and i do belong to a civil war naval unit. but they're based in massachusetts. so actually, my unit is there but i'm here. so i represent what would be the western fear of the naval experience. there were a lot of african-american sailors connected with the navy and the gun boats and the river warfare that went on in the rivers here. and a lot of the major battles that were fought some lost, some won. i knew this story. just one reading. and i made my connection to this particular naval unit in massachusetts and my commanding officer was tickled to death. he has somebody in tennessee. so i inadvertently joined, me and the buddy of mine, we both had been doing civil war army for a long time. i got to be honest with you, doing the navy is a breeze compared to wearing this all the time. and there aren't many sailors. so no one learning this story was beneficial in telling the real story of what happens here. i've enjoyed it. it's kind of weird because the fact of the matter is i was in the navy and was involve in riverine warfare. so it's kind of strange in that asp

civil war in middle tennessee that does not get a lot of attention, and i do belong to a civil war naval units come but they are based in massachusetts so actually, my unit is there but i am here, so i represent what would be the western theater in the naval experience, and there were a lot of african american sailors connected with the navy and the gunboats and river warfare that went on on the rivers here and a lot of the major battles that were fought, some lost, some won they were fought for control of the rivers, so i knew this story just from reading, and i made my connection to this particular naval unit in massachusetts, and my commanding officer was tickled to death he had somebody in tennessee so i inadvertently joined. me and a buddy of mine, we had been doing civil war army for a long time, and i have got to be honest with you. doing the navy is a breeze compared to wearing this all of the time, and there are not very many sailors so learning this story is beneficial and telling the real story of what happened here. i have enjoyed it, and it is kind of weird, because the fact of th

naval air station, there were 12 in all, including corpus christi. this was the biggest and the best and it remains over these 75 years so vitally, critically important in the defense of the united states. >> paris, undefended, fell like a ripe plumb into the basket of conquest. >> world war ii having already begun, it just made clear the urgency of getting a naval air station. the funding was authorized to be $24 million. by the time they finished, it was well over $100 million. andrew bigger and bigger, and thus the need for additional auxiliary fields. eventually there would be five of them for the primary or intermediate or advanced training, instrument training. eventually this became the largest naval air station not just in the united states, but in the world. by the time of the dedication in march of 1941 the main station was 70% completed by that time. they already were bringing and cadets also at that time for the training. even after they had airplanes, they had cadets doing the ground school training. ♪ the very first cadet graduates november 1 1941, and then we had just about a month later until the attack at pearl harb or. everything would be changed. the very fact

i began my career of service to this nation in the company of the united states naval academy midshipmen. whenever ice -- whenever i think of their dedication and a person -- and purposeful careers in which they soon embark, i am reminded of how lucky i was to have been one of them. there is no more appropriate place to have begun this mission then annapolis. my life has already been blessed more than i deserve. i don't -- i don't begin this mission with any sense of entitlement. america doesn't ovi anything. i was born into america's service. it has been my honor to serve a great cause, freedom. i have never lived today since that i was more than thankful i live for the privilege. i am a candidate for president of the united states. i once -- i run for president because i want to return our government back to who it belongs, the people. americans can believe once again that of the service is a summons to duty and not a lifetime of privilege. i run because i believe deeply in the greatness of america's destiny and the goodness of our cause. we allow the bright beacon of hope and our fath

hampshire, but i began this day as i began my career of service to our nation in the company of united states naval academy midshipmen. whenever i see those young men and women, and think of their dedication and the purposeful careers on which they will soon embark, i am reminded of how lucky i was to have been one of them. so there is no more appropriate place for me to have begun this mission than annapolis. i do not announce my candidacy to satisfy my personal ambitions. my life has already been blessed more than i deserve. i don't begin this mission with any sense of entitlement. america doesn't owe me anything. i am the son and grandson of navy admirals, and i was born into america's service. it wasn't until i was deprived of her company that i fell in love with america. and it has been my honor to serve her and her great cause , freedom. i have never lived a day since that i wasn't thankful for the privilege. it is because i owe america more than she has ever owed me that i am a candidate for president of the united states. [applause] [applause] i run for president because i want to return ou

so eventually, this became the largest naval air station, not just in the united states but in the world. by the time of the dedication in march of 1941 the main station was 70% completed by that time. and they -- they already were bringing in cadets also at that time for the training even they had airplanes. they had cadets doing the ground school training. the very first cadet graduates, november 1st 1941 and so then we had just about a month later the attack on pearl harbor, in which the base went on complete 24 hours, seven-day a week alert. and everything would be changed. the very fact that there was so many that had been done in preparation for a war, that that again the timing of the base and the coming of the war was, again, incredible part of this story. the initial requirements were very rigorous requiring two years of college before they would accept the cadet training. and then by 1942 it was only required to be a high school graduate. so imagine, for example, by 1943 18-year-old george h walker bush became one of the men to receive their wings. 18 years of age, they say per

naval air station, there were 12 in all, including corpus christi. this was the biggest and the best, and it remains over these 75 years so vitally, critically important in the defense of the united states. >> paris, undefended, fell like a ripe plumb into the basket of conquest. >> world war ii having already begun, it just made clear the urgency of getting a naval air station. the funding was authorized to be $24 million. by the time they finished, it was well over $100 million. it grew bigger and bigger, and thus the need for additional auxiliary fields. eventually there would be five of them for the primary or intermediate or advanced training, instrument training. eventually this became the largest naval air station not just in the united states, but in the world. by the time of the dedication in march of 1941, the main station was 70% completed by that time. they already were bringing and cadets also at that time for the training. even after they had airplanes, they had cadets doing the ground school training. ♪ the very first cadet graduates november 1, 1941, and then we had just about a month later until the attack at pearl harbor. everything would be changed. the very fa

you so much for your distinguished military service and career to our country and our naval secretary and as united states senator. i was wondering what, you know i keep reading. we all know about the income inequality and it's kind of interesting that all of the -- all of a sudden, republicans have discovered income inequality and and that middle class people are suffering in america and they are now talking about those issues. i am glad they are because i think it's the one issue that needs to be most talked about right now in this election cycle, but i don't think that corporations are people regardless of what the supreme court said and i am wondering even after the t.a.r.p. and the bail-out and everything we have been through, do you think we still have big banks and big financial institutions that are still too big, too big, so-called, too big to fail that it needs to be looked at by our regulators and our congress and senators and administrations? should they be broken up? should they be divested and on another line, having served up there having served in the senate like you did, why do you

test launched by the revolutionary guard's navy meant for its enemy as one naval chief called them "the great satan," the unitedcomes just days before the final round of nuke talks are set to take place. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live from the pentagon with more. hi jennifer. >> reporter: well, the pentagon is aware that iran has been carrying out these three days of live-fire exercises near the strait of hormuz, but officials here are not taking them very seriously. they're being viewed as an attention-getting show of force ahead of the march deadline for a deal to limit iran's nuclear program. today iran's official news agency released video of the supposed missile test being launched from underwater. iran's naval chief called it a new strategic weapon quote: the new weapon will have a decisive role in adding our naval power in confronting threats particularly by the great satan, the united states. as part of the large scale exercise, the iranian navy fired on and attempted to sink a mock-up of an american aircraft carrier. one-fifth of the world's oil passes through the strait of ho

context to their consequential work is the associate professor of political science at the united states naval academy where he teaches about the residency, congress, campaigns and elections. professor doherty worked with the miller center to home transcript to get a deeper insight into the environment and discussion that led to the incredible economic record under president clinton. to get things started, we will spend five minutes of peace expiring their roles in the administration and a professor doherty will give us his commentary then we will have a discussion up hair and while we are having our discussion, i encourage you and implore you to send us your questions on note cards that will be passed around. this way you can give me questions i can pepper the panel with during their question and answer later on. to start mr. boles as you talk about your role in the administration and also for eugene, talk about how you first met president clinton as other panelists did in the previous panel and worked that into your discussion of your role in the administration. that's >> pretty boring. mr.

." >> the united states naval ship. and our first orientation, they told us we were going to stop in japan for a couple weeks of training. to try to build some unit cohesion. but we were out about a week on the water, and then we got the word that we were going directly to the port of poisson. so we did not stop in japan. we stayed right on into poisson. and arriving then it was in early august. i couldn't give you an exact date. it was -- i want to say maybe the second week of august, we arrived. and we did some there at the port, and we stayed off the ship for -- we had to go back on ship and eat. they still had the mess hall in there. and we were there for the better part of a day. but they took away all the equipment that we brought with us except for what we needed, rifle. we took gas masks with us. they took those away. they called it making us combat light, ready to go. and late that afternoon some trucks pulled up. dump trucks. and they noticed they had the 1st calgary division patch on the hoods. that's the firs

auxiliary fields and there would be five of them in training and it became the largest naval air station not just in the united states but in the world. host: hope you turn in on c-span 2's book tv and c-span 3's american history tv and our focus is corpus christi, texas and check out our cities tour @c-span.org/citiestour. patrick taurel is at the american legal council and want to focus on the president action on illegal immigration. thanks for being with us. guest: good morning. host: i want to step back and ask you from your perspective what are the facts. how many illegal immigrants are in the u.s. right now? guest: according to d.h.s. estimates, 11 million. host: how many have been here and arrived over the last 5-10 years? guest: 2/3 of that 11 million have been here the last 10 years. host: what happened in the reagan administration that led to the debate we're facing today with regard to immigration? guest: two things. first is they passed irka, the immigration control act of 1986 which legalized a substantial portion of the undocumented population at the time. and that legislation left out roughly 40

. >>> also, this development -- egypt is asking the united nations to set up a naval blockade to stop weapons from flowing into unsecured parts of libya where isis militants beheaded 21 christians. >>> and u.s. investigators are working with linguists to try and identify the isis militant who spoke in that video. cnn spoke to several linguists who think he's likely from north america or at least spent a lot of time there. >>> another disturbing allegation. the u.n. is looking into reports that isis may be harvesting organs from some of its victims to sell on the black market. >> u.s. officials say this claim and the report of burning people alive come as no surprise. chief u.s. security correspondent jim sciutto has more. >> reporter: with isis locked in battle with iraqi forces in al baghdadi eyewitness accounts from the western iraqi town claim the terror group is burning the bodies of soldiers and tribesmen killed in the fighting to desecrate them. today the ending indicated it is analyzing evidence of the incident. >> certainly wouldn't surprise any of us if it turns out to be aut

world war ii raging in europe the united states realized they could not quickly train pilots to accommodate a u.s. entry into world war ii and less they built additional naval air stations. corpus christi open with the intent to train pilots. little did they know that they would need to quickly train pilots when pearl harbor happened. the weather is so mild that pilot training can happen year-round. another important thing with building ships, planes, and the things we needed to fight world war ii, the citizens of corpus christi sacrifice what used to be there fire bell to the war effort. they donated it and it was used as a ship bell on the uss houston. the uss houston was commissioned in 1943 and served as part of the pacific fleet she took part in many and it is landings during the battles of world war ii. we hope that visitors to the museum come away with an appreciation for the great trials and tribulations that everyone has gone through. the challenges are of every error and we hope we have shared some of the most inspirational ones that show how we can overcome anything today. >> throughout the weekend american history tv is featuring corpus christi,

today it is home to the fifth largest port in the united states in the corpus christi naval air station help of our time warner cable partners for the next hour we learn about the city's literary culture local office. we begin with david blanke on the early years of the automobile. >> in the 20th century, 3.2 million americans died as result of automobile accidents. most of my students and most people i know have direct experience with an automobile accident. that's not the same as military service, combat, infection disease, et cetera. it's ubiquitous, and some that question is really lies at the heart of the study. if americans do as i say embrace the automobile culturally, how do they respond when, by the 1920s, and really it was it was until the 19 toys where there was a national human cry over unavoidable or automobile accidents that are killing individuals, and particularly pedestrians who have nothing to do with the freedoms of driving. others were paying liberties of these drivers. when the car was first introduced the rules were very different and the reaction to those rules we

you so much for your distinguished military service and career to our country and our naval secretary and as unitedtates senator. i was wondering what, you know, i keep reading. we all know about the income inequality and it's kind of interesting that all of the sudden republicans have discovered income inequality and that middle class people are suffering in america and they are now talking about those issues. i am glad they are because i think it's the one issue that needs to be most talked about right now in this election cycle, but i don't think corporations are people regardless of what the supreme court said and i am wondering after the t.a.r.p. and the bail-out and everything we have been through, do you think we still have big banks and big financial institutions that are still too big, too big so-called, too big to fail that it needs to be looked at by our congress and senators and administrations? should they be broken up? should they be divested and having served in the senate like you did, why do you think there was a reluctance on the part of the obama and bush administration to fine t

this simply says we as the united states have a naval station 90 miles off our shore and when the raul castro demands that we return that to the cuban people and pay reparations to the cuban government, as terms of negotiation, my legislation says, no. mr. president, you may not do that without coming to this body to ask for authorization and certainly i would not lend my vote to that. i was pleased to hear testimony in the senate when the administration said, that is not a matter they would consider. but as we have seen, the president's negotiations in the past, it gives us reason to pause. my legislation would simply codify the restriction that says guantanamo navy station may not be returned to the cuban people without congressional approval. . finally, we do have a role in inviting a foreign leader to address this body. prime minister netanyahu. it is fully appropriate as a co-equal branch of this government to invite prime minister netanyahu to address us about his vision of peace in the region, his visit of security and also his vision of the current negotiations with iran. no me

says i'm jack took him on a naval officer from hollywood, california, this is my first time in the movies. as 1945 goes on the war is coming to a close and the maritime unit of the oss these first seals are mothballed along with the rest of the organization. all of the technology, a lot of it is put on shelves the sleeping beauty, the rebreather is warehoused. kind of think of the indiana jones seemed with a large warehouse. most of the secret is put in one of those large warehouses. only a few years after that it's resurrected, if they bring back doctor lamberson and to bring back john booth one of the individuals on this book. one of the extraordinary friends that i had many of these men were close friends of mine. john, for instance, every year we traveled from rhode island to key west, florida and he would stop at my house in virginia and spend two weeks there. mike dodd up with known as uncle john. and uncle john at 90 years old with died in key west, swim out to miles and obtained lobsters and bring them back and that was his dinner. he would also take his cia pension and save it for cigars and boost at the local dav and hit on hotties at age 91. bu

u.s.c. 696 -a of the following members on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states naval academy. the clerk: mr. young of indiana and br rooney of florida. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to 14 u.s.c. 194 and the order of the house on january 6 2015, of the following member on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states coast forward academy. the clerk: mr. smith of nebraska. the speaker pro tempore: think chair announces' speaker's appointment pursuant to 10 u.s.c. 9355-a and the order of the house of january 6, 2015, of the following members on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states air force academy. the clerk: mr. lamb born of colorado and ms. mcsally of arizona. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to 46 u.s.c. 51312-b and the order of the house of january 6 2015, of the following member on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states her vant marine academy. the clerk: mr. king of new york. the speaker

united states and its allies. this comes one day after south korea and the u.s. conducted a joint navalally what a weekend for visitors at the chicago lincoln park zoo starting today spectators get a look at this baby gorilla. 4-day-old gorilla making her debut under the watchful eye of her mom and dad. the baby is yet to be named but the zoo is talking to a donor to help choose the baby's names. any proposals for that little guy? >> munchkin. >> i love how we see a baby and start talking baby. >> mighty joe young. >> should have a middle name. every monkey should have shall -- >> ron can't baby-sit for us nor name our young. >> sounds like a ball player to me. >> the kevin. >> sounds like a gorilla. >> bob. >> we have disqualified both ends of the table. rob, can you do your thing of saving us from ourselfs? >> they made a movie about a gorilla that climbed the empire state building. >> what was it? >> king kong. >> anyway -- this is my transition albeit horribly to the live shot of new york city. oh, god. call the emmys. >> sometimes it's really easy and sometimes it's a stretch. >> i

they're asking for a naval blockade to stop weapons from going to other areas of the country where that libyan government isn't in control. the united states though not on board with this plan entirely which shows the cooling of relations that we've seen described by rear admiral john kirby. at that i can a listen. >> it's a complex relationship that we have with egypt. we recognize that know face a significant terrorism threat. we're constantly working through that with them. >> reporter: carol, you really have two philosophies on how to deal with isis in libya. the egyptian side is that there needs to be direct intervention. they want to back that libyan national government in the east to fight isis but that does pose a problem. there are a bunch of different factions inside libya, different militias that wouldn't be too keen on seeing that government getting weapons and fighting them as well. these other militias not necessarily joining isis. if it sounds complicated it's because it is. there's so many different groups in that country vying for power, vying for control and that's really where isis has been able to exploit. on the

ii already raging in europe, the united states realized they could not quickly train pilots to accommodate a u.s. entry into world war ii unless they built additional naval air stations. in may 1941, naval station corpus christi open to train pilots. little did they know that only that december they would need to really quickly train pilots when pearl harbor happened. the weather in corpus christi is so mild that pilot turning can happen almost year-round. metal is something that was really important when we were building such big things like ships and planes and all the things we needed to fight world war ii. so the citizens of corpus christi sacrificed what used to be there fire bell which would alert the volunteer fire crew of a fire in town to the war effort. it is the ship bell for the uss houston. the uss houston was commissioned in 1943 and served as part of the pacific fleet. she took heart in many amphibious landings during the battles of world war ii. we help visitors come away with an appreciation of the draws and tribulations that people came through. we share moments -- we share some of the most inspirational ones here. >> throughout the wee

naval frigate. i think the deal the french have been trying for years to sell them to india and currently in talks with qatar and the united arab emirates. francois hollande is keen to stress that this would be boosting the defense industry in france protecting jobs which rely on the industry which is a very large industry but at the same time for egypt it's a very welcome move for egypt's military at a time when it's trying to seek new partnerships, from russia's president vladimir putin was in cairo last week for talks believed to be including possible new trade deals with cairo. egypt is coming under increasing criticism from washington, and it's very aware of how reliant it is on the united states for its military aid. so i think this could be a sign that there are other people willing to do business with cairo. >> and the diplomatic push by egypt and france? >> well, interestingly just hours before that deal was signed, francois hollande the french president spoke to president sisi of egypt on the phone. it was quite an involved conversation, in which francois hollande expresses sympathy for the killing of those egypt

spelled-out the us must protect the united states national security interest and future negotiations with the cuban government including maintaining us rights to the naval at guantÁnamo bay i yield back. >> thank you. i recognize the ranking lady from the western hemisphere who also is the one other cuban born member of this committee. born in have on her. or you about? >> yes. >> well, thank you. >> i came to this country when i was 11 years old and experienced some of this government's tactics, but my biggest disappointment with this process has been that i always felt the embargo and the pressure we we will putting on cuba will lead to changes. i do not see where will lead to anything. you. you know it is beyond me that a signature on a peace of paper somehow relieves this dictators pressure. people are not going to benefit. you still have to go to the government. even if you want to put a church a church in cuba they have to go through the government do we think we are going to be able to invest and do economic progress for the cuban people? i don't see that happening. i don't see where we are headed with this. i know it is the last few years for th

united states together after 1783? it was very fragile, believe me. and national debt. $25 million. a common language. and the pride in having defeated the strongest military, and especially naval, power in the world. well, from where was congress going to govern this country? we had a constitution. it was called the articles of confederation. it may be states supreme over the federal government. it was ratified in 1781. he granted the united states of america power over foreign affairs, war, and a post office area that was it. if congress wanted money which of course it needed, it had to requisition it from the states. congress would have to tell each state what their share would be. often the money never arrived. congress had no power over commerce. no power of revenue, no taxation , and certainly no power to create -- as it would, later -- a 100-square mile federal territory over which the united states congress had exclusive jurisdiction. in 1783, congress consisted of the 13 states. each delegation could have as many members as it could pay for, but only one vote. it took seven votes to do anything and nine votes to do anything that cost money. consequently, it did not get

have professor bud cole of the naval -- excuse me the national war college but his distinguished career was in the u.s. navy when he was in the armed forces of the united states. he retired as a captain after 30 years of service. he was largely, not exclusively, in the pacific theater, and on surface ships. so he has a great deal of operational experience, but for a couple of decades now, it seems, it's impossible to put all this into one short career but he's done it. he's been an amazing and prolific author on many aspects of china's military, starting with not only its navy but really more generally its entire force structure. so we're going to look to him for a lot of thinking about where is china's military today and where is it headed. next to him is my good friend and colleague richard bush. who runs our east asia policy center here at brookings. and as many of you know, is a long-standing expert on east asia policy both as a practitioner in the u.s. government, used to work on capitol hill for congressman steve solars. he then worked in the u.s. government largely on taiwan issues for many years, and he's been here at brookings for about 15 yea

united states. a second or third strategic asset is the u.s. navy and the shipyards that build the naval ships. those shipyards are critical. if we didn't have them, would we go to china to have them build our aircraft car years and submarines? i don't think so. the shipyards are a strategic asset absolutely essential for american defense. you have these three things the natural gas merchant marines and the shipbuilding. here's a key to american jobs and that is if we are ever to export natural gas, it will be done in liquified natural gas. you compress it into a liquid and put it on a l.n.g. ship. and this is an example of one. sometime this year, a company chaneer, in texas, will begin exporting l.n.g. they will need about 100 ships to export the full capacity of that l.n.g. capacity. and my sense is, let's use that export of a strategic national asset to build and to grow the other two strategics. we should require that any l.n.g. shipped from the united states be shipped on american-made tankers with american crews delby lifting up the ability of our nation to grow its economy and to mainta

naval aircraft carrier. the leaders of the holy cross limbous order were not surprised. they knew father ted's patriotism his love of the united states navy, and his devotion to our service members. however, they asked him to stay at notre dame and minister to the families and service members who were -- service members who were training at that time at vetville at notre dame. as always, father ted smiled, took the assignment, and worked nonstop. and that began a journey that included the presidential medal of freedom the congressional gold medal 16 presidential appointments, and a 150 honorary degrees. but more important to father ted than all of those awards were the millions of souls that he nourished, said mass with, prayed for and guided to a wonderful life. when you look at father ted's amazing accomplishments at notre dame you can't help but see what a stronger academic institution and better and more inclusive place it has become and that he left behind. father ted broke down the barriers and admitted women to notre dame back in the early 1970's. it changed the place forever and it made notre dame a home for everyone.