apart from the cost of the tea that was lost in the tea party, that was dumped overboard, the boston tea party was undoubtedly the most costly tea party in world history. thank you very much, ladies and gentlemen. i'll be happy to answer your questions. [applause] >> thank you. [applause] >> thank you very much. i'm happy to answer any questions, and the gentleman there will have a microphone for you to be heard across the nation and across the world. don't think. >> where did tar and feathering originate? in europe or in the colonies -- >> tar and feathering. >> oh, that originated here as far as i know. it was not a custom in england. yes, sir? >> was there any organized support, the colonyies -- >> support for -- >> loyalists supporting the crown? >> oh, yes, across the nation, at least one-third of the population. only days before the actual declaration of independence, john dickinson offered the olive branch petition to the king pledging our american loyalty to the king, love for the king, love of being british subjects and simply asking for him to control the parliament and let

we also learned the boston tea party was not celebrated. in a february 1774 cassette, we read the minutes from marshfield, massachusetts at a meeting where they label the boston tea party illegal, unjust and dangerous. the shot heard round the world, that came very close to happening on multiple occasions weeks and months prior to april 19, 1775. one case in particular cover in the book is how close he came to happening for months prior. also along paul revere once i learned he went on multiple revolutionary race. one case in particular was his right to philadelphia back to shaer, which is here the account word that a mr. paul revere. another interesting take it in the british newspaper is the printing of the declaration of independence, arrival was on august 10, 1776 in london. three days later the london chronicle prints but is an 18th century equivalent to be tweaked in that we have the faces received that the congress result of independence fourth of july and have declared war. two issues later the one of the principal text of the declar

on privacy and in some cases even total privacy anonymity this goes all the way back to the boston tea party when an anonymous activist known even to this day merely as rustic us posted flyers around boston to lead directly to the boston tea party in today's america russ this is plans rest of his plans to vandalize the tea ships might have been exposed by the east india company or the british government and the tea party would have been shut down before it even started in today's america people couldn't have conspired to overthrow unjust laws like slavery susan b. anthony couldn't have conspired with elizabeth cady stanton to illegally vote martin luther king and rosa parks may have been stopped before they could move civil rights in the spotlight we might even still be fighting wars in vietnam and iraq sure social media was a tremendous boost for both the occupy movement in the arab spring to get people into the streets but it was also a tremendous tool for law enforcement in both parts of the world to squash those same movements. and tragically the day may be near indeed it may already be

this was after the boston tea party and the so-called delors of acts. it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition -- coercive acts. it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. as soon as the colonies found out about the order in council prohibiting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies in new hampshire and rhode island, colonists took over the force and took the ammunition -- forts and took the ammunition. >> in his latest, kevin phillips >> in his latest, kevin phillips

self-interest in a way is as if it was a visible enemy it's all this week it is anniversary of the boston tea party this kind of an interesting thing on protectionism and some telling people yeah this sunday telling people which products they can buy. made a bunch of other guys get real drunk dressed up like indians it starts in venice and i don't think i want to go back down the road now well that's what we get that's what we have now the british east india company has a monopoly on the chinese and this in this situation it's really interest is kind of like a spy versus spy except crony versus crony into crony capitalism china with other cash coming in and buying especially as a one two three company which was subsidized by the government so that the united states can compete with china on green energy according to barack obama it fails china comes in a scoops up the company i think that's a pretty good as a kid but my point is that what you know what everybody else always did with tariffs what we did with paris for two and a half three centuries arguably five centuries i mean go back to henry the

this was after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party. it is clear the colonists were pulling together. maybe they did not intend to use it. that was a debate. the king basically prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies, unless it was officialese -- officially sanctioned. as soon as the colonies and found out about the prohibiting of ammunition from being sent to the colonies, in new hampshire and rhode island, the militia took over the force and took the ammunition, so everybody knew it was coming in the winter of 77 -- 1774. >> kevin phillips suggests 1775 was the critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. sunday night at 8:00. >> next, george will talked about the relationship between religion and american politics. he is introduced by john danforth. this is an hour-and-a-half. >> finally, it is my honor to introduce senator john danforth, who will introduce mr. will. the senator is a partner with the law firm. he graduated with honors from princeton university, wh

this is after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so-called coercive acts. it was clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition and cannons. maybe they did not intend to use it. that was a big debate. an article in october 1774 basically provided british ships from taking ammunition and other things to the colonies but unless it was officially sanctioned. so they were very alert to this. as soon as the colony's heard about the order in council prohibiting ammunition and munitions being sent to the colonies, in new hampshire and rhode island patriot and militias took over the fourth and took the ammunition and canons they could get. everybody knew what was coming in the winter of 1774-1775. >> how many people thought in the revolutionary war? >> how many people fought at least once in some battle? i would guess at least 200,000 to 250,000. but the number of regular american troops was not very high. let's say some small cavalry patrol goes into some part of new jersey and says the british were bringing a supply wagon, 45 wagons, do

they were talking about the boston tea party. this commodity in earnest and in the pace of about two hours broke up 342 chests and discharged their contents into the sea. a watch as i am informed was stationed to prevent embezzlement and not a single ounce of tea was suffered to be purloined by the populace. no one stole the tea. they just dumped it. >> you learn that somebody did try to pocket the tea and they were quickly seized and pummeled by the other colonists. >> their editorials make today's columns look like wimps. they used to write really tough editorials. >> this is where partisan propaganda was started. there were patriot and loyalist newspapers back then. that's where you really see the fires start. >> the book is called reporting, the revolutionary war before it was history, it was news. i love that. nice to have you with us. >> thanks for having me, soledad. >> pleasure. >>> end point is up next. if you are one of the millions of men who have used androgel 1%, there's big news. presenting androgel 1.62%. both are

this was after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the course oive acts. maybe the colonists did not intend to use the ammunition. was a big debate. on october 1774 the king with an order in council prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and they're getting to the colonies unless it was officially sanctioned. so they were very alert to this. as soon as the colony's found out about the order in council permitting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies in new hampshire and in rhode island the colonist patriot militia took over the fourth and took the ammunition they could get. everyone knew it was coming in the winter 1774-1 1775? fought?many people tho >> at least once in a battle, 250,00. or a militia company would turn out some small cowberry patrol goes into some parts of new jersey and says the british were bringing in the four supply wagons. a militia were turnout and help the small trooper regular soldiers, so they would have been in action. there was a lot of that. on just americans wh o were loyalists fighting patrio

this was after the british sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party.is clear the paulists were pulling together in addition -- to gather ammunition and cannons. the king prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies unless it was officially sanctioned. they were alert to this. the soonest the colonies found out about the order prohibiting munitions being sent to the colonies, the patriot militia took over the forts and took the ammunition and tennis they could get. everybody knew what was coming in the winter of 1774-1775. >> he suggests 1775 was the critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. that is tonight at 8:00. >> c-span has a lot of the objective coverage as far as the election. attuned into c-span to see a lot of the debate coverage during the election. c-span has a variety of programs that show the hearings on the hill. i tune into those. it is great coverage. c-span is underrated. you can tune in at any time. there is constantly programming on any number of topics. everything

this was after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the coercivects. it's clear the colonists were pulling together ammunition and cannons. maybe they did not intend to use them. that was a big debate. there was a council on october 1774 basically protecting british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies unless it was officially sanctioned. so they were very alert to this. as soon as the colony's found out about the order in council permitting an emissions from being sent to the colonies, in new hampshire and rhode island, colonist patriot militia took over the forces and took the ammunition and canons they could get. everybody knew what was coming in the winter of 1774/75. >> sunday night at 8:00 on c- span. [video clip] >> i like the congressional hearings and the stuff about the educational stuff, all the policy-making situations. thatnk it's a great thing washington d.c. has all these things and c-span covers it. >> eric want to c-span on comcast. created by america's cable companies in 1979, run to you as a public-service

this was after the british had sent more troops to boston, after the boston tea party and the so-called coercive acts. it is clear the colonists were pulling together ammunition and cannon. maybe they did not intend to use it. that was a big debate. the king -- in 1774 he basically prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colony is unless it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this. as soon as the colonies found out about the order and council prohibiting ammunitions from being sent to the colonies in new hampshire and rhode island, colonist militia took over the forts and took the ammunition they could get. everyone knew it was coming in the winter of 1774-1775. >> kevin phillips suggests 1775 was the critical launching point of both the revolutionary war and american independence. sunday night at 8:00. >> now, a look at the global economy with university of athens economics professor. he discusses his latest book of " the true origins of the financial crisis and the teacher of the world economy." this event is one hour and 10 minutes. >> lad

this was after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so-calledoercive acts, and it's clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition and cannon. maybe they didn't intend to use it. that was a big debate. the king on october 1774 basically prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies unless it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this. as soon as the colonies found out about the order prohibiting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies in new hampshire and rhode island, patriot militia took over the forts and took the ammunition and cannon they could get, so everybody knew it was coming in the winter of 1774-1775. >> in his latest, kevin phillips suggests that 1775, not 1776, was the critical launching point of both the revolutionary war and american independence, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us now is the chairman and editor in chief of forbes media, steve forbes. he will be with us for the next 45 minutes to take

this was after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and it's clear theolonists were pulling together the ammunition and cannons. the king basically prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies unless it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this. as soon as the collins found out about the order in new hampshire and rhode island, they took the ammunition so everybody knew it was coming in the winter of 77 for-1775 -- in the winter of 1774-1775. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are focusing on the "mit technology review." we are talking about big problems in the world. we will get to this coverage in just a second. this is jason pontin, editor in chief of "mit technology review ," and joining us from boston. you have a picture of buzz aldrin. headline. explain the angle. guest: our thesis is that 50 years ago there was a delirious confidence in the capacity of technology to solve big problems, that we could go to the moon if we set our minds on that. we could cure smallpox and polio. we could create

this was after the british sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so-called tax and it's clear that the colonists were pulling together the ammunition and maybe they didn't intend to use it. that was a big debate. they were and are in the council on october 17th come 1774 basically prohibited british ships from taking on the ammunition to the colonies unless it was official sanctions so they were very alert to this and as soon as the colonies found out about the order in council permitting ammunition from being sent to the colonies in new hampshire and rhode island the colonists patriot militia took over the fort and took the ammunition so everybody knew it was coming in the winter in 1774, 75. >> now supreme court justice stephen breyer on the u.s. constitution and the rule of law. we still get a brookings conference last month about china's legal system. first we will hear a brief introduction of justice breyer. >> for 20 years i've been advising the very senior chinese roughly half of that on financial and economic matters and the second half on a whole variet

this was after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so- called coercive acts. it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. maybe they did not intend to use the canon, that was a big debate. basically they prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies unless it was officially sanctioned. there were very alert to this. as soon as the colonists found out about the council prohibiting ammunition from being sent to the colonies and the hampshire and rhode island, patriots and melissa took over the fortune to the ammunition. everybody knew it was coming and the winter of 1774 and 1775. >> he suggests 1774 and 1775 was the critical launching. of the revolutionary war and american independence. host: joseph rosenberg is a research associate with the tax policy center and joins us to talk about who is affected if the fiscal of comes to fruition. to go along with that, one of the articles in this morning pose a wall street journal had the headline "a payroll tax as likely." if we go over the cliff, how w

ever where to get muskets and can't after the british had sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so- called coercive acts and it is clear that the colonists were pulling together ammunition. maybe they did not intend to use it but that was a big debate. the king prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies are less it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this. as soon as the colony's found out about the order prohibiting ammunition and munitions from being sent to the colonies, in new hampshire and then rhode island, colonist patriots over the monitions so everyone knew what was coming in the winter of 7074-1775. >> this brighter suggests that 1775 was a critical launching point of the revolutionary war and american independence. that is sunday night at 8:00 on cspan's "q7a." >> next a discussion with the all women delegation to congress from new hampshire. for the first time in u.s. history, the u.s. delegation of a state will be entirely made up of women. from manchester, new hampshire, this is about one hour, 15 minutes.

the most famous of these protests, of course, was the boston tea party, in which colonists, through ship loadista into the boston harbor protesting the tax on tea. there were a lot of taxes, as we recall from our history books. taxes on tea and sugar and paint and paper, and because some colonists believed these taxes were unjust, there was a lot of smuggling going on in the american colonies. people would import things like sugar and they'd simply avoid paying the tax on them. now, we all remember the king of england didn't like this a whole lot. he wanted the colonists to pay taxes whether they were allowed to vote or not. so the english authorities began issuing what are essentially general warrants. they were called writs of assistance, and they authorized government officials to enter into any house or building that they wanted in order to search for smuggled goods. now, these officials weren't limited to only searching in certain houses, and they weren't required to show any evidence that the place they were ^sefpg searching had any smuggled goods in it. basically, government offic

this was after the british sent more troops to boston after the boston tea party and the so- called coursef axe -- coersive acts. maybe they did not intend to use it. that was a big debate. a council on october 1774 basically prohibited british ships from taking ammunition and everything to the colonies and thus it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this -- unless it was officially sanctioned. they were very alert to this. colonists patriot militia took over the forts and took the ammunition they could get. everybody knew it was coming in the winter of 1774. >> in his latest, kevin phillips suggests 1775 was the critical launching point of both the revolutionary war and american independence. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q &a." >> as president obama begins his second term in office, what is the most important issue he should consider for 2013? >> make a short video about your message to the president. >> student cam video competition with your chance to win $5,000. $50,000 in total prizes. the deadline is january. for more information, go to studentcam.org. >> retired

tea party has been distorted. i took a little opportunity today to read about the historic i think 1773 when the tea partiers, bostons threw tea into the boston harbor. they were fighting for the colonies, for our independence, fighting for america. what are the tea party advocates fighting for now, that's not america. to see our economy troubled by the fact that the markets are nervous about going over this slippery slope. if that doesn't touch your heart on middle class americans seeing their tax bill go up enormously or $109 billion in immediate cuts in places where we probably can't cut. we cut $1.2 trillion and if i can say this one point, can you believe it on this day as we are looking for a solution someone has come up with the idea, i'm not going to raise the debt ceiling unless you give me another $1.2 trillion in cuts in medicare. let's stop the one upsmanship. i'm ready to vote on sunday to make it work and to make it work with a compromise. let's come tocchet and we can do this job. >> all right. you heard it here. thank you, congresswoman sheila jackson lee. i also hope you get to vote on sunday and yo

the tea party will be switching and will become the first african-american senator ever from south carolina. >> "boston globe," taking new steps to speed up your check-in this holiday season. the elderly members of the military and other travelers deemed low risk will now be able to keep their shoes, jackets and belts on. the tsa has also expanded its pre-check trusted traveler program to 35 airports. >> those trusted travelers, t.j. >> and a look with "politico" playbook, jim vandyheim. >> there was some movement on the fiscal cliff talks. >> yes. i would say substantial movement where you can see the contours of a deal that can get done potentially pretty quick where the president is willing to say i'm willing to not just raise taxes on people making more than $250, more than $400,000 and came back and said he would agree to more spending cuts the demand republicans have been making. a lot of them would be directedality entdirected ali at entitlement programs for republicans. you can see a deal that could come together well before christmas. getting to a top line number looking at a trillion in tax i