we know the thomas jefferson played a part in it and john adams. we know it took place in philadelphia in independence hall or the state house. this was at that time. and were all familiar with the signature of john hancock wrote his name so large that king george could read it even without his spectacles. let's take a good look at our great national treasure our crown jewels, so to speak. for it is a treasure of value without compare. out of this seed part of our heritage is come the constitution. out of it came the bill of rights. out of it came our fundamental laws. and out of it came a philosophy and a word that swept the world as no other political ideas ever done before or since. we're out of our herities has come human liberty democracy the birth of a great nation. this is our heritage. all right. now we know a little of what it is. next we ask ourselves. how did it happen? why was it necessary suddenly to shuck off our family ties to cut the apron strings that bound us to mother, england? well, it didn't happen suddenly. it was a long long

thomas jefferson was elected shortly as settled to the task. we could imagine this sensitive young man angry and resentful wise enough to hold himself in check. he h writes and talks with franklin and talks with adams and writes some more and slowly word by word evolves the noble majestic union of independence when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to decide the political bands which have connected them with another into and a gathers momentumlike an eo the vastness of the sky. then this tremendous statement we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. that they are endowed by their ucreator with certain unalienae rights and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happyness. july 1st the congress reached its debate on the revolution of independence. john dickinson of pennsylvania protested. what he said made good sense. the colonists were unprepared to battle the power of britain. they could never hold the when. the logic would cast a damper and johnn adams wrote never eas

thomas jefferson was a genius but he was also racist. that is rather blunt, but that is the reality. he owned slaves, he thought blacks were closer to orangutans than white men and thought they had no place in american society. acknowledging that is not degrading to thomas jefferson, it is simply acknowledging reality. there are a lot of people who don't want to accept it. they want to make the civil war into something that it was not, which it was over slavery but rather states rights. this tendency in southern states to stop teaching about race at all. banned books, ban beloved which was based on a true story. host: your book comes out today, the publishing date today. "race and reckoning." . any concerns on your part about your book not being taught or being banned in some jurisdictions? guest: i think it is possible that it will be and that is the place where we are. the book is also an analysis of that phenomenon and why we seem compelled, at least some of us to want to do this and bury this history. my argument is, if you bury this

also a floorplan that had been drawn by thomas jefferson when he was living here is governor. apparently he had thought of remodeling the palace and drew a very detailed floor plan giving interior walls and stair occasions andnt dimensions. the capitol moved to richmond, virginia it thomas jefferson never had the opportunity to do that remodeling. the governor's palace was not only a symbol of power and authority it also was a fashion statement. it was here they call must could come to the latest fashions from england. to see the latest forms of silver, of an intern printed textiles. so what were going to do now if you a tour of the governor's palace with one of our interpreters. welcome, welcome. i imagine you are impressed but most everyone is for that's what the century all misfortune press everyone coming to see the governor and impress them with virginia we do not want you to forget that anytime soon. weapons i know you're looking at them, all the men do of course. these are i suppose a tradition for our governors here. you go to the big castles in england ien am told the

thomas jefferson and john adams. the ambassador was charge but uncompromise. according to the koran, it was their god-given right. >> jefferson and adams left the meeting hang. they didn't have a deal for safe passage. adams said you can't fight them unless you want to fight them forever. jefferson said you can't pay for peace. he sensed the attacks would continue and the price would only go up. in this case jefferson was right. >> it costs 20% of the national budget but the attacks continued. brian: the president when he took office would commission the building of four ships with copper bottoms, solid oak side, they were fast, strong, and they were built to fight. they wouldn't be ready for the washington administration. adams refused to use them during this administration. but jefferson knew he was going to take on the barberry nations. the hope was to stop commerce coming in and out and strangle the tripoli economy. however the blockade was in effect. the tripoli knew how to get through. they had the guile, the knowledge and the guns to take on the navy. b

go ahead and elect me with thomas jefferson. i know he's meant to be president. well, it was a different matter when this got thrown into the house of representatives now who dominates the house of representatives, the opposition party 'cause they're the ones who just got kicked out of office and they're not too happy about this. so their party the federalists john adams etc. they had to decide between ooh their favorite person to hate thomas jefferson and their second favorite person to hate aaron burr. well, the chances were very good that they would have selected thomas jefferson and the person who came to the aid of aaron burr. among many but the probably the most important person was alexander hamilton who wrote letter after letter after letter saying you have to elect jefferson because he's a man of honor, you know, i can't stand the this fellow but he's a man of honor he has principles. i don't agree with him on 200 100 different things, but he's a man of honor he loves his country. and aaron burr is an absolute opportunist. so what happened? is that the u

you go to visit the legacy of thomas jefferson you learn about what a terrible person thomas jefferson was. here is a sign that greets visitors at monticello when you arrive. is all men are created equal being lived up to in our own country today? when will we know when it is? here's a quote from a visitor, william bails of chester, virginia, wrote in an online review about visiting monticello. half of the comments on jefferson were critical. even my 11-year-old daughter noticed the bias. so, they're not just doing it in our classrooms and our textbooks, doing it in the places we visit, how we describe our founders,. rachel: if you go to the gift store, not limited to mon at that sell low. i visited many of these homes. i did a a series america's first ladies. i picked up on all of this, reorienting, reconstructing of the history to basically make sure that the idea that they had slaves is on the same level as what they did for our country, which is interesting because there were slaves you know in the middle east. there were slaves across human history. i get that. it is a terrible hi

jefferson. the house was a very important part of the design of the town of williamsburg, the town was very orderly, had a very orderly design and the palace would have been part of that design. it was the third largest building in town. it consisted not only of the building we are standing in batch two advance buildings, extensive gardens with falling terraces, a kind now, there was a scullery, laundry, kitchen and even though seller and we know one governor had over 5000, 6000 bottles of wine stored in his seller. the house today is a reconstructed building on the original archaeological site. it was finished and open to the public in 1934 and since that time it has undergone a number of re-furnishings and reinterpretations. today - as if governor dunmore was living here with his family. his wife and six children arrived in virginia in 1774. at the end of that year, lady dunmore gave birth to what daughter they named virginia. unfortunately things went a little sour in relationships with the g

>> thomas jefferson is coming home. >> thomas jefferson is coming home. you should know that. i knew it from the john adams movie, a great docu-drama from our friends at hbo. final one. how many voting members in the house of representatives? f if you don't get this right, 200, 441, 100 or 435 in. >> i think i would lose the title of congress am correspondent if i didn't answer 435. >> yes! he did it, folks! he gets to keep his job. but i have a bonus question for you, ryan. >> uh-o. >> this is a key bonus question. all right. which nfl team plays its home games in the state of new york. please god get this right. oh my god. >> harry, you and i both know there is only one nfl football team in the state of new york and that is the buffalo bills. the soon to be super bowl champions. >> there it is! correct. he goes four for four, if the buffalo bills don't win the super bowl this year, they may never do it. please, god i ask for one thing every year, buffalo bill super bowl, please. >> if they're in the super bowl, we will be there, we will make that happen. >> i consider it a d

it was founded by thomas jefferson. he referred to it as the hobby of his old age. he selected the first faculty decided which books were needed in the library designated the liberal arts curriculum and designed all of the buildings. importantly, he did not construct the university as it is often said in fact dozens of enslaved laborers were key to all of the work that was done from terracing the land to digging the clay for bricks from laying the bricks to plastering and painting the walls. we saw this as a project that would involve students and on the screen, you'll see some of the names of the students who have been part of this journey. and that by involving students in the primary research and the writing of the university's history we could begin to change the collective memory of the institution in powerful ways. students began by pouring through the university's archives and learning first to read cursive. they learned how to transcribe documents and tagged them with very sophisticated xml tags so that we could do the kinds of complex searching. that would

thomas jefferson said, i like to dream of the future, better than the history of the past. so did his friendly rival john adams who wrote of the stream to see rising in america and liberty in prospective two or 300 millions of freeman without one noble one came among them. you say it, it is impossible, and i should agree with you on this, i would still say let us try the experiment regularly and, that each government continue. thank you. [applause] [applause] [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [applause] [inaudible]. ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ ♪ ♪♪ [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. [inaudible]. let's start with a question i'm sure nobody will have any problem having their answer recorded for television for. show of hands, how many people believe alien life exists? yeah, pretty decent number of people. i'm gonna throw it in there as well. i think so,

but the abbas of the american adventure lies ahead, thomas jefferson said, i like to dream of the future better than the history of the past. so did his friendly rival, john adams who wrote it his dream to see rising in america and emperor of liberty and the prospect of two or 300 millions of free men without one noble or one king among them. you say it is impossible, if i should agree with you on this, i would still say, let us try the experiment. i can only add, let the experiment continue. thank you. [applause] [applause] ♪ ♪ ♪ let's start with a question i'm sure nobody will have any problem having their answer recorded for television

. >> like thomas jefferson. >> thomas jefferson, john marshall, patrick henry. and not one of them thought that this abortion was a matter to be adjudicated in the courts, to be discussed in public or to be in any way, you know, punished. >> it's fascinating because we often hear about, well, the founding fathers wanted and thinking about constitutional interpretation. we actually don't have a hypothetical me. we know what people like thomas jefferson and the like actually thought. it was a private matter. it wasn't a matter for public discourse. and so if that's the case is the aleto opinion fundamentally flawed in. >> well, as an opinion based in history, yes, indeed it is. because in the founding era there were no laws against abortion. the historical survey that the opinion uses to justify the idea that abortion was not quote-unquote, you know, deeply rooted in the american past is a single case from the colony, not even state of maryland, in the 1650s. and then just sort of catapult ahead to the late 19th century, a century after the founding fathers were a

jefferson or you think got thomas jefferson fan and i am today. welcome to patriot. patriot house gastro pub is tucked away in san francisco's embarcadero to between big screen tv's patriotic paintings. hang on the wall. you can order up dishes like george washington's fist sure. there's fish and fried chicken sandwiches or the u.s. party pot roast. i you know, you not go wrong after a healthy amount of patriot pot roast are going to want to wash it down with some. grant's elixir as in euless and this cocktail named for more here, former president as in president town. so who's behind this restaurant with an americana for brown sisters from ireland came to we wanted to embrace the american culture, the american the american opening up her own immigrants it's making this our home. >> and apparently that customers supporting you for for the drake so on during all of that, it's a family operation, including nieces and not named after president. no in san francisco, vicki liviakis kron, 4 news first sisters. they're really >> and you know what more po

nearly two decades before the official founding of the university of virginia thomas jefferson wrote to artist charles wilson peale in january 1802 i have for a considerable time been meditating a plan of a general university for the state of virginia on the most extensive and liberal scale that our circumstances would call for jefferson considered the university to be one of his three greatest achievements with the declaration of independence and the virginia statute for religious freedom. in his post-presidential years he was able to devote himself to fulfilling the dream of an academical village. today, we'll hear from andrew j o'shaughnessy about jefferson's aspirations for his university. his book is a twin biography of jefferson and retirement and of the university of virginia's first years in seeking to understand figures from the past the ability to read their own recorded thoughts is immensely valuable today's author andrew j. o'shaughnessy used founders online in researching. this book founders online a website hosted by the national archives through the national historical

no one makes excuses for it but that is not the story of jefferson. >> thomas jefferson is an american treasure and a treasure for the whole world. and he belongs to this country. and he belongs to everybody in this country. we have every right to be patriotic and proud of what this man achieved in his lifetime. >> brian: go on a tour and be ready to answer for the tour guides bringing you around diminishing his legacy. here is what the monticello spokesperson said our goal is to present honest and inclusive history of monticello as well as jefferson's contributions to the founding of their country. they should all resign. >> they are not doing that my pleasure, thank you. >> brian: i hope so. scam alert, restaurants nationwide are being blackmailed to fork over cash and gift cards, tips to take on the scammers next my asthma felt anything but normal. ♪ ♪ it was time for a nunormal with nucala. nucala reduces asthma attacks it's a once-monthly add-on treatment for severe eosinophilic asthma. not for sudden breathing problems. allergic reactions can occur. get help right away for sw

thomas jefferson was a genius but he was also racist. that is rather blunt, but that is the reality. he owned slaves, he thought blacks were closer to orangutans than white men and thought they had no place in american society. acknowledging that is not degrading to thomas jefferson, it is simply acknowledging reality. there are a lot of people who don't want to accept it. they want to make the civil war into something that it was not, which it was over slavery but rather states rights. this tendency in southern states to stop teaching about race at all. banned books, ban beloved which was based on a true story. host: your book comes out today, the publishing date today. "race and reckoning." . any concerns on your part about your book not being taught or being banned in some jurisdictions? guest: i think it is possible that it will be and that is the place where we are. the book is also an analysis of that phenomenon and why we seem compelled, at least some of us to want to do this and bury this history. my argument is, if you bury this

they lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas's jefferson's travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to in his words they lived quite a peaceful life there for following thomas jefferson's travel advice across europe, we are so thrilled to have him here. they're baxter, everybody. >> great, thank you. thank you, c-span, thank you everybody for watching. yes, this book is about me following jefferson's travels across europe, it was a chance to learn about the different side of jefferson we do not plug here about. we all know about the younger jefferson, we will probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president. it gave me a chance to explore, middle aged in the 1780's, jefferson was going into his 40s. he almost did not travel to france at all, he had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador for the united states and declined it both times. there were two traumatic events that really changed his mind and changed his whole life. in the early 1780's, that led

this is what thomas jefferson said. i think george soros was saying i want to hold thomas jefferson to his words and in order to do that the risk that you have to take. the people the institutions the structures that that have to be upended uprooted excavated means that the status quo. is deeply unhappy because you are you are one of them. but you are calling them out. but karen so what actually is georgia's engagement with politics that's your essay? your essay describes the the notion that he is equal in in the as approach to say the koch brothers that he is on the left the source of much of the kind of disruption and so on i can tell you that. from having listened to him talk over and over and over again. it's extraordinary the equanimity. that he has about being attacked except. in hungary, so why don't you talk about what in fact is his influence in politics? well, i don't think george soros would characterize himself nor do i think he should be characterized as a left figure as in the philanthropy. let's i know of

what do you make of trashing thomas jefferson in his own home? >> that is the problem because most americans know you don't disrespect a man in his own home, but in the case of a founding father that contributed to the nation and the world, it is very sad the overcorrecting is an attempt to destroy his legacy. i went on the tour two years ago and i thought it was very balanced, so the change i suspect would be connected to the 1619 project and their effort to push their propaganda, that flawed view of history. >> carley: you mentioned the word balanced and that is the key. it is important to tell the full american story, the good and bad and the parts that are highlighted are the bad parts. what will the long-term consequences of that be? >> i think it is part of an effort to worsen race relations, they want to create white guilt and shame. it also hurts black americans, hurts our children because america is a land of tremendous opportunity and we need to look forward. so much about america's histories rich, about americans working together acros

others like thomas jefferson all believing we could become a nation where people would be more important than anything else and where the people could govern themselves. i think jefferson would have a lot to say today about those democratic principles. he first taught equal rights and equal opportunity for all. and abraham lincoln why lincoln has become a hero to the oppressed people all over the world because he lived and died for freedom and equality and because he led the country through one of its greatest crises. he believed that government of the people by the people and for the people should not perish from the earth. well bill, washington and jefferson and lincoln are dead. they began our democracy, but they knew the job would have to be finished by those who lived after them. and they knew that this democracy would last only as long as its citizens were willing to keep working on it. it's our government bill. from here on it's up to us. my name is andrew, i'm the director of the international of the jefferson. it is my pleasure to introduce kevin who will be discussing his new b

washington decides, brings in hamilton but reaches out to thomas jefferson who had a great relationship with during the revolution but he recognizes his obvious gifts. in typical fashion jefferson takes a wild to respond. it is not until march, almost a year after washington's inauguration that he becomes part of washington's cabinet and from the start, he's very skeptical of what is going on. he distrusts this thing called the presidency with all that power. hamilton is looking through the british model when it comes to creating an economic basis for the country. washington and hamilton after fighting the revolution, if they lost, it wasn't what was happening on the battlefield but because of british economic might, because they had a national bank, had the ability to borrow, they could outlast anyone economically, that gave them superiority. it is the strong economic basis for the country. after his time in france, jefferson seduced by the french revolutionary fervor. that is not what a republic is about. we don't want to be like england, we want to be passionate and idealistic. we kn

they lived quite a peaceful life there before deciding to follow thomas's jefferson's travel advice across europe, so he is going to tell you a little bit more about the book and we are so thrilled to have him here derek baxter everybody. great. well, thank you. thank you scuppernong and and c-span. thank you everybody for watching. so. so yes, this book is about it's about me following jefferson's travels across europe and it's really it was a chance to learn about a different side of jefferson that we don't often hear about we all know about the younger jefferson who wrote the declaration of independence at the age of 33, and we probably know something about jefferson as an older man when he was president, but this gave me a chance to explore this different side of jefferson. it was in his when he was middle age in the 1780s. so jefferson was just going into his 40s, and he almost didn't travel to france at all. he had been asked twice to go over there to be ambassador from the united states and a declined it both times. but there were there were two events two traumatic events that real

[applause] >> those of us at thomas jefferson's other university salute you. he also interestingly enough work for senator joe biden after he graduated. and he has been a partner at both mcguire woods and hutton williams, now hutton andrews. we will hear from judge mike lou dake -- judge alluded perhaps the most famous tweeter with maybe one exception. his very first tweets are in your program materials on page nine. i would encourage you to look at them because they are momentous. and perhaps changed american history. at 9:53 a.m. on january 5, he spoke by twitter with the vice president to indicate to the vice president why there was only one correct constitutional course of action. and then betsy woodruff swan. she is only 10 years out of her college. but she has worked for national review as the william f buckley fellow. from there, she went to the washington examiner, slate, the daily beast, and is now a respected reporter at politico. she is also a contributing to msnbc. significantly, she has appeared on cnn, fox news, and msnbc. i am nominating her to