the subsequent legislation opened up housing, housing vouchers. in the latest round, the american rescue plan, infrastructure was included but it wasn't housing. we are able to address some of the water issues and sanitation issues with the rescue act funding and get to some of the housing vouchers and housing assistance through some of the other legislation. it's all incredibly helpful. i think it serves as a model for putting out discretionary money. but the other side of that is opening the options for tribes to be able to address the dramatic infrastructure needs that have come out during the pandemic and really showcased what deficiency in infrastructure, what the real impacts are. the marshall plan idea is great. the discretionary funding is great. we are looking forward to addressing some of the infrastructure needs. we are also looking forward to further support through infrastructure funding to be able to open that discretionary funding up to address all of these needs. tying hands on discretionary money may not be the best use for addres

we also have a wash house. direct access to that spring water to wash clothes, a meat house where they are going to store a lot of products like bacon, sausage, ham. we have a produce shed which is where you're going to store wood so it stays dry. but also vegetables and fruits are harvesting from your land. we have a tobacco barn's not going to be a huge cash crop. turkeys and your chickens the very german influence barn you'll be thrashing your wheat and your hay. storing that grain and storing your animals for the wintertime. typically men and boys will be out in the field taking care of that major cash crop. they will be in charge of swabbing those animals and some heavy work with animals. they'll be in charge of cooking, mending, washing clothes. they will feed the animals, men will be the ones who take that major cash crop of wheat to the market, to the mill to have it sold. they will be going to town to have those products appraised and get money for the family. men like tools for the farm, repair tools,

the white house, though, is also known as the people's house, and so that really means the white house grounds are the people's grounds. and if you start to think about it that way, it isn't so far removed from a typical suburban home. typically, suburban homes, mine included, have a more formal or dressy front lawn. that would be the north grounds of the white house with the north portico facing pennsylvania avenue, and a more private, hess formal backyard -- less formal backyard. that's the larger south grounds looking down toward the washington monument. and that's pretty much what happens at the white house today. >> let's get to the issue of just how sacrosanct are the white house grounds. are they untouchable? and i don't -- you're an historian, i'm a journalist. neither one of us is a politician. but first ladies, especially in the modern era, they want to go around changing things, there's resistance to that. >> there is. i think it's fair to say that people have an opinion about melania trump's recent rose garden renovation. but hopefully as the history of that site, which i j

the houses are beautiful, but golden outside house stuff is tough. oh, as a kid, i didn't really understand how segregated the city was because i never left my areas. one time. my dad got his house for a week is like literally right outside the city. and he had a nice apartment complex and cool every day. brilliant people, a decent car. it wasn't loud at night. it was fun. but when i got back to the city, they got evicted. my dad sent us somewhere for a week just to get the house together. i've moved too many times to count. i've lived in so many neighborhoods. it doesn't allow you to gauge what is normal. there's neighborhoods so pretty much like the same. a lot of these houses vacant. we used to go all behind them in up in them. almost like it's ready to go in and find everything or left before they got evicted. you know, a jack bought them for over some like the the community didn't feel it does now you see earlier, because we cases just haven't fun. baltimore is a microcosm of many urban areas in america. and it is like dickens would say the tale

we are going to focus on housing. during the pandemic, you could look anywhere in the country and find soaring housing prices. existing home sales data, july come arising for a second month, indicating actually that housing demand we were worried about may not be the issue at the moment. taylor: indeed. that was some of the actual strongly, data we got this morning. total existing home sales, you are up 2% in july. the median home price fell to just 359,000. you were down about $3000. year-over-year, up about 18%. if you think about some of the rates in blue that were low, that makes it affordable for lending, pushes up the price. in white, you have the home sales, real strength in the pandemic. olivia rockman has been covering the pandemic for bloomberg news. what are you thinking about low rates, affordability, then of course inventory and supply? olivia: it does seem like from the standpoint of existing homes, that the supply improvement in july is what helped improve sales more generally. there were 1.3 million ho

we also benefited from the state's housing program and finally from our local housing accelerate fund. i also want to thank at some point, this was considered an inclusionary housing development. and, finally, i want to introduce and thank charmine curtis or curtis development. she's our partner who's been with us from the beginning. she pulled out all the stops last year. she and i were working hard, hustling to secure the state funding that brought us to this point in time. thanks to her efforts, we can finally see that this building will be built and in two years, we will welcome residents to their new homes. i'd like to introduce charmine curtis. >> good morning everybody. it's so great to see everybody here and thank you so much for those kind words. we have worked so long and worked so hard to get to this moment. and i'm here to tell you how sweet it is. it took us a minute but we ade it. and it's important to acknowledge all the love and sweat that brought us to this moment. a testament to perseverance and down right doggedness. largely on the part of kb and myself who would ne

house. lawmakers working on that budget resolution, voting rights legislation and the senate-passed bipartisan infrastructure bill. live house coverage here on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] nati, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered by our guest chaplain, reverend

so we pass the law in 1968, and the fair housing it proclaimed that fair housing for all. all human beings is now a part of the american way of life. the me the mandate, the government given to nations prevent discrimination, but actually affirmatively go out and say, how do we desegregate america? the government betrays that policy. ah, i mind as i traveled across the country that whether we're talking about the white americans or people who may be robot and other minority groups like the mexican americans, the rest just like the back americans. what everybody wants as an equal chance to have a piece of the action at the federal government has never enforce the fair housing act in that state. and local governments do not enforce the turnaround. again, you know, you can have federal policy, but if the local administration of these policies that often miss the black people received discriminatory treatment. hello, my name is tyrone washington. i'm calling about the apartment on park street, not available. yes. hello, my name is graham, wellington, i'm calling about the apar

guest: the task force was formed from the house, speaker pelosi. they requested assistance in providing a security review of the capitol. with the perspective that the more in-depth commission and/or committees would be formed inside the capitol from the house and senate to dig into who did what, when and how. what they wanted was an immediate review of the operational procedures, training and in operability and security of the capitol. so that immediate steps could be taken to secure the capitol prior to what happened on the sixth to have the capitol open back up to the public. we spent six weeks, myself and 16 others, members of the task force, we call ourselves tax force -- task force 16. we report back to the house in the process of creating that report area we went -- report. we went into dialogue that went into equities for security of the capitol in conjunction with capitol police, which we engaged all members of capitol police force as well as the capitol police themselves and making our assessment. that report concluded a 12 page exec at o

he sneaks in and out of the house. he takes electricity from a socket in the hallway, and he has just avoided us all together. host: sorry to hear that. it sounds like a fairly untenable situation. jenny schuetz, any thoughts on that? guest: we are running up into the problem that some landlords do not want to keep the tenant in the property anymore. they are frustrated, as this caller was, they have not been receiving rent. in some cases these are tenants who might be disturbing other people in the building, and the landlord to are at the end of their patients and just want the tenant out. the programs that require the landlord to say they want evict the tenant for some time have been a problem for getting money out the door because the rental assistance won't go out unless there is landlord cooperation. in some cases, we need to accept is the current situation will not last, provide the renter with security deposits, first month's rent, to move into a new place and let people sort things out into new places to live.

housing stock. needs and travelers, resources to address the problem have declined will rapidly and other federal housing programs. tens of thousands of new units are needed, thousands of existing units fell. the simple fact is, $2,000,000,500 of additional new funding is needed if these conditions are going to be addressed. give especially to build. the urban institute in 2017 art that more is needed to require the capacity to build housing and other related infrastructure construction on this scale. they are prepared to quickly gear up to build the social number of new units. this will help tribes in alaska be able to generate for their communities, the country post-pandemic with recovery just as they did successfully 10 years ago after the great recession. thank you for this time to testify. >> thank you very much to all of our panelists. we will begin with a round of five minutes questions good -- questions. i will start with mr. shepherd, which is the unique challenge we have on -- with housing

that means house and senate. it was made very clear at the beginning of this process that this bipartisan deal, if it even survives the senate, the only chance that it has at passing the house is if the house passes the senate bill and if the senate passes the house bill, which is largely in reconciliation. so we can't just have one body driving the entire legislative agenda for the country and, frankly, 20 senators that -- within that one body. so we need a reconciliation bill if this bipartisan bill -- if we want this bipartisan bill to pass. >> i know the infrastructure deal they're talking about -- manchin said they're going to introduce it today, bring up the language -- is smaller than you wanted and your fellow progressives wanted. it includes funding for electric vehicle charging stations, clean water, broadband. when it comes before the house as it looks like will happen, will you vote for it? >> we have to hold on to that bargain. if there is not a reconciliation bill in the house and if the senate does

to the house of representatives. ford was highly respected as the house republican leader. he was also a very longtime friend and supporter of nixon. ford is appointed vice president. as the battle over the tapes escalates, federal judge john sirika orders nixon to hand over the tapes. the court of appeals agrees with that saying that the judge at a minimum is allowed to listen to them in camera, in the privacy of his chambers, to determine if there really are any national security issues involved with them. the white house counters with what they call the stennis proposal. the senator was at this time a 71-year-old senator from mississippi who had hearing aides. he had hearing problems. he had been shot in a burglary attempt. the plan was that he was the only person who was going to be allowed to listen to the tapes. cox would then get summaries of the tapes. nothing else. it was a bold move. nixon was basically going for broke here. i interviewed stennis' doctor. he told me that the senator was on heavy doses of codeine at this time because of the shooting in the burglary

house that mr. desaulnier will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. evans: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson votes no on the motion to recommit. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> as the member designated by chairwoman eddie bernice johnson, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that chairwoman johnson will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by congresswoman grace meng, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congresswoman meng will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by congressman sean patrick maloney, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congressman maloney will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

the house rejected that argument. what happens is gallegos is left to have his speeches translated into english and read by the clerk of the house or to have members help him on the floor. again, the language barrier isn't the only impediment. he doesn't serve on a committee. he has to lobby other members to help him push legislation. he wins election again in 1855, but this election is contested by another hispanic from new mexico who had run against him, miguel otero. that contested election really kind of opens a window onto what's happening in new mexico politics in the 19th century, because gallegos really was part of a dock nant faction of shis span i don'ts in the district who favored kind of the receding spanish system. they had latched on -- they had kind of gained revolutionary ar dur during the mexican revolution. that was culturally and politically where they were coming from. the other side was represented by otero who was from a business-oriented, the rico class. that class tended to align with the ameri

today, the house of representatives did just that. today's vote in the house allowed them to consider my build back better agenda, a broad framework to make housing more affordable, bring down the cost of prescription drugs by giving medicare the power to negotiate lower prices for drugs, make elder care more affordable, provide two years of free universal high quality pre-k, and two years of free community college, provide clean energy tax credits, continue to give the middle-class families the well-deserved tax cut for daycare and healthcare that they deserve, allowing a lot of women to get back to work primarily, and provide significant monthly tax cuts for working families with children through the childcare tax credit. these investments are going to lower out of pocket expenses for families, and not just give them a little more breathing room. in addition, we're going to make a long overdue, much-needed investments in basic hard infrastructure of this nation. this scenario where we have broad bipartisan agreement to invest in our

the government shutdown i remember was when you guys controls the house, senate, and white house and shut it down. that is a first in history. on infrastructure, one of the things joe biden's predecessor said when he was campaigning was he wanted to do some begun infrastructure. and yet republicans did not want to work with us on anything meaningful. it is only on infrastructure weeks. how insulting to the american people, infrastructure weeks. we now have an infrastructure bill that has bipartisan support in the senate. i expect when it comes to the floor there will be some republicans who support it. host: more on these negotiations happening behind the scenes within the democratic party. joining us is scott wong from the hill to tell us about it. let's begin with what was supposed to happen yesterday. guest: what was supposed to happen was a procedural vote to advance joe biden's -- key elements of joe biden's domestic agenda forward. what nancy pelosi had done was to package three items of that agenda, the john lewis voting rights bill, the 1.2 trillion dollar infrastructure pack

so he was well aware of kind of organizational things in the house. clay was definitely a different guy. special guy. [ inaudible question ] >> it seems we talk about centralized power. speaker, power centralized in the office. a top-down structure. that wasn't necessarily always the case. committees have been incredibly important throughout the history of the speakers of the house has speakers have delegated powers to the chairmen. in the 19th century, in particular, how powerful in your. was the office of the speaker, especially kind of in this, well, up to when clay becomes speaker and then especially after clay becomes speaker? >> yeah. i mean, that's -- i mean, that's a whole other book. in fact, we address some of that in our book. i'll say a couple of things. first of all, i think you've described well what kind of is conventionally believed by the house, and i think there's lot of truth to it. having said that, one of the things that's striking looking in the history is that the members act as if, even during the period where we know this obse

the house will be in order. rep. lofgren: a police officer came and made an announcement that the capitol had been breached. [indiscernible] rep. lofgren: i think at some point, mcgovern realized that we're not going to be able to continue the proceedings. a capitol officer came and said that it was necessary to evacuate, and that we should take the hoods. there are hoods underneath each seat in the chamber, take them out and be prepared to put them on. so everybody did. and i think when you pull the little red tag, it activates and so there had been teargas released in the rotunda which is why we were advised we might need to wear them. there was this tremendous kind of hissing noise from all these hood, as the background of the moment. and of course the pounding and the noise from the mob had become much louder. at some point, someone up in the chambers, in the gallery, a member was yelling at the republicans to call trump and have trump call off his mob. and there were some little yelling back and forth among memb

the fraternity house for which he resolved was the party house. many of the greek houses. they were known for the parties gave us the camaraderie and friendship that ford loved. this is a party he was never going to wear the lampshade but he enjoyed that sort of fraternal activity. that very end is jack beckwith. his best man at his wedding. impede the namesake of his second son jackson ford. in his congressional years work on the campaign in 1976. and unfortunately died in an automobile accident in the primaries are the end of the primary season in 1976. that took lessons from the football field, and let's go to the next slide. see three football offers, offers to play professional football for the lions pretty turns him down to go to yale of all things the boxing coach they knew nothing about boxing they knew nothing about yell stop at the ymca and grand rapids took some boxing lessons we know little bit about the language, the moves and enough to fool the rest of the team. he is at yell for five and half or six years for these are the years we don't know a whole lot abo

but the white house is driving this. sean: one of the things that we see every day or every other day our cars at the gas station, they will cost have gone up in urine texas congressman and edward lawrence was just talking about a big-play and energy in texas, what is the feeling in texas about oil and energy in the increase in prices? >> we can help we are right here right now barrels is down 2 million barrels, rather than the president begging opec to open this ticket or now having russia to the number two importer in the united states, america was energy independent, can be for the long-term, why the president is baking some of our enemies to provide us oil when we have american-made energy right here ready to go in this war on american energy it makes no sense but these are families and workers in small businesses who are paying the price for this. >> has a real impact on her pocketbook but also families in texas. i want to turn to house politics is internal fighting in the democrat party. we have the left-wing squad

house here on c-span. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. the clerk: the speaker's rooms, washington, d.c. august 24, 2021. i hereby appoint the honorable terry a. sewell to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: the prayer will be offered by chaplain kibben. chaplain kibben would you pray with me. holy god, we appeal to you this afternoon that by your blessing this day would prove fruitful. nothing this day is as we planned it. not only have our schedules been upended, but the world itself has turned upside-down. we scramble to get things done and make things right, but with so much at stake and the issues so complex, our efforts seem desperate and futile. we pray, therefore, that you who know our wanderings through this great wilderness would bless your people were your guidance on this day. provide rescue, shelter, and peace to those whose very lives are endangered by anarchy and violen

the $3.5 trillion budget resolution that the house passed today, not a single republican in the house voted today to improve america's infrastructure. ohio congressman tim ryan who is now a candidate for senate in ohio told the republicans what they were voting against. >> what you're mad about is that we are delivering for the american people. we saved pensions. we cut taxes for working class people, invested in the communities, invested in the schools and now universal preschool. everyone can go to community college, vision, dental, hearing for medicare recipients, paid family leave. >> after the budget resolution vote, the house passed the john lewis voting rights advancement act on a party line vote with every republican voting against voters rights. >> i also want to thank everyone who voted to support the john lewis voting rights act. you know, advancing -- it's an act to restore and expand voting protections, to prevent voter suppression and to secure the most sacred of american rights, the right to vote freely, the right to vote fairly and the right to have your vote counted.

it's going to be the house and the senate. and right now, the senators on the democratic side have agreed to the resolution but there is still a lot of discussion that needs to take place in terms of the ultimate substance of the $3.5 trillion agreement. and so, from my standpoint, not speaking for anyone else, you had senators like bernie sanders and elizabeth warren vote for the resolution. along with senators like kyrsten sinema and joe manchin. that's the least that we can do in the house of representatives to get the process started. and then, over the next few weeks, we can have a substantive discussion and negotiation about what the build back better budget framework should look like before it gets enacted into law. >> congressman jeffries, before you go, andrew cuomo has less than two hours left in the job as governor. he has followed your advice and everyone else in the new york congressional delegation who asked him to resign based on the accusations brought forward by the state attorney general on sexual harassment.

the white house press v. briefing room, in 1975, the day after the last american helicopter left vietnam, republican president gerald ford's press secretary, who he inherited from the disgraced president nixon he was forced to resign the office, was asked, what the presidents reaction was, to self-vietnam's surrender, to north vietnam. to which the white house press secretary said quote, given the military situation, this did seem to be the inevitable result. no one, in the white house press corps then, asked, why president ford did not publicly say it was inevitable? that the side we had been fighting for, would surrender, before they surrendered. because the reporters were all adults, then who understood that the president of the united states, even if he believed, it could not publicly predict, the surrender, of the week government we had been fighting for. then, from the 1975 press free-flowing, there is this question. question, are there any plans by the united states government to attempt to evacuate an

i guess built his housing development within a few months. it took him 20 years to replant $100.00 hector mangrove. new ground a bit worse, but we're going to be in today from a bonus and 10 pounds and animals once again starting to return to the area. i do not family my bunch to blush and become a little it was done to keep on our right. but nothing on or make a new one. yeah. great. i see you do or did i didn't run until the one that i didn't line you can hand down to montana, indonesia, mac and leah ah . more than a decade of civil war life remains a challenge in sierra leo we follow the citizens of this war to a nation because they pushed the limits for supply. risking is sierra leo on al jazeera. the news news news with me. that night and history kept alive only in the family tales of those sister by had to believe people who didn't seem to these damaging story. as the polish women and children who endured the siberian black refuge in africa, never to return again an epic or to the memory is our homeland. and now she's era. oh i this is

i just went back to my house. you know, this was an old all 5 years ago, which i'm now to bother you. i, i want, i did one of the yoga or the attorney. well, no, i was born here many years ago. and he used to be in an old fire house around here someplace were you know, where it would have been might have been here. and i was converted or there used to be a tiny, tiny fire house. let me just check up a little bit with my mother punch in your face over there. when i was 6 months old, we moved from little italy in manhattan to this area right here was a housing project one night. my uncle frank was all what his wife and a mob guys came down as well. can you guys with badge and felt sticks? they want a way to fight a bunch of black ice and they walk past us. and my uncle plank said to my father, get this kid, get him out of this neighborhood and move. and it was not that long after that that we moved over town. i do okay, you can tell me how could you leave new york tribal bridge? i got a bit disabled as well and i go

but this is the largest bed chamber in the house. oh, it belongs to lady katherine and lady augusta. they are the oldest of the children. they are is a and 14 years of age -- they are 15 and 14 years of age. i think they left in a hurry last night. you see these young ladies have the largest bed chamber because they also take their lessons here in the house. that bed over there is for their governess, yes, a french governess. we may not like the french, but we do like their style. very important that these young ladies speak french. they will be present to the royal courts. their father has a seat in parliament. but now the governor's taken his entire family off to [inaudible]. they are sailing up the york river at the moment, which means they are all sharing cabins on a ship. seven children and the governess and their nursemaid and the servants, oh my. i'm sure they're wishing they had this much room again. oh, lord and lady dunmore's chambers are over this way. we will pass through a guest room here as well on our way. i know. i kn

guest: that gets to a larger issue, that rental housing and housing issue is dealing with in general. housing affordability is a category of issues we place this topic into. we have not been building enough rental housing or housing generally for a long time to meet the needs, and it is basic economics. not enough supply and a whole lot of demand and your prices will go up. that is what is happening and has been for years, long before covid. covid has made this worse certainly, so the economics are we need to build more housing, more rental housing, at all price points, almost every community in the country. everybody has a different very in level of impact but that is where we need to focus and a whole level of advocacy's we are working on, supporting legislation on the hill and efforts locally to bring down barriers to new housing, get more supplying to the market, and that is what will bring rents down. that is what we need to focus those efforts long term. we need to keep our eye on the long-term. host: this is jan in pennsylvania, a renter, hello. caller: hi. i wanted to say a lo

from the trump white house felt? >> i i haven't spent that much time in the biden white house but i got some more questions about this. i will say i think it's hard, it's just as hard to cover trump as it is to cover biden. people think in a way like covering trump is kind of this easy pickings, there's so many things, details to learn and things to collect but the problem with covering trump was that so much of it wasn't reliable or coming from reliable narrators here. i mentioned my kind of long newspaper career, whether it was any of these county commission meeting for school board meetings or state legislative committee hearings, like never have been anywhere except the trump white house where eight people could go into a meeting and 12 versions of that what happened in that meeting emerged afterwards. to understand what is happening behind the scenes you needed to talk to almost everybody who was in the room to have an understanding of what happened. there were so many rivalries, so many, i mean trump came up in

and the house was empty. daughter karrie was away at college, but the youngest, who lived there with michele, was nowhere to be found. >> no 14-year-old was discovered. >> so where is this child? >> that was one of the first concerns. >> it turned out the youngest was actually with karrie at school in rochester 100 miles away. police learned that when karrie called them herself after a friend gave her the shocking news. >> my mom hung herself. >> we are looking into it. can you give me any insight into what might have happened? >> i don't know. i decided to go home. >> karrie told police she had stopped by the house that night. >> when i got there, they were freaking out. >> in karrie's words they had a fight, her mom went yelling and screaming. >> karrie told investigators she stormed out of the house, taking her teenage sister with her. not all that unusual. police learned that raised voices in that household were sadly routine. a bad divorce with kids caught in the middle. this is, as they say, a house tha

the house will be order. rep. jackson: a then i niced several of them were standi in front of the doors and ty had their weapons out. i was just like, what going on? i had a colleague sitting next to me, and if you rememberwe had already had several bomb threats in the house offices earlier at day. my staff had already been evacuated. my colleague said it is probably a bomb teat. i saido, if it was a bomb that, they wouldot be locking us inside the chamber with people with their weapons on the inside. i knew from my time at the white house and in the military as ll that if -- that there was somebody in the building that shouldn't be in theuilding, it was pretty obvus to me at that point. shortly after that, what i heard was like boom, boom, boom. you could hear it at a distance. it sounded like it was pretty far away, but not really. you could hear a lot of yelling, a lot of commotion, and i knew what that was. i knew it was teargas being deployed. just a few minutes after that, a few seconds after that, you saw t

i wish to inform the house of selected a manuscript amendment. this motion the amendment is in the name of the right total member holton price and holden, and the new member for welding. with this as follows, outline 3 lea vote 230 and insert 5 pm. i call the minister to move the notion this week. i'm delighted with the nation into inform the how much government is willing to accept the manuscript elementary men amendment to my own, like hon. friendship with completely my toes, the settings i think i think the lead to the host of off. so i think that's important. so the original question that dives today, the question is that the amendments has been accepted. i think we can all agree on not just like roll up and not ready to get on with the debate so that we are a lot of access to that. we know come to motion number 3 in the name of the prime minister. i will call the prime minister to move the motion. prime minister. yeah. because i beg to move and i begin by thanking you and all the parliamentary stuff for labeling us to meet this morning. befo

he had edward house. he had robert lancing who was just be a international lawyer really whom wilson regarded as more than a clerk who was secretly conconspiring to get the americans on the side of the allies which is not what wilson wanted at all. wilson had a couple of young diplomats, william butler in london who was a junior diplomat but brilliant, the young joseph grew in berlin. there were good american diplomats in the service at it and they were sending interesting advice back to washington, but it wasn't being used or heed, so it's -- it's -- that's what is so incredibly tragic about this. you can blame the german generals for their hawkishness, their yearning for the submarine panacea, their yearning to find some way of finally beating down bethmann and showing that the military was really in charge in german, yes. they deserve all the blame that you want to heap upon them, but this problem was eminently solvable in january 1917 and wilson had all the tools in his hand to solve it. he had by thi

a group of nine house moderate democrats is threatening to rebel against the white house and party leaders to block that vote. instead they want to first pass a separate bipartisan infrastructure package before speaking to the larger plan. one of them, congressman josh god heimer of new hampshire joining me now. thank you for taking the time, congressman. >> thank you for having me, jim. >> i am sure is that you privately and publicly have been getting a lot of pressure to change your opinion. democrats as you know hold a narrow majority in the house. you know the risks here. are you and the other eight democrats willing to sink these bills to make your point? >> no, actually just the opposite. we want them both to move forward and pass. but first and foremost, we've got to pass that historic once in a century infrastructure bill that came out of the senate a couple weeks ago with all 50 senate democrats and 19 republicans and, you know, jim, what i heard from the calls i'm getting are from the hard-working men and women of labor and people in my district are saying i don't get this, we vo

this white house. >> yeah, this white house. no, i never felt fearful. i didn't have bullets flying over my head and i didn't have sharks coming at me from all directions so i had it easy compared to these two. the one thing that we were talking earlier, you have to have intuition in terms of when it's time to give the man some space. so it's more of just an intuitive sense of when it is time to sort of slowly back away. >> every three months we would go to walter reed and he would visit wounded warriors. i think it affected him emotionally. one time he went and we saw corey remsberg, the guy he was on patrol with in afghanistan was killed instantly. corey was thrown into a ravine. he was under water. somehow he survived, not drowning. he spent months in a coma and he lost half his eyesight and the ability to control half his body. he had to relearn how to walk, talk and eat. but here's the thing that really took me aback. president obama had met corey in normandy the previous june. and i had taken a picture of that encounter. and the picture, we had sen

boarding houses. now, this is a photograph of a stereo card that is why it is so fuzzy but on the right with a green arrow you can see the statute of george washington that we will talk about in a moment but this building was the blue arrow is the reconstituted old brick capitol made into some nice-looking board houses there. boarding houses. never seen this photograph before looking and i was looking for photographs of the statue and then i realized there in the background, is the old brick capitol reconstituted as a boardinghouse. it is really quite attractive. certainly from what the building of the pipe before. by 1929 congress had purchased his boarding houses and tore them down for the construction of the supreme court but they had been used in the headquarters of the women's suffrage campaign and so the very associated to that of the life of the building. it never going to talk about the statute. here you can see this is lincoln's inauguration and again the blue arrow shows you where that statu

welcome again to the white house. we have a full agenda to discuss -- the pandemic, the economy, immigration, voting rights, and hate crimes. let me start by acknowledging that on this day in 2012, i was with another friend who is a seek -- sikh, and we were dealing with the -- with 10 people shot in a hateful act of bigotry at a temple in wisconsin. seven people lost their lives that day. today, we honor everyone impacted by this tragedy. and we think about all the pain during this pandemic, with the rise of hate crimes, harassment, the bullying, and other forms of bias against asian americans seems not to stop. and after the shooting in the atlanta area, kamala and i met wi a gro in atlanta of asian american leaders. the discussi was wrong, -- r aw, it was powerful and a common theme was of asian americans feeling unsafe, unwanted, indicg invisible sometimes. t we can com together and truly look out for one another. that's why we wanted to convene this meeting, to continue to strengthen our efforts, because more mus