when you have a department of war with a completely unaccountable budget as we saw with the twenty one trillion and you have a president with no interest in overseeing how much gas the department of war is responsible for then you end up dropping so many bombs that we are running out of bombs. and may struggle to make more oh dear god if we run out of bombs how will we stop all those innocent civilians from farming. like that journalist brittany weber wrote in february shockingly more than eighty percent of those killed have never even been identified and the cia's own documents have shown that they are not . been aware of who they are killing avoiding the issue over porting civilian deaths simply by naming all those in the strike zone as enemy combatants. we only kill enemy combatants how do we know they are enemy combatants because there are struggling right now we know that was our strike zone because our enemy combatants . how do we find out their enemy combatant because they were in our dr jones i keep doing that for hours and i'm going to do i'm. talking about consensus and i bel

changes to his report because the war department thought that he was wrong about a lot of his conclusions and his premises. when the war department ordered his report changed, the general then ordered that all the original copies of his report should be withdrawn from circulation and burned. and he then denied that any initial report had ever existed. he denied the fact that there had been these revisions. the government pretended that this original draft didn't exist, that there had never been revisions, that there had never been objections from the war department. they made all these reports of formal objections from ntinside the military, the one that led to his first report being burned and a second one issued in its place. navy intelligence, it turned out, filed a competing report saying that the threat of treason by japanese americans was being vastly overstated. quote, in short, the japanese problem has been magnified out of its true proportion, largely because of the physical characteristics of the people and should be handled on the basis of the individual, regard

secretary of man -- secretary of war in stanton's place, this was a man who was on the record arguing that congress was illegal. do you want him in charge of the war department? of course not. small wonder that thaddeus stevens snuck around the house chamber saying, what good has your moderation done you if you don't kill the beast, it will kill you. that is where reconstruction came from, where impeachment came from. at the end of a trial, over the it ultimatelyths, would be 35 votes to convict, 19 oppose, one to many on the acquittal size. by that oneped vote. that is part of our story. tend republicans and seven in good standing where the votes to acquit. why and how, where does that come from? when you have no votes to spare, you simply have got to have everybody on the same page. notact, the republicans did . charles sumner would have voted to convict even if the articles of impeachment had been a laundry list. ,harles sumner is on the list longfellow is on the right. a close friend of his. most replicants needed more than that. they needed the charges to be proven. many of us like to think of this trial as if it was partisan with people putting their p

the war, the state department did, in 1946 and 1947. they asked all of the different divisions to write their history of the war, and all of the major consulates and legations overseas -- i'm probably telling you guys too much, because i might be doing something with this, so don't go to the state department to look. [laughter] but they wrote their own history and wrote about, you know, this is how we funked, this is what we -- functioned, this is wt we did, this is how the war changed that, and it was never published. so there was all these different can chapter drafts in the national archives in the war history at the state department -- >> i guess i'm asking a different question. of. >> okay, sorry. >> the state department itself -- >> yeah. >> -- or the government look back at this awful history of turning jews away? >> oh. yes, yes, yes. the state department has officially apologized for things like the st. louis. and, you know, at the museum we do trainings for state department officials. so i present on this history to them. they're receptive of i

of duty. continuing the reminding himself that the proper place for a orderedis where he is by his superiors. he returned to camp need an volunteered for an experiment initiated by the war department. of a collection of various the coals that would engage in a cross-country movement from the zero milestone marker and washington, d.c., all the way to san francisco. the roads in america at this time varied from average to nonexistent, and eisenhower's words. it took three months for the convoy to reach its destination. eisenhower never forgot the experience. of forcesmovement across the continental u.s. became increasingly important in the future. in fact, it became the genesis of the interstate system he later initiated as president. beganing to camp mead, he an association with george s patton junior, and would spend 1919 experiment to a tanks as weapons of future warfare. eisenhower's training experience and patton's battle experience melded to create the basic concepts for tank employment in the u.s. army in the interwar period. we will leave eisenhower there, and advanced to june, 1944. after making one of the most momentous decisions in modern history, the decision of the cros

one of the legacies is the, again, the reliance on cultural programs during the cold war era, the use of state department department tours to promote american good will all over the world in the midst of civil rights turmoil, race riots, all of the violence going on in the u.s. and people like gillespie and armstrong and ellington going out and promoting this kind of racial goodwill. but the long-term -- it is interesting because on the one hand, the reliance on these cultural figures in large part accompanied a greater visibility of african-americans and commercial culture. and a greater scope of possibility as well. so by the time that the civil rights movement had come to an end the cultural progression had gone only so far. but, it never accompanied a continuing structural reform. so the civil-rights, the passage of the voting act in this civil -- voting act, the civil rights act, that is the most transit in securing that, but there is never then time to think, okay, what is next? let's steal deal with the issues of policy and education and instead we now have celebrities who have become racially tra

what is interesting is the impersonality of the war department. he had no real mentor. there was no one watching him. he was a regular army officer who seemed to have a particular talent and was shuffled from place to place to place and given greater responsibility. he did this mostly on his own. he was reprimanded when he went to fort leavenworth and he said, stop bombarding the war department with requests to go somewhere else. this is where you are ordered, this is where you are supposed to be, this is your duty here. he really did not have a mentor, not yet at least. certainly, as he continued in his service, his work was valued and attracted the attention of fox conner, for instance, who had been a close associate of pershing. when he was the commander of the american units in panama, he essentially took eisenhower under his wing, and that was the beginning of a very valuable mentorship for him. >> thank you for taking my question. class of 1980. i was struck by your comment about eisenhower saying that civilians could be effective fighters as long as they understo

of the us trade war. —— easing reserve. president trump is planning curbs on chinese investment in the us. the treasury departmentparently planning to heighten scrutiny of chinese investors in sensitive us industries. we have seen this trade war scenario heading to the worst—case scenario directions. very concerning. they are the trade tariffs that will be implemented in july. are the trade tariffs that will be implemented injuly. and donald trump's plans to restrict how much chinese companies can invest in us companies across the board, from robotics to aerospace. china has responded to this, saying that they cannot turn the other cheek and will retaliate. all of this is concerning. as you mentioned earlier in the programme, china has reserves and it is unlocking capital reserves to inject cash into the economy, which is crucial. you watch this extremely closely for your clients. what are they saying about this? the world number one economy at war with the world number two. it is concerning. trade wars benefit no one. ina concerning. trade wars benefit no one. in a global world you need trade for employment in t

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a division -- he leaves, goes up the highest levels of the defense department and basically the relief stood. took a backseat for the rest of the war. basically lost his command, too. heart ofe come to the the talk and that is the unification, right? how many people familiar with this? probably not many. there's the chief of staff and of thel representatives services, not the marine corps. december 1943. marshall has a plan. loves the marine corps. his son in listed in the marine corps. he basically was the marine corps commandant. that is one of his jobs, to take care of the marine corps. the he took over we arency, you know, going to get rid of those guys. comment about the 1932 plan. summer 1944.ut the marines right in the middle of this. so, prices increase. the marine commandant has a statement for the senate naval affairs committee. corpss taking the marine away. we will no longer have the marine corps. this is after iwo jima. all the pacific islands. the service chiefs and reorganize the marshall plan. what are we going to do? we're going to continue to work with this. eisenhower said we should bring the army guys on shore.

of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea the peninsular origins of the war also in washington we have michael flanagan he is president of flanagan consulting and a former congressman and to new york we cross to george samuel lee he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate michael let me go to you first here i think it's pretty fair to say after five hundred days in office we're beginning to see what an american first foreign policy is under donald trump so my question to you is america first under trump compatible with the post world war two liberal order that the united states herald into into being and is in two thousand and eighteen a significant date for that order that appears to be well changing if not breaking down go ahead michael. thank you peter i think that the their american foreign policy your question presupposes that we've been the same since the second world war and i think while we've had very likely goal

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while providing plenty of ammo for all sides in the partisan war over the integrity of the fbi. e department's inspector general dinged comey for breaching protocol but cleared him of political motivations, but it did bring to light evidence of some fbi investigators did have politics on their minds. our veteran justice correspondent pete williams has details. >> reporter: the inspector general says james comey broke long-standing rules in handling the e-mail case, but concluded that the fbi had no political motive to help or hurt hillary clinton or donald trump. as for comey's july 2016 statement, announcing no charges but severely criticizing clinton and her staff -- >> they were extremely careless in their handling of very sensitive highly classified information. >> reporter: the report says it was extraordinary and insubordinate for comey to do it without telling attorney general loretta lynch beforehand. the report found no good reason for why after more clinton e-mails were found on the laptop of anthony weiner in late september 2016 it took the fbi a month to start examining them. there

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i'm peter carmichael, the director of the civil war institute a gettysburg college and i'm also a member of the history department. it is my pleasure to introduce berger,ague, michael obviously, also part of the history department here. taught at gettysburg college since 1989, his scholarship focuses on many of 19th andpects 20th century american political and social history. he has written extensively on the presidency of dwight d. eisenhower and on the role of eisenhower's chief of staff, sherman adams. also is aberger specialist on the presidency of james buchanan, he has co-edited three volumes, the third will be coming out shortly, on james buchanan. it's hard to imagine you could even get a single volume on the canon, that was a cheap shot, i know you were expecting that. the professor is completing a book on the presidential election of 1952,

war on poverty can have an here. many of the parts of the war on poverty came out of the department of justice and the efforts that we have people live decent lives, i'm in favor of that, in favor of expanding it. i don say that being elected to the united states senate is going to make disappear,ems but i think we can continue the same effort that was made in 1961. >> viva johnson. humphrey.t [speaking spanish] >> robert francis kennedy a prism, the color he gave off depended on how light.d him to the he gave everyone a choice. was the a robert kennedy to love and a robert kennedy to hate. a robert kennedy to trust, a robert kennedy to suspect. idolaters were matched in the intensity of their affection for him only by fury of those he angered. it is easier to say who was than who isman and we all bestow greatness quicker on our artists than politicians. history will find its own place for robert kennedy. time whena physical comfort is so often the object of desire, a fearlessy adventurer whose relentless energy took him to the tops of mountains. rock-minedgerous rapids. slopes.w-covered on excursions into the africa

war on poverty can have an effect here. many of the parts of the war on poverty came out in the department of justice.m in favor of expanding it. [applause] >> i don't fit it been elected to the senate will make these problems disappear, but i think we can continue the same effort that was made in 1961. [cheers and applause] [speaking spanish] [cheers and applause] >> robert francis kennedy was like a prism, the college he gave off dependent on how you helped him to the light. he gave everyone a choice. there was a robert kennedy to love, and a robert kennedy to hate. the robert kennedy to trust. a robert kennedy to suspect. his idolaters were matched in the intensity of their affection for him. not aeasier to say who is great memento is. the all the stealth greatness quicker on our artists and politicians. history will find it someplace robert kennedy. he was at a time or physical comfort was the object of desire, a hard driving and phyllis adventurer whose relentless energy to go to the tops of mountains. through dangerous rapids. down snow-covered slopes on excursions into the african bush. to risk

quantities that the history of the human race has never known, and brought torment and anguish into countless american homes. gold stars and telegrams from the war departmentblack, harmless looking silent puffs of smoke. though each is an explosion, five miles down, they have calculated altitude, speed and course. where will the next one hit? you try not to be there. the docks and submarines. approach to the target. no smokescreen can protect it. now, the enemy knows the path of your approach and walls that approach with a flak barrage, but you fly through it. morgan changes course every 15 seconds, to confuse the flak batteries. the bomb site is set for correct altitude and speed, the bombing run begins. pilot to bombardier, you have got it. and now we are most vulnerable, committed to our bombing run, we cannot dodge flak or fighters. here is the first. turret gunner firing. they must ignore the battle. adjustments for wind are made. two more fighters from 9:00. flak now has the range, too. they had hit this fort, but they keep on the bombing run. bombardier evans must be good, every other ship will drop its bombs when he drops his. now, one pointer on a

of camps to be located the eastern department. and what was to come of the reconsidering problem throughout the war he merged the encountered on taining the most basic supplies ma math tress, blanket and pill lotes. rerecalling the situation, he wrote the market has been gutted by the allies annex to impossible to secure anything ot and seaboard.n mat treks what unobtainable and the opening of the camp necessitated all shipments express. as a matter of fact, the difficulties we encountered to accommodate a total of 40,000 men were impressive combination ofthe complete state unpreparedness. on may 29th. marshall had distinction of escorting general john j. pershing and the staff and fromd come as no surprise anyone that he was in the depressed frame of mind over being left behind. fortunate railroad fo for marshall it was moving at at rapid place and did not have to wait long of the the first end fan try division and request the operation officer over the next day and a half. worked quickly to make the necessary preparation for the departure of fraps. boarded the transport vessel on june 10th and set to work organizing the first the co

if i look at why we have a deficit, going back, one of the reasons is oil wars. this department is one of the most important departments in the country to lead us to energy independence as a country. i don't think we should do what you're asking us to do here. if we look at our trade deficit, we haven't had balanced trade accounts since the mid 1970's. adding trillions of dollars to our trade deficit every year, making it harder to fund social security, medicare, programs that are essential to social stability in this country. crash and at the 2008 the money that cost us as a country. nobody on wall street went to jail. it's interesting to me where people want to pick away, pick away, pick away, when you look at the big money, the big money, the moneys for war, the money for paying for imported goods as opposed to producing here at home the causes of what happened in -- at home. the causes of what happened in 2008 and there was no justice that was given to the republic. to me, energy independence is critical. if you look at the trillions we've added to the deficit because of war

it is meant to ensure that our defense department can procure defensive materials needed in time of war. that was the real motivation behind creating this power for the president to block foreign trade in the event that our national security depended on it. what we have instead? we have this provision being invoked as a way to impose tariffs on some of our closest allies, closest friends, and most important trading partners. the canadians, mexicans,, european union, over very small amounts of steel that we import. in the case of canada it's really quite amazing. canada is a country, do we have a closer ally? that our next-door neighbor, a country that sends troops to fight alongside hours whenever we have a need to do that, a country with whom we have massive amount of trade in both directions, country with whom we have a balance of trade overall, surplus and steel, but what wereit doing is imposing taxes on americans in my constituents if they choose to buy steel from canada and we are saying that's necessarily's for national security purposes. of course it's not. it has nothing to do

of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea the peninsula the origins of the war also in washington we have michael flanagan he is president of flanagan consulting and a former congressman and to new york we cross to george samuel lee he's a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace all right gentlemen crossed rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate michael let me go to you first here i think it's pretty fair to say after five hundred days in office we're beginning to see what an american first foreign policy is under donald trump so my question to you is america first under trump compatible with the post world war two liberal order that the united states herald into into being and is. two thousand and eighteen a significant date for that order that appears to be well changing if not breaking down go ahead michael. thank you peter i think that the their american foreign policy your question presupposes that we've been the same since the second world war and i think while we've had very likely goals

of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea the peninsular origins of the war also in washington we have michael flanagan he is president of flanagan consulting and a former congressman and to new york we cross to george samuel lee he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace all right gentlemen cross talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate it michael let me go to you first here i think it's. pretty fair to say after five hundred some days in office we're getting to see what an american first foreign policy is under donald trump so my question to you is america first under trump compatible with the post world war two liberal order that the united states herald into into being and is. two thousand and eighteen a significant date for that order that appears to be well changing if not breaking down go ahead michael. thank you peter i think that the their american foreign policy your question presupposes that we've been the same since the second world war and i think while we've had very likely

if we could begin to shift to what we were supposed to do at the end of the second world war and have a department of defense, i think you see many of these legal issues go away. yes, we will always have the need to have a defense, i agree with that, but we certainly don't have to be doing the kind of nonproductive, rproductive offense that we been doing. i think that answers your question. let's just shift that money for norm development and tech development into what we need for protection. >> we've had this same, were facing these problems in all sectors, big data so there's an ecosystem and there's numerous actors being involved in producing, using, analyzing, sharing the data. who is responsible for the outcomes? somehow we have to hp ourselves to a more sophisticated and richer notion of responsibility and ability to share that. >> just briefly, we have such notion in regular peacetime law. we have notions of product liability. we already know how tolo about bad designer responsible, but it's a whole different thing if you're holding her responsible for an unintended failure of a defensive s

war institute annual summer conference. a discussion of union spy a lisbeth van loo. you are watching american history tv on c-span3. >> good afternoon, everyone. imp carmichael, a member of the history department here at gettysburg college. i am the director of the civil war institute. it's like better this afternoon to introduce elizabeth bayern, who is the associate director of the center for civil war history and also a professor of american attory and of course, all the university of virginia. thankfully, she is not a hockey bob -- at least i don't believe she is. said go cats what has happened to the american sports scene? i don't know. i would not think that at a conference people would be ja .ing about hockey she has published a number of books. we need to be confident: white women and politics in antebellum virginia." one of my favorite processs of the published by the university of north girl oppressed, and "appomattox: the tree defeat, and freedom at the end of the ," published by oxford. it is an outstanding book. it's a way to look beyond appomattox, looks at the material culture, how appomattox resided in american history. it's outstanding. i cannot say enough good things about it

those are the words of a top official in the war department as of this morning. the number of companies and every single member of this committee's hearing from small businesses, the number is staggering. you planned on receiving 6000 applications for exclusion, and is so far, you've gotten 21,000. tell, which you have done is going to address something like 1% of the applications. adding further concern is the top official quoted this have onlyaying you begun training staff on how to process the application. it seems to me there is more and more bedlam. i would like to start with the question of whether you are with how the product exclusion process is working now. are you satisfied? >> thank you for raising those questions. i don't take very seriously peoples that are made by who are probably disgruntled for some other reason when they are anonymous. i don't think that is a very good basis. importantly, the person who they arey incorrect -- saying, we have only begun to train people. for thea long time congress to give us through the appropriations process the

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of intelligence and research at the u.s. state department as well as author of korea the peninsular origins of the war also in washington we have michael flanagan he is president of flanagan consulting and a former congressman and to new york we cross to george samuel lee he is a fellow at the global policy institute of london and author of the book bombs for peace all right gentlemen crossed rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate michael let me go to you first here i think it's pretty fair to say after five hundred days in office we're beginning to see what an american first foreign policy is under donald trump so my question to you is america first under trump compatible with the post world war two liberal order that the united states herald into into being and is. two thousand and eighteen a significant date for that order that appears to be well changing if not breaking down go ahead michael. thank you peter i think that the their american foreign policy your question presupposes that we've been the same since the second world war and i think while we've had very likely goals fro

at the tug-of-war between the republican congressional leaders on department of justice leading up again. we have no details tonight and i showdown that could end up with top law enforcement facing contempt of congress charges. >> we are going to get compliance for the house of representatives, it will use its full arsenal of constitutional n compliance. >> shannon: also, what the inspector general's report could mean for the special counsel investigation, andy mccarthy is here to tell us why the ig report should equal no obstruction charges against the president. he is alive. a little bit later, we will bid a fond farewell to our friends, charles krauthammer, gone too soon at the age of 68. ♪ ou (phone ping) gentlemen, i have just received word! the louisiana purchase, is complete! instant purchase notifications from capital one. so you won't miss a purchase large, small, or very large. technology this helpful... could make history. what's in your wallet? i'm still giving it my best even though i live with a higher risk of stroke due to afib not caused by a heart valve problem. so if th

therefore the war powers resolution which includes deadlines with trying in the absence of congressional authorizations don't apply. the legal advisor at the state department, the executive branch pretty much wrote out of existence a good part of the war powers resolution. so within congress,-- >> you made an understanding that the president unlike the king would not have unilateral power to go to war. hamilton makes this point. when people talk about the immense power to deploy military personnel, from what source are they claiming that authority exists? >> there is no source. the interesting thing about this particular provision in article 1 section 8 is that it was viewed at the time as the defining work of the convention. the framers who joined together who are normally not in agreement and said this is how we can address this, they all agreed that they didn't want a situation like the one that we have today where a president has unilateral authority, and they believe they had fixed the problem because article 1 section 8 could not be more clear. to hold us back to the question, this kinetic conflict was used in litigation on behalf of democratic repub

rand cites a figure from the defense department, estimating that in the event of war, using simply artillery, north korea would kill 250,000 people in seoul alone. of course, north korea now also has up to 60 nuclear bombs, complete with the missiles that could potentially deliver them to the south. south korea's war games with the united states, as president called them, are not war games at all, but a necessary set of defensive exercises undertaken in the shadow of an aggressive adversary. even worse, trump signaled that he would like to end the american troop presence in south korea. he's wrong that this would save money, unless he plans to demobilize those troops, since south korea covers almost half the cost of u.s. troops stationed there. but that is beside the point. through bitter experience, the united states has found it's much better to have troops ready, battle trained, rather than keeping them all in the u.s. only to be sent abroad when trouble breaks out. a few commentators have pointed out that the big winner of the singapore summit was the great bar that wasn't even there. ch