living in brooklyn. >> benjamin franklin? >> i have a tall latte for benjamin franklin. >> reporter: imagine getting this reaction every day. >> i was in a rite aid. i handed the lady my credit card. she looked down and looked at me and said, you better quit playing. >> reporter: we met with our benjamin franklin in front of his home on franklin street. >> it just kind of worked out that way. >> reporter: how did he inherit the famous name? is he an inventor? a diplomat? maybe a great kite flier. >> i can't tell you how many times i've been asked if i've been flying kites. >> reporter: well, sort of. franklin is an acrobat and co-founder of new york's two-ring circus. but seriously, why the name? >> i'm a long line of four benjamin franklins. my great grandfather was a bit of an inventor. respected the original benjamin franklin. thought that was a good name for the baby. >> reporter: it may sound like a case of mom and dad having an odd sense of humor. but open any phone book and under franklin, benjamin, you're bound to fin

and benjamin franklin. yes, of course, we will talk about him in a few minutes and his role of head and breaking through and knowledge barrier of before that i want to introduce a few other figures who are, perhaps, less known. a farmer and botanist, john bartram, a quaker who lived a little bit outside philadelphia and gradually get drawn into the intellectual life of philadelphia through franklin and his associates. we will speak about him more later. deglaze year and mathematicians thomas got free, a member of franklin's inner circle. and he invented an improved quadra for navigation. interestingly, he said this plan off to london which was in the heart of science claiming credit for a new and improved method of navigation. someone independently having invented a very similar system and happen to be sitting on the board of the royalties -- royal society. you can guess what happened, to get the official credit. it was eventually sorted out, and godfrey has been recognized as the coinventor of the improved

then i thought about benjamin franklin and it took me a long time but i think it is bill clinton. bill clinton has lost a lot of weight but got to think back to the bill clinton a few years ago. i think that he has that, sort of personality that, that was aimed at getting things done. >> great. >> not to mention the extracurricular love life. >> what part did the debt of the planters class owed to the british concerns play in their political decisions to vote for independence? did i read that correctly? >> well, it actually, americans were not in debt to the british in 1776. the british government was in big-time debt to all the countries all over the world because of the cost of winning the french and indian war basically. the cost of taking all of this territory in british north america away from france and spain. and the british in 1763, the british parliament says, hey, this land is in america but we're paying the bills for this. it's team for the americans to pay their fair share of the freight. so the whole british change in policy, the abandonment of salutary neglect and th

this is the real problem and to bring it back to "failing liberty 101" and benjamin franklin way back in the 1700's said very clearly a democracy requires a citizenry of virtue. it cannot be sustained. you need to have every person independently want to do the right thing, the august and care about their fellow citizens, and be willing to sacrifice a and give something up for the sake of the greater good. >>host: professor william damon it is our guest. "failing liberty 101" how we are leaving young americans unprepared for citizenship in a free society" is the book. the rise of self absorption. >>guest: that is the downside. there are two when we miseducate the young people. what we have been talking about mostly is to have the citizenry to turn into something else but the downside for the individual with the damage that is done it becomes a world of self absorption and there is an irony here that those who'd try really hard to become happy to accumulate and all the things that seem to make you happy, they turn out to make you miserable self absorption is not a good way to go through

illustrates the phenomenon to provide a valuable context for understanding what a breakthrough benjamin franklin and his colleagues achieved on a remote property outside philadelphia and john into the life of the group he became an avid collector on behalf of the royal society of london and worked with the swedish botanist and at 1.even the british king. feeder colocynth served as the contact with year for life science and he traveled widely often the beginning his farming duties to fill the endless request for more specimens. i will read briefly from the us chapter devoted to him. >> kyle accounts he bore out remarkably well ranging far and wide with hardships in the wilderness. on the expedition to the souders corporation of new jersey to collect and coke -- frank holmes for the duke he struggled against the elements i climb the trees in the rain and then must stand up to my knees and the snow to get the cones. on another trip bartrum had painstaking efforts to heat get the only most of the acorns were devoured by the squirrels and dogs. the request was too demanding or darting furnishing musk

i think the principal figures were george washington and benjamin franklin, and they, of course, are legendary figures, and they don't need me to buff up the esteem in which they're universeally held. but i don't think it's particularly widely known that george washington was, in fact, a very brilliant guerrilla war leader. and that's, essentially, what he conducted. he kept that army going virtually unpaid with continuous calls for new recruits and rotating the personnel for seven years. and he had to move it around, and he had to move inland to make it more difficult for the british to get at him and to move around with the british chasing him and only caseally in the early -- occasionally in the early phases of the war in the famous crossing of the delaware and the attack towards princeton and beyond and at the end of the active part of the war at yorktown did he, did he come out and stage a success isful action -- a successful action that really turned events. although he came very close on a few other occasions such as brandywine and germantown. but he was, essentially, a guerri

never mind, okay, franklin out. >> jimmy: wow, a vision from benjamin franklin. that was amazing. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: poor guy. smaller than i would have -- they're always shorter than you think they would be, you know? in case you forget to check your calendars, today is national handshake day, falling on june 27th, followed by i got a weird disease from shaking somebody'só hand day. national hand shake day is a reminder that not everything needs a holiday. but it has been practiced since at least the second century b.c., making it more than 2,000 years old. by comparison, the harlem shake only lasted a month. right? to me, handshakes is a great way to say hey, let me touch you with this thing that only ten minutes ago was wiping my butt. if there is anything who appreciates a. >> -- a good hand shake day is in cousin, sal. so we sent him out on hollywood boulevard to give the pedestrians some very long handshakes. >> how are you doing? big day, how is it going? >> good, good, how are you doing? >> this is what it is all about, you know? >> yeah. >

document was drafted by thomas jefferson and signed by the likes of john hancock, john adams, and benjamin franklin. to disseminate news of freedom, congress ordered printed copies to be sent by courier to the armies in the field, to the newly independent colonies, to the committees of public safety, and commanders of continental troops. 26 official copies are known to exist. >> if you think about the declaration, how news spread -- no tv, no messenger, no twitter, texting -- so it really was by word of mouth locally and then by printed documents, like broadsides -- single printed pages -- or these newspapers. >> in a remarkable coincidence, both john adams and thomas jefferson, the only signers of the declaration of independence later to serve as presidents of the united states, died on the same day -- july 4, 1826 -- which was the 50th anniversary of the declaration. the historic day marked the beginning of the journey of the 13 former british colonies towards a lasting union of independent, sovereign states. since then, millions have left their homeland to come to america, the land of the free a

well disserve neither and lose both i think it was benjamin franklin but let's come back to be discussionight after a short break. mission . accreditation free. for charges free. range month free. free. to tide free. old free broadcast quality video for your media projects a free video dog r t v dot com. welcome back to worlds apart we are discussing freedom in the digital world with rick. the founder of this pirate party mr following it let me turn the tables a little bit i understand that it's extremely easy for you and for me to fill indignant with the actions of the american government but the prism program wouldn't be possible without some cooperation from big tax companies you mentioned microsoft before there are also some other companies mentioned by snowden including facebook yahoo drawl box and many others so i assume that many of those companies were started by people like yourself. who possibly feel just as strongly about civil liberties and open access to information yet that owned companies provide these private information upon the government request do you think it is fair

we hear from jonathan lyons, "the society for useful knowledge: how benjamin franklin and friends brought enlightenment to america." at 9 p.m. on "after words," barbara perry details the life of rose kennedy. following that at 10 p.m., eastern, a presentation of "nothing but blue skies." by author edward mcclelland. and we conclude tonight's prime time programming at 11 p.m. eastern with a discussion about the tate of afghanistan. that all happens next -- the state of afghanistan. that all happens next on c-span2's booktv. >> up next, lynne olson presents her most recent book, "those angry days: roosevelt, lindbergh and america's fight over world war ii," at the 2013 gaithers burg book festival. this is about 50 minutes. >> olson has been a reporter and writer since shortly afterbo graduating from the university of arizona.over she was seven years with the associated press working as a national feature writer in new york, a foreign correspondent in ap's moscow bureau and a t political reporter in washington. she left the associated press to join the washington bower row of the baltimore s

benjamin franklin and said if you think you can gain some gain security by giving away. this would never work and you will. i think that's very right so what is the way to go about it then i mean should citizens in your opinion take privacy issues in their own hands applicant would rather absolutely privacy it's belongs into our own hands and our way some methods for instance you should encrypt e-mails that great programs you can use and nobody could read your e-mails anymore it's very simple to do that not enough people do that yet but they should you can use a service like saw to make sure that nobody can see where they use and very important you should use government money such as it is also encrypted and secure to run your own business you shouldn't be declare your independence from the government because governments in their very own nature i mean that they use force it's much better to use voluntary the force of the market not the force of why then it was. interesting you mention bitcoin there is a american government is now actually looking at it very closely but

think about you know giving up liberty for the sake of safety you know there's a great quote by benjamin franklin that hits on that and that's one of the main things that we are focusing on how we want just an actual democratic judicial review of these programs it's important for americans to permit and allow these programs why are we why are these programs being enacted without the voice of the people committing this to happen we just want an open debate we want to know what exactly is going on how these programs are being implemented and we know we want to know what our government is doing and either approve of it or disapprove we just want to be democratic if you disapprove of it though do you think that your movement will be able to change the government's policy the way it does that sort of business behind closed doors just briefly how effective do you think you'll movement could be i think it can be very effective the more that people learn about what's going on reach out to their legislators the legislators in our country are supposed to be the voice of the people so we want to encourage t

when benjamin franklin came out to the constitutional convention one day, a woman said, what have youemocracy, or a kingdom? he looked at the woman and he said, "we have given you a republic, if you can keep it." trouble -- our struggle is to keep this republic. deep in mind what the word republic means. is two things. the thing of the public. it is our treasure. it is our sword, our shield, our protection. it is something which we have to cherish. it is very fragile. extremely so. less so when we are all together. there are limits on the fights that we should make. the limit should be mutual respect, love of the country, understanding of duties, both of members of congress and public servants, does we are not the masters of this nation. we are public servants. that is the highest calling of all. i am proud that i have been a public servant, almost all my life. in the army, in the park service, and in the congress. i have been able, working together with others, to make this nation little better. it is that which is really important for all of us. we can do something. to make this cou

benjamin franklin, borrowing from jurist william blackstone said bertha 100 guilty persons should escape than one innocent suffer, and that's reflected in our system being weighted in favor of the accused. if there are no heroes, there are some villains. the media deserves to be excoriated for their role in inventing many parts of the narrative before the facts and evidence were even presented. thank god the press is not a true fourth branch of government. they emphasize race because trayvon martin was black, but they weren't honest in saying george zimmerman was his panic. should they claim he is half hispanic, then be equally honest saying barack obama is only half black, and that if he had a son, he really wouldn't look like trayvon martin. the facts in the case as presented in the court under oath were far different than the heated comments spewed by al sharpton and others that call more attention to themselves than they did to the tragedy. now, if a march needs to happen, maybe it ought to happen in chicago where the murder rate for black males leads the nation, almost one half the

. >> benjamin franklin never had an obama phone. >> there's no such thing as an obama phone. >> we'reod stamp nation. that's why obama got 51% of the vote. >> first of all, there's no obama phones. second of all -- >> stop a second. there is obama phone. >> we have always, let's get to the issue. we have always been a country, always, and liberals believe this. that have partnered individual entrepreneurship and hard work, with the idea that we all do better together. that's why we created a nation, sean. >> my grandparents came here at the turn of the last century. 38, 40, $45 in their pockets and guess what? they didn't have guaranteed health care, they didn't have an obama phone or social security. >> my grandfather went to college on the gi bill. >> we're going to be broke like spain and portugal. >> right now, most of the people on food stamps are working. productivity has gone up while incomes for working people have gone down. that's the problem. >> one thing that we have obama care now is what, we're learning that people aren't going to get hired full time because these corpor

but eventually, they sent three people in the benjamin franklin, john adams and john rutledge to meet with him, with richard howell in the stone house on staten island. september 11th after the battle. and he says look, we've just demonstrated to you that you cannot win. it is a hopeless cause. step back from independence. listen to the terms the kaine will offer you. they will be generous. i can tell you he is going to let you govern yourselves as you want to. although i can't guarantee it. and we will probably have to hang most of the leaders. [laughter] he doesn't say that, but that's what they mean. and both adams and franklin say something really interesting. adams says it makes no difference what happens here. if you destroy the continental army, we will raise another. demographically there are over 500,000 american males between the ages of 15 and 50. it's the same thing ho chi minh says to us. so, go ahead, but it doesn't make any difference. franklin says something like that, but he's friends with richard how. they had been friends in london and tried to end the war. the brot

i got the benjamin franklin. >> hidalgo's underarms display the initials of his arm, tango oro. and on his abdomen is the image of a glock 40 millimeter handgun which he says is a favorite weapon of drug dealers. >> crack cocaine on the scale. trust no one. basically, when you're semi-ing drugs, you can't really trust nobody. end up snitching on you. >> although hidalgo is proud of his extensive body art, he is starting to worry about how a judge and jury will react to it. he is expected to soon begin a series of trials in a litany of charges, including assault and arson. >> i should have waited until after my trial. but it's too late for all that. a lot of people see somebody as tatted is going to judge them. i feel it's going to affect me. >> coming up -- >> flooded his cell. he said just for no reason. he is notorious for doing something like that. >> a major disruption prompts the emergency response team to take action. ne else. we've had this farm for 30 years. we raise black and red angus cattle. we also produce natural gas. that's how we make our living and that's how we

benjamin franklin radical republicans and they still had the same street names of the day. so this is where charles douglas settled. >> well, and this is the copy that would be for later. but this is the 1871 city directory. fred lick doug editor. is he living in anacostia. and the word that you would use is stay. he was staying annacostia. and he lived his entire life on nicoles avenue. and mlk. in a special place. the established middle class prior. prior to the civil war. and runaway. contraband is coming to washington. maryland. virginia. and out to the south the plaque community helped to form. and shows this in washington, d.c.. there is a newspaper boy and possibly. a police officer and a official. carriage driver kpuk see here women here with products will have this folks come from charles county. and prince george. and st. mary's county. washington dog market selling their goods. this is almost a century. and this image that portrays them. you can see the capitol dome is in the back. >> all right. martin is a fascinating fell oechlt and mentioned earlier. to mr. co

>> what i would like them to do is really reiterate in simplified form exactly what benjamin franklin bernanke said. now said it and might as well repeat it. >> guys in the back, a full screen on exactly what david is talking about, i made that ahead of time because i had some anticipation it could be in here. guys, if you have that, and we'll call it up and what bernanke laid out is the anticipation of the committee. if the incoming data are broadly consistent with the forecast, the committee currently anticipates that it would be appropriate to moderate the monthly pace of purchases later this year. read by the fed chairman and extraordinary in the literal sense of it. never seen anything like that where the chairman expressed essentially policy of the committee or guidance from the committee outside of the policy statement so i raised my hand and said what is that, mr. chairman and kind of explained it, so that's what i think david is saying, why isn't that in the statement now? >> like a parent saying i'm going to cut your allowance at some point, not saying when or by how much. >

however from the beginning there was reference to william penn especially as a world citizen and benjamin franklin in the same way. portraying philadelphia as a world place which is a contemporary concern as well so it's really interesting echo for me. there was also another promoter who was promoting the area around the media in pennsylvania who was very persistent and his argument was all about william penn. he felt it should be in pennsylvania and he did not want it to be in the city of philadelphia. he thought it was not an appropriate setting for his organization so he pushed the area around media and also brought a number of eastern pennsylvanian communities into this competition each with their own proposal in east end pennsylvania for example, places and the poconos came in at his urging in order to make that connection with william penn. thank you for that question. it's interesting to me that a lot of these cartoons show philadelphia as william penn and think about the city trying to be modern and historic at the same time. i think especially this cartoon speaks to that, that the u.n. di

seconds long and found in the national archives by a professor from franklin college, named for benjamin franklin obama's let's move campaign is designed to get kids to exercise and eat healthier foods. what about her husband? he enjoys his junk food. something he said to a group of young people at the white house caught a lot of people's attention. major garrett is there with this new obama controversy. this stunning revelation. major, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, nor ah, gayle, and anthony. there is no documentation for the story i am about to tell. it did not happen in front of tv quam ras. we have confirmed that president obama told a student journal. iist that his favorite food was broccoli. there is a story on that. back to the president, he has had so many favorite foods, this new broccoli story is a bit fishy. >> reporter: it all started at a pseudosteak dinner at the white house. a mid-day tribute to children who sent michelle obama a recipe for healthy foods. bring it on, brussels sprouts wraps. slam-dunk veggie burger. >> reporter: then came president obama with a story abo

this film only eight seconds long was found in the archives which, by the way, was named for benjamin franklinher husband? we know he loves to eat his junk food. that's why what he said at the white house has people thinking. >> reporter: good morning, gayle and norah. there's no documentation for what i'm about to tell. but we have confirmed yesterday here president obama told journalists that his favorite food was broccoli. there's presidential history with it. back to the president. he's had so many favorite foods this new broccoli story is a bit fishy. it all started at a pseudo state dinner at the white house, a midday tribute to children who sent first lady. >> bring it on. veggie dunk burger. >> then he talked about the story of the vegetables he was served as a child. >> they got soft and mushy. nobody wanted to eat a pea or brussel sprout. they tasted horrible because they were mushy. then he revealed that broccoli was his favorite food. really? in 2012 president obama told skoe lat tick magazine his favorite food was chili, french fries and pork chops. then there's the visual proof.

it initially failed but benjamin franklin later found a better time to reintroduce it and it passed,but here is the real function of the united states senate, and it really comes from a story between thomas jefferson and george washington. of course, washington had presided over the constitutional convention, and jefferson was in paris, and when he returned, he asked washington why he allowed the senate to be formed, because jefferson considered it unnecessary. one body based on proportional representation, jefferson thought, should be enough. washington then asked jefferson if he cools his tea by first pouring it in the saucer, which was the custom of the day. sure, responded jefferson. and so washington said so it is that the senate must cool tempers and prevent hasty legislation by making sure that it is well thought out and fully debated. i mention that story and that little bit of history to remind us that the united states senate was created not to be like another house of representatives but for another purpose altogether. that's the other reason why the senate -- senators are

road through the russians ♪ he rode through the germans ♪ he rode so fast ♪ he surrendered to ♪ benjamin franklinabout that one. he'll get back in and michele bachmann will come back in. >> and marcus can become first lady. >> and then the election can go to the republican party just like it went last year. >> we could have a whole debate when paul revere was ringing them clang, clang, clang clang. michele bachmann is bring in fun facts ♪facts. [ whatever ] >> and bringing in history of all kind but doesn't remember american history. >> i'm really excited about the future and challenges ahead. >> sure. >> like walking in a straight line. >> about injuring yourself would be a challenge for him. every day is a challenge. >> a. >> time has come to pass the hasn't. >> well, texas is and will remain a strong pro-life, pro-family freedom state. >> yes, like all the other states that does not believe in freedom. [ whatever ] he said he would make his decision at the end of the year and he made a bleak mention of another run. he said any future considerations i will announce in due time and i'll make ann

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. >> i thought benjamin franklin said that. >> where's the seven-second delay thing?el terrible for a woman who i think is a spectacular person. i know her very, very well. i don't fault her for, you know, here's her husband, the father of her child. i don't blame her for that. but the fact that she -- the people of new york are not going to take any of -- i agree with robert. he's a super narcissist. he's grooving on this. anybody who sends their private parts across the internet is someone who really, really, really craves attention. in certain ways, this is his dream come true. he's the center of attention. i think the worst thing we could do to anthony weiner is never mention his name again. >> okay, you and robert gibbs agree. all right. maggie and i do not. david, thank you so much. greatly appreciate it. maggie, stick around. we've got so much more to talk about. we're going to dig in deep. >> excellent. >> coming up next, one of the best receivers to ever play the game. nfl's cris carter joins us next to talk about why receivers are cooler than everybody else.