. >>> congressional historians richard baker, donald richie and ray smock, sunday night eastern on cspan q&a. >>> up next on american history tv, we take you to 1988 when president ronald reagan and soviet leader gorbachev delivered new year's message. two weeks earlier, president reagan addressed the soviet people from the white house and general gorbachev addressed the american people from the kremlin. this is about ten minutes. >>> good evening. this is ronald reagan, president of the united states. i'm speaking to you the peoples of the soviet union on the occasion of the new year. i know that in the soviet union as it is all around the world, this is a season of hope and expectation, a time for family to gather, a time for prayer, a time to think about peace. that's true in america too, at this time of year, americans traveled across the country in their cars, by train or by airplane to be together with their families. many americans, of course, came to the united states from other countries and at this time of year, they look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelan

q&a,y night on congressional historians richard baker, donald richie and ray smock. > one of> the questions i hear people asking all the time -- is this the most uncivil time in history? theake another period, years leading to the civil war. a host member and became a senator in 1856 because he disagreed with what he said and there are a lot of senators who cheered on that member. >> there is a musical about the shooting of alexander hamilton. he was shot by the sitting vice president of the united states. that is pretty dramatic. we had terrible times, political times. in 1858 was one brawl before the civil war that had 80 members rolling around on the floor. pulled hismembers wig off during the fight and someone yelled you scaleped him! there was enough levity to stop the fight. >> congressional historians sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. earlier today, president trump held a joint news conference with italian prime minister giuseppe conte. they spoke about security and trade with president trump saying he would consider shutting down the government at the end of september if

. >> historians richard baker and donald richy, sunday night at eight eastern on cspan q and a. >> next on american history tv the president of the center for ken certain active women -- conservative women, michelle easten talk about clare booth lieu. the event is 40 minutes. >>> clare booth lieu. i am happy to be here in dc with you all to talk about the extraordinary clare booth. this is the conservative women's network and we do this monthly. we have been doing it for 20 years now. i want to say a special thank you to the cspan audience all over the world. so good to have you with us and we love cspan. it is fitting this talk about the extraordinary clare booth should be given at an event sponsored by the heritage foundation where she was a member of the heritage board of directors and the center for ken conservative women. my name is michelle easten and i'm the founder and president for the center for conservative women. when i founded the institution i chose the name because clare was an incredible trail blazing woman and modeled leadership for women them and now and was a pioneer

congress with congressional historians richard rayr, donald richie, and smock.is here on c-span. here is a look at our live coverage monday. at 11:00, the national whistleblowers center holds an event to mark national whistleblowers day. that is here on c-span. on c-span two, secretary of state mike pompeo and commerce secretary wilbur ross speak at a business forum hosted by the u.s. chamber of commerce. the senate returns to consider the nomination of britt grant to be a judge on the 11th circuit court of appeals. a debate set for 5:30. --ustice on the coming up on washington journal, groupon hatalsky from the third way talks about the divide within the democratic party between moderates and progressives. with president trump threatening to revoke security clearances of several former obama officials national security attorney mark zaid securityto discuss how clearances work, who receives them, and the process of obtaining them. forbes magazine senior editor stbe

q&aunday night on congressional historians richard baker, donald richie and ray smock. >> one of the questions i hear people asking all the time, is this the most uncivil time in history. >> it's going to be close. certainly the years leading to the civil war. he disagreed with what he said and there are a lot of senators who cheered on that house member. >> as a broadway musical about the shooting of alexander hamilton shot by the sitting vice president of the united states. that's pretty dramatic. we've had terrible times politically. >> one brawl in 1858 before the civil war that had 80 members rolling around on the floor fighting one another. one of the members who had a wig , one of the members pulled his wig off during the fight and someone else yelled he scalped them. that was enough levity to stop the fight. >> richard baker, donald richie and ray smock, sunday night on 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. nominee brad cavanagh continues to meet with senators on capitol hill. follow the confirmation process on c-span leading up to the senate confirmation hearings and the boat. .- an

. >>> congressional historians richard baker, donald richie and ray smock, sunday night eastern on cspany tv, we take you to 1988 when president ronald reagan and soviet leader gorbachev delivered new year's message. two weeks earlier, president reagan addressed the soviet people from the white house and general gorbachev addressed the american people from the kremlin. this is about ten minutes.

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. >> historians richard baker and donald richy, sunday night at eight eastern on cspan q and a. >> next on american history tv the president of the center for ken certain active women -- conservative women, michelle easten talk about clare booth lieu. the event is 40 minutes. >>> clare booth lieu. i am happy to be here in

sunday night on q&a, congressional historian richard baker, donald richie. >> one thing i hear peopleing all the time, is this the most uncivil time in history? certainly, the years leading to the civil war, when a host member came over and became senator in 1856 because he disagreed with what was said. >> there is a broadway musical about shooting alexander hamilton. that is pretty dramatic. we have had terrible times, political times. there was one in 1858 before the civil war, that had 80 members rolling around on the floor fighting one another. told his wigmbers off during the fight. someone else yelled he skipped something pair [laughter] that was enough levity to stop .he fight congressional historian's sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> this august on american ourory tv on c-span3, watch nine part series of 1968, america in turmoil. each night, we look back 60 years to the tumultuous year, the rise of the political left and right. starting monday, august six, we discussed the vietnam war. tuesday, august 7, the campaign of the year. civil rights and race relations