museum of the marine corps. we appreciate your time and for inviting us in this morning. >> thank you.

in fact, they sent three flags back to headquarters at marine corps, quantico marine corps base, and basically the first flag, the second fly, and the third flag were over a division cemetery at the time. very important artifacts to us. taking your phone calls as we come up on 9:30 on the east coast with special phone lines. marines and family members, 202-748-8002. otherwise, split up by time zone. dakota,rdeen, south this is jim. caller: how you doing, guys? host: doing well, jim. good morning. caller: i just want to say you guys are studs. i really love you. have had a number of uncles who fought in a number of wars -- the korean war, what were two. a number of things. i don't have a whole lot to say because i am kind of emotional. i just respect this country so i think it is just the best country in the world, in history. god, i love you guys. the thing is that i wanted to say was, host: do you remember any of r wife wrote?'r caller: she started off saying as a young guy and he served his country and never asked why. my god we were sitting there and he had the congressional medal

meade tries to cut it off by sending the third corps backed up by the fifth corps and the second corps through manassas gap. this leads to the first of our important small battles, and that is the fight at wapping heights. when right's georgia brigade holds off the entire third corps for most of a day. it had 600 guys, holding back a federal corps. they are helped by the rugged terrain. by the fact that general french is very cautious. he does not like coming into this mountain pass with these mountains boning up on his flank. he has seen too many of those old 1950's westerns where the indians show up on the horizon. when you go into the box canyon, i guess. he is really afraid of a confederate ambush. he is detaching regiments and batteries, every little trail has to be defended. he does not want to move until the fifth corps gets behind him. so, he takes most of the day at the end of the action, the excelsior brigade launches a very dramatic attack on right wright that -- on becomes known as the battle of wapping heights. it has taken them so long that the rest of the other corps has

museum of the marine corps.te your time and for inviting us in this morning. guest: thank you. this if you missed any of morning's program from the national museum of the marine corps or if you want to watch it again, we will play it tonight on our companion network, c-span 3. eastern. at 8:00 p.m. at museum we care on "the washington journal" and american history tv continues tomorrow when we visit history. we will mark the centennial of the 19th amendment granting women the right to vote. our guest will be the museum's first female director since it opened in 1964. that is live tomorrow at 9:00 a.m. eastern right here on c-span. a look now at some of our live coverage today on c-span network. join us this afternoon when panelist at the council on foreign relations discuss the coronavirus and the threat to global health. what's that starting at 12:30 p.m. eastern here on c-span. a little later, the inter-american dialogue hosted discussion on political situations in venezuela. live coverage starts at two of 5 p

woody: i wanted to join the corps.oretically, that was all i knew, but i was impressed by the actions in the appearance of -- and the appearance of these two marines who came home on their furloughs. and i guess i decided somewhere along the way, if i ever go into the military, that is what i want to be, i want to look like those guys. admittedly, they were taller than me. you had a height requirement 6'8" before you could even get in. several years before that, they had a height requirement of 5'11" inches. you couldn't get into the marine corps unless you were 5'11". there weren't a lot of people in the net it states that were 5'11" inches were better back in those days. we just didn't make them. but anyway, i decided if i ever wanted to go into the military, that is what i want to be. i knew nothing about the marine corps. so i went in after my 18th birthday, filled out the papers to enlist, turned it into the recruiting sergeant and he looked at me and said, sorry, can't take you, the reason being i was too short.

knew nothing about the marine corps. i went in after my 18th birthday and filled out the paperwork to enlist and turned it in to the recruiting sergeant and he looked at me and said sorry, we can't take you and he told me the reason being, i was too short. i was only 5'6". i went back to the farm. if they don't want me, i don't want them. i will go there or stay on the farm. but he kept the paper. in early 1943 or something like february or march in that area, they did away with the height requirement and they would take runts or most anybody else that were looking for people. he looked me up. i lived about seven miles out of town. he looked me up and asked me if i still wanted to go to the marine corps and i did. even at that time they were coming into the marine corps so rapidly from the east coast that paris island could not handle everybody that wanted to be in the marine corps. they had set up temporary systems down at paris island, but they couldn't find enough trained instructors to handle everybody and -- >> when

guest: yes, it is a huge cut to the army corps of engineers. the army corps of engineers is an interesting pot to talk about for the moment, because just over the last few weeks, they are talking about bringing back earmarks or a revamped version of your max, i should say. they want to do some kind of reform system where we are not, you know, spending all this money on thousands and thousands of projects for more targeted investments, and i think a lot of those projects come out of the army corps of engineers. administration sees this as something the federal government should not be invested in. host: before you go come i want to remind our viewers they will hear from the administration twice today coming to hearings, first one up today at 10:00, the office of management and budget, to know what a.m. eastern over c-span3, also on c-span.org. secretaryll be the steven mnuchin, also on c-span3. in tallahassee, florida, independent line. bill, go ahead. caller: yes, i just had a question regarding the budget. we still have a budget increase, am i

the new fifth corps will support u.s. forces and operations in europe, helping fulfill requirements of the national defense strategy. it's expected to bring more than 600 additional soldiers to fort knox. along with congressman brett guthrie and senator paul, i had urged army leadership to select fort knox for this new corps headquarters. and obviously, we think they made a great choice. now fifth corps will join the eight commands already stationed there, including the army's human resources, recruiting and cadet commands. i have worked for years to help ensure that fort knox receives the resources and national attention that it deserves. so it's really great to see the army agrees that its high-quality facilities are perfect for these new headquarters and the extraordinary work of the knox regional development alliance has made it a wonderful place both to live and to work, both for service members and for their families. last year, i was proud to host defense secretary mark esper in kentucky to meet with members of the

[cheers and applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. isit ncicap.org] sen. sanders: thank you. thank you. let me -- let me begin by saying that i imagine, i have a strong feeling that some point, the results will be announced. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and when those results are announced, i have a good feeling we are going to be doing very, very well here in iowa. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: and the message that iowa has sent to the nation, a message shared by the american people, is that we want a government that represents all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors and the 1%. cheers and applause] sen. sanders: tonight, in this enormously consequential 2020 election, the first state in the ountry has voted, and today -- today marks the beginning of the end for donald trump. cheers and applause] sen. sanders: the most dangerous president in modern american history. [cheers and applause] sen. sanders: you know, no m

get ourcal corps men wounded out fast. our tanks come ashore and grind in land.plosions] we are able to advance from yellow beach, but it is slow going. [gunfire] we run into trouble on the green beach. from there fortified positions on mount's are a bocce, the japanese look right down our throats. -- mount suribachi [explosions] we need help. we call the command ship standing offshore. code] our message is received. they command airplanes circling the target. the flight leader receives instructions. overhead] [explosions] as we hit suribachi from the air, support ships deliver point blank fire. after 72 hours of continuous pounding, our patrols move with -- move forward. [explosions] barrage searches out hidden machine gun nests. [gunning] keep a sharp lookout for snipers. ♪ admiral turner gives the order to cease fire. our guns are quiet as they make the climb. we wait for a sign, that suribachi is ours. ♪ suribachi is ours. the toehold on the southern tip of the island. but ahead, the main strength of the japanese garrison was entrenched and steel and concrete

we talked -- i threw out the peace corps metaphor a minute ago. let me now switch over to the more long-term dire scenario of a worsening relationship with china that, heaven forbid, it come to pass but if we find up in a more rivalry state. are you thinking long-term about ways in which the u.s. army might more permanently establish combat power throughout the broader region? i'm thinking of bases that perhaps are primarily air force or navy but where the army has a huge role in providing missile defense, long-range fires now that we're out of the inf treaty perhaps surface-to-surface missile batteries. you alluded to hypersonics as well. this could be in the philippine archipalgos, in other areas, in vietnam some day. i just wonder to what extend the army is thinking about these kind of possibilities in the abstract. i realize you don't want to get ahead of the game and start asking countries to base forces where those countries are trying to balance their own relationship with china. but in a more abstract general sense, are you thinking about

the marine corps currently is working on a program called mucks. i believe it means marine corps unmanned expeditionary capability. we provide the links in the you go -- report. you go and look at what they're asking for from mucks. i remember reading the brief they provided and thinking oh, my god, this is what i want for the surface force. if you look at the mission sets, it is a virtual overlap. the marine corps has lots of different ways to get at their requirement, a ship-based one could be the answer, land-based ones could be the answer, they're looking into which would work best for them. they're putting real money against trying to fulfill this set of emerging requirements for isr to support marine corps operations and to support the commandant's new vision of naval integration. i think we need to buy more mq-4s and buy them faster, i think we need to spend some money on taking some of these mq-9 reapers -- and there is a maritime version of the mq-9 reaper -- we need to turn some of them into maritime assets. something asked me recently sh

[heavy gunfire] ♪ d-day, the beginning of the toughest 26 days in marine corps history.watch the center control vessels. when this flag drops, our landing craft will head to the beach. [artillery explosions] 500 landing craft in 10 waves advance on 3,000 yards of beach. [heavy gunfire] ♪ enemy fire keeps us pinned down. we want to pull the beach over our heads like a blanket. [heavy gunfire and explosions] ♪ navy medical corpsmen get our wounded out fast. ♪ our tanks come ashore and grind inland. [tank treads turning] we are able to advance from yellow beach, but it is slow going. [artillery explosions] [machine gun fire] ♪ we run into trouble on green beach. from their fortified positions on mount suribachi, the japs look right down our throats. [gunfire] we need help. we call the command ships standing offshore. our message is received. the situation map is checked. the support air director contacts carrier planes circling the target. the fight leader receives his instructions. [airplane engines droning] [bombs exploding] as we hit suribachi from the air, supporting sh

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2020] >> house republican leader kevin mccarthy also talked with reporters today. mr. mccarthy: good morning. the age-old question that voters consider, are you better off than you were four years ago? that begs to all americans today, what is the answer to that question? it's overwhelming. we just came back with a couple surveys. over 60% say they're better off than they were three years ago. higher than the last four election cycles where an incumbent president was running. about 60% say they are better off financially than just a year ago. tied for an all-time high last reached in 1999. three in four americans are even more optimistic about the future. the highest level in more than 40 years. and people are just happier, nine in 10 are satisfied with their personal life. the highest mark in four decades. so as we look to these top lines, the work from this administration, the work about tax and others that made our economy stronger, wages higher, and america happier. what's interesting to me, i watched the democra

thank you to those who served in our diplomatic corps and i think you see from this, i actually love working on foreign relations issues. i think that there's so much that we can gain for the safety of our world when it comes to nuclear arms treaties. i say to our friend over here, as well as the work that we can do when it comes to our allies and it is really an opportunity that we need to season. it's an opportunity that's going to help us with human rights around the world. it's going to help us with our economic needs in this country as well as our security. so thank you so much for having me. i'm looking forward to the days

thank you to those who served and our diplomatic corps. i hope you see that i love working on foreign relations issues. there is so much we can gain for the safety of our world when it comes to nuclear arms treaties. as well as the work we can do .hen it comes to our allies it is really an opportunity we .eed to seize on it is an opportunity that will help us with human rights around the world, it will help us with our economic needs in this country, as well as their security. thank you so much for having me.

i have been asked many times why did i select the marine corps?about the armed forces whatsoever, i didn't know the difference between the marine and the army guy. when i finally got to the recruiter and gave me my paper, he didn't look at it, he looked at me and he shook his head and said i can't take you. he said you are too short. they lowered the height requirement to 5'2" at a minimum and the recruiter came and asked me and i said yes. we shipped out an in early february, not knowing where we were going and most of us can figure out why we were taking that little place and why we needed somebody marines to do it. we lost a tremendous number of our marines in our unit and in fact my company commander and two other officers -- normally you have a commanding officer and four or five other officers, i had my commanding officer called for a meeting of those were left, the commanding officer asked me, is the only operator left could i do something about these pillboxes? i said i'll try. two of those marines that day sacrificed their lives protectin

states government, but civilians who work there as well is in the finest tradition of the diplomatic corps, it was done with excellence and vigor and brought americans home safely. i'm incredibly proud of the work that my team did that there. we have diplomates in china today and we're working to keep them safe, but keep them in place so we can continue to perform all the missions we need to help china deal with this virus where it began. >> okay, i appreciate that, but how do you reconcile what you just said with the budget you just submitted to us which cut state department funding for who by more than 50% and cuts the dcd's global health security budget by more than 40%. how can you reconcile that budget request with your said investment-- >> we'll have plenty of money. >> we'll have plenty of money. >> we'll have plenty. >> i'm confident. >> and 40% reductions in the budget is enough to address the

on iwo jima. >> they leave the way [inaudible] they are going on the toughest assignment of marine corpsroops has gotten ashore. [crowd boos] we all jacked up and some guys were coming down into the nets were dropping into the vote and we headed in there and i had full throttle and then we started getting closer. >> this is an historic film record of the force first votes pushing off the shore at iwo jima. >> 500 landing kraft and ten waves landed on the beach. >> the troops are united states marines and they are on the way to write new pages of heroism. >> marines of the fourth and fifth division landed with only scant resistance at first leaving them to believe the bombing campaign had been a success. but then the 36th day that would become iwo jima pecan. >> general held his fire waiting for the beaches to become congested with marines and then he began unleashing on the fourth and fifth divisions now deep in enemy territory. landing vehicles were piling up on the water's edge and wants out of them the men struggled on the terraces of ashy volcanic sand and it sucked in their boots, t

advocate of empowering the marine corps, very happy about the marine corps's public law act, which dictates there will always be three marine divisions and three aircraft wings. edison had been very outspoken in supporting that policy. there was theory that somebody who is a gangster or some inclination, with part of a vendetta, part of the marine core service. he was esteemed not only as a field commander, but also as an expert marksman, captain of the marine corps rifle team. the only real failure in his life, a picture shows he is wearing aviator's wings, which is true. he did have them, but he was taken off status because he had inner ear problems and regarded that is a failure on his part. he was a very driven person, and it may very well have been he decided to commit suicide because he could not do it as well as he used to. he was about 80 years old when this occurred. that is a very good book by john hoffman. i recommend it. >> we have a question upstairs somewhere? >> i have two quick questions. one is in addition to food being short, what about munitions and potable water, that's

>> the peace corps was allowed to serve in iran only 14 years. >> is you?ing a part of that brief moment of history. and the lasting legacy of the peace corps. just wonderful to think about that. how many times have you met someone and had an encounter. an impact like that. >> remembering at that age. you really remember it. >> miss m ercme everyone na >> he made his name on the football field. that's just one part of the story of nnamdi asomugha. for some your local news is next. for the rest stick around, you're watching "cbs this morning: saturday". >>> this is so cool. >> give us a little demonstration. >> it looks like a regular phone when you hold it up. you go like this. look at that. the screen bends. unlike the earlier flexible phones the screen is made of a type of flexible glass not plastic and that could potentially make it more durable. >> closes completely. >> closes completely. you have something that fits in a human size pocket. >> it takes pictures. >> of course. it takes pictures. >> even when it's closed. >> there's a tiny display down he

[laughter] the marine corps band for go watch this.ber the days we used to can strawberry jam on the old porch? of course i make this up. [laughter] 's taste in songs, beautiful ballads everything is up to date in kansas city. [laughter] and odd transportation genre of songs like chattanooga choo choo and love on a greyhound bus. he would have cried but not would want us to cry today. life is too important, love is too important. people are too important. to know that and believe that joyously. but then they rise to a different feeling. follow but with the and constraining voice to still persuade us to rejoice. >> what anybody else like to follow that? please. [laughter] the reading for you these esd's. there is a time to be born time to play a time to after a time to kill and a time to heal a time to break down and a time to build up. a time to weep and a time to laugh. time to mourn and a time to dance. time to cast away stones and gather together time to embrace and refrain from embracing. a time to keep in time to pass away. a time

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2019] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >>, chronic presidential candidate mike bloomberg his sixth visit to virginia over the weekend, speaking to supporters at a campaign organizing event in richmond. he was interrupted by protesters at times during the event. [applause] bloomberg: thank you for coming. i want to introduce you to francine mckay. her father owns this place. i thought it would be nice to introduce her or else we might get thrown out. you don't trigger beer yet, do you? thank you for coming, and -- you don't drink here yet, -- beer yet, do you? thank you for coming, and thank you for having us. i am shameless. [applause] how are we doing? [applause] some crowd. i don't know if you came out for the campaign or the craft beer. to be clear, i am here for both. to save be the only way a nation, with a little libation. buildingign is really momentum in virginia and across the country. super tuesday is two weeks away and we're

letterman, in 1862 at antietam, took over the medical corps. when he took over the medical corps, he devised the whole thing around. he created an ambulance corps where we could get the men in off the battlefield quicker and faster. he also went and had to give tests to surgeons to be army qualified surgeons. that is where it got better and better as far as service was concerned. 3 million fought, 600,000 died. 700,000 carried wounds on that battlefield. so what happens there is what i was dealing with at that time was really musket. it went in like a finger and came out like a fist. it shattered that bone so bad, was no way that i could repair it. even if you get shot with one of them today, in modern medicine, they couldn't put it back. they would have to amputate because you just blew that bone apart completely. so -- but the survival rate was great off my table, off the amputations. 70% survived amputations off this table, but then it decreased down to 60% due to the fact of disease that set in. that soldier came on my table in that morning

secretary wolf: the army corps has in a small handful of cases. mr. tester: i would love to know where they're at and what transpeered. i'm on the northern -- northern border. the truth, is i have a certain amount of empathy for those folks who may have their farm or ranch split in half or even a quarter section peeled off due to this wall. and the wall may take, i don't know how many 2350e9 feet does it take, half a mile? secretary wolf: it's a little less. there's an exclusion zone, there's the physical building of the wall. mr. tester: could could have impacts for a much greater area than that. there's a ton of lawsuits and maybe you know this, from the last time this was done, during the bush administration. how many of those lawsuits are still outstanding? secretary wolf: i don't know. mr. tester: this is really an important -- [talking simultaneously] -- for private property rights -- [talking simultaneously] you're going to get a letter to a lady, i just sent it the chairman, her ranch is going to be split by a wall. she's very concerned. by th

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2020] >> house republican leader kevin mccarthy also talked with reporters today. mr. mccarthy: good morning. the age-old question that voters consider, are you better off than you were four years ago? that begs to all americans today, what is the answer to that question? it's overwhelming. we just came back with a couple

public health service commissioned corps. his office leads many critical national initiatives, including a historic new plan to fight the epidemic in america, the national vaccine plan, and eight cross agency plan for sickle cell disease. dr. giroir brings the hands on perspective to his work. lead america to healthier lives. i want to thank africa worldwide for partnering on this. with that, i am pleased to introduce now, admiral giroir. mr. giroir: thank you very much. i am going to stand up if that is ok with everyone. good morning. it is great to be here joining you. again, it has been two years now. as they say in d.c., the days are long but the years are short, and i can certainly agree with that. it has been quite an amazing two years with a lot of accomplishments and a lot of understanding of what we need to do. if i can get my slides up, please. when we get our slides up, that is ok. i am the 16th assistant secretary for health. that role has changed quite a bit over the years. if you were here in 1995, the assistant

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. ♪ ble satellite corp 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsibleor its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> here's a look at what's coming up on c-span. athryn sullivan, the first american woman to walk in space, talks about being the first lass of female astronauts and her participation in the launch and maintenance of the hubble space telescope. in iowa mpaign events iowa caucuses.he go for ing by now for a auto sequence start. t minus 33. t minus 31 seconds. sequencer nd launch would not hand off to the orbiter's computers to complete because the liquid off when it owing on.uld be >> t minus 10. go for main engine start. engine start.ain five, four, three, two, one, liftoff of space discovery with the hubble space telescope. our window on the universe. sullivan, you've written a book about the hubble and we're going to talk a lot about it today. that video all these years later what was it like for you on-board? >> it was one of my lifesaver moments. you just saw the skill, and calm of that exceptional team on full display. cockpit

. ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you can watch archival films on public affairs in their entirety on our weekly series "reel america," saturday 10:00 p.m. and sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern here on american history tv. just south of marilla -- amarillo is the penn dental-planes -- the panhandle-plains museum. next, we hear about the influence of kansas city on the development of amarillo. people know lot of about the ranching history of this area. this history is more like an american regional story that hasn't been told. the isolation of the ranching history as texas, texas,

to the demonstration to get my fair share of abuse ♪ [captions copyright national cable satellite corp2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> the south carolina primary is saturday. join us to hear the candidates reaction to the results. live coverage saturday evening starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, on demand it c-span.org or listen free to the c-span radio app. senator bernie sanders speaks in south carolina ahead of tomorrow's primary. 54 pledged delegates are at stake. this is before the super tuesday primary next week. senator sanders: thank, colombia. this is our last event in south carolina. statee been all over this and small towns and small cities. we are so appreciative of the hospitality and the support we've been getting, so thank you, south carolina. [cheers and applause] and i'm very proud to have some outstanding members of the legislature here right now. i want to thank representative wendall gilliard. representative justin. representative terry alexander. a

marine corps can show up, hit hard. having the duration within that. they can do some other offensive types of training together as wel well. >> thank you, secretary. from hong kong. between the u.s. and china, i'm wondering if there's any -- still any cooperation with the pla and the u.s. army. i know last year there was a joint drill between the u.s. army and pla. anything else? secondly, how do you see your role of taiwan in the u.s. army strategy? are there any efforts between the u.s. army and taiwan to step up cooperation? >> as i mentioned before, we have our chief talks between the chiefs of our services. we don't have any joint exercises, things of that nature. with respect to taiwan, they buy u.s. capability. we do advise and assist type training with them and consistent consistently work that relationshi relationship. >> two years ago, the u.s. army had spearheaded and promoted. you still do that annually, too, right? that kind of thing where there's a multi-lateral gathering? you talk about humanitarian relief, things like that. >> obviousl

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james p mcpherson is the 17th corps commander, and he also is a protege of grant. he is young and attractive and all that. grant likes him. grant is going to get him good situations and so forth, meaty order rise, one day he is a lieutenant colonel of engineers and the next thing he is a general kind of thing, and you see grant's hand in that when he was promoted, in fact. mcpherson himself says what am i , promoted for? i have done anything. but that is mcpherson, his relationship with grant. some historians take a different view of this. and my favorite one of these is ed barst. you all know him. basically doing tours and so on in vicksburg and so on, his take on it, he says if grant turned a corner, mcpherson would break his nose. [laughter] so he is a little bit of a brown noser, a little bit. but they are both firmly in grant's camp. now the third corps commander, the ranking commander, is not a grant fan, a grand protege, and there are some troubles. you can read about this. we don't have time to go into it. -- mclaren does call grant some major problems. he

if i said marine corps band, i would have him in a wash in tears. on the old swing of the old porch, crying of course i'm just making stuff up. songs, an odd taste in songs, the beautiful ballad, everything is up to date in kansas city. and odd transportation genera of songs, "chattanooga chew chew" and the oldie but goody "love on a greyhound bus." you have cried but he would not want us to cry today. life is too important. love is too important. love is too important. people are too important. he would want us to know that and believe that. he embraced life wholeheartedly, joyously, full of joy. wh elogy to yates, he disappeared in the dead of winters which is what jim did, disappeared in the dead of winter, but then the poem rises to a different feeling. and it's what jim would have said to us and with this i close, follow the poet, follow right to the bottom of the night with your unconstraining voice, still persuade us to rejoice. >> what anybody else like to >> well, if anyone else would like to follow that, please. it's a reading from e cle--

he came to the astronaut corps in the early 1970s with -- was the excess 11 group.hen he came along, he was incredibly talented, very intense design engineer. you've all seen bruce. if you've seen a picture of an astronaut hanging off by himself against the backdrop of space, that's bruce, and the little rocket patch that he used to fly that far away from the shuttle he co-designed with some folks at the johnson space center. he had done some of the very preliminary early work on it back in the 1970s. he was my co-space walker for the hubble deployment flight. we had done space walks. we were the two that if anything didn't go right on the day that we were deploying hubble, if everything didn't unfold properly and so on, we would hop into our spacesuits and go out and fix it. >> so that mission we saw in the beginning was five days in length. what was the most critical part of the mission? >> other than successful getting to orbit the most critical part was the next day when we were deploying hubble. a school bus size piece of equipment. it fits like with inches to

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he was a gunnery sergeant, and he was a marine and said i'm going to join the marine corps. i never told my mother. i just went out and did it and i came in one day and was sitting across the table from me i said mom, i'm going to tell you something, i joined the marine corps yesterday. she looked at me and her mouth flew open and i called the silvent scream. i never expected that reaction from her until i got a little older and i thought about it that she was thinking of her brother who was wounded numerous times and missing an action. she relived that for me through her brother and i got hurt in boot camp and i pinched a nerve in my arm from the slaying and i was paralyzed in my left arm and i was devastated because i'm left-handed and i'm an artist. i thought on never sell another painting again. they put me back to the basement and they put me in a catchers truck and a wire cage in the back and put my see bag in there and sitting on my seat bag and it's raining and i'm soaking wet and cars are passing me and i was so depressed and i had my oils and i opened up that bag i

marine corps, and he was principal advisor on china to the deputy commandant for the marine corps for information, director of intelligence. he served as the deputy director of that china strategic focus of group at the u.s. indo-pacific command, but then it was the pacific command. and he served in beijing as a military attachÉ, and naval attachÉ, i think operated hotline there, didn't you? thank you very much. we are going to try and hold you to about ten minutes to leave room for questions and answers. >> commissioner wortzel, commissioner fiedler, distinguish members of the commission, thank you for the opportunity to meet with you today. my testimony will focus on health implications of china's military power projection and what this challenge means to the department of defense as it reorients to strategic competition with china. the bottom line is china represents the most formidable contemporary long-term security challenge for the department of defense and the united states government as a whole, and that the people's liberation army's development of mobile expedition to give

the voters may see gerald ford speaking on issues, but the white house press corps of 100 reporters coverings well. while other candidates may propose what they would do, the president has the advantage of being able to propose executive action immediately. he is already the president. the voters know this and helps to explain white has been -- why it has been difficult to deny an incumbent president a second term. >> black or white, rich or poor, to live in dignity, security, and in peace. ♪ [applause] ♪ announcer: if he stops along the route for an impromptu speech, the american seal, the flags, and the reporters are always there. presidential press conferences are a tradition by which the president explains policies under tough question by a free press. when he holds such a press conference come he reaches millions of americans on television and appears in the front page of every newspaper in the country. >> are you ready to and sate now -- to say now you are confident of winning the new hampshire florida primaries? >> when i say i am encouraged, i think that is quite indicative that i wi

. >> what the army corps will get those were qualified app platoons that are on contract or those on a larger. >> doesn't that procurement law eliminate any bidding of any protest quick so how do we hold them accountable if they get a sweetheart deal? >> they have already been prequalified and have determined most of them are already building the border wall system. the idea is to add on to those contracts as property becomes available. these contractors have been vetted. >> you have a list of contractors. >> are they classified as small business? >> can you give me the list? set also waives a provision for small business and i would love to have that because the procurement yes it is a pain in the neck but is there for a reason we need to make sure we are holding the contractors accountable. i get it you want a bill passed quickly but you still have to do certain things and do it right otherwise after it's built and the dollars have been spent if it's not the best value then it's too late. >> yes senator i don't believe it is we continue to work with the army corps of engineers to m

this legislation would establish women's economic empowerment as a corps facet in line with the president's own national security strategy. the women's global development and prosperity act will also permanently elevate these efforts at the state department by establishing for the first time ever legislation, office of women's empowerment led by an ambassador at large. there have been continuous efforts to try to codify the role of women as a foreign policy priority. this white house looks forward to working closely with congress and passing wgdp legislation and realizing this long overdue goal. we thank you for your partnership and your commitment to helping us get this done. i would also like to recognize and thank representative mccaul. thank you, representative, and his counterpart, wrangel. happy to announce that under their leadership, they will be introducing a companion bill in the house of representatives in the coming days and we thank you again for your steadfast commitment to advancing this work, representative mccaul. really thank you. and thank you for being here. to put all o

[drum corps] from it, comes defeat for the british, freedom for the american colonies, the birth of theted states of america. ♪ it happened because of the determination and courage of a gallant commander of those 11,000 starving men. ♪ what is he like? what gives him the ability to rise above defeat and disaster? let's go back in time to find out about his preparation for destiny. the son of a well-to-do virginia planter, he is born on february 22nd, 1732, just above picturesque popes creek. where enters the potomac river in westmoreland county. the original brick house is long gone. but on the approximate site is a memorial mansion representing a typical plantation house of the early 18th century. for three years on popes creek, he plays with his pets, watches the colts frolicking in the lush pastures, toddles along the shore the gardens, and partly orders rich fields of tobacco and corn. then george's father, augustine, takes his family 50 miles up the potomac river to one of his other properties. little hunting creek plantation, later to become george washington's own famous mansion,

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have grievances with each other they wouldn't need a state department they would need a diplomatic corps they were nobody you know the u.s. iran relation is a particularly longstanding toxic one i'm just saying it seems to me one sided from both sides would be helpful to post i recognize that the others have legitimate grievances i have not ever said that i can understand the reigning towards the americans i don't necessarily agree with that but that's why we need to sit down i think there's a silence is worked ok well not know what we're going to leave it there thank you both for coming on up front to have this conversation appreciate your time thank you very much. since mohamed bin solid mom became crown prince of saudi arabia and effectively took charge of the saudi government there's been a ramping up of the country's military and influence operations abroad and escalation with regional rival iran and the targeting of saudi dissident even in exile and this calabar the un special rapporteur on extrajudicial killings has been investigating the assassination of saudi journalist jamal kh

corp in criminal matters if the united kingdom were to denounce the european convention of human rights we put the issue up for debate with stephen morris of the english democrats party and human rights lawyer shabnam carr. is good idea to have a parole board that deals with each case individually in principle there's nothing wrong with that but if what the reports are suggesting are correct that mainly they want to change the potential released release date from a half of a sentence to 2 thirds and i think that's where the problem comes in well one of the things is a sentence in rules are completely to pot them and if somebody gets given a sentence 5 years than the years that should be let out early anyway then when the fault then you look at the parole and so you are suitable for release that this is a very very serious and complicated situation that calls for nuanced. periods of debate argument consideration not something that the government rushes through in a matter of weeks is a kneejerk reaction well it has to be at the moment because the government over the last few years of an