the chair recognizes the gentlewoman from the district of columbia. ms. norton: first of all, i appreciate the words of my colleague on the other side of the aisle with respect to ms. plaskett's notion. i don't know why the notion of penny wise and pound foolish, if that's the reason why this bipartisan bill that was sent to the senate was sent back to us absent some americans. i understand that we'll be working to try to fix this. but we don't fix it when we allow disasters to move forward . in the part of our country where dasters are most likely to take effect. they're not likely to take effect in places like the district of columbia. where we just had a snowstorm and hardly little bit of snow. they're far more likely to take effect in ms. plaskett's district in the virgin islands. i pledge with my good friend on the other side with whom i worked closely in the past to do everything i can to make sure that all of us, including all of our territories, not only puerto rico, are included in this bill as the house ntended. madam speaker, i urge my colleagu

as columbia has become more private, more corporatized and has even had some more sprawl.e don't really have time to discuss the development in the last couple of decades, the diversification of the suburbs, the politicization of the suburban vote. the rise of mcmansions, gating, private communities and all this kind of change that's been happening in suburban development, but we can sort of return back to our engagement photo at the half-developed cul-de-sac here to think maybe we still decry suburbs as mediocre, lame or boring, but we still very much live in a suburban nation. more than half of americans describe themselves as suburban. and so suburbs are changing. malls, strip malls, big box retailers are beginning to maybe we'll have self-driving cars, who knows. suburbs will surely change as they had before. but they remain interesting places to study. so adios. >>> weeknights this month we feature american history tv programs to preview what's available every weekend on c-span 3. tonight we look at the american revolution with historian john buchanan and his book "th

the columbia mall was only the 16th mall in the country. they called it a galleria at the time.ut it became emblematic of what new suburbs were going to look like, where commerce was going to be insulated in these kind of strange structures. the mall which, of course, on the one hand is very auto centric. you can see the mall surround by a moat of parking spaces. of course, this makes it inaccessible for those who don't have cars and helps control the kind of people who shop there. but the malls are kind of like suburbs themselves. they're supposed to be this mix of urban. you can see here the space frame geometry on the roof of the mall signals this kind of urban, geometric grid. there are brick pavers that make it feel like an outdoor plaza. there are shadows coming in. there are little vendors, the kiosk and stuff where people sell you monogrammed sweatshirts or whatever, cell phone plans. street lights, supposed to make it look outside while inside. birds in these places. i don't know if they put them there or they just get in, but there are birds and you kind of feel like t

he treated the city of columbia in between these two cities. he was afraid the current housing and these dots represented were people were living, they would eventually swallow columbia, but everything between baltimore and washington would be ugly, sprawling, unplanned mess. he took this opportunity to buy 14,000 acres of land, which was then pretty rural from farmers and a small tracks, milking cows and picnic lunches. he decided to section off this place to create a new kind of suburb. one that explicitly deals with the limitations and problems of existing in the suburbs. he secretly buys all this land and eventually creates this new city. a lot of people were happy to hear that because there were rumors being spread that someone is buying up all the land to create a garbage dump for washington's trash. people thought this was perhaps a better idea. his idea was to create a new city from scratch. and the symbol of this new city was this tree, the people tree. he had a corny phrase that he wanted to create a garden to grow people. what are th

these dots would eventually swallow columbia. everything in between baltimore and washington would be an ugly sprawling, unplanned mess. he took this opportunity to buy 14,000 acres of land, which was then pretty rural from farmers, and small tracks. milking cows in picnic lunches. he decides he's going to section off this place to create a new kind of suburb. one thatlicitly deals with the limitations, the problems of existinghe secretly buys all, and eventually comes to the public, that he's gonna create this new city. a lot of people were happy to hear that because there was a rumors being spread that someone was buying all the line to create a garbage dump for all of baltimore and washington's trash. people thought this was a better idea. so this guy, is idea was wasto create a new city from scratch. and the symbol of this new city is this tree, of people tree. he had this corny phrase that he wanted to create a garden to grow people. what are the ingredients of the soil, what do you need to create the best kind of community

and columbia was of course created in this time of cars, there is also a hope that it is not as autoentric. there are bike paths that link the they're fostered and the existing suburbs, and that all of this could combine with the kind of downtown center that would really provide the center of activity and culture. and the excitement. but instead of building a traditional downtown with a series of intersecting streets, and restaurants, and public kind of guilts in downtown columbia, which is a relatively new concept at the time, it became a mall. built in 1971 it was only the 16th mall in the country. but it became emblemmatic of what new suburbs were going to look like. where congress could be insulated in strange structures. the small which, of course, on the one hand is very auto centric. you see it surrounded by a mote of parking spaces. and this makes it inaccessible for people who don't have cars, but the malls are like a mix of urban -- the space frame geometry on the roof of the small signaling an urban geo metric rib. there are vendors, are you know, a a kiosk and stuff. stre

attorney for the district of columbia michael sherwin and by steve, the assistant director in charge of the washington field office of the f.b.i. i'm also joined by kara weipz, who i met last year at the memorial of the 103 victims. and her brother rick monetti was killed on that flight. kara now leads a pan am flight 103 advocacy organization. i also want to say i talked earlier this morning with the director, chris wray, who regrets he can't be here in person, to underscore the commitment and the tenacity of the f.b.i. in this investigation. this was underscored to me, also, last year when i spoke at the memorial at arlington national cemetery. and among the audience were so many f.b.i. agents and d.o.j. former employees and current employees who have been involved in this investigation. still 30 years later coming out to support the victims' families, and that speaks volumes for the commitment that exists here at the department. i am pleased to announce that the united states has filed criminal charges against the third conspirator, abu agila muhammad mas'ud kheir al-marimi, for h

district court for the district of columbia charging masud with terrorism-related crimes for his role in the bombing of pan am flight 103. at long last, this man responsible for killing americans and many others, will be subject to justice for his crimes. the lockerbie bombing case holds special significance for me because i was serving as the acting attorney general when charges were filed against megrahi and fhimah in 1991. i know firsthand the toil, tears, and sweat that have been poured into pursuing justice for the victims of the bombing and their families. profound is with gratitude that i recognize and thank our law enforcement friends in scotland for their nearly 32-year partnership with us on this case. i also thank lord advocate of scotland james wolffe for his continued partnership. there is much work still to be done, and we will not be able to do it without our colleagues in scotland. we are committed to working arm-in-arm with them as we move forward in this case. i am especially proud of the countless agents and analysts of the f.b.i. who have worked the pan am 103 case

from columbia university shejoins grow and flourish.niversity she joins us now. grow and flourish. from columbia university shejoins us now. was it like —— hejoins us now. how did people react? it was a combination of realisation that people have gone through so environmental challenges and things of been washed away to the other challenges and by the sentiment radio programme they realise it is actually a bigger challenge that needed community, airports and interests. so, it brought about a lot of renewed hope within the community. what is your question for secretary—general?” like to find out, trunk of in zambia and there are so many challenges that young people face, recently, cyclone disrupted communities and leaving young people hopeless in developing countries in southern africa as the head of the united nations, i would like to find out the commitment of the united nations to make sure that young people in countries with less adaptive capacities, developing countries, are supported in growing communities where they can grow and t

i had a way to get to him through columbia law school where he is an alum. very helpful and give a bunch of really rich, wonderful interviews early in the process i went back to again and again and again. and in richard for any number of reasons, some of which i know, some which i probably don't come sort of walk that back about a year later right as i was getting in with gary. with gary it was two things. it was i think like persisting was part of it at that part of it also was, gary is a businessman. gary is pretty savvy. he was raised to be financially independent so the idea of someone coming down like whatever, 30-year-old white kid from the north coming down to me hey come want to tell your story. i can't pay you a dime. rubbed him them the wrong way. and like that, and i get that. i i told them that from the beginning, ethics are still what they are, but that was, that took a while to overcome and wound up, what we came to, and initial i did this i think out of a sense of obligation to the book or desperation or something, but the internet being frank

and southern columbia girl soccer won their second tight until three years, and bloomsberg girls soccer won their state title. mr. muser: southern california's high school football program is nothing short of awesome. they won their 11th straight title on both sides of the ball this team dominates and the tigers has made their citizens of columbia county and pennsylvania proud. congratulations to lake lehman football. i knew many of the players on this great team since they were 6. playing and learning the game under back mountain bobcats head coach and others. the lake layman coach led the black knights to great season. they came up short in the district championship game, but they had a season of champions and we are proud of them. i yield back, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yield back. the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the rules of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the s

in the 2:00 hour, ten states plus the district of columbia, if you're looking for sort of the highlights. the president will get 29 votes in florida. remember joe biden thought he could make a play in florida. there was this was just a

the 50 states and the district of columbia have meetings. the votes for president and vice president were cast. 6, next step is on january the house and senate come together with the vice president presiding and they count the votes. at that point, the election really becomes official. we expect then he will become the official president elect. we can call him the president thet, but at that point, whole election process will be done. >> a series of rules involving the various states and what they are doing on this day, among them, that each state's number of electors be equal to the -- the balloting is done on paper and the results sent to the senate and the results considered in that joint session. with all these nuances and rules, where do they come from? john: some of it comes from the constitution and some of it comes from laws we have passed. one point you made which is very important to remember is that the way we select these electors, who are these people? they are loyal democrats, loyal republicans. in a state where donald trump ha

this is from british columbia. french and german timber fared well. both countries had long institutionalized for street practices, and most of the manpower had been diverted to the army. the germans took trees from other countries. we see how similar it looks to these war-torn regions all kinds of propaganda encouraging extraction. since manpower had been diverted, an archetypal male profession, the lumberjack, now had a gender identity switch. this is an image from the woman's land army in great britain, where women were sent out to chop down trees. the u.s. established the forestry corps. it did most of the heavy cutting in france. timber was crucial. you needed it for everything. billions of top grade were needed. this is accelerating the deforestation. generals when they return from the western front to the southeastern united states or the northwest and saw these clear-cut patches, it reminded them of the western front. there was a discussion after the war about the need for some sort of forestry policy. we found in 1919 there is a creation of f

then, heller sued the district of columbia. district of columbia, which has more police than any city in the united states said, you cannot own a gun, a handgun unless, one, you have a permit, and two, you are a member of the police force, or the fbi, or the secret service, or the u.s. capitol police. heller sued and heller argued, i should be able to have a handgun in my house to defend myself. i don't have to be associated with the d.c. national guard to own a gun. and the supreme court ruled, .ou're right the supreme court ruled gun ownership is an individual right, not an associative way. but you have over's earned d.c.'s -- overturned d.c.'s rule and said you can have a gun. the most recent case, which is before now, comes out in new york city. because of heller new york city -- new york city has one of the toughest anti-gun laws on the books and one of the highest murder rates. new york decided, because of the heller decision, we will have to let people have handguns, but you have to have a permanent, the handgun must in

but tammy seemed happy to remain in columbia.ne of her gigs was at her friend ben staples' annual barbecue. >> is this tammy's stage? >> well, yes, she enjoyed this. tammy was an entertainer. she didn't just stand up there and sing. >> along the way, in 1996, tammy met and married a local boy, brett parker, a medical supply salesman. he'd been a star athlete in high school. his aunt, sandra hunter, says he was always throwing some kind of ball. >> he played football and softball and baseball, and he was an all-american kid. >> an injury sidelined any thoughts of a career in professional sports. so brett took up amateur softball. that's how he met one of his closest friends, howdy baer. >> no doubt brett was one of the best softball players i ever played with. >> when tammy came into the picture, baer now his friend had found his match. >> tammy was precious. and i'll never forget that. but i knew they was going to get married, it was just a matter of time. >> howdy and his wife tagged along with brett to tammy's singing gigs and

the district of columbia has three electors. the state's allotment of electors the total number of congressional members in the congressional delegation, that is house plus senate. the district of columbia does not have senators. 48 states and d.c. use a winner-take-all system. maine and nebraska split electoral votes. we will dive a lot more into that system with jeffrey rosen coming up in about 40 minutes this morning. a simple question to our viewers, should the electoral college be abolished? mike, in new york, democrat. good morning. caller: good morning, sir. yes, i do believe it should be abolished. i think in the age of communications with the computer and every kind of social, i think education is there. everybody can be educated and well informed. i think it it lends easily to a popular vote. so everybody should be educated enough to make their decision. and besides, at the risk of sounding elitist from long island, it's called "electoral." let's pronounce it -- let's be educated and let's not be buffoons. goodbye, tha

researchers from columbia university announced that uv light with wavelengths near 220 nano liters couldrovide disinfecting the facility. soon after that, a major japanese lighting company and the world's leading producer of uv lamp entered into an agreement with the university and began to looking to create a commercially reliable product. the biggest challenge they face was finding a way to create a lamp that only falls in the safe range of the 220 nano meters. a plate of glass is treated with multiple layers. the result, the first lamp in the worlthat uses only uv rays that falls into the 220 nano meters. >> a lot of hard work went into making this lamp. i really think we succeeded in making a product that'll have a positive impact. >> reporter: so far the lamps primarily have been installed in hospitals, schools and other public locations. the company is planning to expand it to transportation, creating lamps for use on trains and automobiles. >> this sounds like something we want in every entry way. the only thing is it is a bit pricey. one is under $3,000. they are working on a new

so it is possible that gemma worked on building projects in columbia. on the case that contained alford's photograph. that is the third one down on the rights, offered is described and quote belonging to jay loma. the social work was an engineer named john loomis who live near columbia richland county. he was also a farmer so might've often worked as it mechanic artisan or other farmer. the other individuals in these images were enslaved by benjamin franklin taylor. it's likely they toiled at least part of the time in the cotton fields of taylor's grub field plantation. vote jackie will work as a driver or coin kind of overseer, and his daughter. it was from congo and his daughter who may have worked as a blacksmith. it is likely that his partner was a woman and they had at least five children including hester, molly phaser, july and delia. this book explores the life of these individuals will impact the photographs have had and continue to have on the ongoing american discussion of race and racial justice. i would like to begin this conversation by loo

coverage throughout the day of the electoral college votes and 50 states and in the district of columbia. we are taking you to select states. a reminder, we have live coverage of more states on c-span.org due to several counts happening at the same time. live on c-span at 2 p.m. eastern we will go to lansing, michigan, where 16 electors will cast their votes. this afternoon at 3:00, texas, we will be in austin for the count of 30 eight electors. tonight president-elect joe biden is expected to give a primetime address on the electoral college results in following his comments, the author of "after the people to talkill join us about the electoral college process and take your reaction. that's live starting at 8 p.m. eastern. you can follow that here on c-span, c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. one of several states that has just cast their votes among the 50 states and d.c., of course, with joe biden now leading 125 electoral votes to president trump's 56 votes. we take you to iowa, next. six votes cast for donald trump. >> [inaudible] me to be herefor this morning and

the prospect of a columbia like deal is simply fantasy. it's not achievable. unless the policy becomes just staying, and hoping, and praying that something will break. that's been the essence of u.s. policy since 2014. hanging on and hoping that the taliban will make enough mistakes. that won't happen. there is not a great likelihood that such a development will emerge now. we have a chance to shape the taliban in means other than military presence on the ground. the taliban clearly wants to have a working relationship with the united states. one in the government. it is very sensitive. and constantly speaks about the desire to maintain u.s. and international aid. those are tools that need to be deployed to shape the taliban's behavior. to emphasize the need for some inclusivity of ethnic minorities. some protection for women's rights. i want to make two broad comments, including linked to the issue of terrorism. terrorism really has been the dominant interest the united states has had in engaging in afghanistan. and one can almost make the argument that havin

patrick: i understand that she served as the president of columbia. he retired to gettysburg so he could come to washington. ms. hammatt: i do not think he felt at home in new york city. i do not think that he enjoyed i feel from a successful point of view his time at columbia. he did a good job for them and he liked what he did but he did not last long in that role. they invited him to be the leader of nato, so he quit working for columbia and went back to work as a civil servant. he really was a civil servant at his heart. patrick: we have had a couple of mentions about the new memorial in washington. did you at the library have anything to do with that? can you give folks context? ms. hammatt: we know the memorial just recently opened to the public. it is quite lovely. i have not had the chance to go since it has been completed. the presidential library worked with the eisenhower memorial commission to create this online educational portal that is really quite content heavy, and it is not with the eisenhower foundation. the eyes presidential librar

the district of columbia has three electors.f total number congressional members in the delegation, that is house placenta. doesistrict of columbia not have senators. and d.c. use a winner take all system. we will dive a lot more into that system with jeffrey rosen coming up in about 40 minutes this morning. ourmple question to viewers, should the electoral college be abolished? morning sir. yes i do believe it should be abolished. i think in the age of communications with the computer and every kind of social, i think education is there. everybody can be educated and well informed. i think it it lends easily to a popular vote. so everybody should be educated enough to make their decision. and besides, at the risk of sounding elitist from long island, it's called electoral. educated ands be let's not be buffoons. the caller before was talking about how many electoral coats -- votes you have. is it 29? caller: that i don't know, sir. -- how educated am i? host: chris, good morning. forefathersink the -- as little as eight states

will reference niagara so that the onerstand that tec in columbia is a vertical fall and niagara istal fall. but he will compare the cubic feet of water going over the rim. and, again, bringing us into parallel with the under wonders around the world, specifically in the americas. so, how do we know that these two features become the next avatars of american ambition? in 1825, henry s. tanner creates the map that uses humboldt's information, all of his detailed information way down into mexico, but it's a kartoosh. kartoosh on maps are usually a cliff notes way of understanding what the culture cares about and most european maps, it will be the cityscape, a landmark, usually a man-made landmark. it's a way of encapsulating what it is we want you to care about. so, what do we do? we take natural bridge and niagara falls and scooch the 800 miles together so it looks like it is the niagara river running underneath natural bridge so that our two natural monuments are functioning as one element in the american landscape. i find that very telling. i think the idea we would deliberately do

the columbia journalism school to be in conversation with wanda smalls. and then to introduced wanted to be a reading and conversation will have time for questions and we will do our best to get to as many as possible. in the middle of public archive but the audience is not a part of that recording. thank you again for tuning in. please welcome is we're introduced to ms. for it. >> thank you. women beginning her career as a copy editor. and with a local and national outlets including "washington post" and "usa today". 2004 through 2013 she was the executive editor of montgomery advertiser in alabama. that journalism department and then for black journalist serving on the board of directors with the landmark survey a black journalist the national association a black journalist and then to push her memoir coming full circle which chronicles her decades long career and then to a short excerpt. >> i will read a passage way it was when she was like mother wanda you have a telegram from 1969 i was at home for christmas break in the union messenger needed my att

he's a graduate of middlebury college and columbia university, one of the best journalism schools outhere. he also reports on criminal justice, teaches at the college for creative studies and works as the assistant director for shakespeare in prison. we have a lot to talk about tonight including the foundations of this book which i think is an untold story of the civil rights era that a lot of people should know about. i'm going to hand it over to you. thank you for being a part of this tonight. a. >> thank you so much, jeremy. i went to the schools that is a little less journalistic. >> thank you so much for that introduction. it is really my pleasure. so tonight i want to situate us in a place and introduce you to some people and i want to talk about why that place and these people are relevant today and i want to turn your understanding of the civil rights movement upside down a little bit, kind of shake it and see what's in the pocket because that is what history is about to me. it will only take about 20 minutes at which point i will turn the conversation over to jeremy will use

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eastern on the book strongman, interviewed by columbia university professor, sherry berman. watch book tv on c-span2 this weekend. ♪ >> next, today's white house briefing kayleigh mcenany, she spoke about a range of issues including a covert relief bill, electoral college votes and distribution of the coronavirus vaccine. this is 25 minutes. >> yesterday the united states witnessed a medical miracle. the first doses of covid vaccine administered to frontline workers across the country. the president promised a safe and effective vaccine in record time and president trump delivered. earlier this year, we heard from several news outlets and fact checks president trump would be a miracle, that was an nbc news article. we were told a vaccine was still take more than a year to develop. usa today warned us that despite medical researchers progress, a vaccine was more than a year away. national geographic told us achieving a vaccine would take a year to 18 months and would be unprecedented. these reports deserve their own fact checks. president trump has not only been the optimist,

eric is a professor of the history at columbia university.e also served as president for the both the american historical association and organization of american historians. and he joins me now. thanks very much for joining me. >> i'm happy to be here. gerry: let's start with that. how does this year, we've seen terrible years in america's 250 year history, how do those years compare to those particularly terrible ones? >> you hit the highlights or lowlights of some of our previous years. the comparisons are useful. 1968 certainly comes to mind. the country was certainly tearing itself apart not only racial injustice but the war in vietnam that led to massive demonstrations of young people, et cetera. assassinations. in other words like this year there were many lines of division in the country all at the same time. go back to 1918, 1919, the pandemic then, a century or so ago, similar but also the 1919 the year of probably the largest strike wave in american history, bitter conflicts between labor and capital. workers wanting to get back to

where was his commission as justice of the peace in the district of columbia?ht suit against madison. his attorneys asked the supreme court for a writ to compel the commission. if marshall issued the order, would it be enforced? if madison refused to obey it, would this not undermine the prestige of the court? ♪ in this dilemma, marshall made his decision. backed by a unanimous court, he said marbury was entitled to his commission, but that the court had no right to issue the requested writ. the constitution, said marshall, defined the powers of the court in procedures of this sort, and the act of congress was with the and therefore void. president jefferson and congress accepted this without protest. it gave them the victory. thus, they helped to establish the doctrine of judicial review. the doctrine that the supreme court, in settling a case, must necessarily ignore a law that it finds in conflict with the constitution. it must in effect void the law. in the opinion of justices of yesterday and today, the court should be cautious in such actions. it must voi

using cdc guidance and national academy guidance and also the state of maryland and the district of columbia, actually built a first priority phase one, highest, low risk, so stratified in addition to the other things, like over the age of 60, other comorbidities, so we could make sure we got to those individuals first. >> great, great. >> donna, are you ready? donna: yes. >> so you have got that vaccination card there. donna: yes. record, forpersonal your use, and it will help when you come back. donna: yes, and then there is an area for the first dose and second dose. >> and on the back. that is for your personal not to worry about. [applause] how did it feel? donna: better than the flu shot, actually. [laughter] >> better than the flu shot. wow. and a little reminder of today. [applause] donna: thank you. and -- the emergency department. >> many have been here at medstar georgetown. >> awesome. >> student health. >> ok. great. >> redeployed and doing all of the important work every day here and across the country. >> are you on shift today? >> yes. >> are you nervous at all? getting the v

we had storage in pennsylvania, storage in maryland, virginia, district of columbia. it is nice to have it all in one place. our collection begins with the beginning of cinema. the earliest film that we have in our collection comes from 1891. this is a camera test that was produced by the thomas edison company. the film is called "newark athlete." it shows a young man, swinging some indian clubs. it was part of a series of experiments that edison engaged in the early 1890's. where our collection really begins though is in 1893, with the first films registered for copyright. it was the fall. the earliest surviving registered film we have came to the library in january of 1894. it is called "edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze." it is known as "fred ott's sneeze." only a few frames long. it shows one of the engineers who is known for his comical sneezes. you see a little bit of snuff in his nose. then he has a very violent sneeze. this did not come to the library on film. there was no provision in the copyright law in 1894 to allow for celluloid film to be registered

we had storage in pennsylvania, storage in maryland, virginia, district of columbia. it's nice to have it all in one place. our collection begins with the beginning of cinema. the earliest film comes from 1891. this is a camera test that was produced by the thomas edison company. the film was called "newark athlete." it shows a young man swinging some indiana clubs. it's only a few frames long. it was part of a series of experiments that edison and his engineers engaged in in the early 1890s. where our collection really begins, though, is in 1893, with first films that were registered for copyright. the fall of 1893, thomas edison started registering films for copyright. the earliest surviving registered film that we have came to the library in january of 1894. it's called "edison kinetoscopic record of a sneeze." colloquially, it is known as fred ott's sneeze. short film, a few frames. shows fred ott, known for his comical sneezes. so you seyfried put a little bit of snuff in his nose, and then he has a very violent sneeze. now, this did not come to the library on fi

our collections previously had been held in four states plus the district of columbia. our nitrate film for example is still at wright-patterson air force base in dayton, ohio, where our film preservation laboratory was. the video and audio preservation laboratories were in the madison building up on capitol hill. we had storage in pennsylvania, storage in maryland, virginia, the district of columbia. so it's nice to have it all in one place. our collection begins with the beginning of cinema. the earliest film we have in our collection comes from 1891. this is a camera test that was produced by the thomas edison company. the film is called newark athlete and shows a young man swinging some indian clubs. it's only a few frames long but it's part of a series of experiments that edison and his engineers engaged in in the early 1890s. where our collection really begins though is in 1893 with first films that were registered for copyright. in the fall of 1893, we started registering films for copyright. the earliest surviving redshirt film that we have came to the library i

chat withs good to you, columbia university professor of sustainable development.lking about carbon prices in the record high in europe. the globalnow is there's asearch -- lot to get through, the quarter you guys have had. that start with carbon pricing. how big does it get, what is the uptake, what is the activity? >> it is good to be with you today. a big described, this is initiative, really about creating an addition to our energy division. for us significant area going forward. we have invested quite a bit of resources into you, and we are hoping as part of the energy transition it doesn't become on par with the other two u.s. time goes on. guy: good afternoon. guy in london. his carbon pricing a one-way bet and will just go up from here? >> well, it is hard to say in markets. are looking at now is constraints being put in and allocations changing around it. globally, we are seeing china with very aggressive climate charges, japan following, and europe, and let's see what comes out of the u.s. this will be the way we have to drive the energy transmission -- t

the investigators in the district of columbia are looking into this, as they are and now deposed ivankas of yesterday and will depose stephanie wilcox next week, the relationship to the trump family to the inauguration will be of great interest. one of the things that i keep thinking about is that if ivanka trump does return to new york after she leaves washington when her father leaves office, her apartment is a scant block away, in the building where michael cohen lives. that is just one of the reasons why she faces an interesting return to new york if she moves back. >> that will get fun. is it your reporting and understanding that it is the trump kids asking for or requesting or hinting at the potential for preemptive pardons? >> it was not at all -- i know this reporting is sound. it would not at all surprise me based on what i have learned over the last five years about the trump family. this is truly the ultimate rich kid perks. some kich rids get a bmw when they're 16, others access to a trust fund when they're 25. the trump kids pulled off the ultimate rich kid perk. when they

electors will cast ballots in colorado, district of columbia, maine, michigan, florida, idaho, north dakota, utah, west virginia and wyoming. joe biden now how 156 electors who voted for him, 106 for president trump. let's walk over to the magic wall. john king is watching all of this for us. i want to look ahead a bit. what we can expect this hour and in the next few hours as history unfolds. >> a couple interests states as we go through this ritual. it's in the constitution, often ignored, but just to reaffirm a joe biden victory. number two, to watch this history, and number three, just to rebut, if you need a rebuttal, the things in a the president trump is saying are false, that he won the election. he did not. by 5:00 tonight on the east coast, when california puts joe biden over the top official lip. this is not the only affirmation, but another affirmation that the elects was conducted quite well and joe biden is the winner. in the 2:00 hour, ten states plus the district of columbia, if you're looking for sort of the highlights. the president will get 29 votes in florida. rem

andrew ofrviewed by columbia university. >> many of the things environmental groups have advocated arectually bad for the environment. renewables require three or four times the land as natural gas or nuclear plants. my views have been really badly misrepresented by some people who actually know better, who have said you are insisting it is all nuclear. that is not true. i defend the right to burn coal, because burning coal is better than burning wood. i defend fracking for natural gas because it is better than coal. people say, argue pro natural gas or anti-natural gas? i am in favor of natural gas when it replaces coal. >> watch at 9:00 eastern on c-span2. >> 61 million americans have some form of disability, but yet, we are in less than 3% of film and tv shows. the majority of those roles are portrayed by nondisabled actors. ultimately, as somebody with a disability, we want to see ourselves represented. not only are we seeing ourselves represented, but it will help de-stigmatize disability. representation in general gets society use to everybody, it makes the world a more inclusive

he is finishing a course at columbia university in new york and joins us now.how? how did people react? thank you so much. it was a combination of interests and realisation. people highlighted so many challenges from land degradation to bridges being washed away, to pollution and many other challenges. so when they started listening to my radio programme, they realised that it was actually a bigger challenge that needed community effort and interest to tackle. so it brought about a lot of renewed hope and thought in the community. and what is your question for the un secretary—general? i would like to find out, growing up in zambia specifically, i understand that there are so many challenges that young people face and recently a cyclone disrupted communities leaving young people hopeless in developing countries in southern africa. as the head of the united nations, i would like to find out the commitment of the united nations to ensuring that young people in countries with less adaptive capacities, developing countries, are supported in growing and living in co