it's not going to be george mason but it's going to be people like nancy pelosi. mark: pelosi may be there but she won't be there for kansas. the problem now is we don't have any of those men or women on the supreme court or in congress or in any court and so those men and women who decided the constitutional convention and there needed to be a golf so i would encourage people to take this seriously, the article v. i know there's a lot of talk and fear-mongering but the difficulty is getting it done. when we come back i want to ask you about socialism. it seems to be very popular. new year, new bedroom save up to 15% on a cozy casper mattress wake up on the right side of the bed this year shop the new year sale with 15% off today at casper.com mark: walter williams let me ask you about socialism. bernie sanders is out there pushing socialism. they don't call it socialism because that word is not popular but that's what it is. free college, free health care they talk about scandinavia. the socialism. wealth and opportunity and success? >> we might start off with wh

virginia, one of the pivotal ratifying conventions, staring down the barrel of patrick henry and george mason. great figures in american history themselves folks who , oppose the constitution. it's a young marshall making strong arguments for why we need a stronger government. so at the urging of george washington, we have john marshall serving in congress. shortly thereafter, being asked to be secretary of state for john adams. during the adams administration, he plays a key role in negotiations with france, trying to dampen hostilities. these negotiations ultimately fail, but through this experience, he earns the respect of the american people. by john adamspon ultimately again to become chief justice, the fourth chief justice of the united states. let's reflect back on his legacy and we can all thank chief justice john marshall for being an important patriot and important statement in one of the greatest early jurists and constitutional thinkers in american history. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is

back here with jennifer make her our guests today from george mason university i just thought it was worth having a listen to that clip where talking about truths and misinformations and lies essentially because the fact that. american presidents have to stand up there and study that tells you i think everything you need to know about these last few years . in that sense it is it's remarkable that it needed to be said in that sense but it's also notable that he spoke of that whole phenomenon as truth alternatively when donald trump and his spokespeople would say you know it wasn't all that long ago that we heard i think it was kellyanne conway talk about alternatives without us right and facts and truth are not really the same thing facts can be open to interpretation and different sorts of perception but truth is a more absolute truth is a something that exists whether we perceive it or know it or not and so the fact that he is referencing something that is indisputable rather than trying to push one party or one person's perceptions on everybody else or to encourage people to see i

bill schneider is a professor of public policy at george mason university and he joins me now by skype from washington d.c. so mr schneider what's your reaction to these reports on this tape it's an outrage it's the president of the united states putting pressure on a public official to lie to cheat possibly to steal votes so that he can win the state of georgia which won't even give him enough votes to win the current the. only 16 electoral votes but it is still inappropriate public pressure on electric official it's an outrage because it's distain for democracy. we call it the stain that for a democracy what i mean what do you think of repercussions will be apart from a lot of people obviously being outraged by it as you why. it could very well spoil any chances that donald trump would have been elected in the future people will see him as a questionis figure someone who's totally describe yourself by this desperate attempt to stay in office in a way it's interesting because there were since some articles written about how developers big real estate developer slick chop operate they

one of the pivotal ratifying conventions staring down the , barrel of patrick henry and george mason. great figures but folks who oppose the constitution. at the ratifying constitution. it is a young marshall baking -- making strong arguments for why we need a stronger government. then we have john marshall serving in congress and being asked to be secretary of state for adams. administration, he plays a key during the adams role in negotiations with france trying to dampen hostility. these negotiations ultimately failed but through this experience, he earns the respect of the american people. then he is called upon by john adams again to become the fourth chief justice of the united states. as we reflect back on his legacy, we can only thank chief justice john marshall for being an important patriot an earlyant statesman, and jewish josh jurist and constitutional thinker in american history. -- early jurist and one of the earliest constitutional thinkers in american history. announcer: you can watch this or other american artifacts programs at c-span.org. we have this day met in exec

>> i will talk about one samantha parsons as an 18-year-old college student at george mason university heard the odd story about her friend's clique class and the economic's professor had said to the class, here is your textbook for the class, it's called global warming and echo miss. you want to debate global warming she said leave the class and don't come back. this is a university and how can a professor be saying that and she got together with other students and professors who had been wondering was donor money influenced what was being taught at george mason university and they were able to bring lawsuit and eventually pry open the donor agreements that turns out that charles and david koch had been funding the university under condition that is they got to choose what was taught and faculty members and this happened over decades and i put this in the story, this is someone who is 18 year's old and was able to start now a national movement is unkoch my campus with chapters all over the country and there's lots of stories that show one person or ten people can make a difference and

symptoms and which aren't says professor but on of a of the institute for by a health innovation at george mason university it must give you. must issue you see a girl late. thirty's the coastal chill out all use cold damp paper to look to get a large increase in the last known. last birthday is also push it out so it lasts a lot again used to say in the new update you know what would you most when you could you not. remember it doubles tallest. of them actually my favorite drive in the city i love this back road that goes up to my all the time. with 10000 people in the group by trade i still try to get to know as many of them and i can. and i do worry about them and i we did we did lose someone last month from her. it wasn't someone i interacted with often. but i just dread the day that. someone posts to me. i dread to think anyone. this minivan has already become popular in kansas city amanda removes the back seat and loads up with food to deliver it to homeless people and cope with long haul as today she's brought a toy for a family under lockdown it's lego with a father mother and 6 children

symptoms and which aren't says professor but on of a of the institute for by a health innovation at george mason university it. was just you see a girl late. thirty's the coastal little english church an old old cold damp but i looked again now i didn't use the last known. yet last birthday used also but it acts at last a lot again used to say it when you update your mostly wouldn't you look would you most when you could you not you just picked up just the paramedics it doubles tallest. of them actually my favorite dr and that the city i love the back road that goes up to my own apartment. with 10000 people in the group i try to. i don't really get to know as many of them like you. and i do worry about them and i we did we did lose someone last month. it wasn't someone i interacted with. but i just dread the day that. someone her history. i dread losing anyone. this minivan has already become popular in kansas city amanda remove the back seat and loads up with food to deliver it to homeless people and cove with long haul as today she's brought a toy for a family under lockdown it's lego with a f

let's bring in bill schneider who's a public policy professor at george mason university who's joining us from washington as well hi bill thanks for your time with us on out of his era let me just bring up one of the points that jen psaki was referring to in that press conference and she said that the president president biden wakes up and goes to bed thinking about one particular priority and that is be a coronavirus pandemic so looking ahead what is the challenge that biden is going to face when it comes to getting congress to back his 1.9 trillion dollars packets . well it's a big spending package and the republicans are likely to object but the fact is this is a national crisis that all americans recognize they lost patience with president trump because he really didn't have a national response or national policy to deal with covert even though it is a terrible problem that's affecting americans all across the country shop never really treated it as a national crisis has hit the ground running he insists it just is a national problem and he's going to have a national response and h

turner his or her studies at george mason and teaches race in history and american culture earning his master in divinity at the louisville presbyterian theological seminary his earlier books include brigham young published 2012 and mormon e-those published 2016 both by harvard university press and then as history intends to prevent those of programs and levels of oppressors and then went to war. where is a more complicated history we should have plenty of time for questions for q&a as they come to me will get to as many as possible. the floor is yours. >> thank you so much. so pleased to participate in this program at the historical society when my favorite places in the world the collections are so bad with courteous and knowledgeable was hard not to feel smarter on the portrait of the walls of the reading room and then to aspire and live up to a historian. >> so this evening will begin with a story about the legacy of the colony and it is from the town in plymouth quality quantity and it takes place in june 1675 has english soldiers and townspeople and reverend john miles miles had

the law and policy program at george mason university, good to see you.t senator murkowski says on impeachment, she says it's appropriate, quote, such unlawful actions cannot go without consequence and the houses responded swiftly and i believe appropriately with impeachment. i will consider the arguments of both sides and announce how i will voters nine gop senators signal support for the impeachment. does all of this coming down on both sides of the aisle trying to stop donald trump from holding office again because you would think people on both sides would want to get things accomplished in joe biden's first 100 days namely covid-19. >> they could bar donald trump from holding office if he is convicted of impeachment. it has happened twice, 21 impeachment total, 19 prior to donald trump's administration and of those 19 that have taken place 18 have been removed in two disbarred. a possibility they could take advantage of. another mechanism in the constitution under the fourteenth amendment section 3 where they could bar the president holding office fo

we will be hearing from john turner, a professor of religious studies at george mason university and teaches about the place of religion in american history and culture. he earned his master in divinity at the louisville presbyterian theological and phd in history from notre dame. his other books include brigham young, pine or profit published in 2012. and a biography in 2016 by harvard university press. he will present his book "they knew they were pilgrims: plymouth colony and the contest for american liberty". this history attempts to interrupt three prevailing stories of pilgrims, the brave refugees searching for religious liberty and the new land and that of oppressors who trade their native american allies, sold their land and went to war. it is a more complicated history than these narratives suggest. as they come to you and we try to get to as many as possible. professor turner, thanks for being with us. >> guest: thank you so much. this is one of my favorite places in the world to do research, so vast and rich, national, courteous and knowledgeable and it is hard not to feel

. >> martin showing his university professor at george mason university in fairfax virginia. he is the author of a world destroyed: hiroshima and its legacy which was a runner-up for the pulitzer prize in 1976. it has been in continuous print for 45 years in 2006 american prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of robert oppenheimer won the pulitzer prize for biography, national book critics circle award and severalother prizes . eric schlosser is an investigative journalist and author. he is the author of fast food nation: the dark side of the all-american meal and new york times bestseller list in 2001 and mostrecently command and control of nuclear weapons . the illusion of safety in 2013 and he's a former contributing editor at the. his current book "gambling with armageddon: nuclear roulette from hiroshima to the cuban missile crisis" has received rave reviews in the new york times and wall street journal, new yorker magazine and curtis review which selected as one of the best nonfiction books of 2020. it is alsothe topic of this evening to talk . join me in welcoming eric s

george mason for the fourth annual national justice teach-in.urch in dallas, texas. it reflected on the life and legacy of dr. king today. >> we have a lot of work to do to realize fully the dream that dr. king had, and we can do it. we can do it because we have people in this country who believe in seeing change, and we also are going to have to fight against those who are trying to hold on to something that >> the virtual teach-in also aimed to educate people about engaging in the social justice movement and the creation of public policy. >> recapping our top story of the night, that 4.2 earthquake in aromas, a few miles southwest of gilroy between watsonville and hollis ter. struck about 8:00 this evening. there were some after shocks, the strongest of which was 3 poip 0. people felt shaking and then a jolt. didn't last long but it's something you certainly will remember. rob remembers it because he felt it right here at the studio. >> and that seismograph. little accelerometers felt that brief but noticeable shake manager the studio. we had

convention was drafting part of the constitution that would soon become the presidential pardon power, george masonnequivocally oppose the provision saying that the president ought not to have the power of pardoning because he may frequently pardon crimes advised by himself host: askings morning about the founders in advance of our reairing of the capital documentary from 2006. [video clip] >> seeing the dome under construction by the tens of thousands of union soldiers that march through washington facing an uncertain future certainly gave them and instilled in them a sense of a continuation of the country. it was a symbol that wasn't lost on many, the great white dome was rising slowly above the capital and was a potent symbol of the future of a united country and it was seen as a sign of the successful outcome of the civil war, reuniting a country that had been torn asunder over the issue of slavery. >> on top of the symbol of unity is the statue of freedom. authorize before the war began but put atop the dome in december of 1863 while the war raged on. >> the most interesting part of my researc

. >> martin showing his university professor at george mason university in fairfax virginia. he is the author of a world destroyed: hiroshima and its legacy which was a runner-up for the pulitzer prize in 1976. it has been in continuous print for 45 years in 2006 american prometheus: the triumph and tragedy of robert oppenheimer won the pulitzer prize for biography, national book critics circle award and severalother prizes . eric schlosser is an investigative journalist and author. he is the author

and the development of artificial meat and tyler cowan who sort of follows all the stuff, the george mason economist had a run of pieces last week there was all what's going to happen on thursday? what's the next technological development? all of that if you just look at that you might say it might be the hinge moment. if you look at governmental responses, right, to sort of public systems political responses and so on to the challenges of covid, they look terrible. you do see, one, i'm curious if you agree with this or not but it does seem to be you see more commonalities between the failures in the u.s. and the failures in europe versus the relative success of east asia. to meet scene starts looking at the covid response you would say political decadence is unevenly distributed in the u.s. and eu in spite of all the differences have a lot in common and is less decadent in south korea, japan, taiwan and in its own way china. there is that and then there's just, i'm low bit of a demographic obsessive but it seems like the sort of covid accelerates a certain kind of retreat into virtual lif

commuting in he development of artificial meat and tyler cowen who sort of follows all this stuff, the george mason economist, had a run of pieces last week that was all -- what is going to happen on thursday? what is the next technological development? so all of that if you look at that and say might be the hinge moment but then if you look certainly if you look at sort of governmental responses, right, to sort of public systems, political responses and so on to the challenge of covid, they look terrible, and there you do see a sort of -- i'm tourous whether you agree -- seems to me you see a lot more commonalities between the failures and in the u.s. and the failures in europe versus the relative successes of east asia so to me seems like looking at the covid response you would say, deck depth -- political decadence is unevenly distributed and the u.s. and the eu inhave a lot in common and they're less decadence in south korea korea, taiwan, and china and there's that and then there's -- i'm a little demographic obsessive are but there is -- it seems leak the sort of covid accelerates a certain k

george mason university said it would cost workers $200 billion in payroll taxes which weighs heavilyr burden on lower income workers who have to pay it whether they take the benefit or not but we also know actually that the benefit itself is regressive. it is actually, when you look at actually who is actually taking the benefit, you realize it is a much larger share of higher income earners. reporter: she says most companies offer some sort of family leave but there is incentive to stop taking that cost on and have workers apply to the federal government to have them take it. it would be a cycle, more people taking federal help. government needs more money to pay for it that comes through, you guessed it, taxes. connell? connell: we did guess it. edward thank you, edward lawrence thank you. we'll watch the stimulus speech tomorrow from president-elect biden. another thing to point out today, chicago, teachers protesting public schools reopening by remote teaching outside the schools. the district docked pay for teachessers that failed to show up. 145 teachers have been marked absent

what they said, and this is george mason and others in philadelphia, is we need an impeachment mechanism that does two things. one, take someone out, removes them from office. but number two, sometimes we're going to want to disqualify them, a lifetime ban on future office holding. so it's both of those that are at play here. and even if you don't have the time to remove the president by next week, you have the ability to bar him and disqualify him from future office holding, which is i think more a statement about the rule of law than anything else. donald trump's never going to win an election for dog catcher again. but the point is we need to set the rules and what our red lines are. and you know, it's outrageous to me that republicans like jim jordan are saying oh, an impeachment process would be too divisive and destroy unity and stuff like that. i mean, listening to jim jordan talk about divisiveness is like asking david duke to run your implicit bias training. i mean, where was this guy for the last two months? he was out there saying there's election fraud and joining all of this

school science at george mason university is shahr school of policy and government and joins us from fairfax virginia it's great to have you with us on the knees are i'd like to explore where trump supporters are left now we're 4 days on from that instance on capitol hill we see republicans like patsy beer disavowing donald trump calling on the stand and fox news personalities have also been condemning the violence at capitol hill so where do you think supporters are left no because the part their party is starting their back on them so their conservative media channels. well unfortunately this group of extremists has then stand in a dying untruths for months now and in reality the trumpet ministration has been telling untruths about a great number of things around presidency and the result of all of the falsehoods is that there are now millions of americans who fully believe the claims that the president and others have been telling. the steps that some social media companies and others are taking to reduce the channels of communication between and that the more organized elements o

media outlets will only force them underground but at a fixer is professor of political science at george mason university she says social media bans can be effective in limiting the influence of extremist movements . group of extremists has ben stand a giant untruths for months now and in reality the trump administration has been telling untruths about a great number of things throughout the presidency and the result of all of the falsehoods is that there are now millions of americans who fully believe the claims that the president and others have been telling them the steps that some social media companies and others are taking to reduce the channels of communication between and that the more organized elements of these groups is a positive step i think it's unlikely to curtail the whole movement there's almost always ways to get around that last movement is quite wide at this point more than 100 members of the republican caucus in the house of representatives affectively voted with the insurgents not condoning their violence but certainly to their principles so what we are seeing is a severe

jennifer victor who is a professor of political science at the shot school of policy government at george mason university here in university and jennifer is going to be with us for us special courthouse which begins at the top of the next hour at $1600.00 g.m.t. but i want to take the opportunity to introduce you to now and get some initial thoughts jennifer this is the most cliched question i can ask you to get it out the way early how do you feel as an american today i ask that only because i know that they stayed the peaceful transfer of power is important it is symbolic and it is what we i mean we see it behind us there's really a mix of emotions i mean on the one hand to this day is historic and it needs to be celebre torrie and there are all sorts of norms and traditions that are really important for for making this the poignant moment that it is on the other hand you know it's we've never seen one like this before in our lifetimes there is no crowd here the last inauguration i was at was 12 years ago and there were literally millions of people crowded around this mall and now where ther

bring in sherry man who is an associate professor in the scala school of policy and government of george mason university he's with us via skype from washington d.c. good to have you with us. given what we now know about china's early cover up the way in which it dealt with the outbreak early on by letting so many people out of the city ahead of the law down was perhaps president trump justified in calling it the china virus jeremy can he have a is that question yes that's a yes i can now yeah hi jeremy i don't think so at all i think what president trump did was an expression of nationalism so the world health organization was very clear that they have a policy now that you don't name diseases on the basis of geography or national origin or even animal origin because of the bigotry and misdeeds than that that can cause so noble calling it the china virus was in from taiwan and of a piece with trump but does china's behavior in the early stages of the pandemic merit any criticism of the tall oh absolutely i mean what they did to those brave doctors and the citizen journalists is that deserves

exhibit h, in 2014 old dominion university and george mason university professors surveyed noncitizens and illegal aliens and found they vote democrat roughly 80% of the time. exips i, the math is again straightforward. the 60% biden advantage times the illegal alien voting number ans joe biden gained roughly 1,032,000 votes from illegal alien voting. that's the high number. exhibit j, while no one knows for sure how massive the illegal alien voting block is, we do know joe biden and his campaign believed it large enough and critical enough to winning the presidential race that, at the october 22 presidential debate, joe biden publicly solicited the illegal alien block vote by promising, quote, within 100 days i'm going to send to the united states congress a pathway to citizenship for over 11 million undocumented people. ladies and gentlemen, madam speaker, that is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow for illegal aliens. joe biden knew exactly what he was doing by seeking the illegal alien block vote. after all, on may 11, 1993, then-senator joe biden voted for the national voter

today but she is a professor of political science at the shell school of policy and government at george mason university here in washington jennifer is going to be with us for the entirety of this broadcast today which could be what is going to be at least 3 hours so i would be comfortable it's not the warmest day we have to say. that jennifer donated some lovely little foot will this for me to keep thanks coing i'm told come to harris arriving as well at the moment with her husband jennifer let's just pause for a moment you said earlier it almost feels that way it was sitting the wrong way only because you just want to look at that and it's this almost voyeuristic feel because this is not crowds and noise everywhere with feel like we're watching this very small private ceremony which we're almost not supposed to say and yet actually it is the day for all americans that's right and it's in some ways it's distressing where there should be crowds instead i see national guard troops lined up actually in and some kind of formations in an organized ways down there so it's unsettling it's certainly

george mason was a hero. it's not too hot today, so you could pay tribute to this great anti-federalist. he originally supported the constitution, but came to oppose it because it did not contain a bill of rights. the main concern of the antifederalists was the lack of a bill of rights but that was remedied by the adoption of the bill of rights. more broadly, the antifederalists were concerned about federal power that would be unchecked by either judges or the other branches. in our explainer about the second amendment, to have a wonderful paragraph where they describe the conflicts although i need my reading glasses -- glasses to read it. an incrediblys is new app. it's called interactive constitution. explore it on the app store. i'm looking at the right to bear arms. i'm looking at how they agreed and disagreed. the debatelicit in between federalist and anti-federalist were to shared assumptions. first that the new constitution gave the federal government almost total legal authority over the army and mili

. >>> i want to bring in jw barrett, professor of law at george mason university, served as an adviserou must be watching this with considerable interest, jw. i want to start with the vice president. let's talk about his role, let's talk about the power he does or maybe we should say does not have here. >> yes. so let's start with the constitution, that's where this starts and that's where this end. constitution article 2 says how the president will be elected. it says state legislatures get to decide how electors are chosen. legitimacy, that decision has been made in december, a month ago. that's been done. that's been completed. then there's largely ceremonial action by congress that's provided for in the 12th amendment and elaborated in a statute in the 1870s to elaborate how this would progress. both of those, both the constitution provisions and 12th amendment and the statute give the vice president an incredibly ceremonial role of opening the results of the election, opening the envelopes that have the results of the electoral college's action and the state certification. he open

limiting hiring or stop offering additional family leave and that is according to senior fellow george masonfinanced through the payroll tax, but the when they are going to come short of what they're planning on distributing through this program is going to be coming from -- from general funds so that is -- all taxpayers not just workers and employees, of course. . >> says most companiesover some sort of family leave incentive to stop taking on extra cost just have workers apply to federal government to pay, passing on all costs to taxpayers, she thinks a cycle there more people taking federal health more government needing more money to pay for it, it comes through maria taxes. back to you. >> sure does edward lawrence thank you so much quick break the december consumer price index on the other side of this break. stay with us. and having more days is possible with verzenio, proven to help you live significantly longer when taken with fulvestrant. verzenio + fulvestrant is for women with hr+, her2- metastatic breast cancer that has progressed after hormone therapy. diarrhea is common, may b

convention was drafting part of the constitution that would soon become the presidential pardon power, george masonquivocally oppose the provision saying that the president ought not to have the power of pardoning because he may frequently pardon crimes advised by himself host: askings morning about the founders in advance of our reairing of the capital documentary from 2006. [video clip] >> seeing the dome under construction by the tens of thousands of union soldiers that march through washington facing an uncertain future certainly gave them and instilled in them a sense of a continuation of the country. it was a symbol that wasn't lost on many, the great white dome was rising slowly above the capital and was a potent symbol of the future of a united country and it was seen as a sign of the successful outcome of the civil war, reuniting a country that had been torn asunder over the issue of slavery. >> on top of the symbol of unity is the statue of freedom. authorize before the war began but put atop the dome in december of 1863 while the war raged on. >> the most interesting part of my research

independent control we moved out of apartment and went in our own homes, there was a shortage of mason georgemy own truck. there was an independence where you saw tens of millions of people say i want to be part of the market but i wanted to them myself. all of these things go against a big government that thinks they know better than you, the independence of thought is what is scaring the more than anything else and what helps fuel that, somebody can go buy a tesla to your point and buy it to 100 then it goes to 700, and if you take into account a split, they feel independence of a freedom that the government, some people in this government do not want to see, they fear that more than anything else. how do you curb that every single year that you punish someone for having the audacity to do this alone. this one covering mutual funds, i would discover the individual investors who want to go up and do it themselves and enjoy some prosperity. that price parity would spark a scene of independence that would go against anything else they are preaching. stuart: you want to do well, if you do well

the seoul exception that we now know, is mason weems a biology in 1799 of george washington.t is a booked if you would read today, and certainly not for its o it is the book in which we get the fable about george washington chopping down the cherry tree, and then being unable to lie about it. the mature lincoln went on to develop a sophisticated understanding of history. but he never forgot the whims of history. elements of it stuck in his mind influenced his view of the american revolution and the civil war, i'm reflected his fundamental values. we know this because, in february of 1861, 40 years after he read weems this book, lincoln drew upon it in public. he was on his way from illinois to washington for the inauguration, it is a time of great tension in the country, southern states were voting. one by one, two six to see from the union in response to lincoln's election. he stopped off in trenton, new jersey, on his way to washington, in a speech to new jersey state senate. a very short, wonderful speech. he recalled the effect of the book on him as a young man, and he p

mason was a world war ii veteran. actually, during the war he served in the european theater in the fourth division of george paton's third army. he went on to have a long career in the military. prior to retiring, he held several high-ranking positions in the pentagon including assistant deputy chief of operations and special assistant to the deputy chief of logistics. so it's a very special night anytime that we have a mason lecturer at the museum. and of course, thanks to the generosity of general mason and his family, we are proud to host tonight's lecture, a public lecture by dr. omer bartov, one of the world's most distinguished holocaust scholars. we like to think that at the museum that we tell the story of the entire experience of world war ii. we feel that you often, the holocaust and world war ii are studied as separate almost isolated topics. and we believe it's our role to really help our audiences understand the broader context surrounding the holocaust as well as the legacies it continues to impact on our world today. we have one more exhibition pavilion to have here at the national world war ii museum. bel

masonic lodge in new york city. it was taken from t test test test test test test test test test test test. go, you mentioned a little earlier that the reenactor playing george washington is going to be making a toast later today. what would be the toast you would raise to george washington on washington's birthday? >> i would raise a glass to george washington's memory and i would ask everyone to say three cheers hip hip three times in honor of his great legacy. >> douglas bradburn is president and ceo of mount vernon. we appreciate your time and good folks there that invited us in this morning. we do appreciate it. >> thanks very much. thanks for being here. good luck this week. >> you're watching american history tv. every weekend on c-span3 explore our nation's past. american history tv on c-span3. created by america's cable television companies. today we are brought to you by these companies that provide to viewers as a public service. >>> week nights this month we feature american history tv programs to preview what's available every weekend on c-span3. tonight we take a look at america and its allies, films about the various countries in nato, the nor