everett dirksen was extremely important at his time.t seemed fitting to name the building after him. senator dirksen liked to say he was a man of principle. one of his greatest principles was to maintain flexibility at all times. that made him a very agile senator and a man who understood that you have to compromise to build consensus. in the united state senate, compromise is essential for passing any kind of legislation. rarely does the majority party have sufficient votes to pass something entirely by itself. always, majority leaders have to persuade members of the minority to come on board. that is one of the reasons why the u.s. senate wanted to commemorate senator dirksen by naming the second building after him. >> you can watch this or other american artifacts programs at any time by visiting our website, c-span.org/history. -- this weekend, the c-span's a city tour posted by time warner cable partners takes us to california to explore the city is -- the city's history and literary culture. atthis came from my editor the weekly a

dirksen senate office building thank you for joining us. and intense manhunt underway in belgium for a suspect in the brussels terror attack. that man seen with the two bombers, evidence is mounting that the same isis cell carried out the attacks in paris in

abraham lincoln and everett dirksen. how can dirksen resist? the key thing is what transpired was assigned project understand that they are there and they are used to be a greater sense i think in the congress come in the senate and they were passing join legislation, that they're doing something that they can be proud together children and grandchildren. i was in that congress. i understand sometimes republicans will be proud for defeating something they believe is wrong, but when you can do something and it has improved the lives of children as chip did come how incredible that feels when you look out and you know it's made a difference. i'm sure that's not what's happening now but it requires seeing the people across the aisle as fellow colleagues rather than as partisan enemies, just as vicki said. everything about our media today encourages them to become enemies. the cable networks that only have one site on. the fact the debates, they like it most when using somebody. the special interests are required when you need to raise money to run

dirksen senate office building thank you for joining us. and intense manhunt underway in belgium for a suspect in the brussels terror attack. that man seen with the two bombers, evidence is mounting that the same isis cell carried out the attacks in paris in november and brussels earlier this week. the suspected bombmaker was one of the two airport bombers in brussels. his dna was found in the suicide belt attacks. >> the other suspect was arrested for being an isis member but turkish authorities released him after belgium could not find he had a link to the terror group. >> his brother blue himself up at a subway station in brussels. a second attacker is suspected of taking part in the subway bombing and he might be at large. security officials say isis has trained 400 attackers and sent them into europe to plot terror attacks. john kerry plans to visit brussels tomorrow. for more on the latest developments we will be live in brussels a few minutes from now. dirksen senate office building president obama is in argentina, his first official

and dirksen voted for it. also knew about the legendary relationship between ronald reagan and tip o'neill. they found ways when it came to it to have a drink of scotch together and discuss it like gentlemen. they say it's cyclical. we go on these cycles and maybe this is where we had to go as a nation. how hopeful are you that we'll find the right path again that ronald reagan and nancy reagan took us down? >> i don't know how to answer. hopeful. i try to remain hopeful. i asked williams whether he was optimistic or pessimistic. he said of course i'm pessimistic. i'm smart. i don't know what to base our hopes on except we have a great constitution. we have a government that survived. charles: i want to thank you very much. we appreciate you coming on the show. >> keep on keeping on. >> of course i voted in the one senate vote i had the opportunity to vote to support the automobile industry. way did not vote for was the bailout of wall street. and that is essentially what senator clinton was talking about. she

he has created interesting online games, so it is the dirksen center in illinois, a variety of congressional centers and presidential libraries and are trying to do this. the foundation world has been worried about this for two decades, and they have pumped millions of dollars into trying to improve this. and i thank you for your comment because i feel like i'm trying mydo this with undergraduates and graduate students to do a better job of teaching people about how the system works and to improve it. host: of the question from don who says, does your guest believe this is a realignment election? the realignment the outcome of gridlock? guest: it is like fdr's first election worked a great number of people that will republican shifted and became democrats, and that became the coalition behind the democratic party for one generation, two generations. we have had the regional realignment in the south. it used to be democrats from the 1965 voting rights act and then it became republican. not see trump as a person creating a realignment. i do not see evidence yet. ilike evidence, data, and don't

we have had very powerful minorities in the days when the republicans had 35 senators under dirksen, they were the swing votes. they were the people that recorded and it was dirksen who got his picture on the cover of "time" magazine when the civil rights bill was passed because his vote was so essential to all of that. howard baker carried that on while he was minority leader and then transitioned very nicely in 1980 into becoming the majority leader. we had the senate had much less of a dramatic turnover when the republicans won after 26 years of being in the minority than in the house when the republicans won after 40 years of being in the minority, it was like the french revolution. they changed -- just like changing the months of the year, they changed the names of all the committees, they changed everything. everybody went, the historian went t chaplain went. it was a dramatic difference at that stage of the game. i do think you have to look at the psych ches of the two institutions when you factor that in. question over here. >> looking at it, i'm fascinated [ inaudible ] and

we learn about its place in history and its namesake, everett dirksen.

he has created interesting online games, so it is the dirksen center in illinois, a variety of congressional centers and presidential libraries and are trying to do this. the foundation world has been worried about this for two decades, and they have pumped millions of dollars into trying to improve this. and i thank you for your comment because i feel like i'm trying mydo this with undergraduates and graduate students to do a better job of teaching people about how the system works and to improve it. host: of the question from don who says, does your guest believe this is a realignment election? the r

the dirksen building is sort of a mirror image.ome people compare it to a large ice cube tray. >> inside the newest of the three senate office buildings to learn about construction and history. abraham lincoln's life chronicled through photographs and portraits. >> he takes time to sit for this last photograph, that the eyes disappear. >> for the complete schedule go to c-span.org. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> are we ready? i want to thank you all for coming today. this is a big thrill to be able to be working in the boston public market at the kitchen with the folks from the trustees of the reservation. i am doing this all with anastacia and for c-span books. this is the first time we have ever done a c-span book filming in in this space in the first time we have films in this space let me introduce myself. i am louisa kasdon and i'm the ceo of let's talk about food. every friday we run a program that they called brown bag lunches and you will see in the back people that are eating some of those lunches.

they are russell, dirksen and hart. we often see him report from the federal building without identifying as such, but they've been very friendly to our viewers. we have jill epstein with us. she was in the capitol hill visitors center. jill, what did you see and how did this happen? >> i'm with the association agency. we were in between meetings with our legislators. we went to the visitors' center to kill some time, and as we were walking in with metal detect torz saying -- left his phone and. they told us for a couple -- i don't know, two minutes, then they screamed just run for it. men with guns everywhere, and we just ran up this huge ramp from the visitors center. like you said, it was kind of underground. i just went out and ran with police everywhere. >> did you hear the report, the actual noise of a gun being discharged? >> i didn't personally hear that. . seeing on sort of shaky iphone vide video. we had officers on foot, i'd armds drawn, kind of there, it was fast. >> people appeared out of nowhe nowhere, pol

person who worked form the senate sergeant at arms no less, had a firearm on his person, came into the dirksen center office building across the street from the capitol and forgotten they had the weapon and they arrested him. there was obviously no intent there you head an aide for tom merino coming into the cannon house office building, had weapon you had some years ago can former senator jim webb, one of his top aides, had given him a brief case to carry into the capitol and it was jim webb's gun, the former senator from virginia, and they arrest him. so there must have been something different in the way this went down other than the -- compared to the other incidents bus -- frankly, sounds kind of silly but a lot of instances where somebody has come in, who works here, who had a gun in their car, had gun on their person, the gun enthusiast, goes to the range, and they forgot. as absurd as that seems but has happened. so must have been something different about this transaction. i should point out, those folks with people coming in with capitol hill i.d., this person as far as we now did no

it was dirksen who got his picture on the cover of "time" magazine. his votes were so essential. howard baker carry that on while he was the minority leader. transition for a nicely in 1980 into becoming the majority leader. we have the senate -- the senate had much of -- much less of a germanic turnover when the republicans won over 26 -- after 26 years of being the minority. in the house, when the republicans won after 40 years of being the minority, it was like the french revolution. it was like changing the months of the year. they change the names of the committees, everything. everybody went from the historian went, the chaplain went. it was a traumatic difference. i do think you have to look at the psyches of the institutions when you factor that in. question over here. >> even more important in 2015, and increased gas tax, increased to the minimum wage, they did away with the death penalty, and they retained the secret vote which is how they elected this speaker and committee chairman thomas a you had democratic speakers -- is there any lesson and that from capitol hill?

in fact i'm standing between the dirksen and russell senate office buildings on first street southeast,s that double line in it. this has been closed off 15 years. oklahoma city after mid 90s. you should be able to -- used to be able to drive through here. they closed that off. you can park your car if you're assigned here. they have change ad few things. this would be another level, one of the things they have to call into question, ingress and egress out of the capitol. david: they certainly changed a lot of things after 9/11, you used to be able to drive past the white house on pennsylvania avenue. you can't anymore. they may have to make changes. chad, thank you very much. melissa. melissa: bill gavin former fbi assistant director. can i get your reaction and what is your first thought? >> i listened to catherine herridge, as always she is spot on analysis, you move the choke point a little further and create an insown and out of zone violation. the problem is other things can really be done. what i would add to catherine can say, why we don't want to talk about profiling but anath

we're just fortunate that the incident took place there and not in, like, the russell building or dirksen building which would have potentially resulted in many casualties. ashley: makes you wonder the motivate here. of course we don't know the identity of the shooter. what may have precipitated this. but congress is on recess. lawmakers are all across the country at home with their constituents. it's pretty quiet right now on capitol hill, other than the staffers of course and all the media. it would be a strange time for someone if they wanted to make a maximum statement. >> absolutely. it would be a really strange time. you know, recess is a point where not only the members go back to their districts but mostly the staff are only allowed to take vacation during this -- during those weeks. they're not only are there no members, but there aren't many targets of any kind. which really leads you to think that it's -- of course not a very well organized potentially mentally unstable individual. ashley: you know, it's interesting, andrew, as i mentioned what we see in europe going on every d

in 6 dirksen senate office building 04%. you got very low levels coming. if i am in a class and referred to the french revolution for some reason, something about thomas jefferson high have to explain what that is. you can just assume the students have historical knowledge about things. this is another issue that the one book reading consults, you select a book that has a lot of accompanying knowledge going into it as well. you saw like charles dickens's tale of two cities, you have to know something about the french revolution which will carry over to other things. but you want to select a book that is knowledge rich, right? that is going to bring cultural literacy. that will again fill out the big gaps in their heads. that is what the one book program is ideally pointed to. tell us if that happens. >> thank you all again for coming out on a night they are predicting snow, and it is also marty drawbridge can you hear me? great. thank you to first things for hosting us. we did get started on this. i want to give a little background and david is going to te

the dirksen building is a little plainer. the building is very modern. some people have compared it to a large ice cube tray. it's a very different looking building. >> senate historian don richie takes us inside the newest of the three senate office buildings, the 1983 office building. top learn about the construction y congressional the construction history. on the presidency, at 8:00 p.m., smithsonian david ward chronicles abraham lincoln's life through photographs and portra portraits. >> lincoln takes time out from writing the inaugural address to sit for the last photograph in which he does look kind of peevish. you notice the eyes. >> for the complete american history tv weekend schedule, go to c-span.org. now a discussion with russian journalists and activists on domestic politics. from the center on global interest, this is an hour and a half. >>> i am welcoming you here. we have an outstanding panel today, and i hope -- it kind of reminds, you know, 1990s explaining what russia is about. i guess we didn't do a very good job. we'll try again. we

the dirksen building is a mirrored image, a little plainer. but the hart building is very modern. some people have confirmed it to the large ice cube tray. very different looking building. >> senate historian emeritus don ridgy takes us inside the newest of the three senate office buildings the hart senate office building to learn about the construction and place in congressional history. on the presidency at 8:00, smithsonian portrait gallery david ward chronicles abraham lincoln's life through portraits. >> lincoln takes time out from writing the inaugural address and he does sit for this, but the eyes disappear. this sense in which lincoln is present to the public for his suffering. >> for the complete schedule go to c-span.org. >>> treasury secretary jack lew spoke at the carnegie endowment for international peace yesterday about the history of u.s. sanctions policy. he spoke about current sanctions on iran, russia and north korea. and he offered his views on the future of sanctions. this is 40 minutes. >> it's a great pleasure to welcome all of you here this morning and a spe

one of the great four leaders and that is everett dirksen, republican.hose things happened because people were willing to compromise. we don't do that anymore so it is of course a political dynamic. but i think what has made it easy for people to do it, just as it's easy and a mob to say fire or give him, it takes the calmer voices. it takes the more complicated narrative a long time to get up to the simple one in which you say the n-word or you say you lie or using i'm not going to compromise because that's against my principles, our genius is compromise. compromise. >> there was one other difference. lyndon johnson wasn't just having tea parties at the white house inviting them to participate. lyndon johnson was like knocking heads. and it's a hard thing to talk about. i've noticed many of my friends in the press are very reluctant to criticize barack obama because barack obama has taken so much criticism from, undue criticism, right? but i think there is room for a critique of how the president has or has not used the hallmarks and tools and perks of

he has created interesting online games, so it is the dirksen center in illinois, a variety of congressional centers and presidential libraries and are trying to do this. the foundation world has been worried about this for two decades, and they have pumped millions of dollars into trying to improve this. and i thank you for your comment because i feel like i'm trying mydo this with undergraduates and graduate students to do a better job of teaching people about how the system works and to improve it. host: of the question from don who says, does your guest believe this is a realignment election? the realignment the outcome of gridlock? guest: it is like fdr's first election worked a great number of people that will republican shifted and became democrats, and that became the coalition behind the democratic party for one generation, two generations. we have had the regional realignment in the south. it used to be democrats from the 1965 voting rights act and then it became republican. not see trump as a person creating a realignment. i do not see evidence yet. ilike evidence, data, and don't

he has created interesting online games, so it is the dirksen center in illinois, a variety of congressionalenters and presidential libraries and are trying to do this. the foundation world has been worried about this for two decades, and they have pumped millions of dollars into trying to improve this. and i thank you for your comment because i feel like i'm trying mydo this with undergraduates and graduate students to do a better job of teaching people about how the system works and to improve it. host: of the question from don who says, does your guest believe this is a realignment election? the realignment the outcome of gridlock? guest: it is like fdr's first election worked a great number of people that will republican shifted and became democrats, and that became the coalition behind the democratic party for one generation, two generations. we have had the regional realignment in the south. it used to be democrats from the 1965 voting rights act and then it became republican. not see trump as a person creating a realignment. i do not see evidence yet. ilike evidence, data, and don't s