitter feed. >> donald trump makes it a racist design in baltimore. >> the president often is disgusted. >> he uses racist appeal using the bait and switch. >> in the most bigoted and racist way. >> reporter: in washington the leaders of the episcopal church and technical accuracy, issued a floored statement calling the president's words about baltimore, quote, dangerous. and they felt virtuous issuing that statement but hasn't changed in baltimore. b

also washington's been trying to convince brussels that tightening its belt and enjoying a bit extra economic stress is well worth it because it's all for a good cause supporting a nother european a fresh. need ukraine which had been left out of the pipeline deal will keep working together to stop the nord stream to project that undermines your creates economic and strategic security we do not want our european friends to fall prey to the kind of political and economic manipulation russia has attempted in ukraine since it cast off its soviet shackles it would create another tool for the kremlin to use russia's energy resources to divide europe and undermine and destabilize ukraine it was almost like russia listened because hours before sanctions hit north stream 2 construction moscow and kiev shook hands on a gas transit deal so europe all out winds from the pipeline both economically and geopolitically seeing russia and ukraine finally touch base again and this statement by the u.s. envoy to germany hasn't aged well at all. currently there is a lot of talk in germany about doing mor

well we've undergone a corporate coup d'etat in slow motion. 35000 lobbyists in washington they write the legislation they write the bills all it takes is one phone call from somebody on the hill to someone in the pentagon saying hey turn on the dogs the hills out to get our program the guys in the senate are on board we need you to turn on the gucci shoes guys to straighten this thing out the guy's been the lobbyist. and what this does is just lock the system up and that's the whole name of the game it's it's called political engineering and i'm like political science political engineering is real. one of the most important things dunder stand is essentially creates what we call. an ice cream cone. and it's like motion machine for getting ever increasing defense budgets the way we do it is by downplaying the future consequences to start a new weapon we over promises performance under promise it's costs we then systematically spread dollars jobs and profits to as many congressional districts as quickly as possible so that everybody has skin in the game. the people who are invested in

he drove washington mad. he kept telling washington if we do this and do that it will be just like caesar and we won't beat the british. it never quite worked. he came . almost never lost to school. he could retreat better than anybody. in washington need that a lot. and in a terrible campaign. he was sent to georgia. in a complete physical and ms ms. physical and mental breakdown there. he pulled himself together. he kind of had a ruined life after that. he could not go back to his family. it sort of was like the best years of our lives pretty canceled back into the routine of leaving. in plantation in georgia, there was a failure. it would've been a complete disgrace and throne of congress for having his friend to get him elected in georgia. this was 1791. his life was ronna. his family know matt longer felt anything for him. george washington was desperate for a general. so i came out to the ohio country and against the wishes of his cabinet and just about everybody else, he chose anthony wayne. we have on

madison washington was an enslaved man. he was sold at auction in richmond then put on to a slave ship. the ship creole which was bound for the slave market at new orleans and that speaks to virginia's participation and also dominance in the domestic slave trade in the decades leading up to the civil war. many working the cotton fields and that was probably what washington's intended fate was except during the voyage from richmond to new orleans, washington led a mutiny on board the creole. he and 18 other of the enslaved men on board, they broke out of the cargo hold. they come the ship and sailed to bahamas, a british territory. and at that time, slavery had been abolished in the british empire so madison washington and his conspirators knew if they got to british waters, territories, they had a good chance of becoming free. and the creole incident, it really became an international sensation and caused diplomatic f fur yor between diplomatic slave holders who wanted what they considered their property back and the britis