and it was one of the primary engines of industry in the city. it has a legacy going all the way up to the present. >> ok, c-span, you ready? thomas j. brown is a professor of history at the university of south carolina. he not only got his ba and phd from harvard. he also got his law degree. despite the severe temptation i will spare you law your jokes. we are so ecumenical in this invite lawyersn to participate. more important than his professional credentials is dr. brown's expertise in all varieties of civil war monuments , and his discussions -- and in his discussions about the details of this program said that dr. brown is the ultimate utility player in this field. your program notes of many of his book publications including his most recent book -- "civil of confederates memory in south carolina." aat is canon with one n, not boom cannon. "the publictoday is art of civil war commemoration: a brief history with documents." i expect he will have an opportunity to share his wide expertise on civil war monuments, but for now his formal present

here is the author of a number of books, including the diocese of vick, a 1983 book, and the ingins of servitude catalonia. he published "10 restaurants that changed america" in the fall of 2016. not only a distinguished panel, but a panel with a wide range of interests and areas of expertise. i will now turn it over to rachel. rachel: i cannot say how much it means to be here. a panel on one's work is something that historians dream of, or perhaps, dread a little. so i would like to thank the american history center, the aha, my longtime colleagues, and all of you for turning up here. this is especially significant bigme because like many historical projects, this one also has deep historical and personal roots. i grew up on a farm, surrounded by 1000 acres of wheat, beans, and barley, dairy cattle and beef cattle. my father farmed but my mother just cooked. she had no choice but to just cook. that came with the territory. in some ways, this is a tribute to her because she would love to be doing what i am doing now and have had a chance to develop her own career and her own ideas, but

all of that food, all of that wine, and all of those books. the man had the largest library in the western hemisphere. he does have an expensive lifestyle. when he is retired, his son-in-law defaults upon a debt and jefferson is left holding the bag. at the end of his life he -- he could barely pay the interest on debt. he basically dies bankrupt. it is a sad story. >> was the relationship between jefferson and sally hemming well-known at that time? robert: i always expect someone to ask that. [laughter] robert: yes, yes it was. here is the story that broke the news. the page of the richmond recorder, a federalist newspaper on the morning of september 1, 1802. the author was james thompson calendar, a writer for the jeffersonian republican. he made a living saying terrible things about george washington and john adams. a man who had been jailed under the adams administration of 1798 administration act. a man who was freed by thomas jefferson. thomas jefferson gave him a grant of money to pay off his bills, but he wanted more. he wanted the job

the defense of the constitution, full of the histories of republicans and the stories of the various ways that aristocrats throughout history had flooded into popular assemblies and corrupted them and eliminated that core feature of republican politics, which is the genuine representation of the people and i think that as adams went on later into his life, he thought he very much saw the danger of that -- of that happening in the united states. >> host: thank you so much for that, luke. now, i'm going to turn to our audience's superb questions as always. thank you so much for these. start with this, what was john adams' reaction to the revolution? >> he was generally pretty negative about it. he-- i think this has been exaggerated by some of his critics who they liked to think he was really obsessed with the french revolution, with its-- the great power of the single s camerale assembly and getting into orgy of violence and rein of terror. he did have those feelings about the french revolution, but at first he was skeptical, but willing to give the french revolution a little bit of a

a part of. you might want to think about that. >> i would to throw something else out there. their search for meaningful work. i'm thinking of the whole handcrafting movement so that you are creating things of beauty as opposed to mass-produced consumer gimmicks and gadgets that saturate the mainstream. that too, i think, ran counter to the superabundance of the time. >> i'm like you mentioned the voluntary simplicity movement. there is a new book that is explicitly critical. use locations of social change in the bay area as a failed experiment. being revived today is of this nation that by doing good you can also do well. if you are outside of moneygrubbing and you just want to make a living, how do you do that? this was a clearing house with information on how to move into those sorts of occupation. >> right livelihood. >> how can you live in a capitalist society without being part of capitalism on some level? of course the people who were doing this are not thinking of themselves as capitalis

warks of some kind of encroachment of a lack of understanding facts or news or what the truth is. i think one quote that's really what ative comes from we've been referring to all this morning, the decision of the judge about the pentagon papers and whether or not "the new york times" would be allowed to publish them, he made the following declaration. the security of the nation is not at the ramparts alone. security also lies in the value of our free institutions. a cantankerous press, an on city nant press, a ubiquitous press, must be suffered by those in authority in order to preserve e values of the freedom of expression and the right of the people to know. these are troubled times. i think we could say refers to now. there's no greater safety valve, he claimed, for discontent and cynicism about issues of golt and freedom of expression in any form. this has been the genius of our institutions throughout our history, it is one of the marked traits of our national life that distinguish us from other nations under different forms of government. that's certainly one issue that i'd

and not only was george shultz secretary of treasury and secretary of state, he was also secretary of labor. these three former treasury secretaries have led a group of other unvestors -- investors, including the former chairmen of the board of wal-mart, the world's largest retailer and employer; and tom stevenson, a republican who is a partner at sequoia capital, a very successful venture capital firm out in silicon valley; and greg mankiw, who was george w. bush's council of economic advisors chairman. so this is a very republican group, and they have a lot of experience, and none of them hold elective office now, so they don't have to worry about the fossil fuel industry trying to crush them in a primary or spend millions of dollars in front groups against them or any of the other stuff that politicians have to put up with from the fossil fuel industry as it fights to protect that massive dishai we've talked -- subsidy that we've talked about already. let's go through this report by these very senior republican officials. first sentence -- first sentence -- "mounting evidence of cl

conspiracy theory of history, the doctrine of the primacy of money. hofstetter went on to locate precisely those paranoid elements in the mccarthy-it conservatism of the 1950's and the goldwater movement in the 1960's. you might find it easy enough to find connections to the tea party and the trump campaign. there are some american political and cultural archetypes that may appear to prefigure trump, but most do not fit. andrew jackson, whatever you think of him, declared war on precisely the kind of swindler capitalism that trump practices and celebrates. bulgarian -- vul garian. howard york was in ideologue. comes closest to embodying the ethos of the robber barons described in "the fury of the leisure class." with their trophy wives and crests, andfamily anything devoid of productive labor. trump was born in a very different place. that place was the chic manhattan of the 1970's and the 1980's as described best buy tom wolfe in "bonfire of the vanities." a very particular world of self-declared masters of the unisource -- universe, driven by tabloi

convention of the united states of america. despite the presence of senator dole on the floor and the support of the chair of the senate foreign relations committee, senator lugar, senator sessions opposed that. if that were the only incident where senator sessions failed to uphold the rights of people with disabilities, maybe, maybe, maybe -- well, i'm not sure it would be understandable. but it's not the only incident. senator sessions also made deeply concerning comments about the individuals with disabilities education act, idea, which we've heard so much about in the last couple days during the debate on the nomination of ms. devos. senator sessions referred to the idea -- individuals with dis acts education act as perhaps "the single-most irritating factor for teemps today and a bill clinton factor in the decline -- and a big factor in the decline in classrooms today all over america. end quote. the most irritating problem was our national commitment to trying to make sure that every child -- every child, regardless of di

of the history of sexuality. immoral quarnt the f.b.i.'s hite slave division 1910-1917. >> we're having some technical ifficulties. so i want to thank robert for taking the time to organize the panel. also harold for organizing the conference that actually gave birth to our collaboration ogether. n the 11th of december 1d11, vilea had arrived in her washington, d.c. d.c. brothel. the bureau, which would be renamed the f.b.i. quickly dispatched a special agent from its white slave division to interview as part of its on going census of sex workers. the 21-year-old told the agent that her name was maud martin so she quickly admitted that wasn't her birth name. when questioned about her entry she said that she had started practicing prostitution in detroit 18 months earlier and had been in d.c. for about one month working in a different brothel. the special agent noted her physical description and her family's national origin. the inquiry into her entry into prostitution and the demand that she list all the houses t

so as we come out of this paradox of liberty and look at directly to my right, all of these pieces of legislation from the decoloration, of independence, the constitution, bill of rights all through 1820 compromise, 1830 compromise, dread scott decision and see paired with those actual excerpts from speeches, sermons, newspaper articles written by african americans speaking back to the moment. to my left is the story of the domestic slave trade. again, remember 1793 the cotton gin has produced. 1803 the louisiana purchase takes place. that means that there is more land to cultivate cotton ask cotton is high demand and it's being produced more efficiently but that demand has an impact on african american bodies and mothers, fathers, sons, daughters, husbands and wives are all being sold away from the upper south to the lower south to produce more cotton in the fields down south. at the same time, remember, this is a story of slavery and freedom, so those same men, women and children are fighting for their freedom all along the way defining freedom for this nation. one of the more pivot

blankfein professor of history at harvard university and former chair of harvard's university -- or of harvard's history department. he is an affiliated professor in the harvard department of government, an affiliated faculty member at harvard law school and an honorary fellow of st. catherine's college in cambridge. his previous books include the ideological origins of the british empire, winner of the longman history today book of the year award, the declaration of independence: a global history, which was a times literary supplement book of the year, and the history manifesto which was a new statesman book of the year. his new book, civil wars: a history and ideas, examines the history of the very notion of civil war from its roots in republican rome to the conflicts that have roiled the global south for the past two decades. questions of what makes a conflict not only a war, but a civil war rather than a foreign war or a revolution, are intensely political and depend on which warrior you ask. shifting definitions of the term have also determined foreign policy. do outside powers ch

though one of the symbols of the black power movement is this image of newton, one of the founders oflack panther party in oakland, california 1966, holding a spear and shotgun. notice the example of this sense of militant opposition to american society that the panthers supposedly, allegedly representing, but in fact much of their campaign was about self-defense for african americans, the same kind of self defense been seen earlier with the beacons of defense and the military and other areas of african-american life opposing violence against their society. part of the black panther campaign, a major part in fact, was social reform, educational reform, health care, housing. the freedom to get an education, that was useful for them. opposition to the legal system that was imprisoning thousands of african americans with no good reason. an element that we want to focus on and make known more widely to the american public is the whole ,otion of survival programs that the party was developing a series of activity and pioneered the idea of legal aid, health clinics, of educational programs,

the legacy of your son's life and of his death and of the activism that has been birthed because ofook at the dream defenders and a million hoodies united, the phrase black lives matter written in response to the failure to convict george zimmerman. when you think much thabout tha you think about that, what comes to mind? >> first of all, we definitely think of trayvon as a young man who galvanized this country. >> i think that the name trayvon martin represents not just who trayvon martin was but all young black and brown boys and some girls as well that have been killed and nobody's been held accountable. >> sunday night at 9:00 eastern on "after words." >>> on december 12th, 1991 president george h.w. bush signed the soviet nuclear threat reduction act, also known as the nunn-lugar act. it began a formal process between the russians and the united states of cooperative storage, dismantling and destruction of soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. next, a panel discussion featuring former senator sam nunn and richard lugar marking the 25th anniversary of the initiative. in historic

when i think of that issue of attorney general, i think of that issue. i want an attorney general that will stand up for the citizens of the united states, no matter what, even if he has to go against the president of the united states. that, to me, is the ultimate in serving the people of this country. in many ways in the last several weeks i feel like we have been relitigating the 1960s and 1970s. when you talk about the liberties of the american citizens, whether you are talking about lgbt community or talking about government using backdoor devices to spy on american citizens or whether you're talking about immigrant rights, you're talking about the same things that people fought for in the 1960s and 1970s. it is no surprise that my colleague from massachusetts reflected on this in some of the comments that she made last night that raised so much concern on the floor. i supported her and her rights to make those comments. but these larger issues about how one wields power at the enormous office of responsibility of attorney general is what is at ques

well, one of the results of the shaping of consciousness is the following kind of really strange idea. it goes like this: if you give corporations a chance to make profits, then good things will happen. so, for example, we have to create a profitable business climate because then businesses, say by cutting their taxes or by deregulating thth or by allllowing them to do all kinds of t things, then good things will happen to the rest of us. there's a simple logical problem here. if you cut the taxes of business, then they have m more money because their taxes are lower. what they do with that money is their decision. and their decision is governed by making as much money as possible. that might mean that they will create a a job, ok, but not h here. in a place where the wages are much lower--say, in asia--which might be nice for them but isn't particularly good h here. or they might lend it to a gogovernment or theyey mighthy the stock market. or they might do--i don't know-- let's see. what did they do over the last 30 years? the most impressive things bibig corporatations did w with t

so, this issue of diversity is one of the critiques of suburbia. but there were many others, even at the time back in the 1940's. and the 1950's and 1960's as they are exploding in popularity. ashley? >> you said something about red linings and restrictive covenants. introduced? i know a lot of white families were selling their homes. mr. friss: good. although restrictive covenants are ruled unconstitutional in 1948, they put a waiting period on it so new communities could create them and they do not negate existing ones. then what happens after those are put in place, there are a variety of ways, mostly real estate agents, working to make sure african-americans do not purchase any particular neighborhood. the fear was that property values would go down. there are ways of doing this, not just real estate agents steering people in a particular direction, but how you present the community. think about here in virginia. some of you may see suburbs, neighborhoods called the jones plantation. what does that signal to a particular group? i do not know if

from the point of view of the executive branch.e one hand you have an executive order that i think is widely perceived as not being on the level, in the sense that its purported justification was protection of national security. and yet there was no real consultation with the national security experts at the department of homeland security. no consultation of any kind with the pentagon, with the result that one of the very first people who was picked up under the travel ban was somebody, an interpreter who had worked in iraq with the united states army and had been promised a visa. well, you might not like the way in which the consultation process worked, but the bottom line is, national security is the president's prerogative. and if he frames this in terms of national security, what right to the courts have to second—guess? what i think that's what i'm trying to get out here. that was, to me, a terrible combination of order that i think was widely perceived as not being on the level in the sense of not being the product of a cons

grant, one of the principals of the morgan academy, chairman of the department of education and dean of the morgan college and ins t insisted students in their efforts with the civil rights activity. edward wilson, who wrote the history of morgan state college from 1867 to 1967, and was the register of wills for this institution and one of our noted university historians. morgan has had a prolific and legendary sports history in this institution. they are the early basketball team. if you look off to the right here you'll see a noted significant african-american individual. that is dr. charles drew, who was on morgan's campus during the early '20s. his first job was actually that of the first athletic coach on this campus. even though he became a noted doctor and invented the -- had several noted medical advances, he hails his experiences here at morgan as some of his most remarkable contributions. then the legendary football team here at morgan, who played numerous games on our wacu hughes stadium field is also significant. dr. scruggs was the founder of the first african-american f

one of them is a case of artifacts related to the battle of the little bighorn. aside that case, there is firearm, a springfield, acquired from a native named little moon. you can look at that object and contemplate how it changed hands, the travels that it took prior to that and the ways that might help us think differently about history i nthn the west. coincidentally, in the west, there is a small macabre basket. talk, you wills be able to look at those objects differently. maybe the objects will help you reflect on the talk differently. i think -- i was going to say something about trends in , and about how different authors have been rethinking this, but i think it will come up. i will skip that part. it is part of a new wave of history that thinks about native geopolitics differently. other histories, violence is a big part of how we rethink. there is violence in these histories, but trade is the theme of today's talk. thinking about trade is another way that different native nations and outsiders have boun lay claims to territory. i will introduce one of o

of appeals for the ninth circuit just decided in the case of the state of washington, the state of minnesota versus the president and the department of homeland security, and i am pleased to see that the courts of the united states are still part of the separate co-equal branch of government that the founders dictated when they ultimately created an ingenious document to the constitution of the united states that has served the nation well for so long. and even though it seems that the president may need a review of history and an understanding of the constitution as it relates to the separate co-equal branches of government because he seems to be wielding -- willing to try to disparage the judiciary as an effort to try to either affect their decisionmaking or to call into question the legality of their decisions or the righteousness of their decisions, i'm glad to see that that has not affected our judicial system. i just want to read from some elements of the court's decisions which i think are pretty extraordinary. of course, this is far from a final decision on the merits, but it was on

of 1876. in january 1877, unable to resolve the crisis on its own, congress appointed a 15-member electoral commission composed of senators, representatives, and supreme court justices. republicans enjoyed and 8-7 majority of the commission, and to no one's surprise, the members decided that rutherford hayes had carried the disputed southern states and was elected. the bargain of 1877 recognized democratic control of the remaining southern states, and thez would not block certification of hayes' election by congress. he became president, ended federal intervention in the south, and ordered united states troops who had been guarding the statehouses in south carolina and louisiana to return to their barracks, not to leave the region entirely, as is widely believed. , as the southern democrats who overturned republican rule called themselves, now ruled the entire south. reconstruction had come to an end. perhaps abraham lincoln was naive about his hope to reconstruct the south. he had thought the

of the state of maryland. these two very important individuals in the history of morgan state university, dr. martin d. jenkins, the second african-american president, and dr. dwight oliver wendell holmes, who was the first. so what you see is one of the first models for the campus. dr. holmes passing the baton to dr. jenkins, and they had laid out a 20 year physical campus plan for morgan, much of which reflected the history of morgan today in terms of the physical environment. the direction of the homes, the first clocktower building was planned and directed to be one of the sort of guiding principles in terms of the environment on the campus as far as direction. it is a significant addition to the campus that helps to orient what market history referred to as a long walk. this is the campus by 1967 where they celebrated its centennial anniversary. there are several very important leaders who have led this institution. it is important to note it reflects the american story while the students were always afri

up to the buildings of -- of to the building of the skype -- up to the building of the skyscrapers and the printing industry. scott: all on one block. rebecca: this site tells the hole story. even though this site was heavily disturbed, and all of those buildings had deep basements, we have this long story to tell from the material remains. and much of that story is going to be told right here, in this basement. much of history is written about rich, political white men. you know, it is getting a little better, but it is usually not written about the common people and how the common people were living. what we feel is historical archaeology gets to the kind of history that isn't necessarily in history books, and really let you think about your own life in in the perspective of what other people lives were. or liz in the 18th century are 19th-century were. this is us. this isn't the rich people with political power. this is the story of us and how we lived in how we adapted, how we organize our lives and property. it is about us. that is why it is significant. and it is very significant

john smythe is accused of a series of allegations of abuse of boys at a summer camp.at i said yesterday — it is terrible they were treated like this, they have been greviously and deeply let down. it is not their responsibility in any way at all. a lot of victims and survivors of abuse have this nagging sense that somehow theirfault. quite the reverse. the most terrible things were done to them and it was a terrible shame and a disgrace this was done to them. australia's prime minister, has denied president trump hung up on him during a fiery telephone conversation over a refugee resettlement deal. mr trump has described the current deal as "dumb" on twitter. the arrangement allows vulnerable asylum seekers held in offshore detention centres in australia to be resettled in the us. malcolm turnbull, the australian prime minister, says that the conversation ended courteously and that donald trump didn't hang up on him. it seems what has infuriated mr trump is the deal struck with australia and the outgoing 0bama administration at the end of last year. the deal would all

of vicsburg in july of 1863. the permanently divided confederacy was crup crippled from -- crippled from that effort. as we look at this legislation that goes around this battlefield, it does preserve the historical legacy of tennessee, of shiloh, and of our nation. it gives the park service the authority that they would like to preserve more than 2,100 additional acres of the historic shiloh national military park. as the gentleman from california said, davis bridge, russell house are all included in this, as well as parker's crossroads battlefield. hich would be named an afill ated area -- anify al-- an affiliated area. as we look at visitors to our nation's parks, the shiloh park welcomes more than 500,000 visitors each and every year. so i thank my colleagues for the time and the support and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. mcclintock: mr. speaker, i have no additional speakers and reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. mrs. torres. mrs

captured tens of thousands of acres of land and industrialized it.nd a workforce, they went south of the border and imported a workforce. a wholeally imported lower class that came here. created kind of a vast plantation society in a way. that futile structure -- feudal structures still remains in place today. it is a land of tremendous disparity, where the machines are controlled by maybe 300 families up and down this valley. the majority of the land and water is controlled by a handful. that is the story i have been up where tell, picking factories and feels left off and telling the story of this place. i was born here, spent most of my life here. it is still a mystery to me. drive, ie to take a could take you on a drive that would take 20 minutes. we would begin in the suburbs north of here, where there are some very conservative places that drop -- that voted 60% for donald trump. out there are these big mega churches and mega houses. and then we would drive him those suburbs to downtown fresno. you would have the highest concentration of poverty

these were many of the members of the red army. also, the south korean labour party, had been wiped out six times by the japanese. under reformed again unattractive, honest they had set, and up liaisons with the group in pyongyang, looking for a under aion of korea domestic group of communists. then there were very large earlys of koreans who had members of the communist party in china. they had risen to important positions within the party and in the peopled liberation army. there was a political, spiritual and another that was a general in the people's liberation army. one was very legendary, he led the advance guard, the long march. so legendary, they forgot his family name was kim -- kim. of when heounts appeared, he is not in this picture. group thathere was a had been guerrillas in manchuria, fighting the japanese since the early 1930's. the new guy, who is that man? was part of this faction and kim il-sung, a name borrowed from another resistance leader, there notanother kim il-sung related to the eventual premiere of north

the illegal annexation of the republic of crimea in ukraine. ,his is the point of the story and whate seek is not so much about how history repeats itself, because it does repeat itself, but how we have to tackle those historical burdens of not being silent. i had a wonderful opportunity to see a premier of the film last week, "bitter harvest," of which we saw a short trailer. vie is poignant, riveting, and it captures your heart and soul because it is a love story in the dire circumstances of a forced famine in ukraine. i picked up one amazing quotation from that particular came from ahe quot4 soviet commissar sayinge reality is the enemy. if reality is the enemy, how do we fight against it? who is the enemy? is reality the true enemy, or is it disinformation that is being strewn about by the enemy? this is where i would like to .eave you i would like to leave you with certain instances that are happening in today's world. unfortunately, a lot is happening, a lot. i would like to leave you is beg sent in terms of fake news, in terms of facts, how to look at these particular facts. t

11 of letting go of anyone who had been detained because a lot of the u.s. government was really concerned that if they let people go and they turned out to effectuate another terrorist attack on the united states, no one wanted to be that person. our prison systems became very impacted. we had individuals considered the worst of the worst sent out to guantanamo bay. a lot of our systems and processes we would have used historically to screen people on the battlefield were not used in this particular situation. number ofp as the people in autonomous for whom there was never any evidence of actual terrorist activity. this visibility and how much we follow the methods used in the past and how we use the law as ever more important. how much the unites states began to come up with legal memos to say we are adhering to the best case of law. at the same time, we are manipulating the laws that were problematic. they were giving a latitude that under international legal standards in this big push we were making at the time we were making to intense that internationa

i cast of thousands of votes is a member of the house and senate and i'm proud of almost all of theml tell you what it was because it should be a matter of record as we debate the nomination of senator sessions. turning to a book called white rage by carol anderson who teaches at emory. i gave a copy of the book to senator sessions when he came by my office as i was hoping he might get a chance to read it. doctor anderson talks about 1986 when congress passed the anti-drug abuse act which stipulated mandatory sentencing and emphasized punishment overtreatment and created a 100-1 disparity in sentencing between crack and cocaine based on the myth that it was more effective than its powder form. i remember those days. i was in the house and it's also the time when a spectacular basketball player from maryland overdosed on cocaine and died. at the same time we were told there is a new form of cocaine on the street it is dirt cheap, lethal, addictive and if a pregnant woman uses it, she will cause incalculable harm to the fetus and so i voted sad to say, i voted for this anti-drug abuse

into one of the main galleries of the story of virginia, and we are at the moment where into one of the man galleries of the story of we have the arrival of a very important third group of people in virginia, representing a very distinct third culture. so we are looking at a pair of shackles that represent the arrival of enslaved africans in 1619, and this is an essential turning point for virginia's history. andany subsequent decisions events in virginia history are tied to this decision to invest in slave labor on plantations. tobacco is an industry required a massive amount of labor to basically succeed, and what servantss indentured that initially populate these plantations as the labor force of transitioned out in favor slave labor because of the lower costs for that type of worker. these shackles represent this new group of people that become indelibly linked to virginia history, and also they represent continuation of this kind of ebb and flow of people coming and merging their cultures as a whole. this sort of odd pile of metal is actually a fragment of what was called jack up p

and by the way, the by-product of all of this is the swamp gas of climate denial. a strong majority of voters polled since the election called on president trump to do more to address global warming, so let's look at the record of this fossil fuel swamp cabinet. today we voted on exxonmobil's c.e.o. rex tillerson to be our secretary of state. like president trump, tillerson and exxonmobil have been talking out of two sides of their mouths about climate change. sometimes tillerson acknowledges climate change exists, pointing to a revenue-neutral carbon fee like the one i have introduced as the best way to address it. at other times he plays up imagined scientific uncertainty and overestimates the costs of action. in 2012, tillerson said i'm not disputing that increase in co2 emissions in the atmosphere is not going to have an impact. it will have a warming gact. in 2009 he backed a revenue neutral carbon fee like the one i introduced as the best way to address the problem. but in 2013, he questioned whether we should do anything at all to slow climate change, asking

the result of the last week must convince you of the hopelessness of future resistance on your part of the army of northern virginia. i feel it is so, and it is my duty to shift the responsibility of any further diffusion of blood. that is not too much to ask, is it? no. [laughter] lee had no obvious escape route replied asking grant to hear his proposal. he received another note from grant written in the next day. i would say that peace be my great desire, there is but one demand that the officers will be disqualified from taking up arms against the government for the united states until properly exchanged. it was at this point that we responded to grant with a note that he was not ready to surrender yet. instead he said they needed a meeting to discuss possible peace negotiations. that is a typical step when intending surrender that you ask for peace negotiations. that was something that grant did not do at tennessee or vicksburg. he said no i am not interested in that. so robert e lee went back to his headquarters, he pulled his commanders and found that the overwhelmingly supported

that is of great concern to all of us. just to recap of last year briefly, last year the comprehensive addiction and recovery act was passed by the house and the senate and passed into law and it provided community stakeholders with added resources to address the opioid and heroine epidemic. we passed the 21st centuries cures act which added an additional $1 billion of funding to combat this epidemic. both of these were accomplished in no small measure because of the bipartisan work done by this task force. the house rolled out in the course of one week 18 bills last year that really became the foundation and much of the detail of what ultimately was passed into law in cara. there is still a lot of work to be done. last year over 52,000 americans died of a drug overdose. 33,000 of them were opioid related deaths. that's hundreds of people on any given day that are dying. i know some of them, unfortunately. one of them a very close friend. i think every one of us knows people that have been effected by this epidemic. in my

of st. george was experiencing an economic growth, pushing the limits of its infrastructure and how the city had tried over and over to engage b.l.m. in the environment of a new r and p to address the needs of the local community. the city was desperate for the w r and p to have a new road to meet the needs of their growing economy. in the testimony before the subcommittee, the city relayed that they were unable to secure regular meetings with their local b.l.m. office despite the b.l.m. office holding frequent meetings with local environmental groups. in the end it was released and there was nothing to account for the needs of the people of st. george. in a city that is owned by 2/3 of the government, i can't believe that they couldn't work with the city of st. george to accommodate a simple road. with these kind of results under the b.l.m.'s regime, it's no wonder counties across the west are weary of a new planning rule. b.l.m. should be focused on improving their collaboration and coordi

thousands of pages of new rules. costing consumers billions of dollars and tens of thousands of workers have lost their jobs. the e.p.a. has perhaps become the poster child for this overreach. from restricting carbon emissions without the direction of congress and according to the clean air direction of congress is what is important, to federalizing every stream, every pond, every wetland under the waters of the u.s. rule, to unilaterally banning virtually appalachian coal mining by obstructing the permitting process and pursuing ozone standards that the vast majority of the country cannot meet. the vast majority of the country is still trying to meet the ozone standards that were established under the last regulation. you know, i support the mission of the e.p.a. in protecting human health, protecting our air and our water, but there has to be a balance. there has to be a balance between growing the economy and preserving the environment. the last several years, we've seen that balance very disruptive. this disrupti

the most of the other things that become provisions of the bill of rights most of them were proposed at state ratifying conventions in massachusetts and new hampshire, in new york and virginia especially. much of what he does is to take all the state ratification proposals which are basically yes we have ratified with your basic amendments were proposing. he comes to that list. he is a compiler. he goes through them and he sees which ones are especially prominent in the state constitution anti-basically just when is that list. you think state constitutions and they ratification proposals as his first cut. he more than anyone else puts himself into the picture as this idea that we are going to have at least one amendment provide for rights against state government and it passes the house of representatives but not surprisingly it fails in the senate which remember is the body at that time elected by state legislatures and this is an amendment that would limit state government and state legislatures so they say no. it doesn't get two-thirds of the senate and it's not going to be until

of the reappointment of mrs. naomi kelly. thank you. >> thank you. next speaker? >> good afternoon my name is jackie flynn of the institute one of the hundreds of nonprofits that serve nonprofits in the cities naomi has worked with as well as i served for over a year on the bay view advisory committee that naomi the mayor and supervisor cohen established for bay view during the transition of redevelopment agency i'm here to say naomi kelly is the definition of city leadership her work to rehabilitate has effected thousands of low income families i serve every day under her leadership the city is making clear and transparent effort yet still address affordability and access to safe and clean housing. she's committed hrz to our city by fostering development of local businesses her efforts over the last four years on city contracts have created opportunities for women of color to sustain business in this city. running a nonprofit can be challenging. as with our local higher policy i thank you supervisor fewer for cr

head of the bureau of land management. judge gorsuch is also one of our country's brightest legal minds with a sterling representation, significant -- represent ewe nation. he has impeccable academic credentials. he received his bachelor's degree from columbia and was a marshall scholar at oxford university where he has a doctorate in legal philosophy and i cannot forget the summer he spent at the university of colorado as well. he clerked for two supreme court justices, byron white, as well a colorado native. after the announcement of his nomination, judge gorsuch mentioned that he worked for the only coloradan to serve on the supreme court and also the only leading rusher in the nfl to ever serve on the supreme court. he clerked for justice kennedy as well as judge sintel. judge gorsuch went into private practice eventually rising to the rank of partner. leaving practice in 2005 to serve as a high-ranking official in the bush administration, a year later president bush nominated to have judge gorsuch serve on the tenth d

the presentation of the governor of virginia. this is also the go two room for other joint sessions of the legislature when we receive important guests from other parts of the world. we held a joint session to spencersir winston churchill who came here in his citizen.as a private it was just two days after his famous speech in missouri. winston churchill: in greed for nothing, but in defense of those causes which we hold dear. not only for our own benefit, but because we believe they mean the honor and the happiness of long generations of men. mr. greenough: in more recent years we have received in joint session margaret thatcher. thatcher: mr. speaker, mr. president, governor allen, .embers of the general assembly thank you for that splendid reception. it is one one rarely receives in one's own country. [laughter] mr. greenough: who was of course the first female prime minister of the united kingdom. and just a few years ago, to mark the 400 anniversary of english settlement in north america, her majesty the queen was here and g

of behavior, that sort of thing. those would all potentially help productive and help the long run growth. >> thank you. senator van hollen. >> thank you, mr. chairman, dr. hall, thank you for your testimony. just when we talk about the aging of the population and the immutable law of demographics, we talk about immigration, i just think when we talk about this in the budget context, it's important to remember no matter what we do in the budget, those costs are growing to grow in aggregate for the country and for the people. in other words, healthcare costs will grow, the costs of long term healthcare will grow, and so really the debate here is how much of that cost should be shouldered by the average american and how much should be shouldered by trying to shore up things like social security, medicare and other things. isn't that one way to look at it? >> yes. >> so it's either someone's p paying for this at the end of the day, and the question is how we as a society decide to allocate those costs, and whether or no

of course, all of you for joining us today. this is an issue that is incredibly important for the atlantic council and the latin american center and will be continuing to have events and publications and other types of social media awareness about the importance of the mexican relationship in north america overall. thank you for being with us. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2016] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] th i90 mut. amarscit im e direorfheolic ror prraandict o sdi foneamic wa tweomyo a th >>ooafrnn and lce toewmecai mk scit decr t

of. you know what? i'd like to do it all here in congress, too. but we sure face a lot of obstruction in getting things done here. it doesn't move fast here. let's get a commission to dot basic work. let's bring it back to congress and let us decide and let us get rid of regulations. let's make the agencies pick and choose what regulations they think are important. and they'll do it. this is commonsense legislation to get the regulatory state under control. and i urge my colleagues to support it and yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: we continue to reserve. we don't have any speakers down here. >> if you're ready to close. mr. cummings: i'm ready to close. all right. the chair: the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. cummings: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the scrub act poses real and significant dangers to the health and welfare of the american public. by focusing

the eliminations of the colors representing campuses one of the members of the cac noticed a lot of folks don't understand that people are familiar with the colors and ucsf responded that thinner aware that is issue that can you please came up and part of issues of design will be to integrate an educational element and informational element because they want to bring awareness of those colors. >> the next steps as noted the uc board of regents will consider approvals in march of 2017 and construction will begin in the spring. >> with that, we're done that the presentation portion and both i and ucsf are available for questions. >> i have one speaker card ace washington. >> he's waving his comments thank you. >> any other speakers. >> no other cards. >> commissioners questions or comments. >> i have one question. >> commissioner bustos hi the it is a great design i like it it looks good and - the one question the color so in the evening there will be lighting that will happen corresponding to the cancer months; right? >> in the evening we - we would like to highlight let's see if i c

we have run out of time. i know lunches are waiting for all of us. you have probably bilateral's waiting period thank you for your contribution. the morning session is concluded. >> next, a discussion on cyber security, including russian tactics during the 2016 u.s. elections. then president trump speaks at a campaign-style rally in melbourne, florida. next, a discussion on russian cyber operations hosted by the harvard university kennedy school of government. this is 90 minutes. >> all right, the ball has dropped. happy new year. welcome, ladies and gentlemen. it is a wonderful evening here in cambridge, massachusetts. us today.span with we also have a good twitter presence as well, so for those of you who are not in the room, it is very sunny, very warm outside. please come visit cambridge any cyberespecially our security project. the wonderful panel we have today. first, our colleague, ben buchanan, a doctoral fellow, david sanger, senior fellow here and also a "new york times" correspondent, and fiona hill joins us from washington, currently at t

and i think it was kind of what the body of work, the purpose of the body of work is to make people more aware of what a remarkable country that we live in on in little spek of a planet, floating around out in the universe. and i think that a lot of people don't even see it it and i 24eu one of the things that i was appreciative in your forward about was is the line in there i think towards the end that it taught you how to see. and i think that that is kind of the purpose of it it. in fact, i-- at one point along the way i thought about renaming this land as, and calling it the kingdom of heaven. which is from, i'm not a religious person as you know but i'm-- i, there is a line in the bieb theal says the kingdom of heaven is spread across the earth but men do not see it. and i don't think that most people are aware of where they live. and how wonderful it it is. and how incredible it is. and they don't see it at all. they're too distracted by all of the shiny objects that come on to the scene every day. >> meacham: where is that? >> that's in livingston, montana. that's the yellowstone