you know one of the end of the day is the war then you see the solar year the the george air force base. in the mojave desert in california now closed that i was added to the a.p.a. superfund list back in one nine hundred ninety you have to wait for this with jet fuel benzene tried chlorophyll lean lovely stuff to sides and radioactive waste had contaminated the groundwater around georgia have more space it was closed in ninety two they found out about there's a ninety still wait a few years to close. them but you know residents there are told news twenty one who did a lot of work on this story the job they drink gallons of gallons of water and it tastes a little metallic the chemical you know this is going to use or at oh it was in the middle it was hot you know i think it's maybe just a metallic smell from something and you know that was it's pretty it's pretty incredible i think it's one of those things that we have to look at because look if there are ignoring environmental laws or not cleaning up with any of that reasonable amount of time are they really going to do that the what s

a way that they exposed you to to chemical let it george air force base george air force this is a typical military installation they had open burn pits all around the base they had incinerators without air scrubbers we had a lot of children that grew up on shore to develop c o p t emphysema while they were in georgia didn't smoke their parents didn't smoke. in the southeast suppose later they had to redo work to waste sites ten of the red disposal site. just received documents that they dumped a fire fight in the home an innocent these lives later is important to remember that this was a quarter mile upstream of the supply wells then the water and base result was brackish and have tasted like it or he couldn't drink it. well error from what you say there is not much of an effort to compensate victims are people who have had their health affected by by the faith as but is there even an effort to clean it up or do anything to hold people accountable for the polluting oh the air force has spent about one hundred twenty million dollars papering the local regulators to death and in a court cas

george, and my grandfather was irvin. my father said he looks like sonny to me. i tried to change it in the air force and go by the legal name, but i never got comfortable with george purdue. steve: why the air force? secretary perdue: vietnam was boiling at that point in time. i was a patriot and believed that -- i saw my other peers going off to vietnam, and i believed i should do my duty in that way as well. i went to the school and wanted to do my patriotic duty, so i signed up for an early commission program. the deal was once i signed on that line, i belonged to the air force. they would do their best to let me finish school. i graduated in 1971 and had an obligation to serve at that time. steve: you played football. how good were you? secretary perdue: i was on the team. i was one of those young athletes who thought i was pretty good, and went to a differently where i met some world-class athletes. let's say i was not a starter necessarily, but did have the benefit of being on the team and meeting interesting people. we had to all-pro players on the field. one when on to play with miami. billy

george w. bush, we saw him with the photo that everyone remembers of him looking out of air force one at the damagen below which people thought made him seem detached from the destruction. and then logistically, his other failure was he had a fema administrator who was unprepared, underestimated the storm. so, i think the trump administration is certainly trying to learn from those mistakes. i mean, the president took his trip down there today. he made it clear it was important for him to get down there as soon as possible. he has a fema administrator, brock long, who is widely praised. he has a lot of history in emergency management. so it does seem like they are trying to turn the tide and make this work in their favor and do the right thing here. >> the president said -- >> hey, jim, if i could -- jim? >> sure, david, just quickly because i do want to get to the other david on the russia investigation. >> he wasn't in the hardest hit area and he shouldn't have been and he deserves credit for not going there. when a president travels, a lot of assets travel with him and they need all the assets f

air force and the f one formula one thing. lloyd it was a title well it kind of a thing the title is i wrote that when george died and i did michael george michael died and i didn't know what to do i was in the middle of writing songs i love writing and it's kind of saying i think we're all good people but we've all got crosses to bath in a and it's it's kind of saying that you know we feel sad but then there's a joy in it as well basically so i wrote it in tribute to him a world you know. it's one of those people that i don't know about. you have more life experience than i do but i think when the chips hit the fan so to speak i think you find out he friends are what you made of and i didn't have to see him all the time but when i when i was going to travel when i left the spice girls he was there for me when i had my first child i had nowhere to live he was there for me and also when i had you know music music to play and i wasn't sure where to go a place to jordan it was very honest with me you had a close relationship it was trouble or i think we can all be trouble i think in life you know i mean you've probably got a better v

air force and his time in georgia. he talks about his working relationship with president trump tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. on "q&a," thet lives of winston churchill and georgia well -- georgeell. we talk about the book, the fight for freedom. >> they never meant, but churchill read it twice and looked at. socialist, area real leftist all his life, admired churchill, and wrote that he was the only conservative that he admired. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." the constitutionality of compulsory union fees required by all public employees regardless of their membership was the focus of a discussion at the heritage foundation. speakers included the lead plaintiff in a 2016 supreme court case that resulted in a 4-4 ruling, as well as attorneys result -- into related cases the high court may agree to hear. this is about an hour.

george w. bush made when he floated above the new orleans flood at hurricane katarina because they actually didn't want his -- didn't want air force 1 to land because his footprint is so big it would have gotten in the way of the rescue and recovery efforts. of course president trump wanted to do that too. but he avoided the actual victims. he avoided showing any compassion toward the people who have died, including the police officer. and that was not good for his image. but he was just delighted to revel in the crowd, and talk about how -- gee what a great turnout as if everybody was there because of him. >> anita what stood out to you in his visits to corpus christi and austin. >> well part of the problem is he wanted to come really quickly. and so he wanted to come even before tuesday. the problem nonas you can't go to houston. you can't go where the victims are and where there is flooding right now. >> you can't get in the way of the recovery. >> he is on the streets not seeing victims. obviously he could have talked about them could have talked about the people who died, the police officer, all the problems, the evacuees. wh

george bush. and so, there is a realization that if you can use overwhelming air power you're going to be able to trip not only iraqui military forcesbeginning to be able to i vis race i rauk as a 20th century nation. >> you had 40 plus days of air war, and ultimately we began to run low on targets. >> president bush praises israel's continued restraint in the fast of last night's attack by i rauk with missiles landed on israel. >> hussein tried his damnest to -- >> amazing tel-a-viv this morning missiles attacks. eight missiles rived in the hyper tell vooef vooef -- tel-a-viv area, there was no warning of them. >> it took all of the diplomatic where with all of the president to keep -- out of the war. >> the coalition will give hussein until noon saturday. if he doesn't move his coalition, we're on the verge of evading evading iraq. >> colin powell believed in exerting maximum power on the ground, so you wouldn't be fighting a prolonged war, this will be quick, decisive. it became known as the pal low doctrine. >> the war started this morning as the americans and allies attacked with massive fire power that shook the earth. >> we'r

george washington in 1782 before he became the first u.s. president. originally the badge of military merit. alison: a military mom in arizona got what she has been waiting for, for air force sergeant shania porter just got back from the fifth overseas deployment and she decided to surprise her two sons. hey little guy. jonathan: that never gets old. alison: that is so great! that is blake who she surprised first. then she did it with the brother. he thinks they are video chatting and then he real iced -- real iced mom is 'sed of class -- realized mom is outside of class! >> to be in the air force and doing everything she does is a blessal. -- blessing. alison: that is her first deployment as a mother. it's so much work. nancy: you see how happy they were. her son running. sprinting. jonathan: we could do an hour so much down to watch. doug: i see them on facebook, it's like 10 or 15 minutes. if you are not crying, there is something wrong with you. jonathan: i love the mascot and throws the first pitch. doug: we got rid of the clouds. took all day but now it's gorgeous. there is still no indication of any hot weather coming our way anytime soon. the capital wheel in the f

george w. bush's big misstep when hurricane katrina hit, the perception that he was not paying attention, remember that infamous photo of him looking out at the damage from air forceh rima is really more a correlating agency and the local authorities played a big role in the actual consequences of the hurricane, it's important for the i present to seem in charge and they're on their way to doing exactly that. >> about less than a minute left and i got to ask your question. they've gotta lot lot of tested texas. about to say for an eastern or it seems surprising that if local officials have an ordered mandatory evacuations is that just a culture class or what? >> i was stunned to see if the congressman standing on the seawall in corpus christi with the winds blowing all around him disdain, well, this seawall has been here for a long time. i think it's astonishing. >> well, okay. that makes two of us. next step, we are going to go back lives it to texas for an update on the hurricane that is bearing down on the lone star state. >> texas is about to have a very significant disaster and we have to let people know that. >> it's a hurricane that's going to prove more da

george s patton said i was assigned to the third army. he brought his tanks up. they stopped the germans of the battle of the bulge. it was the air force but was accompanied -- not accompanied but a brigade, as eco--- college. they were the ones that stopped the battle of the bulge. i want to diverse from my conversation on that to get to general mcgee, a famous general. i also want to tell you that i happen to be a dunbar high school washington dc and in 1939, when i entered dunbar high school, my pack -- my captain was captain roscoe brown. he was a war hero. i want to tell you about roscoe brown. harry truman gave roscoe brown two clusters. roscoe brown had 100 and some chips from england as far as hungary. of course, roscoe brown did not win the confederate -- he was in the honor society. but i want to honor roscoe brown today. i want to honor him. he is the one who got harry truman to integrate the army. i am here to testify to that. i take my hat off to mcgee. i want to complement churchill for standing up. they were trying to surrender, but churchill went out of that. i want to complement another who leapfrogged in these japanes

members on air force one to the virgin islands where the president will spend a long weekend at the bay, the rockefeller resort. in the meantime i had been invited to join our friends george and kathleen bell on their 45-foot yacht. during the day the bell and i sail from island to island, swimming and snorkeling in the hidden bays. at night we anchor in the shelter of a cove and sleep on the boat. sunday afternoon bob and his assistant, larry higby, join us. bob is on call and the army signal corps will contact him via short wave radio if he's needed. he and larry are both eager to take turns skippering. and soon the five of us are flying along on a run with billowing sails. suddenly a lot of static and a garbled message comes over the radio. i make out the words search light, nixon's secret service code name and welcome, bob's secret service code name. bob tenses up. he considers a call from the president urgent and he asks george to return to the bay immediately. george reverses our court. the boat heels and we're doused with salt water. bob's fingers drum on the deck while larry's right leg nervously jiggles. when we enter the protective cove of the bay the wind dies.

george bush was. and you would think people know that simply because they remember it. back up enough people have questioned it. snopes has created a new page explaining the reason president obama did not fly air forceun louisiana after hurricane ka treene april hit was because he wasn't the president, wouldn't be for several years. snopes also says it suspects many 69 twitter users that claim obama was president at the time are actually russian bots. hey, you know who's not a russian bot? me. you can reach me on twitter. i'm @scott mcgrew. >>> 5:57 right now. we have a special treat for our viewers, our newest team member marcus washington will be singing the national anthem not one but two upcoming baseball games right here in the bay area. not his first rodeo, he sang the national anthem, the baltimore the orioles game just back in may. but let's take a listen. ♪ over the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave >> look at you. >> hit the note. that was the worst part. >> oh my gosh, you did. you played that moment everybody waits for. and markus and i were talking off camera on the commercial break, not sing, just talking, about how important 2 is to start at the right -- at the right note,

george bush was. you'd think people would know that simply because they'd remember it. but enough people have questioned it. snopes has create created a new page explaining the reason why president obama did not fly air forcetwoun louisiana for the hurricane katrina was because he wasn't president and wouldn't be for several years. snopes also says it suspects many of the twitter users claiming obama was president at the time are actually russian bots. while we examine the president's tweets and executive orders and speeches each morning on today in the bay, we'd like to hear from you. you can share your thoughts with me. i'm @scott mcgrew. >> sounds good. we've got a special treat for our viewers, our newest member of team today in the bay marcus washington is going to be singing the national anthem at not one but two upcoming baseball games right here in the bay area. not your first rodeo as well. he's got the pipes for. at thing an the national anthem before the baltimore orioles game back in may and we have a clip. >> say what? >> let's take a listen ♪ ♪. ♪ the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave >> that's awesome. >> play ball. >> look at that, a big wave to the crowd. >> very cool, markus. w

air force, army, and navy all wrapped up in one. we want to talk to the people about what they think about the president's speech. we begin, of course, with georgeyor of trenton. trump voter, big fan of the speech. rye? >> 100 percent because he is on point. everything he mentioned is 100 percent right. he didn't make any mistakes. he had advisors. so when he spoke to the people out there, who was in stone, his heart was in there to make america great again. and bring it to the public. the public will understand better. and you're always going to have your haters out there no matter what he does. and the president tries very hard. but you're going to have your haters. todd: let's talk about that advisor point for a moment. you mentioned you love the fact that the president listened to his advisors as a businessman. got the information. and now he is going to go forward with that plan. talk to me more about that. >> well, as a businessman, he don't know everything. he came into this green, basically you want to say he didn't know anything about politics. so he depends on the best. and you could just see the people that he went with are the best.