>> i'm david brinkley by the way. since we met with tony and stillman and also i spoke to kelly on the phone, at some point we had an additional security outside to help keep people's voices down, keep the lines more orderly like you stated it's a narrow sidewalk and also kind of its ethical because review of how soon next to us and we can welcome also about liquor store. we can clock in front of them still align ashley goes around a couple different businesses. it is difficult to contain. it is difficult with people smoking we have too some way down the street. it's also difficult to help them keep their voices that we do of security going down there and addressing that problem. >> i mean there's not much you can do other than adding next to people but i don't really have any complaints about the baby just every time i walk it's always blocked. but in moves. >> how well or how much do you cordon eight with other venues on the block around? but it's mine management, noise, really just sort of talk about how to work to

he brought david brinkley with him. and they rolled over this bridge in west virginia.e bridge. and poverty in appalachia. i want to tell you i was over that bridge not that many years ago. and it is still not in very good condition. so the government, politicians, and the press have been talking about poverty in appea appalachia a lg time there a element of it. part of it is politicians of both parties tricking people and telling them we're bringing back the coal. we are bringing back the steel. we are bringing back all these things. other part of it is exploitative part that the press levees to go in and wallow around and pity these poor folks and leave and they don't get the whole story. >> tucker: hear the whole story. >> the columnist wrote a great piece a plug for him. great piece in bloomberg column he said okay there are a lot of people in west virginia opioid drugs. a lot of people dropped out of workforce. let's look at the economy underneath. the economy underneath is astonishingly productive. people working there are working damn hard and doing a great job.

that is unacceptable. >> so, douglas brinkley, you know, as david just said, spicer's office has since walked it back, but he said it at least twice. assad has been using barrel bombs against his people for a year. is this a new red line? >> i think it is something of a new red line. look, there is no real trump doctrine except they want to fight terrorism abroad and free trade, you know, internationally and american first kind of here at home, but i think with syria it's confused policy right now. i mean, ultimately we're going to have to decide whether we want to get rid of assad or not. if every -- but the reason that trump's getting such kudos is that americans have an aversion to chemical weapons, period. and i think the visual of nikki haley holding those photos, the photographic evidence moved donald trump and many americans. my fear is that this strike worked and he may want to do more, but the next one may not be against assad. it may end up going against isis and doing something with those oil fields he promised to bomb during the campaign. >> robin, you know, after the gas a

david. >> our collection is 156 million objects. 2 million books. eastern, douglas brinkley and richard norton presidential leadership. >> it is interesting that the greatest american president, abraham lincoln, is bracketed by arguably the least successful american presidents. >> this holiday weekend, on c-span. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york, katrina vanden heuvel, editor and publisher of "the nation." good morning. guest: good morning. host: before you came on the program, you tweeted something out that you would be on the program talking, but that you are talking resistance to reconstruction. what do you mean by that? is that the message that progressives have to play in this trump administration era? i think we've witnessed a fierce, passionate resistance emerge in the wake of donald trump's election. we saw it the day after the women's march, the largest political protest in history. we are witnessing a science march on april 22, tax day april 16. an upsurge in people no longer willing to be spectators, but participants in the future

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david verio. >> 160 million objects, including 2 million books. >> at 6:30 p.m. eastern, presidential historian edna green medford, douglas brinkley and richard norton smith discuss presidential leadership. >> the greatest american , isident, abraham lincoln bracketed by a the least successful american presidents. >> "washington journal" continues. host: welcome back. joshua hammer is with us. he is a freelance correspondent for "smithsonian magazine." we are talking about his piece in the april 2017 issue titled "a modern odyssey." thank you for joining us. you are joining us from germany via skype. tell us why you wanted to write this story and how you ended up focusing on these two particular refugees. been spending a lot of time in germany over the last couple of years. chancellor merkel opened up the floodgates allowing a million refugees to enter the country in 2015. wholeed to see how that -- how would would unfold given the power level, what's going on in the united states right now. i've been following it on and off for a couple of years. death was looking for a new way to approach the story and i talked to my editor and

here to discuss now is presidential historian douglas brinkley and a reporter from "the washington post," davidst off, congratulations. you won the pulitzer prize last week for your excellent reporting on president trump. he's beaming. and whether he was following through on his promises to donate to charity over the years. the answer was typically no, right? >> that's right. i spent a lot of time trying to find any evidence, trying to prove trump right when he said he had been giving millions and millions of dollars away and i couldn't. i called 450 charities trying to find some proof that money was out there. i found one gift out of trump's own gift for less than $10,000. >> in terms of how and went president trump gave money when he didn't, you're seeing similar patterns in his decision-making now and how he's going to be in the white house, right? how so. >> a couple of ways. one is that he often relied on the idea that if you've made a promise, people would never follow up on the promise because they would assume no one would make a public promise and then forget about it. so he would say,

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smithsonian theitution's david skorton, library of congress carla hayden archivist of the united farrow.david at 6:30 p.m. eastern, historians edna green medford, douglas brinkley norton smith discuss presidential leadership. >> it is interesting that the president,erican abraham lincoln, is bracketed by the least successful american presidents. >> this holiday weekend on c-span. civil war, ervin jordan talks about civil war and memorials. constructedn thoses to honor robert e. lee. he spoke at a symposium on the over civil war monuments hosted by the american richmond,museum in virginia. this is about 45 minutes. >> specialist in civil war and african american

david theriault. >> our collection is 156 million objects including 2 million books and 154 million other things. >> at 6:30 p.m., presidential historian and the green medford, douglas brinkley and richard norton smith. they discussed presidential leadership. >> it is interesting that the greatest american president, abraham lincoln, is bracketed by arguably the least successful american presidents. >> this holiday weekend on c-span. next, interior secretary ryan zinke discusses the rules of war in the modern world at an event that compared how the war was for portrayed in shakespeare's work and how it's executed today. hosted by the shakespeare theater company here in washington, this is 90 minutes. >> good evening. my name is karen spence, director of the shakespeare theater company. thank you for joining us. [applause] thank you so much for joining us for tonight's bard association shakespeare discussion. tonight's discussion is shakespeare and the rules of war, from athens to aleppo. i want to remind everyone to silence all your electronic devices and to let you know that video and photography of this discussion is prohibited but at this point it is an honor to introduce

david theriault. >> our collection is 156 million objects including 2 million books and 154 million other things. >> at 6:30 p.m., presidential historian and the green medford, douglas brinkley and richard norton smith. they discussed presidential leadership. >> it is interesting that the greatest american president,

david ferrio. >> our collection is 156 million obtsds, including 2 million books and 154 million other things. >> at 6:30 p.m., ed ma green medford, douglas brinkley and richard norton smith discuss presidential leadership. >> it is interesting that the greatest american president, abraham lincoln is bracketed as the least successful american president. >> this weekend on span. >> this weekend, span cities tour along with the help of comcast will explore the literary scene of charlottesville. saturday at noon eastern we visit the university of virginia. >> we have a lot of wonderful artifacts, of course, from faulkner's time from uva, from many uva sources. among other things, we have the typewriter that he used with the university stamp on the back. we have a jacket he wore. when you look at the jacket it's pretty torn up and ratty. he liked to keep his clothes for a long time. he left this office hanging in his office when he went on his last trip to oxford, mississippi, when he passed away. >> sunday we'll travel to thomas jefferson's monticello. >> if you had visited 20 years ago, you would have just seen jefferson's beautiful neo classical vi

david squirting, the librarian of congress and the archivist of the united states. >> our collection is 156 million objects including 2 million books and 154 million other things. >> at 6:30 p.m. eastern, presidential historians, douglas brinkley, and richard norton smith discussed presidentialrd leadership. >> it's interesting that the greatest president, abraham lincoln is rocketed by arguably the least successful american president.ca >> this holiday weekend on c-span. >> tonight a book tv, a look at slavery in america. from the tucson festival of books with national book award winner, later, university of texas at austin remy barry on the economics behind slavery. >> and the talk about on a judge, a slave owned by george and washington his escapea ordered the manhunt by the first president. >> welcome to the ninth annual tucson festival of books. my name is tommy. we want to thank cox communications for sponsoring the venue. this presentation will last one hour, including questions and answers. please hold your questions to the very end of the presentati presentation. immediately following the session the authors will be autographing books in the sales and signing area in