washington spent a great deal of time. found within and behind a drawer were two letters from george to martha washington. this is significant because as i noted, martha burned all their correspondence following george's death. so did she save these letters because of their content or were they inadvertently omitted from the flames? unfortunately, we do not know but one of those letters remains in our collection at tutor place while the second is now back at mount vernon. these are the only two letters that survive from george to martha washington with the exception of a short note discovered since they were found. the tutor place letter is especially significant dating to june of 1775 because it is the one in which washington writes to them either from philadelphia informing her he has been given command of the continental army. it is unknown when the peter family discovered the letters and the writing table but it didn't occur until because 1828 martha recounted the story of its discovery to jared sparks, the historian visiting tutor place to compile material. aside from these specific bequests, like the

and george washington part custis, in essence, had two daughters. one was white, was his heiress, she married robert e. lee, one was enslaved. both great granddaughters of martha washington. so in that regard, george washington part custis as a representative of the first first family of the country, who spent 55 years of his life promoting and celebrating that, was, in essence, also representative of another aspect of the history of this country, and the simple truth of it is, the first family of this country was biracial. so we recently re-enacted that wedding with descendants of the cyfax family representing both charles and mariah. also enslaved, selena norris in the house and gray who worked in the mansion, as well. that was arranged and the wedding took place in this parlor and serena gray would live in one of the two historic slave quarters that we maintain, that still exist and are going to be restored as part of this big project, as well. now, you can see this room is somewhat empty of furnishings and that's representative of the fact that r

that is chris jackson in the center as george washington. we have a 19th century etching as they envisioned it and an amazing website called genius.com. they have all the lyrics to every song in the musical. if you click on the lyric that you just heard, this is what you will find. .t talks about the battle it takes place on september 16, 1776. most people consider it the first victory in the revolution, the first time the continental army gives the british army to retreat. unfortunately, they come back with reinforcement. imagine timeline wise the battle of brooklyn, then he goes to white plains. thelton is there, he is eighth decamp to washington. him like aconsiders son. he is his right hand man. him for many things. by this point in the war hamilton is writing 50% or more of washington's correspondence. washington cannot be the general he was without hamilton. other interesting facts which i just found out, during the an entireey saved brigade including mr. hamilton area. normally washington would commend an officer after a battle like t

it's like yay, george washington. rep. bost:, a plaque, a little statue of george washington.n you think about 19th-century museums, they were kind of keeping that area alive. -- era alive. you're were not telling the story so much of the room. there are more dar ladies. they are fabulous. what i would tell you is the dar single-handedly saved houses like this. they went to governments of the time, city elected officials, and said you cannot tear down this house. it has intrinsic historic value. we were talking about jackie kennedy. this was before landmark laws. these ladies were doing it the right way. has much as we look back and say why did we do this? they were doing what was best for the time, and dressing up and looking fabulous as well. you might recognize this woman. anyone have a guess? queen elizabeth. the mansion was the only new york stop on queen elizabeth the bicentennial travels around the united states. february. we lost that lady right there but years ago, but she was on the board of the mansion or 40 plus years. she was an amazing lady. she came up to here o

and george washington parke custis in essence had two daughters. one was white, his heiress, she married robert e. lee. one was enslaved. both great granddaughters of martha washington. so in that regard george washington mark custis as a representative of the first first family of the country who spent 55 years of his life promoting and celebrating that, was in essence also representative of another aspect of the history of this country. and the simple truth is the first family in this country was biracial. so we recently reenacted that wedding with descendants of the syphax family in attendance, representing both mariah and charles. there was also another wedding that took place here and that was the wedding of selena norris and thorton gray, also enslaved. selena, a maid in the house, and thornton gray, who worked in the mansion as well. so that was arranged and this wedding took place in this parlor. and selena gray and her family would live in one of the two historic slave quarters that we maintain, that still exist and that are going to be res

mark: the george washington shows up, washington being a family friend -- and i got to tell you. two years of reading about the american revolution, to me, only makes you like washington more. he shows up at her bedside, says, what is wrong, mrs. arnold? she said, that's not george washington. that is an imposter. that is an imposter was going to murder my child. she can't recognize this man who is the family friend, supposedly. she just go stark raving mad for the entire day. really alarming people. do you want to talk about -- stephen: what we had was the mad scene where she wraps all of the founding fathers around her little finger, and one of my jobs in our research was to go through this colonel's papers at the new york historical society. i went through the papers. the next morning after the mad scene, in her hand, which is very strong and easy to read, is a letter from peggy to colonel derek which says, if you and the army over funds to my husband, please remit them to me immediately. we had a quick recovery. mark: from then on, she has none of the madness, although seems

times george washington has ever seen crying. that image stuck with me. an addict arnold wrote a letter and alexander hamilton, he did deliver this letter from benedict arnold to george washington and in this letter from benedict arnold he said three things from george washington. he said one, don't tell my wife. she denies a traitor. two, he said don't tell my staff, i did this myself. and three, one of the craziest moments of letter writing his area, assist in their favor, can you please send me my baggage and belongings. this guy just put a knife in the back of george washington, the most hated man since judas himself. he basically says can i have my stuff. the reason is to this day, nobody knows what was in that package that george washington said that. he sent the baggage back and nobody knows what was in that package. i did not want to read chapter 85 of the house of secrets, that you will see my and i couldn't shake that idea. for five years, over half a decade, excitedly and like i've got to figure it how to do this idea

but george washington park custis wanted maria to be close by. so if you follow my story here, her husband, charles syphax, was not freed. he continued to be a slave. but maria and her two children were freed but were giving 17 acres of property at the south end of arlington estate where they lived free for the rest of their lives. and as a result of having follow-on children, all of them were born free as well. there are a couple of children that are very prominent in the syphax family. very interestingly enough, once these children were freed, the -- they had an opportunity for education. one of the prominent older children, second child, first son of the syphax, is william syphax. we know that he was probably educated in alexandria, arlington area as well as georgetown. he ultimately went to work for the department of the interior in the 1850s. he worked for a number of secretaries of the interior and actually became head messenger for the department of the interior and went on to become the first president of the -- of colored trustees of the

is all you know, mount vernon gives the george washington book prize. miranda aanuel special washington fries precisely because the prize was founded to encourage words on the early republic that are scholarly, but also accessible. included in there is you can give it to films are documentaries or other media than books. but only books have been submitted since the george washington book prize has been existence. it's in the name. the goal precisely is to find things that are building an audience. vernon, there is this unicorn out there. when his hollywood going to make the great george washington movie? because that will build an audience, a capacity that we can't do. but then we can take advantage to her and that is exactly what the hamilton play is for mount vernon. the reason miranda won the prize was because we wanted it to be supported. we wanted it to be successful. we didn't get a hole or press and publicity for our giving the prize, which is one of the other reasons we do it. because he won the macarthur genius grant two weeks before we announce

live george washington. president of the united states. >> >> caution, you are about to enter the no spin zone. the factor begins right now. ♪ ♪ >> hi, i'm bill o'reilly. thanks for watching us tonight. hateful speech, that is the subject of this evening's talking points memo. donald trump gave a national security speech in philadelphia today, concentrating on how he would bolster the military and pay for it by cutting back on civil federal employees among other things. as we reported last night, mr. trump is making gains across the country, primarily because hillary clinton is getting pounded by scandal. day after day it's more reported about the clinton foundation and the destroyed emails when she was secretary of state. that has taken pressure off mr. trump who is now getting more specific about what he would do as president. so, with two months left in the presidential campaign, it is a very close race. enter the strategy of hate. on the democratic side, the beat goes on portraying donald trump as a bigo

not a biography but i'm writing on george washington. so the shelves are weighed down with biographies of adams, jefferson, washington, hamilton. right? musical, right? there should be a biography of this guy. because this guy, i think, is the reason why louisiana territory becomes america. because this is the guy that kills the french troops. french troops are dying by the thousand. so that when thomas jefferson sends ministers to paris to negotiate the purchase of new orleans, because as jefferson said whoever controls new orleans is our natural enemy. right? because you think of that western expansion. if you're a farmer, if you're in the west, if you're in kentucky, or points west, you're not thinking to lug your produce back across the appalachian mountains. you're looking to float it down the ohio, down the mississippi to new orleans. if spain holds out, if france holds out, you've got a problem. so jefferson's ministers go looking to buy new orleans. they arrive in paris and the french minister says, have we got a deal for you. bec

>> "a funeral dirge of george washington." >> the seeds of division are planted during washington's presidencyr struggle between treasury secretary alexander hamilton and secretary of state thomas jefferson. >> now, the founding fathers, one thing they did agree on is that they did not want political parties. but no sooner than do they create this government then we have the first major split between federalists supporting hamilton and the president's agenda and the democratic-republicans supporting jefferson. >> washington doesn't expect his deputies to agree on everything. but he expects them to work for the nation's benefit together. jefferson refuses to listen. he works with his friends in the press to try to undercut washington's administration. and washington leaves at the end of his second term with great fear for what would happen if this partisanship continued to spiral out of control. >> my god, i would rather be in my grave than spend one more minute in this office. >> mr. president, i... >> the men who write and publish these papers must think me a fool. but you know me better than

the it never happened is influence of george washington and his obsession with the potomac river. rising glory -- not republicans turned washington into a revolutionary. the widespread printing of george berkeley's famous poem about america with its memorable conclusion that westward the course of empire takes its way and its implications that america would be the final could hardly have escaped a serious reader like washington . andeen the critical speech his inauguration as residents of , he referredates to it at least 30 times, suchying empire with familiar adjectives as new, extensive.ng, and it culminated with the new empire rising in the west. it's so impressed washington in 1787 that he purchased 20 copies for distribution and the geographically obsessed virginian must have treasured his copy of jedediah morris's and american biography first published in 1789. he asserted that it is well-known empire has been traveling from east to west and we cannot but anticipate the time as not far distant when the american empire will comprehend millions of souls west of the mississippi.

george washington is on dollars and coins and has schools all over the country named after him.a the george washington community maybe feel someone else they want to elevate and they want their students to look to someone else. >> some say this is political correctness out of control. george washington on currency and if a school is not worthy of his name -- photo and schools not worthy of his name, then who else. >> many of these school names were chosen 100 plus years ago. many of thunderstorm them don't reflect who is in that school now and what the message we want to community to our kids. that's the opportunity i'm asking for our schools to have that conversation. we don't need to go down the rabbit hole of president's day and all that stuff. i'm calling for who our heroes are in san francisco and who wasn't to have names on our buildings. everyone should be named on our school >> wouldn't that be expensive. >> only if a school wants to go forward in this process. there will be cost involved. we'll do it over time. this won't happen at once. we don't do this very often. we

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. >> good afternoon and welcome to the george washington university law school. i'm susan karamanian, the associate dean for international and comparative legal studies. i'm delighted to introduce this distinguished panel on a topic that has been front and center in the news over the past year,

there are also women who were attached to george washington's army. they were forced to do the laundry of the soldiers. they were actually thrust in the combat roles. the case of molly pitcher. she starts to operate the cannon. that may or may not have happened but there are other cases when we do this. we know it did happen. before the revolution there is also an effort to involve women in the boycott against british beds. long before the patriots declared independence the primary goal was not independence but it wasn't to persuade the parliament to lift the taxes that have been imposed on the colonies. the argument was at lacked representation so it was not a legitimate legislature to tax the colonists. the chief incident was boycott of reddish manufactured goods. the american colonists were very much themselves dependent upon british consumer goods. there was a case in north carolina where women were ridiculously conspicuous in signing that they would not support or consume british goods. it is denigrated that. that is a cartoon produced from a loy

george washington was a really smart guy. so often i have noticed, the bad weather just goes right around us. beware of tornadoes -- never in washington. people ask me sometimes how the works are made, and i've got a few slides here which will give some demonstration of that. this is an aerial view of lafayette square, with the white house. this was done for the white house historical association. i really wanted to do it the other way around, because there is lots of images from the washington monument, but there is no images from this way. so this was constructed out of whole cloth, from numerous sources. this is how i starts -- i paid , andanvas a kind of brown in this case, i laid a map of washington out on it in shock -- out on it in chalk and then developed where the buildings were going to go. i started building from scratch. you can see my entries during construction. the basic colors are put in pretty roughly. you can see over on the right-hand side, the ground still shows. the color starts coming in, the buildings ta

but george washington parke custis wanted mariah to be close by. , wasusband, charles syphax not free. but overall you and her children were free but were giving set -- given 17 acres of property at the south end of arlington estate where they lived free the rest of their lives and as a result, all of those children were born free as well. there were a couple children prominent in the syphax family. once these children were free, they had an opportunity for education. one of the prominent older know will you must probably educated in alexandria as well as a georgetown. he ultimately went to work for the department of interior in the 1850's and worked for a number of secretaries of the interior and actually became a head messenger for the department of the interior and went on to become the first of schools in washington, d.c. there were a number of ancestors and descendents of these folks that made a permanent impact on our country. one example would be pressed and lead, a tuskegee airmen. of women thater went on to teach. we know they attended our university. turned aroundch and beca

hughes is now with george washington university. is the deputy director there. when you hear the phrase "radicalization of cyberspace," what does that mean to you? an explosioneing of the use of social media of individuals to isis. which was atter, platform choice for a number of years. you see these one and two individuals in the u.s. who were finding like-minded people and are reaching online to find those recruiters and radicalize rsers. guest: something a little broader. certain --phase were a space where reality is for trade which is part of the tool used in the radicalization process. there is a misnomer that exists and people think a guy watches and isis video and automatically becomes a jihadist. is more complicated. that is one element of a larger intellectual, psychological and emotional process. it takes a person from being one thing to something else. love, hate, anger, fear. complicated things. the social media aspect is important, but i think sometimes we go exaggerating and minimizing. legal back-and-forth between the two. host: hasn't made recrui

freedom of information act from thomas blanton, the director of the nationals agree archive at george washingtonery person, not just a citizen, but quite to get out of -- by request to get out of their government any records held as long as they were not endangering national security or a law enforcement investigation or personal privacy, basically. lbj was really reluctant because everyone of his federal agencies thought this was a nightmare. you mean people will be rummaging through our files? no, we can't do that. but no more tears helped the newspaper editors especially to howhal their argument that we really are in favor of open government. one of the fascinating things we found was that bill moyers had written a nice sign statement where itdent johnson said in ringing language that democracy works best when they know what the government is doing. they must taxes to the policies and rules. government officials should not be able to pull curtains of secrecy. , we nowgreat about this know from lbj's own schedule, that on the telephone, johnson called moyers and said cut that out. moyers has t

he had a picnic there with george washington and lafayette. he saw this as a source for power, this can be used for factories. and there were some problems with hamilton's plan. the first director turned out to be a crook. he embezzled the funds. but factories did come to patterson and they did come to america. and in a report that hamilton issued to congress he talked about the benefits of a diverse economy to the united states. he said we have agriculture, we have commerce and trade, but we also need manufacturing. we need all we can get. and he went into great detail about the kinds of things that could be made in america. one of the people that he found was samuel colt, who built a factory in paterson and then moved it to hartford. and the colt pistol and weapons were produced by colt and his descendants. and he was one of hamilton's talent picks for the paterson great falls project. but in his report on manufactures hamilton talks about what manufacturing and economic diversity can do for people. and he wrote what i consider to be the mos

this is part of a conference hosted by george washington university. it also included a discussion with foreign intelligence officials who talk about the challenges russia and china pose. >> my name is john brennan. thank you for being here and supporting this important endeavor. i want to first thank president forhen that, b.j. penn, their outstanding hospitality. thank you to all of the staff and support here at gw university. george washington is a true center of excellence, particularly in the realm of national security and cyber studies. i am thrilled to have some individuals with ties to gw involved in today's proceedings. i'm confident it will be a fascinating day of panel in debate. having gw serve as our setting made a lot of sense for several reasons. for starters, it is nice to return to one's roots. myself asalking about much as i would have enjoyed being an alum. instead, i'm talking about the organization i have had the honor of leading for 3.5 years, the central intelligence agency. we are currently sitting a few blocks from the former h

what do you want to get across with george washington?'s so important is i wrote these books because i was tired at my own kids looking at reality show tv stars and loud mouth athletes. with george washington i wanted to give them the best lesson. we have so few leaders. i want my son to know what it means to be a leader. this is what the book is there for. leadership in the i am george washington is not about being in charge, it's about taking care of those in your charge. >> yeah. we hear some of the pictures in the book and some of the pages. you'll read this and get a quick competency on george washington, true, false, the cherry tree. things about leadership. these are george washington words. always look out for those who put faith in you. always forge your own road. we do those things. >> that's exactly right. what they're doing is looking out for us. when he finished the revolutionary war, king george of england famously said, he could have been king of america. we could have made him a king and washington said he's going back to

and george washington's army was 10 percent african-american which is far higher than the proportion of african-americans in the northern population were all the soldiers came from. so they serve better rate of twice that of the civilian population in the northern states. and one in rhode island regiment was two-thirds black. if you recall those paintings at the start to show the surrender at cornwallis it shown exclusively as a revolution involving white people. princess benjamin franklin you are wondering how he would fly that kite in a thunderstorm be he was assisted by cherubs. [laughter] pdf decided to stay loyal to the empire is most conspicuous example of a family is being divided by the revolution and then the book i tend to avoid a referring to the patriots as americans because there are americans of all sides loyalists were americans as well and from that perspective probably peaked at 20% in did decline over the course of the award the dishabille the patriots were 80% at the start because there were at least equal number of people who wanted to stay out of the war and they

in 2013, causing massive traffic jams for cars, emergency vehicles, and school buses on the george washington bridge. >> no cars are really coming our way. >> reporter: today in a federal courthouse, prosecutors said a former port authority official told new jersey governor chris christie two days into the crisis that it was no accident. state officials allegedly closed lanes to the bridge to punish a local mayor who didn't endorse christie's re-election david wildstein, who was appointed to the port authority by christie testified that he and his boss, bill baroni, met with the governor at this 9/11 memorial service. according to wildstein, baroni told christie, governor, there's a tremendous amount of traffic in ft. lee. please know mayor sokolich is frustrated. wildstein told the court the governor laughed when he heard the news. today christie once again denied being involved. >> i had no role in authorizing it. i had no knowledge of it. evidence ever put forward that i did. >> reporter: baroni and christie's former deputy chief of staff bridget anne kelly are on trial fighting charges fo

number one, after reading about and studying and writing a book on george washington, mr. brookhiser saw there is someone -- a right-hand aid and man in his life, and wrote a tremendous book in 1999. the book is only 220 pages long. that deserves an award. if you can tell alexander hamilton's life and all the dimensions of it in 220 pages, it is magnificent. the other thing we really appreciate about mr. brookhiser, it really gets the true hamilton. and going to the primary sources, it has been really helpful to the cause of looking for people to learn about the accurate characterization of alexander hamilton where many of us didn't hear about him until a couple of years ago because of the mischaracterization. we thank him for that book. really was quite the accomplishment. number two, mr. brookhiser was a historian curator for alexander hamilton, the man who made modern america, which was displayed at the new york historical society in 2004. how many were able to see that? good. he worked with jim basker and nicole siri and then there were alexander hamilton exhibit panel

new jersey governor chris christie has knowledge of the scheme to cause a traffic jam on the george washington bridge in 2013 for political payback. but today a key witness testified that not only did christie know about it at the time, he laughed about it, too. nbc's stephanie gosk has more. >> reporter: bridgegate lasted four painful days in 2013, causing massive traffic jams for cars, emergency vehicles, and school buses on the george washington bridge. >> no cars are really coming our way. prosecutors said a former port authority official told new jersey governor chris christie two days into the crisis that it was no accident. state officials allegedly closed lanes to the bridge to punish a local mayor who didn't endorse christie's re-election campaign. david wildstein, who was appointed to the port authority by christie testified that he and his boss, bill baroni, met with the governor at this 9/11 memorial service. according to wildstein, baroni told christie, governor, there's a em ft. lee. please know mayor sokolich is frustrated. wildstein told the court the governor laughed when he h

distance from the fact we have educational institutions in a pluralistic fashion. >> what did george washington say? >> but the idea of national greatness. at the time it was a deeply important revolution and the new world that they try to go about but most europeans in particular don't have the cultural or institutional education that partly motivated washington but that puts it in the farewell address and was also deeply aware that we need to cultivate a certain type of knowledge that they self consciously thought about this knowledge to carry forward the idea is so that was of way to speak to the nation to carry forward. looking back we perceive a success but yet that is the founding generation was vividly aware that reforming government and certainly they were aware that washington thought as a way to nurture and sustain what they helped create. >>host: house sectarian? >> mixed. but when we looked back at curriculum it seems they were in the business and that theology centered around curriculum and knowledge. at the same time, people were not going into a the clergy. with the founding gene

of george washington." >> [ laughing ] yeah. >> ...and the pride of a modest family. >> my father was a truck driver. we got along, but we were very frugal. >> so how did she end up with washington's wallet? >> are you a descendant of george washington? >> no, i'm not. and it's quite a long story. >> a story about love of country... >> we want these things because we want a connection to these men. >> ...the allure of big bucks... >> i established a value for the wallet. >> it was a lot of money. >> ...and some good old-fashioned intrigue... >> someone took the wallet and disappeared. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ]

. >> the george washington bridge. he knew about it. hey. having breakfast with people every day of your lives. they're closing off the largest bridge in the world, the biggest in the united states, traffic flowing during rush hour. i would say there's less than 1% chance. there could be. he knew about it. >> you got to tip your cap, when he's right, he's right. in the end, we learn this week that both the defense attorneys the and the prosecutors in the bridgegate trial, people who work in the office that christie himself used to run, that's the prosecutors, believe the governor knew about the lane closures on the george washington bridge as they were happening. according to prosecutors, two of the main players bragged about the stunt to christie at a memorial marking the 12th anniversary of 9/11. i'm joined by michael daly. good to have you back. that photo, what do we know now about what was going on at that event? >> well, if you are down there and you saw these guys yucking it up in the middle of a memorial, i mean, that was offensive e

george washington. abraham lincoln. and robert e. lee.braham lincoln has always seemed to me to represent all that is best in america in terms of opportunity and the readiness of americans always to rise up and exalt those who live by truth, whose lives are examples of integrity and dedication to our country. i would like to speak about two or three characteristics of lincoln that i think most of us should now remind ourselves possibly was a prophet. he was a great leader. i would like to remind you of the methods he used in his leadership. you can find no instance where he stood up in public and excoriated another american. you can find no instance where he is reported to have slapped or pounded a table and struck a pose of a pseudo-dictator or an arbitrary individual. rather, the qualities that he showed and exhibited were forbearance and extreme patience. once lincoln called upon general mcclellan, and the president went over to his house, a process which i assure you has been reversed long ago. general mcclellan decided he did not wan

chris christie continued to deny knowing about a plan to create a traffic jam leading to the george washingtonridge as political pay back against the new jersey who would not endorse the governor >> did i know about it? did i have anything to do with it? the answer was no in january of 2014, it's been no every day since. >> reporter: chris christie did not hold back tonight on his ask the governor radio show when asked about bridge gate. an accusation that is he was involved. >> i knew nothing about the lane realignments before they happened. i knew nothing about the lane realignments as they were happening. i had nothing to do with the planning of it. i had no -- nothing to do with authorizing it. >> reporter: in court today, chris christie's former friend david wildstein testify that governor chris christie himself was told of the political motivation behind the traffic jams near the george washington bridge. wildstein says he and former port authority executive bill baroni bragged to chris christie about the lane closures during a 1911 ceremony in 2013. according to wildstein chris christie

how often do you cross the george washington bridge? we are political leaning have any impact on if you can judge estimate by a republican or democrat? i asked michael, the lawyer for bridget and kelly what he looks were. >> i look for jurors to be fair and partial. objective and listen to the evidence and render a decision based on that. >> dozens of jurors came and were asked questions by the defense and prosecution. they provided surprising answers including one man who said, i have my thoughts on what happened. i can't erase how i feel. or how i thought. he was promptly excuse. plenty of other of other people have admitted that they do not only follow the news but have read and seen a lot about the bridge gate case. it will be interesting going forward to see how both sides handle this. i was struck by one woman's comment on her questionnaire which was read in the court, it should be chris christie on trial. people from both sides of the spectrtrum tried to figure out a way to judge based on the fact and nothing else. that's exactly

former associates, baroni and kelly are accused of intentionally closing lanes on the george washingtonbridge in order to punish the mayor. the sudden lane closure in september of 2013 led to several days of massive traffic jams in ft. lee. christie denied any involvement. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >> 5:09. clouds over philadelphia. we'll get sunshine today, too. that's a live view looking towards the art museum and boathouse row in the clear. but you'll find fog in new jersey, not in wilmington. in the clear there, too. get ready for a warm day, philadelphia and wilmington into the 80s this afternoon. now, 66 degrees in delaware and the çsuburbs, lehigh valley ist 62, just shy of the 70 degree mark in philadelphia. we're getting the thickest fog, temperatures are running cooler than yesterday in south jersey. medford, lumberton, florence, you'll find fog in these communities. robbinsville, 66 degrees. once the temperature starts to climb and it will, in spite of the clouds still overhead, those clouds will be thinning out for some breaks of sunshine, especially farther

and is now with the middle east media research institute and seamus hughes, deputy director of george washington university's program on extremism. seamus hughes, when you hear the phrase radicalization of cyber space what does that mean? >> the explosion of using social media to recruit particularly in america to isis. they used twitter for a number of years and now telegram. you see the one and two individuals n u.s. and are not finding like-minded people at the mosque centers and they are reaching online. >> host: mr. fernandez, what does the team mean to you? >> it me it is a little broader. a space where image, persona and reality is portrayed which is part of the tool that is used in the radicalization process. people think a guy watches an isis video and becomes a jihadist robot. it is more complicated than that. that is one element of the process that takes a person from being one thing to something else. it is like anything else. love, hate, anger, fear, complicated things. so the social media aspect is an important part of it but i think sometimes we go from exaggerated to minimizing.

i'd like to welcome you to the campus of george washington university and to the ethos and profession of intelligence conference. i am very pleased that george washington university is once again able to partner with the cia and to host their third national security conference. i'm b.j. penn and it's my privilege to be your host for this morning's session. i echo the director's comments. he's just really great, in my humble opinion. and i share his excitement. we have a very, very aggressive schedule today. the world has changed since my initial exposure to the intelligence community as with many of you my initial exposure i was very brief on targets and the threats surrounding those targets. sitting on the white deck of an aircraft carrier when we saw the launch and aaa firing the briefers really, really gain credibility. started this very deeply. we have a wonderful schedule going today. there are a lot of people here that will be briefed and mentioned later in the program. our goal is to look over the horizon and get a glimpse of the issue that will shape our world today and in the

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