someone was involved in this who had a longhand in london and a longhand in syria. host: we are running out of time. who do you think is behind it? caller: the president was in new york. there were several events that makes us understand that something is going on, and it is not assad, not the russians, it is someone else. host: you get the last word. caller: real quickly, i believe congress should authorize any military action in syria, because it flies in the face of logic. host: what would you like to see congress do? do you think congress should give him that authority? caller: if i understand the what mccain was asking n, but agree with going i not without authorization. it flies in the face of any kind of logic to defeat isis. it doesn't make any sense. thank you. host: that is all for today's "washington journal." we will be back tomorrow at 7:00 a.m. eastern. have a good saturday. ♪ , lives weekend on c-span today at 5:30 p.m. eastern, wrote to the white house 2020 at the new hampshire democratic party dinner with jason kander. road to the30 p.m. white house

-- out in longhand. in 1970 she published her first memoir, "i know why the caged bird sings." it was a huge success and soon iner, there was interest developing it into a film version, so she began adapting her book into a screenplay. again, some of the earliest drafts of her adapting her memoir into a screenplay. process ofe translating her personal experience into this book, and then taking that book and translating it into the beginnings of the script, to be acted out. so it is really interesting to see her process and her edits. that is one of the interesting things about this collection, that it does include some of the -- include all of these paper drafts, which most people don't do anymore. most people tend to compose on board, and here we can see the process of her adapting her work into something different. i know, is her first script adaptation from one of her works, so you can see her kind of learning how to create a screenplay. has a longtimeu connection to wake forest. she first visited the

he did that longhand.i don't think you can hide behind the fact you don't have resources to do this because it are many manually. if i could come and curious about production quotas with it. in the book he talks about how speed pills back in the 70s were going to be a problem in dea stepped up and cut their production to 90% and the problem went away. in the 80s we had a problem with quaaludes. same thing. they cut the production and it went away. fast forward to today or what we been dealing with over the last 10 years or so, the uap leads to be continued to increase production and distribute those. didn't we learn anything from the past experience that we should be cutting back? it wasn't until 2017 that we have the first reduction nearly 50% more than 10 years ago and production of opioids. how would you respond to that? didn't you learn anything? >> i understand that, sir. quota numbers are set to ensure access to the patient and you can see the disturbing trend that happened with quotas. the industrie

instead, we hear about the voice and he writess in longhand and we eventually get a best selling book>> there does seem to be almost a sense of entrapment in these memos, as though he was urging the president to do things so he could run back outside and write down the bad things the president had done in his mind. by the way, the double standard, too, is glaringly evident. jim comey tells us that i has on this tour about the doubts he had about loretta lynch, the orders she gave him, do we have any conversations between him and her that were memorialized? absolutely not. there's a lot of other things that come out of this memo, too. we are finding as well that jim comey likes to talk about how he is a fact guy but again, only the facts that matter. once we are seeing the context of a lot of the statements that have been wafting around in the press for the last year, it turns out there is a very different reading of this than the one that jim comey was giving us up until now. >> brian: it's unbelievable. if he had any brains in his head, one interview, get off the stage.e. the more he

and as i told you last year, he writes all of his speeches and lectures and books longhand. but he told me something very sad. he said, when he writes in the papers,of his students' very often, they cannot read it because they can't read cursive. what a catastrophe. they won't be able to read any other primary documents or even their grandmothers' letters. as i mentioned to you last year, warden wood -- gordon wood is considered to be the foremost expert in the american revolution, period. in his pulitzer prize winning book, "the radicalism of the american revolution," he explains that america not only broke with england, but rejected and tires way -- an entire way of life. greatd and most of the european countries, germany, russia, all of them, were futile depend -- were feudal dependencies. people were not just the house and the have-nots. he said it was the nobility and the herd. one reads his book with shock and all. told me he has retired from teaching a no longer grades papers. he says every day, i am still excited about what i am doing. he also said the most important

but he did have from his family heritage what are called the rules of civility. .e copied them out longhand you can find them online. i have the bulk supper rise -- summarize. they are filled with practical things of life. that was the educational model. included dealing with people in authority, good manners, god, ethical principles, friends. that would have been the educational code. you can look at those things and say, my goodness, i can almost see what george washington was like because you hear of stories. there it is. he mastered it. secondly i think washington clearly believed religious training was critical. not only did he have church schooling for part of his life through an anglican tutor -- he had a couple years of that, but -- they called he will besh tub, the man that owns arlington that will be robert e lee's place, that becomes arlington national cemetery. interesting connection. he will train this young man and says, he was almost asked to be the president on the board of william and mary college right there in virginia. he said i don't want my son to study their. i want h

students are no longer required to write cursive but supporters of longhand refuse to let it die.rsive. ten states have considered adding it to their curriculum. how loop s and tails are helpin. >> reporter: these third graders are learning a lost art. they're practicing cursive by writing letters to their pen pals. >> my third grade teacher taught me cursive writing. >> it used to hurt my hand a lot. >> hard to read and harder to write. >> wouldn't it be fun tr the children begin to learn how though read letters and perhaps get a thrill of getting millimeter simple in the mail. >> he came up with the idea and shared it with her teacher karnkaren gunter after he sent a letter in cursive to her daughter away at camp. she couldn't read a word of it. >> she was mad at me. i said why, are you mad. she said, no, you wrote it in that fun eye mighting. >> it's difficult for me to do text and e-mails or text anyway because there's so many shortened preev yated things that. sue was match up with 9 krld samantha mosley. the pair instantly hit it off. >> i feel like i'm talking with her. >>

he had a secretary come with him, would type up the notes, he would make everything out on pads longhandand turn them over to her to type out so 36 was a better time for fitzgerald here. f scott fitzgerald was working on several essays, we do know the beginning of when he is starting to come back and starting to actively right by 36, spending hours in his room writing and getting his feedback under him. people often say that this is the time to have a come back, a literary comeback and we don't know for sure about the essays written here but we know he was actively writing and starting that is a process here. f scott fitzgerald left the grove park in in 1936, temperatures began to cool lady left, he was starting to write by this deck, reclaiming venues, accomplishing what he intended to do but did not return and four years later died of a heart attack in 1940. we believe the grove park in offered f scott fitzgerald what he was looking for, a place to rediscover himself was whether he cured himself of his gin addiction no one knows but him but we do know he was being much more productive,