admiral george coburn was the driving force. his superior, major general robert ross had second thoughts and he wanted to return. and coburn forced him by the influence of his occupants, to proceed. he said we've only got militia men ahead of us. that's nothing. we've come so far, we have to continue. he had been recognized by nelson. he acknowledged coburn ability and knowledge and zeal. he was naugt of so highly by the british admiralty, that he was chosen to take the great napoleon into exile on the island. and i got ahold of his diary. and he said this man, napoleon, sometimes, wants to play the sovereign. i won't allow it. that is the fiber of a man who grabbed an american who was innocent. he took him and grabbed him for the white house as a british ban dit. the man he select ed was roger chu. he became a long-time mayor of the city of washington. he was in a free-willing mood. he taunted and mocked the madisons. and then he tweaked the honor of whiteman. he said take a souvenir chltsds he said i'll take one for myself. he

but george coburn pushes ahead.his idea is to make use of several different waterways on an attack on washington. if the british forcibly sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate target. that one squadron sailed up the potomac river, and threatened the capital and the city of alexandria. the main force is going to go the other river into southern maryland. the advantage of this was it would shield the ultimate british intention. the move up the patuxant river could mean an attack on washington, or an overland attack on baltimore or an attack on annapolis. or it could be that the british were simply chasing after, or joshua barney, who was the american commander of the chesapeake flotilla, who had a flotilla of shallow draft boats. barney, by the summer of 1814, had been trapped further up river than the british. the british could use his presence in this river to more or less shield their movements towards the capital. and that is exactly what coburn recommends. and it's exactly w

and that is exactly what coburn recommends. and it's exactly what alexander cochrane, who is in charge of the entire fleet, agreed to do. on august 19, of 1814, the army lands in benedict, which is about halfway up the river from the bay towards washington. meanwhile, you have the other squadron underneath captain james gordon, sailing up the

we'll also hear about british admiral coburn used the waterways to invade and burn the city. >>> coburn's idea is to make use of several different waterways in an attack on washington. if the british force simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate target. coburn decides that -- or recommends that the force be split up. that one squadron sail up the potomac river and threaten the capitol and the city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the potungset river in maryland. and it would kind of shield the ultimate british intention. because a move up the potungsset could mean anything. it could mean an attack on washington, but it could also mean an overland attack on baltimore, or attack on annapolis. or it could mean that the british were simply chasing after commedore joshua barney, who was the american commander of the chesapeake flotilla, who had a flotilla of shallow draft barges that were perfectly suited for navigating the shallow waters of the chesapeake and the rivers feeding into it. barney, by the summer of 1814, had been trapped

then coburn said i will take a souvenir for myself. he selected a hat probably belonging to the president. the british drink. they poured the wine into cut glass. they drank to the success of his majesty's forces. when one of the men found a ceremonial hat belonging to the president, he raised by the tip of his bayonet and said if they could not capture the little president, madison was only 5'4", they would paredes had in england. that night, they burned the white house and treasury. the following morning, the war department. there were clouds of choking black smoke over the city. the rooms were a telling commentary on the scale of the city's degradation. that is the scene as they left the capital. in these flames, they came on wednesday night. on thursday at 2:00 p.m., there was a two-hour storm that may have been a hurricane. it was so fierce it lifted heavy weekend is and things like feathers and drop them at random. it spreadeagled horses. britons were terrified. locals had never seen anything like it. it is mythological to say th

we'll hear how george coburn used washington's waterways to invade and burn the city. >> coburn's idea is to make use of several different waterways in an attack on washington. if the british forces simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate party. coburn recommends that the force be split up, one squadron sail up the potomac river and threaten the capitol and the city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the pawtuxet river into southern maryland. the advantage was that it would shield the ultimate british intention it might mean an attack on washington, it could also mean the british were simply chasing after commodore joshua barney who was the american commander of the chess peak flotilla, who had a flotilla of barges and the rivers flowing into it. he had been trapped in the pawtuxet river, he was further up river than the british, and the british could use barney's presence. >> it's what the british commanders, general ross and admiral alexander dock run agree to do. >> this weekend a panel of historians as they discuss the bu bur

coburn decides that, or recommends that the force be split up, that one squadron sail up the potomacriver and threaten the capital in the city of alexandria. the main force is going to go up the putuxen river into southern maryland, and the advantage of the putuckson is it would shield the ultimate british intention. it could mean many things. it might mean an attack on washington, but it also could mean an over land attack on baltimore or an attack on annapolis or it could mean that the british were simply chasing after commodore joshua barney who was the american commander of the chesapeake flu toa who had a flatoa of shallow draft barges that were perfect for navigating the shallow waters of the chesapeake and the rivers feeding into it. barn barney, by the summer of 1814, had been trapped in the river. he was in the further up river than the british, and the british could use barney's presence in the river to more or less shield their movement toward the capital. and that's exactly what coburn recommends and it's what the british commanders general ross and admiral alexander coch

we'll hear how george coburn used washington's waterways to invade and burn the city. >> coburn's idea is to make use of several different waterways in an attack

coburn is not here. he's in our thoughts and prayers. >> sure is. >> want to thank you, thank our witnesses, and looking forward to the testimony. the questions i'm going to be looking to have answered is, first and foremost, since i've been here and been looking into this issue, we're really declaring federal disaster declarations much more frequent basis. now, is that because we really have, you know, a higher instance of the types of disasters that require that, or are we just too quick to declare those disasters? i'm afraid that if we have an overreliance on the federal government help, is that restraining the mitigation? the new word i'm hearing, resilience, in terms of, you know, how we prepare. are we being penny wise and pound foolish by not spending the money up front to mitigate and, again, the overreliance on federal help when these disasters hit. everybody's expecting the federal government to come in and pay for things as opposed to actually mitigating these risks ahead of time. and so from

we'll also hear about british admiral coburn used the waterways to invade and burn the city. >>> coburn'sa is to make use of several different waterways in an attack on washington. if the british force simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate target. coburn decides that -- or recommends that the force be split up. that one squadron sail up the potomac river and threaten the capitol and the city of alexandria. the main force is going to go up the potungset river in maryland. and the advantage of te hpotungset is that it would kind of shield the ultimate british intention. because a move up the potungsset could mean anything. it could mean an attack on washington, but it could also mean an overland attack on baltimore, or attack on annapolis. or it could mean that the british were simply chasing after commedore joshua barney, who was the american commander of the chesapeake flotilla, who had a flotilla of shallow draft barges that were perfectly suited for navigating the shallow waters of the chesapeake and the rivers feeding into it. barney, by th

we'll hear how george coburn used washington's waterways to invade and burn the city. >> coburn's idea is to make use of several different waterways in an attack on washington. if the british forces simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate party. coburn recommends that the force be split up, one squadron sail up the potomac river and threaten the capitol and the city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the pawtuxet river into southern maryland. the advantage was that it would shield the ultimate british intention it might mean an attack on washington, it could also mean the british were simply chasing after commodore joshua barney who was the american commander of the chess peak flotilla, who had a flotilla of barges and the rivers flowing into it. he had been trapped in the pawtuxet river, he was further up river than the british, and the british could use barney's presence. >> it's what the british commanders, general ross and admiral alexander dock run agree to do. >> this weekend a panel of historians as they discuss the bu bur

naturally some people have a problem with that including oklahoma senator tom coburn who published some of the more egregious projects. more went to hotels. a wellness center in california spent $65,000 on this sculpture. it was designed to help underserved populations and now may have to close because of budget short falls. coburn summed up his frustration when government picks winners and losers the losers usually end up being taxpayers. typos can be problematic and embarrassing and lead to intelligence violations. the justice department inspector general said the fbi spied on the wrong people a lot because of people not minding their ps and qs. potential intelligence violations resulting from tippos and caused them to receive information of someone other than the intended target. finally the federal government has decided to help build the long awaited border fence. in ukraine. more than $400,000 has been allocated for razor wire to defend the newly imposed borders between ukraine's mainland and the crimean peninsula. so one congressman tweeted so obama can give money to build the uk

the city. >> coburn's idea is to make use of several different waterways in an attack on washington.f the british forces simply sailed up the potomac, everybody would know that washington was the ultimate party. -- target. coburn recommends that the force be split up, one squadron sail city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the pawtuxet river into southern maryland. the advantage was that it would shield the ultimate british intention it might mean an attack on washington, it could also mean the british were simply chasing after commodore joshua barney who was the american commander of the chess peak flotilla, who had a flotilla of barges and the rivers flowing into it. he had been trapped in the pawtuxet river, he was further up river than the british, and the british could use barney's presence. barney, by the summer of 1814, had been trapped in the pawtuxet river. he was further up river than the british. the british could use barney's presence in the pawtuxet river to more or less shield their movement toward the capitol. that's exactly what coburn recommends, and i

and that's exactly what coburn recommended. and it's what the british commanders, general ross and admiral alexander cochran, who was in charge of the entire fleet here in north america, agreed to do. >>> you can watch more from author steve vogel on how the british utilized washington's waterways during the invasion this sunday at 6:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern. also saturday live coverage of a panel discussion with authors and historians about the 1814 battle of bladensburg and how the victory left the capital exposed to british forces. that's live saturday at 1:00 p.m. eastern right here on c-span3. >>> next, historian jim ogden talks about confederate weapons manufacturing in central georgia. in the fall of 1964 sherman destroyed much of this infrastructure, crippling the confederate army's ability to wage war. this hour-long talk was hosted by the civil war center at kennesaw state university in georgia. [ applause ]know, >>> as many of you all know from coming to some of my programs over the years, i have a tendency to use a

because if the coburn bill were to pass, and that bill would change the system for new workers, thatwhen we do hire a lot of new workers, they would all come into this less expensive system. so, there would be a dramatic turnover right away into a less expensive system. that's actually an opportunity. >> we're watching the good people of detroit go through a struggle over their pensions right now. take it to the federal level, steve. is there any kind of implied guarantee or bailout, should the federal pension system continue to have shortfalls? >> you know, i doubt that you would ever see the federal government do what detroit is doing. let's face it, the problem here is that the taxpayer is the backstop to all of this. and at the federal level, unlike detroit, we actually have the ability, as you know, to run deficits to pay off these kinds of bills. so, i think that it's incumbent to make this system more sustainable, precisely because otherwise, in the future, you know, it's going to exacerbate our deficits. >> and that's putting it lightly. steve malanga, thank you very much for

. >> coburn's idea is to make use of several different wear ways. they simply sailed up the potom potomac, coburns decides that -- or recommends that the force be split up, that one squadron sale up the potomac river and threaten the capital in the city of alexandria, the main force is going to go up the pa tuxant river into southern maryland. the advantage is it would shield the silt british intention. a move all that could mean many things. it could also mean as overland attack on baltimore or attack on annapolis, or it could mean the british were simply chasing after commodore joshua barney, who was the american commander of the chesapeake flotilla, who had a flotilla of shallow draft barges that were perfectly suited for navigating the shallow waters of the chesapeake and the rivers feeding into it. barney, by the summer of 1814 his tracked in the patuxant river, and the british could use barney's presence to more or less shield their movement toward the capital. that's exactly what coburn recommends, and it's what the british commander, general

coburn say, quote, when the government picks winners and losers, the losers usually end up being the>>> a fun day at the park is no fun for this veteran. this marine says that six flags, the amusement park, turned him away and his entire family because he was wearing this t-shirt. take a closer look. it is a shirt supporting the marines. on it there is a red, white and blue rifle with the words keep calm and return fire. a worker there said it would offend people. >>> can you tell what doesn't belong in this picture? you know the show "downton abbey" released this promotional picture. someone forgot to remove the plastic water bottle on the shelf behind the actors. see that in the red circle. the new show will be set in the late 1920's. plastic bottles were not sold in the 1960's or later. >> i'm not watching now. i'm looking for historical actor scenes. >> there is a story on foxnews.com about all the times in which they have a roman movie and a plane flies in the background. it was fantastic. >> they can fix it in post. >> for example, while we fix this segment we just did, let's g

decided to take a piece that we could chew initially and it looks like senator mccaskill and senator coburn are all right as well absolutely and given what we're seeing on a community level do you think we're actually see something pass i know that this is supposed to be presented in september that's right introduced in september we think so it's bipartisan i think people are very upset with what is also the swat of the cation of america you're seeing one hundred fifty swat reads a day by departments like department of education who's using a swat team to just issue a warrant a simple warrant so i think people are very upset and this is the tipping point that's incredible and just recently we heard that the davis city council in california told its police department that it had sixty days to come up with a plan to get rid of its m. rap and i guess you know they're following to some community pressure do you think we're going to see police departments maybe scale back a little bit on their own or perhaps you know implement new programs body cameras etc do you think that they'll take their ow

george coburn was a very effective officer, who served under nelson in the wars with france. he had been sent over here to pep things up. he was a very capable officer, ruthless without being vicious. he pretty quickly determines that the americans are not capable of providing much in the way of a real defense. from the start, he sees washington as being vulnerable. very quickly, as he spreads his terror up and down the bay, he becomes not only the most feared man in america, but also the most hated. he is compared to attila the hun, and satan among others. he takes anyone who shows resistance, can be expected to taken in chains to halifax. the chesapeake provided access to the richest and most important land in america at this time. certainly, in addition to being the home of the capital of washington dc, some of the most important cities like baltimore in norfolk were on the water, and within easy access of the british. by establishing control of the bay, the british were able to put a lot of pressure on united states. it is important to remember that this war was primarily

>> we've published many members of congress, for instance, senators tom coburn and members of congress, probably a dozen of them over the last 12 years. but probably our best selling author and most well-known, three-time number one "new york times" bestseller is michael savage, the radio talk show host. we've also had a number of number one bestsellers by jerome corsi is a staff writer for us. but this secret to wnd is we publish books a lot of other publishers would be afraid to publish. it's the philosophy of wnd. we started as a watchdog news agency, kind with their tradition of american journalism where somebody needs to be the watchdog on government and other powerful institutions. we translate that into books over the years by printing, publishing edgy titles. by the way, both christian and secular. we've had a lot of success in the christian field. because a lot of christian publishers don't like controversy. we love controversy. >> who are some of the authorship coming out this fall? >> we have one very am it's been a secret so this is a scoop for c-span. remember todd akin, t

coburn's all over this reckless behavior and interaction that's now brewing in america well i might add that this emerged only at the end of two thousand and thirteen none of the media in america even offered this as a possibility that this was something that j.p. morgan was doing they were all buying jamie diamond mine the only one that weren't they we it was us and that was kaiser report we interviewed terry bull back in two thousand i'm back in two thousand and ten back in two thousand and five and she said over and over that no it was not just bear stearns a washington mutual j.p. morgan committed these crimes and it will emerge one day so that has emerged eric schneiderman who's the attorney general for the new york this is what he said when he saw the information about what jamie what j.p. morgan had done regarding mortgage securities fraud it was even worse than i had realized because it was so out in the open it was like a bank robbery without masks or gloves i think they were so brazen they didn't even bother wearing masks or gloves to hide their crime they just did it out in t

a now report from tom coburn said federal tax credit missed for developing poor communities are beingut. $40 million aquariums 65,000 dollar sculptures. that's what the money is going to thanks to private investors. >> the irs under fire again this time for fraud and idtheft. >> lori rothman has more. >> more than a million u.s. taxpayers perhaps you and he have been exposed to an increased risk of fraud and identity theft. the irs failed to do mandatory background checks of some private contractors who have access to confidential tax payer's. s they had a computer disc with the personal information of 1.4 million tax takers before doing any outside check on those workers. in another case they hired a courier when spent prison nn arson charges. the irs is committed to clarifying policies and procedures to ensure appropriate security provisions are all included in appropriate solicitations and contracts. they didn't look into weather around the data was misused. so far no xhints. the irs paid 4 billion in fraudulent tax refunds. >> lori. thanks so much. have a great weekend. >> 5@5:00.

then senator coburn had a problem, and he backed off and said, no, i kind of like this section. and then senator lee had a problem, and senator coburn talked to senator lee, and senator lee woo was fine. we have 81 people on this bill, and one senator tonight -- this afternoon is holding it, holding it hostage because he doesn't like the program. well, we can all work together on the program, but why signal out israel because you don't like the program? let this go. we can have a colloquy. we can work together, senator sessions. we can make sure there's no abuse here. we changed this so that we'd be sure there's no abuse. so i'm really very saddened at this, and you will i can say is, senator blunt and i are coming back with this bill over and over and over again. and one way or the oh, we'll get it done -- and one way or the other, we'll get it done. and i say to my friends in israel, take heart. 81 of the u.s. senators are with you. only one objected. so take heart because we are with you, and we will get this done. mr. president, that's the end of my remarks. and i note the a

so thank you. >> thank you, senator coburn. and excuse me, senator carper. >> i've been called worse, even this week. >> thank you. i want you to know as i've indicated, because we had a hearing on disability insurance, where there is fraud we are going to find it and fight it. this program is so important for people. she did everything right, she just got clobbered by one disease after another. and she was sitting there at the end of the table where chairman mccull ski was with medications piled one box after another that she takes every day. we owe it to her, to taxpayers, i also have this document about service about improper payments. it would indicate in in the overwhelming number of instances, the agency gets it right. your point is, when they don't and when there's particularly fraud, we have to find it, we have to fight it, we have to root it out in a bipartisan way. let me recognize senator hatch. i think would you like to say anything else? >> just welcome and happy to have you testify here today and enjoyed our meeti

defense's comments this week 0 about isis being the biggest threat we've ever faced and senator tom coburna press conference last week talking about the ability of isis to destroy an entire american city, both of those gentlemen have access to intelligence that we normal americans don't routinely see. i'd say something's up. >> i'd say something's up as well because when you look at the story in and of itself, it stands alone that they're now getting out from tunisia. about 2400 people from tunisia are working with isis. there are tunisian scientists who discovered how they could use this bubonic plague, putting it into grenades, first testing it on lab rats so they wouldn't be infected. but the idea or concept of putting it into a grenade and throwing it into malls or soft targets. that should be a concern. >> absolutely. there's plenty of soft targets around, as you and i both know, having traveled certainly on the train between d.c. and new york. but that article reminds us there's a lot of smart people who are part of isis and probably going to be a lot of more smart people. they have

the event is covered from all angles by local television station lake tv and it's co-owner shawn coburn. >> it's a fund-raiser for local charities. basically, you show up at the restaurant. you sign in. and then you go to six different stops and at those stops you get a card and at the end of the day, the best hand wins. really is a highlight of what the lake is all about. getting out on the wert and justin joying all of the rest rapts and establishments on the water. >> lake tv cameraman and co-owner brett tentara is tasked with shooting video on the contestant's boats. he positions his camera on a boat carrying a group of six other people. >> it was a beautiful, beautiful warm summer day. the event was actually wrapping up. the end of the day. everybody was in good spirits. we rode about 15 different boats that day. i get in the boat and mount the camera on the dashboard. and this allows me to sit down safely riding in the boat and film the action. i made sure i got a shot of everybody. >> the high-end power boat begin it is journey to the last stop of the day. as the driver picks up

eastern, a discussion about british admiral george coburn and how he used washington, d.c.'s waterways to seize the city. all here, on c-span3. >>> next, sherman's 1864 atlanta campaign. including the union siege of the city, and the march to the sea. with university of west georgia professor keith bohannon. this is part of the summer conference. it's about an hour. >> before we get started, the map you see up here is a campaign map on the left side. the inserts there, or the smaller maps indicate the main battles. i know it's probably difficult for those of you in the back of the room to see the small details, and maybe read the print, and so what we did -- or actually, what pete's staff did is include this in your maps and handouts books. so hopefully most of you have this. if you turn to page 9, you'll see this map in there. you might want to refer to this, this is probably a little easier to read. but we'll be making frequent -- or i'll be making frequent reference to this campaign map, which will help us understand the course of the campaign. as general and chief of all

kennedy.enator we are losing coburn. we are losing waxman.ted to remind members there are so many new members of congress and new staff that they may not be familiar with the ryan white program. with carlre talking schmid. derek, stillwater, minnesota. this is a sensitive issue. i don't know what is going on with this. isfirst question would be -- there a potential for a cure. that is one question. my second question -- host: is there a potential for a cure? guest: i am not a scientist either. what i hear is there is a potential for a cure. it is a long ways off. scientists are working on a vaccine. it is going to take decades. in the meantime, we have the ability to -- treatment, and to get people on treatment. all lowers the virus for and then you cannot spread it to -- lowers the virus for people and then you cannot spread it to others. we will have a cure someday. host: chris, buffalo, new york, democratic caller, living with hiv/aids. caller: i would like to thank the person for doing his job. and i needs patient him to do his job for me

we lost senator kennedy and senator coburn and waxman.e need to remind members of congress there are so many new members of congress and staff and they may not be familiar with the ryan white program. >> host: we are talking about the funding and advocy for aids. derrick, independent caller, you are up first. >> caller: i am not a scientist and i don't know what is going on with this. but my first question is is there a potential for a cure? >> host: derrick, let's take that. >> guest: i am not a scientist either but what i hear from nih is there is a potential for a cure. it is long ways off. and scientist are working on a vaccine. it is going to take a decade. but in the mean time we have the ability to treatment and get people on treatment which in effect lowers the virus for people and you cannot spread it to other people. so i think that is the goal right now. yes, it would be great if we some day, and we will have a cure some day. >> host: chris, buffalo new york, democratic caller living with hiv/aids. go ahead. >> caller: yes, i w

tom coburn's office found that the v.a. is spent $200 million may last 10 years in attempt to compensate victims for its mistakes. more than 1000 veterans needlessly died under the v.a. watch. the median payment for a victim was $150,000. most agreed it was not about the money. they wanted the v.a. to be held accountable. between 2006-2013, the number of full-time employees jumped 40%. from 220,000, 314,000. the budget is up even more. 90%. with 94,000 additional government employees, and twice as much money, the left believes the problem is the v.a. is underfunded. the v.a. workforce is larger than the marine corps. compared to 200,000 marine corps. attention shrinking to 150,000, at which point they would be half as many marines. despite the competence and corruption, leadership has seem to reward the officials with performance bonuses. last year, 78 percent of the a senior managers receive these bonuses and got performance ratings of outstanding or exceeds successful. 470 the got successful or better. all of the top empl

coburn and mr. sanders put out that said it was 12.6%. i understand the logic. it is causing companies to take advantage -- i don't see how that compares to the realistic nature of what they are actually bringing in, what the money is coming in. i want to hear another version of the motivation. of anies take advantage version because it is good for shareholders, not consumers. but to present the other side of the argument in the same fashion would be, there is a pharmaceutical company that said they would take advantage of an version until a press release came out. the argument was that they were going to do it for tax purposes and go abroad but there are many benefits of being here. the company is saying it is a complete paper thing, where they just go abroad and on terms of taxes, they do not move manufactured. -- thatment was that companies thatng the american taxpayer poured into them. we expect a little bit back. q address those factors come which is more comprehensive rather than a 35% on paper? thate first thing is companies do not avoid u.s. taxes. all t

and british leader george coburn returned home where his portrait features washington blazing in thekground. >> >> you don't have to ask. if these walls would talk what would they say? >> if they would talk about one moment they would say we are certainly happy we are still standing here and still occupying this spot and the presidents have lived here 200 years since the fire. >> you know what i think they would say? ouch. >> >> when -- in july is just dandy. >> cowan: up next, joan rivers in her own words. >> comedian joan rivers flames serious condition in new york's mount sinai hospital this morning, over the years rivers has been a very familiar face, including right here on sunday morning. back in 2002 we asked her for some thoughts about aging and we figured it was an appropriate time to listen again to just what she had to say. >> when sunday morning called and asked if i thought old search better i said of course. because i thought they were talking about greek ruins and then i realized they were talking about people, old peopleable and i thought, why ask oui? did i say that

tom coburn is one of them.he goes home every weekend to oklahoma and he does that even though he is also a ranking member of an important committee . importantly, tom coburn is a guy who term limited himself. term limits comes up again, because he is only in his second term in the senate and he has not been doing it for decades, so the opportunity for his engagement with voters in the state has not had the opportunity to wayne, and he has said from the beginning that he would only serve 2 terms, because he wanted to make sure that never happened. host: if folks want to check out your story, where do they go? guest: washingtonexaminer.com. host: we have luke rosiak with us. surely in texas on our line for publicans. good morning. caller: i am happy to talk to you on c-span will stop i have found that the american people seem to have come to fear our government right now. these people go there and they are corrupted sooner or later. i think every time a congressman should be introduced anywhere would be to say wh

evidence that our nation's immigrants laws are being flagrantly disregarded according to senator tom coburn the border 10 days ago doing a lot of reporting down there and we wanted to understand what happened here. what do we understand? >> what we understand is that i.c.e. released thousands of folks. this is just for one month, february threw march 1 that the i.g. was investigating. out of the thousand they released, over 600 of them had criminal record. there were 24 didn't i.c.e. offices across the country involved. only one of those i.c.e. offices actually had a lawyer looking at these individual folks being released to see what their background was, whether they were part of gangs and whether they had a criminal background. only one out of 24 offices. not surprising off 600 of these people were released back into society. eyes * went back out trying to retain some of them. bill: these are level one offenders which includes aggravated fell any convictions. >> that's absolutely right. at one point the government would say because we had the budget sequester coming, we don't have the mon

tom coburn's office found that the v.a. is spent $200 million may last 10 years in attempt to compensate victims for its mistakes. more than 1000 veterans needlessly died under the v.a. watch. the median payment for a victim was $150,000. most agreed it was not about the money. they wanted the v.a. to be held accountable. between 2006-2013, the number of full-time employees jumped 40%. from 220,000, 314,000. the budget is up even more. 90%. with 94,000 additional government employees, and twice as much money, the left believes the problem is the v.a. is underfunded. the v.a. workforce is larger than the marine corps. compared to 200,000 marine corps. attention shrinking to 150,000, at which point they would be half as many a reins -- half as many marines. despite the competence and corruption, leadership has seem to reward the officials with performance bonuses. last year, 78 percent of the a senior managers receive these bonuses and got performance ratings of outstanding or exceeds successful. 470 the got successful or bet

[inaudible question] >> i did a bill back in 2009 with tom coburn. this is not my first time putting out comprehensive. or dictated by scoring than anything. that's was has been keeping me. and so i've been working on health care reform proposals. there are some bills other out there. tom price says the bill. and so i plan on adding, contributing to that today. the work the as and put together . >> forgive me if this has been asked already. [inaudible question] >> i think rand says. i don't know if there's a house version and not. i think from endorsing licensing reform. something to think we ought to file. that is something. we want to encourage the notion that people shouldn't be with terror and deserve a second chance. dennis i. you help people get from where they are to a better life that there is buyer for themselves. and there should be something that we have is a society. >> mr. becker. >> i'm sorry. every person who is a recipient inevitably this will be wiped out. >> reflected that quite a bit. the wrong way to look at this is take a chest o

eastern, a discussion about british admiral george coburn and how he used washington, d.c.'s waterways to invade the city. all here on c-span 3. >>> next, jim ogden talks about confederate weapons manufacturing in central georgia. in the fall of 1864, union general william sherman destroyed much of this infrastructure, crippling the confederate army's ability to wage war. this hour-long talk was hosted by the civil war center at kennesaw state university in georgia. >>> as many of you all know from coming to some of my programs ty over the years, i have a tendency to use a few props of one sort or another. so i couldn't resist that opportunity today as well to i help illustrate a few points. mike and some of the staff are -- oh, my goodness. we even recruited craig into distributing handouts. i should get a picture of this. i have a historian friend who once had trace adkins as a sound man at an event. i have a naval academy professor as a map hander-outer. so that's kind of like bob cricf as an easel in the western theater. brian, i do thank you for the introduction. as bri

i think it was senator coburn who asked a question about what are the biggest obstacles to financial auditability and depaf defense, and my answer was the enterprise resource planning systems. it is really a data availability question in my mind. that comes down to timeliness and resources dedicated to the honest -- audit. if you are an auditor and you have audited an entity or enterprise for a number of years and you have reviewed their internal controls and you have confidence of those controls, consequently you can have this in the reports and you spend less time perhaps auditing and it is a more efficient process. we are not there yet department of defense. so an audit is a very laborious activity. it takes lots of time for us. i think if i recall, you agree with me when i said that. it is a big effort. the goal was pointy 17 for auditability at the department of defense. is we can do as the auditor to help them reach that to the extent we can and be independent , but at the end of the day, financial statements are the responsibility of management. auditors job to protest to thos

i think it was senator coburn who asked a question about what are the biggest obstacles to financialuditability and depaf defense, and my answer was the enterprise resource planning systems. it is really a data availability question in my mind. that comes down to timeliness and resources dedicated to the honest -- audit. if you are an auditor and you have audited an entity or enterprise for a number of years and you have reviewed their internal controls and you have confidence of those controls, consequently you can have this in the reports and you spend less time perhaps auditing and it is a more efficient process. we are not there yet department of defense. so an audit is a very laborious activity. it takes lots of time for us.