ben franklin and james franklin's father josiah was one of the biggest critics. he had a humble trade but largely because of involvement in the church in his own native intelligence and ability, he had managed to climb socially so he included some of the most powerful men in boston among his circle of friends. judge samuel sewall was a regular visitor and one of the most, maybe the most esteemed person in all of massachusetts. josiah franklin was not happy about the drowning valid. decapitating a pirate and writing about it was something else. he called benjamin to his home and told him to continue doing this, you will be ruined. he did not tell him to stop but you better stop doing this. james franklin owed his father all the money he had not been able to pay back in terms of money needed to start the business, he was obligated to honor his father's wishes. that ended the only real money making scheme james and benjamin franklin had been able to get in two years in the business. by the beginning of 1720 when, the year i center on, after printing one of the town

that is a typical ben franklin kind of logical piece of logic. but it was great for everything but not for someone who was going to be a preacher obviously. so when josiah realized his son did not have the right stuff for the ministry he saw no reason to incur a huge expense of sending him to school. he pulled him from school and put him to work in the tallow shop making soap and candles. this was hot, physical work and smelly work because they would boil down animal fats. ben franklin, even at 10 years old, a strapping, strong kid who did a lot of swimming, he hated the work. he was obviously a prodigy. he needed something more challenging. he told his father he wanted to go to sea, see the world. because itwas upset was common knowledge among everyone that being a sailor was a dangerous occupation. but josiah franklin had already lost a son who was a sailor. josiah junior had left home on tot his wishes, hired a ship and lost at sea probably from a storm or pirates. they never knew. josiah was determined benjamin franklin would not suffer that

you know, one of our founders way back in this country, ben franklin, said it a little bit differently. he said, those who would give up liberty in the name of security deserve neither. mr. paul: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. paul: the patriot act was begotten of the most unpatriotic of ideas, that liberty can be exchanged for security. the history of the patriot act shows that the exchange is a poor one. as our liberty wanes and wastes away, we find that the promises of security were an illusion. the history of the patriot act is really a history of how power corrupts and how bias and malfeasance grow when power is unchecked. the patriot act allows a secret court, fisa, to grant generalized warrants to collect personal data from millions of americans. the spies who run these surveillance programs then lied for years and years to us. one of the most notorious of these liars was james clapper. when cross-examined under oath by senator wyden, james clapper denied that the government was collecting data on millions of americans. a month later, the wh

--rly 300 episodes i believe ben franklin's world. stephen fried is a best-selling -- and ap of columbia professor at the university of pennsylvania and columbia. his book is an autobiography of one of the signers of the declaration, benjamin rush. it was published september 2018 and was a finalist for the 2019 george washington book prize. a two-time winner of the national magazine award, he has written for vanity fair, gq, the washington post magazine, rolling stone, glamour, ladies home journal, and philadelphia magazine. [laughter] is the series editor for the papers of john adams, part of the adams papers editorial project in the building not too far away at the massachusetts historical society. "e is the author of household gods." she is a cofounder and -- how is ito the pronounced? jovunto? sarah: sure. [laughter] fred: at the end we have matt shively who is the ceo of revolutionary spaces which was bostonianthe old society. he spent eight years at the bostonian society where he was the director of public history and later exec

back in the day of ben franklin or thomas edison.news reports but never social media to reach out to the customers or really they went to the press. elon musk, unfiltered elon musk appears on twitter all the time. we have the new personalities, incredible, brilliant inventor genius, helping us get americans back in space from american soil. he really created the electric car industry. then we have the person who tweets with abandon about all sorts of things and it is hard for me to say but i think the material things that he has done for society, for space, for the, for electric cars, those things will be remembered and remembered as someone very important in history. connell: i think it is a good bet that the whole fully funded taking tesla private thing will be forgotten then. we'll be talking about things we're talking about today. good to see you, lance. as always, lance ulanoff. melissa. melissa: shooting for the stars. spacex certainly not the only private company betting on commercial space missions in the near future. jackie

and likewise visit the home of good ben franklin and the sight of independence hall where is oused the bell of liberty. here, discover a museum that's ne of our nation's richest ewels. a little further on, we see an area rich in the beginning of our history, jamestown, where on the new continent the first rmanent english settlement began. [music] ot far away, discover yorktown . here when the great corn wallis gave up his sword to washington, america became a nation. here to were ended many lives when american patriots fell in our great civil war. good men were lost in that dread conflict. a painful beginning to our modern nation. [music] in washington, in echoes still abe lincoln's salem pledge that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under god shall have a new birth of of dom and the government the people, and by the people shall not perish from the earth. it has not perished, nor has liberty as thomas jefferson reminds us is it free whose rights are nourished with the blood of patriots. many who have nourished the tree have been memor

post office box is 1-a, ben franklin station, washington, d.c. let me close this broadcast on a very concrete and specific point. what we're proposing here is that for the first time in the long history of this war, the senate of the united states stand up and be counted yes or no on the question of when we wish the war to continue or to be ended. we propose to do that in a vote that will come in a very short time. we pledge you that that vote will be held. this is not a sense of the congress resolution. it's not a debater's point. it's an act of law which if carried will put an end to this war in a systematic way. we ask earnestly tonight for your support in that effort. >> in every area of the world -- >> 1968, a new phase is now starting. >> producing results. the enemy's hopes are dimmed. >> if when the chips are down the world's most powerful nation acts like a pitiful, helpless giant -- >> in just a few days debate on the amendment to end the war will begin on the floor of the united states senate. if the american people can effectively urg

make your checks out to amendment to end the war post office box won a ben franklin station, washington, d.c.. >> let me close the broadcast on a very concrete and specific point. what we are proposing here is that for the first time in the long history of this war, the senate of the united states stand up and be counted yes or no on the question of whether we wish the war to continue or to be ended. we proposed to do that in a vote that will come in a very short time. we pledge you that that vote will be held. it is not a sense of to congress resolution, it is not a debaters point, it is an act of law which if carried, will put an end to this war in a systematic way. we ask earnestly tonight for your support in that effort. every area of the world, in 1968 in new era has started. >> this strategy is producing results. >> the chips are down, the world's most powerful nation acts like a pitiful, hopeless child. >> in just a few days amendment to end the world war will -- on september 26th of 1918, the american army and france launched the largest

you think ben franklin would've been tied to electricity with the kite, where the hell is his permitnd his helmet although he looks like he's wearing one and forget discovered penicillin, think of the mold, the allergies, so maybe let's be reasonable, we are all trying, were on the same team so while we all go back to work, maybe lawyers take half days, chill out, catch a movie because there's good news coming, we are promising drugs, flattening curves, new hygiene practices and good people like you doing great things. that's the real weapon, computer models never factor in human ingenuity. it can't because human ingenuity is impossible to predict except that you know it will be there when the going gets rough. and sure enough it shows up because you did too. nice job. greg: let's welcome tonight's guest, his thoughts are off the hook, in his new book, the creator and host of the rubin report the great dave rubin. there it is. she is the sharpest thing in seattle, that includes the state. the fox news contributor and host of america, box nation emily compagno. and we keep her distanc

i'm talking about those in ben franklin's time. and that's always been a strand in america, but the stronger strand has always been the, let's get the facts. let's be empirical. let's figure it out based on the evidence. you see this anti-scientific thing bubbling up quite a few times. i mean, the scopes trial on evolution. i think that was back in 1925. but you've seen it more recently with climate change where science becomes partisan and political, and people who don't want to believe in climate change suddenly don't believe in the science. >> walter, i -- you know, certainly when i was a kid, i remember sitting around asking why i was dissecting this pig, and you actually worry that our dismissal of life sciences as something we all learn may be costing us. >> you know, we should all want our kids to understand the digital revolution so they can be successful. and if that's going to be the case, we have to understand it. likewise, the 21st century to me is going to be a life sciences revolution, and this coronavirus pandemic ma

. >> it was ben franklin who said democracy is like tools and a ham voting on what you have for lunch you don't have to be a rocket scientist but liberty is making sure the land is well on to protest the vote. so to have the young lambs and communities of color be able to protest the vote to give them the information with the intellect and diplomacy to protest the school to prison pipeline. protest the racist jim crow laws scanned your ground, voter suppression , environmental racism that would find the children in south-central los angeles have one third of the lung capacity of those grant on - - growing up in santa monica. that they are well armed to protest the prison industrial complex where minorities go to prison and they are concerned about losing constitutional rights. especially women of color you have to worry about losing your reproductive rights. just as late as 2014 in the state of california, it was unearthed there a black women and hispanic women being coerced into forced sterilizations and it was all done legally in just as late as 2017 not a judge but judges that were

carl zork, harry redman, and ben franklin and other gamblers in des moines. this is interesting. the supposed honest and upright midwest -- there are a lot of gambling centers. there is a guy name ben and another named lou. big gamblers. they will be involved in this. and then, a fourth group -- i don't know if you can call two people a group, and they are "sleepy bill" burns. "sleepy bill" burns had been a pitcher of no great repute. he had no great energy which is why he was called sleepy bill. he would fall asleep on the bench. he had left baseball and he was speculating in oil in texas. he was a texan. but he would come up and hang around with all of the ballplayers and try to sell them or get them to invest in oil leases, so he is traveling this circuit of major-league cities and teams, and he is on trains with players in 1919, and he hears that the players approach him. they are so crooked that even though they have $80,000 on the table right now promised from the gamblers of sullivan and rothstein, they go to these guys and say, "we will throw it to you for $100,000," such

jefferson and the committee of five who were tasked with drafting the declaration which included ben franklin, john adams, roger sherman and robert livingston. so the we means the committee of five. but it also means the 56 members of the continental congress. and then on top of the 56 members of the continental congress it also means the american people, the declaration of independence is speaking on behalf of we the people. we the people of the united states of america. we hold these truths. but there's a problem. what does it mean to say we hold these truths to be self-evident? some of these truths are pretty complex philosophic concepts as we'll see in a minute. and did -- did all americans come to see these truths all at the same time? surely there's a difference in intellectual capacity, for instance, between say thomas jefferson or john adams on the one hand and an uneducated hard scramble farmer living on the western frontier of massachusetts. well, i think then the key word to unlock the meaning of self-evident truths is the word "hold." we hold these truths. well, what i think that

the ben franklin floor-u know the floor on the eighth floor. and it's a beautiful reception area. it's often rented out for special events. it's used for state dinner luncheons when a state dinner is taking place, the head of state comes for lunch, the vice president attends and makes a toast. there are a lot of -- and reporters have sometimes invited. here it was predominantly people like karl rove and charles koch and others who have in the past been supportive of pompeo running and have contributed to him in the past. and that's what has been so controversi controversial. and gifts given as well to those who've attended. >> well, it's been interesting to watch him. you brought up the kansas trips. it was just two months ago that he went to the villages in florida and you're like interesting. definitely looks like a guy that's got a little bit of an eye on not a kansas race but maybe one in 2024. anyway, andrea mitchell, thank you. >> can i just say that there's a lot of reporting, chuck, that he has firmly rejected that kansas race but is looking at 2024. >> his moves seem more

if you want to know who the next hero is and before we announce benjamin franklin, wise ben franklinhere, we hide it in every single book, we also hide number 27. i'm hidden in every book, superman is hidden in every book, clark kent, guaranteed not clark kent. but we really do help a lot of charities and do auctions and they are really hard. our artist has to get a license and if not they will be listed as forever. >> a couple comments and questions. some people are disappointed that you did not wear a top hat. >> hold on! >> all right, standby, ladies and gentlemen. feel free to fill out some questions. we have time for a couple more. here we go. >> you thought i didn't have one, didn't you? >> we had a few people concerned that you were not in costume. >> i almost did it in the start but then i thought now. i will save it for the end. >> there was a lot of debate about the style of hat that lincoln war when portraying the invalid brother. >> huge debate. everyone wants to know what his costume was because people started reporting on it loosely. you will see in the book that we say

and if you research matthew 25, it was ben franklin's favorite bible verse. ben franklin would say, if someone chose to live their life by one baseball verse, if theyies -- one bible verse, if they chose matthew 25, he said the world would be a better place. tom carper is one who leads his life every day consistent with the teaching and the readings and the writings of the gospel of matthew 25. he mentioned my good friend rob wallace from wyoming who has -- is now the assistant secretary of interior overseeing parks as well as fish and wildlife for the country. and rob always said, as was so quoted by ranking member carper, that bipartisan solutions are the best solutions. and he's somebody who knows. he worked on the hill. he worked as a staffer for former senator malcolm wallop of wyoming. then on the energy committee can when senator wallop was involved in those days, in the 1980's and 1990's. the other thing that rob wallop talked about to which -- rob wallace talked about to which we agree as well is there are lands in this great country that needs to be

my question is, do you think if ben franklin was younger then washington might've included in his cabinet or administration? >> i think it franklin had been younger, both washington and franklin would have both each served president. they were larger-than-life. you look at them. look at them. here in georgia the first thing we did after the revolution was create the college, the first called pritikin state college. after the revolution and we named it franklin college. it wasn't the university of georgia. the whole thing was franklin college. when tennessee was come into the union original applied as the state of franklin. look around the country and most states have both a franklin county to this day, , franklin county at a washington county. these people were larger-than-life originals. if you look at, and aye at great length in this, if you look at the ratification debates, in every state, in every debate, in every newspaper article, the constant refrain of the federalist was, well, if franklin and washington designed this, or franklin and washington are for this for transit, whatever

. >> it was ben franklin who said, democracy is like two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. [laughter]. you have a rocket scientist to know how that boat is going to go. but he said, liberty is making sure that lamb is well armed to protest that votes. and so with open season, i endeavored to help the young lambs and communities of color, be able to protest about to give them information that armed them with intellect and diplomacy to abate able to protest the school to prison pipeline. to protest the racist jim crow laws like sandy brown, to be able to protest, voter suppression. be well armed to protest environmental racism that would find the children in south central los angeles and 83rd of the lung capacity of children growing up in santa monica california. make sure these young people are will armed to protest the prison industrial complex were my minorities, who go to prison often have people are concerned about losing their constitutional rights pretty clear when you are a minority, especially women of color, you also has to worry about losing your reproductiv

. >> it was ben franklin who said democracy is like tools and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know how that vote is going to go. but he said liberty, liberty is making sure that lamb is well armed to protest that vote. with open season i endeavored to help the young lambs and communities of color be able to protest, to vote, to give them the information and armed them with intellect and diplomacy to be able to protest the school to prison pipeline, to be able to protest the racist jim crow laws like standard ground, to be able to protest voter suppression -- stand your ground. to protest bimodal racism that would find that children in south central los angeles have a third of the capacity of children growing up in santa monica, california. makes it easier for people to protest the prison industrial complex where minorities, you go to prison, oftentimes people go to prison of the concerned about losing their constitutional rights, where minorities especially women of color, you also have to worry about losing your reproductive rights.

. >> it was ben franklin who said democracy is like tools in a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.[laughter] you don't have to be a rocket scientist to know how that boat is going to go. he said liberty is making sure is well armed to protest that boat. in the communities of color to be able to protest about to give them the information and diplomacy to be able to protest to prison pipeline to protest their racist jim crow laws like stand your ground to be able to protest voter suppression, be armed to protest environmental racism that would find the children in south-central los angeles have a third of the lung capacity of children growing up in santa monica, california. make sure these young people are well armed to protest the industrial complex where minorities who go to prison, often times people go to prison and they're concerned about losing their constitutional rights where minorities, especially women of color and losing your reproductive rights, just as late as 2014 in the state of california and it was black women and hispanic women being co-hearst in the sterilization a

and if you research matthew 25, it was ben franklin's favorite bible verse. ben franklin would say, if someone chose to live their life by one baseball verse, if theyies -- one bible verse, if they chose matthew 25, he said the world would be a better place. tom carper is one who leads his life every day consistent with the teaching and the readings and the writings of the gospel of matthew 25. he mentioned my good friend rob wallace from wyoming who has -- is now the assistant secretary of interior overseeing parks as well as fish and wildlife for the country. and rob always said, as was so quoted by ranking member carper, that bipartisan solutions are the best solutions. and he's somebody who knows. he worked on the hill. he worked as a staffer for former senator malcolm wallop of wyoming. then on the energy committee can when senator wallop was involved in those days, in the 1980's and 1990's. the other thing that rob wallop talked about to which -- rob wallace talked about to which we agree as well is there are lands in this great country that needs to be

paraphrasing ben franklin, i told three competing domestic mask makers that if we didn't hang together, we would hang separately. china was poised to put us all out of business and put the country at even greater risk. crosstex, gerson, and medicom agreed with me and joined the smsa. unfortunately, the smsa. unfortunately, the secure mask supply association's warnings also went unheeded. during my quest to secure the u.s. mask supply, i had the privilege of working with three barda directors, dr. robin robinson, dr. richard hatchett and dr. rick bright. they were helpful and encouraged me to continue warning people about the mask supply. i will say more about that. after years of doing this, i quit many times. the only reason i kept doing it was because of the directors at barda. they said that they would express their concerns about the mask supply to anyone that i could get to call them, anyone except reporters. they weren't allowed to talk to reporters. they also weren't allowed to endorse the secure mask supply association. dr. robinson was going to until hhs attorneys told him tha

also a lot of good for preventing things from happening but that old phrase that is attributed to ben franklin those who trade a little security or a little bit of freedom for added security deserve neither and will lose one - - lose both and they warned us in the seventies on the today show after the commission he oversee that very slowly and is very similar get to a point of her over surveillance the government has the power to know everything through telegrams and phone calls if the government ever turns it's listening ears to inside the united states that will be a rubicon we have crossed and no getting back but after 9/11 they were turned in now is under the veil of safety with a tremendous track record to keep americans safe and hasn't been perfect. there has been attacks but also nothing like 9/11. but that is really a trade-off we need to be discussing citizens and stewards of the republic. where is the balance things that protect us at a redskins game could go toward rounding up my son or yours in the future. there scary technology they play with that is incredibly invasive and in my

i mean, from -- from ben franklin and his experiments with electricity at the beginning of this -- thisicon valley, the immigrants that have come in to silicon valley and revolutionized the world, revolutionized the way we think, revolutionized the way we live, revolutionize dollars the w revolutionized the way we work, it's been united states time and again. i mean, since 1950 in the post world war, about half of the nobel prizes awarded for science have gone to americans. you talk about medical breakthroughs, my lord, it's been unbelievable. from the first organ transplant in 1954 to just a series of vaccines through the years. the eradication of small pox and polio. you can talk about heart transplants. you can talk about time and time again, you know, blood transfusions. again, it started with -- you know, you go back bagain to benjamin franklin. his invention of bifocals allowed doctors to work just wearing one pair of glasses, it was seen as a break-through at the time. we are a country that was born in the age of the enlightenment. and we, over the past 240 years, for all of our

as ben franklin once said, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. i as a constituent call on you to join the environmental public rights and health organization to develop a link between animal culture and outbreak. i thank you for your time. >> thank you for your comments. next speaker. >> announcer: you have three questions remaining. >> hi, my name is curtis stanford, i'm a longtime tenderloin resident. there is so much i could talk about, but i want to raise a couple of key issues. one, you know here we are, another week has gone by and there is no testing going on in the tenderloin neighborhood. we already know it disproportionately impacts tenderloin. -- even the folks from the shelter got counted as part of a different neighborhood. i know we're being unrepresented. folks in the tenderloin, we don't have the -- getting a test and running up there. we don't have health insurance or little health insurance. we're more likely to sit in the room and weather the sickness and never get tested. so we need wider spread testing in the tenderloin. seco

from ben franklin's experiments with electricity to steve jobs' creation of the iphone, american inventorses before imagining new ones and creating new ones in the blink of an eye, whether it was american visionaries who were flying across the windy shores of kitty hawk in north carolina or air force pilots who were learning how to guide space ships under the surface of the moon. think about this. immigrants traveling to our shores have been so pivotal in shaping american exceptionalism. inventing the telephone, the television and the internet technology that now defines our daily existence. you know, it was also an immigrant from germany who visited fdr's white house and push that war-time president to launch the manhattan project. in so doing, albert einstein and a lot of other immigrants fleeing nazi germany helped america and its allies win the second world war. our country's pioneering spirit has also extended to medicine, whether it is through the creation of lifesaving vaccines one after another through the years, the development of blood transfusions are miraculous breakthroughs in

franklin, i ben told three competing domestic mask makers that if we did not hang together, we would hang severally. china was placed to the company at greater risk. other companies, all domestic mask making companies, all smsa. and joined the unfortunately, the warnings were also unheated. , i had the privilege of working with three directors. hatchett, anddr. dr. rick bright. they encouraged me in warning people about the mask supply. after years of doing this, i quit many times. the only reason i did not stop doing it was the directors at barda, they encouraged me not to quit. not allowed to talk to reporters, which was frustrating for me. we also were not allowed to -- they also were not allowed to endorse the secure mask supply association. dr. robinson was going to do so until attorneys told him it could cost him his job. i could confirm that the emails arer. bright's complaint mine. latest in 13ly the years of emails i sent to get hhs to understand that the u.s. mask supply was destined for failure. they all wanted to remedy the problem at in my opinion, they did not have enou

you know, one of our founders way back in this country, ben franklin, said it a little bit differently. he said, those who would give up liberty in the name of security deserve neither. mr. paul: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from kentucky. mr. paul: the patriot act was begotten of the most unpatriotic of ideas, that liberty can be exchanged for security. the history of the patriot act shows that the exchange is a poor one. as our liberty wanes and wastes away, we find that the promises

you know, one of our founders way back in this country, ben franklin, said it a little bit differently. he said, those who would give up liberty in the name of security deserve neither. end quote. now, mr. president, before i yield the floor today, i'd like to commemorate one of new mexico's great heroes, senator dennis chavez who 70 years ago this week on may 12, 1950, stood on this floor of the united states senate and was in -- and was the first in the senate to sound the alarm against senator joseph mccarthy who had begun his reign of terror that year. dennis chavez was born into a farming family in territorial new mexico. he had a seventh grade education and rose to become a georgetown university law school graduate. the first american-born hispanic u.s. senator and at 27 years, the longest serving hispanic senator in the history of our country. senator chavez was a man of great integrity. in february 1950, mccarthy had charged, without proof, that there were 205 card-carrying communists working in the state department. by march he had accused american scholar someone of being a c