twain. >> years after the war, ulysses s.n relative obscurity after what some call an unremarkable presidency, a devastating financial scandal, and being labeled "butcher grant." >> this cancer's gonna kill me. it's gonna do it soon. >> he faces a legacy of failure and poverty, but even though grant's life is fraught with one disappointment after another, he is the only two-term president of his generation. >> [ coughing ] >> and as a general, he's responsible for some of the war's most impressive victories. the truth is... >> here. >> ...his military and political successes are often overshadowed by a personal war with alcohol, one he finally overcomes. now, at the end of his life, he faces one last battle -- writing his memoirs in hope of saving his family from financial ruin and changing his legacy forever. >> let's see what you're working on there. >> in the twilight of grant's career, after he's left the presidency and fallen on hard times and terrible financial straits, mark twain comes to pay him a visit. >> hmm. i tho

mark twain got it wrong as well. mark twain was fascinated by these twins.later wrote a novel that was based on the italian twins. "puddin'head wilson." while chang and eng bunker were still alive, mark twain wrote this sketch. he actually switched them. he wrote jokingly about the drinking habits. in real life, chang was a heavy drinker. eng would take his alcohol in moderation. in that sketch, mark twain switched the roles. he said something quite funny. he said that when eng was getting drunk, chang had no choice but to also get drunk because their liver was joined. mark twain said in this case, chang was only physically drunk, not morally drunk. brian: when they became a itizen, i have the data as 1839, they got married and 1843. how did they become citizens? yunte: the law was against them. the nationalization act limited them from acquiring american citizenship. but they were a celebrity and they were rich and well-connected. in that small, remote area, this management of the application and approval of citizenship was done locally. so through connecti

. >> plus -- ♪ >> shania twain on the road gin.l taylor swift join her. >> i owe her an invitation. >> rod stewart and cyndi lauper before they hit the road. surprises these legends are planning. >> you don't want them to zydie. >> this is the last hurrah. good-bye, thank you very much. >> secrets from elton john's farewell tour. and why tim mcgraw is comparing faith hill to there. >> like a nascar trying to keep up with an indy car. >> this is "entertaiment tonight." >> inside summer's biggest tv premieres and hottest furpz welcome to our special on this memorial day weekend. nischelle turner is off. kelsey knight is here with me. >> one of the hottest acts this summer, beyonce and jay-z are going back on the run, the name of their tour. a week from webs, they invade wales before hopscotching across the entire globe again. now they're parents to three and just celebrating an entire decade of marriage. ♪ >> we were friends first for a year and a half before we went on any dates. ♪ >> the most important thing is to make sure you hav

. >> looks a little like mark twain. >>> you know who i like? spanish word for firefighters because they're the bomb. like this guy right here. check it out. he's going into the sewer and as you can see, it is a rainy day. the sewer is filling up. so this isn't exactly the sweetest job of the day but actually really is sweet because as soon as he climbs in there, you hear something. the universal sound for hey, come here, come here, little one, come here. it's coming out with something really important. >> oh. whoa. >> hello. >> oh, watch out. >> he gets puppy number one out then mom comes out next. >> barking. relax. relax. >> she's not relaxing but eventually they are able to get her out of there and get her up on to the paichvement. but he's got to go back in it there because that's only the first puppy. here's puppy number two. then there's puppy number three. and puppy number four. when all was said and done, there were five puppies. that they pulled out of there along with mom. you could see this puppy's fallen into the well, the well has

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more than lincoln, custer, twain, anyone else. i have run the numbers, and you can ask me and i can show you. there are a few unknowns, like grant. no one has added up the archives of grant. but the larger point -- sojourner truth is one of the most photographed women in the 19th century. douglass and truth are also hugely admired public speakers, orators, among the greatest male and female orators in the 19th century. douglass can command speaking -- could command a higher speaking fee than any other orator, and this was back when it came with celebrity, like being an actor. it was a form of entertainment. douglass, for the first 15 years -- 50 years of the united states -- 19th century, is virtually out of print. benjamin quarrels brings douglas back into print in 1948 with his narrative. my bondage and my freedom was his best-selling book. it does not come back in the print until several decade later, then the life and letters 1950's, butd in the that is published by the communist press, which sells like 1000 copies a year. it

--mark twain." to which mark twain responded, "you're going to jail.-mark twain." ( laughter ) ( piano riff ) ( applause ) yeah. just cleaned it up a little. i think. and we also learned from the senate that there was another trump tower meeting that we never heard about before. this one was after the election, between trump officials and russia's ambassador to the u.s., sergey kislyak, who in the russian tradition, appears to have many smaller people inside of him. ( laughter ) yeah. matruskadal. don junior testified that he wasn't told about this meeting, and when asked why he didn't join it, he replied, "because i didn't know what it was about and i was sweaty from the gym." finally! something i can believe. don junior being ignorant and sweaty. ( laughter ) of course, the whole collusion thing is about the trump campaign collaborating with the russians who hacked hillary's emails and leaked them through wikileaks. but don junior was very clear that he was not in contact with wikileaks-- much, well, maybe a bit, telling the senate, "i think the only

. >> looks a little like mark twain. you want me to wait and see what he picks out? star of this video without a doubt mr. red jacket. >> no. he hasn't made a decision yet. >> eventually he does let him off the hook. >> we are doing a little hidden camera gag on you. were you getting a little spooked? >> yeah. i was thinking. >> have a great day. we'll see you on the next all new edition of rtm. park as a precaution. >> it's usually not just one explosion. it's usually a series. so, as that ash falls and piles up, it's just not a safe place to be. >> the volcano's red hot lava is escaping through 15 cracks in the ground. at least three dozen structures have been destroyed. >>> a mere 30 inches may cost a british family its dream home. >> a house in central england, they spent $670,000 building it for his wife and five kids. now they're told the house is too tall. >> the town council says the house is 30 inches over the local limit. it gave the family a choice. get it to the correct height or have it demolished. officials will spend the next three months considering o

writing articles for "century" magazine, and then a good friend of his, a man by the name of mark twain, probably the other most famous american at the time, went to grant and said do not write for this magazine. i have a publishing house. i will publish volumes of your memoir, and we will sell them by prescription, and you will get -- subscription, and you will get a percentage. he has a lot of help from his son, former colleagues of his from the war. he gets through it, and by the summer of 1885, he feels like he is finished writing the memoirs. by this point, he cannot talk anymore. he can only communicate by writing on small slips of paper. he looks in the sun and says i am finished, and about a week later, he died. he is atan semmes, mississippi state university, thank you so much for being with us. prof. semmes: thank you for having me. americann c-span3's history to become a we are taking your questions in your comments, your vote, i should say, and the question is which party changed the most since 1968? the vote right now with more than 24,000 casting their vote saying that "ch

she will be given the mark twain prize for american humor. >> she will be the first woman to receivehe award on october 21st. first woman since carol burnett back in 2013. among her career accolades, six emmy awards for performances like this. >> i'm going to be the first elected lady president, have a lovely inauguration, billy joel is going to sing. so you guys have to stop the recount. >> i'm sorry, what? >> some the count. >> ma'am, we can't. >> i don't care. >> the train has very publicly left the station and derailed at high speed. >> this looks like a size 14 flip-flop. >> are you going to cancel this recount like anne frank's bat mitzvah. >> she's celebrating the end of treatment for breast cancer, a big, big moment for her. ♪ skinny >>> we are leading off "the skinny" with a big award for julia louis-dreyfus. she will be given the mark twain prize for american humor. >> she will be the first woman to receive the award on october 21st. first woman since carol burnett back in 2013. among her career accolades, six emmy awards for performances like this. >> i'm going to be the f

>> i do believe the president believes them, but let me quote mark twain real quick.rk twain says patriotism is supporting your country all the time and supporting your government when it deserves it. we have an instance here during the 2016 campaign both campaigns were notified that russians were attempting to sew discord and med until our elections, both campaigns. the dnc elected not to give up their server and take a look at it, and the trump campaign had an inform fant, c james comey ud it the other day, confidential source, and i want to break that down. there were a number of targets exceedingly difficult to run up against -- politicians or public servants, clergy, and the press. they require getting levels of approvals high up in the department of justice, and in this instance in the trump campaign it had to go to the white house and to the attorney general. now, here's what we have. there was not a spy. i'll say this to the president. there was not a spy. a spy is someone who is attempting to steal state secrets and cause chaos inside of an entity or organiza

writing articles for "century" magazine, and then a good friend of his, a man by the name of mark twain, probably the other most famous american at the time, went to grant and said do not write for this magazine. i have a publishing house. i will publish volumes of your memoir, and we will sell them by subscription, and you will get a percentage. he has a lot of help from his son, former colleagues of his from the war. he gets through it, and by the summer of 1885, he feels like he is finished writing the memoirs. by this point, he cannot talk anymore. he can only communicate by writing on small slips of paper. he looks in the sun and says i am finished, and about a week later, he died. steve: ryan semmes, he is at mississippi state university, thank you so much for being with us. prof. semmes: thank you for having me. >> monday morning, was our special centennial. why that no program is on c-span's washington journal and american history to the on c-span3. our guess is edward. of thunder and flames. americans in the crucible of combat. years toook back 100 key battles in northeastern f

. >> when i got the mark twain prize, what you have, as well.give it to me after sarah palin. sara, you're the worst thing that ever happened to me. i told lorne. he said, take it while your parents are alive. >> she go bask to her roots hosting the "snl" season finale. teasing a big announcement. hinting at a return of "30 rock." >> if there was a great idea for a reboot, we would find out in may? >>> carol burnett is back on tv. >> dj khaled. >> i'm excited to be with the icon, the legend. i just posted a pic of me and her. people were like, what's going on? shh. top secret. the price is going up. the price is is going up. >> let me tell you. you have worked with music's biggest stars. do you think you and i could do a tune some day together? >> absolutely. >> a little help with care burnett features a panel of 5 to 9-year-olds dirk out advice. >> do you think everyone should get married. sometimes they get answer ty. >> row to you reel them? >> i go -- whoo! calm down. >> say yes. >> say yes to the dress. >> what will meghan markle wear? >> s

hundred seventy five years by the family many a celebrity yes stop by including marilyn monroe and mark twain we in serves up traditional fare and i'm eager to tuck in the hearty potato soup is right up my alley. while i'm eating my soup you can visit all the other sides a final back we haven't seen yet i bet you don't want to miss anything right. with this cafes bars and stores the street called stein gosar connects the town center and the old bridge you're sure to pass through manure tour through town. the nearby baroque jazzer were church is worth a snapshot it was built in the eighteenth century and as one of the largest and most significant churches in heidelberg. and this is our insider's tip out of burg university's botanical garden it's more than a century old. it started as a doctor's garden for medicinal plants today more than ten thousand plant species grow in the green ounces and garden grounds. and. this may look like a greek amphitheater but it was built as a stage for events by the nazi party. today the thing started as a listed monument and is used for open air concerts. for s

he looks like evil mark twain. [ light laughter ] john bolton is dark twain.like he walked into a barber shop and said give me half of wilford brimley. [ light laughter ] so trump is surrounding himself with people who made clear they want regime change in iran which undercuts one of the central claims of trump's presidential campaign that he, he was the anti-war candidate. as you may recall he repeatedly went out of his way to claim falsely that he was opposed to the iraq war which he said over and over again was a disaster. >> george bush made a mistake. we can make mistakes. but that one was a beauty. we should have never been in iraq. we have destabilized the middle east. they lied. they said there were weapons of mass destruction and they knew there were none. and they knew there were none. look at the mess we have. we've destabilized the middle east and it's a mess. had we not done anything, had our politicians gone to the beach and enjoyed the sun. we would be in la lot better position than we are now. what we have done is incredible. if we would have -

twain theting mark day after the dodd frank bill. we appreciate the time.: you sometimes remind me of mark twain, actually. kevin: huge complement. david: thank you so much. the man of the hour. tune in later this money for our interview with marc short, white house director of regulatory affairs. alix: the news from pimco, you want to go longer in your cash allocation, up that part of your portfolio 10%-50%. and the recession is not coming 3-5 years, and expect single-digit returns for the coming years. he calls it depressing. still with us from pimco, geraldine sundstrom. come inside the bloomberg, a really interesting thing happening. the white line is the 10 year yield, the blue line is the three-month treasury build, almost -- bill, almost at 2%. do you want to be in cash because this is yielding more? h is becoming more attractive if you are a u.s. investor. that is not the case around the globe. i suppose it is a new year and is something that pimco has been talking about, the volatility on the rise. maneuver is room for and a decrease in freedom fro

history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader dunn who. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with treaty of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a german protectorate another historical document to change the fate of ukraine was a molotov ribbentrop pact of one nine hundred thirty nine one of many such agreements being signed between europea

history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russian swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with screechy of one thousand nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a german protectorate another historical document to change the fate of ukraine was the molotov ribbentrop pact of one thousand nine hundred thirty nine one of many such agreements being signed be

. >>> in today's quick hits, actress julia louie dreyfus fuss will receive the mark twain prize for american humor for her comedic work on seinfeld, snl and others. the ceremony will be held october 21st at the kennedy senor for performing arts in d.c. >> this may be tough to hear for "star wars" fans, but the movie is predicted to be the worst "star wars" opening in franchise history. the film is expected to bring in only $130 million over the four-day holiday weekend. >> only 130 million. get a load of this, though. a truck carrying 40,000 tons of chicken feathers. the driver is okay. said he just fell asleep. and around the world... starts with one person... you. this red nose day... stop by walgreens and help end child poverty... one nose at a time. because every. one. counts. walgreens, trusted since 1901. are confusing quilted northern are confusing quilted northernf. for a bouncy castle. they're both durable, flexible and nice to have at parties. but quilted northern is not a bouncy castle. it's just really nice toilet paper. sometthat's when he needs the way ovicks vaporub.'s sleep.

. >> looks a little like mark mark twain. >>> his little tail comes to us from out west. sandra have a farm. they have to do a >> it was too soft to support her. >> you can see her leg stuck in there. she is not making too much noise. she is calmly waiting for somebody to come get her. what they do is they get this rubber mat. >> it's a rubber mat that they normally sleep on. in hindsight we should have used something muchless slippery. >> she gets stuck a second time. >> maybe try taking taking takig backwards. >> you can hear the other donkeys calling her like come on, girl, you can do it! after a lot of lifting and pushing from the back she clambered out. >> they got it.

history doesn't repeat but it surely rhymes said mark twain. if one looks closely at the history of ukraine one will notice many rhymes. being surrounded by stronger powers ukraine has needed a lot of cunning to survive and the art they truly mastered with time is the art of changing sides. in the middle of the seventeenth century ukrainian leader. broke a truce agreement made with poland siding more powerful russia. just over fifty years later as the russians swedish war was raging another ukrainian leader ivan mazeppa bro. the union with russia when he switched sides joining forces with the swedish invaders many times ukrainian history was written by third parties seeking to keep the gains of a revolution at any cost russia agreed to the humiliating conditions of the breast with of one nine hundred eighteen which turned ukraine into a german protectorate another historical document to change the fate of ukraine was the molotov ribbentrop pact of one thousand nine hundred thirty nine one of many such agreements being signed between european co

there is a great deal of truth in this even though twain never said it. today, i think we have a problem with something we know for sure about russia and that is, russia's intentions toward the united states. redo some quotes about what prominent americans are saying about these -- read some quotes about what prominent americans are saying about these. russia hopes to fatally undermine a distracted west, from george will. " putin's fundamental goal is undermining american democracy." russia is attempting to destroy democracy in the united states." that is john mccain. russia is trying to bring down our way of government." that is democratic senator ben cardin. " putin's once to make the world safer russian autocracy which means compromising every democratic center of power he can find a crushing democracy closer to home." that is a former senior state department official. andamentally, there is aversion to our system, and aversion to democracy. putin does not believe in it and use it as threatening to him personally. --is almost in his jeans genes to do w

there's a great deal of truth in this even though twain never actually said it, as far as i know. today, i think we have a problem with something that we all know for sure about russia and that is russia's intention toward the united states. i want to read you some quotes about what prominent americans are saying about these intentions. russia hopes to singly undermine a distracted west. that's from george will, a well-known conservative columnist. his fundamental goal is undermining american democracy. that's paul waldman who comes at things from a a little bit different political point of view. russia is attempting to destroy democracy in the united states. that's republican senator john mccain. russia is trying to bring down our way of government. that's democratic senator ben cardin. elmer putin wants to make the world safe for russian attackers he which means compromising every democratic center of power he can find and crushing democracy closer to home. that's a former senior state department official. i think fundamentally there is an aversion to our whole system and an ave

who is the guy mark twain said hot captain who sat on a stove lid will never do that again, but he will also never said hot on a cold one. the bottom line is if you really care, you will be successful. >> before we take a question audience, thettom line recipients have some special guests. ron's nephew george is in the back of the room. neighbor grayson is here. >> audience, the raise your han. >> and melvin's wife mary is in the front row. thanks for being here today as well. >> [applause] >> do we have a question from the audience? a retired brady, i am colonel from the u.s. army. i owe you a tremendous thank you. 5-0 yearsgo, i say ago, i was the commander of the infantrytalion 52nd chu lai, vietnam. many of myd rescued men out of a minefield that day. i want to thank you many of my that. tremendous finally for doing job. thank you very much sir. >> [applause] >> yes sir. >> if you guys don't learn anything else while you're here, as you see this guy that survived the holocaust, and you see people like this gentleman, who served in world war i, world war ii, you better by god realize

spoke to more human beings in the 19th century than probably any other person on the planet. ,ark twain traveled more miles because he cheated and went to asia. [laughter] peoplebody spoke to more than douglass. part of it was because he was making a living as a lecturer. and by the way, those lecture made about 600 bucks. that is amazing. we have to talk about lecture fees -- i don't -- [laughter] anyway. this was like a traveling crusader, a traveling salvation show, if you want to throw rocks on it. and everywhere he would go now, dickinson, he would be introduced, the press would say, "the african lion was about to appear." he would appear in a churches and halls, an old practice going back to the 1940's -- the 1840's. he would walk into a place and people would start chanting, "douglass, douglass, douglass." it would bother people because he would be on the stage and the audience would start chanting. gave this "mission of the war a december eighth and ninth come i believe it was at the 50th street 15thent tyrian church, -- street presbyterian church. he gave it two nights in a row

mark twain said suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of congress.myself. gina loudon and dom giordano. paul ryan, some are saying he needs to go now. that the party cannot withstand several more months of him making misdirected calls like what we saw with the farm bill today. what do you say? >> i agree. when i heard you say he's on his way out, it was music to my ears. the interesting thing is, we -- congress doesn't necessarily have to pick from congressional members. this could be literally anyone in the world. lou dobbs, cheryl casone. they don't have to pick someone from within their ranks. with the current ratings of congress, maybe they should pick an outsider. cheryl: you have 40 conservatives signing this letter for jim jordan to take over. we had a couple guests on the air saying jim jordan would be a great pick. and he wants to fight for the true conservative beliefs of the party. >> i'll speak for talk radio. most of of my colleagues say jim jordan. and he's good on tv. he's combative when necessary. and he'll go on these other networks

steve jobs and mark twain had notoriously messy desks.laire reeves who lives in houston wants the clutter out of her life. off awe all right. i want you to tackle the closet. >> yes. >> she turned to ellen delatt for help. >> what would you say your goal for this space would be? >> i, i mean, i like to be able to, walk in. >> out come items she bought. and, will never use. >> i thought i would use these. i haven't opened them. >> anltd dresses she will never again wear. >> ready to release it? >> thing i am ready. >> she learned a lesson afwut too much stuff. from hurricane harvey when she helped her neighbors who were flooded out. >> just the sheer volume of stuff. that had to come out. and that, just gets trashed. >> it just reinforced that, that if everybody is safe and everybody is healthy. that's what is important in life. >> not all of this. >> not all of this. >> now that you have done this. how do you feel? >> i feel great. it's like. a weight lift offed your shoerlds. >> except for those of us whose stuff end up in a storage unit

in fact, he kind of fulfilled this self-effacing mantra he has that he borrowed from twain. keep your mouth shut and be considered to a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt. he tried to live up to that. he practiced what you might call the silent hobby. we are talking fishing, you know, landscaping, gardening, chess, martinis. he was so good at not talking that ultimately he made a career out of it. which is to say after the war he became a psychoanalyst. when i final started to dig to my grandfather's history, and piece together that part of his life that none of us knew about, i got the impression it was almost like that entire life had been kind of planned out and leading him directly to that moment in the courtroom where he awa.to evaluate ok i mean, by that from an early age he was surrounded by madness. really face to face. when he was in high school, he came home one day to find out his mother had suffered a mental breakdown. she had been moved to the first of many asylums that would really be her home more or less for the rest of her life. a couple of ye

and that was mark twain. and the quote is: it's not the things that you don't know that get you in trouble. it's the things that you know for sure that just ain't so. um, a great deal of truth in this even though twain never actually said it as far as i know. and today i think we have a problem with something that we all know for sure about russia. and that is russia's intentions towards the united states. i want to read you quotes about what prominent americans are saying about these intentions. russia hopes to fatally undermine a distracted west. that's from george will. well known conservative columnist. putin's fundamental goal is undermining american democracy. that's paul waldman. comes from a different political point of view. russia is attempting to destroy democracy in the united states. that's republican senator john mccain. russia is trying to bring down our way of government. that's democratic senator ben carden. putin wants to make the world safe for russian autocracy which means crushing democra

mark twain was right. history doesn't always repeat itself, but it usually rhymes. thank you, mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from oregon. mr. wyden: mr. president, i think we're getting a little bit out of order, and i want to thank my colleague from washington state. i would ask unanimous consent at this point to speak for up to five minute minutes and that my colleague from the pacific north confident west, senator cantwell, would follow me immediately afterward. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. wyden: thank you very much. mr. president and colleagues, this is the only resolution that provides a golden ticket to maintaining a free and open internet. and by way of a free and open internet -- i know a lot of folks are following this debate and seeing folks in the gallery through this. what a free and open internet is all about is after you pay your internet access fee, you get to go where you want, when you want, and how you want. and everybody gets treated the same. a local florist selling roses out of their shop in camden, oregon, a kid in rosebur

he is the mark twain of our time. how lucky are we to have a moment in time with him and what better way to start this conversation them with a ownished author in his right and a man whose name is synonymous with leadership, our own former mayor manny diaz. let me turn it to you, hopefully we can get him appear. please welcome them. [applause] >> good eveningen everybody. let's get this started. in bonfire of the vanities, you chose the upper east side is your setting. a man " in full. [inaudible]] and then you wrote about college sports on a fictional college. many believe it was duke especially since your daughter attended and graduated from duke. question is, why miami? how did you come to choose it as the backdrop and what surprised you the most. >> my first purpose was to write a book on immigration. this was when i was still working on my last book and people would say what you going to work on next. i said i wanted to do something on immigration and then always get the same response. that's really interesting.

like, who is the guy mark twain said -- a captain who sat on a hot stove lid will never do that again, but he will also never sit on a cold one. can fromke what you the experience of others, but to me, it comes down to the bottom line. if you really care, you will be successful. >> before we take a question from the audience, the recipients have some special guests. ron's nephew george is in the back of the room. general brady's neighbor grayson is here. came with him on this trip. >> raise your hand grayson. >> and melvin's wife mary is in the front row. thanks for being here today as well. [applause] >> do we have a question from the audience? in the back. >> general brady, my name is paul roach. i am a retired colonel from the u.s. army. i owe you a tremendous thank you. 50 years ago, i say 5-0 years ago, i was the commander of the first battalion 52nd infantry in chu lai, vietnam. you were the one that came and men out of aof my minefield that day. finally, thank you, for doing that. tremendous job. thank you very much sir. [applause] >> yes sir. >> if you guys don't learn anythin

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even though twain never actually said it, as far as i know.nd today, i think we have a problem with something that we all know for sure about russia. and that is russia's intentions to the united states. so i want to review some quotes about what pumpÃare prominent marketers think about these intentions. russia hopes to fatally undermine a distracted west. that is from george well. a well-known columnist. coons fundamental goal is undermining american democracy. that's paul waldman who comes from things a little bit different political point of view. russia is attempting to destroy democracy in the united states. that is republican senator john mccain. russia is trying to bring down our way of government. that is democratic senator ben cardin. wants to make the world safe for russian autocracy, which means compromising every democratic senator of power he can find and question democracy close to home. that is a former senior state department official -- i think fundamentally, there is an aversion to our whole system, an aversion to democracy.