and he's the author of this book, andrew jackson southerner. professor cheatham, how would you describe the opening months of the jackson administration. in 1829? pretty chaotic. jackson comes in as this man who's supposed to be reflecting the will of the people. and a lot of people expected that from him. but very quickly, jackson finds out that it's it's not that easy to rule as president. and he's to face a number of different controversies coming into the white house that are going to, in some ways affect him throughout the rest of his administration. in a general sense. what did he accomplish? jackson accomplished during his first hundred days, he accomplished, of course, setting up his cabinet, setting up his administration. he begins to implement his agenda items that he had outlined in his inaugural address. he begins to set a course for a an increase in democratization of american politics, perhaps what we would think of as democratization today and in the mid 20 tones, but certainly at the time was in many ways a more democratic perspe

jackson's home down there and. how valuable was that in writing your own book? andrew southerner. yes, i'm about probably 20 minutes door to door from my office to the hermitage. and i use hermitage as archives extensively when looking particularly at jackson's role as an enslaver and his treatment of the african-american since he enslaved. it was extremely valuable, particularly when it came to that point. well, i to tell you, i've been fascinated this entire over your right shoulder is martin buren. i don't know how many people have a martin van buren statue their shelf, but what is that, mr. cheatham? that is actually the cover of book i wrote a few years ago called the coming democracy, which looks at presidential campaign things from 1824 to 1840. and so one of my roles here at cumberland to be project director for the papers of martin van buren. and so when i was looking for a cover for that particular book, that was one of the images that i thought captured sort of the the era sort of you can see van buren sort of rolling his eyes. and often times that's how i feel studying

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andrew jackson was elected president in 1828 in a rematch with john quincy adams from the 1824 election. mr. jackson came to office with a visioner in country but his agenda was stalled by controversy. early issues during his term include states' rights, payment of national debt, tariffs and treatment of native americans. watch american history tv's new series "first 100 days," saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. >> maria is a strategy professor from the national defense university. he she discusses the geopolitics of global humanitarian aid focusing on aid from the u.s., china and russia. the u.s. decision to withdraw from international aid organizations

andrew jackson was elected president in 128 in a rematch with john quincy adams from the 1824 election. mr. jackson came to office with a vision for the country. but his agenda was stalled by controversy. early issues included states rights, payment of national debt, tariffs and treatment of native americans. watch american history "first 100 days" saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. phone calls, but we want to go up to capitol hill now. it is congressman russ fulcher of idaho, a republican, energy and commerce and natural resources committee joining us from the rotunda. guest: good morning. thanks for having host: me on today. i wanted to lead with the latest when it comes to the budget reconciliation process. the lead story in punch full news today, house republicans racing to show budget progress amid senate pressure. can you bring us up to speed? guest: what is going on is, people are trying to figure out ways to change the trajectory for spending over the long-term. that is a problem we have had for a long time, as you know. we are $36 trillion in debt

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week we focus on the early months of president andrew jackson's first term in 1829, including his policy agenda and catastrophe vowrnding -- controversy vowrnding his cabinet. louisiana state university journalism professor john maxwell hamilton talks about the u.s. government propaganda efforts during world war ii. exploring the american story, watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2. and find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online any time at c-span.org slash history. back at our desk this morning, congressman al green, democrat of texas, here to talk about your new impeachment effort. you came to the floor to offer this over the president's remarks on gaza. we were just playing them for viewers in case they missed them. where is the crime here committed by the president with this proposal? guest: thank you for asking. impeachment does not require a crime that is statutory. many people think so. it gives me an opportunity to explain. article two, section four indicates one can be impeached for high crimes, misdemeanors, or -- felonies, bribery or other high crimes

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vance had said that they should stand up like andrew jackson did and say the chief justice has made his ruling, now let him try to enforce it. and yesterday vance also expanded on that, saying the judges who are pushing back on trump's executive orders argue they're going too far f. a judge tries to tell a general how to conduct a military operation, that would be illegal f. a judge tried to command the attorney general in hue to uses her discretion as a prosecutor, that's also illegal. elon musk condemned a judge who ruled against doge's actions, saying a corrupt judge is protecting corruptions, he needs to be impeached now. this is really, really dangerous stuff that's going on in this country. and i know somebody in the republicans, they're going to say joe biden didn't follow the law and he gave out student loans, which isn't factually true. he just found a pool of money that was legal, and he didn't disregard court orders. i know that's going to come up in the response to what i'm saying here. this is a very, very dangerous thing. once the rule of law is circumvented by the adminis

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this week we focus on the early months of president andrew jackson's first term in 1829. including his policy agenda and controversy surrounding his cabinet. at 8 p.m. eastern on lectures and history, louisiana state university journalism professal john maxwell hamilton, talks about the u.s. government propaganda efforts during world war i. exploring the american story. watch american history tv saturdays on c-span2. find a full schedule on your program guide or watch online at any time at c-span.o are rg slash -- c-span.org/history. --@cspanwj. the major papers took a look at the proposal from the president yesterday. this is the washington post, move gazans to another country, trump urges. politico, -- this is from the washington times, their headline. the middle of the page, trump floats u.s. takeover, division of gaza. the wall street journal, trump urges the u.s. takeover of gaza, president calls for palestinians to be removed and major breaking from policy. and the new york times, trump proposing takeover of gaza as u.s. territory, brazen plans to relocate all pales

andrew jackson was elected president in 1828 in a rematch with john quincy adams from the 1824 election. mr. jackson came to office with a visioner in country but his agenda was stalled by controversy. early issues during his term include states' rights, payment of national debt, tariffs and treatment of native americans. watch american history tv's new series "first 100 days," saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. >> maria is a strategy professor from the national defense university. he she discusses the geopolitics of global humanitarian aid focusing on aid from the u.s., china and russia. the u.s. decision to withdraw from international aid organizations like the usaid organization was also addressed this. hosted by the elliot school of international affairs. okay, le'd gentlemen, good morning. good afternoon. welcome to this event organized at iris, the institute for european, russian and eurasian studies at the george washington university. my name is marlene lawal. i'm the former director of the institute and currently the director of the illiberalism st

do what andrew jackson did, he said.of tears. that's who he's quoting. he said, well, the chief justice has told us what we must do. he's made his ruling, let him enforce it. and so this kind of reckless disregard for the constitution, for the law, for norms, we have witnessed donald trump do this for years as a defining moment in our country and the eye of history. the judgment of history is on all of us. but i think especially for my republican friends on the other side of the aisle, i witnessed them confirm nominee after nominee, a person over hhs who's manifestly unqualified, unprepared, putting all of us at risk. and, i don't know, maybe it's quaint. i asked myself, as someone who sits in this seat, you know, what do you what do you want history to say about you? do you want to be on the right side? and it may feel like you're losing in the moment, but it's more important, i think, to be on the right side, to take the long view. doctor king said. the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice, an

andrew jackson was elected president in 1828 in a rematch with john quincy adams from the 1824 election. esther jackson came to office with a vision for the country but his agenda was told by controversy. early issues during his term included states rights, payment of national debt, tariffs and treatment of native americans. watch american history tv's new series, first 100 days, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 2. >> c-span, moxie unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including buckeye broadband. ♪ buckeye broadband supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> the u.s. preme court heard oral argument ibarnes v felix, involving aor the mimic challenge against a texas police officer and whether he used deadly force during a 2016 traffic stop. the decision may resolve whether moment of the threat is enough to evaluat claims of excessive force by police and if a trial against the officer may happen. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> we will hear

well, andrew jackson famously said to the supreme court, yeah, you and what army are going to enforcegainst me? >> that is. >> the fear. we shall see. i hope it will not materialize. with respect to musk, doge spacex. what they are is still an open question. are they government? are they not government? but the court orders and the negotiated consent agreement that we reached is meant to and as far as we're concerned, applies to those third parties that are functioning essentially or effectively as government, so that if elon musk or one of his minions releases these names, we will be going after him and the u.s. government through contempt of court proceedings, which, again, we'll see how effective that will be. >> you have an upcoming hearing, right? mark on february 14th in your case. is that correct? >> not in ours. so because we entered the consent order, we are now briefing the preliminary or permanent injunction over the next course of 4 or 5 weeks. we are scheduled to be back in court on that motion, assuming the government doesn't reverse its decision to release any names on

we will look at first 100 days of andrew jackson's presidency. andrew jackson was elected in 1928 in rematch for john quncy adams in 1824 election. came to office with a vision but agenda stalled by controversy, early issues including payment of national debt, tariffs an treatments of native americans. watch american history tv new series first 100 days, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. it's where debates unfold, decisions are made and the nation's course is -- democracy in realtime, this is your government at work. this is c-span giving you your democracy unfiltered. >> c-span, democracy unfiltered, we are funded by these television companies and more including comcast. comcast supports cpan as a public service along with these other television providers giving you a front-row seat to democracy. >> up next gabbard, president truirect o of al intelligence nominee testifies before the senate igence committee, member of the republican party

the supreme court chief justice, you know, and andrew jackson supposedly reacted to a ruling by sayingn marshall had made his decision. now let him enforce it. jd vance said that would be a good motto for donald trump. so we you know, this could be, you know, as i say, relatively more benign, a signal to the republican justices the way he wants them to ultimately rule on this. it could also be the first step on a road toward a full scale constitutional crisis. >> and so then we have the elon musk of it. all right. and what in his role in all of this, there are concerns about the unprecedented access that he and his team have, what they're doing with that information, how secure it might be. homeland security secretary kristi noem said this to our colleague dana bash today. i want to play a quick clip. >> i remember a time. >> when republicans were very. careful about and worried about the government, particularly unelected people. we can't trust. having government. having access to our personal data. yeah. oh, absolutely. >> you are the government? >> yes. that's what i'm saying, is th

andrew jackson was elected president in a rematch with john quincy adams. his agenda was stalled by controversy. early issues during his term included states rights, payment of national debt, tariffs and treatment of native americans. watch american history tb new series verse 100 days saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. >> margaret c. it is not just an idea. it is a process. a process shaped by leaders here trusted to a few of the principles. it is where debates unfold, decisions are made in the nations court is charted. democracy in real-time. this is your government at work. this is c-span, giving you your democracy unfiltered. impeachmena crime that is statutory. many people think so. it gives me an opportunity to explain. article two, section four indicates one can be impeached for high crimes, misdemeanors, or -- felonies, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors. that's important. many people assume that means a statutory offense. it is not. misdemeanor means misdeeds aside from some minor things. it would shock your

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this week we focus on the early months of president andrew jackson's first term in 1829, including his policy a drink -- agenda and controversies surrounding his cabinet. journalism professor john maxwell hamilton talks about the u.s. government propaganda efforts during world war i, exploring the american story. watch american history tv, saturdays on c-span2, and fund a full schulon your program. or watch oine anytime at c-span.org/history. >> during their weekly news conference, house republican leaders talked about new fentanyl legislation, president trump's proposal to take over gaza and elon musk's role in the trump administration. the briefing is about half an hour. dismantle the department of education. >> good morning, everybody. how are you today. good? not quite as good as yesterday, the sun was shining yesterday, it was nicer. thank you all for being here. i want to open the press conference today with a question, what is a woman? mrs. mcclain: ask the democrats, and they'll probably tell you they don't know. i bring this up because today is national girls and women in spor

andrew jackson was elected president in 1828 in a rematch with john quincy adams from the 1824 election. esther jackson came to office with a vision for the country but his agenda was told by controversy. early issues during his term included states rights, payment of national debt, tariffs and treatment of native americans. watch american history tv's new series, first 100 days, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 2. >> c-span, moxie unfiltered. we are funded by these television companies and more, including buckeye broadband. ♪ buckeye broadband supports c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> the u.s. preme court heard oral argument ibarnes v felix, involving aor the mimic challenge against a texas police officer and whether he used deadly force during a 2016 traffic stop. the decision may resolve whether moment of the threat is enough to evaluat claims of excessive force by police and if a trial against the officer may happen. this is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> we will hear

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this saturday we'll look at the first 100 days of andrew jackson's presidency.was elected president in 192. mr. jackson came to office with a vision for the country but his vision was strained by tears controversy. early issues included states rights, tariffs and treatments of native americans. first 100 days, saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 2. >> next week on thc-span networks, the house and senate are in session. the house will consider legislation establishing new penalties for evading u.s. border patrol agents in car chases. the senate continues voting on president trump's cabinet normal tees. including tulsi gabbard and robert f. kennedy. the chair of the federal reserve, jerome powell will give a report tuesday and wednesday before the house financial services committee. also, c-span continues our confirmation hearings f president trump's nominees. on wednesday, former oregon republican congresswoman lori chavez-deremer, for secretary of labor and on wednesday, former businesswoman linda mcmahon for the department of educatio

this saturday, we'll look at andrew jackson elected 1828 in rematch with john quincy adams in 1824 election and came to office tariffs and treatment with nato alliance and the new series first 100 days and saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern. going for them and it's on the line. >> this is about an hour and 20 minutes.0 going to present the speak eric tonight. going for them and it's on the attorney. the tenth start before they fair it and going to turn the collection, conflict, and going for them on the line. going for them and. >> thank you, isabel, going for them. proud to represent the great state -- any marylanders in the house? so first, let's give it up for isabel and all the patriotic americans that helped organize this rally. [ cheering ] >> i want to hear loud and clear, hey hey, ho, ho, elon musk has got to go. hey hey, ho ho, elon musk has got to government hey, hey, ho, ho, elon musk has got to go because this is about taking back our country and doing it now. military leaders telling you aid is essential and cost effective part of our overall foreign policy and national security str

. >> we had a historian, doris kearns goodwin, on last week who talked about andrew jackson corrupting essentially government employees, giving out favors to people who curried favor with him. he gave them civil service jobs, and it took generations in america to to correct that. and it took teddy roosevelt being the civil service commissioner for six years to really root that out and get a civil service that served the american people and not whoever was in power. the damage being done, potentially. people think, oh, well, you know, maybe it's just going to be four years. the damage can be done. it can be for generations. >> right? right. i mean, it goes without saying that i think the overwhelming majority of americans want a strong, efficient, independent civil service. we can make improvements. i am not here to tell you that we don't have a bureaucracy, that we don't have waste. we do. we got to work on that. but you don't get rid of thousands and thousands of dedicated public servants and replace them with people who are simply loyal to donald trump. that's not the way democracy i

andrew jackson did it. worth noting on that supreme court point on executive power, they have been very friendly to the idea that executives in charge at the personnel, but not so much when it comes to conflicts with congress and, in fact, donald trump and his first term was the least successful president in history of the united states at the supreme court falling under 50% wins. >> martha: i want to turn to usaid. we've paid a lot of attention to that. people are very alarmed here and especially overseas. susan, do we have an idea of what this will look like? at one point, they did talk about rolling it into the state department. you heard senator murphy say that's a lie. >> yeah. i mean, martha, we've been subjected to, i think, almost the kind of orwellian picture this week of being sent out to erase the name of usaid from the stone walls outside of the headquarters. this was not a policy fight. you know, we can have a policy discussion about what's the best way for america to have soft power in the wor

. >> country like andrew jackson did. >> and. >> say the chief. >> justice has made. >> his ruling. let him enforce it. >> what jd vance is calling for there is for donald trump to completely disregard the legitimacy of the supreme court. >> but the thing is. >> there's a63 supermajority that trump helped create. he might not even need to. that's the scary part. one of them, preet bharara, is a former u.s. attorney for the southern district of new york. he also knows a thing or two about being fired by donald trump for politically motivated reasons. and he joins me now. preet, i always like to ask you, you're the actual legal expert, not me. i just kind of outlined there the illegality of the firing of doj career, doj and fbi officials. is there any legal stand, legal leg trump has to stand on here? >> well, it depends. >> on which. >> people you're talking about. >> when you let go. >> people who. are political appointees, like. >> i was. >> i've never. >> said anything. >> other than. >> donald trump. >> was. >> perfectly within. >> his. >> authority and legal. >> rights. to fire

. >> and it is reminiscent of president trump's favorite president, andrew jackson, who said somethingto the effect of to the supreme court. yeah. you and what army are going to enforce the decision? uh, it will throw us further into a constitutional crisis, obviously. and it looks like that's where they're trying to pull us to determine the extent to which the executive branch is effectively a king. i think as that happens, i think what actually is going to be somewhat positive is i think you're going to see a lot of people who were his supporters sort of rise up and stand tall, including those and especially those in the judiciary. so far, we've already seen trump appointed judges rule against him. so it's a matter of time, i think, before this administration just decides to disregard a court order. >> all right. well, we'll see how everything plays out. mark zaid, julian zelizer, thank you so much. and we'll be right back. >> welcome back. >> have i got news for you saturday at 9:00 on cnn. >> consumer cellular ranked number one in network coverage and customer satisfaction. >> hi.

i mean, when andrew jackson ran into trouble in the war of 1812, down in new orleans, he recruited jean lafitte, the pirate. i'm mean, we do this stuff and it happens, of course, in in in a democracy and a few weeks after pearl harbor, the largest cruise ship in the world in normandy, was being retrofitted in new york harbor for troop ship shipping and the normandy court fire blew up. and sabotage was widely expected and suspected. so you can read about whether it was or not in the book. and the navy went down to the docks. they wanted to try to infiltrate, get security people there. and italian-americans made up most of the dockworkers at the time, irish and italian. now, president roosevelt had declared italians, americans to be enemy aliens. some were interned. not like what happened with the japanese, but this was, you know, italian-americans were not too thrilled to be cooperating because people thought, well, are they are they loyal to mussolini, which was really not true in any material way. they couldn't get help. they couldn't get help on the docks and they needed inroads to th

historically, he could only think of one other president who had made a similar move, and that was andrew jackson and the american indians. he called it ethnic cleansing. he also pointed out president trump's increasingly now expansionist view of the world. in addition to gaza, which is the news of the day, he has also called on annexing or bringing on greenland, making canada the 51st state and taking back control of the panama canal. so he's, as susan said, certainly not an isolationist, which is largely the policies that his supporters support, that his supporters backed when they were voting for him. and the proposal that he's making tonight would have an enormous impact on the region and on the people who are living there now. >> hagar, i know donald trump has a very good relationship with the saudis. or he would say that mbs is jared kushner's biggest investor. but how are saudi arabia and other arab countries going to take in this news tonight? >> well, they're not going to. >> they're not they're certainly not. >> going to like it. and you're right about focusing on mbs because his very f

this whole notion of the spoils system to the victors, the spoils, comes from andrew jackson, one ofsident trump's presidential heroes, who, when he came into the white house, he sacked about 10% of the federal workforce, including hundreds and hundreds of post office officers, because they weren't democrats. so there is a long tradition of that. but the difference today is the federal government does so much more than it used to in the 19th century that its policy scope is so much broader. and so this isn't just a question of, you know, you know, who's running a particular post office in a particular county in kentucky. you know, this, this, this has implications for people's lives. people are depending both in the united states and around the world on these federal programs. and actually, i think there is a lot of damage that the president can do to these agencies. the courts will be able to step in, but i think it's not going to be that the court can just come in and just hold the president, you know, reverse revert back to the way things were that trump is a master at what we som

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and when the courts stop, you stand before the country like andrew jackson did and say the chief justicee his ruling. now let him enforce it. >> barbara, the administration has been blocked or slowed down on slashing the federal workforce, on accessing the treasury payment system. also birthright citizenship. also some anti-trans efforts. can they just defy the courts as the vice president seems to be suggesting there, especially if congress doesn't step in? >> it would be an absolute violation. >> of the constitution. >> as jd vance well knows, since the case of. >> marbury versus. >> madison in the. founding era of. >> our country. >> it has been the. role of courts to. >> interpret the law. >> a president can do many, many things and. >> has great. >> powers, but. >> a. >> president cannot violate statutes or. >> the constitution. >> and so that's what these lawsuits are arguing. it isn't. >> so much what. >> donald trump wants to do, but how he is. >> doing it in. >> violation of constitutional rights and federal statutes. and that's where this comment becomes so concerning, because