think we need to change something you know in the old days in the old days it was called the department of war and they didn't like that name so they switched it to the department of defense well i got news for you we need to go back to the department of war because what the united states is doing today they're not defending themselves they're the aggressors the governor you tell me that they don't need all these weapons to defend democracy do they need the i don't believe no i've bridgette exactly that we have the most powerful well equipped military in the world right now nobody can challenge us are you kidding we are the best here and that out there i'm not criticizing the warriors they're the best but i'm criticizing is our politicians who are financing all this because why do we need when we've got people up in flint michigan that can't even get clean drinking water to drink and we're building new aircraft carriers for billions of dollars and all this stuff like we don't have enough and what is this fear they keep giving us someone is going to invade us. what isis is going to do in norman

he was turned down consistently by the department of war. he could not carry it out. they did behind the scenes, he did not make any public push for it, but any attempt to go farther than the government had gone -- i will not claim to much to that. ike was in many ways a man of his time, which i think the important thing to remember is always gets credited in the textbooks for desegregating the armed forces, but ike did most of it. he was campaigning to do that even before he became president. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. nichols,nd and dr. this is fascinating. of thebeneficiary schools that were operated for military dependent children, and they were learned desegregated by president eisenhower. i grew up thinking that not only was he not a leader in civil rights, but all he did was play golf. said remember that being in my hearing coming up. kindergarten in 1959, in germany, independent schools. birth, with my date of to neverrly uncommon have attended segregated schools , but to the efforts that i now understand president eisenhower was directly responsibl

these pressures brought the issue of removal to the white house. the war department leaders led by secretary of war henry simpson seconded their local commanders, they figured people on a brand-new it there asking for. he had no evidence of any danger. the attorney general supported reports from the fbi and naval intelligence that the japanese community was overwhelmingly brought -- loyal and opposed the idea. on february 11, the president received a message from stinson said -- supported the removal but thought he needed presidential authorization for such a draft policy. he asked fdr for authorization. roosevelt told him over the phone that he was too busy to meet with him but he trusted them to do whatever they thought necessary provided they were as reasonable and humane as possible. the army then arranged executive order 9066. this provided the authority for the army to remove japanese-americans from their homes which later led to the imprisonment in government caps -- camps. it was signed on february 19. why was fdr's elemental to such drastic and hasty action?

assuming there was a park service james: there was but the war department was in charge of the military sites. so, gettysburg, antietam, harpers ferry, those were sites under the war department at the time. so, that is why there were able to use it. if the park service had been in control, i'm sure they would of said no. but if you do find a machine gun bullet on the battlefield you know where it came from. come seen people who have up to me after talks and said, i found a plate that had 1922 on it. i've always wondered why it was on the battlefield. and that's why. that theare and china marine officers used was inscribed the u.s. marine corps insignia and the date. there's relics still floating around that pop up every once in a while that people all of a sudden realize why they avhave this world war i era artifact from the marine corps on the gettysburg battlefield. hey, thank you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >

of it. the war department made frantic appeals to devise methods to produce a better gun prototype. one of these collaborations with occur between the and company in pennsylvania and the much located inpany lancaster county. griffin was heating hot iron bars and intertwining them. the president would name him as his main armament designer. employed his technique for the construction of a field gun which became known as the griffin gun. he patented the technique on the one day the patent office was closed. 25thtmas day december 1875. all of the guns merit -- bear that patent date including the one at that gettysburg museum. only three are known to survive. this one day to mounted on a irn and one of the pennsylvania state college. that is the only one sitting on a gun carriage. at half a ton it was a awfully heavy to for delivering the shot. in terms of metallurgy this gun was a breakthrough. withuld later experiment raw iron sheets. thus he invented the ordinance rifle which was 200 pounds later than the gun and would fire a project out twice its size. therefore it never came out of

comments we want to share, jamie morris, a war of necessity, war of choice who is head of the council on foreign relations, former bush administration state department official, and lucille is reading two books that we covered two days at the national book festival.ishep david mccullough's the american spirit. both authors who use our, and by the way everything we've covered today we will re- airel the entire day beginning at midnight eastern which is 9:00 p.m. on the west coast.

department of defense. there was an operational or bureaucratic war as well. the challenges were immense. a unique combination for the department of defense the department of state the nfc the white house and the cia. and intelligence agencies. all operating under our feet at all times. it was a textbook lesson in building and a very short amount of time in managing a bureaucracy. nobody alive had really done this before. and it impacted what impacted what i did for instance every day because part of being able to craft an outbound mitigation strategy requires for planning purposes you have good internal communication as well. the establishment of the security forces was one of the most important things that we try to do during the first year. in the press was rightly interested in our progress. they did not understand, report or seem interested in the complexity of trying to put cops on the street and build an army. but getting the facts from the different parts of the operation was so difficult that in fact at one point in one week the president and secretary of defense was all going on

of leslie's. the war department asked him for it and he turned over the copy. flagg claims he printed more than 4 million of those posters. christie had a thing for printing lovely women. he would put them in uniforms. because i was in the marines and wore dress blues, that is why i chose this richer. another thing they had in common, they both married their models. they both had an eye for the ladies. these were very important. i cannot say that enough. these recruiting posters and bond it drives were very important. as you see in exhibition, how iconic they are hundred years later. part two. the second half of the book is about monuments and memorials, there are close to 200 and the city. about 100 of them are in the domain of the parks department. they have done a wonderful job of maintaining and storing them -- restoring them as we get closer to the centennial. this is the bronx county war memorial. on one side, you have the boys marching off to war, and on the other side they are coming back to the war. a powerful image. there are more world war i monuments

of gonzaga university. we will look at documents from the tokyo war war crimes trial of 1946. stephanie: today, we are at the special collections department of gonzaga university, looking at the tribunal for the far east or the tokyo war crimes, and these papers relate to the trial that the 28 military people and the civilians who were responsible for the federal them -- the start of world war ii. was military tribunal established by having 12 different countries and nine prosecuting attorneys from various countries that would put these 20 individuals on trial. one of the key people on defense the japanese general, a general of the imperial army and prime minister, and he was the one responsible for the decision to bomb pearl harbor in 1941. how we got those papers is a wasaga graduate from 1929 actually there at the trials. he was a friend of the prosecuting attorney. he became ill and asked his friend to come to japan and help him out and cover for him while he was ill, so he stayed on. he was supposed to only be there for a couple of years. but he stayed on for two years and helped with that. he brought these four boxes of materials ba

of the state lost power. >> the hard-hit florida keys are being compared to a war zone. department of defense says 10,000 people who rode out the storm may require evacuation. and we'll take you on a national guard rescue mission helping thousands of americans who were stranded in the caribbean. >> plus, gop lawmakers respond to steve bannon's threat to blow up the republican party and we'll hear his thoht

mortified ror of it, the war department made appeal o the iron industry to devise method to produce better gun prototypes. collaborations would occur between the phoenix phoenixville, pennsylvania and john griffin's maller company, safe harbor ironworks, located in lan caster county. safe harbor fabricated the base support for small lighthouses channel markers, named safe harbor. was heating bars and intertwining them to create great weight.ut phoenix iron would buy safe harbor and the president of samuel reeves named john armry's main rmorment designer n. 1855, griffin employed his technique n construction of six pounder field gun, which became known as the griffin gun. he patented the iron bar the one day that the u.s. patent office was closed. christmas day, december 25, 1855. griffin guns bear that manufacturer and patent markings eir trunyon including the one at the gettysburg heritage center. known to survive, this one, a tube mounted on a at the phoenix iron company museum in phoenixville nd unmounted tube at pennsylvania military museum near state college. sitting on only one the g

of the buckley papers and i will talk more about that later [inaudible] a great work of organizing the war department and the army but there's quite a bit of puppy forgot that starts with steubenville ohio and traces the legal and political career. as a lawyer myself i was fascinated by some of his trials and among other things he defended congressman danielth accused of murdering the grandson of francis scott key. they'd need to understand at first impeachment of an american president and you need to understand stand him because johnson was impeached for attempting to remove stand. not long after he died, george templeton described stanton as honest, patriotic, able, warmhearted, unselfish, incorruptible, arbitrary, capricious, tyrannical. standing muzzle of those things and worked for the biographert and i hope such a fascinating person to read about. here's something that struck me about the book and we talked about this before, but he also says in his book on standing the secretary of war was even deceitful. he was a great man but he wasn't a good man and so i wonder, it struck me the book gives

sandbox with the folks from the department of defense and certainly also the bush administration appointees from the white house. there was an operational bureaucratic wars well. the cpa is a unique combination of the department of defense, department of state, nsc, white house, cia, intelligence agencies all operating under our feet at all times. it is a textbook lesson in building in a very short amount of time a bureaucracy. by the way, no one is really done this before. this impacted what i did everyday because part of being able to craft a coherent and credible outbound communications strategy requires for planning purposes you have good internal communication as well. let me give you an example. the establishment of iraqi security forces is one of the most important thing is we tried to do during that first year. the price were rightly interested in our progress. they obsessed over it. of course they didn't understand or seem interested in the complexities of trying to put cops on the street and build an army and build these very security forces. but getting the facts from the different operations was so difficult that in one week the secretary of

this happened under three mayors, under countless boards of supervisor, under many, many department heads. it warse and justin herman has come to symbolize that time. >> he wants the public to decide on a new name and julie masstrini has some recommendations. >> two names that i suggest the is may ya angelou, the first female street car operator and david johnson, the first black photography student and he actually photographed the philmore district, the residents that justin herman displaced. >> reporter: she started an online petition to rename the plaza. it has nearly 14,000 signatures. a specs person says that sf rex and parks is open to the idea saying that sf rec and park is working closely with supervisor aaron peskin. >> i think it's time to acknowledge the mistakes that san francisco made a half century ago and move forward. >> reporter: the resolution urges that not only names be removed but this been changed to embarcadero plaza. the issue will be taken at the next meeting next months. >>> we can now download apple's latest update to its mobile operating system. the free updates work on

hoover was pleased to have eisenhower as a consultant in the reorganization of the war department and its transition into the department of defense. eisenhower was honored to work with the president on a vital issue. as the 1940's came to an end, hoover was busy addressing the postwar famine in europe and the organization of the executive branch. he had scant contact with eisenhower between 1949 and the middle of 1952 and the documentary evidence is found only in context between third parties or mutual friends. there were few efforts to get together, you really during the times -- particularly during the times when both men were in new york. eisenhower invited hoover to serve as an honorary chair to raise funds for the universities engineering program. parenthetically, hoover declined because he was raising money for the engineering of grams at stanford. the most substantive community -- communication between hoover and eisenhower came as the cold war heated up in 1951. ike was nato commander and was clearly committed to a leadership role for the united states in sustaining the fragil

of the u.s. state department and pentagon, including evidence of war crimes in support for u.s.allies committing torture to wikileaks. and in north carolina, police in charlotte say they're enlisting the help of the fbi as they investigate the murder of derricka banner, a 26-year-old trans woman who was found shot to death in a car tuesday morning. police say they're not investigating the death as a hate crime, because a state statute omits sexual orientation and gender identity. banner is at least the 20th transgender person killed in the united states this year. and those are some of the headlines. this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. we begin today's show in florida, where authorities have obtained a search warrant to investigate the deaths of eight elderly residents at a nursing home in hollywood, florida, in the aftermath of hurricane irma. the victims range in age from 71 to 99 years old. they died in the rehabilitation center at hollywood hills after a transformer was knocked out following the hurricane, causing the nursing

of illegal immigrants. and hillary clinton is trying to figure out why she lost the presidency. hop on, the freedom express is departing the station. the drums of war are growing deafening as the man baby is forcing the deadly military option on his own people. a war on the korean peninsula would be the worst. no one is naive enough to believe a surgical strike would lead to an end. i hope the generals surrounding the president use their collective wisdom and memories to talk him out of the conflict. there are still non-military solutions. whatever pressure we put on china, put more, more weight, more strain, more pain. strain their banks, shut down their informal networks that feed their nuclear monster and starve innocent civilians. china doesn't want a flood malnourished pittsburgh -- mald refugees pouring into their country's. unfortunately there are fewer than no options left here. north korea has experienced a massive spring drought and they will need to import grain to feed an emaciated population that is growing more dubious by the day. kim jong-un got his wish. we are no longer talking about charlottesville or harvey. we are talking about

of the u.s. parkss department. they've done a wonderful job of maintaining and restoring them. this is the bronx war memorial and on one side you have the dough boys marching off to war in the other way they're coming back from the war. a very powerful image. there are more world war i monuments than to any other conflict in the city. tin de indeed in the whole nation. world war i has better representation than any other conflict we're involved in. enin new york that is laid at the feet of robert moses, of course, who takes the blame for a lot of things. but when moses was the parks commissioner during word war ii, he did not permit any of the small kmuntd based memorials that had been erected 20 years before that he put his foot down and they were not permitted in the parks for word war ii monuments. we preferred one large word war ii memorial for the city. and of course that was never built. brooklyn has a beautiful world war ii memorial that's being restore right now. that's why there are more world war i memorials than anything else in the city. i started passing this monument 10 years ago. i wo

said, wolf, is this mounted, as far as they were concerned, to a declaration of war by the united states. the state department rapidly pushing back saying there is no declaration of war on north korea by the trump administration. the pentagon also taking the opportunity to one more time trying to impress upon the north koreans, if they can, that there are options for dealing with them and their weapons program. the pentagon chief spokesman, colonel robert manning, saying, and i quote, the military will take all options to make sure that we safeguard our allies, our partners and our homeland so that if north korea does not stop their provocative actions, we will make sure we provide options to the president to deal with north korea. again sending that message that there are options. the u the u.s. military can take those options if the north koreans continue down this path of rhetoric, wolf. >> thank you, barbara starr at the pentagon. >>> we're now learning that facebook founder mark zuckerberg was warned about the danger of fake news and its role in the 2016 presidential race. that warning came from no other

of illegal immigrants. and hillary clinton is trying to figure out why she lost the presidency. hop on, the freedom express is departing the station. the drums of warby is forcing the deadly

of. getting our war fighters what they need to succeed. at the same time, it prioritizes accountability from the department and demands the best use of every taxpayer dollar. the ndaa will also improve the quality of life of our men and women in uniform and those who support them. the legislation authorizes a 2.1% pay raise for our troops. it improves military family readiness and supports the civilians and contractors who work together with our armed forces to achieve the mission. finally, the ndaa provides necessary assistance for our allies and partners around the world who are dedicated to advancing the cause of freedom, deterring the aggression of ourf adversaries and defeating the scourge of terrorism. these are the reasons why this legislation is more vital than ever. congress most important constitutional responsibility is providing for the commone autho defense, the consideration of the national defense authorization act each year is one of the ways that we live up to that duty. now, mr. president, i guess we are going to have cloture on hav this bill. we don't need it. we shouldn't have to have it. we should move immediately to t

war or whatever. can you think of other examples of the justice department moving into ensure free-speech rights? >> i'm not able to remember that, tucker. i just don't remember any situation in which we've gone to a point where speech is threatened. but i will say this, back in the civil rights days, a lot of areas in the south attempted to silence voices that were against segregation. that was a time that the federal government in many ways spoke and i think spoke on free-speech issues too. it's an important issue, the trends have gone oddly, don't you think you make a time when what we had a universal recognition that people should be able to express themselves freely and openly to a time whek people from having the voices heard. >> tucker: what can these private institutions, many or most of them, what can the federal government to? >> focusing primarily on the public institutions. 33% of public institutions have some sort of speech codes that constrict freedom of speech as i think most people would define it under the first amendment. this is a troubling trend. the first amendment applies to

what was surprising is that found falsifications of official records at the war department on multiple occasions. destruction of documents, alterations of documents, and for the second book, which i'm working on now, which is grant's toxic relationship with john hooker. i found very strong evidence of perjury. on the part of a former president of the united states. and i did not expect to find these things paid it just astonished me. an interesting thing happened to me, too, when i was in the new york state archives in albany. i was flipping through a folder. telegrams, in the run-up to the battle of five forks. and i looked at a telegram. this from george meade, and i look at the response from warren toically saying, ok, i had change a few things, but i followed the orders. a few pages later, i come across the same telegram. and i thought, something is wrong. it is 45 minutes after the first one, but it is the same telegram. why was it sent twice? i look at it and found that the first one, a wire was down, and the telegram did not go through. warren had it sent again, but telegrapher

comments we want to share, jamie morris, a war of necessity, war of choice who is head of the council on foreign relations, former bush administration state department official, and lucille is reading two books that we covered two days at the national book festival.ishep david mccullough's the american spirit. both authors who use our, and by the way everything we've covered today we will re- airel the entire day beginning at midnight eastern which is 9:00 p.m. on the west coast. it's all playing again. plus since it's a three-day holiday weekend, book tv is onon for three days we will re- air the entire festival, 8:30 a.m. on monday labor day. that is what's coming up. now we have one more author speaking tonight and we will go back up into the history and biography room here at the convention center and this will be john aloysius farrell talking about richard nixon. book tv, live coverage. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. welcome to the main event, the last program of the evening here in the ballroom. my name is ron, i am an editor corresponded at npr and also aha full-time faculty member at american university of school of public affair

department. what are the possibilities? guest: the possibility of war is i would say it is out there. you need a military expert to talk about the military options on the table but everything i have heard is that they are ugly, it takes a long time to get things in place and that using military raises the possibility of hundreds and thousands of koreans and americans and others dead on the peninsula, catastrophic for koreans and for the people fighting in that part of the world. we have heard repeatedly involved.to get china tried to hold back on some of the sanctions. walk us through the role that china plays. why so critical, and this china have our back on this issue? guest: sure. let me correct you a little bit. this administration has put pressure on china in the issue with sanctions. host: towards north korea. guest: that is right. with negotiations, i think this administration recognizes limited influence china has on north korea. really, the focus has been raising the economic pressure on north korea rather than negotiation. host: is north korea listening? guest: it does not s

of the military fight. antietam, those were sites under the war department at the time. that is why they were able to come up and use it. the park service had been in control. i am sure they would have said no. bulletfind a machine gun on the battlefield you will know where it comes from. i have seen people who have come up to me after talks and said i found a sharp of a plate that had 1922 on it. i always wondered why it was on the battlefield. that is why. china thate and marine officers use was inscribed with the insignia and the date. there are relics still floating around that pop up. what they have this world war i artifact from the marine corps on the gettysburg battlefield. ok, thank you. [applause] interested in american history tv? visit our website we spend -- visit our website c-span.org/history. american history tv. >> usually things run smoothly. every once in a while they are pressed into emergency action. her example let's go back in time back to 1992. >> it is august 1992. the b-52s released a new album. in minneapolis the mall of america opens for busin

of this is criminal. >> trace: i want to get your take on the turf war fits growing between the department of justice andess. the doj is not allowing the senate to interview a couple top fbi people involved in the comey firing. is that a sign that the special counsel robert mueller is investigating the firing of james comey? >> yes, it is. it's also indication that the special counsel is moving a little quicker than we thought he was moving. and it reminds us that he who has the power to indict can bigfoot he who has the power to embarrass. bob mueller can bring evidence before a grand jury and indict someone. congress can investigate all it wants and report all at once and all they're going to do is embarrass somebody. if bob mueller has witnesses whom he needs to bring before a grand jury and perhaps before a trial jury, he's not going to let those witnesses testify before a congressional committee where he can't control what the questions and answers are. this is very, very telling about the broad latitude that was given to him and the seriousness with which he is zeroing in on targets. >> trace: you

war in american history former u.s. state department official matthew hoh tells us the war that cost more than ten thousand dead or injured british soldiers is based on a pack of lies. coming up in decades going underground but first today is september the eleventh the anniversary of the washington backed coup to oust the social democrat president of chile salvador allende it marked a watershed in the so-called cold war and the beginning of a new neoliberal fat's right economics that would destroy the post-war consensus his milton friedman of the infamous chicago school who inspired reagan and thatcher talking about what pinochet's military dictatorship in chile meant to him and it's not so much the death squads torture and cia training chile was a case in which military regime headed by putin. was willing to switch the organization of the economy from a top down to a bottom up performance and in that process a group of people who had been trained at the university of chicago in the department of economics who came to be called the chicago boys played a major role in designing and implementing economic reforms in fact powerful elites would use this military di

of the cold war, natalie. there was video of smoke coming from one of the chimneys of one of the consulate of san francisco. the fire departmentn't worry, it's just a smoke alarm. it's not a fire. but then there were allegations by one u.s. lawmaker that this is, indeed, kind of cold war burning documents, et cetera. there's no cover fir nation of that, but it gives you a feeling of the level of concern and anger, i think, now on the russian side. there's been anger on both sides. so the question is where i think vladimir putin is going to take this. he's the person who will have to decide how they -- in a direct sense respond to the americans. and it could be tit for tat or it could be something more serious. but it's certainly a very, very disturbing chapter right now in the relations between the two countries. >> absolutely. thank you, jill. >>> we're going to talk now with research of american political science and the author of "america after obama," amy green. she 's also a professor and she joins us from paris. thanks for meeting with us. we go back to the trump story and his issue of whether to do away with this daca p

organization of these financial institutions was critical to theca state department's goal of political stability in the caribbean region, which was increasingly important in the context of world war i as well as in the context of the opening of the panama canal and the need to protect the cable lines and passages between the atlantic and pacific. beyond that there are of course purely financials and commercial interestsu.s. at the us banks not wall street had in the caribbean region and so these differ island to island, colony to colony , but sugar was one of the most important ones with institutions like citibank and later chase involved in financing of sugar plantations throughout the region. there was interest in financing of caribbean sovereign debt, which was in the first part of the 20th century was the debt held by j.p. morgan as well as others.mpany he later, became very importance to institutions like citibank and like chase. chase became the largest lender to cuba by the end of the 1920s and beyond those questions of sovereign debt there was the question of on one level commercial banking, financing and trade, but also what we might call personal banking. in movement in

capabilities of our military, the bill contains several provisions that enhance how the department pursues energy resilience, which directly supports readiness and mission assurance of our war fighters. additionally, this bill contains a requirement for a defense threat assessment and master plan on climate-related events, and a comprehensive strategy and technology road map on how the department can more effectively use water. in the area of compliance, technology and innovation, i'm pleased this bill authorizes and increases funding for science, technology and research efforts by over $375 million above the president's request, including a total of $2.3 billion for university research programs. these programs are critical to ensuring that our military retains its technological battlefield superiority in areas like cybersecurity, on-demand and robotic systems, high-energy lasers, space and hypersonics. the bill streamlines the ability to access expertise and technologies at our nation's universities and small businesses whose expertise and innovation is the cornerstone of the technologies on which our military depends. additionally, it continues efforts to strengthen the c

of the state lost power. >> the hard-hit florida keys are being compared to a war zone. department of defense says 10,000 people who rode out the storm may require evacuation. and we'll take you on a national guard rescue mission helping thousands of americans who were stranded in the caribbean. >> plus, gop lawmakers respond to steve bannon's threat to blow up the republican party and we'll hear his thoughts about jared kushner and ivanka trump. and more of charlie's "60 minutes" interview. >> we begin with a look at today's eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. >> everyone's sort of shell shocked. further south you get, the worst it looks. >> there's nothing left. >> recovery efforts begin in the wake of hurricane irma. >> there's a lot of work ahead. >> some areas remain flooded. homes are destroyed. phones don't work. there are widespread fuel shortages. >> it's going to be a long road. there's a lot of damage. >> look at those waves coming in. still a very dangerous situation. >> jacksonville, florida, a massive storm surge flooded the streets. >> the same threats facing other

that kind of activity put the attaches somewhat in competition with the state department attaches, and there were turf wars. hoover was at loggerheads with hughes in the first term, for example, and hoover often had conflicts with other departments of which he was the so-called undersecretary, and they sometimes resented what they saw was him exceeding his sphere of proper responsibility. but part of hoover's condition for taking the job in the first place with harding, who was an accommodating individual, was that commerce affects nearly everything, so hoover had a very expansive understanding of the proper scope of his agency. you have to understand in the context of the 20's come up when hoover started, the department had only been in existence for about 20 years. his predecessor told him, all you have to do is turn out lighthouses and see the fish are sleeping at night, basically nothing to do. that was not hoover's temperament or philosophy. he rapidly transformed the commerce department to the point it became, i would say still by far, the most active and influential secretary of commerce with ever h

department is efficiency and that's why he wants to stink the department and they stopped doing daily press briefings. given the risk of nuclear war with north korea and the sorts of diplomatic challenges we got around the country and around the world, why do you think they are hollowing out the state department? >> i think they came in with preexisting conceptions about the state department and about diplomacy that were not particularly well-founded. not that you don't want to be more efficient. i had a process to try to make sure we became more efficient. they came in with a bias against diplomats and diplomacy. the good news, rachel, is that the budget that tillerson's been promoting has been rejected in the senate appropriations committee on a bipartisan basis. the members of the senate said look, we traveled the world. we know what our diplomats do on the front lines and we're not going to give you a 30% cut and they basically came up with about the same amount of money. so the congress is even recognizing that there is no strategy. there's no real plan. what i hear from inside the department, because i still have a lot of co

state department not declared war on north korea and frankly the suggestion of that is. white house reaction to north korea's threat to shoot down u.s. aircraft even if it's not their rights never appropriate for a country to shoot down another country's aircraft when it's over international waters our goal is still the same we continue to seek the peaceful deep nuclearization of the korean peninsula that's our focus doing that through both the most maximum economic and diplomatic pressure is possible at this point there's been quite a back and forth between donald trump and the leaders of the d.p. r. k. let's take a listen to that the united states has great strength and patients but if it is forced to defend itself or its allies we will have no choice but to totally destroy north korea. rocket. is going to suicide mission for him so and for his regime. kind of measure will be taken decided by the chairman of the state that there's commission. but i think that the strongest ever hundreds might be tested in the pacific. now it's important to note that at the beginning of

jamie, war of necessity, war of choice by richard haass was of course head of the council on foreign relations. former bush administration comes state department official. and lucille is reading two books that we cover today here at the national book festival.ad "hillbilly elegy" and justllbill finished up david mccullough, the american spirit. both authors are usada and by the way we will repair this entire day beginning at midnight which is 9 p.m. at on the west coast. it's all repairing plus sinces it's a three to hold a we can bookpeople be on three days. we will repair entire festival 8:30 a.m. on monday labor day. that's what's coming up. we've got one more author speaking tonight so we'll go back up into the history and biography room here at the convention center and this is going to be john aloysius farrell talking about richard nixon, the life.