the american jim has never really existed specifically for african-americans because black americans have been in the u.s. for over 500 years. when i would ask your guest is this, what other group of people i've had to experience over 450 years of being terrorized, 250 years of slavery, 100 years of jim crow, decades of bad public policy decisions which disrupted the healthy life developing, and crow?e jun new jim frasca and americans, those folks who made it, they did have to make a way out of no way. -- for those americans, those folks who have made it, they did have to make it out of no way. reificatio reunification or advancement that was never, ever given to african-americans. residue.ay, we see the with the country has done is left this legacy of an urban underclass. connect isn dream -- never doubt with african-americans. your take is these new immigrants you talked about have jumped the line ahead of african-americans? caller: what i'm saying is there volunteer immigrants. they came on their own. they don't have the legacy of all of the hundreds of years of slavery and jim cr

of americans that served in the war. about 4,800,000 americans were in uniform by the end of the war in june of 1919. to illustrate the variety of insignia that were worn on the american uniforms we've now moved over to the model 1917 u.s. service coats that were worn by the majority of the soldiers in the army during the war. one of the insignias that i'm standing by is the standing buffalo. this was a very important insignia and it was worn by the african-american soldiers of the 92nd division, and there were two african-american divisions in the war, 92nd and 93rd. both of them were segregated from the rest of the army. most of the soldiers, of course, were african-americans and most of the officers were caucasians. even though they fought alongside their compatriots in the war and fought along -- especially along with the french during the war, they were segregated and were not treated very well throughout the course of the war. as we progress through the museum into the rest of the american section, we're going to l

"exporting american dreams: thurgood's american journey." " cold war civil rights: race in the image of american democracy" from princeton in 2000. and two edited collections "legal borderlands," and" september 11 in history." mary's next book, entitled "going to war: an american history" is under contract with oxford university press. mary's research has been supported by the guggenheim, mel lon fellowships, the institute for advanced studies at princeton, and numerous other foundations. her books have been distant wished by her passion for social justice and progress by extensive research, by cogent analysis, and by very careful articulation of ideas and evaluation. have bestowed numerous accolades on mary's work. the book onto regarding marshall was described as "a gem of a book" and "a work of true genius." reviews of "wartime" described it as "a provocative meditation and a fascinating and nuanced narrative." mary helps explain the journal of american history, "why national security continues to have such influence on american politics, why the u.s. continues to field such a lar

in american history. filly wheatley was enslaved and brought to the new world in the 1750s. as a young girl, maybe about 8 years old. she eventually was sold to a family under the name of wheatley. the daughter taught her to read and write. she has a real natural talent for writing verse. of course at the time, this was an extraordinary development. so much so that there were those she began publishing pieces ott news paper and they began to be circulated. there was actually a trial held in boston where john hancock and other significant figures in the community were brought together to basically put her on trial, ask her questions to try to determine if it was possible this african-american woman could have written poetry like this. of course she passed and they wrote a testimonial saying they believe she, in fact, had been the talented writer who produced this poetry. in 1773, she traveled to london and this volume was published. it's also remarkable in that we have an engraved image, presumably a good

are watching american history tv, 40 hours of programming on american history every weekend on c-span3. follow us on twitter at c-span history for information on our schedule and keep up with the latest history news. american history tv was at the organization of american is trying to new orleans where he spoke with historian adriane lentz-smith about african-american involvement in world war i. she discussed how their military service expose the rachel tensions at the time. this interview is about 15 minutes. >> adrian lynn smith, what was the experience of black soldiers during world war i? adriane: african-american soldiers had a variety of experiences. there was roughly 385,000 african-americans in the wartime army. about 200,000 of them traveled overseas with the american expeditionary forces. of those 40,000 were combat troops, and another 160,000 did mainly labor. folks who wrote home about their spirits is from both the from combation, and units, talk about two things. they talk about the difficulty of fighting for democracy, sort to speak, in a jim crow army. and they talk abo

his institute for american history has developed a highly acclaimed national program for teaching american history in high schools and colleges throughout the united states. lewis lehrman also created the lincoln prize and the center for the study of slavery, resistance, and abolition at yale university which awards the frederick douglass prize for the best work of the year on slavery, resistance, and abolition. for all of this tremendous work in american history, lewis lehrman was presented with the national humanities medal at the white house in 2005. lewis lehrman is the author of several books, including his latest "churchill, roosevelt & company: studies in character and statecraft." in a complementary review this past march, the wall street journal noted " the book is packed with fascinating detail and illuminates not only the past, but challenges of the present day. the subtitle, studies in character and statecraft, he makes it clear that in geopolitics, the two go together." before i welcome him to the stage, i will ask everyone to check their cell phones and anything else that mak

military and american society.he is a key contributor to the popular american history textbook, a people and a nation, and has authored five books including her most recent work "america's army making the all volunteer force," which examines the nation's transition from the draft to an all-volunteer force during the vietnam war. and we have mark adams who is the education director at the truman s. -- pardon me, harry s. truman presidential library and museum. he's been adjunct professor, you may notice his famous accent which is in part why he's moderating our conversation this evening, but as you might know we have experts who are here with concentration in world war i, in vietnam and world war ii. so we're really covering that breadth. normally i have a podium. makes it a little easier. right -- yeah, that would be fantastic, thanks. prior to world war i the united states which makes it small army of volunteers to head into mexico. no one ever expected that they would actually head out to europe. on this 00 years

in terms of the draft, in 1942, 90 3% of americans thought the draft -- 93% of americans. the draft was fair. at the end of the war, ebony 9% 79%ght it was fair -- thought it was fair. it is strange when you think about the way that men lost the ability of their choices. it is significant in terms of -- was drafted, divert deferred or exempted. it is not about in terms of we need armors were someone to manage the bureaucracy, fathers were exempted. men who were married and had a dependent were exempted for quite a long time. this was after they were drafting people who were illiterate, after the drafted single men. this was a social decision that fatherhood and preserving the emily was critically important and those men -- and was critically important and those men would put into a category. it did not mean those men did not volunteer. it is being designed, it is not simply how do we get enough people into the military, it is also thinking about who is exempted and why and how that mirrored values of society. mark: let's move that forward to the 1960's of vietnam. obviousl

what should every american know about the, american revolution? >> i can answer that in a minute actually. i will tell you one of the -- i would say one of the most importantt messages that we're trying to convey in the museum is that the american revolution and the revolutionary war are notha the same thing. we oftenti use "the revolution"s a kind of shorthand for the revolutionaryy war. we'll say "the revolution was an eight-year war"r" or something like this. this was a matter of actual debate among the founding fathers, about what do we mean about the american revolution. there's wonderful letters back and forth over the years as they discuss, what did we mean by the revolution. john adams had a response i let think he wrote in 1818 where he claimed the american revolution happened before the war. he said this was a kind of change in the morals and attitudes of the americans that kind of prepared themm to where they were an independent people and the war was just confirming a transformation that had already taken place. i would say if we have

the american cancer society. the american heart association, opposed. the american academy of family physicians. the american academy of pediatrics, opposed. the american stick a trick association, opposed. virtually every major national health care association is opposed to this disastrous legislation. so the american people are opposed, the health care organizations r. all across this country are opposed. the bill is written behind closed doors, and yet under those circumstances, they want to bring it to the floor for a vote. now, what most americans are signature around and thinking -- are sitting around and thinking, they are saying, look, the affordable care act has done some good things. before the affordable care act, mr. president, we had some 50 million people without any insurance. the affordable care act provided insurance for about 20 million people. that is no small thing. in the majority leader's own state of kentucky, the rate of uninsured went from 20% down to 7%. that's pretty good. not great, but it's pretty good. west virginia, the ra

. >> tonight american history tv on c-span 3 will be live from the museum of the american revolution in philadelphia. we will be joined by top museum staff to look at exhibits and answer viewer questions. that's 7:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span 3. >>> back on april 19th the museum officially opened to the public, here is that ceremony now with remarks by joe biden, david mccullough, cokie roberts of abc news and museum officials. ♪ ♪ >>> ladies and gentlemen, please recognize the color guards from each of the original 13 states as they are introduced in the order in which each state ratified the u.s. constitution and entered the union. delaware, first delaware regiment. [ applause ] >> pennsylvania, first troop philadelphia city cal valerie. new jersey, old barracks museum. georgia, sons of the revolution in the state of georgia. connecticut, the governors foot and horse guard. massachusetts, 54th massachusetts volunteer regiment. maryland, maryland society, sons of the american revolution. south carolina, south carolina national guard. new hampshire, first new hampshire regiment. vi

and it's a problem for older americans. our older americans whose rates would go way up. for example, a man six years old earning $20,000 you currently pays $80 a month for health care, and affordable policy. under the republican trump care bill that would go to $570 a month. a challenge to my colleagues. find me someone earning $20,000 a year who can pay $570 a month for health care. finite individual and defender plan on the floor of the senate and why that is an equivalent from taking health care away from that individual. and then of course, we have the issue of preexisting conditionsg high school thought all or maybe softball or gymnastics are wrestling and they carry it with them their entire lives. or maybe something develops further on in life. maybe asthma or diabetes or an episode of cancer. and now they have a preexisting condition. under our old health care system, prior to 2009, 2010, they could acquire insurance unless they were fortunateet enough to get it through their job, which millions of americans do not get it through their work place. so they were ou

american this bill is lighting the american health care system on fire with intentionality. and used the word freedom at itn center? there's freedom in this bill. there's the freedom to go bankrupt. there's the freedom to get sick and not be able to find a doctor. there's freedom in this bill tor die early. that's not hyperbole, guys. that's what happens when overnight 16 million people lose insurance. and don't tell us that's because people all of a sudden won't be mandated to buy it. this is a vicious cycle that happens. when you get rid of the mandate, every single insurance company will tell you that rates skyrocket. because you're not getting rid of the provision that requires insurance companies to price sick people the same way as healthy people. cbo says rates go be merely by 20% and 20% after that and 20% after that. that. and so all of a sudden you can't have it into mandate because nobody can afford to buy thell. product. there's a lot of freedom in this bill. it's just not the kind of freedom that we all thought waso at the heart of this reform measure. i kno and

american grit. when we purchase products made in the u.s.a., the profits stay here, the revenues stays here and the jobs maybe most importantly of all, they stay right here in the u.s.a. in the audience today -- true. [applause] in the audience today we have skilled workers. we have business leaders whose american-made goods we're proudly displaying all over the white house and outside. i saw fire engines. i saw tractors from caterpillar. i saw some incredible machinery, make it right here. we thank you for being here. we're honored to showcase your creations and i will say they've really taken on and some of you have built names that i know of for so long and it's -- congratulations, right, you in particular. what a great job you've done. thank you very much. i saw you on television this morning. you were fantastic. i don't know what you're doing exactly but you could always have a second career. you did a great job. thank you very much. american workers, farmers and innovators are really the best

as german-american is he 100% american? he feels the weight of having to prove that every day that he is in the military, but yet he knows something else that makes him wonder, his family considered 100% american? he goes into the military but his parents, who are german immigrants, have to go down and have -- they have a different -- he carries this draft registration card around. they have to carry a different kind of card around. they have to carry registration card of an enemy illen. so he registers for the draft. they have to register for -- go to post office, have the their pictures and thumb prints taken and care a card showing they have actually registered as enemy aliens and the government can keep an eye on him. he is in the military but the parents are considered potentially traitors to the country and have to be watched. he is i ware of this dichotomy but even from his own mother. his mother is petrified by the idea that he might accidentally when he gets to the western front kill a relative on the other side, b

bill has written wonderful works on american history, american society. about 20 years ago, it was a very important book. looking at the introductions, i believe both diana and jim spent some time here at the madison center. they also have a connection here. i had forgotten that both diana and jim attended kenyon college. this is the panel with people who attended the smallest colleges. there has never been a panel with more small college representation on it. i do not know what that means but i was struck by that. i was going to make a joke about their sports teams, but i looked online and -- is it still true that the kenyon sports teams are still called the lords and l adies. and st. john's, but with their sports team be called? >> the druids. [laughter] >> without further ado, diana stroud. diana: thank you. i had the very great privilege of working with amy and leon on the anthology "proudly we hailed." we learned so much about american history from our conversations about each piece. conversations that were mostly interpretive but sometimes personal,

and bill mclean obviously has written great books on american history and society in american modern history. at theed looking introduction, think both diana and jim spent a year her at the madison center said they have a connection here. i noticed looking at the bios that diana and jim both attended st. john's,ge and which is a common feature of many people here so i think this is the panel with people who attended the smallest colleges. [laughter] >> there has never been a panel with more small college representation on it. i don't know what that means but i was struck by that. i was also going to make some joke about their sports teams but i looked online for a time. is it still true that the kenyan sports teams are called the lord's hand ladies? amazing. in st. john's, they had sports teams, what would they be called? joke. >> druids. >> without further do, the panel. applause] i had the very great privilege of working with amy and leung on the anthology "what so proudly we hail." i learned a great deal about american patriotism. alexis did tocqueville, whom we reluctantly but un

the american heart association , the american academy of pediatrics and sit psychiatric association, federation of hospitals, american lung association, march of dimes, the american nurses association, one might think that one virtually every major national healthcare organization as opposed to legislation that maybe just maybe my republican colleagues might think twice. : about go forward. but they have not had in this process the opportunity, amazingly enough, to hear from doctors, to hear from hospital administration, to hear from patient advocates, because, mr. president, as you may well know, despite the fact that we are dealing with an issue that impacts every single american, which is what health care does, an issue that impacts one-sixth an issue that impacts one-sixth impacts one sticks of the american economy over t $3 trillion a year. there has not been one hearing, one public hearing on this bill. this bill has been written behind closed doors. anyone listening to senator mccain the other day made that point. how do you deal with one-sixth of the economy and their desire

then the americans left.overnment positions but lost control of large parts of the country to isis. now the americans are back and empowering a third sect -- the kurds, who have proven themselves to be our most reliable allies. but u.s. support means the kurds feel strong enough to make a land grab and hope to break away from the rest of iraq, potentially tearing apart the old colonially constructed and badly managed country for good. and the kurds plan to make their move soon. they're holding a referendum on independence, a vote to leave iraq at the end of september. we were surprised to find that a champion of that cause is one of iraq's most recognizable faces. he spent many years on the international stage as iraq's foreign minister, championing the cause of a united iraq. not anymore. >> i think we have had enough. our hopes to build a new iraq where all the iraqis could live together peacefully, that is a mirage. >> now he and the rest of iraq's kurdish minority are going to try and break away and take

i'm actually san jose's fourth vietnamese american council member, but i'm the first american born.there is a change in the guard, change of generations. and i think it's important for more, you know, asian americans to get out there, not just be elected, but to run for office, make the attempt and to just create this normalcy around asian american candidates. >> okay, so we have a question from our facebook community for the panel, and this one comes from praise santos. and the question is, "is the passive tendency of asians in our current climate of racial tension in the united states benefiting us in the immediate but hurting us in the long term?" vincent, we'll start with you. >> well, i actually don't accept that premise. i think that asian americans are much more active and outspoken than often is understood. you know, certainly the myth of asians as being passive across the globe is easy to debunk, and you could see that in the elections in south korea, you could see that in protests like occupy central in hong kong. and even in the united states, i do think that asian americ

and he was celebrated by americans. this tavern sign hung in front of the tavern kept by israel putnam who would be famous in the revolutionary war in the battle of bunker hill. so the second gallery we title the voice of victory. so after the british victory in the seven years war with this vastly expanded empire, particularly in north america, britain faces this challenge. because of course everyone's excited about having this larger empire. but there are now tens of thousands of new subjects that look to king george iii, of course, desiring him to act as their sovereign or in the case of people who do not recognize him as a sovereign like native-americans, at least seeing him as a person who they can ask for assistance with their problems. and so you have tens of thousands of native-americans. you have more than 70,000 french catholic and some former spanish colonists who now britain claims as its subjects. in addition, you've got 2 1/2 million british colonists, people like george washington, people like jechgman fr

let me be very clear to the american people. certain rules will mean that you will not have medicaid for the vulnerable, senior citizens who are in nursing homes, young mothers, those who have chronic illnesses like young brittany with autism. you will not have healthcare, you will have a state that will take block granted medicaid dollars -- >> the gentle lady's time has expired. >> i believe the jackson-lee amendment can be fiscally responsible but it will save lives and i ask for the support of the jackson-lee amendment. >> the gentle lady's time was expir expired. the question is agreeing to the amendment offered by ms. jackson lee. all those in favors, say aye. >> aye. >> all those opposed. >> no. >> a recorded vote is posted. we will postpone the recorded vote until we have finished debating this batch the seven amendments. are there other amendments? >> madam chair, i have an amendment i would like to offer. >> the amendment number is number 3, the clerk designate the amendment, the staff will distribute copies of the ame

number one, don't investigate the american people. investigate russia. the intelligence community's unanimous and clear in their findings that russians interfered with the 2016 election. every day that goes by that the president and his administration continue to deny it is one day last that we have to prepare for the 2018 elections. and to maximize the security and integrity of elections forward. number two, as has and stated, new systems in the united states of america. the last time the government was a true partner in funding, upgrading, and adding secure systems to our elections was in 2002. the help america vote act was passed, also on a bipartisan basis. number three, don't eliminate, fund the eac, the election system commission. the very body we look to that sets the security standards for voting systems in the country. the very body we look to to aggregate data as to what is working and not working in elections administrations to make it at her for voters in our -- and more secure. the commission is seeking to eliminate it. we need that now more

americans in the next five years. we have set a goal. to lower the cost of living as the leader mentioned for american families, by taking unprecedented action to lower the cost of prescription drugs, very, very important, and by crack do you think on the monopoly that raises costs for our families and hurts competition. to give everyone american -- to give every american three, one to create jobs, two -- with bigger paychecks, two to lower the cost of live, and third to give every american the tools to succeed in the 21st century. we want every family in america to know that they and their children have a place a strong place in the economy of the 21st century work massive new commitment to aparen dististships, lifetime learn, paid on the job training, the list goes on. we have the proposal. today, we're on the road. it's so wonderful to be here in berryville. we're on the road, in a state that has a rich history of our founders and the dreams they proposed of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. we must honor

watching as you are watching american history tv on c-span3.u are watching american history tv on c-span3. you are watching american history tv, all weekend, every weekend on c-span 3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook at c-span history. announcer: 50 years ago on july 23, 1967, a series of riots erected near present-day gordon in detroit, michigan. we have a historian there to learn about the causes and events of the uprising which led 43 deaths, over 7000 arrests, and the deployment of 5000 federal troops to restore order. >> my name is jamon jordan. i am a historian and a tour leader with blacks scroll network history and tour. i do history tours throughout the city of detroit. >> what happened on july 23, 1967? >> a undercover or plainclothes officer, charles henry, attempted to get inside 9125 12th street, which is what police call a blind pig, an illegal after-hours bar. after he was finally able to get in mainly around 3:00 in the morning, the illegal after-hours bar was raided by the police for breaking the law. when they rated the place, they found it was not a small

using american harbors, american ships, american provisions to supply their colonies. it didn't work out as they hoped for reasons we can talk about. french revolution also quickly spilled over into the caribbean. shortly after revolution exploded in france, insurrection broke out in today's haiti. 1791 slaves in the northern part of the colony began a rebellion that soon turned into a revolution against slavery itself. under leadership. they fought off invading spanish force and the british navy. the americans needed france and spain to defeat the british. the haitians defeated the french, spanish and the british. the haitian revolution would upend the atlantic economy and the labor regime and it would bring tens of thousands of refugees pouring into the united states. this was another lesson that was driven home powerfully over the course of writing this book, was the importance of the haitian revolution for american history in this period. i think it's impossible to tell the story of how the united states was transformed from this weak fragile power into a consnecon

we captured an american john walker who happened to be fighting for the taliban. he had all of these front covers a new stories and he kept getting referred to as brainwashed. serious expert, serious newspapers were writing about the sky. but having been brainwashed. my first reaction was, can people really seriously be using this kind of science fiction turn to be talking about a real person. and that i kept wondering into work that story and that kind of metaphor describing the decision to be against american this moment as unthinkable, as something a thinking person couldn't fathom we do. in the years after that story we kept versions of a brainwashing story in america, the manchurian candidate got to be made, then invasion of the body snatchers get remade. homeland, the showtime show that has a lot of strong resemblance so my book what i'm trying to do is think about that story and why we want to tell it. . . >> >> and the kinds of ways that day talk about coercive persuasion of brainwashing and propaganda. >> are they accurate or inaccurate to?. >> they are p

the american cancer society. the american heart association, opposed. the american academy of family physicians. the american academy of pediatrics, opposed. the american stick a trick association, opposed. virtually every major national health care association is opposed to this disastrous legislation. so the american people are opposed, the health care organizations r. all across this country are opposed. the bill is written behind closed doors, and yet under those circumstances, they want to bring it to the floor for a vote. now, what most americans are signature around and thinking -- are sitting around and thinking, they are saying, look, the affordable care act has done some good things. before the affordable care act, mr. president, we had some 50 million people without any insurance. the affordable care act provided insurance for about 20 million people. that is no small thing. in the majority leader's own state of kentucky, the rate of uninsured went from 20% down to 7%. that's pretty good. not great, but it's pretty good. west virginia, the ra

a lot of welcome to worlds apart the russians have long taken americans more seriously than the americans took that is until the russia gave the american obsession with their logic the election hacking and the ensuing policy paralysis have dismayed many in moscow showing washington in a way read listen before as lacking in confidence and mabel to pull itself together how accurate is this impression to discuss that i'm now joined by matthew craning a senior fellow. at the atlantic council mystic craning it's great to have you on the show thank you very much for joining us thank you for having me on it's a pleasure to be here while it may be a pleasure for you to be here but i'm sure that you are not going to fall under suspicion of colluding with the adversary because of appearing on our t.v. no i'm not worried about that i think it's important for americans and russians to have a dialogue to important countries and we need to do a better job of understanding each other i absolutely agree with you but you know that if you're if you read the publicly available parts of the u.s. intelligence

the arabian american oil company, the name itself arabianing an american joint partnership in an epic venture. luce and rockefeller's mission, humanitarianism, and development will take place on a global scale. aramco becomes the experiment of that vision. wednesday we will look at a segment which in many ways romanticizes aramco. i'm going to lean to the glowing side today to give you a sense of the cultural exchanges that take place. suffice to say, there are some darker facets of the story. the oppression of labor, racial dynamics that take place in aramco that raise serious questions about this initiative. this is an internationalist venture, but in many ways, and it is an imperialist one. we will talk about that wednesday. for our purposes here, what is impressive, from top to bottom, executive down to the level of the worker, the ways in which the rockefeller's vision of crude filters down. william eddy has a lot to do with it. after helping navigate this terrain in 1945, the meeting with saudi arabia and president roosevelt, will join the state department. he will help form the

i know the american people will also be watching. and again we need to do everything possible to make sure more people vote, not to make it harder for americans to vote. >> with that we would be happy to answer any questions that you all have. >> do you feel a concerted effort to talk with african-american voters in particular, given the majority of the democratic? >> yes. anybody else? [laughing] >> i think it's no coincidence that the target has been in vulnerable communities. i think it's no coincidence that the target has been in foldable communities of color, brown and black communities all across this nation, but we can't underestimate the fact that the disabled and our senior citizens and our young folks are also disadvantages as well. and i think if you take nothing away from this press conference, i hope that you take away the fact that we as elected officials should be about making it easier for people to vote, not making it harder. the fact the trump administration would put this sham of the commission forward when there a

americans don't want tax breaks for the wealthy or slash medicaid. they don't want to repeal all the progress we have made in health care without any plan to put in its place. it's time to start over. it's time to go back to the drawing board, abandon tax cuts for the wealthy, abandon cuts for the wealthy, and band together, both parties, around a set of nonideological proposals to improve our health care system. that's what we democrats want to do. i have called several republicans. some in their leadership are saying, oh, leader schumer doesn't want people to talk to each other and won't let that happen if the bill fails. well, first, i couldn't prevent it if i wanted to, but second, i don't want to. i want us to sit down and come up with improving a.c.a. no one said it's perfect. so if the bill fails tomorrow, we'll start right away trying to work with our republican colleagues to stabilize the marketplace, improve the cost and quality of health care. whether they join us in that effort is entirely up to them. now, on another matter, madam preside

stephanie see itbic, director of the smith son known american history, american art museum, robb shinkvernon. ruth taylor, executive director of the newport historical society, catherine robinson, president and ceo of historic charltz ton foundation. david row sell, the executive director of withina ter museum garden and library. beth hill of for tying of new york, and betty joe of the delaware tribe of indians. [ applause ] >> and now i'd like to introduce the members of the board of directors of the museum of the american revolution. will you raise your hands so everyone knows where you are and that you are here today. [ applause ] >> these are the volunteers who have guided and sustained the multiyear initiative to create the museum. and now it is a very great pleasure to welcome the mayor of the great city of philadelphia, mayor jim kenney. [ applause ] >> good morning, everyone. i can't tell you how proud i am as a native life-long philadelphiian to be standing here in front of this building and in front of all the great dig that dignataries that have come here today. i just perso

it is an american issue. it is about the concern of so many americans that improper vote is taking place and canceling out the votes of lawful american citizens. that is why president theodore roosevelt once said it is the affair of every honest voter, wherever born, to see that no fraudulent voting is allowed anywhere. i want to thank vice president pence for chairing the commission. i also want to thank kansas secretary of state brisco bok -- kobach first serving as vice chair. this is a bipartisan panel consisting of republican and democratic leaders and experts on voter integrity. i would like to personally thank each of our panel members for serving. really do appreciate it. in addition to the chair and vice chair, this distinguished bipartisan panel includes indiana secretary of state conny , newon -- connie lawson hampshire secretary of state you, mainer, thank secretary of state matthew dunlop, former ohio secretary of blackwell, election assistance commission or formere mccormick, arkansas state repr

using american labor, american goods, and american grit. when we purchase products made in the usa, the profits stay here, the revenue stays here. and the jobs may be most importantly of all, they stay right here in the usa. in the audience today -- it's true. in the audience today we have skilled workers. we have business leaders whose american made goods we're proudly displaying all over the white house and outside. i saw fire engines. i saw tractors from caterpillar. i saw some incredible machinery, making right here. we're honored to show case your creations and i will say they have really taken on and some of you have built names that i know of for so long and congratulations, right, you in particular. what a great job you have done. thank you very much. i saw you on television this morning. you were fantastic. i don't know what you're doing exactly but you can always have a second career. you did a great job. thank you very much. american workers, farmers and innovators are really the best in the world. we know that and what we're doi

they >> what happens if the americans, american military, stops helping them? do they fall apart again in. >> we're not going to stop helping them. we're going to continue. i'm fully confident we're going to follow the operation and help the iraqis dominate. >> for how long? >> i don't know. >> do you have to stay with them forever? >> i don't know how long it's going to take. it's iraq. it's complicated. but we're going to be here to help them because our common enemy is isis and we're going to continue to help them attack isis. >> when does the united states commitment to iraq finally end? >> i don't want to take a stab at american foreign policy. what i will say is we're fighting a common enemy here. we can't do it without them. they certainly can't do it without us. >> isis lost mosul but where is its leader? the simple answer is we don't know. there have been repeated rumors he's been killed. some say the russians killed him in syria. others that a u.s. air strike in mosul got him. at this point we can't confirm any of these rumors. most likely they're a c

the american cancer society. the american heart association, opposed. the american academy of family physicians. the american academy of pediatrics, opposed. the american stick a trick association, opposed. virtually every major national health care association is opposed to this disastrous legislation. so the american people are opposed, the health care organizations r. all across this country are opposed. the bill is written behind closed doors, and yet under those circumstances, they want to bring it to the floor for a vote. now, what most americans are signature around and thinking -- are sitting around and thinking, they are saying, look, the affordable care act has done some good things. before the affordable care act, mr. president, we had some 50 million people without any insurance. the affordable care act provided insurance for about 20 million people. that is no small thing. in the majority leader's own state of kentucky, the rate of uninsured went from 20% down to 7%. that's pretty good. not great, but it's pretty good. west virginia, the ra

citizens by being born to an american mother or only american fathers? >> as long as you're born in the u.s., you are an american citizen, regardless of the citizenship of your parents. if you were an american women and you married and foreigner and were living abroad, then your child is not a citizen. but any child torn in the u.s. -- we have birthright citizenship in the u.s. it is still the case. if you are born in the u.s., you have the defensive. that is true then and is true no w. >> this is a follow-up to that. when did it become necessary for people coming to the united states to become naturalized to become citizens? longere has been quite a shifting thought there. there has always been a process became a citizen, though sometimes it was very informal. century orthe 18th 19th century, you just got off the boat. and you were a citizen. >> right. >> when does that change? >> sometime in the late 19th century. and it is still very informal in the early 20th -- and it is different in different places. it gets codified in the early 20th century. the

go live the american dream. who was with jfk aboard pt-109. >> the ship came out of the dark, and harold was killed. >> the young man's mother begins a correspondence with the future president. >> i was actually shocked when i saw what the letters detailed. >> the letters are tucked away for years. >> these documents could be of significant historical value, and they could also be worth a lot of money. >> this is one of those treasures that surfaces that nobody knew existed. >> a treasure, all right, if they can prove they're real. >> the signatures looked authentic. >> looked authentic. and this is a real signature? >> that's a real jfk signature. >> you're 100% sure? >> will bidders open their wallets? >> looking for $100,000. bid $100,000. looking for $100,000.

to institute buy american and hire american. and all of those policies and pursue the steps necessary to revitalize american industry, including, repealing and replacing obamacare. we better get that done, fella, please, mike, we need that so badly. cutting taxes, fixing our trade deals, and rebuilding our infrastructure. we'll be submitting a infrastructure bill in the not distance future. we're going to be submitting a tax bill in the very near future. [applause] right? when this investment is complete, foxconn has the potential to create more manufacturing jobs than we have seen in many, many decades. chairman goh, i thank you for your investment in the american worker. they appreciate it. they will not let you down. they never let us down. there is nobody like the american worker. terry goh, told me, he believes in america. he really believes in america. and that is a great entrepreneur, one of the greatest in the world, by the way. he won't say it but i will, one of the great entrepreneurs of the world, he has a real bond w

pence: in the coming days with the leadership of our president, the american people and american small businesses, i believe, will witness the beginning of the end of the obamacare nightmare. i'll speak more about that. [applause] vice pres. pence: i'll speak more about health care in just a few moments. but first, let me again give my thanks and admiration to all the members of the national federation of independent business. nfib is a titan of american excellence and entrepreneurship. for nearly 75 years, the nfib has brought together american small businesses and given them a voice in the halls of government. today, those of you gathered in this auditorium at the united states capitol represent a staggering 325,000 small businesses from every state in this country, and it's remarkable to think about the impact that each and every one of you have. you create jobs, you provide a pathway of opportunity for generations of americans, and you are literally the corner stone of american communities from the smallest towns to the largest cities. you know, president trump probably said it bes