"the washington post" on the latest news of the u.s. senate, senators voted on thursday to advance judge neil gorsuch's nomination to serve on the u.s. supreme court setting up a final confirmation vote on friday. by a vote of 55-45, all republicans and three democrats voted to proceed to final debate on the nomination of gorsuch, a denver-based judge on the 10th circuit court of appeals. if confirmed he would replace the late supreme court justice antonin ska' yeah who died last year sparking a more than yearlong feud of senators about the future makeup of the high

court. gorsuch's nomination advanced shortly after republicans successfully voted to approve what's known as the nuclear option changing senate rules to allow the confirmation of gorsuch and all other supreme court nominees by a simple majority vote. again, this story from "the washington post" today. you can watch the senate debate on the neil gorsuch nomination to the supreme court. that's live on c-span2. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 a.m. eastern, united states hall cast memorial museum director bloomfield and greenwald of the national september 11 memorial and museum in new york city talk about the creation and message behind both museums. >> but why would you build it in washington? people asked. doesn't it belong in berlin or jerusalem. we designed the architecture and the exhibitions to try to answer that question. so the first part of your museum

experience is hearing from that american gi who asked that big question, which is, how is it that human beings can do this to one another? throughout the exhibition we keep bringing back what america knew and when america knew it. >> sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, the centennial of america's entry in the great war from kansas city, missouri. and at 2:00, pulitzer prize winning historian mccollum on the view of slavery and hardship. >> first seven presidents of the united states, john adams was the only one who never owned a slave. out of principle. not because he couldn't necessarily afford it. by the principle. and abigail's feelings about it were even more strongly voiced than his. >> and then at 8:00, on the presidency, university of virginia presidential scholar

barbara perry talks about the traits of a great president. >> the sign of a good leader is a leader who is self confident but not arrogant. so confident, so confident in his own leadership and in his intellect that he didn't worry about having really smart people around him. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. sunday night on q & a -- >> and so here was a yellow pad where holderman writes down in the midst of the october 1968, we're going to monkey wrench lyndon john's peace initiative. this is something that had always been rumored and bits of pieces had come out over the years but nixon denied it at the time to lyndon johnson and denied it to david frost and he denied it to the biographers, always said he never played a role in doing this. >> john ferrell author of

"richard nonexxon" on the political career from the early days in congress to his tenure and downfall as president. >> the way that the watergaert burglars, the team assembled was clumsy. cynical, burn out cia or intelligence agents supervised young men on nixon's staff who just wanted to be one of the famous quotes go the cat that brought the dead mouse to the president's door. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. next, three former pentagon officials testify at a house armed services committee hearing on the future of the u.s. armed forces and in particular, what opportunities exist to improve the services. they provided recommendations for creating cost savings and efficiencies, incentivizing defense innovation, managing the