dr. ricervice to the gordon commission on the future of assessment and education and as assistant for student success at the college. dr. rice is faculty representative for moorhouse college's board of trustee and cinema, television and emerging media studies program. he's helped to develop curriculum for the study's major and minor and advises students. he now serves as faculty for this program and african-american studies with a special focus on narrative studies. dr. rice graduated from moorhouse college with a bachelors of arts degree in psychology and earned a doctorate at howard university, with a masters in journalism from columbia university he applies his research to cultural criticism. he serves on the editorial advisory board for the journal -- sorry, for the journal of negro education and previously served for the journal of popular culture. he's previously provided commentary for npr, pri, cbs news cnn, msnbc and his writings and opinions have appeared in the "washington post," "l

>> well i think that first of all dr. rice job on explaining the strategy for most part of the world. when you apply it to syria, it's though the particularly compelling to most people that we do have a plausible path to success. for iraq i think we do. it may or may not work. it's plausible. you know how you may have to adjust along the way if it doesn't show promise. we have the government to work with. the government has an army. at some point they'll attack isis in north western part of iraq. in syria, there's no credible force we're working with that's got any chance of taking on either isis or president assad. i don't think dr. rice broke new ground on that particular issue today. clearly it's going to be one that the defense nominee and others continue to get grilled about on capitol hill and where we continue to have a vigorous debate. there may not be a good strategy in reach now. i think we're going to have to do more as a nation to deal with isis. the current help for the opposition in syria, so called moderate oppo

[applause] >> thank you dr. ricefor coming all the way from atlanta to share your work and insight with us. on behalf of of black women's ministry and more house we would like to present you with a small token of our appreciation. [applause] >> may i open it right now? >> please join us for refreshments where you can continue to speak with dr. rice and thank you again for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> it was very clear to me that i still had an issue with public trust in people believing things that were said in regardless of the fact that i stand like it did read it day and saying use of force is down 40% and lawsuits are down that officer involved shootings are dramatically down and we are moving in all the positive ways people and communities say we don't believe it. >> house minority leader nancy pelosi and members of the delegation who visited cuba recently talked to the press about u.s. cuba

. >> thank you, dr. rice, for coming all the way from atlanta to share your work and your insight with us. on behalf of dr. cameron we would like to present with you a small token of our appreciation. >> thank you. do i have to open it right now? thank you so much. >> please join us for refreshments where you can continue to speak with dr. rice. thank you, again, for coming. >> thank you. thank you, all. >>> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road. traveling to u.s. cities to learn about their history and literary life. next weekend we've partnered with comcast for a visit to galveston, texas. with the opening of the suez canal in 1869 sailing ships really were almost dealt a death blow. with that opening of the canal, coal-fired ships had a shorter route to the far east, to india, to all of those markets so sailing ships really needed to find a way to make their own living. so instead high-value cargo they started carrying lower valued cargos. coal. oil. cotton. et cetera. so

going to have this, we're going to have this and they'll say they forgot it and have the white rice out which dr. davidson says no not to eat the white rice. they'll have all the macaroni and cheese, white rice everything all the same, hamming, turkey fried chicken, fried fish. you have a buffet full of food and there's no encouragement not to do that because they figure people are going to come out and eat. >> dr. davidson talk about that, there's a lot of psychology there. >> i think the african-american community has probably culturally some of the most unhealthy food. that comes from the fact that we were given the scraps as slaves and we turned them into delicacies. that whole concept has gone on for centuries. we need to begin to turn that around. we have enough chefs, and even the chef shows they or not doing healthy foods and chefs are capable in teaching us to cook in a way that's healthy and tasty. even the chefs shows show some of the most un4e8 think food. we will be showing people how to make foods they haven't tasted before. we just need to recognize some foods cause disease. if a

cohen is actually expected to be at the white house later this week for consultations with dr. rice. under monday sherman -- wendy sherman, the principal negotiator has repeatedly met with the israeli national security advisor, as well as the israeli minister of intelligence on a number of occasions. those times and consultations are going to continue. at the same time, we have also been very clear about the fact that the united states is not going to be in a position of negotiating this agreement in public rate particularly when we see there is a continued practice of cherry picking specific pieces of information and using them out of context to distort negotiating positions. there is an obligation when you are participating to ensure that those consultations and negotiations are carried out in good faith. that means giving negotiators the room and space to negotiate. at the same time, i can tell you that there is -- at least on one assessment i have heard it is not a real precisely to quantify this, but you could make the case that there is no country that is not participating in

dr. susan rice has expressed opposition to providing this lethal aid to the ukrainian military in the paste pentagon and state department others in the military are talking about maybe pushing for this. what has changed? >> and others on the hill as well including democrats. what has changed is ukraine is losing losing on the ground losing ground and putin has proved to be putin the undeterable, really. the sanctions are working in that they are punishing the economy, but they are not working in the sense of deterring further russian military action on the ground. no one, when you listen to the nato supreme allied commander and others they are not mincing words about this being a separatist operation. they call this a russian operation, russian forces on the ground russian weaponry on the ground. they use the term invasion even if you don't hear that here in washington. >> one of the things that's held back any provision of lethal aid, weapons to the ukrainian military by the united states has been the fear that that would only provoke putin further. do they still here that? >> they do sti

dr. susan rice spoke publicly. did they have anything to say about kayla mueller?reporter: the president didn't mention it. we kind of expected that. we heard virtually the same things this coordinated response thus far from the state department the white house and the national security advisor, all saying basically two things. that they are deeply concerned about these reports that are coming out and that there is no credible evidence at this point that these claims are true. that said the white house does say the intelligence community is obviously looking into this and trying to get some more information, because it has been interesting in these last two cases, first with the jordanian pilot, for a long time isis would not provide proof of life. then it turns out it happened as we now know it did. in this case no proof of death, just this story about the death being caused by a jordanian air strike. i think it will be interesting to see how long it takes for us to get some corroboration. if it's not going to come from isis that will tell us just how good the int

rice at 3:00 in the trustee theater. thank you. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] dr. ginsberg, you write in here the unpleasant fact is although war is terrible and brutal, we should not assume that all his consequences are up for it. what mean? >> guest: well you know this is a book i wrote in response to a bumper sticker. you know the bumper sticker we all see, war is not the answer. it depends on the question. there are a lot of questions that unfortunately have to be answered with war and violence. it's the nature of the world. war is a major force in building modern society. it has answered three of the main questions of politics. statehood come at territoriality and power. every state that exists including especially the united states of america is the product of war. we don't like to remember this. kids are taught about the american revolution in terms of philosophical issues. well, they didn't exactly debate with the british. they fought it is a very bloody revolution, one of the bloodiest revolutions in history that it determined there would be united states

dr. brzezinski today susan rice making different decisions if simply they weren't always thinking about,aq war fatigue we would do "x" but because of that we're doing "y". >> it's not a matter of iraq war fatigue. it's in sense that we undermine our credibility internationally by going into war under false pretenses and, at the same time we have aroused intense hostility towards the united states in the muslim world. that, i think, rightly. and the intelligent person would so conclude. >> we've handcuffed ourselves because of that? >> that's the best way of putting it. >> dr. brzezinski, is the answer here to put -- to give lethal aid to the ukrainians or is the answer here to put american combat brigades in station into poland air combat wings into the baltics, into the nato countries that would be potentially under threat should the russians continue to assert their historical prerogatives in this area? >> i think to some extent it could be a combination of both because if ukraine falters, all of those countries will be at risk and, what's worse than the alliance will look weak and dis

dr. jill stein announces her plans for the 2016 presidential election. at 1:00 p.m. eastern, national security advisor susan riceiscusses the president's national security strategy. later at 2:10 p.m., we join president obama at a town hall meeting at id tech community college in indiana. coming up at 7:45 a.m. eastern representative donna edwards of maryland, the cochair of the democratic policy committee on how the president's 2016 budget affects the federal reserve -- the federal workforce. john fleming will talk about his position on the freedom caucus, designed to challenge the republican study committee. >> on this broadcast last week in an effort to honor and thank a veteran who me and so many others, i made a mistake recalling the events of 12 years ago and it did not take long to hear from brave men and women on the aircrews who were also in that desert. i want to apologize. i said i was traveling on a craft that was hit by rpg fire. instead i was in a following aircraft. we went after the incident and spent to have nights in a sandstorm in the iraq desert. this was a bungled