a new nation born in africa, welcome to "christian world news" george thomas and wendy griffith on assignment. public of south sudan seceded from the north on july 9th. part of the 2005 peace agreement that ended a 20-year world war. more than 2 million people died. the south population is heavily christian and black african, 2 groups targeted by bashar. >> joining us in gary lane. i know you covered the civil war and witnessed the suffering of christians. what does the independence mean to them? >> they have been fighting for 22 years for independence. 2 million died, another 4-5 million left homeless. they have suffered. this is the moment they have been waiting for. they wanted to stop the advance of islam into the south. many were forced to attend mosques and learn islam. this way they can practice their faith freely. >> speaking of faith, this group of people are mostly christian. >> as muslim was atempeding to reach them, this is a christian group call the sudan people's liberation army. they stood up against this islam islam islamic ra sheem trying to get them to become muslim. it is a

. >> welcome everyone to "christian world news" i am george thomas. >> and i am wendy griffith. somalia is suffering from the world's worst famine in a generation. a severe drought is put an estimated 11 people at risk. tens of thousands have already died. >> and many more forced to flee their homeland. >> they are moving because they have lost all their stock as a result of the drought, and no other hope. >> worst drought in 60 years in southern parts of the country. somalia racked by little rain. malnutrition rates are among the highest. 1 mother makes a desperate plea for health. >> we are dying in the absence of humanitarian assistance, where is the u.n., where is the muslim world? we are suffering so the world should take action to save our lives. >> the united states is looseening rules meant to prevent funds from falling into the hands of al-qaeda-linked groups, al-shabab. >> aid going to refugee camps has no real down side. this is a massive humanitarian crisis wh 11 million people threatened by it. the concern policy makers have the aid organizations forceed to pay taxe

george thomas and wendy griffith out this week. muslim holy month of ramadan begins this week. many christians see it as an opportunity to pray for the muslim world and launch their own 30-days of prayer and fasting. >> in august muslims around the world are observing their holy month of ramadan. it requires daily fasts of food and water. muslims see it as an opportunity to draw nearer to their god. dr. michael youssef. >> they want to know they can really relate to god. in islam you cannot relate to their god. he is so far removed. >> dr. youssef hosts a tv program called leading the way and broadcasts it into the muslim world. he said it is important for christians to pray for the muslims during ramadan. >> christians during the month of ramadan must pray for muslims to know god and become a reality. >> islam is a fast growing religion and 50 muslim majority countries in the world. people are oppressed by the strict interpretation of islamic law imposed on society. women suffer the worst treatment. >> women in islam are treated as half of a man. just by virtue of making a wom

george thomas is on aassignmt. arack dn against christians in iran, targeting house church pastors and leaders. hundreds have been imprisoned since the beginning of the year. gary lane has more. reporter: crackdown has led to 285 believers in 35 cities arrested in iran in the past 6 months. according to elam ministries, an organization that serves christians in that country. many have spent weeks and months in prison, long stretches in solitary confinement and endured interrogations and psychological abuse. iranian pastor hormoz shariat is with antioch ministries and hosts a talk show. >> most don't tell their family if they can't have a lawyer, even a formal charge, sometimes they get killed without a formal charge. >> when he became president in 1985, mahmoud ahmadenijad launched a crackdown, david yeghnazar says the government's efforts are intensifying. >> in particular, the last year has been very, the persecution has gained momentum. that is because the church is growing with increasing momentum. >> yeghnazar

. >> the george washington papers have about 65,000 items. we have the thomasefferson papers, 27,000 items. >> without them, we could not tell the story of our past. we could not explore the important personalities, the major events in the history of the country. >> that is what this place does. whether it is books, manuscripts, music, maps, photos, movies, audio -- daymark many of the pivotal events in the evolution of the united states and the world. >> in 1948, just to give you a small snapshot, we acquired one collection. 40,000 glass plate negatives. that is the first photo news agency in america. >> if he spent one minute with each photo in the library of congress, it would take 24 years to see them all. if you spent 10 minutes with each map in the library of congress, it would take you over 100 years to see them all. and what about bookstacks one day with each book would span over 60,000 years. the jefferson building tells a story of the need for knowledge and the love of books. with its ornate italian renaissance style, it harkens back to european ances

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george. benjamin, thomas, and ringo. [laughter] i always check my calendar to find out what day it falls on, and this year, it's on july 4th. wow, feels like it's getting earlier and earlier every year. there are so many great traditions. of course, every year, i take the kids out and we cut down an american flagpole. take it home, put it up, and decorate it with flags. [laughter] not everyone loves america like i do. i'm sad to say. so unfortunately it's time once again for 4th of july under attack! [cheers and applause] little known factoid: they're called roman candles because jesus stole them from pontius pilate. [laughter] no surprise, our patriotic traditions are under attack from the usual lefty pinko nanny state: texas. [laughter] for more we go to ktrk, houston's news leader. >> tomball is the latest on a growing list of cities and organizations canceling fourth of july fireworks shows because of fear of starting a fire. >> with the drought condition and the weather what it is right now, it's just dangerous. >>

. >> it transferred from the state department their presidential papers, george washington, thomas jeffersonmadison, and james monroe, as well as alexander hamilton and benjamin franklin, that had been collected. they were being preserved by the state department. >> there are the core of the modern manuscript division. >> amazing buildings have been billed for most the 20th-century presidents. but prior to that, the pride -- the library of congress is the largest presidential library, having in its custody 23 presidents. >> the papers range from george washington through calvin coolidge. washington papers include his diary, pocket-sized, but there are other diaries as well. christ when he became president he went on a tour of it -- >> when he became president he went on a tour of countries. he noticed that in the places he traveled the roles were not in good condition and the places to stay were not up to his standards. and he said something like these houses are just, you know, the entertainment is subpar. some 18th-century way of saying that. but the reason he gave is interesting. he said,

english amateur tom lewis has filed a record equalling five under par sixty five to take a george one shot lead with thomas bjorn the danish self and cast aside memories of his two thousand and three meltdown at the major he was denied the last time it came to this english course eight years ago bjorn blew a three shot lead with bottles of play here but he a re some of those painful memories with a fine round i thought he wanted a role they only knew on monday that he was playing at the event after the withdrawal of b.j. singh and he went on to take the early lead by a strike from last month and got him an f the spaniard play flawless golf sinking birdies at the fourth ninth twelfth and seventeenth holes however the galleries erupted after dustin johnson reached the past three sixteenth's having been four over at the twelfth the american sign a hole in one i mean a string of birdies and it was day that's even par. u.s. open champion and the favorite rory mcilroy finished at one i will call the northern irishman whose bidding to become the youngest open champion since eighty ninety three poor start poking a

order that you are called, or close to it, vince, andrea, mary ann, bennis, meredith thomas, karen sidwell, richard, george, suzanne, catherine howard. >> thank you, supervisors. with the birthday cake, and hats, they are great. i was angry when i first came in. i feel a little bit better. you know who i am, i am vince with the labor organization. we represent 3000 men and women. we are a very diverse group, a good cross-section of san francisco. some of the lowest paid workers, but very active and engaged with our people. it is an honor to be here speaking for them. it seems like we have had this vote twice already over the past year and now we are into a third time. what bothers us most about this, why is this on the ballot? we have our suspicions because we are friends with john avalos and we think we have a lot of the same progressive values. one of those is the value of sunshine, and i used to serve on the sunshine ordinance, and it means a lot to me because of what we are up against. what concerns us is we do not even get a phone call. real leadership in this city, with the city needs right now is to

but first polls open championship has got under way rules and georges in kent and is denmark's thomas bjorn he leads the way in six under par with two holes left to play in his first round of favorite rory mcilroy is one over par as he starts the back nine while there are windy conditions at the moment place tasted those during practice sessions seen here yesterday among them tom watson at sixty one he's a rank outsider for the tournament and he's almost forty years older than favorite rory mcilroy but that isn't worrying the veteran he's won a major is he surprised the golf world in two thousand and nine when he led the final round at turnberry in scotland before losing in a playoff and watson tees off late this afternoon and says he knows i have to tackle this links course it takes takes. every bit of what a golfer has to play this call for sure to play it well you have to drive it well. it's your pretty mild approach point this golf course the weighted shot to get the shot the right distance is going to be a very very difficult thing to do. i'm football the defending champions braz

george washington, thomas jefferson, james madison, and james monroe.s well as the papers of alexander hamilton and benjamin franklin. they were being preserved by the state department. >> those papers are the core of today's manuscript division. >> a lot of people just do not realize about the presidential library system. prior to that, the library of congress is the largest presidential library. >> the presidential papers range from george washington through calvin coolidge. washington's papers include 36 diaries, pocket-sized like a farmer would carry to make records about the weather. there are other diaries as well. >> he became president and he went on a series of tours of the country. he noticed that in the places where he traveled, the roads were not in good condition. the places to stay were not up to his standards. at one point, he said something like, these houses are -- the entertainment is very subpar. the reason he gave for that is very interesting. he said the people who travel along the roads are people who are moving from one place to a

george washington with a filibuster on roosevelt and thomas jefferson won the race. believe that? jake goes high and tight on jose batista. he has 31 home runs. he will play tomorrow. >>> andrew carlton used an opponent to get a leg up in football. source tell me he will be in raider camp tomorrow. boxing in san francisco mission district. that is terri fernandez knocked out michael fernandez. no relation between the two men tonight in the mission district. exclusive cbs 5. >> yeah, they used to be family. >> yeah. they won't be coming to his thanksgiving dinner thank for sure. >> we're coming right back. ,,,, turn left. you have arrived. sweet belt. e-reader for textbooks. gps. hd video cam for lectures. game pad. have you ever considered this ? it's got all that and more than 200,000 apps. technology to learn and play on-the-go. only at verizon. buy one droid 3 by motorola, the thinnest full qwerty smartphone ever for $199.99, and get another one free. >>> all right, football. camp tomorrow. >> your favorite guy is going to be on. >> david letterman. >>

george washington with a filibuster on roosevelt and thomas jefferson won the race. you believe that? jake goes high and tight on jose batista. he has 31 home runs. he will play tomorrow. >>> andrew carlton used an opponent to get a leg up in football. source tell me he will be in raider camp tomorrow. boxing in san francisco mission district. that is terri fernandez knocked out michael fernandez. no relation between the two men tonight in the mission district. exclusive cbs 5. >> yeah, they used to be family. >> yeah. they won't be coming to his thanksgiving dinner thank for ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,

george washington, thomas jefferson, and the list goes on and on. fdr made an enormous difference in the way we have run this country. we had the new deal, and it does not get any stronger than fdr. were big business interests attacking fdr at the time? you better believe it. they plotted a coup against him. he said i welcome their hatred, but i am coming. he came and did a new deal for this country and the middle- class. we created a middle-class between 1947 and 1977, the income of the bottom fifth group at a higher rate than the top fifth. that seems unimaginable now. look what happened. when you care about the middle- class, and democrats cared about the middle class, they fought for the middle class. fdr did that, and even up to the 1970's, liberals were so strong, they got richard nixon to pass that dpj, to start the epa. can you imagine? you had ralph nader running roughshod in the 1970's. seat belts, osha, the list goes on and on. of all the regulations we did to help real america, why did it change? people say ronald reagan. it was before r

. >> the george washington papers have about 65,000 items. we have the thomas jefferson papers. they have about 27,000 items. >> without them, we would not be able to tell the story of our past. we would not be able to explore the certain personalities, the major events, and the history of this country. >> that is what this place does. whether it is manuscripts, music, maps, photos, movies, audio, they all mark many of the pivotal advances in the evolution of the united states and the world. >> 40,000 glass plate negatives. that is the first photo news agency in america. >> if you spend one minute with each photo in the library of congress, it would take you 24 years to see them all. if you spend 10 minutes with each map in the library of congress, it would take you over 100 years to see them all. the jefferson building tells a story, too. of the need for knowledge and love of books. with its ornate style, it harkens back to european ancestors while moving forward and featuring elements exclusively american. built at the end of the 19th century, it reflects a time when americans

during the late 18th century, george washington, thomas jefferson, and james madison shared the dream of a national botanic garden and were instrumental on establishing one on the national mall in 1820. now in continuous operation and opened to the public since 1850, the garden moved to its present location in 1933, a complex located along the north and south side of independence avenue bordered by first street and third street. the garden includes the conservatory, the national garden which opened in 2006, the bartholi park created in 1932. a plant production, and support facility opened in anacostia in 1933, includes greenhouses, bays, and maintenance shops. this is a very important thing to the american people when they come here from all over the country, they want to go see the garden, botanical gardens, and i just feel that we have to figure out a way to fund this. and to take care of the facility. this was a dream of the founders of this republic. and i think we should honor that dream and we should defeat both of these amendments and do the work that's necessary to keep it in

others like thomas jefferson were ambivalent. george washington owned hundreds of slaves. the one person she says is john quincy adams who did fight tirelessly to end slavery but he wasn't a founding father. when they signed the declaration of independence he was only 8 years old. >>> we have our panel here tonight. thank you for being here. what do you make of the pledge, in particular, the slavery part which is in the preamble. do you think it's possible that santorum or bachmann or their people didn't see that? how do you explain them agreeing with this? >> i have to assume that they're people read it and it's reprehensible. the underlying assertion here is that there's some redealing quality that went along with the institution of slavery. that's assanine. you can't play a double standard like we should shoot down anyone that said there's a redeeming quality associated with naziism. we can't play a double standard and we should shout these people down and look at them as what they are. >> eric, historically, it's just not true, the idea that there were these happy fami

found in the rare books and special collections, including the original thomas jefferson library and presidential papers from george using technology to discover hidden secrets in their collectionses and preserve holdings for future generations. join us for the library of congress this monday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span. the library holds the personal records of over 900 current and former members of congress. >> in a few moments, today's headlines and your calls live on "washington journal." the house is in session at 9:00 eastern to continue work on the energy and water programs bill. >> coming up live on the "washington journal" -- at 7:40, texas representative john carter, the republican conference secretary, will talk about issues including the debt limit and deficit reduction. limit and deficit reduction. at

found in the rare books and special collections, including the original thomas jefferson library, and presidential papers from georgeashington to calvin coolidge, and learn how the library is using technology to discover hidden secrets in their collection and to preserve its holdings for future generations. join us for the library of congress, this monday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific. 8:00 eastern and pacific.

books like the seven events that made america, the federalist papers, the real thomas jeffers son, wives of the signerings, georgengton's sacred fire. the road to serfdom. it sold more when we talked about it in this program than it usually sells in a year. it was printed in 1946. speaking of words, staggeringly long monologues. i'll never forget when i first went on the other network, i first got into this business five years ago. they told me you can't talk more than 45 seconds. you've got to change the screen. you can't do that. we get up to 6 or 7 minutes at the other network until they were spooked. they were like no, people will -- they're dumb! one of the competitors on this show, if you want to call them that, is jon stewart, i guess. i want to give you some idea. when we first came here, our very first show, i did a monologue 7 1/2 minutes. i remember the first 18 minute monologue and everybody freaked out. we now do 21 minute monologues to open the show. the first one was a thousand words. today, 2500 words. the first 21 minutes of the show. to give you perspective, jon stewart does six minutes. total t

the original thomas jefferson library and presidential papers from the george washington to calvin coolidge. discovered hidden secrets and preserve the holdings for future generations. join us for the library of congress, this monday night at 8:00 eastern. the library holds the personal records of over 900 current and former members of congress. >> "washington journal" continues. host: 15 minutes from open phones. rupert murdoch and the scandal that is happening in england that is now moving over here with the fbi preliminary investigation. all those are in the news this morning. we like to hear from you. we have our phone lines open or you can send us a tweet or an email. the chief executive of new international has resigned. she resigned as the chief of news amid growing pressure over the phone-hacking scandal. she announced she was standing down. rupert murdoch gave an interview to his own newspaper in the u.s., "the wall street journal." this is from london. he said he wanted to address " some of the things that have been addressed in parliament, some of which are total li es." host: he

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the idea you had too announce [no audio] including the original thomas jefferson library and presidential papers from george washington to calvin coolidge. join us for the library of congress this monday night at 8 eastern and pacific. if you look at every photograph in this collection and spent one minute on each, it would take over 24 years to see them all. >> a decision on raising the debt ceiling needs to be made this week. also, house speaker john boehner said republicans may be willing to give president obama the power to raise the debt ceiling in anchorman's with congressional approval. that plan would allow republicans to vote against raising the debt ceiling without risking default. after meeting with senate democrats, timothy geithner encouraged congress to avoid a default say, "we are running a tighme." ashima will talk with you about the security plan. >> this weekend, live from salt lake city, the nation's governors look at the lessons of 9/11 and thomas friedman talks competitiveness and the economy. look for live coverage saturday at 5:30 p.m. eastern and sunday at 1:30 p.m. eastern. >> as th

george. haven't we had enough monarchy in america? >> if thomas jefferson wins, murder, robbery, rape, adultery and incest will be openly taught and practiced. are you prepared to see your dwellings in flames? female chastity violated, children rising in a pipe. >> using that video, using actual statement made them. the editor in chief is nick gillespie, you made that because you were sick of hearing how much worse everything is now. >> yeah, every political election seems to be worse than the previous one. that's what we hear. when you crack a history book you find out it's prech status quo. >> covering your jackson, andrew jackson against john quincy adams. >> there were hand bills that accused jackson of massacring indians. indians. >> it on the flip side. adams was accused pimping out to the ambassador of russia. >> and glover cleveland runs for president. >> of course, grover cleveland didn't run for anything. he shambled slowly if you'd seen his size. he had an out of wedlock child and that became an issue, hey, ma, where is pa? and after he

had the power to undo their decisions but that's what scalia and thomas roberts and alito want you to believe that they can make george w. bush president without any appeal that they can make money and a speech that they can turn corporations into people and the rest of us have no say in and they're wrong it's not what the constitution says we don't have kings in america and it's time to seriously debate and challenge the doctrine of judicial review the claim by the court itself that it has that power as thomas jefferson wrote if you give shiri of the united states is the subtle core of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine our constitution i will say that against this every man should raise his voice and more should uplift his arm why because jefferson for judges to usurp the powers of the legislature is unconstitutional judicial tyranny one single object will entitle you to the endless gratitude in society that of restrain judges from usurping legislation the power of we the people should be with the people and their elected officials not with five lawyers who claim the right to rule over ev

george w. bush before the high court just like it was important to mention that clarence thomas' wife worked in the bush transition team and was busy accepting resumes from people who would serve in the bush white house as long as her husband stopped the recount in florida which he did. and more than a year after the election a consortium of newspapers including the washington post the new york times and usa today did their own recount in florida manually counting every vote in a process that took almost a year and concluded that al gore did indeed win the presidency in two thousand as the november twelfth two thousand and one article in the new york times read all the ballots have been reviewed under any of seven single standards and combined with the results of an examination of over votes mr gore would have won that little bit of info was slipped into the seventeenth paragraph of the times story on purpose so that it would attract as little attention as possible around the nation why because the nine eleven attacks it just happened and journalists a feared that the people with the plain trut

thomas a. allen is the author of "george washington spiremaster" chosen by the new york public library as one of the 100 best children's books of 2004. and co-author of "spybooks, the book of espionage," the principle sourcebook for the international spy museum. also a member of the press club, he's written extensively for national geographic society and has appeared on television as an authority on military and intelligence subjects. please welcome paul dickson and thomas a. allen. [applause] >> thanks a lot. we're extremely happy to be here tonight. this has been a long odyssey for tom and myself. and people always said, how did this thing start? how did you get this idea? and i think i was probably the one that first started to think about this. i kept -- the question that came to me was, why was this big event, this -- i thought turning point. why was it always sort of margin liesed? >> and one night, tom and i were at a writer's party in georgetown. and we both lived in montgomery county. so i didn't have a ride home from the party, and i hardly knew tom at that point. so i said, can i get

found in the rare books and special collections including the original thomas jefferson library and presidential papers from georgehington to calvin coolidge. learn how the library is using technology to discover hidden secrets in the collection and to preserve their holdings for future generations. join us for "the library of congress" monday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. this is considered the most famous photo here at the library of congress. >> this week and on american history tv on c-span3, american artifacts on the civil war photographs at the library of congress. his new book "classified -- secrecy and the state." looking at the issue of civil rights in the early 1990's. get the complete schedule on c- span.org/history. host: we welcome alan gomez, a reporter with "usa today" focusing on the issue of the u.s.-mexico border. in a story you wrote on friday, the picture painted of the border between the u.s. and mexico, is a very bloody one. you find it is very different. why? guest: from this debate, it has been tough to find any sort of data or anything to quantify a lot of these claims out there.

thomas jefferson library. and presidential papers from george washington to cam vein coolidge. and learn how the library is using technologies to discover hidden secrets in their collections and preserve them. join us this monday night, 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span. if you looked at every photo in this library's collection and spent just one minute on each, it would take over 24 years to see them all. >> on c-span3, federal reserve chairman ben bernanke testifying at a senate banking committee hearing. you can watch it live beginning at 10:00 eastern. .

treasures found in rare books and special collections, including the original thomas jefferson library and presidential papers from george washington to calvin clue which i learned how the library is using technology to discover hidden treatments in collection and holdings for future generation. join us for the library of congress is monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. if elected every photo in this collection and spent just one minute on each, it would take over 24 years to see them all. >> the world's newest nation, south sudan declared independence from sudan months saturday. the u.s. special envoy to sudan, princeton lyman was for the ceremonies. he testified before the senate foreign relations committee about the u.s. policy in the region, the continued military conflict along the new porter and disagreements between the two countries over how to share oil revenues. this hearing is an hour and a half. [inaudible conversations] >> figure it figure it will come to order. thank you all for being here this morning. ambassador lyman communistic privilege to welcome me back to the committee. we appreciate enormously t