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so i'm really wondering what is actual to welcome professor of american university here in washington, d.c. founding director of the anti-racist research and au.icy center at and your first here at american university. here. you for being >> pleasure. >> let's go back to 1968. why was that such a defining the civil rights movement? well, i think keen fascination i think led us to two different things. first, you had people who really turned the page on civil rights began embracing sort of black power, notion of black notions of forcing america to end racism. nd then, of course, you had others who double downed on civil rights and doubled down on martin the ideas that luther king and others were utting forth, who tried to continue the poor people's campaign. you really had this ideological ultimately became, flowered into what became known as the black power movement. there was a year the civil rights movement ended, it was probably 1968. > you don't have to travel far from where we're at to still see some of the devastation caused raoeu kwrots and the demonstrations. dr. king talked about

d.c.'s only universally admired whistle blower. >> george w. bush, john kasich, george h.w. >> he has performed for them all. >> supreme court justices. >> to rave reviews. >> people seek it out. to me that kind of, encapsulates the power of the pucker. unfortunately, his whistling hasn't always been use theed in harmony. back in '95, then house majority leader dick armey summoned chris to a tense budget negotiation. he wanted a song. it wasn't come to gather or we can work it out, it was, dixie. and the government shut down shortly after. >> so, you could are gu that these lips shut down the federal government. ha-ha. >> needless to say, chris won't do that again. but 20 years later he is not just not whistling dixie anymore. today, he is using his talents almost exclusively for the most apolitical purpose of all. >> prepare yourself. here we go. >> it just transcends the partisanship of washington. >> virtually every day. up to eight times a day. chris whistles happy birr day for free tall over d.c. whether they work in cubicle, oval office, democrat or republican. >> happ

the frigid temperatures also causing major problems here at howard university in d.c. forcing the starlt of classes to be delayed for most students. fox5's evan lambert got a tour of some of the damage up to start tomorrow, but that has been pushed back. they've been pushed back to a week from monday and university official hope most of the repairs here will be made by then. but this building behind me and others like it may be closed for up to a month according to officials. you see that steam coming out right now? that was pouring into the building causing major damage and right now they're using this machine here to re move that moisture from the building. this is annex one where bdz graduate classes are held h. all of this, it can be connected back to this bone chilling cold. the root of the problem is the freezing temperatures, precipitated frozen pipes and in turn a lot of the pipes across our steam tunnels burst. you're hearing from howard university's executive vice-president and coo , doctor stash knee ann de broi. the issues caused by in the week. the single

. >> a strikingly similar scene outside howard university in washington d.c. led to the firings of three security guards and hospitals in los angeles have paid out millions of dollars for what is called patient dumping. in baltimore same hospital. >> go ahead and sit down. [ crying ]. >> troubling video. now that news conference just wrapped up a short time ago. reporters repeatedly asked the hospital ceo who was responsible who made this decision what kind of discipline would they face. he declined to answer any of those questions saying those were hr issues he could not talk about. >> that should never happen to anybody, bruce. and we are waiting to hear back from maryland state health regulators on whether they've launched an investigation into how the hospital treated this woman. >>> a nightmare came true for a d.c. family today as a missing persons case was re-classified as a homicide. today we learned skeletal remains found back off of soupland parkway saying it was him. anguish and anger some of it directed at dc police. scott bruin joining us live to t

professor at american university in washington, d.c. later, max boot, we will look at the president's foreign policy and what it means for the united states and our allies. newsmakers is next. enjoy the rest of your weekend and have a great week ahead. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> newsmakers with maryland , thenssman steny hoyer president trump meets with congressional leadership to discuss immigration legislation. house democratic and republican leaders discuss immigration policy. >> mr. hoyer, thanks so much for joining us today. verye in the middle of a important, fast-moving story on these bipartisan negotiations that are underway on the status of the dreamers. can you tell us where you see point?alks are at this we heard on friday afternoon that a group of senators had reached some sort of tentative deal but it is unclear whether this is something the house, the sena

developing story, dw c police are investigating a shooting near george washington university hospital in northwest d.c. fox5's corey cough i'm is at the hospital now. she joins us live with the latest. this happened earlier this evening, right, corey? >>reporter: that's right. we know that this happened right outside the main entrance to the hospital as a matter of fact. this is right off of 23rd street . if i direct you over here you can actually see some remnants from the scene earlier police have h entire area roped off here and you can still see some of the police tape on the inside of the hospital and we're also told that casings, bullet casings could be seen out here in front where this happened. we know that once the man was shot out here he walked inside the hospital, presumably to receive treatment. now at this time we know is back open, but it was placed on lock down for a short time during this whole incident. it caused a massive response from authorities out here showing up here and so far we know that there is no word on the victim's condition. at this hour or any potential motive here. b

founders library at howard university in washington, d.c. what i love about this space is that it was designed by an early pioneering black architect who was a university architect for decades at howard university. but it has at one point, howard's law school was housed inside this building. this is where charles hamilton houston and thurgood marshall devised a legal strategy that would lead to the integration of america's public schools. working with the university to develop a plan to eimagine this outdated library space. polly mary, how many of ou have heard of it? i learned a polly mary two years ago. a polly mary two years ago. this woman, who was raised in north carolina, would be a cofounder of the national organization of women, the first african-american episcopal site. thurgood marshall referred to her work as the bible of -- to develop a reuse strategy. the plan is to convert this into the polly mary center for s justice. we supported them in restoring the exterior of the building. madam cj walker. how many of you have heard of

so i'm really wondering what is actual to welcome professor of american university here in washington, d.c. founding director of the anti-racist research and au.icy center at and your first here at american university. here. you for being >> pleasure. >> let's go back to 1968. why was that such a

for most colleges c and universities prior to the civil war, they gathered in washington, d.c. in 1866 to establish a university dedicated to the common good through the higher education of black americans supported by and named for the bureau commissioner howard university was intended in particular to served recently emancipated people. by the time the university opened however it and come this almost every element in america at the time and it offered a traditional collegial program howard himself was a boat in college graduate and a strong advocate of that model. also offered a practical course of study. like michigan and have a program in agricultural science and experimental form and like california and have a normal school in short the university was meant to offer african-americanss precisely tht for which most colleges and universitiesiv have excluded thm up to that moment in time. similarly they witnessed the rise of thef women's college of institutions that offer a four year college education to the equivalent of the offered to men.ol smith college provides an example

d.c. area. metro. >> coming up at s 11 shooting that locked washington university hospital tonight.g into a home and living there and the suspect may have done this before. fox5 is investigating tonight. and the new study that says parents of newborns are taking unnecessary risks with their infants. those stories and more when the news at 11 continues. continues. >> this is fox5 local news at 11 . right now at 11, trail attack, police say this man grabd and groped a girl on the way home from school. tonight, reaction from the neighborhood. an undocumentedded immigrant accused of breaking into a home and living there. he did things in the bathroom you wouldn't bleevment now we've learned the suspect may have done this before. on the streets? plus discovery is moving out of maryland. president trump reacted to a possible oprah in 2020 bid and the spider that set epa apartment on fire. your news starts right now. we're going to gin tonight with breaking news, a saddened to the desperate search for a missing maryland man who suffered from dementia. police say they found the body of dani

atis a university professor the school of communication at american university and washington, d.c. she founded the school for media and social impact your it looks include, how to put balance back in copyright. heat -- she coordinates the free speech project with the professor of the washington college of law. what a great pleasure it is. i feel like my entire life is passing before me as i look around the crowd [laughter] a panel with these people is extraordinary. each of the people here have not nearly make great documentaries, but create a future for a different kind of documentary that was ever possible on any other kind of television to be made. contributed has differently to doing that. also, in some cases, supporting each other, which is really -- i don't want to know if i am giving away secrets, but it doesn't always happen in public television. [laughter] anyways, i have had the pleasure of working with some of these people because over the last decade we have been working with different organizations to make fair use for archival ways to makers in public tv broadcasts. s

a university professor of the school of communication at american university and washington, d.c. she founded the school center for social media and impact. she coordinates the fair use and free speech project at the center. take it away. >> what a great pleasure it is. i feel like my entire life is passing before me as i look around the crowd. to be on a panel with these people is really extraordinary. each of the people here has been make great merely documentaries, but create a future for a different kind of documentary than was ever possible on any kind of television to be made. contributed has that, andy to doing in some cases, supporting each which -- i don't know if i'm giving away secrets, but that does not always happen in public television. had the pleasure of working with some of these people as well because over the last decade, pedro and i have been working with different organizations to make fair use more available, particularly in archival ways, to makers and including someon of these people who have been incredibly supportive and early adopters in being able to ma

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founder library at howard university in washington, d.c. i love about this space is that it was designed by an early pioneering lack architect who architect forty decades at howard university. it has an unknown story of civil rights. at one point, howard's law school was housed inside this building. this is where charles hamilton houston and thurgood marshall devised a legal strategy that would lead to the integration of america's public schools. working with the university to develop a plan to reimagine this outdated library space. mary, how many of you have heard of it? i learned a polly mary two years ago. raised in, who was north carolina, would be a cofounder of the national organization of women, the first african-american episcopal site. thurgood marshall referred to bible of -- he a reuse strategy. the plan is to convert this into the polly mary center for us justice. we supported them in restoring the exterior of the building. madam cj walker. how many of you have heard of madam cj walker? cj walker is america's first self-made fema

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it working for universities, tech companies, in d.c. this is as i was taught to someone, one of these groups that generally oppose any kind of amnesty or advocate for lower levels of illegal and legal immigration, and even he was telling me look, this is a population. this this is a group that we shd work to protect. thesepu are americans in everything but paperwork. that gives you a broader idea of who these folks are. >> host: back to our calll for alan gomez. brad from maryland. republican caller. welcome to the program. go ahead, brad. we can hear you now. [inaudible] how're you doing today? >> guest: good. how were you? >> caller: good. i can tell you can't answer any of the actual facts. the black gentleman who called earlier had some good points here donald trump has side tens of thousands of african americans. when he said mexican rate this coming time of the 80% incident of sexual assault among immigrant women coming across the border. i know -- [inaudible] it's hard to wrap around and argue with them, but when donald trump say

university settings. this is about an hour and a half recorded at the annual meeting held this year in washington, d.c. >>ector of the free speech project at georgetown university. among other things, former president of goucher college in baltimore. we have an excellent panel. we have actually, appropriately enough two leaders of liberal , arts colleges and two leaders

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d.c.. you're watching american history tv on c-span3. welcome kate masur. she is a professor from the university at evanston, illinois. we followed your panel discussion just a moment ago. what was your take away from what you turn with former governor habit and the others? dr. masur: it was such a pleasure to be together with a group of people. tt.governor babbi one of the things that was a take away from me and my involvement with the project, is how many people were involved. involved. you hear the discussion that this had to happen on the ground and there was this opportunity transfer and historians were aing this, it was remarkably collective effort that is different from what history professors often do, which is teacher class, write an article. that stood out. what is your background and history? -- host: what is your background i id history? >> -- dr. masur: began in the american studies field. i had a historian buried inside of me. i want to know why we are the way we are now and we came to the understanding that we know something about history. a very curious about the past. i feel like there are a lot of pu

with our live interview in just a moment. >> we want to welcome professor of american university here in washington, d.c. founding director of the anti-racist research and au.icy center at and your first here at american university. here. you for being >> pleasure. >> let's go back to 1968. why was that such a defining the civil rights movement? well, i think keen fascination i think led us to two different things. first, you had people who really turned the page on civil rights began embracing sort of black power, notion of black notions of forcing america to end racism. nd then, of course, you had others who double downed on civil rights and doubled down on martin the ideas that luther king and others were utting forth, who tried to continue the poor people's campaign. you really had this ideological ultimately became, flowered into what became known as the black power movement. there was a year the civil rights movement ended, it was probably 1968. > you don't have to travel far from where we're at to still see some of the devastation caused raoeu kwrots and the demonstrations. dr. king talked about

d.c. police looking for a gun ma who shot a person tuesday near george washington university hospital in northwest.c. have some pictures now. now. of the suspect. the victim is expected to be okay. police say the suspect and the victim had an argument right before that shooting outside of the hospital. >> ♪ >> new this morning, d.c. police need your help finding several persons of interest connected to a burglary. they put out this video you're looking at now. the burglary happened at a jewelry store in the 1300 block of f street northwest in the early morning hours of january 7th. these crooks smashed the front door to get in, they took some items and then got away in a white van parked right out front. >> today metro board members will take action on a plan to offer refunds if your trip takes too long. >> many riders sometimes find themselves late for work due to n metro has issues. now, the transit company wants to help ease those setbacks fox5's melanie alnwick is live at the vienna metro station with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, guys. yeah, reliability is very important to c

and at the university of california, d.c. finally, mark is a new father, so this topic is very appropriate in the hopes that his kid and our kids don't pay more than they have to. mark goldwine. >> i appreciate you saying i'm one of the sharpest budget hawks. seems like it's a pretty small universe, so -- thank you all for having me back again. i didn't eat anything this time so no risk of anaphelactic shock. those of you who have seen me speak before, know that i often come and make a depressing presentation about our unsustainable long term fiscal picture and the inability of congress to do anything about it, this is going to be worse. if i was doing this presentation a year ago, this is probably what i would have shown you. i would have shown you where our fiscal situation was. which is that -- there we go. which is that president trump entered office with higher debt as a share of the economy than any president in history. it's about twice the historic average, it really is a record outside of world war ii and there was g

d.c. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. name is patricia sullivan. i am a professor of history at the university of south carolina , and i welcome you to our discussion on race, policing. i would like to thank dan geary for organizing this panel. the commission report was issued in

kim a professor with hancock university of foreign studies from washington d.c. we have richard white's director of the center for political military analysis of the hudson institute that's a d.c. based think tank and also from so c. one coup who's managing editor of korea exposé news magazine gentlemen welcome to you all a big day kim if we can start with you professor what are we to make of that new year's. speech from kim jong un is he trying to be or to appear more statesman like now. perhaps. but what's clear in terms of his intention is to turn the page from a previous stage to where he totally was focused on developing the nuclear capability that could target the united states now as he seems to be in a situation where it's very close to achieving that point now his turning to turning the page and trying to move on to the next phase where they can talk about all this together with the weapons in hand so different a new gesture for sure so you don't think he's looking for a way to back down the escalation latta escalation well if the ultimate point of the e

d.c. bob is for congress members to support universal education for girls. the research issues, make appointments and run their meetings. here, the talking with an educational staffer. and here, they're waiting to met with barbara -- schoolgirls unite convince president barack obama to sign a proclamation making october 11 national day of the girl. ten members of the group have an activist game plan. they have discussions about the content which makes it terrific. by now, it's available on the website for girls who want to get elected officials to support universal education. >> -- means we are equal. the name of an organization founded and is run by child domestic workers. -- they are actually slave laborers. most work for very poor families who can afford to pay for them almost nothing. for 14 hours a day they do childcare, cooking, cleaning house, getting water firewood, going to the market, these families are so poor they cannot afford to pay them. if a woman lives high on the hill has to go down by the road to sell vegetables, she someone to take care o

schneider he's a political analyst and professor of public policy at george mason university joins us from washington d.c. bill good to have you back on the program this is like groundhog day isn't it here we are back again with the u.s. government close to shutdown is no make is because of a funding deal in surprise though what is the government shutdown actually mean. well it means a lot of the essential functions of government will be discontinued you can apply for a passport and some other functions you can apply for social security but many of the essential functions that will continue the post office will continue to deliver mail people who have passports they will continue to be serviced immigration will continue to be regulated as normal the one big impact it's likely to be felt is the internal revenue service the tax collection agency we have a new tax law just passed and they're in charge of writing the regulations for enforcing that law a lot of americans are very confused and don't know what to expect and tax this season to pay taxes is just a few couple months away. and bill president trump

he's got a ba and ms in economics from johns hopkins, and he also teaches there and that university of california d.c. finally, marc is a new father, and so this topic is very appropriate in hope that his kid and our kids don't pay more than they have to. marc goldwein. [applause] >> well, i appreciate you saying that in one of the sharpest budget hawks but it seems like it's a free small universe. [laughing] thank you all for having me back again. i didn't eat anything this time, so no risk of anaphylactic shock. those of you have seen me speak before, when i actually made it past the eating phase of the speech, know that often come with a depressing presentation about our unsustainable long-term fiscal picture and the inability of cars to you anything about it. this one is going to be worse. this was going to be much worse. if i was doing this presentation a year ago, this is probably what i would have shown you, give or take. i would've shown you where our fiscal situation was, which was -- there we go. which is that president trump entered office with higher debt as a as a share of the economy th

atis a university professor the school of communication at american university and washington, d.c. she founded the school for media and social impact your it looks include, how to put balance back in copyright. heat -- she coordinates the free speech project with the professor of the washington college of law.

d.c. at the catholic university of america. ladies and gentlemen, please welcome peter weichlein. [ applause ] >> thank you, david, for this introduction, and for the many years of partnership involving the national archives and the former members of congress, and thank you all for joining us tonight for this discussion. i realize i'm the only thing standing between you and the outstanding panel we have assembled. in that spirit i'll be very brief. first i do want to spend a quick word on the association, and the work we do at the former members of congress. we bring together under the fmc umbrella a bipartisan group of over 600 former senators and representatives who work together on a wide variety of projects. our mission includes strengthening the work of the current congress by promoting a collaborative approach to policy-making, and deepening the understanding of our democratic system by focusing on civic education and public service. find more information on our website, fmc.org. tonight's panel is engaging the public in

university of oxford where he , was a marshall scholar. after law school, professor klarman clerked for the honorable ruth bader ginsburg on the united states court of appeals for the d.c. circuit judge you he at various times served on the faculty of university of virginia school of law, the marshall school of law, the college of william and airy, stanford law school and at yale law. mary, stanford law school and yale law. his first book "from jim crow to civil rights: the supreme court and the struggle for racial equality" received the bancroft prize in history. and "unfinished business: racial inequality in american history" comes from oxford university press. he is currently working on a revisionist history of the founding and in 2009 he was inducted into the american academy of arts and sciences. i ask you to please welcome our guest. [applause] >> thank you for coming. i am delighted to be here. there is some overlap for those of you who heard the talk last night. know andeal of what i what all of us know about this material comes from his scholarship. -- dr. klarman: just a preview, i am going to talk about five different topics. first, the background to the 15t

d.c. he served as professor at the marine corps university. his advise the senior leadership of several military commands as well. he holds a ba from harvard and a phd from cambridge. his or another works including aid for elites, building partner nations and i believe i read that in grad school. "strategic failure" how drone warfare has imperiled america. try out for sagan, in phoenix and the birth of prey. with that, i look for discussion. [applause] thank you for the kind introduction. thank you john for inviting me here. i went to talk about the book, cannot cover the whole thing in the presentation get to the highlights and will get time for question and answer at the end. the reason i wrote the book is that was started a course on the history of special operations. we discover there is not a single volume we can look to to give you history from world war ii all the way up to the present. most within understand is there certain bits and pieces but nothing to pull it all together. special operations have become a huge part of overseas enga

d.c. area lobbies for congress members to support universal education for girls.ey research issues, develop talking points, make appointments and run their own meetings. here they are talking with the educational staffer in representative's office, here they are wait to go meet with barbara in office building. schoolgirls unit convinced president obama to sign a proclamation making october 119ings the national day of the girl. ten members of the group with activist game plan, the girls had passionate discussions about the content which made the activist game plan terrific, by now it's available on their website, schoolgirls unit.org for girls who want to get elected, elected officials to support universal education. >> wotesawa, it means we are equal. it's the name of an organization that was founded and is run by child domestic workers. in tanzania, people say tanzania, they are actually really slave laborers. most of them work for very poor families who can afford to pay them almost nothing for 14 hours a day they do child care, cooking, cleaning the house, gett

d.c. should have access to universal esa's. the federalings at level that can and should happen, and i hope we see them happen moving forward. >> great, thanks, lindsey. forthanks, gerard and nat bringing this together. it was great working on that book with you. if you ever want to make a lot of money, write a book about an esoteric part of education policy. it just comes pouring in. that's your retirement plan, right? the beauty of writing about education policy is that it came out last year, and even in that year, things have changed dramatically. in 2017, there were bills filed in over 20 states, lawsuits, petitions. a lot of the fun things you think of when you think of state-level education policy. esa's thorogood embodiment of that. how are they different from vouchers? the first way is you don't have school. it at a public it empowers students to find the right option for customized education, a private school, get speech therapy, english and math online and get the rest at home. it is a customized education. the second

d.c. with a discussion on the ted offensive and on friday night at :00 p.m. lincoln scholar and howard university professor on abe lincoln con's friends and enemies. watch on c-span 3. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television company the companies and is brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. ♪ >> the bill before us does three things that every democrat and republican should be able to support. first, it ends the shutdown and restores full funding for the federal government through february 8. second, it extends health insurance for 9 million vulnerable children and third, it will enable congress to resume serious bipartisan talks on the important issues facing our nation. >> and with that, the federal rn

we were in washington, d.c., broadcasting from public ofevision whut studios howard university.few months later, he would speak at hamsher college. tell us what you said and what happened next. >> well, i gave a commencement speech in which, you know, a 19 minute speech, to kind of set the context for where the students were and what the world they were going into. i talked about trump for probably all of 30 seconds. but i said what i thought to be true, that the world that they were graduating into was very dangerous and one of the main factors in that was because the president of the united states donald trump was a racist, sexist, megalomaniac. today, especially given the list of examples that you just went thatgh, it seems ludicrous i would be attacked by fox news, received hate mail, death threats for making what is so clear and to me such an obvious statement. and i think that the fallout from that with the right was kind of a prelude to an attack on academics, an attack on radicals, for really saying the truth about the nature of this administration. aboutou have talked p