in 1894 the signal corps added photography to the signal corps located at fort riley, kansas.they later published a manual on photography to use to teach the soldiers. the photographic function still wasn't officially assigned and wouldn't be for quite a while. the war in spain in 1898 of the army with its first opportunity to try its hand photography. the signal soldiers took cameras into the war zones and captured the fighting in cuba, puerto rico and the philippines but the real coming-of-age for signal corps photography came during world war i. in july 1917, the signal corps established the photographic section that had responsibility for ground and aerial photography at home and abroad. and aviation was one of those additional functions the signal corps had for a time during world war i. signal corps cameramen took still and motion picture images, but officers were reluctant to allow cameramen too close to the front, so they took very few photos of actual combat. censorship was strict, and no graphic images were shown to the public at all. nevertheless, by the war's end,

university has grown around the corps. one of those includes the 12th man. in 1922, a former football athlete during the postseason , he transitioned into basketball. during the first half of the game, they realized they had so many injuries that they didn't know if they would be able to fill the full team. so they brought him out of the stands in order to satisfy the that requirement in case he had to go and play. he didn't actually go in and play, but it was the idea that, i am going to be ready to serve my community, serve my team and my school in whatever capacity they need. that is where you get the 12th man. what we found is that the 12th man spreads out not just in athletics and being able to participate in sport, but all across the community. it is about selfless service. how can you be of service to someone else. my first week here, i had no idea where my classes were. a girl took the time out of her day, i asked where one building was, and she took me all the way across campus, didn't ask me to look at the map or

i just gave one example of the conservation corps could do. in my home state there are more than 2 million acres backlogged in terms of the hazardous fuel that need to be reduced with 21st 21st century conservation courts and thousands ofnt young people going into every state and taking action to reduce these risks. a lot of other things could be done by the 21st century conservation corps. i learned this weekend we are going to need to deploy new cell phone connectivity because a lot of people have most of his connections. in fact one of the challenges in trying to determine how many people we've lost and with his friends not able to communicate with us having people work on communications and to prevent massive flooding because make no mistake about it madam president, all over the west and in oregon, washington and california we are going to need those stabilization project is to prevent massive flooding this spring as sure as the nightfall of the day it will be a problem. using the 21st century civilian conservation corps can deploy folks

, close to 7.5% of the general officer corps which means the marine corps officer corps is an efforta better chance of being promoted to general than a white person. african americans make up 20% of the marine corps. what does that mean? we need to recruit more african-americans, 100% support that but that means disadvantage education and opportunity before we get to the marine corps not that they are held back within the marine corps and this is mainly a case study on one that might be promoted to general this year, until the entire article is infringed on this packet this person might not be promoted to general and they gloss over things like this kernel supposedly known for speaking his mind and white officers have not been held back for the same reason, that is the only reason james mattis, spoke his mind to us. you are being very subjective in proving a point this person wants to prove rather than the data shows but i will be the first to say i want our officer courts represent the marine corps at large and that means 20% of offices should be african-american i hope the marine c

i will be the first essay i want our officer corps to represent our marine corps at large. of our officers should be african-american, then i hope the marine corps looks at that. more than any of that i hope the opportunity to prove him or silk herself and that the officer is their bright i feel across the board no matter when i was in the marine corps and i think we're only moving further in that direction. this is a piece they didn't need to be written if he asked me. >> thank you for your service and thank you for your time. >> absolutely. thank you. president trump bands lower income evictions. that is next. with progressive's home quote explorer. international hand model jon-jon gets personal. your wayward pinky is grotesque. then a high stakes patty-cake battle royale ends in triumph. you have the upper hands! it's a race to the lowest rate, and so much more. only on "the upper hands." >> the cdc as issuing a nationwide advection moratorium for renters he received a stimulus deck and made an effort to get government assistance and still cannot afford their rent. rate

tank corp his performance won for him to the service medal. was able to get to europe, the war ended. ♪ in the late 1920's after graduation from the command and general staff school, major dwight d. eisenhower was assigned to france to prepare an american guidebook for the fields in europe. it was his first direct experience with that continent. with the 1930's came other assignments, climaxed by service under douglas macarthur in the philippines. for four years he worked with macarthur, commander-in-chief of the philippine army, to help the commonwealth government work out a plan for its military defense. ordered back to the states in december 1939, lieutenant col. eisenhower went to fort lewis, washington as executive officer of the 15th regiment. ♪ in the dark spring of 1940, german armored divisions were crashing through columns and buildings. ♪ the luftwaffe was taking its destruction through europe's skies. france was frustrated and beleaguered britain was standing alone. the united states had passed the selective service act to prepare

going way back i grew up in the marine corps family. my father was the fighting in korea and vietnam and i grew up in that environment and i went to quantico high school and then went on to the naval academy thinking i would be a marine corps officer. after my first year the navy sends everybody out on a cruise and you go out on a ship beautiful cruiser on san diego it was late in the day the sun was setting and and i just wanted to be a sailor at that point so i told my dad and my mom and they were hoping it would be a marine that they got over it years later when i got my first star is that i think that came out okay. >>host: you almost left the nav navy? >> i did i graduated from annapolis and went to see for five years three on a destroyer in san diego and then to florida where i come from you today my mom and my in-laws live here. at the end of the five-year period i was on an aircraft carrier. and then to launch a missile but i couldn't launch an idea to save my life. the navy stepped into make me an offer that i couldn't refuse a

fifth corps. ♪ paris later liberation of belgium and the struggle across the german border. ♪ blocking sector. through several weeks, the enemy, supported by the devastating weather conditions, isolated and assaulted allied forces. ♪ general eisenhower called upon all troops to rise to new heights of courage and effort. heldride of -- brave men and pushed the enemy back. the supreme commander counted on weakened nazi resistance. marchhis crossing in 1845, the heart of the enemy's defenses was cracked. the remained a substantial task of mopping up what was left of the enemy west of the rhine. and accepting his surrender in the droves that began to appear. the fatherland were rebels as allied troops moved through them in the enemy's defeat. ♪ g.i. werender and able to find exultation that comes when victory is close. ♪ victory came finally with the german surrender in a 1945.house on may 7, the return to peace was signaled by the supreme commander. >> the privilege of speaking for a victorious army of almost 5 million. they and the women who have assisted them constitute the allied exped

fifth corps.eyond paris later liberation of belgium and the struggle across the german border. (music) blocking the pursuit of victory lay the nazi in the ardennes sector. known as the battle of the bulge. through several weeks, the enemy, supported by the devastating weather conditions, isolated and assaulted allied forces. (music) general eisenhower called upon all troops to rise to new heights of courage and effort. the brave man of the beleaguered forces held and pushed the enemy back. and from not moment on words the supreme commander counted on weakened nazi resistance. the brigitte marauding one of the sturdy symbols of the war. with this crossing in march 1845, the heart of the enemy's defenses was cracked. ♪ ♪ there remained a substantial task of mopping up what was left of the enemy west of the rhine. and accepting his surrender in the droves that began to appear. the great cities of the enemies the fatherland were rebels as allied troops moved through them in the enemy's defeat. (music)

theit really changed operations of the white house press corps.oving out of closer proximity to the oval office. but also giving them a state of the art and television broadcasting to allow more to be allowed in the daily coverage of the white house. it also created a briefing room. which we know too well today. think, when we see those briefings that they are standing over the old swimming poor that roosevelt used to swim in for rehabilitation. lyndon johnson used to take .eporters in for nude swimming look magazine reporters and others. andn ended swimming replaced it. susan: i know that you spoke to president bill clinton from your notes and newt gingrich, who they famously squared after in the clinton presidency. i will ask one question to capture the flavor of the clinton years. hillary clinton famously complained regularly over vast right wing conspiracy against the president and herself. hethe book you ask, was justifiably agreed or it rationally self pitying? did you come to a conclusion? mr. holzer: my own conclusion is that he was unjust

my friends would say, what is it like to deal with the press corps?eople who are trying to do the best they can. [end of video clip] susan: there is the president reflecting on his eight years in office. you wrote about it, what was it like going through it for the president? mr. holzer: i think there was an ingenious structure in the communication operations of the bush white house. very much modeled after the reagan system, which is kind of a good cop/bad cop set up with the communications aides were a great deal more negative and aggressive than the president. in which the president was kept relentlessly on message for photo ops, for chats, and even for press conferences. and president bush was a very friendly man and a charming man. i think he made some bad public relations mistakes. the flight over hurricane katrina where he did not land, but you sort of hovered just sends a terrible signal to americans that he was out of it. at this point, television coverage was aggressively liberal or conservative and they looked for a got ya moment and any op

when the army corps of engineers do it, they do it right, that's one thing i can tell you.etweenuilding the wall mexico and the united states, over 300 miles now a ball and that's a serious wall. that is a wall that is meant to last and meant to work. that will help revitalize the wetlands and the saint lucy and indian river lagoon. [applause] pretty good. we hit home with that today, i one. have an important announcement. i do not know if it is bigger than the things we have already done. in a few moments, i will sign a presidential order extending the moratorium on offshore drilling off florida's gold coast and -- gulf coast and expanding it to florida's atlantic coast as well as the coast of georgia and south carolina. [applause] thank you very much, everybody, thank you. thank you very much. i guess you like with that one the best of all. this action follows close consultation with florida governor ron desantis who has been unbelievable. florida senators marco rubio and rick scott have worked so hard, as well as south carolina senator lindsey graham, tim scott, lindsay

as a marine corps veteran and a reporter, he didn't believe it when he read it. then he started calling his own sources in the defense department and got multiple confirmations. >> no. it is as horrible and ugly a donald trump story as we've ever had. thank you, rachel. thank you for your hour. >>> as i say, we begin tonight with the breaking news from jeffrey goldberg's new report in the atlantic that tells one of the ugliest stories ever told about donald trump and it begins with that ugly confection on the top of donald trump's head that is designed to hide what for donald trump is a painful truth. in trying to hide that truth, donald trump reveals so very much of who he is in trying to desperately to hide the truth about how much hair actually grows on donald trump's head. he combs over the spots of his skull that he doesn't want you to see and the crown he creates is so absurdly elaborate and obviously fragile that it screams a constant warning of the fragility of the ego that needs to create that ridiculous lie on the top of his head. and when donald trump

marine corps. america and its allies stopped the german advance toward paris there in the spring of 1918. trump, on that same trip, asked staffers, quote, who were the good guys in this war? he also said he didn't understand why the u.s. would intervene on the side of the allies. so per jeffrey goldberg's reporting tonight in "the atlantic," that's the president telling staffers he doesn't know which side we should retroactively root for from world war i, the side with america on it or the german side. again, this is the piece just published tonight in "the atlantic" magazine. reporter jeffrey goldberg saying he pursued this line of inquiry about the president's statements and feelings about the military in part because the president never really paid a price for disparaging the family of a u.s. army captain killed in iraq, the family of humayun khan, and also he never really paid a price for saying this about senator john mccain, who whatever you think of his politics, inarguably is an american wa

the thirdlmes of regiment of the federal reserve corps was the commander of the troops on the steamer. the federal reserve corps was among the last of the units into troopere being used for transport such as this or prisoner exchanges, that kind of thing. a transport like this where all the men came from different regiments, the reserve corps officer was to organize this group on board and keep them under control since there were not a lot of officers keeping them there. as they were coming down the river, everything was going fine. they had gone 60 miles or so out of washington when suddenly a strong wind began to blow, causing the river to become rough. if any of you have sailed on the potomac, you understand what that means. the wins come up fast and furious and can change the conditions in a heartbeat. shortly before 1:00 a.m., the massachusetts hit the angered black diamond. hit her on the port side near the boiler just to the aft of the port house, opening her hall to the waterline. the wind had begun. the resulting waters were rough. that was probably part of the reason for the

army nurse corps. okinawa, rrived in japan, on easter sunday, 1945, here she helped establish a field hospital ahead of the u.s. invasion of japan. a few months later, eight kamikaze planes entered. lice was injured in the cross fire and evacuated to hawaii for urgery and she was awarded the purple heart. later in life, alice served as a attendant for american irlines back when flight attendants were supposed to be nurses. aruba and married john johnson and together they had four children. nursing careerer at a burn hospital. nurse for health vision and hearing tests in schools. after her retirement, alice bernardo, rancho california, near her family. remai hope s active, attending and her daughter and son-in-law reached out to me her story. i'm overjoyed to wish alice 100th n the very happiest birthday. n behalf of california's 52nd district, we thank her for her being a service, nurse, and the joys she brings everyone. happy birthday, alice. you are a treasure to us all. back.eaker, i yield the speak

i think he understands the importance of a ceremony like that because it hits the marine corps and msson was part of that history. >> there was another moment i want to ask you about that's described in the story and "the atlantic" reports that the president actually visited robert kelly's grave with general kelly and that the president said "i don't get it. what was in it for them?" i think you're the perfect person to answer that question. can you? why do people serve? why do people say send me, answer the call and they say send me? >> i think that whenever you look at that quote, you can understand coming from the business community, why somebody would have those sentiments because it's difficult to understand why somebody like general kelly's son would serve. he was decorated marine before he passed away. he was college educated, with very high honors before he went back to serve. the and i think sometimes people in the business community and see people and say why would they do that, instead of getting a degree and successfully pursuing a financial career in whatever specialty th

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioningtitute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ announcer 1: through 20 years of wavering, wandering, through hot and cold wars, through corruption and cynicism, the american people have hungered for leadership founded on integrity and wisdom and courage. >> we need a leader who is of the people. >> a man to raise leadership by the people. >> a sturdy, humble heir to the respect and the affection all peoples felt for lincoln. such a man is general ike, dwight d. eisenhower, the man from abilene. >> never have so many americans known so much about the very essence of one man. >> 100 million americans know eisenhower the way you know a neighbor. you know him by heart. why do we care about him? not because he is a general, but instinctively we believe in him. we hail him as a hometown boy who is the best of all americans. his roots are in the heartland, mainstreet usa. >> i come here first to thank you, to say the proudest thing i can claim is that i

i mean marine corps folklore comes out of belleau wood.dea that the german army called marines devil dog, the fifth and sixth marine regiments where a french -- to remember that battle more than 1,800 marines that died there. so that was quite shocking. this was quite surprising to see tonight. >> i mean it's -- to hear the president denigrate the -- i mean 1,800-plus marines lost at belleau wood with that incredibly storied and sanctified history in the u.s. military as you describe it, jim, but also a sort of insight into the president consistently denigrating both service and sacrifice that i think that a lot of americans who may have mixed feelings about the -- you know, the deployment of u.s. military forces around the world and whether or not we're auls fighting the right wars, even people that have a difference of opinion, i feel like it's almost universal that everybody has respect and gratitude for anybody who has served in uniform who has been wounded, who has put their life on the line, who has risked their life for this country

well as of a few moments ago to me 2 press corps of the kremlin spokes person addressed the media put out a statement saying that so far had not been in touch with moscow we had heard from stefan cyber that they wanted answers from the russian government that germany wanted answers from the russian government and that the ambassador from russia to germany was being summoned to the foreign ministry but when it comes to comment from the kremlin from moscow to me to the press corps of kremlin spokes person saying that the moscow haven't been contacted the spheres are when it comes to lakes in the valleys condition and we know that he remains in this coma that's been induced in the shot at a hospital here in berlin where he's been for a couple of weeks now following him taking sick on that flight from siberia to moscow he was brought here by a special medical plane that was chartered by his supporters and he's been here in berlin receiving treatment and tests since then it's these tests that have come back with the german government saying that he was poisoned with a nerve agent from the

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] house of january 7, 2020, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. with time equally allocated between parties and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 9:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the entleman from kentucky, mr. comer, for five minutes. mr. speaker, i rise oday to encourage this body to keep casey county, kentucky, in your thoughts and prayers. on sunday, the community xperienced flooding that impacted multiple businesses, area. and homes in the this is not the first time the community has experienced floodwaters. ith the great flood that occurred in 2010. the community came together during that flood and i know once again unite to tackle this tremendous

inspectors around the country is very important every army corps inspector follows the law the exactsame way i saw this of the practice in the past some interpreted it the way they wanted to on a case-by-case basis. we wrote the new waters of the us protection act so the property owner can stay on their property and decide if it falls and to the definition so what is the water of the us and what is not and the definition. >> it seems to me so much of the energy talent channeled into the epa and army corps over navigable waters was well-intentioned and responsive to being scientific understandings of how water flows. that was only channeled into the legislative process it seems to me as my editorial comment the more they stay within their mandates and not justify where they are limited the more you would hope it would be channeled into the legislative process. >> i will you make that comment. i will say with the supreme court decision what is written in the clean water act has not been kept up with the times. >> this comes in policy director at the american conservation coalition. >>

why has that been such a difficult problem for the epa and army corps of engineers to settle through the rulemaking through judicial review and why will this time be any different? i think at this time will be different. if you go back to the clean air -- clean water act of the 1970's, congress and bishop -- focusing on ships and boats on waterways and it has been expanded over the years through supreme court cases to include adjacent wetlands. our definition, i believe, follows those supreme court cases and i think it will be upheld. it has already passed the first test. thehis point we are in middle of writing the guidance documents for the army corps inspectors around the country. it's very important that every inspector follow the law in the exact same way. i saw this when i was in private practice, army corps inspectors that interpreted the regulations the way they wanted to on a case-by-case basis. we wrote the new waters of the so that thed act property owner should be able to stand on his or her own property and tell for themselves if their waterfalls on the definition. we in

corps inspectors around the country. it is important every army corps inspector follows the law the same way, i saw this in private practice. interpreted on a case-by-case basis. we wrote the new waters, and >> so much was channeled into getting the epa, for expanding that over the year. that is well-intentioned and responsive for scientific understandings, how water bodies are connected. congress could have updated that. the epa and other agencies to justify, the more energy you hope would be channeled in the legislative process. >> i will at you make the editorial comment. with the supreme court decisions, what is written in the clean water act. >> chris barnhart at the american conservation coalition he writes how can we make sure we have a steady supply of critical minerals in the united states without being reliant on countries like china, what is your view of domestic drilling, domestic mining? this goes to a problem you identified that the more we rely on new technologies the more we are reliant on china for a few

and to me, that higher power was the marine corps. that was the global force for good because my life is centered around the service of something bigger than myself. >> and i think you're right, kait. i think a lot of people do connect with that. i really appreciate you giving us your perspective. it's so important it hear. thank you for your service. thank you for sharing your husband's memory with us and thank you for talking to us today, kait wyatt. >> thank you so much, brianna. have a great day. >> you, too. >>> draft memos from homeland security say white supremacist violence is the most lethal threat to the u.s. right now. >>> as college towns become the new country's epicenters, dr. fauci is issuing a warning about what college students need to do. 11 days on the open seas, and still no sign of the world's mightiest predator. so we're attempting to coerce a visit... with devour white cheddar mac and cheese with bacon. oh that looks good. ahhhhhhh astounding! eat like an animal. devour. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ okay, give it a try. between wisd

off shore corps and the cheers then go through a small field of shock of that. i saw that we have to part of that is. shallow danny was 80 years old at the time. he was one of more than 300 children who were brought to safety on the train. in the army months of 945 more than 35000 prisoners in back and bounce and died of disease or starvation. after the british liberated the camp many were buried in mass graves. one of the victims was a 15 year old and frank whose diary of years in hiding became famous throughout the world. they're lucky that there is no question what is where the luck or for the getting out of the hell of the hail the most likely if you wouldn't have been. sent out from there morse the likely you would have that right. back in tel aviv it's just passed by the sun is rising over the city. of charlotte danny is it 16 kilometers east holding his pace about 70 monitors an hour. at least. after the low danny family arrived in switzerland they were housed in one of the many hotels that had been left empty joining the war. the rooms were crowded and t

there is five union army corps moving through. once one moves out, here comes a orps and they take the top rail. they take what was once close to the top so after so many union formations move through, the loudoun valley is going to be essentially wiped clean. one soldier said it was not quite the land of milk and honey but a fair equivalent. union soldiers were taking plenty of provisions from the local population as they possibly could. getting into the military movements. it will be until several days into the action when the two armies begin to engage in that won't start until october 31, five days already into the campaign. a quick recap, you can see the dark arrows on the map symbolize the army of the potomac's infantry. george mcclellan plans to move rps through the valley. rps were supposed to meet up with the army. gettingn is going to be reinforcements. people embarq with 100,000 men or so. rebuilties have been from the losses they suffered during the summer of 1862. mcclellan will be cutting off himself from the supply

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> you're watching american history tv on c-span 3. lexie lord is the chair of the museum of medicine and science at the smithsonian museum of american history. let me begin with this pandemic and how it has impacted the museum and univision in -- your division in particular. >> we are mostly working remotely. our museum closed in march, but we began thinking about the pandemic in january. we are a division of medical historians and we tend to follow the news pretty carefully, especially news about public health. so we actually reached out and began speaking with the public health service in january because we began thinking about how to collect document this story. so it has been a long process and we have kind of ramped up as we have come home to think about collecting. >> at what point did you realize this pandemic would stretch into the fall and potential winter? >> as historians, we have defin

visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] >> our campaign 2020 coverage continues with candidates campaigning and debating. c-span, your unfilthered view of politics. >> the house is in recess. but members return at 6:30 p.m. eastern for votes and speeches. the chamber's been working on several bills, including a measure that requires all annual federal agency budget and appropriation requests to congress be made public. this week a resolution condemning anti-asian bias following the coronavirus pandemic. and before the end of the month, measures that would decriminalize marijuana at the federal level and 2021 federal spending. current funding expires september 30. follow the house live here on c-span when members return at 6:30 eastern. p.m. eastern on c-span 2. announcer: washington journal continues. host: from philadelphia we are joined now by pennsylvania state representative malcolm kenyatta commit the first lgbtq -- malcolm can yada -- nothing can and he isfirst lgbtq just 30 years old. why did you first get involved in politics? guest: first of al

>>caller: i was an engineer in the marine corps with the united states embassy. and there are conservatives that are democratic marines and we have a lot of discussions to work together like in any unit. i voted for president carter and i didn't support this kind of president because i find them to be at the extreme right of the options. but my question can you tell me the minimum wage in australia? >> i have no idea i do not live in australia. is it 16? i don't know. >> i don't live in australia but it is $19 and change. i got out of the marine corps i wanted to let you know what it is like for people like myself that work with their hands for a living. to make ten dollars an hour as a carpenter or is it $15 an hour is that the high and in florida it is difficult to make a livin living. we on the left apart from your personal identity which i respect including the fact you are conservative, it makes it difficult to make a living. so organize labor. so in reality the administrative legislation group which supports the president is very anti- labor so that's why w

and that the army corps of engineers was part of the "deep state."t father roy snipes, a local priest who opposed the trump wall, accusing him of promoting child trafficking. also not true. we build the wall people came after you personally. >> roy snipes: isn't that something? i didn't even know who they were. >> alfonsi: they're coming after the local priest. >> snipes: yeah. i guess they're not from around here, 'cause from around here, we can-- even mom and dad can disagree about things without being mean and nasty. >> alfonsi: last december, brian kolfage bragged in an interview that we build the wall had a direct line to the white house. >> brian kolfage: we have chris kobach and steve bannon and a lot of people that are tied in with the trump administration so we are able to back channel things to the administration and let them know what we're doing. >> alfonsi: but what they were doing was falling apart. a recent engineering inspection, after summer storms, revealed deep gashes under the foundation of the wall. that's marianna trevino-wright

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we'll launch a new modern civilian climate corps to heal our public lands and make us less vulnerable to wildfires and floods. i believe that every american has a fundamental right to breathe clean air and drink clean water. and i know that we haven't fulfilled that right yet. that's true of the millions of families struggling with the smoke created devastation of the wildfires right now. but it also has been true for a generation or more in places like cancer alley in louisiana, or right here in delaware along the route 9 corridor. right here in delaware. fulfilling this basic obligation to all americans, especially in low income, white, black, brown and native american communities who too often don't have the clean air and the clean water. it's not going to be easy. but it's necessary. i'm committed to getting it done. these aren't pie in the sky dreams. these are concrete, actionable problems that create american jobs, mitigate climate change and put our nation on the road to net zero emissions by no later than 2050. you know, some say we can't afford to fix this. but here's the th

in then conservation corps can reduce and prevent catastrophic fires they can do it on a grand scale. in an ideal part of this is one of the reasons that i think this appeals to the democrats and republicans. it is there does not have to be a fight over carrying out our countries environmental loss. as i mentioned, nor again alone, there's more than 2 million acres and is to be treated . that thosere treatmen. the lightning strikes carelessly dropped matt, can start yet another inferno. so picture that . after everything that we have had, over the last few days. you have all of these hazardous fuels built up. any of the lightning strike that is carefull. you've read througs of other acres in a blink of an eye. they badly need this investment. it would really be an updated version of one of the most popular programs the government has ever pursued. they came out of the new deal. they would be a huge economic boost to rural communities. see this in the senate . from iowa, rural communities if governments left them behind. so that is my first proposal. the first of three. that i believe

, the junior officer corps in world war ii. they won the war, i mean they helped win the war. these people come out of -- they are fascinating characters. there are characters in the book, i mean one of the great characters in the book for me was bob hope because he was part of the cult morale that was building, the culture of the g.i. and hope was entertaining the troops well before the war. at one point john steinbeck was writing as a journalist for the new york herald tribune. steinbeck discovers hope in a combat zone and he says when the history of this war is over, bob hope will be one of the heroes. he said this man was fearless, he would go into combat zones, he would entertain severely injured people. steinbeck said it must've been taking a huge toll on him psychically, seeing these men with double amputees and things. and he would go in with these gags and he would go in these rooms of seriously injured men and he would say well, there is this real problem at home, they are not getting enough powdered eggs. the idea th

he was part of the invalid corps , or the veterans reserve corps. he had been in the battle of gettysburg. he was injured on the first day, and after that could not return to full duty. he ends up in elmira perhaps guarding some of the prisoners that i would be studying. so let's start the story of pow camps in general, just to contextualize this a little bit. so, this is montgomery. he is the quartermaster general for the union. civil war got underway, one of the things that we see is neither side gave serious thought to the potentiality of needing to hold prisoners of war. there wereh prisoners taken in some of the earliest battles of the war, they were exchanged on the spot in a kind of informal way that harkens back to the way things were done in the mexican war. nor formal policy at all. and it was -- no formal policy at all. and it was in the early days of suggests to miggs the secretary of war, maybe we should do something to prepare in case we need to hold prisoners of war. simon cameron was more interested in lining his own pockets at that

every day he takes tough questions from the white press corp.is ready to go and wants that same transparency for his opponent who has avoided the public. >> harris: kamala harris and her husband just released their taxes as well. you mentioned the president being under audit. how much pressure for him to put something out now particularly the following reporting by the "new york times"? we still don't know their sources, but there is some talk with these drops in the last our of the biden and harris taxes, about whether or not president trump would want to do something at this point? >> this has been asked and answered. in october of 2016 ahead of the first debate, the "new york times" the same reporters released a piece on the president's tax returns. then they launched a hit piece days before the first democrat debate in 2020. the american public know about the president's life. this has been asked and answered. if the american voter wanted more information, we ever happy to get it. this has been in the public space for 4 years. it shows the l

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioningnstitute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ air force one has touched down in harrisburg, pennsylvania and we are waiting for the start of president trump's rally, his first event after nominating amy coney barrett to the supreme court a few hours ago. the president is making several stops in pennsylvania over the next few weeks, where the polls show joe biden ahead of the president, a state that mr. trump 14 years ago. live coverage soon to get underway shortly. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> while we wait for the arrival of the president coming down the stairs from air force one, here is some reaction to his nomination of amy coney barrett to be on the supreme court from majority leader mitch mcconnell, he says judge merrick will receive a confirmation vote in phrased her selection, president trump could not have made a better decision, amy coney barrett is an exceptional andorist -- jurist well-qualified nominee. democratic leader chuck schumer people sh

he became the 17th commandant of the marine corps and belleau wood became part of marine corps history. that battle was one of hundreds, thousands of battles were soldiers sailors airmen and marines have distinguished themselves with uncommon battles and for every belleau wood there are others for each of those services. none of them bought by suckers are losers. the cost of war is unspeakably high and we know that from our own work on the armed services committee on the veterans affairs committee. i have just come from a hearing of the veterans affairs committee where we were discussing the veteran suicide, 20 every day of our heroes who take their own lives and yet we hear in this body had failed to provideti effective solutions to those invisible wounds that caused those deaths. that is a national disgrace. so, to the loved ones who have forests and given their lives i am just saying we are here to make a point and this resolution makes that point eloquently and powerfully. donald trump speaks for no one in this body so far as i know and the shame is that our republican colleagues a

peace corps and i was a high school math teacher in africa.id: you decided you would go to business school at stanford. reed: i went into computer science. i tried to take a business class but they rejected me. in any case, being at stanford in the mid 1980's was an incredible experience because you learned so much entrepreneurial work from all your colleagues. everyone is bubbling with ideas. that is still happening today 40 years later. david: when you graduated from stanford, you decided to get into the computer industry and you were a programmer for a while. reed: yeah, i was a programmer at a couple different companies , and then i was fortunate and had an idea for something i really wanted to do. that was in 1990. i took a year off and consulted on the side part-time and wrote a program that ultimately turned into a company, which was a reasonable success. morgan stanley took us public in 1995. it doubled every year. ultimately that is a company that was so much process that it got too rigid. it was a great learning lesson. david: when y

. 2020] --[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the nationalaptioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] ♪ ♪ narrator: hello, i'm george stone. the big count of the population in these united states is made every 10 years. this is the time when census bureau enumerators visit every household with a list of basic questions such as, where were you born, how many people live in this house, how many headed -- how did you get to work last week and so on. , this is not the whole story. between the censuses, the bureau conducts other counts of agriculture, business, housing and many others as well. and the results of all this questioning appear as statistical tables in this five-foot shelf of books. i don't suppose many of you reach for a volume of census reports when you feel the urge to curl up with a good book. but still, these columns of figures have a great deal to tell us about who we are, what we do and how we live, about the american drama and the american dream. and my authority for that st

that meeting no facts were put forward by the german side the kremlin spokesperson demitted press corps has said that it's essential they can't comment on what they haven't seen relating to the fact that as far as moscow is concerned berlin still yet to provide anything to back up their claims that selects in the valley was poisoned in this way the foreign ministry spokesperson in moscow though it's been accusing burley in germany of megaphone diplomacy. i would be very cautious when talking about any accusations against russia in this case after all there is no valid reason to make any we hope that we will be able to determine what happened and why we are interested in that we want it and we need the information from germany for that. while the kremlin spokes person has said that as far as they're concerned they're unsure who would benefit from the poisoning of alexina valmy. i can't answer the question of who would benefit from the poisoning i don't think anybody would benefit from it at all. while here in berlin the german chancellor angela merkel was it pains to say that she wanted

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2020] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> the first presidential debate between president trump and former vice president joe biden is tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. eastern from cleveland. watch live on c-span. >> recklessly campaigning against the vaccine. it is reckless and all for political reasons. isen, his whole deal catastrophic shut down. >> again, in his own words, recorded by bob woodward, the president knew back in february that this was an extremely dangerous communicable disease. think about it. , how many empty chairs around dinner tables? because of his negligence and selfishness? >> watch the first presidential debate live from cleveland tuesday not on c-span. stream live at c-span.org/debate. or listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> with the ongoing global pandemic and many school shifting to online learning, c-span competition continues with a platform to engage in a national conversation. medical and high school s

nations and get this nato new response to russia's offer the vote legal assistance that medical corp russia will learn that the value they have been poisoned not from the german government but from the news if they miss to justify some previously prepared response measures that have already been agreed on it becomes clear why they're deploying megaphone diplomacy substituting normal corporation with an information campaign public appeals to the e.u. and they too and reference to the c.w. whenever such a thing which started diplomatic reaching the hazards they always have to us. who is benefiting who does something was benefiting and we have as we have already heard this equation there. are heavy forces will go toward a closer relationship between russia and germany specially according to north korea to project but we are also the that you have to ask what could the russian government benefit of such a thing with this whole of politicians there was no danger for the russian government would be elections they're already talking about sanctions guilty by default which is remarkable give

marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter was on the program earlier he ses he was ridiculed for briefing joe biden about the absence of any wm days in iraq. what is a big deal is joe biden's vote for the iraq war and i take it personally because i briefed joe biden in person you know he insulted me when i testified for the united states senate in those september of 1908 about iraq and weapons of mass destruction he'd be a little be a scouting boy he said people above my pay grade were making this decision that cetera and then he met with me and apologized and said he you know you know a lot we should talk about this in 2002 in the lead up to the vote on the war he as you mentioned he hosted a hearing and i did my darndest to become a witness for that hearing he ignored me. and it was very rude the way he did so and as you said he brought in more witnesses he stacked the deck it was a kangaroo court because joe biden wanted to go to war he always wanted to go to war any boated for that war that's what american veterans are going to hold him to account for the military is not a li