>> the copy for the attica records. copies attica records. >> proves that they were there. >> at least what i said was true which is, you know, i went there on that day and i took copies and i paid for those copies? >> and what was in those records particularly that -- that you think was not necessarily supposed to be released to a historian writing a book on attica? >> after the retaking on the scene members of the attorney general's office who are charged with figuring out what had gone wrong at attica and set their sites on investigating prisoners and not law enforcement but by looking at the records, i could see that in fact, they had a ton of evidence against law enforcement despite the fact -- by the way, you should know that the new york state police that retook the prison were the same body -- it was the same body that governor nelson rockefeller put in charge of investigating the scene. so needless to say, key evidence was disappeared, photographs were doctored, film displaced, statements were changed and went

in to talk about the history of attica but and also that reveals a lot. so could you talk about what challenges you face to? and with that process or this different sources? and the challenges they faced?. >> so those historians you may not know how they write books and the first top of the archives. and then we go through themin t but the problem in this case is because all of thend paperwork and then the criminal trials in the investigative files then the civil litigation files thousands of boxes of information and could not get to any of if you filed a freedom of information request and then you just need to keep asking that question and then to extrapolate.ink how that i was forced to think how we rally to about thean '60s and '70s and at was humbled to understand there was so much about this period we don't have a clue or how history actually thatened. so no for example the black panther party was decimated by the end of the '70s but now we have the clue behind b that destruction or similarly i was able to gets abt quite a bit peeved and i don't know

our coverage continues with heather and thompson and her book blood in presentr, the attic up -- atticarising. trey00, former congressman democrazy.his book churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. ate that starting today 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> today we take you live to the gettysburg college civil war institute conference in

eastern with heather and thompson and her book, "lead in the water, the attica prison uprising of 1971nd its legacy." at 2:00, jeffrey stone with his book. then at 3:00, former congressman .rey radel with his book at 4:00, author thomas riggs with his book, "churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom." watch our coverage of the annual printers row lit fest starting at 11:00 on c-span twos booktv. sunday, q1 day is in hyde park, new york at the franklin d roosevelt museum where we go inside for a look at fdr's personal office and collection of artifacts with the museum's director. >> this museum opened in june 1941 and he was still the president so this essentially became the northern oval office. there are 914 books in this room alone and every book was selected by fdr to be in this room. this room is almost identical to the way it was the day fdr died. >> watch q and a from the franklin roosevelt museum in hyde park, new york at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> "washington journal," continues. host: we are joined with brent supremeo discuss the court decision to hear a major cell phon

eastern and heather and thompson, her book on the attica uprising. jeffrey stone with his book, "sex and the constitution." raydell with trey his book, "democrazy." witht 4:00, thomas riggs his book. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune lit fest, starting saturday at 11 a.m. eastern. >> our guest on c-span's newsmakers this week's steve from ohio.blic and he is heading the national is togn committee, which keep republicans in control of the house. as we get started, i want to tell you about our guest. had aa buckeye, and career in financial services, and the ohio legislator. he is also a brigadier general in the ohio national guard, which he has been in since 1985, in he served in active duty 2004 and 2005 as a battalion commander. thank you for being our guest. mr. stivers: it is great to be on. introduce our me commentators. scott is the campaign editor for politico and hosts politico's nerd cast. boulder making a return visit to newsmakers. mr. wong: thank you for being here, mr. stivers. call me, who is testifying on capitol hill

dam is more than 400 feet tall, designed to hold a million acre fooetof water and expected to be attica pasty in just days. however the amount of flowing from melting snow appears to be slowing. >> it's a pretty good sign that the worst is over as far as the run off. are we out of the woods? absolutely not. we have to continue watching it and it's a day by day thing. >> reporter: abc 7 news. >>> and up in the sierra, an endless winter is giving skiers a chance to set new records. the slopes are still covered in snow. mammoth is celebrating one of its longest seasons on record. there is 200 inches of snow at the summit. they're going to operate every day into august. farther south, it is open on weekends with 147 inches at the summit. pretty remarkable stuff. more heat coming tomorrow. and this is what the hottest day probably of the heat spell? >>> it's going to get very clees to what we approached last sunday so that's the bad news. tomorrow's the last day of the heat wave that will stretch a total of six days. we'll show you what we got going on out there. the marine layer is gone, no

on sunday our coverage continues heather thompson and her book "blood in the water: the attica prison rising of 1970 and its legacy." constitution."he a true story of where politics, money, madness, and finger food. then "churchill and orwell: the fight for freedom." starting coverage saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern president trump offered its first public comments of senate testimony -- -- james comey. this is about 30 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states and the president of romania.

our coverage continues with heather and thompson and her book blood in presentr, the attic up -- attica prison uprising. trey00, former congressman democrazy.his book churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. ate that starting today 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> today we take you live to the gettysburg college civil war institute conference in gettysburg, pennsylvania. this is the first of two days of live coverage on american history tv. they will take a look at several civil war generals as well as the political prejudice thomas omas nast.rtoonist thma president james buchanan and his inability to stop southern states from seceding during the civil war. all.od morning, you y'all. sorry. spent a lot of time in north carolina and virginia. we need to get started with our first session today. it is wonderful to see quite the 8:30 in the morning for a panel on james buchanan, which is that we all know that james buchanan is often overlooked. we are going to remedy that in a moment. i want to introduce our speakers. first is john quist, the tall one standing behind michae

been concerned by the moves of the president towards saudi arabia which for a long time has been atticaoat and saying that they have been a bad player in the region. they should have perhaps seen something coming. but i don't think even they saw anything as destructive or traumatic as to what we saw in the last 24, 48 hours. >> the president thinks has a beginning of a victory in the war on terrorism. how do you see it? >> not that way at all. the islamic state is what we are looking at motion closely. it does not exist because governments like qatar or saudi arabia or national governments are financing them. there have been contributions of states. this is a movement that has arisen without state support and instead sort of arising out of the land and out of the support of individuals from many different countries. so the idea that you would ask qatar to dial back its support for a movement and see the end of terrorism is simply fantasy. >> ambassador sherman, what would have happened in any other administration if these countries had take thep action against qatar today? >> i think we

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there was a difference between the culture of attica, woodburn and sing sing and 195 the dark side. you spoke of california, not incarceration for people. in new york state that is still self-defense law. you cannot be off doing self-defense or you have a larger percentage of white people in jail. self-defense in new york than you probably have in california that includes a 15% of the population in jails that are white. the fact of the matter is you spoke about the crime rates going down in some areas. that may have something to do with the fact that women in prison are now 600% more than they were ten years ago. they are 32% of those, of those in jail are therefore psychiatric reasons. >> is there a question? >> children of parents at second, third, fourth generation crack and cocaine addicts may not do drugs but they would do violence to get there sexuality and then their children -- [shouting] >> i will just add nuk new statf a self-defense law. i teach it to my lost its every year. but anyway, please. >> i was going to ask you, first i want to thank you for the presentation. i l

eastern with heather ann thompson and her book blood in the water the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy. at 2:00, author jeffrey stone with his book sex and the constitution. sex, religion, and law from america's origins to the 21st century. then at 3:00, former congressman trey raidel with his book democarzy. and at 4:00, author thomas ricks with his book, chur hill and orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago tribune printer's row lit fest starting saturday at 11 a.m. eastern on c-span2's book tv. >>> treasury secretary steven mooun mnuchin defended trump's 2018 budget request for his department on capitol hill. he appeared before the house weighs and means committee. he once again called on congress to raise the debt ceiling before leaving for their august recess. this is about two hours. [inaudible conversations] [ inaudible conversations ] >>> the committee will come to order. good afternoon. and thank all for joining us today. our committee is honored to welcome treasury secretary steven mnuchin to testify on president trump's fis

eastern with heather ann thompson and her book blood in the water the attica prison uprising of 1971 and its legacy. at 2:00, author jeffrey stone with his book sex and the constitution. sex, religion, and law from america's origins to the 21st century. then at 3:00, former congressman trey raidel with his book democarzy. and at 4:00, author thomas ricks with his book, chur hill and orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual chicago

eastern with heather and thompson and her book blood in the water: the attica prison uprising of 1971 and his legacy. at 2:00 p.m. author jeffrey stone with his book sex and the constitution: sex's, constitution and law from the americans origins to the 21st century. at 3:00 p.m. former congressman trey rado with his book democrat. a true story of weird politics, money and madness and finger food. at 4:00 p.m. thomas ricks with his book churchill and orwell, the fight for freedom. watch our coverage of the 33rd annual such chicago tribune starting saturday at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span twos book tv. >> sunday night on "after words". new america president and ceo anne-marie slaughter examines the global networking in the digital age in her book, the chessboard and the web: strategies of connection and in network world. mrs. slaughter is interviewed by dennis mcdonald, former white house chief of staff in the obama administration from 313-2016. what would strike me is that we knew there was a world of states and the state wraps. today if you think about north korea or iran or china an