his attorney. >> i just knew that george had something to do with it. >> reporter: both george and noel were booked on murder and conspiracy and burglary charges. >> georgee one that wanted shauna dead. george is the controlling man that needed that control of shauna. and he had a tool at his disposal that worshipped him, that loved him, that would do what needed to be done. >> reporter: noel stephens pleaded guilty and spent the next three years cooperating with the investigation while george, who pleaded not guilty, set up a ministry in the clark county detention center. he looked his family, including his sister maria, square in the eyes and swore he did not do this. >>> the age-old conclusion the husband always does it? >> he was a statistical suspect from day one for sure. >> reporter: why, she asked, would anybody believe an addict and known liar over george? and the detectives theory that a guilty conscience led to a suicide attempt. >> let me tell you, he has been on suicide prevention squads. he is an emt. he is quite knowledgeable about what it takes to kill yourself in a vehicle. so driving that large vehicle into a k-rail with your seat belt

georg georg the 1 years of fighthrouout he sometimes visits the graves of victims of the civil war. coming here reminds him of an experience he had as the war was drawing to a close. he encounter an enemy soldier who looked like his younger brother. he was so shocked he set soldier free. by realized that fighting people because of different believes was point leless. the war ended, but people are mained hostile toward each other. gabbi talked with other former soldier who is had experienced the same tragic civil war and shared his feeling. they began a movement to tell physicfellow citizens that past mistakes must never be repeated. the group's members include form soldiers who were once enemies. he fought in the civil war as a senior officer of a right wing christian militia. he took part in massacres of palestinians. ten years after the war, he officially apologized. to a palestinian, he was part of the most unforgivable enemy. >> they overcame their hatred through tie log. their message is that people should talk, not fight. and through their efforts, that message is starting to

george washington. george washington was raised by a single mother. mary washington did not remarry after george washington's father died. and george washington was only 11 years old at the time. so she really gave him a tremendous strength of character. she caught him very many things about how to manage an estate. she was herself known to be very religious. so i think it's very clear that she read to him books, not only the bible but books on religion. she had to be a very strong woman. and i think george washington was probably quite like his mother. she seems to be a no-nonsense figure herself. and now she's had an interesting reputation throughout american history because on the one hand in the 19th century mary washington was held up as the great model of womanhood in america because she was the one who raised the greatest citizen. so in this democracy in the 19th century, if we want to have great citizens we need to have great mothers like mary washington and in fact the first national monument to a woman in this country was created from mary washington in fredericksburg before the civil

george washington to george w. bush every sunday at 8:00 p.m. to midnight eastern we feature the presidency, a weekly series exporting presence, their politics, policies, and legacies. people watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. my fellow americans, i have always thought new year's day was an especially american tradition. full of the optimism and hope we are famous for in our daily lives. that energy and confidence we call the american spirit. perhaps because we know we control our own destiny we --ieve deep down it inside down inside we believe we can make each year better than the old. today is one of resolutions. reviewing the old year we try to decide what we can do that are in the new. most of us are without families families.- with our it gathered together we find strength and renewal. this special holiday time is tragically marred for many of us. you may have spotted the reason last night is right around. a drunk driver. each year -- 650,000 arel seriously injured. the personal pain and arctic -- heart ache caused by the necessary and millions of dollars lost through hours of missed work. this weekend while millions of americans are traveling on our highways, streets, and hundreds of millions more are salivating with our loved ones let's take a ourminutes to protect -- familiestect from a drunk driver -- who uses drugs and then gets behind the wheels of a car is a disaster waiting to happen. now involvedol is in up to 55% of all fatal highway crashes and is a good driving factor in more than 2 million motor vehicle accidents each year. a drunk driver as turned his car into a weapon, a weapon that threatens the lives and safety of the innocent. fortunately-- but there is a brighter side. today we have the best opportunities in years to tackle this problem. public awareness had never been i. citizens groups, local officials, legislators, judges, police officers, people from all over the country are saying enough is enough. let's get these killers off our roads now. i appointed a presidential commission on drunk driving to explore the problem more fully and to work with state and local governments to develop effective programs. their report is already coming and as usual findings. for example we have found people who have had too much to drink are less likely to drive when they know they have a good chance of being caught. a potential drunk driver who understands prosecution is certain that the penalties lives will be less likely to insist on driving mom. for this to george work -- driving home. for this to george work officials must make it clear that mimi's -- they mean business. -- in the main alcohol-related crashes have dropped 41% since the drunk driving program was strengthened. the highway death rate there is a lowest since they started keeping records. maryland has intensified its program and highway deaths are a 19 year low. states have raised the legal drinking age and many other communities, counties, and states have strengthened their laws, some requiring mandatory jail sentences for first offenders. a new york fines and fees levied on those arrested are directed to local alcohol programs. citizen groups are assisting state and local test, providing legislative support participating in court monitoring of victim assistance. until we change our attitudes about laws our best protection is still to buckle our safety belts. there is much to be done if we are to rid ourselves of this scourge and there is a continuing need for private initiative.

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george h.w. bush. most people don't understand it, but george h.w. bush who was recognized as a great foreign policy president passed more significant domestic legislation than any president except franklin roosevelt and lyndon johnson. and georgesh did it in one term. i mean, you had the clean air act, you had the civil rights bill, you had ada and a budget agreement that created in spite of what bill clinton and newt gingrich claim, the bush budget that he was so maligned for created all the surpluses that started taking place beginning and the end of '92 into the clinton years. george bush, george bush came with an agenda and an idea on how to get, an idea of the kind of things he wanted to get done. and he allowed, i think one of the reasons he asked me to be chief of staff is because i had been a governor and i had been involved in a state that had to implement and address all of these domestic issues. and really asked and encouraged me to put together the kind of staff andy was talking about. we had myself and andy who served in the legislature in massachusetts and certainly understood both policy and politics. roger porter brought him in. roger had been in a couple administrations and had been at harvard. i think roger a

george washington was afraid that this would spark a war with britain and george washington sent john jay to britain to negotiate. john jay ended up negotiating jay's treaty in 1795 with britain, and the measures within the treaty were that britain would finally leave this post in -- those posts in the west. they also agreed american merchants could submit claims to britain for illegally seized goods, goods that belong to american shippers had been seized by the british they could make their case in britain. it required the u.s. government to pay american citizens pre-war debts to british merchants. that is the exchange for getting british troops to leave the west, and the treaty acknowledged the british right to seize french property if it was on an american ship. still to stop an american ship but only to take french property off of it. thomas jefferson was furious. he said this treaty is far too cozy with the british whom we just beat in a war. jefferson thought it was shocking to promise to repay debt to your enemy, to repay prewar debt after having beaten that enemy in a war. in

to be respected back. >> george floyd's name is on a list now, a very long list, a centuries-old history... >> people told me that these protests hadecome about more than georgetality. >> all you have to do is look at history. if you flip the pages back from history, it speaks for itself. >> there is another vigil for geor floyd that is getting underway right now at peninsula park. >> i keep seeing african american people get killed by cops allcross the nation... (crowd chanting)hi ...and not's happening. >> no peace! st>> you look at american y and it's ugly. (cheers and applause) people are hurt, people are tired of... they're tired of being tid. >> they're sworn to protect this country... >> when i look at history, we prest. thing changed. we protest now. nothing's really changing. and that's hurtful. >> from day one, america has been based off of the subjugation of black and indigenous people. (cheers and applause) >> yes! yes! speak it, sister how can i love america? i can't-- i n't think i can love america. america hasn't loved me, that's for damn sure. >> power to the people! >> power to the people! >> power to the people! >> power to the people! >> bl

how did we get from george washington to george w. bush, how did we get from george washington to donald trump. one of the striking things is, if you go to george washington to most presidents, you see a linear progression. some people would think that it's declined, the curve slopes down. in fact, this question of -- this comparison between the first president and the current president goes all the way back to the second president. presidents always look better in the rear-view mirror they do than they're right, front and center. part of this is that we tend to forget the failures and remember the successes. that's part of it. the other thing is, that presidents are usually pretty talented people. and so there's -- they usually have a lot of positive things that can be said about them. but while they're president, typically the other party, or sometimes factions with their own party, have an incentive to tell you all the bad things about them. but once they leave office, that incentive is largely gone. this is why certain presidents fool themselves into thinking, yo

george washington did, and it was also a different time by the late 1790's, as george washington knew when he got out of politics. troublems also brought on himself. in the first meeting of the senate in 1789, adams was vice president at the time, recommended the president's title be his highness the president of the united states and protector of their liberties, and he really believe the united states would not be respected if it's leader did not seem a little bit like its king. george washington said no, that is not a good title. people remembered this proposal when john adams became president, running for the president, and during the election, benjamin franklin's his rotundbbed adams ity. adams continued the policies, which brought internal division within the u.s. after the treaty, things shifted in the u.s. needed to decide if it was a an ally of france. in response, congress cut off trade with france, and authorized american ships to seize french ships. congress is controlled by federalist. the american people criticize the assault on france. many americans consider france a natural ally of the united britain,ather than where it had been its opponent. responded to criticism of his policies. pushedinistration through alien and sedition acts they included that included the naturalization act of 1798. first0, the hadralization act established a process by which immigrants became citizens. act, it had restricted naturalized citizenship to free white men. there was

george george r is a white house director of political affairs in president bush's second administration. second, chris lu who served in executive director of the obama-biden transition and has gone through the senate confirmation process himself as a former deputy secretary of labor. the conversation will be moderated by mo elleithee, executive director of georgetown's institute of politics and please join the conversation on social media by tagging at ge you politics and at brunswick group for those in the zoomer remember you can submit your questions through the q&a button at the bottom. please include your name and affiliation. and now, mo come over to your. >> thanks so much, patti. thanks to the brunswick group for partnering with us on this day lungful of defense. you guys are great partners and i always love working with you. on a personal level, thanks to you for the introduction, patti. earlier called me her former colleague. to be clear, she was my boss and she was a great boss. thrilled to work with you again on this. sara and chris, thank you both for joining us for this very timely conversation. i thinkg patti set the stage vy well about what's at stake and have processes work a little bit in the past. i want tow dive right in. much of this conversation is going to beat focused on that moment when the nominee is named. let's start a little bit before that. chris, i'm going to start with you. talk about when the president elect is making his decisions about who should fill some of these top slots, in terms of the transition team, hands you a list of names i present the folks he's got. talk a little bit about that process and if i'm mistaken about that, please clear us up. >> first of all, thank you for having me. it's great to be part of this conversation. this is not easy and i think that's an understatement. first of all you want experience, capable people to handle these jobs. people often think about expertise in something like homeland security oric healthcae but first and foremost when you're a a member of the cabit you're running a really big agency. i think homeland security, va at upwards of 250,000 employees. dod is much bigger. understand how to run a large organization is often overlooked but it's an important criteria. and then what you are doing is in an ideal world you putting together i a puzzle. for democratic administrations, particularly for this biden administration, diversity is huge part of that and is not just racial and gender diversity. these people who bring state and local experience, people who come from the private sector, nonprofits. it's a puzzle and the hard part about this is that every piece of the puzzle affects every other piece of the puzzle. the mistakes that often transitions have made in the past in thinking pickiu take your first ten people, and then like him come to look r also, this is kind of a white also. now we have to start filling in the diversity. what is happening right now while the process sometimes gets complicated is really thinking at the outset what do you want the whole thing to look like before you start many people. it's not just the cabinet. it's the senior white house staff. it is also the economic team. it's environmental team. you have to cut this in many different ways. the last thing i would say is, does the person have a rapport with the president, president-elect? this is something that joe biden knows well from his time as vice president. he in 2000 i was tasked with examining the recovery act and he worked very closely with the cabinet. in many ways get a much closer relationship then with then president obama had at the time. he's going to what people that he likes being around and he feels comfortable working with. >> so sara, talk a little bit about the vetting process. you have got to know a month, you need to look at everything about eachhi of these potential nominees backgrounds. talk about what that process is like. >> there's several steps to it. there's the obvious kind of, you know, financial betting that has to occur because all senior officials in government end the having to file financial disclosures. so the most important thing is you don't want surprises. we continue to seek and we haven't seen it in the biden administration, or incoming biden administration yet, so i think as a whole the nominee's that they put forward have done well in the vetting process. i'm sure we'll get into the controversy around you at some point back, but how many people over the course of history have had to withdraw because they have had some situation where they failed to pay taxes on a household employee? it's all those types of questions that, they can be very, very uncomfortable conversations that the president's legal counsel has to have with people. .. go through a full character vetting, and this often times doesn't disqualify nominees but you need to do a full press vetting, a twi whether he or she is going to have said something counter to what your proposals might be were even more importantly , critical during the campaign, primaries can be very heated. in the case of the last two presidential elections there have been many many candidates and those candidates are teams and the unsuccessful candidate has people that end up in a successful administration . so there's really a financial vetting . there's a, for lack of a better word a rock 'n roll bedding that has to happen at the cabinet level which are all the conversations like is there any extramarital situation that we would be surprised about ? the one that stripped so many people up has been around household employees . which seems fairly obvious but it continues almost every four years to bite somebody in the process.r and then of course, the press vetting which is what uncomfortable questions are we going to have to answer as an administration about putting forward a nominee who may or may not have said something unflattering about our candidacy? that happened many times in the trump administration that the president has many cabinet officials, subcabinet officials who were not supportive of him inthe early days of the 2016 nomination . so it's really those three layers that you have to start with and the financial one typically comes first >> mo can jump in on this. >> what they're saying is the character vetting is an interesting one because the standards have shifted over the years . some of us areold enough to remember douglas ginsburg's supreme court nomination which was , which fell apart because of marijuana use. that is probably not a qualifying standard now . nanny gate has disqualified people in the past but if you softly say now that's probably okay. duis use to be disqualifying. it's unclear whether they are. what's interesting is in terms of the public statement vetting used to the speeches you give. and overall now of social media, in the world now 24 hour cable , people say and tweet and write a lot of stuff and i think the next horizon is what is disqualifying in all of this noise that is being generated every single day ? >> i was going to say, i think alot of it is disclosure .wh where people get in trouble in a world where donald trump has had the pen of twitter for four years at the highest office e, i think chris has pointed out which is agood one which is the standards have shifted as to what you can say and get away with a more . but at thesame time , people don't want to be surprised. and where you will run afoul in the coming administration is you haven't been honest about something. where you said you've paid all your employee taxes but you haven't. that's where it getsharder for others in the administration to defend a nominee . >> i would argue there's probably a fourth component to it. besides the three that you laid out sarah and that is the partisan one, the political one because on some of these things, someof these factors , which party controls the senate probably influences your strategy going back to what patty said in the introduction that this is a political process and you need to come up with a strategy around each of these nominees . continuing that with the case of mira tandon, if the democrats control the senate i'm not so sure that her past history of tweets wouldbe as big of a deal as if the he republicans are in control . so maybe chris, you can talk a little bit about how you develop that strategy of shepherding a nominee through the senate, factoring in who they are, their background and who controls the senate. >> i also think it's the shifting norms in the senate as well . last time an incoming president faced a set of another party was george bush 41. and i went back and i looked and i think nine out of the 10 or 11 nominees were confirmed either unanimously or had one number there was one dispute and it was the first time i cabinet member had defeated which was john cowher but that was largely for personal reasons asand then the person thatreplaced john howard was dick cheney who was confirmed unanimously so even if you look , that was 30 years ago.the u.s. senate is different but even if you look atpresident trumps nominee , we think a lot about the sessions nomination or the pruitt nomination which were pretty much party line votes but there were plenty of people, wilbur ross, sonny perdue, elaine chao confirmed by bipartisan margins. no matter what happens in georgia you're facing a closely controlled senate and the most important thing you have in the senate is floor time . and the minority or really any single senator has the ability to slow down your floor time and that's i think one of the challenges. every nominat

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george h.w. bush and president george w. bush. ronald reagan was kind of like my grandfather, and i used to disagree with him but i always felt guilty so i didn't really disagree with him very much. george. bush was like my dad and i disagreed with my dad and i would tell him i disagree with him and then i would feel really guilty and work really hard to make up for disagreeing with him. george w. bush was like my brother. hah! what are you thinking? what are you thinking! it was great conversation. so the context is very different. i did find president reagan could translate complicated things into simple ways to understand them. he was a great communicator. even as we discussed tough issues in the oval office. george h.w. bush was a phenomenally respectful listener, and he invited everyone to speak candidly and he would look at you and listen and listen and listen and digest, and then meet with governor sununu, brent scowcroft and form his opinion. george w. bush was very disciplined as a decision maker. he was the first president that had an mba, and i watched him have a structure to his decision process. so it was a privilege to work with him because he was very disciplined, and i w

george washington did, and it was also a different time by the late 1790's, as george washington knew when he got out of politics. but john adams also brought quite a bit of trouble on himself. in the first meeting of the senate in 1789, adams was vice president at the time, recommended the president's title be his highness the president of the united states and protector of their liberties, and he really believe -- believed the united states would not be respected if it's leader did not seem a little bit like its king. george washington said no, that is not a good title. people remembered this proposal when john adams became president, running for the president, and during the election of 1796, benjamin franklin's grandson who ran a newspaper dubbed adams his rotund ity. more importantly, adams continued pro-british policies, which brought internal division within the united states. france startedy, insisting the united states needed to decide if it was a an -- if it was france's enemy or france's ally. in response, congress cut off trade with france, and authorized american ships to seize french ships. congress is controlled by federalists. the american people, many of them, criticized this assault on france. many americans considered france a natural ally of the united states, rather than britain, where it had been its opponent. john adams responded to criticism of his policies. his administration pushed through a is of alien and sedition acts in 1798. the alien acts included the naturalization act of 17

george, george, where you make a mistake is that people coming from the liberal side like you, you immediately say everything's a lie instead of saying there's two sides to everything. historically what would happen, if i thought there were fraud, you would interview someone else -- now you insert yourself in the middle and saying the absolute fact i'm saying is a lie. >> i said what the president was lie -- hold on a second. he said the election was stolen. this election was not stolen. the results were certified in every single state. after counts and recounts. >> you're saying that absolutely -- you're saying there was no fraud. it's all been investigated. that's not true. >> it's not what i said, sir. i said the department of justice found no evidence. let me finish my point. >> you said we're all liars. you're simply saying we're all liars. >> i'm saying it was a lie that the election was stolen. >> let's talk about the specifics of it. in wisconsin, tens of thousands of absentee votes had only the name on them and no address, historically those were thrown out, this time they weren't. they made special accommodations. because, oh, it's a pandemic. they forgot what their address was. they changed the law after the fact. that's wrong, that's unconstitutional. i planning spending the next two years going around to stastate state, i won't be cowed by liberals in the media who say there's no evidence here and you're a liar if you talk about election fraud. let's have an open debate. this is a free country. >> there's no widespread voter fraud that was led by department of justice, by president trump's attorney general -- >> even that's not true. even that's not true. that's not true. >> william barr said that directly. >> yes, he said that, yes, that was a pronouncement. there's been no examination, thorough examination of all the states to see what problems we had and see if they could fix them. now, let me say, to be clear, i voted to certify the state electorals because i think it would be wrong for congress to overturn that. at the same time, i'm not willing to sit here and say, everybody on the republican side is a liar and there's no fraud. there were lots of problems and secretaries of state who illegally changed the law and that needs to be fixed and i'm going to work hard to fix it. i won't be cowed by people who say, oh, you're a liar. that's the problem with media. all republicans are liars. there are two sides to every story. don't insert yourself into the story to say we're all liars. >> sir, there are not two sides to this story. this has been looked at in every single state. >> sure they are. there are two sides to every story. george, you're forgetting who you are as a journalist if you think there's only one side. you're inserting yourself into the story to say i'm a liar. because i want to look at election fraud and i want to look at secretaries of state who changed the laws -- it happened. you can't just sweep it under the rug. nothing to see here. everybody's a liar. you're a fool if you bring this up. a journalist would hear both sides. >> i'm standing by facts. there are not two sides to facts. i said the results were certified. i said it was not stolen. >> people are liars. you're saying people are liars if they want to investigate what happened in the election. >> that's not what i said. >> tens of thousands of absentee ballots didn't have addresses on them, normally disqualified but this time they were counted. i have an open mind. if we examine this and -- it should be fixed. >> there can be more investigations. the investigations that have taken place there's not enough fraud to change the results. stat

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george clooney who's the star. he says let's call george clooney and ask him to come. he says, do you get it? e.r.? >> here's what's he didn't get, they are watching e.r. on tnt in reruns. georgeoney had not been on the show for years. he's already doing ocean ten, 11, 12, 14, 15. i tried to explain re-runs and he said, we need to take george clooney. i said i don't know george clooney. i don't have him in my rolodex. to make a long story short, the man who produced all the ocean movies was a guy who has since died, and president bush, i'm telling him about the ocean movies, he says i think why trump did those ocean movies. he called him and george clooney came. i was sick as a dog. did i go? yes, i did. because we had to send a plane, his one requirement was that we sent a plane. i don't blame him. they stopped in houston, we picked clooney up. and off we go to louisiana. here's the one huge mistake, there is no picture with me and george clooney. and coming home, my ears had totally stuffed up. before they stepped up, i asked him why he did this. you don't know him. you don't know us. this obviously isn't political, but you're not exactly a republican. his answer was, i was

george clooney who is the star. he says let's call george clooney and ask him to come. he says you get it, "er," er. here is what he didn't get. they're watching "er" on at any time in reruns. georgeooney is doing "ocean 10." i said, sir, i tried to explain reruns and tv. i said, i don't know george clooney. i don't have him in hi role index. the man who produced all the ocean movies, i was telling him about the ocean movies. he's no longer on "er." he called jerry and george clooney came. and i was sick as a dog. did i go? yes, i did. [ laughter ] because we had to send a plane -- george's one requirement was we send a plane. i don't blame him. we found a plane. they stopped in houston. jerry came, picked president bush and me up. and off we go to cameron, louisiana, the two cutest georges i've ever met in my life. here the one huge mistake. there's no mistake with me and george clooney. and coming home, my ears -- before they stuffed up, i asked him why he did this? i said, why would you do this? you don't know him. you don't know us. this obviously isn't political. but you're not exactly a republican. and his answer was, i was so impressed that he wanted to do this. cameron, lo

when he was reelected in 2008 with barack obama again another huge shift i'll never forget when george w. george w. bush after taking part in the inauguration got on marine one as we saw donald trump do earlier in the day took off and people were cheering because they were so happy to see him gone so i there are a lot of parallels to past inaugurations past moments like this where there's calls and hopes and aspirations for unity but then rail politic quickly takes hold and there needs to be again if there's no political benefit if you're not going to see any benefit in your electorally there's. very little reason to reach across the aisle ok we're going to continue our conversation in just a moment i just want to welcome our viewers that are just joining us so you're watching the w. news live from berlin joe biden has been sworn in as president of the united states amid tight security in washington d.c. the crowd was limited because of the year raging pandemic in the united states while in his inaugural address president biden called for unity that there was much work to do much to repair and a

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george and then wilson meets with floyd george and that is when the delay is announced for a week. april 6th and seventh comes, that's a day before daniels gets back from italy. the british kind of blow it. they are like, we can't wait for the sky to come back, we really need to know now if you are going to stop your navel building plan, it is key and essential. we need to come up with our budget. wilson goes, promised me you will join that lead. and they say no. we can't make that promise. wilson threatens to leave the conference. can you imagine? the president of the u.s. is going to storm out of the conference and go home. and just kind of a these idiots to their faith in europe and build the world's biggest tv. daniels returns the next day and the meetings resume. daniels tells wilson, britain is trying to dictate naval manners in order to control all the commerce on the seas. they want to limit the american economy and limit the ability to do business overseas in open markets, according to the policy of the open-door. an economic policy of open markets for the entire world. he tells tied to daniels. daniels is a big fan of trade and open markets. he says to wilson, well he traced to meet daniels at a train station, i call this the altercation at the station. it is not going to be a protest, it will be between the first sea lord and secretary of the navy daniels. he ambushes daniels at the train station, like a paris metro station. before the meeting, well when long gets there he proposes to daniels that a halt in the evil construction for the uk was what they need. that they will agree to support the lead if we do that. kind of, you put your cards down at the same time as we do and we will all be friends. and so they agree to meet regularly on naval matters. i imagine all this took place is that daniels was at that train station, the british animal shows up and starts to badger him. daniels is starting to get upset. and then the first lord of the admiral's comes up and says, wait a second, i think we can resolve this like gentlemen. what's not on the slide is that wilson told daniels, you will get them to agree to the league of nations or else. he knows he has the authority of the president to make a deal. another thing they agree to, not only will we agree to halt the naval construction on these battleships, not only will they agree to slow down, cut it back, they will also agree that we are going to meet regularly annually on evil matters. this naval committee, we are going to turn into a semi permanent thing. it's not part of the leak of nations, it's an anglo american committee that is going to meet. sometimes the french will come, sometimes italians. i'm the guy that is not at the table for all this is the japanese. but they are more than happy to support the british position. instead of inserting themselves into the process by demanding an american process, -- they will think japanese are trying to influence the british and that will make the u.s. more intransigent. so the japanese delegation is in the background and they really finesse the situation to the best of their situation. it's a very racist country, there are bills being packed cast in here the u.s. that are pulling chinese and japanese kids out of schools and putting them in separate and equal situation that african americans are in. the u.s. is not a place that u ships. there is only a couple of ships are left at our damage not showing up. they go over to chesapeake bay and it comes for not a clear day that. is like a battleship left over. the league of nations ironically gets great britain to sign on to the lead but the senate refuses to ratify and so the united states does not join week. and when that happens in 1920 than evil are's race it's mostly is between japanese the americans. the american legislation against japanese schoolchildren in the u.s., particularly california -- at one point in time california was that way about u@.tgasian americans. among other xlmho7+9$(lc@&h so that arms race begins in 1920. britain decides that the united states is just going to have to be living. with them it's the signal that we are not going to fight you guys. and with that, we got a new administration. but everybody that it is not going to solve anything, we still have an arms race and how do we stop. it this time the americans will invite everyone to d.c. to constitution hall which is just across the street from the vietnam war memorial if you've ever been to the d.c. if you've ever seen it. they all gather around a table and the united states will offer to limit armaments so that the united states and great britain will both be equal in terms of the size of the navies. maybe that is a luxury that we could do in a year or two for the naval treaty. that's the aftermath. to wrap up, this is an example of something that everybody thinks has solved the major problem but it's really just kicking the can down the road. and so the naval battle of versailles, it looks like the british have won, they have not. they have only delayed the united states plans to build a navy every bit as bake as great britain. and far more modern in terms of its designs. that navy, the united states for example, one of the first things they do is look at the british royal navy's record during the war, particularly when ships were blowing up, how they performed against the submarines. how the germans breeds performed an american scow. the german damage control and designed warships and britain brought it to the united states, and used as their bases for building american ships. not british designs. so the damage control doctrine in the united states is german damage control doctrine. because german ships did better in terms of damage control than british ships. so versailles is just one of those things that it seemed like it accomplished a lot. but it accomplished very little. and there were outstanding issues that still had to be resolved and wouldn't be resolved for several years to come. with that i'm finished. and i'm ready to take questions. >> thunderous applause for all of you online. you can barely hear me talk because of the thunderous applause. all right. camille. >> john we will give it a few more seconds. again we encourage everyone if you are watching on our youtube stream or facebook, don't be shy, we're ready for the questions. all right. here comes our first one. what did you mean about -- in regards to boy george. >> lloyd george was a pugnacious watchman. he was a competitive guy. if you read anything about lloyd encourage he's the perfect guy to having control in a war. ruthless. uncompromising. so i use the word rascal may be pregnancies is a better word. maybe uncompromising is a better world but he could be very emotional and very ruthless. and he was certainly underwriting the attitudes of the -- admiral williams as well as the first board of the admiralty, walter long. >> our next question. in terms of relative expenditure, how did the 1916 navy act compared to the two ocean navy act of 1940. >> the two acts are very, very similar. of course the two ocean navy act will dwarf the 1916 act. it is probably the biggest naval building act in the mid history of mankind. the navy that gets built by that act is going to be a navy that is over 6000 warships. as a reminder to the audience, the united states has 280, 282 warships today. so at the end of world war ii it had something over 6000 wars

george w. bush, because few people are less ordinary than george w. bush. he's born to a millionaire. his father has a brief electoral career in elected politics, but an extended career -- george w. bush still sees him that way. did any of the other memoirs you read tell that same story up ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances? >> richard nixon did. he definitely stressed how he was an ordinary person. dr. kastor: jacob, were you -- >> i agree with thomas, but to an extent, i think there was an arrogance with his riding, some line like people don't really care about that, so i feel like it was almost he was part of the greater being and he was ready for this role because he was above everybody else. i don't know if that comes off as -- i don't think he might have not thought of himself as ordinary. >> his policies or successes, i'm not sure about early life kind of thing. dr. kastor: sure, but doesn't this also confirm how david gergen described nixon? do you remember? really smart, socially inept, full of himself. it radiates from the memoir. nixon definitely thought he was the smartest guy in the room. gary hart, who ran for president once said when he got elected t

george washington -- george bush asked him to head the search committee. only mine went on the. list so i did get the job, move to d.c., and boy i worked in the clinton white house at the end of the second term, after that i started this interest in food, writing and that led to the publication of soul food, and then to this. book now what i love about the roosevelt presidency is that it has been found in my. book we have these african americans who are celebrated culinary artist doing their best to make the presidents happy. through food and first family as well. and usually it's the first lady and presidential physician who's saving the president from himself. then we have african americans caught in the middle. so it's interesting personality. so what i'm going to do is primarily focused on three personalities from the roosevelt administration. one is a guy named alonso fields. another woman was named lizzy mick duffy who was primarily a made in the roosevelt administration but she also did a lot to help cook in the food service. and then daisy, who would cook for fdr when he would stay for long periods of time in georgia. the way that i organize this book is because i'm dealing with so many people, eventually found 150 people who have cooked from our presidents, from george washington the current administration. so i finish my book during the obama administration but there are holdovers from the obama administration that came out in the trump white house. and i found 150 people. and i decided that the best way to tell the story was to create different categories of these cooks. and then tell those stories. so i start up with the ingredients of presidential food waves as i call them. all of the things that are creative interplay for the food place in the white house. and then i started out with a used to be called the presidential steward. so really the people that were in charge of all the domestic operations of the white house. neither called the chief attributing the earliest as they were called the early steward so they would do the shopping, they would play the, menus they would oversee all operations. and then i move to the enslaved people who cooked in the white house for our presidents. a lot of our presidents have been sleep holders. then i talk

george bush, george h. w. bush, bill clinton and barack obama presidential history programs. she also directs the oral history project. she served as a u.s. supreme court fellow for chief justice william rehnquist, and has worked for both republican and democratic members of the united states senate. her books include 42, inside the presidency of bill clinton. 41, inside the presidency of george h. w. bush. rose kennedy, the life and times of a political matriarch. jacqueline kennedy, the first lady in the new frontier. edward kennedy, an oral history. and the priestly tribe, the supreme courts image in the american mind. we welcome doctor perry to the program. just as a quick reminder, we will have time for questions from the audience at the conclusion of our program. if you do have questions for doctor perry, please type them in and we will get to as many as possible at the conclusion of the program. welcome, barbara. >> thank you so much. thanks for that lovely introduction. thank you to stewart as well for his superb leadership of this wonderful association. i am proud to be a member. i have over my shoulder today might john f. kennedy christmas ornament that comes with membership. i cannot wait to put it on my christmas tree this coming season for the holidays. thank you as well to luke and robert who are helping us with the technology in putting this program together, a

george bush -- george w. bush signed it with great pride in 2006, the bill for 2007. so, it was bipartisan in every way. now not. as far as police reform is concerned, our george policing act is something that we hope would be able to not only pass the house again but also pass the senate. it is calibrated to get the job done. it is fair. it is respectful. karen bass did a beautiful job putting it together, working with cory booker and kamala harris in the senate but with our congressional black caucus over here. so, we think it's the appropriate calibration and has to happen. when the bill was brought up on the judiciary committee, the family came. george floyd's family came. and they asked me -- i greeted them, and they said, madam speaker, will you name the bill for our brother because his daughter needs to know. and i said, i will only name it for george floyd if you think it is worthy of his name. and they did. and we're proud of it. and we hope that it will go. george floyd, breonna taylor, say her name. we carry these people in our hearts. it's so heartbreaking. again, there are many police officers -- people in blue who do their jobs very well, but the

george catlin. george catlin will go up the missouri river the year before max and bodmer will. they will meet a lot of the same people. they will stay in the same villages. they will paint the same people. it is interesting and instructive to compare those things. the chief of the indians, this is george catlin's portrait of him from 1832. it is very clear from catlin's diary and max and bodmer's diaries that he decided what kind of access you got to his people and his life. he was a little annoyed by catlin, thought the gifts were kind of bogus, rolled his eyes and put up with it, but he really liked max. and as a result, when bodmer paints him also in that very same sort of stance that you expect, it is an imperial stance. if you go back through european art, the idea of a monarch standing with a full-length spear or holding a flag or a command and control gesture, it is designed to convey that sense of power and privilege and access. but he will also use bodmer's paints and paint a watercolor of himself defeating a cheyenne indian chief. and it is a drawing he will give to max. and he will also paint that vignette right here on the robe that outlines his exploits that he will give to max that is now in the collection in germany. and he well invite them to stay for the winter and gi

george w. bush, because few people are less ordinary than george w. bush. he's born to a millionaire. his father has a brief electoral career in elected politics, but an extended career -- george w. bush still sees him that way. did any of the other memoirs you read tell that same story up ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances? >> richard nixon did. he definitely stressed how he was an ordinary person. dr. kastor: jacob, were you -- >> i agree with thomas, but to an extent, i think there was an arrogance with his riding, some line like people don't really care about that, so i feel like it was almost he was part of the greater being and he was ready for this role because he was above everybody else. i don't know if that comes off as -- i don't think he might have not thought of himself as ordinary. >> his policies or successes, i'm not sure about early life kind of thing. dr. kastor: sure, but doesn't this also confirm how david gergen described nixon? do you remember? really smart, socially inept, full of himself. it radiates from the memoir. nixon definitely thought he was the smartest guy in the room. gary hart, who ran for president once said when he got elected t

george bush, george w. bush, 189 pardoned 11 clemency's and commutations, and bill clinton, 396 pardons, 61 commutations. you look, historical terms, donald trump falls way short of his predecessor, in either granting pardons or commutation of sentences. everyone will have their own opinion. the president has the ultimate power, and, you know, in a week's time, nobody will even remember this. bill clinton pardoned a member of his family, his brother, roger, for drug offenses. if we go back in history, we will see, as president leave office, they have a history of either granting or giving commutations of sentences to very controversial figures. >> marianne: brad, also, wanted to talk about the fact that it sounds like he was strongly discouraged from pardoning himself or anyone in his family. talk about that, and why that is important, something that he may be should have done. >> well, the reason being, when you grant a pardon, the person receiving it is basically admitting they've done something wrong. the question is, what has the president, if you were to do that, having to admit to? that he did wrong in order to receive a pardon. so, it is a double-edged sword. you know, it's never been done before. it could've been challenged. the ultimate authority of the president -- it would set a dangerous precedent if you were to do it. i think he made the right choice, he not only himself, but his family. i don't think there's any need to, and i think that is what the lawyers argued to the president, that there is no need, so why do it? >> marianne: yeah, we are looking at the list that just came out of all the pardons that he did grant. a name that stands out that is not on the list, julian's launch, a name people were discussing us potential, you know, someone he could potentially pardon, but that looks like that did not happen. what are your thoughts on that? >> well, again, i think it was a lot of lobbying back and forth because that had been floated before, and i think a lot of senators up on the hill, including, perhaps mitch mcconnell being the most vocal, that the president should not do that. and let's remember that the president is still in jeopardy. and needs the senators, especially republicans, in his corner, as we go into the next phase of impeachment, which is a removal trial, in the sense. >> marianne: anything else that stands out to you about the names on the list? anything else that you think is important for people to note? >> no, i think a lot of these names had been floated. i don't see any name on this list that is striking. i think, tomorrow, certainly monday morning quarterbacks are going to be either in favor of what the president has done or not, but the president is not unlike other presidents, who, as the exit office, exercise their ultimate authority, which rests with the president, to do these kind of acts. pardoning, forgiving crimes, and usually done for three reasons: humanitarian reasons, personal reasons, and politics. people will opine on it, and it will be just part of history. >> marianne: well, it seems you are reading that list, those names that are on the list, they must be celebrating right now, a lot of these 11th hour pardons. what do you think of those people are thinking right now as they are receiving the news that they have been parted? >> well, it is a huge relief, having been forgiven for crimes, basically -- the record is they had done something wrong, but there is no consequence anymore for those crimes. same thing, you know, commutations of sentences. you still have the saying of a criminal conviction, but you are forgiven the time that you need to serve punishment. there is a reason why the founders did this, given the president broad power to exercise as he sees fit, for humanitarian, personal, or political reasons. and presidents have done it judiciously, some more than others, but not without controversy, nonetheless. >> marianne: so, you know, we are just getting word of all of these pardons. we've got 73 presidential pardons and 70 commuted sentences, for a total of 143. does that seem -- i know we talked about this earlier -- but does that seem pretty normal, as far as presidential pardons go? >> oh, absolutely. i mean, the present is right, historically, in the same category for his time in office as the president. bill clinton, 396 pardons, 61 commutations of sentences. some very controversial figures, including domestic terrorists, his brother, and of course, mark briggs, who defrauded the government in his taxes, so every president faces the controversy of who he pardons and why he pardons them, or why he commuted the sentence, and again, everybody will have an opinion, but nobody can change with the president has done. >> marianne: brad, anything else that you want to add that you think is important? >> no, again, i think tomorrow there will be a flood of experts who will either find fault or favor in what the president has done. i would urge people to read about the information behind with the president has done before they form an opinion, but the president -- this is less than 1% of the total number of applications that the president has received. over 10,000 in his term of office. so it's the power that all presidents exercise judiciously. >> marianne: how about the pardoning of steve bannon? was not a surprise? >> you know, it was a surprise, to me. bannon has been less than helpful, at times, to the president, yet the president found mercy in what steve bannon had been faced with. steve bannon, of course, was indicted, but he hasn't been tried yet. this could be a big relief to steve bannon, and it shows that the president remembers the good the people have done, not necessarily the bad. >> marianne: does this presidential pardon then mean that everything goes away for steve bannon? as if it never happened? >> correct. the pardoning excuses federal crimes and expunge the records come up with the fact is, steve bannon had done something wrong, in order to receive a pardon. and with a commutation of a sentence, the record still stands in the criminality, but the forgiveness is in the time needed to be served. >> marianne: got it. and one last thing i wanted to ask, not sure if you're familiar with this name, but there was a name being thrown around, the tiger king, and we were told that possibly he was standing via, waiting to find out if he was on this list, and it does not look like he is on there, joe exotics, you see him right there. is that a surprise to you? >> no i think, again, it's going to be interesting to see what the president said, if anything, beyond the actions taken. so, people may have to read between the lines to figure out why people -- some people were pardoned or given commutations of sentences, while others were not. but it is truly speculation, because only the president knows. >> marianne: all right, yes, that is true. we just got this list a few minutes ago. brad blakeman, thank you so much for all your insight into these pardons. we appreciate you joining us. brad blakeman, former deputy assistant to president georgebush. and if you're just joining us, president trump just issuing thousands of pardons and commutations. they included his former chief strategist, steve bannon, among other notable names that were not unexpected. we will have more on this as the day goes on. thanks for joining us, and for now, back to "hannity," already in progress. >> sean: scheme behind closed doors with your buddy, chuckie schumer. every republican in the senate, let me be more clear.nno not one republican senator should be wasting a second of precious time, you are off half the year anyway, on this post presidential impeachment charade. every republican senator needs to walk out of what will be an impeachment schiff show, probably romney, sass, and murkowski will stay, and when it's over, republicans should walk back inn and acquit the president of the united states, or former president at the time, and stop the unconstitutional schiff show. and mitch, if the choice, to be frank with you, is weak, establishment re

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george. and then wilson meets with lloyd george and that's when the delay is announced for a week. well, april 6th, 7th comes, and that's the day before daniels gets back. april 6th from italy. and the british kind of blow it. they're like, hey, we can't wait for this guy to come back. we need to know now if you're going to stop your naval building plan because it's key and especially essential. we're trying to come up with our budget. wilson goes, promise me, you'll join the league. they go, no, we can't make that promise and wilson threatens to leave the conference. can you imagine the president of the united states is going to storm out of the conference and go home and kind of abandon these idiots to their fate in europe. well, daniels returns the next day and the meetings resume, all right? and daniels tells wilson, you know, britain is trying to dictate naval matters in order to control commerce. in other words, britain wants to control all of the commerce on the seas, they want to limit the american economy and they want to limit the american ability to do business overseas in open markets according to the policy of the open door which is an economic policy of open markets for the entire world. so he tells that to daniels. daniels is a big fan of trade and open markets. so he goes to wilson. wemyss tries to meet daniels at a train station. i've called this the altercation at the station. we didn't have a celebration at the station this year. what we're going to have is an altercation at the station and it's not going to be a protest. it's going to be between the first sea lord admiral wemyss and secretary daniels. he ambushes daniels at the train station and before the meeting with the british first lord of the admiralty long. well, when long gets there, he proposes to daniels that a halt in naval construction for the uk is what they need. and they will agree to support the league if we do that. kind of you put your cards down at the same time we put our cards down and we'll all be friends, right? and so they agree to meet regularly on naval matters. i imagine how this took place was that daniels was at the train station, the british admiral shows up, moves in on him, starts to badger him. daniels is starting to get upset and the first lord of the admiralty comes up and says, just a second, i think we can resolve this like gentlemen. what's not on the slide is the fact that wilson told daniels you're going to get the british to agree to a league of nations or else. daniels knows he has the authority of the president to make a deal. another thing they agree to is they agree not only will we agree to halt the naval construction on these battleships, not only will they agree to -- or slow down the naval construction or cut it back, but they'll also agree we're going to meet regularly, annually on naval matters. so this naval committee, we're going to turn it into a semipermanent thing. it's not really a part of the league of nations. it's really an anglo-american committee that's going to meet. sometimes the french will come. sometimes the italians will come. the guy that's not at the table for all of this, of course, is the japanese. but they're more than happy to support the british position. but instead of inserting themselves into the process by also commanding the americans halt it, they figure, well, if we do that, the americans will really get pissed because they'll think that the japanese are trying to influence the british. so they're in the background here and they really kind of finesse the situation to the best advantage. at this time, america is a very, very racist country. there are bills being passed in california and other western states that are pulling japanese and chinese school children out of the schools and putting them in the same situation that african-americans are in. the united states is not a place that wants to hear that the japanese are telling the americans to stop building ships. the final solution, he's going to sacrifice the freedom of the seas because the league of nations will guarantee that. and naval parity for -- with great britain for the league of nations and that becomes the deal. great britain will become a charter member of the league of nations. the aftermath, the german fleet problem is kind of in the background the whole time. the german solve that problem for everybody by scuttling the fleet. all of the arguing about who gets what ships, there's only a couple ships leftover. one of them is an old battleship damaged by a mine coming back from jutland. they tow her over to chesapeake bay and a hack named mitchell sinks her on a clear day without a crew. the league of nations, ironically, the united states gets britain to sign onto the league but the united states said it refuses to ratify the treaty of versailles and so the united states doesn't join the league. when that happens in 1920, the naval arms race starts again. although, it's mostly between the japanese and the americans. in fact, there's a war scare in 1920 because of american legislation against japanese and japanese school children in the united states. particularly in california. at one point in time, california was that way about asian-americans, among other things. so that arms race begins in 1920. britain decides that the united states is just going to have to be lived with and so they agree to let their treaty with japan lapse. that's a concession that the americans had not asked for but that the british give them. sort of a signal, hey, we know we're not going to fight you guys, right? and with that, we get a new administration. but everybody realizes, versailles didn't solve anything. we still have a naval arms race. how do we stop it? and this time, the americans will invite everybody to washington, d.c., to constitution hall which is just across the street from the vietnam war memorial. if you've ever been to washington, d.c., that's where it is. and they'll all gather around a table at constitution hall and the united states will offer to limit armaments and reduce armaments so that the united states and great britain will both be equal in terms of the size of their navies. and maybe that's a lecture we can do here in a year or two for the washington naval treaty. that's the aftermath. okay. to wrap up, this is an example of something that everybody thinks has solved a major problem but it's really just kicking the can down the road. and so the naval battle of versailles, which it looks like the british have won, they haven't. they've only delayed the united states' plans to build a navy every bit as big as great britain. and far more modern in terms of its designs. that navy of the united states, for example, one of the first things they do is they look at the british royal navy's record during the war, how ships were blowing up up at jutland, how they performed against submarines and the americans go and get the german damage control and design doctrine for warships and bring that back to the united states and use that as their basis for building american ships, not british designs. so the damage control doctrine of the united states navy today is german damage control doctrine because german ships did better in terms of damage control than british ships. so versailles is just one of those things that it seemed like it accomplished a lot, but it accomplished very little in that there were outstanding issues that had to still be resolved and would not be resolved for several years to come. with that, i'm finished and i'm ready to take questions. thunderous applause for all of you online. you can barely hear me talk because of the thunderous applause. >> john, we're going to give it a few more seconds. again, we encourage everyone, if you're watching on our youtube stream, if you're watching on facebook, don't be shy. we are ready for the questions. all right. here comes our first one. a little bit of humor behind this one, i think, it asks, what did you mean about rascally in regards to lloyd george? >> well, lloyd george was a pugnacious welshman, he was a combative guy. he's the perfect guy to have in control in a have in control in. ruthless, uncompromising, okay? and i use the word rascally, you know, maybe pugnacious is a better word, maybe uncompromising is a better word. but he could be very emotional and very ruthless, and he was certainly underwriting the attitudes of the first lord admiral and the first lord of the admirety walter wong. >> our next question, in terms of relative expenditure how did the 1916 navy act compare to the two ocean navy act of 1940. >> yeah, the two acts were very, very similar. of course the two ocean navy act will dwarf the 1916 act. it's probably the biggest naval building act in the history of man kind. i mean the navy that gets built by that act is going to be a navy that has over 6,000 warships. the united states has 280, 282 ships today, warships, okay? so at the end of world war ii it had something on the order of 6,000 warships, all ri

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george, let's begin. i knew you and otherjournalists george, let's begin. i knew you and other journalists will georgenew you and otherjournalists will be interested what is happening in myanmar. let's stay with what we have for now on the front of the papers, starting with that story from the telegraph. 0ne deadline that the government has met and met with a comfortable margin is this one about vaccinating residents and care homes. yes. margin is this one about vaccinating residents and care homes. yes, this is extremely — residents and care homes. yes, this is extremely good _ residents and care homes. yes, this is extremely good news. _ residents and care homes. yes, this is extremely good news. there - residents and care homes. yes, thisj is extremely good news. there were obvious he tragically tens of thousands of deaths in care homes —— obviously. so, this is of great reassurance to the families of care home residents and to the country as a whole. and in general, of course, the vaccination roll—out is going very well. you had a record number really, 600,000 people, vaccinated in the 2a hours to

george catalan, and george catalan is going to go up the missouri river the year before max and wagner will, and they will meet a lot of the same people, and stay in the same villages and paint the same people, and so it is interesting and instructive to compare those things. matatopei is the chief of the badlands and this is the portrait of him, and it is clear from catalan's diary and max and wagner's diary that matatopei decided what access you got to his people. he was kind of put up with catalan and thought that his gifts were bogus, but he liked max. and so when wagner paints him, and when you go back to european art with the monarch standing of the full-length stance with a flag or a spear, or that gesture, it is designed to convey power and privilege and access. but matatopei is going to use the paints and paint a watercoloring of himself defeating a cheyenne indian chief that he will give to max, and then he will also paint that vignette right here on the robe that outlines his exploits that he will give to max that is now in the collection in germany. then he invites them to stay in the winter and give them access to the interior of the lodges and the people who hold the history of the mandan, and max and wagner's access to the mandan is unparalleled in depth. and so we are indebted to him and catalan, because in 1830, they7i0kçq are almost wiped out smallp smallpox. it came up on the steamboat they had used to come up to south dakota in the first place, and without their recordings and images, we would be the much poorer in terms of understanding how important this tribe was oif the fur trade, to the negotiations between the french, the british and the americans and the other indian tribes the along the upper missouri river. so georgecatalan pops up again with our friend mr. humboldt, because what catalan is going to do after 1830 when andrew jackson puts out the indian removal act, catalan is livid, and he is going to feel that this is going to be the wholesale destructive of american indian culture. and he will suggest that the site be set aside as one national park where the the indians and the bison can be left to their own devvices, and that doesn't take traction, and in fact, catalan is going to be thrown out of the white house for protesting the indian act, and so he is shooting himself in the foot when it comes to a time for them wanting to have a foot in politics. so what he does instead is to paint over 500 portraits of american indians, and he pulls together artifacts, and creates an indian gallery, and the portraits here are part of the indian gallery, but they play an important expedition, because these are iowa indians who sailed to europe, and bought by one of p.t. barnum's group to dance for catalan

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george h.w. bush and george bush i had respect for all of those presidents that cared about our country they honored our constitution and they executed the duties of their office consistent with the constitution and laws of our country that is not true of this president and therefore he ought to be removed and we have that opportunity to do so is there a little time left yes but it is never too late to do the right thing i yield back the balance of my time gentleman from maryland yale gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. at this point i'd like to get one minute to the gentleman from texas my good friend mr green gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. thank you thank you mr speaker i said i had tears to well in my eyes as i heard the story you and i know that hearts are hurting is a very sad time in the history of our country no one is celebrating. no one wants to see this occur i was at the rules committee by way of zoom i was there for the entire hearing those members on the other side this is something that they understand and they take seriously regardless of what's said i coul

george soros who only prosecutes about half the cases he likes criminals better than innocent people and a mayor who doesn't know how the police to arrest rioters ok well george soros would deny that and black lies about our people but little george soros deny that he's the major funder of black lives matter george soros can't deny the fact that he funded $27.00 just attorneys elections and elected total idiots his district attorneys who don't prosecute cases like criminals go free george soros is singularly responsible so that for the rise of the crime rate in philadelphia well of course george can have a city that i think and he tell you is the thing is we were talking about health care i mean now we know biden and trump both support fracking trump said he would reform health care there's never been a real reform of a revolutionary element from his now he's talking about drug pricing annoying the big pharma lovi simle taney asli he said he was going to replace the paris agreement nothing really came to pass in 3 an off night god comparison was terrible if you disagree no house china to pollute the world while we all sit around and have our economies beaten because most of your countries in europe suck up to china and we don't o