tyson, author of several books including "welcome to the universe: death by blackhole." "indepth" at 3:00 p.m. live today from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> next, sebastian gore sky talks to the republican national lawyers association policy conference. >> good morning. pleasure to be here. thank you. it is great to be in a room of frriendlies. it b

planetarium in new york city and author of several books, including welcome to the universe, death by blackhole, and astrophysics for people in a hurry. watch in-depth with neil degrasse tyson life from noon on book tv on c-span2. ♪ c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies. it is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. next on american history tv, senate majority leader mitch mcconnell talks about former kentucky governor and u.s. senator wendell ford. mcconnell focuses on ford's early life on a dairy farm, his entry into politics, his campaign for majority whip, and his lasting legacy on kentucky politics. government ford education center in ellensburg, kentucky hosted this 45 minute long event. [applause] >> good afternoon everyone. ,y name is elizabeth griffith the executive director of the wendell ford government education center. it is my pleasure to welcome you to this historic tribute lecture honoring senator wendell ford featuring majority leader mitch mcconnell. before we begin, i would like

tyson, who is also the director of the hayden planetarium and several books including death by blackhole. live from new to 3:00 p.m. eastern today on book tv on c-span2. >> next on "the civil war," historians on the controversy over and future of civil war monuments. this was part of a symposium presented by the american civil war museum in richmond, virginia. they will talk about how these monuments influence memory of the war, and how public perception, particularly of confederate monuments, has changed. this is about 50 minutes. >> we will reconvene the panel. it has been a good day so far. what we will do is recognize you, you raise your hand, wait for the microphone. if you've got a question, it should be referred to one of the panelists, please designate that, and please try to stick to questions rather than statements. and let me start with a question that we got in virtual space. my name is mike powell. we are the largest roundtable in

he is he authored several books, including welcome to the universe, death by blackhole, and astrophysicsor people in a hurry. --day on q&a, defense mental >> completely embarrassed united states navy and shocked the culture that people were to provide information about ship movements. in other things as well exchange for not much money but a fairly lavish lifestyle. >> "washington journal" continues. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] while hillary clinton blamed herself, she also blamed wikileaks

tyson come author of several books, including "welcome to the universe," "death by blackhole," and hisost recent, "astrophysicists for people in a hurry." watch it live from noon to three clock in eastern sunday on book easternspan2 -- 3:00 sunday on book tv on c-span2. on the navy scandal involving fat leonard francis. >> it completely embarrassed the united states navy. it completely shocked the coulter of the navy that people were corrupted to provide defense marines with mostly information about ship movements but other things as well in exchange for not that much money , but fairly lavish lifestyles. >>

tyson come author of several books, including "welcome to the universe," "death by blackhole," and his most recent, "astrophysicists for people in a hurry." watch it live from noon to three clock in eastern sunday on book easternspan2 -- 3:00 sunday on book tv on c-span2. on the navy scandal involving fat leonard francis. >> it completely embarrassed the united states navy. it completely shocked the coulter of the navy that people were corrupted to provide defense marines with mostly information about ship movements but other things as well in exchange for not that much money , but fairly lavish lifestyles. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: congressman joe crowley, a democrat from new york, also serves as the democratic caucus chair. i want to start by getting your take on this five-month on the best budget deal -- omnibus budget deal. was this a good deal for democrats? guest: well, it's a deal, and overall a good deal that was struck. what it incorporates and maybe more importantly for what it doesn't have in the overa

tyson, author of several books including "welcome to the universe: death by blackhole." "indepth" at 3:00 p.m. live today from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> next, sebastian gore sky talks to the republican national lawyers association policy conference. >> good morning. pleasure to be here. thank you. it is great to be in a room of frriendlies. it has been quite a ride for the last 15 weeks. you have heard what i specialize in. i try to help our operators understand the enemies we face like al qaeda, like isis. now i am in a national security position inside the white house working on these loans that a strategic level. let me give you a brief overview of what we inherited on january 20 and what the president and tents to do. then we will leave some time for questions and answers. world today. the sad reality is that wherever you look, pick any compass point on the compass, any cardinal point, we inherited a world on fire whether you look to asia, whether you look to europe, whether you look to the middle east. the last administration created a vacuum, and it wasn't a

we have examples of blackhole in the galaxy.'t see them directly because there's no light coming as he was back. sometimes you can see distortion of the fabric of space and time in their vicinity. the star field behind them get distorted. make the left instead of going straight and good you don't want to get into the blackhole, drawn drawn into its gravity. expires down, gets hotter and hotter. before it enters, it radiates brightly and ultraviolet and x-ray is. we have x-ray telescopes. as powerful as the hubble space telescope it doesn't take the pretty pictures. we have x-ray telescopes that signs and maps these articles across the galaxy so when we finally goes days traveling, you know what to avoid. >> host: dr. tyson coming of one minute to answer this question from a 2012 boat space chronicles. friday, april 13, 2029. >> so actually there is a close approach of an asteroid rediscovered. it's orbit crosses earth's orbit and sometimes across this very closely. april 13, 2029, this asteroid the size of a rose bowl will come

authoring such hits as "blackhole sun" and "spoonman." and was part of the band "audioslave." soundgarden reformed in 2010 and was currently on tour. chris cornell was 52 years old. ( pam ) the architect of fox news has died.... following an accident at home. roger ailes was 77- years old. ailes fell in the bathroom last week and hit his head. this caused serious bleeding and left him in a coma. authorities in florida say.. ailes died today from bleeding on the brain. ailes founded the fox new channel, building it into a powerhouse. he was undone by a sexual harrassment scandal and was forced to resign last july. before getting into television, he worked as republican operative... assisting richard nixon, ronald reagan and george h-w bush. ( steve ) a disturbing crime out of santa cruz county lands a brain surgeon in court. the evidence investigators say they have that has the doctor facing child sex crime charges.( pam ) and another reason why you should not get near a rattlesnake. hear what happened to man ... after he decided to pick o

planetarium in new york city and author of several books including welcome to the universe, death by blackhole, and his most recent astrophysics for people in a hurry. watch in-depth live from noon - 3 eastern sunday on the tv on c-span2. >> now back live to the national press club for the republican national lawyers association, the annual policy conference continues. >>

planetarium in new york city and author of several books including welcome to the universe, death by blackhole, and astrophysics for people in a hurry. watch neil degrasse tighten live from noon if the 3:00 p.m. eastern c-span 2. all weekend, "american history tv"'s future in redding, california. we visited many sites so casing is history. the city of reading is located in northern california along the sacramento river near the shasta dam. learn more about reading all weekend here on "american history tv." we are driving across shasta dam right now, we are in the middle of what was the copperbelt. on the lake side of the dam below 400 feet of water lies the residents of the town of kennett and the smelter. on the other side of the dam near the foot is the old town of --am and the coram seltzer smelter, and that is we are heading today. one of the things we don't talk about with the copper industry, but i think there is a lot we can learn from it. i have diverted my research now to finding tales that are not really told and trying to get them out. right now, we are standing outside the remnants

the seattle group was best known for its hit blackhole son.nell later contributed his skills to the band audio slave. he was on tour and performed last night in detroit. the medical examiner says he hanged himself. he was 52. >>> and the fillmore in downtown silver springs posted this picture to remember the late singer. the marquee reads, rip chris cornell. >>> the rock 'n roll world sharing their grief online. musician dave navarro tweeted, so, so stunned to hear about chris cornell. such a terrible and sad loss. from elton john, shocked and saddened by the sudden death of chris cornell. a great singer, songwriter, and the loveliest man. and on her facebook page, linda share, what a shame fame, fortune and family, depression is a horrible thing to suffer from. praying for his family. we will miss his music. >>> for years the only picture we had a former u.s. soldier chelsea manning was one that was several years old pre-the military released it in 2013 but it had been taken early . today a day after being released from prison, he posted a ne

the are trying to sell off chips business to fill the blackhole they have had with they are trying tohouse unit. over the weekend, southern agreeing to take control from toshiba, which limit some liabilities toshiba may have. at the same time, their partner , westernips unit digital, is filing for arbitration to slow down the sale. rishaad: they want a say in terms of who it will be sold to. at the end of the day, it is perfectly valid as a request if you are a partner. >> the point toshiba would make is that western digital was not the original partner in that joint venture. they became a partner because they bought sandisk. any consentnot have rights over the sale, so toshiba is saying you cannot argue for rights we never got in the first place. they said in the contract it is clear there are no consent rights either way. haidi: these numbers we have gotten in the last 15 minutes or so, negative shareholder equity, is any of that surprising to you? these are not audited numbers. toshiba has not been able to get its auditors to sign off on its financial reports because they are tryin

author of several books, including welcome to the universe, death by blackhole and his most recent, astrophysics for people in a hurry. watch in-depth with astrophysicist and author, neil degrasse tyson sunday, on book tv on c-span2. join us tuesday morning as we head to the heart of appalachia's coal country for washington journals spotlight on the coal industry. we will be live in a cold transfer center in ohio to talk about coal mining regulation, our guests are robert murray, owner of murray energy, ohio republican congressman bill johnson, the vice director of the ohio valley environmental coalition and nick mullins, author of the thoughtful: her blog -- the thoughtful coal miner blog. live on c-span. all weekend long, american history tv is joining our charter communications able partners to showcase the history of redding, california. to learn more about the cities on our current tour, visit c-span.org/citiestour. we continue with our look at the history of redding. at the height of california's gold rush, this town of shasta had seven hotels, saloons, bars, wholesale businesses, retail b

facebook questions was also the director of new york city and welcome to the universe, death by blackhole and his most recent, astrophysics for people in a hurry. watch him live from noon 25 eastern sunday on book tv on c-span2. >> president tromp has nominated iowa republican governor terry branstad to be the next ambassador to china. he testified earlier this week before the senate foreign relations committee. he talks about his relationship with the chinese president, china's role in north korea and cyber security concerns. this is just under two hours. >> the foreign relations committee will come to order. we are honored to have so many people here today. i do wonder what is happening back in iowa with the governor and two senators and 70 distinguished individuals here. we are glad to hear have you here in support of her nominee. out of out of deep respect for senator grassley and senator ernst, we will defer our opening comments so you do not have to sit through those. i know you would like to say wonderful and glowing things about our nominee and we know you have other business to t

planetarium in new york city and author of several books including welcome to the universe, death by blackhole, and his most recent astrophysics for people in a hurry. watch in-depth live from noon - 3 eastern sunday on the tv on c-span2. >> now back live to the national press club for the republican national lawyers association, the annual policy conference continues. >> more recently, we have deployed 117 lawyers to ensure open, fair and honest elections in ten targeted states and an additional 35 for recount. in addition, are in a leaders have trained over 800 lawyers and pull watchers. members participated at some level, either paid or volunteering to ensure honest elections throughout the country. i want to take the opportunity to recognize all those who volunteered and helped elect donald trump and other republicans. we hope to see you in michigan august 4 and fifth. we don't know if it's detroit or grand rapids yet. and offer your assistance in the virginia elections this year. i will turn it over to john to kick off our next panel. >> thank you elliott. i am john ryder. i'm cochairman

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