our guest is virginia representative gerry connolly. later on, we will talk about the nsa surveillance programs with pennsylvania republican congress was at perry. we will be right back. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> it was essential to remove france from canada for the united states to have the opportunity to achieve its independence. and a few people, led by franklin, recognize the possibilities for america to become a great country. let me just put it in different words from what i said a moment ago. to american achievement, win a half million three people and half a million slaves, for them to get the british to evict the french from their borders and the french to help them evict the british to manipulate the two greatest powers in the world was an astonishing achievement. >> conrad black on the emergence of the united states as a world power. saturday at 7:00 p.m. eastern, art of book tv this weekend on c-span tw2. , and to gettysburg think about

coming up next is democratic congressman gerry connolly on politics you don't go away you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so for you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize that everything you say you don't know i'm target market is a big issue. is . it possible to navigate the economy with all the details such as dixon information and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream headlines stating it's in your mind. the law. i was a new alert animation scripts scare me a little loopy. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news in the name of the alexander family cry tears of joy at a great thing that has. had a core of wall around alive there's a story made for a movie is playing out in real life. please. load. now joining us representative jerry totally democrat of virginia serves on the house oversight and government reform committee great pleasure to welcome him what do you make of this thing. well you know it raises so many questions about. the

coming up next is democratic congressman gerry connolly on politicking don't go away. that was a new alert and a big scare me a little bit. there is breaking news tonight and we are continuing to follow the breaking news. alexander's family cry tears of joy and great things out there that had read in a court of law thrown online is the story made for that movie is playing out in real life. is it possible to navigate the economy with all the details it's text and misinformation and media hype will keep you up to date by decoding the mainstream state it's in your right. now joining us representative jerry connelly democrat of virginia serves on the house oversight and government reform committee great pleasure to welcome what do you make of this old thing. well you know it raises so many questions about. the keeping of secret security clearance is. who gets hard and how they get hired. you know you it's chaos if everybody decides that i don't like these particular national secrets and so i'm going to reveal all of this is to you. i know. it true i don't know that he is a

coming up this hour, we will talk with house foreign affairs committee member gerry connolly about this week's g8 summit, the iran.ct in syria then an update on the national security agency data collection program with pennsylvania congressman scott perry. and our spotlight magazine series continues later. "christian science monitor" correspondent will discuss his article on school prayer in the u.s., 50 years after the supreme court banned the practice. first, we will take your phone eets., e-mail, and tweake [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] host: welcome to "washington wednesday, june 19. work on an immigration bill continues in the senate. tea party patriots are gathering in washington for an audit the irs rally. in europe, president obama will give a speech later today at the brandenburg gate. yesterday the director of the national security agency told congress that programs have prevented more than 50 terrorist lot. it -- we would like to get your reaction to this story.