so this for me is a great image of how american not not americans everyone else saw the americans as janice faced having two-faced right having two sides on the one hand. they're all for peace on on earth goodwill towards men. but in actuality and without much effort they would also sell you. pedal war ammunition ammunition sales etc. so back to the things that we do domestically we also have a peculiar inversion or rebirth of the clan. because of the war now the clan is not the worst of the white supremacist organizations operating at this time. there are for one thing a lot of them. some would say the clan is kind of like, you know, hollywood. right there you you have if you were to look at say time magazine in 1921 klansman were not ashamed to show to hide their face so ashamed that they would hide their faces they would in fact walk around very publicly with their whatever flaps thrown back because the war tells us in this worry about other people hiding amongst us the the clan gets rebranded or sanitized as the defenders the domestic crusaders. right, they're looking out for all

americans and americans. this is why i gave the book titled "our first civil war" can we think of the civil war we think of the conflict between the northern states in the southern states in the 1860s but it was indeed the civil war before this revolutionary war. i wanted to recapture that moment and remind readers that history is complicated and it's important even if you don't remember all of the details of the competition. just remember that it is indeed complicated. that'sng the principle message i wanted to get across and in getting the message across ido s pleased and i had to smile when you said this book doesn't read like those history books that put people off. i'm glad to hear you say that although i have to say is a teacher of history there are lots of good history books. i do make a point of trying to make history come alive in that done it in various ways in different books that i've written. i find myself gravitating towards particular characters so i tell the story through the lives and experie

written about why some americans didn't write because you know through the 1760 70s the the american colonists were enormously proud of being british and this is true of not just simply, you know, or scottish and they resisted parliamentary act. so they saw as i constitutional in the british constitution right and even when new england militia took up arms and 775 they saw them. so i'll just it took inspiration for the memory of the english civil war in southern cells as being like their british forbear estate. depending up against trolls the further the american revolution initially was kind of they saw it as a continued the patriot side as a continuation of that preventionary tradition. patrick let's let's kind of stay on this topic with you a little bit more about the tragedy of the loyalists if you will thomas hutchinson great example of a really maligned figure right after being forced to evacuate. he spent the rest of his life in england. hoping to come home to america but unable to do so, so this is a really interesting tragedy people born in america true early american citize

holocaust in american history. most americans are not aware of what is communicated in the us holocaust museum which is most americans in the 1930s thought that americans knew what the nazis were doing, that is well documented in the exhibition. most americans thought it was horrible and jews were suffering and what was going on was unconscionable and they also were opposed. the polls show they were opposed to letting jews into this country. that is a stain on american history. that's an uncomfortable aspect of our history and this is not a question of one side or the other. these are facts. materials that are on exhibits at the holocaust museum in a straightforward way, these should make us uncomfortable and that is part of what is going on. your mexican. so the founding manager of the mets. one of my heroes. one of my heroes turns out casey stengel was available and racist. i did but know that either. i have to step back. this is uncomfortable. this is a childhood hero. i start reading most of my childhood heroes

dare we americans acknowledge this? dare we black americans accept responsibility for it? here is another unspeakable truth. we need to put police killings of black americans into perspective. there are about 1200 fatal shooting's of black people in the united states each year, and one fourth r black americans. we have 18% of the population, so that's an overrepresentation, but twice as many are shot dead by police every year. you would not know that from the activists rhetoric. now, many may be unprepared to discuss idea. i'll be happy to discuss the training of police, accountability that they should face in the event they overstep their authority. these are legitimate questions. although there is a huge disparity in black participation in violent criminal activity, i am making here no claim one way or the other about the existence of discrimination against blacks in the use of police force. but in terms of these killings, were talking about 300 black victims per year. few of these are unarmed innocents. most are engaged in violent conflict with police officers. some ins

it was the americans and despite we'll call the americans the british, the anglo-americans and their indian allies against the french and the french indian allies in the reason i mention this is he wasn't simply americans and british fighting for control of north america was the americans the british and the french in the native americans and the indian tribes they had to decide in the case of the french and indian war which side do we choose? do we choose the british side or the french side and some of us had to do with how they have been treated and the relationships that they had with the british on the one hand and the french on the other hand but it had a lot to do with who they think is going to win the war and who's going to come out of this and which of the forces is going to win three didn't want to choose the side that loses because then you would catch punishment from the side that had one so this sets the scene for all of this and from the perspective of european history the american revolutionary war is simply a sequel to the french and indian war which itself is the seq

minorities, native americans, african americans. you have no business telling us about being violent or how to control our minorities. and in order to ensure having lost his ambassadorship, that he left woodrow wilson on the brink of a complete conniption bilinski was photographed praying and singing with african americans and talking about how their plight and their suffering really helped him understand who americans truly were. as purported neutrals who were morally superior. the question of race will already be part of this diplomatic tug of war. in the united states what we get from the very beginning of the war. the same kind of concerns that had been weighing heavily on empires we've been talking about. what were some of those concerns? that there would be -- that their own countries were full of dissidents who could set the place ablaze, so hence our first picture here. what are we looking at? women, women protesting in front of the white house. pointing out how american democracy is not perfect. who are they more so as a ne

that white americans did things that oppressed african americans, that's a fact. we have documentation of lynching, we have documentation of legally mandated segregation, it wasn't black people who passed laws that forced black children to go to schools in southern states that were funded at less than one tenth of the rate for students than white people,. so these are historical facts. this kind of discrimination, that was in essence racially structured. now a teacher has to teach that in order to teach american history. that doesn't mean that the teacher is looking at the white kids in the class and saying, this is your fault. or, this is your parents fault. now a white kid in a class whose great grandfather was in the state legislature in alabama, in early 20th century, and voted for the appropriations of the schools. you can't deny that this kid's great grandfather was responsible, partly responsible for this. but you're not saying that the kid your responsible. so again this is a bit of a red herring here. it is saying that overtime, white americans, have been

last year, i co-founded the first congressional task force for american hostages and americans wrongfully detained aprod with ted deutch and thank ms. stevens and i rise in strong support of this resolution by calls for the release of paul whelan. we have heard today some of the details of paul's arrest and two years in pretrial detention with evidence publicly presented justifying wrongdoing. all parts of our government, especially members of congress who represent the families of those held hostage or wrongfully detained must engage with friends and enemies alike to ensure that americans are expeditiously brought home. congress must continue to engage with the administration in situations like this to disincentivize the wrongful detention or hostage taking of americans. we passed a similar resolution on this floor in support and it was rewarding to know that trevor was released and never been held. today, mr. speaker, republicans and democrats, let us issue a message to paul whelan, we have not forgotten you. countries must stop this disgraceful process and held accountable. i urge my c

trust americans know that. americans are just trying to humiliate russia and that's about it. and now they're bouncing on india. also, they're telling the india that you'll stop, but you know, there's a little bit of trade who stop buying oil. what's going on? and what do you think i will be the indian act on that? do you think there will be intimidated by the owner? goes uses because this is our national interest. there are so many things figured from russia. let me list for, for you. what we get from russia is, 1st of all, the, the military equipment, the technology was nobody else will give us that i shouldn't give us. then number 3, the out of bristol, china, you see this are, i see russia, india, china, this format mine my estimation. it will strengthen further. they get this from their, from russia and with russia. we hover comfort. and in any case, that is a great possibility today of a repeatable trade. and we want that there's also great possibility, a huge nation, the russian market because of all the western companies living. and there are lots of promises there. so

most americans did. everyone had a tough 2020, including businesses and the 60,000 workers that the oil industry laid off last year, but the facts are that oil managers testifying here today still returned billions of dollars to your shareholders in 2020, at the same time that you were laying off your work force. so please don't use 2020 as an excuse for gouging the american people today. in fact, other than in 2020 all four of the oil majors testifying today made billions of dollars every year between 2017 and 2021. so one bad year does not excuse the practice of ripping off american consumers. now, i'd like to focus in on the four oil majors testifying today to identify how much money your company spent in 2021 on stock buybacks and dividends and how much your companies plan to spend during this year of record profits on the clean energy investments that several of you mentioned during your testimony, and just the numbers will do. you know that our time is short. mr. woods, how many money did exxon spe

and the patriots among them became an american where is the loyalists american and this is kind of a puzzle because it might be sort of just a generational thing and as time changes into the context changes and they think of themselves differently but in fact benjamin franklin was a proud subject of the british empire and was proud of us could be until 70 years of age and then all of a sudden he starts thinking of himself as an american. he didn't come alongas suddenly that there was this evolution but nonetheless, he basically claimed a new identity same with mr. john adams whom i write about and all the other patriots whereas the loyalists for some reason in reasons i get into they don't embrace this newme identity they still think of themselves as british subjects so this question of who are you and how do you identify this is crucial in something like this where there's this new country created that requires a new political elite and identity but it's also behind other conflicts and aspects of history. who are you, where do you think you are, who do you consider to be your allies

a secret history of american prosperity. joining the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets at noon eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> representative hakeem jeffries shares his thoughts on democracy in america. he talks about economic inequality and threats to democracy. this is about an hour. >> welcome to the second server dialogue and democracy for 2,022 with representative hakeem jeffries. i'm david barker, director of the center of relationship studies and proud to sponsor this event with the political union. the vision and generosity of distinguished university for jim thurber and his wife. our moderator tonight is my colleague in the department of government where she also serves as director, she published prolifically on subjects of public opinion, political psychology and political communication. in addition to her many articles liz suhay has two books, most recently on the politics of truth and polarized america which i strongly recommend. research has also been sponsored by the national aca

that's $50,000 per american. i submit that no american would vote for that willingly and say raise my debt because i'm going to get what from this budget. what american would vote for that? this budget comparing apples to apples is a 30% increase, $1.4 trillion over the fiscal, for fiscal '23 over the last year fiscal '20 before they crushed it in the name of the virus. now in fiscal '23 or fiscal '20 is $4.4 trillion and now $5.8 trillion, a 30% increase. incredibly the incompetent and irresponsible response of this administration beyond that is trillion dollar increases in the deficit as far as the eye can see. meanwhile, this administration, the president said it during the state of the union speech and you've said it already here this morning, we're trying to give ourselves a medal and pat ourselves on the back because we're going to be the first administration in the history of the country to cut the deficit by a trillion dollars in a year. just because we're not spending the ridiculous amount that was unwar

to speed the transition to clean energy future that is made in america with american products and american values we need to embrace all the tools and technologies to help free us from our dependence on fossil fuels and move us to a more homegrown clean energy peer technology made by american companies and american workers that can bolstered democratic -- domestic supply chain here at home and export those technologies around the world to reduce greenhouse gases are that's why today i've issued direct hits to strengthen our our economy and use the defense production act to secure america's supply-chain with the critical material to go and the batteries and electric vehicles and storage of renewable energy lithium graphite nickel and so much more. we need to end their long-term reliance on china and other countries to power the future. i'll use every tool i have to make that happen. building a made in america clean energy will safeguard national security and yes it will help us tackle climate change and yes it will help ensure it creates millions of good jobs for generations to come. most i

the american right today. susan: in the eisenhower administration, senator joseph mccarthy and his tactics which earned the condemnation of his own party and country at large, and ultimately he self-destructed. you said the party took away a couple of lessons from the experience of the importance of mass media and the value of big personalities. matthew: mccarthy became a problem for president eisenhower, because mccarthy's crusades were directed at the executive branch. as he grew in power and stature, he became more willing to suddenly challenge eisenhower's authority. eisenhower deputized us his vice president, richard nixon to go on national television to say mccarthy is hurting the cause of anti-communism. that helps lead to mccarthy's downfall. what the conservatives found is once again the public shared their concerns about communist infiltration, and even while the arguments they were making about government, will not -- were not being taken seriously by large parts of the government, mccarthy had some

chinese-american japanese-americans.it's also the case that there are many immigrant groups asian african and hispanic who are very much struggling who are very much sort of on the bottom and and they become part of this country struggling working class, which you know that brain drained and harms the host country the home countries and you can see this this cycle right? i've sort of the the same kind of extraction that began everything kind of continues in its own way and i'm not gonna ask how do we break the cycle of extraction but i would i would i would be interested to hear both of your thoughts on how we should think about the sort of. capitalism and markets and mythological profit and logical capital in these stories in these dynamics because i think it can it can often go by the wayside despite being really at the center of the story on both sides of the equation. yeah. i think it's key because it takes sort of the the moral value out of it. like i think the reason we have such a difficult time discussing this in

so, we believe, legislatively that the american people -- that the will of the american people is withs and with campaign planets perform -- campaign-finance reform. that's a good place to be, a foundation to begin to change things and moving in the right direction. we can begin without having to overturn a supreme court decision by bringing transparency into the system because we believe if some of these mega-donors had to actually disclose what they are doing as opposed to being able to often hide their expenditures, the public pressure would actually create a change in behavior, even if legislation can't force that change in behavior. but transparency can. sunlight is often the best disinfectant and we want to bring sunlight to our campaign-finance system. host: thank you for [indiscernible] i want to go to a different topic that is also about threats to our democracy. this is something i know you have talked ad nausea him about already and that's the january 6 2021 attack on congress. we know there is a select committee in house doing important work, investigating the attack and th

there are some american who are still americans. there are still americans who are under the age of 5 who are not yet eligible to get vaccinated. we still are losing hundreds from covid. we're not around the corner. and so we industrial to be careful. again, if you're on the one-yard line with that football, you don't just start plague fast and lows, you've got to get over the goal line. we still have to deal with things on a long-term basis, the endemic state. that's where all the americans who are still feelinger iner ex-s of covid talk to all those american who is lost their job. talk to those american who is have been going through some mental stress. 100- -- 100 americans -- 100,000 americans died. what we want to make sure is that we're prepared for what comes next. whether it's a variant or a new form of disease. we want to learn from what covid taught us. and i think that that as we deal with something with covid as an endemic challenge, we recognize what we can do. we can get vaccines throughout quirk than we thought. we ca

that means a new generation of younger americans as represented by students at american university across the country need to step into the arena and be involved in the democratic process, some as candidates. in that regard i would conclude by saying that running for something at some point is important. that self government. and that's government of the people, by the people and for the people. but don't be disappointed if it doesn't work out the first time or even second time. i ran twice for ac and new york state assembly and lost twice. what i realized, as churchill once said, success is not final, failure is not fatal, all that matters is the courage to continue. the arena of public service, particularly politics, perseverance is importance. i'll put it a different way. a knock down is different from a knockout. that's probably the hakeem jeffries re/max version of what churchill said. the point is, you may get knocked down. in any field of human endeavor that you choose to enter into. but the most successful people in each of those fields, if you look at their journey, before their

this was for americans to get a leg up on their bills. while many americans needed this, when the bills kept coming in, people looked at it as an excuse not to get a job. how much stimulation of the economy it would -- would it take? >> the overall goal of any stimulus packages to put money into people's hands so they can spend it to stimulate the economy. there are lots of ways to do that -- when his tax breaks, what is direct payments, others are increases in benefits programs, things like medicare, with food stamps, or give tax credits at the end of the year. there are lots of examples of stimulus packages and some are more effective than others. >> the increased amount of stimulus means more money in the economy, which means where -- there is demand ready supply is not caught up yet. they are catching up on normal supply. inflation is a problem. >> the american rescue plan enjoys support because it addresses critical needs exacerbated by covid-19. >> that's a lot of money. $4 trillion. >> we are seeing repercussions that people don't

right after pearl harbor i white americans, black americans stood with their japanese-american neighbors and said were going to defend our brothers and ieour neighbors here in our communities and our towns. but then a few weeks later as radio host a newspaper columnist repeatedly lied to their readers and constituents about the threat of japanese americans, the front page atstories in the los angeles times were completely fabricated about the threat of not only japan butjapanese americans on the west coast . that's when people started turning on their neighbors, when people started turning on their japanese-american uc neighbors which is the same a thing that happened on january 6. so much of the news and information at that time whether it was on newsmax or oem, politicians sort of stoking these differences and stoking this misinformation and disinformation. that led to the attack on the capital in the same way that disinformation led to the incarceration of 120,000 japanese americans. and because of events like ik what happened in 1942 people ask me do you think that this could happen

after pearl harbor other americans stood with the japanese american neighbors and said we are going totheir o japanese-american broths in our communities and our towns but a few weeks later as a newspaper columnist and politicians repeatedly lied tori their constituents about the threat of japanese americans different page stories in los angeles times they were completely fabricated about the threat of not n only japanese dance japanese americans on the west coast that's when people started turning on their neighbors and turning on their japanese-american neighbors. the same thing happen the january 6. so much of the news and information at that time like "fox news" or oam and politicians were stoking these misinformation and disinformation. it's the same way that misinformation led to thean incarceration of 112,000 japanese-americans. because of what happened in 1942 people eyes asked me do you think this could happen again and could the united states so callously do this again to its own citizens and when i first dreaded working on this book i would say no, of course not. unfortunate

consumer, the american families and american people. so with that, my time's expired, i yield back, madam chair. >> i thank the gentlemen. chair now recognizes mr. robert for five minutes. >> thank you, madam chair. the title of this hearing today attempts, i believe, to skirt blame away from what i hope we all know, that despite recent statements, the biden administration's policies have always and will continue to push us away from energy security in favor of unrealistic climate goals, first day in office, order revoking the cross border permit for key stone pipeline, my colleagues pointed out the long list of policies implemented since that time, whether it's the unrealistic cafe standards, recent fcc rules or on going threats to existing pipe lines like line five in michigan, all create inhospitalble environment for energy investment. meanwhile, constituents are suffering. recently, a constituent wrote to me, not far from my personal home, saying that someone had drilled a hole in their truck's gas tank overnight and stolen their ga

and american people. with that i yield back madam chairwoman. >> the chair recognizes mr. walberg for five minutes. >> thank you madam chair. thee title of this hearing attempts to skirt blame away from what i hope we all know that despite recent favors the biden administration policies have always and will continue to push us away from energy security in favor of thee unrealistic goals. his first day of office president biden issued an order. my colleagues at pointed out along with the policies they have implemented since that time whether he be a realistic cafÉ standards the recent ftc rules for the ongoing threats that existing pipelines like line five in michigan created in hospital board environment for energy investment. meanwhile our constituents are suffering. recently a constituent wrote to me, not far from my personal home saying someone had trailed overnight a the hole in their trucks gas tank and stole their gas. this is the environment that biden inflation and president lightens energy polici

i brush you as destroy the american. in fact, there's a boomerang by where you're suffering the i key interest really hitting people in the pocket book, boys or girls was always there. i see a using a router visitor unless you this is gonna impose severe cost on the russian economy of immediately and over.

democrats care about everyday americans. they don't. we get stuff done for everyday americans. they don't. we make life better for everyday americans. they don't. there was an opportunity to govern and they gave us the tax scam 83% of the benefits going to the wealthiest 1% in america. we had an opportunity to govern antipasto the american rescue plan. we make sure we can go from a place where less than 2 million were vaccinated that's where we were at when joe biden took office to more than 215 million being fully vaccinated. the economy was on the brink of collapse but nearly 8 million jobs subsequent to the american rescue plan standing up and supporting the economy have beer created a record in american history for the first 15 months of the president in office unemployment rate at a near all-time low at 3.6% economic growth of the fastest rate that it's been in 40 years. wages have increased. all that has been accomplished. the deficit reduced by more than $350 billion and the first year as i mentioned child poverty cut by approximately 40% as a result of the child tax cre

most americans think covid is no longer a crisis. guest: i would describe the state of the pandemic with cautious optimism. on one hand, we are seeing hospitalizations and deaths at the lowest level since last summer. that is very good news. on the other hand, we are seeing hyper transmissible variance, subvariants of a very growth the country. what we are looking for is, will those cases translate into hospitalizations? we've seen an uptick in the over 70 population, but we have been well below immunity as well as omicron. that is the central question, and of course, we continue to be worried about other variance, that may escape vaccines. we still have suboptimal rates of vaccination throughout the world, including the united states. copter sauce -- cautious optimism is a bit of a myth. we need to stick to the fundamentals. make sure we are up-to-date with our vaccinations, make sure you test liberally, make sure you mask appropriately, make sure if you get ill, you know where to get treatment. i think that is really the cost is op

yes if e missiles are inflicted, well, yes, on an american military aircraft, they are on an american directly the problem of the american aircraft, that it was in that zone at that moment, we warned everyone. let them revise vladimir putin's february 24 address. i explained to you all what will happen. in case someone tries to intervene, i would really hate this scenario, because an attack on an american military cargo plane. this is a completely different doubt, in general, being in this very fact, you know, let's assume that e biden tomorrow will be on red square, let's go now to discuss. here, let's take these words on a serious level, or as, in fact, rusty, ready to accept any aviation, by the way, flights - this is not so, far from the border with ukraine and no one plans to come to the city of lviv or vovan-frankivsk the airport. at the same time, talk about the fact that the americans will come, and this will be a new species. yes, no one will come. if he arrives, then this is a military task of a different level, and everyone knows very well that the nuclear button is cocked

this shows the purposefulness of the american foreign policy establishment and the american politicall, of course, biden's statement was originally nothing binding what he said. oh, well, when he didn't give any dates, in principle , someday, yes, that is, wait, the american president said that he was ready to go to the white house in a few hours. no, not ready. well, that was the answer to an already clarifying question. when will he go ? yes well, it is clear that now he will not go anywhere, but nevertheless these visits. of course, they say the general mood of the american historical is set, following in ukraine, to continue to oppose russia with all available. uh, in ways they do not hide what the americans and europeans are leading. also, by the way, they do not hide the fact that they are directly waging a proxy war on the territory of ukraine against russia. they compare it with afghanistan only in a much more harsh form, since the afghans could not understand this, but here's what they are now in taiwan like this became noticeably more active. we remember. also, well, i don't