the americans were made to withdraw. there was a smaller number of americans than british. the british commander had a than the baltimore general who was in charge of the americans. the sort of british victory there. what happened after that, the british decided it was not worth a candle. they were facing overwhelming odds. they said, we are not going to go on. of course, they failed to reduce fort mchenry. it is a great american success. to call it a victory is an overstatement. back to bladensburg very briefly , i think there are three problems the brits had at bladensburg. they approached bladensburg in quite an apprehensive way. they were worried about the battle of bladensburg. it was 50 miles for ships. it was a very small force. 50 miles for the shift. they found themselves facing a quite large army on the bank. three big to face the problems. one was the heat. you have no idea -- you have an heat wasou live -- the absolutely unbelievable. guys in their red, will into next were falling down, as some of them dying of heat, british soldiers. secondly, the width of the

some americans hope so. a lot of american leaders are doubtf doubtful. some of the scientists who create the bomb argue that maybe a demonstration is more appropriate. pick some uninhabited island, take a japanese -- a delegation of japanese leaders, have them sit in a boat off shore for a ways and we'll demonstrate the atomic bomb to them. show them the destruction that it can cause. why doesn't the american leadership accept this proposal? >> because the japanese would never get on a boat and watch. >> first off, it's going to be a process, right? it's going to be a difficult process. you've got -- first off, you've got to start negotiating with the japanese to show them the demonstration. and there aren't any negotiations going on. so it's going to be a problem. >> they already announced the glorious death of 100 million. so i think at this point they're not too concerned about the -- you know, the civilian population. they're more concerned about living up to the emperor and dying a glorious death for the mainland, japan. >> yeah, absolutely. there's

some americans hope so. a lot of american leaders are doubtf doubtful. some of the scientists who create the bomb argue that maybe a demonstration is more appropriate. pick some uninhabited island, take a japanese -- a delegation of japanese leaders, have them sit in a boat off shore for a ways and we'll demonstrate the atomic bomb to them. show them the destruction that it can cause. why doesn't the american leadership accept this proposal? >> because the japanese would never get on a boat and watch. >> first off, it's going to be a process, right? it's going to be a difficult process. you've got -- first off, you've got to start negotiating with the japanese to show them the demonstration. and there aren't any negotiations going on. so it's going to be a problem. >> they already announced the glorious death of 100 million. so i think at this point they're not too concerned about the -- you know, the civilian population. they're more concerned about living up to the emperor and dying a glorious death for the mainland, japan. >> yeah, absolutely. there's

most americans don't remember it. it had major consequences for the development of the united states. one of the smithsonian's' major missions is to diffuse knowledge. that sense that we thought it was important to present an exhibition on the war of 1812. >> my name is rachel. i was assistant curator for "1812 -- a nation emerges." the exhibit is large. there are nine sections in all, 107 pieces. we set out to do this exhibit on a grand scale, getting all the best we could from all over the world. >> the first section of the exhibit which deals with america in 1800 is dominated by the portrait of thomas jefferson. gilbert stuart had a rare ability, recognized by contemporaries, of capturing the inner essence of people. if you look at this portrait of jefferson, it is very unlike some other portraits. image is that of a shy man, and jefferson publicly was a very shy man. want ton did not involve the united states in a war. his first term had been extremely successful. he had operated very well with congress, was able

american patriotism and american honor. reagan did this most famously and 84 when he celebrated the 40th anniversary. he is not the only one. the 80's started an explosion of d-day consideration focus. there were tv documentaries and books. stephen ambrose started stepping into d-day. the 90's therey were plenty of examples of d-day as an american success story. that is where you get saving .rivate ryan it didn't just come out of nowhere. it came as a result of a stephen ambrose book in 1994. a screenwriter reddin said it would make a great movie. they turned it into very successful and popular movie. ambrose was not just a historian. he stepped into the circles of hollywood. he helped create this museum that we are at today. he did plenty of things that helped sell his particular this successday as of democratic heroes fighting and preserving the world for liberty. quickly, i will skip through there. you see steven spielberg filming . no cigar in his hand. to go for band of brothers in 2001. due to the success of saving pr

, an all-american party for all americans. [applause] this prosperous people, this land of reasonable men, has no place for petty partisanship or peevish prejudice. the needs of all can never be the needs of all can never be met by parties of the few. [applause] the needs of all cannot be met by a business party or a labor party, not by a war party or a peace party, not by a southern party or a northern party. [applause] our deeds will meet our needs only if we are served by a party which serves all our people. [applause] we are members together of such a party, the democratic party of 1964. [applause] we have written a proud record of accomplishments for all americans. if any ask what we have done, just let them look at what we promised to do. [applause] for those promises have become our deeds. and the promises of tonight i can assure you will become the deeds of tomorrow. [applause] we are in the midst of the largest and the longest period of peacetime prosperity in our history. [applause] and almost every american listenin

an american military. serving under the french generated as far as providing bike soldiers with a different view of racial possibilities, that there were alternatives to what they were experiencing and had experienced in the united states. translated into the postwar period. >> some of the unsung heroes were native americans who served in the combat divisions, for example the 36th, which is out of oklahoma and texas. he had a number of native americans. we know about the novel code talkers in the second world war using codes to full japanese. actually, that dates to the first world war where the choctaw code talkers in 36 used telephones and use their own dialect and came up with some kind of gibberish messages that fooled the germans around the champagne sector. native americans were rewarded for their so-called service by getting naturalization after the war. >> the war also drove incredible advances in technology. this is a war were soldiers rode in on horseback and came out in airplanes. talk about wha

for the boat was a native american from one of his men who assisted him with african-american. boats.d experience whale i will not go into details of the raid. you have to read the book for that. the raid succeeded. not only was he surprised, but they grabbed the nephew of the british secretary of war in the century in front of the house. moved one of the raters to vermont and send his kid to a school. the teacher at the school was ry captured.-- sent barton realized the weakest link was prescott's reliance on british ships in narragansett bay to protect the island. prescott had troops on the east side of the island, on the northern end of the island, the southern end. he relied on the royal navy ships right here. it is deceiving. these ships are two miles away here and four miles away here. downn thought about coming to bristol which is closer but would have had to come within one mile of these ships. instead, he decided to come from [indiscernible] and thento there came down using prudence island as a shield and then when in between jamestown and prudence island and landed he

i hasten to add, i do not-a chinese-american. chinese american. american is the amount. chinese is the adjective. chinese is actually one of many adjectives that -- you know, i love baseball of american, a politically active american, is different as to, but the chinese part of my americanists lean -- laden's other large. so growing up, you know, i would say that as a kid actually have this very wonderful sense that chinese and american this could be aligned of overlapping. and part of that is not just, oh, isn't that nice, part of it was the active growth of of second-generation kid trying to create unity and integrity out of these different streams of integrity that were surrounding him. and so i grew up with stories of my paternal grandfather who was a pilot and later a general in the nationalist chinese air force, fought in the war. though i never knew him, i heard legends and stories and knew him by his severe portrait and uniform looking down at me. and his name in mandarin, as you know, family name. but it basically means deliverance of the nation. so, you know, n

the question is not, should we cover the american -- the asian-american community? i am the moderator of this. thank you. [applause] let's see. let me talk about this panel. i was on last year's version of this panel as a panelist laster, and when i was asked, it was something that the title of the panel was something like covering the asian-american community. i said that seems really broad. yes. through the course of the panel, wasderstood what the panel about. i do not know if you are familiar with what i am doing on angry asian man blog, that is what i do, but i realize a lot -- orple attending here some of you might find that to be a challenge in your own newsrooms. willully this panel -- you be able to walk away with some insight in ways to tackle that and some tips to better cover the asian-american community. do, that mether a d introduce our panel. we discussed ways we could do this. everyone decided upon a story then covered in the last year, something that they can use and concrete and use as a example. why don't we go down and i will let our panelists an

it's not a lunge up of americans an british. it's american and polish.captain laughlin waters from the 90th division is reconning ahead of his unit on that day and they're under heavy artillery fire and he's taking cover in a ditch, kind of see what's ahead as he's going to have orders to move forward and take the town of shambois and he notices a guy in funny looking uniform walking along the road braving the shell fire. he knows he's not german but he's not sure who he is so he decides to go and talk to him. off polish armored division moving from the other direction and the polish army commander tells water this is the first ever meeting of polish and american soldiers on a battlefield. so the two coordinate to snap trap shut for the germans and they will do so but the germans have tried to attack furiously eastward to get out of there. this part is known as ifalaise gap. the german losses have been terrible. 25,000 to 50,000 men captured, 10,000 dead in the pocket alone. p it's a concentrated area so you're talking about enormous destruction by allie

i'm not a black american. i'm not african-american. i am simply, an american. you know, something happened to me when i went back to school. i stood stronger. i crossed my heart. i said those words with pride. now, when i look and see the american flag blowing in the wind, waving in the breeze, i have come to realize that flag waves for me. thank you. [applause] >> thank you. this morning, our colors will be presented by the color guard. would you please rise. this is followed by the national anthem. ♪ [national anthem] ♪ [color guard] >> our invocation will be given by dr. george lyons. he is pastor here in petersburg. >> pray with me as i pray aloud in my tradition. gracious god, after 150 years of reflection and remembrance, we invoke your name so that you would pride our hearts to member the lives lost in battle, so that we might see peace in our times. women and men together from every station and culture, 150 years later, in harmony, as community. out of this place of sorrow, make this day a celebration, a celebration of the community of humanity. our ple

it was a larger terrible than the american long rifle to deal with the larger game in the american west, the bison, the elk, the bears. it was a handier length to be carried easier on horseback. this represents the hawkins shot. this gentleman is cutting grooves and the rifle -- in the rifle. he will walk back and forth 20 to get a single barrel finish. in the early 1800s, one of the main focuses of effort and firearms design was to try to develop an effective repeating rifle. sam colt is the guy who came up with the first widely adopted repeating firearm, but it was not success at first try. it was a matter of try, try again. he created a revolver with a revolving cylinder holding five rounds that could be advanced as fast as you could talk the hammer and pulled the trigger. for financial backing, demonstrating it to his father to try to get the financial backing, but it is said that the revolver blew up while he was demonstrating it, which discourage the financial backing. it is said that he went back to doing a number of things to earn his living. there is a report and view it to her

limits on american power. limits on american engagement and the world and the american voters aren't really used to that. >> limiting is not one of the things you want to hear. we will continue with this because there is so much more to say. we have to leave tonight a few minutes early to governor you give you a chance to support your local pbs station. we send condolences to sara brady. the widow of james brady. he was gravely wounded and went on to become a tough campaigner for gun control. today, 33 years after that shooting his death was owled owled ruled a homicide as a result of the attack of that day. the white house press briefing room is named after him. we are done for now. more to cover so we will keep on talking online in "washington week" webcast extra streaming live at 30:00 p.m. eastern time at pbc.org/washingtonweek. among the topics, the big africa summit in washington. keep up every night on the pbs news hour and we will wrap it up for you again on friday next week on "washington week." good

there will be americans a point that is provided, but there will not be american troops returning to iraq in a combat role. the president is determined to make sure that the united states is not drawn back into a military conflict there. but the challenges that are there now are the challenges that can only be addressed by the iraqi people. a little bit. jessica. there were military strikes here but none in syria. >> there are more than a couple of differences between the situation in syria and the situation in iraq. let me highlight a couple of the more important ones that would illustrate the things that are driving the president's decision-making. importantly, the united states's involvement in iraq is by invitation by the iraqi government. second, the united states has in significant intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance resources in iraq that ensures that american decision-makers, the american military, and the american intelligence officers have pretty good visibility of the situation on the ground in iraq. those kinds of assets and that kind of intelligence to that ex

>> it shows the desperation these american families face. and the problem with the current approach is that these european ransoms are growing. the record that i have heard of was a state-owned french company paid $40 million for the release of four prisoners last year in niger, that is $10 million a hostage. in a sense these growing european ransoms skew the market. so the curtis family and the foleys, you mentioned 130, it was mentioned the 130 million dollar demand there is nothing they can do to possibly come up with that amount of money. the government, the american government will advice them, help them with how to handle phone calls, and these kind of things. but the government will not-- the american government will not pay. they'll turn a blind eye if a family or an organization can raise a ransom. but again, this is a growing problem. the ransoms are rising. and it's impossible for americans. i just felt terrible for these families. it's this sort of hidden world that they are trapped in. and they really don't know what to do. i ap

african-americans., even more than white americans. their families are intact and education is paramount. american children must learn not only academics but also civil behavior, right from wrong, as well as how to speak properly and how to act respectfully in public. if african-american children do not learn those things, they will likely fail as adults. they will be poor. they will be angry, and they often will be looking to blame someone else. one caveat, thation american experience historically has not been nearly as tough as the african-american experience. slavery is unique and it has harmed black americans to a degree that is still being felt today, but, in order to succeed in our competitive society, every american has to overcome the obstacles that they face. here is where the african-american leadership in america is failing. instead of preaching a cultural revolution, the leadership provide excuses for failure. the race hustlers blame white privilege and unfair society a terrible country, so

who was at the time the most famous african-american lawyer in american history and the most educated african-american lawyer in looked at thery, budget of $10,000 and said, to pick oneou need or the other. pickedton and white education. charles hamilton houston was a college, a amherst washington, d.c. native, colleged from amherst at the age of 19. served in the army and went on to harvard law school and was the first african-american to serve on the harvard law review. he earned a doctorate of science from harvard, studied in spain while he was at harvard law school and was very famous at this time because he had recently defended a very sensational murder rural virginia. known by americans across all races and class at the time. he wanted to attack segregation course would be successful. the law of the land at the time ferguson, the 19th century supreme court decision doctrine ofshed the separate but equal and those words never appear in the but the lawbe sure was that so long as states, as government provides separate and equal facilities for african-americans and for white ameri

there is no upside to being american that's why a lot of americans are trying to get rid of their american passport the whole idea of america as offering something special is could put the c.e.o. of pfizer saying this they know there's we took everything we could take we extract it all the the infrastructure gains and the subsidies and now there's no upside left we've chewed all the meat off the bone so we're going to leave and i think a lot of people are coming this realisation that the myth of america is finished and pfizer a major corporation personifies this they're basically abandoning america and so are a lot of corporations and so will half the population be clamoring to get out of that health hole a tweet from wall street journal sounds very similar to what you just said this is from matthew dalton of the wall street journal he says us once went to war to escape british taxes now you. yes companies are moving to the u.k. to pay them part of the reason why the tax rate by the way in the us is so high because it's thousands of pages long because of the likes of pfizer's because of th

of that american who was killed, that american who the government says was fighting with isis militants. douglas macarthur-mccain is the first american killed while fighting with the jihadist group, isis. his cousin insists mccain was not a terrorist. >> because my cousin wouldn't support a terrorist group like that, any group like that, you know? he's a very humble, caring man. >> reporter: mccain grew up in chicago and minnesota. he was arrested nine times and converted to islam. he even tweeted about joining isis overseas. syrian rebels backed by the u.s. killed him last weekend. now military surveillance planes are flying over iraq trying to identify which isis member beheaded american journalist james foley. >> i'm afraid just a preview of what they would do to other americans. >> reporter: there was a vigil last night at marquette university. foley was an alum. >> please, jimmy, just promise me you'll wait for us in heaven. >> reporter: president obama told the american legion tuesday foley's death won't be forgotten. >> to anyone who harms our people, it's simple, american does n

presidents against american drug policies embodied in the report of the latin american commission onrugs and democracy has probably had more than a little to do with the movement in this country towards the deregulation of marijuana. the nafta agreement for better or worse as negroponte's signature achievement because the decision was to go ahead and a small meeting involving bush, baker and negroponte and not more than one or two other people and it was fought through over the ensuing period of two or three years and it was then followed by a series of bilateral agreements with other countries including central american countries, south korea that have been quite important. passing for mexico and negroponte then was assigned to the philippines in the clinton administration and then japan on all. neither of these assignments were easy ones because he was being asked to do the impossible namely secure the agreement of the two governments to the maintenance of the american military bases at the time when the two governments were glad to be rid of the vestiges of colonialism. but after

this is not just an american phenomenon. the whole world is worried about what is happening with education systems from kindergarten through career. but what is interesting is one of the things we have always is thaton this poll even though americans, when you ask them about public schools nationally, are pretty negative about that, when you ask parents who have kids in school about how they think their kids' sch ool is doing, they are blowing ratings. it is fascinating to think about the disparity. if you say, how do you think we are doing nationally? not so good. what about your kids's school? americans are feeling good about that and they have been for a long time. it is similar to asking americans about congress. ratings are as low as they have been in the history of asking them that question greed but if you ask them about their congressman or congresswoman, they love them. another bizarre thing. any of us who live in washington, you feel this every day. great americans go to work in washington for our government every

among african-americans it was just 6%. and if there is something that everyone seems to agree on the issues that ferguson has brought into focus will not be solved quickly or easily. >> this problem existed long before we were here. and it will exist long after we're gone. the question is what are we going to do to change it while we are here and have a chance to change it. >> really, a small city where it's 70% black. the police chief, much of the school board is white. how does that happen, and how has that played in the alienation and rage seen on the streets of ferguson. joining us for that conversation, our guests. >> leslie, let me start with you. you've seen this up close. you grew up in and around ferguson. you watched the changes. how do you explain it? >> i think part and parcel the problem is as an african-american community we don't get involved. you couple that with a power structure that doesn't play fairly, then you have the end result of what we have today. >> but how come over the years--because this has e

they were american citizens by birth. they were rounded up en masse and had to leave their homes if you live in what was called the western defense zone. so they were removed, forced to leave and then you put in camps surrounded by barbed wire. they were not charged with anything in particular. i got interested in this issue when the read an article about african-american and jewish civil rights organizations, an article talking about how the issue had passed unnoticed to them. they were in new york city, the headquarters were. so i got curious about what the reaction would be here. and i expected to find that the jewish committee, because of their involvement in civil rights issues, would have spoken out. because unlike the jewish community in new york, for those who live here, it was an abstraction. they were their neighbors. they were familiar with them. the community had a commitment, a public commitment speaking out against what they called prejudice in all its forms. the reaction was a non-reaction. i think in order

in the african-american side of the ledger, not necessarily to win the african-american vote -- that is a solid democratic lock -- block. they like to cut into that lead a bit. if they can cut into that lead, that can make things difficult for candidates at the margins. with the hispanic vote, it is a bit more complicated. you have an instance where the republican party is divided on immigration. some members of the party support comprehensive immigration reform. some members don't. you are getting a mixed message that some hispanic voters are finding difficult to decipher. that is the pie they have to slice up. where it leads in november, it will be interesting to see. there are several issues at play in congress that affect people of color. you have the voting rights act. the supreme court last summer issued a ruling which crippled some segments of the voting rights act. that has to be addressed. the court put the onus on congress to address it. there are bills in congress to fix the voting rights act. eric cantor wanted to have that on the house floor by the end of the year. those

[applause] the 2013 national humanities medal to american antiquarian society for safeguarding the american story for more than two centuries, the society has amassed and am paralleled american documents served as a research center for scholars and students alike in connecting gin and dry -- generations of americans to their heritage. [applause] david brion davis. [applause] the 2013 national humanities medal to david brion davis for reshaping our understanding of history. light on the said constriction of the union founded on liberty yet existing half free. his examinations of slavery in abolitionism drives us to keep making more progress in our time. [applause] william theodore. [applause] the 2013 national humanities medal to william theodore. for aligning our view of the world. as a scholar v station studies, he fostered the global conversation based on the common values and experiences shared by all coulters, helping the bridge differences and build trust. [applause] darlene clark hine. [applause] the 2013 national humanities arrangingarleen for art and human understanding of the afric

a third american hostage being held by isis, she is a woman, an american woman from the west coast. we'll take a quick break and we'll be back with more on this, stay tuned. ♪ defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum. easily absorbed calcium plus d. beauty is bone deep. >> new information just in on the third u.s. hostage held by isis. fox can now confirm that hostage is a 26-year-old american woman from the west coast. she was kidnap ad year ago while doing humanitarian relief work in syria. this information coming as we're learning that the united states is now carrying out surveillance flights over syria. the move could pave the way for airstrikes but critics say the president isn't doing enough to defeat the stair terror group. even the free syrian army telling "the daily beast" quote, airstrikes against isis inside syria will not be helpful. airstrikes will not get rid of isis. airstrikes are like tickling isis. isis is not a real state that you can attack and destroy. they ar

like most american indians had to find the way to deal with the expanding american in settlements. in this area, the creeks were successful as the cherokee to assimilate to american life style. quite a few wealthy indians owned slaves with a big plantation and raise domestic livestock and largely gave their way of life to the american norms of agriculture. the large part of the nation did not see the advantage they wanted to maintain their traditional life. there was a rift in 1813, a civil war broke out and what happened here is a continuation of the civil war but it brought , the americans into the of war against the anti-american faction. there was a religious component of the shawnee prophet and tecumseh were proselytizing for a religious way of life and to he came here and converted a lot of creeks to their religion. so there was a political angle as well. most of those leaders the americanhe pay of the government. so they were profiting, while others were suffering. by the early 1800s, there is a lot of reasons why individuals chose one side or the other. locals area, most of

help with help from americans he went to taiwan and then the american government said this is open totaiwan and he is not welcome inu america. so hthey help him, you know. and so he was in england for about three or four years or five years and then he moved here from boston. and he just passed away like tw, months ago. so too tough to criticize that >> ian answet the right thing. and i can answer your question [inaudible] but i can't talk about what he t did and his personality. and he's the only one that knows and understands. he has already stressed the fear and if we do something against the well, they will likely be with them. and so that is something that is a part of this. c-span: were the americans responsible dirty assassinationa >> guest: i'm not sure, but i know with the support and consensus from americans, this has been important.t and so i don't know. and so i'm not sure if it's been vietnamese themselves.e willingo c-span: let me read what you wrote again. people like him and his cronies felt that it offered them a path >> did to personal enrichment. >> guest: you know,

most americans have had enough.d voters nationwide are asked if the country would be better off if mitt romney beat president obama? 54% say the obama administration is not competent and 55% disapprove of his handling of the economy. just 40% say the president is doing a good job there. that poll is a disaster for president obama. most americans believe our foreign policy is in tatters. the economy is bad. on every single issue, the president has not shown leadership, but the federal government has an obligation to enforce the law and protect the borders of this country and for decades, they have not fulfilled that obligation. an awful display took place. >> a popular mexican singer showed up to give his support to the people on the bus. >> he's here to work and make this country better. if they don't want to accept it, it's because we built the united states of america. >> instantly the crowds turn to rivera, one man spitting in his face. >> that should never happen in america. again, the incompetence of the federa

worse off than their parents the good jobs that provided the american dream or made the american dream a reality for many americans have just disappeared been outsourced and what has replaced it are low pay low skill jobs with no job. security no benefits no pension so people are spending all their time working these crazy hours and the hours required to survive are getting crazier a new gallup poll finds that economically stressed americans are working an average of forty seven hours per week with a growing number clocking sixty or more and increasing lack of security or stability in the us workforce has even been acknowledged by america's leader but average wages have barely budged inequality has deepened upward mobility has stalled the cold hard fact is that even in the midst of recovery too many americans are working more than ever just to get by let alone to get ahead. and too many still are working at all but many critics say the government is to blame for leaving the american dream in tatters because. we live in what is not a free market economy reliving a fascist economy we liv

have turned the american dream upside down. they're the ones living the american dream.ig, fat salaries, massive perks, huge job security, while we, the taxpayer, stuck holding the tab. we work our tails off all year round so congressmen and senators can live the fat, happy life. did i mention several democrats and republicans in congress are actively pursuing raising their own salaries? happy labor day, america. have a good weekend. neil: cyber war games from new york here is neil cavuto. >> we know that cyber threat

what is your message to americans? the message is you've got to look at what evidence-based facts are. and the facts are that we know from considerable experience that this virus is only transmitted by direct contract with bodily fluids of a sick patient like blood, vomit, diarrh diarrhea, stool, and things like that. if that's the way it's spread. we have in the united states the capability of taking care of people who are sick as being man te manifested right now with dr. brantly and miss wright boll. people need to understand that the situation in africa, which they see in the media, is totally different from what we have here in the united states. because their capability of taking care of individuals that preventing spread is really marginal, which is a reason why it's spreading this way in africa. which is not going to be the case here in the united states. >> thank you so much for being with us this morning. >> good to be with you. >>> i want to get back to the breaking news that i told you about at the top of t

and finally bringing the american dream back into the reach of every american willing to work for it. 33 years ago ronald reagan set over there and signed into law the historic tax bill. it was midmorning, a fairly heavy fog. as he was signing that bill into law, the sun seemed to be cutting through the fog. it was morning again in america. that time approaches us again today. like reagan's, the agenda i am describing is based on something too often missing in our politics today, respect for the american people. as president, ronald reagan understood that the forgotten americans were the people really in charge. and they still are. the people, not billionaires on wall street, are the customers who decided which products and services and businesses would rise and fall. the people, not the activists and academics and celebrities, decide the values that guide our neighborhoods and define our culture. and ronald reagan was okay with that. he celebrated it. his agenda was designed to give ordinary americans even more power to make those decisions. he respected them and trusted them, and th

for the americans, and that will be my primary focus today, is the american experience in normandy, and a little about what that was like and i'll draw some of the highlights for you. for the americans in the after a math of d-day the main objective is to get the caravan and link up the two distinctive beachheads. you will not do much of anything in normandy until omaha and utah beaches are linked up as one continuous entity and a kind of basepoint from which you will advance and take your other objectives in normandy and caravan, simply by the accident of geography, happens to be the spot where that must happen. it is really not a very big town, it is 4,000 people, in 1944, it is located near low ground, much of which is flooded or marshy around it and one time in napoleon's day, 100 years before this, it was almost like an island because french engineers manipulated the locks in the water and the sea canals nearby, in such a way, as to almost isolate it. it wasn't like that in 1944. but, much of the land around it was inundated and i'm sure many of you know it was one of the german de

why don't americans rise up against that? let me just start by saying i was enjoying that previous statement. i really hate to break up the night as they say in congress i would be willing to yield the remainder of my time so you can catch up on that if you want me to give my opinion i will tell you that americans do not like the racial hustlers, they don't like the expresumption of -- exploitation. that doesn't mean americans aren't appalled. here is the central fact of this event. we do not know what happened on that day. we simply don't know. we don't know -- we haven't heard from the officer. we haven't seen witnesses on the stand who can be cross-examined. everybody is jumping to conclusions and he i would include, in that, the governor of the state of missouri. jay nixon who said in a statement, that what did he say? >> he should be prosecuted. >> a vigorous prosecution must now be -- must now be pursued. what is he implying here? that a prosecution has to be pursued e he must be saying a vigorous investigation must be

no american involvement.acks by uae in egypt, air attacks against the islamists in libya without even telling the united states of america. when the president said the united states was going to attack syria because of the chemical weapons issue and didn't, believe me these countries decided they would have to foe their own way. martha: i think people will look back at that moment as a turning point in the way the u.s. is perceived around the globe. we may be experiencing the result of that. the president when he spoke to the american legion, he said something that may go back to his reasoning for pulling out of these countries in the the first place. he said troops on the ground can feed extremism in these areas. i'm curious what you think about that comment. >> i don't understand a lot of it. i understand why he became president because of his opposition to the war in iraq. but every president has made mistakes. george w. bush in 2006 fired rumsfeld and brought in some smart people and we developed the surg

, and the african americans in this respective industry. this hearing is timely and as i introduced and passed with all of high colleagues sponsor ship, legislation to commemorate the freedom trail and to highlight the social, and the psycho, social and impacts of the african americans, community inside of the city. on education, on entertainment, and as well as civic life and so colleagues and also, san francisco and members of the public, we are here because the people in the african american community are missing out on the employment industries and the booming industry, when as in the african american unemployment rate is close to, close to 3 times that of the other racial dem graphics and so we have a major problem here and we have to begin to turn the tides and so the purpose of the hearing is not only to highlight the important work that the working group has done, but also to discuss the obtain able recommendations within the report with an effort to take another step, or to take the other steps toward equity in our city and to incr

he said "i'm not a black american, i'm not an african-american, i'm not an afro-american." he said "simply, i'm an american." and something happened to me when i went back to school. i stood a little stronger, i crossed my heart and i said those words with pride and now when i look and i see the american flag blowing in the wind and waving in the breeze i've come to realize that that flag waves for me. thank you. [ applause ] >> thank you, lewis. this morning, our colors will be presented by the fort lee color guard. would you please rise? this will be followed by the national anthem. ♪ [ national anthem being played ] ♪ >>> our invocation will be given by dr. george wc lyon, the pastor of gillfield baptist church in petersburg. >> i invite you to pray with me in your own tradition as i pray aloud in mine. gracious god, after 150 years of reflection and remembrance, we invoke your name so that you would prod our hearts to remember the lives lost in battle so that we might seek peace in our time. we acknowledge your reconciling presence always at work, even through battles w

we will kill americans. how much of a concern is that, that as you step up military action there, you may spark reaction from isis, on americans whether inside syria or the homeland in europe. >> you can count on it. i'm not worried about our forces in iraq, they're so well trained they can take care of themselves it's europe and the united states. the problem is we have a situation where they have an academy, if you like, where people are indoctrinated for suicide bombers, westerners and syrians and iraqis and the rest of it. as the administration looks on they can't let this continue on like the order of the assassins from the 11th century and hundreds of young men from the gulf going there who presumably could return home and why you have the gulf arabs so worried at this point. this is truly a cancer and spreading. i spoke to someone who had just been in rocca saying they're worse than al qaeda and taliban. >> it's amazing they were expelled by the al qaeda. you heard the rear general kirby saying the u.