it was no real mainstream biography about walter white walter francis white and whenever i mentioned his name, the only thing people thought about was breaking bad, and i thought that's not gonna work for me. so the first thing i did was i went to yale university. i looked at the archives that's where walter's papers are i went to the public library and the schomburg center and harlem and i went through most importantly the naacp papers, which is just a treasure trove of material regarding walter white and what i found there was more than i hoped to and i really learned that the story of walter's life and why we should know about him was really much greater than i even anticipated. so who was walter white? one way to say this explain in a very short sentence. you might say well walter francis white was the most powerful civil rights figure the first of the 20th century. and already you're saying to yourself, how can that be bame is making this up. it can't be true because of that was true. we would all know who he was another way to walter is to say walter white was sort of the most

you can purchase white lies the double life of walter f white and america's darkest secret anywhere books are sold including rainy day books right here in kansas city. they do have it in stock. you're watching american history tv explore our nation's past every saturday on c-span 2. and so happy and proud frankly to have john avalon here a senior political analyst at cnn. and he has their reality check segment. he's previously editor in chief and managing director of. the famous the daily beast is the author of a number of books? whip nuts how the lunatic fringe is hijacking america. independent nation how the vital center is changing american politics washington's farewell founding father's warning to future generations his latest book is this one here lincoln and the fight for peace. produced by simon and schuster is 354 pages? and illustrated and is $30. we are having john on the actual day of release and here is one of our bookplaced that he has signed for us. hopefully the next time he'll be in our studio live and we'll have the books signed directly, but that's going to have to for

. >> the timeless pacer and pontiac aztec ii walter white, andrew, had a pontiac aztec. >> i remember. a pontiac aztec. >> yeah. it was representative of his hum drum life before he got into something more interesting, obviously. >> lucrative >> yeah. and dangerous. >>> in other elon musk news. twitter plans to host the investor and board member for a q&a session with employees the q&a session is said to be a response to the concerns of musk joining the board. twitter shares this week investors have not shown concern. twitter shares have been up sharply. down 1% today. on monday, you saw 27% jump. it was 5% the day after that a different week this week than last week with the stock prices there. >>> let's talk about other news. the fdic wants thousands of banks that it oversees to notify regulators about crypto activities in progress or planned. the regulators saying it wants systemic risks from crypto to be monitored. this could be a shift. it will be interesting to see. i think these next comments, i imagine, everybody will comment about this peter thiel sounding off on crypto or th

and then biographer aj baim recalls the life of civil rights activists walter f white the executive secretary of the naacp in the mid 1900s and a reporter who passed as white to investigate hate crimes in the south. and later author john avlon looks at president lincoln's plans for a post-war america. find a full schedule of events at c-span.org slash history your program guide. and now lectures and history with professor timothy kelly. today's reading would have been on the great depression families face a great depression. so there'd be appropriate for us to talk about the story of norveld which isn't which is a great depression story. about how to deal with the suffering that the great depression brought about and i want to first talk a little bit about that suffering so we can see that. economic epic opportunity fell pretty dramatically. this is a measure of us gross domestic product. so does anybody know what that might mean? gross domestic product have a sense dan. i would be products in the us in general not imports or exports just products in the us and not just physical products, but

that's one of the reasons you need experienced people in the white house who know what the issues are. walter cronkite was great because he had experiences and covered world war ii so when he went to vietnam and reported he didn't think we could win and lbj had lost walter cronkite, people respected him because he had -- he h never made himself a story although he came out and gave an opinion, the opinions are not unheard of in the news. you need to respect the person who's doing it. walter cronkite had the respect because people knew he had the gravitas. that is the difference, the gravitas -- >> to respect that a little bit more. >> how can you bring the fairness doctrine back. >> you need a threat. the quick answer there, there have to be consequences made for that. >> innt what ways does the government limited to press access? >> that's quite easy. there is a number of ways, there's limited access but not filling outat the freedom of information request and they don't give you the information. they charge you, they make the cost prohibitive. we've got to have somebody doing the jo

the white house correspondents' association dinner live saturday night april 30 on c-span, c-span radio, c-span.org and the c-span now video app. .. washington anytime anywhere. >> so walter isaacson. son of new orleans. of broadmoor. >> sorry. product ofbroadmoor . rhodes scholar. every night intellectual. recipient of how many awards? we don't have enough time. walter, you have documented through these biographies of some of the most complicated, complex and challenging personalities of history. and of course your biography of benjamin franklin stands out because franklin, franklin was an evening not for so many and i want you to talk about why this film because of course ken is an extraordinaryinterpreter of history, particularly on american culture . but why today is an old dead white man like benjamin franklin relevant? >> ben franklin is the historical figure we most need today. he's the person who tried to unite colleges, to dissipate the discussions and ideologies. he was a person most most connected science and statecraft . believed about the importance of saying let's not jump

agenda after disney goes walter style. protect our kids. the authorsnd slap heard around the world, can chris rock defend himself against will smith? i have one of the best writers in the world joining me later. g from one crisis to the next any of the covid-19 pandemic, massive inflation, afghanistan, russian invades ukraine in the energy crisis, and yet all alo all along the way, it's the little cries who seem to get screwed the most. the have-nots. why are we left holding the bag after the l connected haves do l the damage? they broke relief to make the rules the rest of us are forced to live on. got me thinking. sounds a lot like and oligarchs, doesn't it? according to webster, an oligarchy is a government, a small group exercises control especially for corrupt and selfish purposes. winner winner chicken dinner. are we already living under an oligarchy now? are be governed by a small group of powerful elites? special rules for themselves gu? a separate set of rules for everyone else? have not? got some evidence that ma

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as well as the concern tot annual white house correspondents association dinner on saturday night and for saturday's correspondence all guests have to be fully vaccinated and show proof of a negative test that day. biden says his last covid test was monday and it was negative >>> house minority leader kevin mccarthy was concerned about rhetoric by members of his own party in the days of the capitol riot shining new light on the intensity of mccarthy's private concerns about other republican lawmakers. >> i don't want to look back and think we caused something or we missed something and someone got hurt. >> reporter: the audio records retained by the "new york times" up coming book by two times reporters. nbc news reached out to mccarthy for comment. she's not responded directly to questions about the records. >>> now to the economy all life on wall street this morning after stocks took a beating yesterday. the slide driven in part by soaring inflation and renewed concerns over covid and the global supply chain. nbc's senior washington correspondent hallie jackson on the story. good mo

>> i see unnecessary shooting of a black man by a white cop and i question, did we not learn anything from daunte wright, philando castile, walter scott, all three incidents that involved really low level traffic stops that resulted in the death of those african-american men. it just appears that we can't get it right. that traffic stops, routine traffic stops should not result in violent encounters and dead african-american men. >> terence, what do you see? what questions do you have for this investigation? >> well, i have a lot of questions but i see the same thing. the death of anyone is troublesome. this particular tape is disturbing to me, and i agree. a simple traffic stop should not end up in the death of anyone. so i applaud the chief. he'll do a deep dive into this. michigan state police is working on it but there's a lot of questions. were there other things the officers should have done? it's a tragic death for a traffic stop. >> areva, as eauomar points out the piece, a congolese refugee and the police chief said a language barrier is potentially a part of the investigatio

that's one ofthe reasons we need experienced people in the white house who know what the issues are, who have covered the issues . walter cronkite was great because he had experience as a beat reporter and covered world war ii so when he went to vietnam aiand reported he didn't think we could win and lbj said i've lost little america, i've lost walter cronkite,people respected him because he had , he never made himself the story although he came out and gave an opinion. and opinions are unheard of in news. there's nothing wrong with them. you need to respect the person who's doing it and walter cronkite had the respect of the people, people knew he had the gravitas . we need an audience torespect that a little bitmore . >> moving on here . >> edmonds maccabee, is that thequestion? >> different one, which are you seeing ? >> how can you bring the fairness drop doctrine back . alhow can you bring the fairness doctrine back losing the fear of you your fcc license . >> tyou need to threaten them with losing their fcc license . there has to be consequences for that. >> okay. all right, so

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. >> this is "the pbs newshour" from w eta studios in washington and in the west the walter cronkite school of journalism at arizona state university. judy president biden got some : help from former president obama today as the white house announced a proposal aimed at lowering health insurance costs for millions of americans. >> the president announced a two what has been called the family glitch, a loophole in the affordable care act that kept millions from qualifying for subsidized insurance plans. president biden and former president obama made the announcement earlier today at the white house. president biden: here's the problem -- under the current rules, a working mom is told as long as she can afford employer-based coverage for herself, she cannot qualify for premium subsidies to afford coverage for her family. cover her but not her family. we are working to change that. once today's proposed rule is finalized, starting next year, working families in america will get the help they need to afford full family coverage. >> for more on the impact this could have and who it could

house who know what the issues are who have covered the issues and one of the things you know, walter cronkite was great because he had experiences a beat reporter and covered world war two so when he went to vietnam and reported that he didn't think that we could win and lbj said i've lost middle america if i've lost walter cronkite people respected him because he had he was he never made himself the story although he came out and gave an opinion and an opinions aren't unheard of in news. there's nothing wrong with them. you need to respect the person who's doing it and walter cronkite had the respect because people knew he had the gravitas. that's the difference. we need the gravitas. we need to our institution respect that a little bit more. all right. so good moving on here. this is more of a mcafee. but what and pamela mcafee i think right? is that the question we're getting different ones. which one are you seeing? how can you bring the fairness doctor back? there you go. yeah. yeah fairness doctor back. without the threat of out. is that where you're talking to fairness doctor

you broke the stories of the announcements on guns today from the white house, including the announcement of the new nominee for the atf. now, steve dettelbach is someone who comes from a prosecutor's background, a little dferent than the previous nominee, who did have experience with gun control advocacy groups. what doethat tell you? what does this -- all the announcementtoday tell you about where we are on the politics of guns, especially for democrats right now? laura: right. so this is a big second attempt by the white house to try to get an atf nominee director confirmed. there hasn't been a director of the atf, which is responsible for cracking down on illegal or trafficked guns, there hasn't been a director of that agency, a permanent one, since 2015. so, if biden is able to get dettelbach confirmed, that's a big deal. hill sources have told me that they think dettelbach has a better chance than the prior nomine david chipman, who, as you noted, used to advise gun advocacy groups, namely, the giffords group. and so they're thinking that he could potentially have a bigger -- a bett

amy walter of the cook political report with amy walter. and laura barron-lopez of politico. tamara keith is away. laura, let's start with you. you wrote the stories of the announcements on guns today from the white house, including the announcement of the new nominee for the atf. steve devil back is someone who comes from a prosecutor's background. a little different than the previous nominee who did have experience with gun-control advocacy groups. what does that tell you, what do all of the announcements tell you about where we are on the politics of guns, especially for democrats right now? >> this is a big second attempt by the white house to try to get an atf nominee director confirmed. there has not been a director of the atf, which is responsible for cracking down on illegal or traffic guns, there has not been a director of that agency since 2015. if biden is able to get him confirmed, that is a big deal. sources have told me they think he has a better chance than the prior nominee, david chipman, who as you noted, used to advise gun advocacy groups, mainly the giffor

my dog walter is here because he loves kate as well. separation anxiety is a real thing. especially in this post-pandemic world. you say there are things we can do at home to help our dogs if they are suffering. >> yes, absolutely. so first of all, thank you for having me and this is such an important topic during this time that we're living in. so the first thing i always say, i'm so glad you had a vet on before me too because get a vet check first. get a health check on the dogs to make sure that there's no underlying conditions and issues. then what you want to do is, well, the first thing i usually suggest is set up a webcam or a video through your phone and get some video evidence of how your dog is behaving while you're not home. a lot of times we'll hear the dogs barking and whining but sometimes the behavior is also what the trainer needs to see to help give you the best treatment plan. and you want to see how they really are behaving with their, you know, anxiety. if they have it and sometimes they're having a protest bark and not necessarily an anxiety bark so w