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openly washington approves and that's a story that is coming anyway, washington is going to take command any is going to now continental army in boston, they spring of 1775, so right after the fight on bunker hill and at first the for two sites do not get along for tissue and particularly militia of massachusetts and when you think back and we talk about those warfare, the massachusetts militia in particular alex their officers. in virginia, where washington is from, they were appointed so was a problem with elected officers versus appointed officers. the popularity contest rather than people are often go with her friends into combat. >> so your voting on i feel like maybe it's kind of a i will do this because pretty. >> and often times who wins is like the most beard or whoever has so washington though is going to try to stack his army in early is certain types of individuals as officers and nowadays, they ramble about this, nowadays every man is a general but this met different in 18th century a man of honor and a man of morality and amanda very very and washington said that if you are

washington was more, lafayette had a bit more of perks that washington felt were denied to him a little bit more invested or better, invested in his home when your wealth is invested in people but before we go there again, another thing they have in common is known is going to totally debate that. so not considered great statesmen, they're not considered great thinkers, their contribution was to be born during the right time for their part to make killer inclination. i push back against that and my out biography of washington because i feel like he completely rolled by the public court of opinion. it's so important to him during the revolution. he's actively thinking of setting up america as a country to enter the scene and look stable. he is inventive, he is a quick thinker i would argue he's a little bit better than that then he would've been on the battlefield. do you think that's an unfair wrap lafayette has as well? >> in the sense that lafayette and washington to were surrounded by some pretty genius level people, like is a washington and intellect compared to alexander hamilton o

washington and hamilton. we know a lot of these things. she asked, you know, what are the other voices guiding him? who should we look at? what other relationships? people who haven't read the book, what other things should they be looking out for to get away from the things they know, the things you were really interested in. >> well, i think the first thing is that like to -- it's almost impossible to overemphasize how much of an influence washington had on lafayette. he absolutely was like the most important thing that lafayette always had in the front of his mind. but there were others, right? so there's like the [inaudible] who was a philosopher when he was very very young. when you're trying to like for example pick through this, it's a very obvious question that's difficult to answer. when does lafayette first latch on to the notion of liberty and equality as being a thing that somebody ought to strive for and fight for? when does he start first getting these ideas that maybe slavery is a bad thing? i

even though washington winds up if you want to washington same is true from what randy could've spent his life enormously pampered. none of them at once that they wanted to go out on campaign they preferred to be its 20 below but i'm going to stand here in my coat and endure this. even though washington did it with incrediblee stoicism. or his projected but lafayette was never able to quite project that same level he still enjoyed being able to prove he could do all of the stuff. he may be could not keep up guzzling wine with french aristocrats but he could absolutely keep up with a frozen winter and valley forge and not ever really complain about it. that's the true thing about him. he was much more comfortable enduring hardship then just sort of kicking around in a life of pleasure. which is mostly true of washington too. at least the things they set out the things they kept aiming for always put them in a world of hardship. >> absolutely absolute. washington was more, they both needed money but lafayette had lots of perks that was denied to him. a little more bitter when your wealt

washington is just lost. washington allowed the capital to fall. maybe washington isn't right for the army, some say. this is going to be during this period of victory in the north and defeat in and around philadelphia will lead to an attempt to unseat washington. before we come to this, the winter in valley forge is crucial in one reason it is crucial his armies in the 18th-century don't fight in the wintertime. you have campaigning seasons, you fight in spring or fall or summer but not winter so it is during the winter that the army is able to actually train itself. they had a hard fight since the war began. and who helps train the army? washington is performing plays in their off time but something i should correct, this man, responsible for bringing in european drill masters concept. the problem is he doesn't speak any english. most americans don't speak german so he would create one model unit and basically yell at them and berate them in german and show them what to do and one model unit would then show the other units what they need to do an

in washington wanted an army of 60000 stirring for the duration, never got it. and i would say about 20 percent of the army was signed up for the duration and intended to be drawn from the lower parts of society. and if you were a farmer, you didn't go to serve in the army, you stated in your town and you served in a militia and these were recent immigrants. they were servants, carpenters, another cream of the crop and again, that is one of the reasons that i think they need to be recovered it and noticed as real heroes in the war. and i think i've dropped a portion of your question but i think i will stop there pretty. >> richard, in new york, good afternoon. >> good afternoon and thank you for taking my call. mr. joseph ellis do you see similarities on safety inspection incident support the cause and with the type of chain that is going on today. >> oh wow, not sure what you have in mind in terms of shaming today. my tendency would be to compare it not to today but due to it happened in the french revolution and the russian revolution. in one of the reasons ou

and what does washington hope to achieve here? well, there is a lot of hysteria in the united states right now, principally about china. and there is a perception that washington will not be able to confront beijing successfully without moscow on sy, law for moscow refuses to play ball muscle, therefore, the united states. and it's engaging and what's referred to as coercive diplomacy. this hysteria reached a fever pitch just the other day when the news was revealed, a china had launched successfully the so call hypersonic missile, which the head of the joint chiefs of staff, general milling sit, was the quote, sputnik moment on a quote relating it to what happened in 1957 when mosque else and a satellite into outer space. there's also hysteria in washington, but belt, well moscow's so suppose that purported domination of the natural gas markets, which washington feels places too much pressure on western europe. that is to say, western europe is too heavily dependent upon moscow for natural gas, and therefore russia, by flipping a

but, you know, washington is a very shaping experience and he has spent his entire life in washington. and i think, you know, if you look at unit biden's now, you know, idea of this lead world league of democracies and america. it's the same old thing . and of course, it's, it has very close analogies to, to, to communism it is, you know, america leading the world to a future paradise, the future and state. and that is so deeply embedded in american political culture and in the europe in union as well to a considerable extent that it's, it is very, it isn't fundamentally shifted by experience unit with our full euro thought the americans, the complete american failure, enough janice done, would have led to a sort of a deep intellectual thinking about, you know, is democracy is liberal democracy, the universal answer. you know, what are the real challenges we're facing in different boxes? well, but you wrote recently that i like in is competition with the years ceasar, the superiority of the western system of the western model to the chinese. one is not obvious to everybody around the

washington doesn't have a revenue problem. it has a spending problem. >> reporter: democrats however say the trillions in combined spending between a bipartisan infrastructure bill and what they're calling a human infrastructure bill will address supply chain problems and it will bring down inflation. >> we've got to get people back into the workforce. what's going to get people back into the workforce, providing them with child care. my view is that this bill exactly is tackling inflation. >> reporter: democrats have set an end of the month deadline for themselves to pass both bills. the problem for president biden right now is that he can't get his party to agree on how to do it. todd, carley. carley: that's the problem. it's a big one. lauren blanchard live for us in washington. thank you. todd: today parents and students expected to stage a massive walkout over california's school vaccine mandate. carley: this as people across the country are looking at a choice between getting a shot or losing their job. marianne rafferty

pope arrives to washington d.c. june 24, what he describes enthusiastic welcome, also reported in the philadelphian require, his wife wrote him a quick note and that this moment, this movement to washington d.c., this movement, this order, this meeting was perfectly, she was perfectly convinced it was leading to a greater purpose and that greater purpose was pope would not return to the west. she'd write this and her letter to her husband, i'm almost sure he will not have fremont and perhaps mcdowell's department and you will then take the field against jackson. it is possible you may supersede mcclellan but i do not come up with my present white on the subject considerate lightly how clairvoyance was pope's wife in that moment. june 25, pope arrives to washington d.c. and he has his first interview that date with secretary of war, edward stanton. he goes and sticks stanton and there they sit, and they sit and they look at each other and size each other up, they have some faint chit chat about lighthearted topics an

in washington freeze him in his will. on the other side, a man named kerry washington, he was serving as a british and in south be evacuated out if you new york at the end of the work and going to nova scotia and eventually interesting pattern but one black man, serves the cause with the commander-in-chief and the other goes and pursues his own freedoms with the british and eventually achieves it when he gets to sierra he helped lead a movement and resistance to british rule climbing to be taxed without their consent. it is two different black men choosing different courses for the same reason. >> okay, by the way, suppose we had lost the war the neck and sauce work, how would history be different because when we eventually become free pretty thank you so too early or too hard to predict. >> if we had will depends on how he lost my philosophy in a real military way, good lasted at the battle of new york and long island, then there would've taken all the american leaders including washington and jefferson carried them over

but you know how washington works. i would not be the least surprise that one day we work up and there is some provision added in a reconciliation till and suddenly there is a change, maybe, to narrow opportunity zones, maybe, to make them more generous in their proposals. susan: what are the lessons of the opportunities own legislation that applied to the big bills pending in washington now? -- that apply to the big bills pending in washington now? david: when bills are so big, little provisions that if they stood on their own would get a lot of scrutiny get tucked in and nobody can pay attention. they get overwhelmed. there is a real need for reporters and congressional staff and advocacy groups and think tanks to scrutinize these bills and see what those little things are. because, little things can turn into big things. definitely, reconciliation is a frustrating process. this program would have benefited from better reporting and better data. the third thing is that you should never let -- you should never outsour

, washington and hamilton. we know of a lot of these things but should ask what are the other voices in him? what other relationship, people who haven't read the book, are the things they should be looking out for to get away from the things that they know, the things that you really interested in? >> i think the first thing is it's almost impossible to overemphasize how much of an influence washington had on lafayette. he was the most important thing that lafayette always had in a front of his mind. but there were others. there's like reynolds was an enlightenment philosopher when he was very young and when you're trying to pick through this, this obvious question is difficult answer but when does lafayette first match onto the notion of liberty and equality as being a thing that somebody to strive for and fight for? when does he start getting these ideas that maybe slavery is a bad thing? some of these come from ray nolt who wrote this huge thing called the history of the two indies which is ostensibly about

"washington journal" is next. ♪ host: this is "washington journal" for october 7. the senate is reportedly on the verge of coming up with a short-term deal to prevent surpassing the debt ceiling limit, a deal offered by the senate minority leader with a short-term raise of the debt limit. in our first hour, you can talk about the deal that has were of been made and talk about how senate and emmett kratz -- senate democrats and republicans are dealing with the issue in what you would like to see. here is how you can call us this morning. republicans, (202) 748-8001. democrats, you can call us at (202) 748-8000. independents, call us at (202) 748-8002. if you want to text us this morning, you can do so at (202) 748-8003 and post on our social media sites. many of you are also posting on fate -- already posting on facebook. you can also post on twitter. the reported deal made mention of yesterday on the senate floor and in and around capitol hill. joining us to talk about some of the reporting done on it at this moment is zach cohen, who covers the senate for the nati

we see a lot of letters that pass between tyler and mary going back from virginia to washington washington to virginia. tyler took 18 interest in what his daughter was reading. recommended all the things he read when he was young. we definitely wanted her to develop a fertile mind. his oldest son, robert tyler was born in 1816 had a pretty decent relationship with john tyler. he was a student at william and mary like his father. did well at william and mary but there is still a distance between the two of them or formality almost. the fact they did not see each other that much will robert was growing up. john tyler junior was born in 1819 no doubt took his father's absence of the hardest. young john, and eventually became an alcoholic, suffered through a troubled marriage that was largely his doing. before and after despaired of that one point thinking he was going to be dead they found that his son and namesake would be dead. with his children, leticia who found it extremely difficult to deal with her husband continuous absences. there is an anecdote from may of 1831 that is particularly

the other question is could washington haveer succeeded in e french revolution the way washington succeeded in the american revolution. that kinded of feels like no, i don't think that he's able to pull that off. there is a great quote that i did for sure which is bonaparte looking back on the french revolution and saying if i had been in the united states when washington was there i would have been because washington didn't have to deal with foreign invading armies and civil wars and social unrest. did you ever read a single book about the war on independence? that's all it was and people invading and trying to kind of undermine himself washington succeeded in the situation he had. i don't see him making it out of the french revolution in one piece. >> it really wasn't feeding into too many stereotypes. it's hypothetical what would washington think. it's actually about the time period and something could happen. we've sort of brought this upon ourselves and lafayette's conversations with him. do you have a sense of what he could have excelled at had he stayed in america? was there a potent

now a group of former washington team cheerleaders is demanding that report be made public. ellie coburn was a washington cheerleader for four years and marketing director for ten and started a petition to make the report of the nfl public. melanie, thank you so much for joining us. i want to start with just your experience of inside that organization as i was relaying the reporting that's happening and these e-mails how that jievs with what personally you experienced there. >> well, thanks for having me, chris. i really appreciate you sharing our stories. as you can imagine it is a male dominated field. coming into the washington redskins front office and being involved in the organization from that side versus the sidelines as a cheerleader was totally different. i was one of many cheerleaders actually hired to be a full-time staff person. there were many of us sort of hand picked and interviewed and offered positions in various facets of the organization. i do feel we were maybe picked for the wrong reasons. obviously there was a lot of sexual objectivity in the office. t

washington state has already said every public sector worker in washington state has to be vaccinated. that is why they fired the football coach at washington state university. other states like texas and florida are under federal osha's jurisdiction and the state government agencies and local government agencies are osha-fre e zones. it is unfortunate but those workers have no right to a safe workplace. host: the head state -- the head could touch -- the head football coach at washington state was fired after refusing vaccines under state mandate. several other assistant coaches as well. wilmington, north carolina, we will hear from alexis. caller: good morning. i have a question. i did not pay attention to your name but you are the osha man. host: david michaels. guest: call me the osha man. caller: i would like to know -- i think you were sort of explaining it, but there is this big hubbub in chicago. mayor lightfoot has said anybody that is not showing up for duty with covid vaccine credentials can't work, and i think the fraternal order of police have weighed in. how does osha fi

it seemed to work to reporting at the washington report -- washington post. they are about to settle on a tax on billionaires, which is a new scheme, so to speak, to get revenue. because a democrat from arizona will not raise tax rates. it's difficult this late in the game to say you're not going to raise tax rates. listen, the white house is pushing the democratic leadership for a victory before the white house goes to rome and to glasgow on a hardship assignment next week. but i am skeptical, really skeptical this will happen. i think infrastructure vote, this is two pieces, infrastructure and social spending. could get one next week, but i'm skeptical of both because i'm a skeptic. yamiche: i'm happy you are here because the capitol hill reporters have all the information. i want to ask you one other question, jake. how does your reporting square with this? president said yesterday when you're president of the united states, you have 50 democrats in the senate. everyone of them is president. what does that say about where the powerbrokers are? >> every sin

you had me at the "washington post," and -- >> what a mistake. [laughing] >> well, you can try to atone for that if you want but still you know, it will suffice to say that you are the great reporter of our time and it is, , so it s a real privilege to be here with the two of you to talk about "peril." so my first question is about the making of the book. so how did this collaboration come about? bob woodward, you've done of the books with collaborators. you have done co-authors, you have done books on your own. how did what seems to have been a match made in heaven actually come about? >> it was actually a match made in trump's hotel in washington in 2016. costa said to me, jenna, trump might be president. he was on the verge of getting the nomination and costa said we should go interview him. so we did, and i got two titles from the interview went trump was talking about i always bring out fear, or i use fear to get my way, and i bring outrage in people, so fear and rage came from that interview. and then after we had, afterwards, after the int

i've been raised in washington about b. james influence, well let's get some analysis now with him in our blanco who's research director and head of america's risk insights at various maple croft. and she's joining us from under lucia in spain. him in a very good to have you with us on the show. so how exactly will washington county china? well, i mean, it's interesting the proposition that washington can counter china name for structure, but also including principles, right? because washington's investment is not just for building roads and bridges or dredging ports, it has to do with, you know, advancing gender equality and digitalization and, and lowering and equality in the region. but washington has a lot of baggage than china dawson. and so for me, the key question is to see how the bite and administration is able to implement these policies and whether it will be able to compete with china on infrastructure or whether this will remain an ideological battle ground. and certain governments in the region will choose chi

attorney in washington, d.c. it's the u.s. attorney's office in washington, d.c., who will be responsible for overseeing hundreds of prosecutions of people who participated in the january 6th attack. that's also the office that would head up the prosecution of steve bannon for criminal contempt of congress if the justice department tries to do that. republican says they're holding up president biden's nominee to be that u.s. attorney because the justice department hasn't responded to a letter of theirs that equates the january 6th attack to the mostly peaceful protests that followed the murder of george floyd last summer. so there can't be a u.s. attorney in washington? in practice it's not like the u.s. attorney's office in washington is empty right now, while papers keep stacking up on the desk. there's somebody in that job in an acting capacity who will continue to perform the duties and responsibilities of that office until the president's pick is confirmed. blocking this one nominee, therefore, isn't an effective strategy

after 22 years of serving the citizens of the state of washington, being asked to leave. this is the last time you will hear me in a state patrol car. laura: robert lemay joins me now. it is fine for you to be out there patrolling unvaccinated for the last 19 months but now you are just not wanted, not needed, not wanted. how does that feel? >> feels pretty bad. they awoke a sleeping giant. i've had so many contacts. i'm not a social media type guy so my kids have been helping me out, you get a few million hits here. i had contacts from great britain. i'm in a russian paper. it's going across the state, across the world, i have been on talk shows solid since 2:00 yesterday. it is a mess. >> any derek and defended the vaccine mandate this way. >> we want to have our value employees, we need public health for them to be vaccinated so people of seattle when they dial 911 they want to know the person responding to that emergency is fully vaccinated. the people of seattle need to know that that person is leave vaccinated and least likely to transmit covid to them or loved ones

some of the big shots in washington said it would be 15,000, 20,000. i knew it wouldn't be that large, but i couldn't be sure. norm and i talked about it often. we thought at worst it would be around 5000. it turned out to be 300 or so casualties by the enemy and another 300 killed by accidents. mr. rubenstein: there is something called the powell doctrine, which is, if you are going to go to war, have massive numbers of troops. is it fair to call it the powell doctrine? sec. powell: it is perfect except for one thing. it was the invention of a reporter. a reporter came to see me when i was chairman. we had just won the gulf war, and he was asking how we did it. give me a simple expression of your theory, the powell theory, the powell way of doing it. i said, it's not written in any manual. he said, but i'm going to write about it. you are? he says, i'm going to call it the powell doctrine. i said here's what it is. make sure you've looked at the politics of it, the diplomacy of it, and if you can't find a diplomatic way to get out of it and you have t

and sent trump electors to washington. early january clark's pressure had turned to this crazy outright threat, his own kind of coup within a coup in the department of justice. again according to the judiciary report, clark eventually inform the acting attorney general rosen, again this is his boss, that trump had offered to install him in rosen's place, and told rosen, he would turn down trump's off, or if rosen would agree to sign that proof of concept letter. clark has denied he plotted to overthrow rosen, but according to the report, trump in clark only backed off, they were nowhere meetings, the three are meeting at one point. after several senior justice department leaders, basically banned together and said we will over design and protest if you. do the fallout from that will overshadow what you're trying to do. in fact, former acting in general for its -- role in all this is been fascinating to see, remember william barr just handed him this flaming wreckage of the justice department. and piece that with the letter

were heights in the eastern mediterranean and then washington sees tricky. seas washington as not supporting us his own interest in the south caucuses, to to settle the consequences or by john intermediate underlying all of this is a what i said. the idea of the us partnering with with turkey views as a terrorist group in syria. and then the turkeys purchase of a russian air defense system in 2017, which really should ship a notion of turkey in washington as a, as a reliable nato ally to its core. both of these are misperceptions. and so this, this meeting today gives a chance for both leaders to get to get the momentum restored in the relationship. it certainly is a complex relationship. if you are a fly on the wall, what were you likely hearing today between the 2 ladies? i think we would hear president biden saying we just had a crisis in our diplomatic relationship in the last week and a half where you declared our ambassador and 9 other ones from europe and canada. persona non grata for making a statement supporting decision by the european court of human rights to free a civil society