built on american principle, timeless american principles of growth. and we have a opportunity to bring about the best and brightest future for all who are blessed to call our nation home. and this we know we will do. because we have faith. faith in the boundless capacity of the american people to revive this nation's economy and grow again. i have faith in this president's vision for america and his determination to drive forward an agenda for this country that will renew and revive prosperity of our land. and i have faith that he who has ever had his hand on this nation from its very beginning will yet bless america. and so i say with confidence, together with all of you, and with donald trump in the white house, we will make america safe again. we will make america prosperous again. and to borrow a phrase, we will make america great again. thank you very much. god bless you all and god bless the united states of america. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, wh

every day obamacare survives is another day that american businesses and american families struggle. we all remember the broken promises they made to get obamacare passed. they said if you like your doctor, you can keep him. not true. they said, if you liked your health insurance, you could keep it. not true. we were told the cost of health insurance would go down if obamacare passed seven years ago. that one's absolutely not true. in fact, our administration has confirmed that the average premium on the individual market is more than -- has more than doubled since obamacare went into effect. less than four years ago. and in many states it's more than tripled. when obamacare passed, we were actually promised that families would save up to $2,500 in premiums every year, but the average obamacare plan today costs nearly $3,000 more than a plan did in 2013. but i don't have to tell small business owners about the struggle and the crisis in health insurance costs in america today. you all know also that while premiums are soaring, choices are plummeting. next year about 40% of america's

the productivity gains of the american worker have not gone to the american worker. instead, they have gone to the privileged few, to the wealthy, and to the well off, to the special interests. the american people deserve a better deal. [applause] rep. jeffries: the american dream has always been about if you work hard and play by the rules, you can be rewarded. but for far too many americans, that fundamental contract has been broken. working families, middle class folks, senior citizens, the poor, the sick, the afflicted, people in urban america, suburban america, and merle america increasingly left behind by an economy that works for the privileged few and not for all americans. we deserve a better deal. [applause] rep. jeffries: for far too many americans, wages have failed to keep up with the rate of inflation. for far too many americans, wages have failed to keep up with the rising cost of living. for far too many americans, wages have failed to keep up with our collective aspiration to provide a better future for our children and for our grandchildren. the ame

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

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

workers using american steel. [applause] thanks to the president's leadership, american manufacturers haven't been this optimistic in more than two decades. and the confidence of american farmers is soaring to near record levels and we will continue to fight every single day to make sure our country makes the best machines, grow the best food and design the best technology in the world because president donald trump knows that made in america will make america great again. [applause] so with gratitude for his leadership and admiration for his unwavering confidence in the boundless capacity of the american people, it is now my high honor and distinct privilege to introduce to all of you the 45th president of the united states of america, president donald trump. [applause]

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

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

president trump knows that every day obamacare survives is another day that american families and american businesses struggle. as we've traveled across the country, we've heard firsthand from americans just like those who stand behind me today from family who are baring the cost of prem skyrocketing premiums and family who is have lost their doctors and insurance and from family who are starting to lose hope that congress will ever respond. but as i told every one of them and people all across the country, thanks to the leadership of president trump, help is on the way. president trump hears you. he is fighting for you. and he will keep fighting every day until we give the american people access to the world class health care they deserve. tomorrow the united states senate will have the opportunity to begin the debate on a build to repeal and replace obamacare. and as the president said this morning, after years of talking and campaigning on it, now is the time for republicans in senate to act. republican in the senate will have in his words "a chance to do the right thing," to keep their

, act like americans, fight like americans. >> he had a lot to withdraw. there were over 5,000 men there. >> they did it slowly as they shifted the burden of fighting to the vietnamese. there was no end to it. >> october 15th, 1969, vietnam moratorium day. >> surely this is a day unique in our history. never have so many of our people publicly and collectively expressed opposition. >> it wasn't hippies or radicals and marxist. it was middle class americans, two million of them taking the day off from school, from work. it was a genuine democratic explosion. >> mr. nixon has told aides that the loss of american popular support or the appearance of it, could induce the new leadership in hanoi to press on in the expectation that the united states would quit. >> the october moratorium made richard nixon go to the mountain top literally, to answer the anti-war mooumplgts. the elites had gotten on the anti-war bandwagon. they were all anti-war. and nixon wanted to rise up and show that there was another side. his side. the outesiders who wanted to support our so

since that their children become american citizens i been born to a american mother or only american fathers. long as you are born in the united states you are a citizen. of the true of any parents. if you are a american woman and you married a foreigner and your child was or here any child born in the u.s. -- we have birthright citizenship. then ife case as it was you are bored you have citizenship. thank you. question up. that, when didto it become necessary for people in the united states to become naturalized citizens? there has been quite a long shifting mood there. when youways been became a citizen. -- as very normal >> you came in the aiken century, you just got off a boat. you are not a citizen. so when does that change? >> the late 19th century. it is still very informal. it is different in some different places. it gets codified especially in the 20th century. it is really codified them. there are the series of missteps along the way in the 20th century. that is a great question. have we done it? have we exhausted ourselves completely? [applause] thank you. thank you. >> i

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

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

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

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

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

messer: john mccain is an american hero. there are times he does things i agree with another times he does things i do not agree with. no one ever questions his patriotism, his dignity, whether he is somebody who loves his country, he has literally given blood, sweat, and tears to the cause. that, it creates further challenges in the senate. thisure we will talk about quite a bit in the next 25 minutes. not where we are want to be. -- inhas been done by the the last six months. quite how problematic will it be with you -- repealing of the affordable care act to this year? we promised the american people we would repeal and replace it with something better and that is what we need to do. as president trump said, there is no other acceptable option. the reason is because millions of americans are hurting under the current law. , hear from hoosiers in indiana they talk about how they have a premium of of to $1000 a month with a policy with a $10,000 deductible, middle-class families are $30,000 out-of-pocket before they dip int

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

, american loyalist militia also committing rapes of american women. but this is not the result of a systemic policy on either side. this is the conduct of individuals, mostly soldiers, occasionally officers, in the field, taking advantage of vulnerable populations. thank you. >> all right. thank you. that's it. >> we were getting a sign from at the back. thank you all very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> that was rather somber note to end on. [inaudible discussion] [inaudible discussion] ...

to provide a level playing field for american workers and for american industry. [applause] we are providing it much faster than other countries would like. it has been really a pleasure. we want to build, create and grow more products in our country using american labor, american goods and american . -- most importantly the jobs will stay here in the usa. in the audience today, we have skilled workers, businesses and proudly displayed american-made goods. i saw incredible machinery make it right here. we thank you for being here. we honor to showcase your creations and i will say that it has really taken on congratulations.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 we can always have a second career. you did a great job. thank you very much. american farmers, workers and innovators are really the best in the world. we know that in what we are doing is displaying those talents. do construct and harvest the products that fill our homes, feed our families and defend ou

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

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

cancer society, american lung association, american hospital association, the largest trade group for insurers to name a f few, let's have these groups testify on the policies in this bill so the american people can have a chance to hear whatbi experts and patient advocates say. i say to my friend, the leader, when you don't have hearings and when you try to hide a bill it usually results in port legislation. that's what's happening now. it's still done behind closed doors with a handful of senators even public and senators to know they are putting together. it doesn't work. the wisdom of the founding fathers, the windowed wisdom of this body is have a discussion, have a debate in the crucible of legislative process will make it better. so, the suggestion we are making, obviously, we oppose many parts of the bill,m obviously, so do the american people but maybe something thato can be said at a hearing would change things around. now, additionally we asked the majority leader to wait for a complete score from the congressional budget office before proceeding is built. the republicans n

the british and american forces, colonial american forces had taken havana from the spanish in 1762. and this horn was carved to commemorate the 'em bar occasion of those troops after the peace of paris. the city was illuminated by the 'em bar occasion of the british troops, 1763. this is marking a moment in which britons and americans, colonial british americans were reveling in being part of this magnificent empire. they expected to reap the fruits of the victory. they had defeated the spanish, defeated the french and their allies. so britain was left with a vastly expanded empire, not just in north america but in india, in africa, one of the last actions of the war actually took place when the british took manila in the philippines. it was the first global war, sometimes known as the seven years war or the french and indian war here in north america. this is a great embodiment of the optimism that the colonial americans had at that point in their history. but of course shortly after the riotous celebrations settled down, someone has to pay the bill, of course. and this is often wh

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

empowerracticing to americans to live their version of the american dream. again, welcome everyone here to our markup for this budget resolution and with that i yield to the drinking member. >> thank you german black. nearly two months gone the same room we debated president trump's budget. it was a shockingly extreme document that gave to the rich and took from everyone else. i urge my republican colleagues to see the harm it would bring to american families. the damage it would do to our chances for a better future and to choose a different path when crafting their own budget. but here we are today with the budget the displays total indifference to the challenges americans face. the house budget embraces the worst extremes of the trump proposal. tex cuts for millionaires and billionaires at the expense of american people and our national security. includes 5.4 billion dollars in discretionary spending and reduces discretionary investments to the lowest level since he 1960's. our republican colleagues are proud to talk about those cuts in washington but wha

and native american.won those votes by overwhelming numbers, and we ended up, i believe, getting almost twice as many votes as clinton and trump combined, among young people. and what that means -- what that means -- and please do not forget this -- is that our ideas and our progressive vision, we are the future of this country. audience: bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! sen. bernie sanders: no. audience: bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! bernie! sen. bernie sanders: it's not "bernie." it is you! we are in this together, and always have been and always will be. together, during our campaign, we organized some of the largest rallies s in the campaign, speaking to over 1.4 million people. in other words -- in other words, we have the enthusiasm. we have the momentum. and as i look around this theater tonight, i can see we have the energy to transform america. and this is what else we have accomplished. after the campaign, we helped write the most progressive political platform of f any

watch american history tv live from the museum of the american revolution today starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span three. before leaving poland today, president trump and the polish president held a joint news conference in warsaw. president trump answered questions regarding the possibility of future u.s. military intervention in north korea and commented on the news media. this is about a half an hour. >> the president of the republic of poland. distinguished master president, ladies and gentlemen. pleasure toat welcome to warsaw, to welcome to of the the president united states of america, mr. donald trump the i am delighted with his visit. this is one of the first international visits paid by mr. president trump. bond and thes our high-quality of the alliance between poland and the united states. andemonstrates that we are that we mutually assess each other as loyal partners of those who cooperate on many different areas, including the area of security within the nato alliance. today, this was one of the points of our discussion that we had during the meeting with the preside

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 candela obsession with their logic the election hacking and been seeing policy paralysis have dismayed many in moscow showing washington in a way revolution before as lacking in confidence and they able 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 mr 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 assure that you're 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 do you know that if you're if you read the publicly available parts of the u.s. intelligence repo

and that is that the american enterprise institute hosted the launch of senator schatz's and my american opportunity carbon fee act. i am delighted that the american enterprise institute did that. their conservative credentials are rock-solid, but they don't fear debate, and they were extraordinarily helpful and open-minded in allowing us to make the announcement and in hosting a discussion on the bill that followed. virtually every person on the republican side who has thought the climate change problem through to a solution has come to the same place -- a revenue-neutral, border-adjustable price on carbon. that means that all the revenues are returned to the american people. former treasury secretaries baker, schultz, and paulson, all republicans; former e.p.a. administrators ruckelshaus, thomas, reilly, and whitman, all republicans; and leading congress and former economic advisors arthur laffer and douglas holtz ekin, all republicans, along with many others support a revenue-neutral, border- adjustable carbon fee. well, that's what we do. you all know the phrase "offering an olive br

it is an american issue. it is about the concern of so many americans that improper voting is taking place and canceling out the voting of lawfully voting american citizens. that is why president the 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 crisco voc for serving as vice chair. it is going to be a lot of work. you're going to work very hard over a short time. i want to thank you very much. chris, mike. this is a bipartisan panel consisting of- experts on voting integrity. i want to thank each of our panel members for serving. i really do appreciate it. in addition to the chair and vice chair it includes indiana secretary of state connie lawson , new hampshire secretary of state bill gardner, maine secretary of state matthew dunlop, former ohio secretary of , electionblackwell assistance commission or formere mccor

un-american -- an american general can manage american officers and british commanders. inspire.ey ability to overcomingikability insurmountable allied challenges. the british admiral wrote, "from the very beginning eisenhower said anglo american unity and friendship as a primary purpose. staffs work closely integrated. it was not long before the british and americans ceased to look at each other like warring tomcats and came to discover that nationals of both countries had brains, ideas, and drive." thus it is fitting that we now listen to general eisenhower's major tribute to the anglo-american victory given the hall in london on june 12, 1945. i quote the general, "no one could alone have brought about this result. had i possessed the military skill of a marble, the will -- wisdom of solomon, the understanding of lincoln, i would been helpless without the loyalty, the vision, the oferosity of thousands british and americans. some of them were my companions in my command. enlisted men and junior officers that carried the fears brunt of the battle in the field. many oth

american businesses struggle. as we traveled across the country, we have heard firsthand from americans just like those who stand behind me today. the families who bear the cost of rocketing premiums and limited choices. who are starting to lose hope that congress will ever respond. as i told everyone of them, people all across this country thanks to the leadership of president trump, help is on the way. president trump hears you. he is fighting for you. he will keep fighting every day until we get the american people access to the world-class health care they deserve. tomorrow, the united states senate will have the opportunity to begin the debate on a bill to replace an appeal -- repeal obamacare. after years of talking and campaigning on it, now is the time for republicans and the senate to act. they will have the chance to do the right thing, to keep their promise to the american people and these families, and families all across this country. this president and the american people are counting on the senate t

the american academy of pediatrics. the american psychiatric association. federation of american hospitals. the catholic health association. american lung association. cystic fibrosis foundation. march of dimes. the national m.s. society. the american nurses association. one might think that when virtually every major national health care organization in this country is opposed to legislation, that maybe, just maybe, our 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 of the american economy, over $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.

what we should do is take this critical matter that affects every american and every american's health care, send it to a committee, the help committee chaired by senator lamar alexander, republican of tennessee, ranking member patty murray, who is the senator from washington, the finance committee, senator hatch of utah, republican, senator wyden, of oregon, democrat. they need to sit down and look at these bills carefully. let's not make a mistake at the expense of the people who sent us here. let's stand up for sound, thoughtful judgment. let's stand up for a senate that works, as john mccain challenged us. is that what the american people wish? i think it is. at the heart of all of it. and i think john mccain really set a standard that we ought to live up to. let us stop this waste of time over a debate, over a bill that cannot even be printed. let's take this to the regular order. let's do it the right way to the credit of the senate and to the credit of our country. we took an oath each and every one of us to swear to uphold the constitution, and that constitution, that document

the police did not have a good relationship with the american -- african-american community at that time, there had been a number of reports at that time about release -- police brutality. the police are bringing people out, it is sunday morning but still dark outside. it was 80 degrees. nobody had air-conditioners, particularly people at the poor neighborhoods. so a lot of people come outside, 80 degrees outside is about 100 degrees inside. people are coming outside and they see -- initially, people are curious. but as time goes on, take so long to bring the people out of this club and put them in paddy wagons and police cars and that crowd starts to get a hostile, particularly because of the history of police brutality and detroit. other issues are on the table with the african-american community. discrimination had been a long issue in the city of detroit. many of the people here were displaced by the historic african-american neighborhood and they were forced to move here after that neighbor and, urban renewal happened that day -- and a freeway was built to destroy that neighborhood

untreated nor will the american people. sayin second, i'm saying that i won't own it won't work politically. the president is the president. he's in charge. americans look to him for leadership and they note the republicans control both branches of congress and the white house. they know they are in charge. earlier this year, the kaiser founder foundation found that two thirds would blame president trump and congressional republicans for the future problems in our healthcare system. just as they blamed president obama when he was in charge, they will blame president trump when he was in charge. he's tweeting a way that someonn else is to blame when he's in charge won't work politically. especially when it comes to something as near and dear to americans as healthcare, god's great gift to us, life itself.th so, it just won't work saying that democrats are to blame. believe me, we won't stand idly by and shrugged her shoulders when american people are suffering because the president is sabotaging our healthcare system for pol

, the american academy of family physicians, the american academy of pediatrics, the american psychiatric association, federation of american hospitals, the catholic health association, the american lung association, the cystic fibrosis foundation, the march of dimes, the national m.s. society, and the american nurses association. in other words, virtually every major health care organization does not want to see this bill passed. the american people overwhelmingly do not want to see this bill passed. how come it might pass? people don't want it. health care organizations don't want it. who wants it? i'll tell you who wants it. people who are going to get tax breaks, they think it's a great idea. billionaires who got $200 billion in tax breaks from the house bill, they think it's extraordinary. so what if 23 million people lose their health insurance from the house bill? the top 1% will get $200 billion in tax breaks. large health care corporations like it. the insurance companies, the drug companies, they're going to get combined hundreds of billions of dollars. and i'll tell you who els

the problem is americans can afford premiums and the americans who cannot afford premiums will not be able to afford health savings accounts. there, the changes on opiate as a measly $45 billion to calm back the opiate epidemic while slashing 770 billion the medicaid funding which is how most of you. epidemic is funded. it's an insult to families that have suffered a loss of a loved one who died of an overdose. 45 billion is a drop in the bucket as to what it will take to combat opiate abuse in this country. adding $45 billion in opiate funding is about buying a republicans vote. the bottom line is this, the core of this bill is just as rotten as it was before. this bill, like the old one means out-of-pocket and deductible costs will soar. this bill, like the old one is a huge blow to families with loved ones in nursing homes rely on medicaid to parents whose kids are alive because of medicaid. this bill, like the old one means millions of americans will lose coverage. the bill was me when it passed the house, it's me when it was introduced in the senate, and it is still mean today. r

american future. i encourage you during this time in our nations capital to let your voice be heard as you reach out to our elected representatives. tell them you're counting on them, support the president's agenda. less regulation, better infrastructure. and while you're at it, tell them the time is now to repeal and replace obamacare. the truth is, president trump is fighting every single day for all of you and all the people you serve. he knows that your success is american success in every community large and small is a testament to this. we have an opportunity. the president and i believe we have a responsibility to usher in a new era of jobs, growth, opportunity and prosperity built on american principles, timeless american principles of growth and we have a duty to bring about the best and brightest future for all who are both the collar nation. this we know we will do because we have faith. faith in the boundless capacity of the american people to revive this nations economy. i have determinat

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

then the americans left. shiites kept most government 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 dependence, 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 br