speech from the president well the last time we saw that was in fact 7 decades ago with president harry s. truman at a time when the united states was at war with korea so what are people saying about this this new turn of events. well this as you know is a divided country but it's definitely a different atmosphere here on the mall many of the families i've spoken to are delighted to be out on this holiday spending time with their family and seeing revamped celebrations are even when i spoke to one man a veteran of the vietnam war he was shot when he was 19 and he says that this is the 1st time that he feels that the u.s. for celebrations of the president has sufficiently paid tribute to the military that said of course protests are expected at the washington monument the antiwar group code pink will fly the trump baby balloon we also about baby balloon in london of course although it will not be flying will go away into the sky due to the flyover restrictions in preparation of the air force one fly over the democrats have come out saying that whilst this is a day of course of patriotism it shoul

it was the day that harry s truman wasn't sworn in as the next president. -- was sworn in as the nextdent. we are inside the import cabin on the missouri, this is a large space and well decorated. it is for the captain of the missouri when the ship is in port, specifically, or when he is out visiting dignitaries and he needs to act as a diplomat in a foreign port. so the uss missouri mello oil association has a very large historic collection, in large part of it has actually been donated by former crewmembers. the collection spans from the turn-of-the-century, with the original battleship missouri come all the way to modern day, with the current uss missouri submarines. while we are here we have pulled out some artifacts. two are important pieces of the ship's history. they are both fragments of the plane that hit the missouri in 1945. so the piece on the left still has factory paint on it, while the piece on the right was taken by a crew member and vanished -- member and painted. they have had different lives, but they both ended up back here. the next two things we have on display t

harry truman said we tend to go through these periods where social factors -- in the case of the 1920's, immigration, demographic and social change, in which we main street the more -- in whihch we mainstream the most toxic parts. we are in a period now where we have seen a mainstreaming of some of that less than desirable behavior. do you see analogues between where america was in the 1920's politically and socially and where we are today? certainly, charlottesville. >> yes, to do. it scares me. yes and no, there are no true/ false answers. somebody said history doesn't repeat itself but it sure does rhyme. i think there are enough ryhmes here to make me a little anxious. there are so many people standing up, more than there were in the 1920's. there are more profiles encourage, more genuine attention to american ideals, i think. >> my perception is at the present time there is a growing support for white supremacy. if my perception has any validity, is that a legacy of the klan? >> the klan didn't create pure white attitudes or prejudices. they picked up on them. they picked up on sci

harry truman stepped in and said, no, we're not going to segregate our services. we're not going to discriminate against those of color in our services in the 1940's, post world war. there were some who said that would destroy our military effectiveness. they're saying the same thing about gays and transgender. they were wrong then, they're wrong now. this bill cuts $17 billion. the chairman and the ranking member and i have had discussions through the years. we need to make sure that we spend our money smartly. and not just blindly spend money . we need to make sure that every dollar is spent effectively. but that our national security is not in any way undermined. i believe the savings that have and affected are focused taking that money and used for effective items and taking it away from expensive and ineffective wall on the southern border that the president wants to spend. it also acknowledges this serious national security challenges posed by climate change. surely we know how critical to our national security the effects of climate change are showing. we experience that just -- experienced that just the other day here in washington, d.c. requires the penta

it would delay maintenance for the harry s. truman aircraft care yes it would prevent a guidance missile from continuing, it would cripple research and development and it would prevent the pentagon from aligning its funding with upcoming priorities. we need to realize a fact of life around here. i didn't exactly get my way in the last november election, madam president. if i had my druthers, the house of representatives would have remained in republican hands with republican -- with a republican speaker and a republican chair. the voters, in their wisdom, decided to vote for divided government last november. our team was elected to continue leadership in the united states senate. the democratic leadership was elected to the house of representatives, and i can assure you if i were writing a defense appropriation bill, which is half of discretionary spending, and all of the other appropriation bills, which is so-called nondefense discretionary, it would look far different from the bill that speaker nancy pelosi proposes to write. i can