in one letter, herbert hoover says i have wilson here. he is going to take this new mine and build it in record time, and if he doesn't, he's going to be back in the u.s. so fast and so poor, he won't know where to eat. >> the interesting thing about , while they were doing their corporate depredations, they were also doing some good in the world. and hoover, while he was going around making his fortune, he was also supporting back in california a lot of people, fellow students and family members. he was paying the salary of the librarian at stanford. he was donating rare books and jesuit publications that he picked up many china to stanford. -- in china to stanford. most remarkably, there was an accountant for the firm that hoover worked at who embezzled a ton of money from the firm and almost put it out of business, went to jail, and hoover decided to support the man's wife and child so that they could maintain their standard of living while the guy was in jail. so he was doing a lot of what we might call dastardly things in the busines

arguably one of the last good days of herbert hoover's administration. american railroads are distinguished between british railroads. britain is where we turn to for our inspiration building railroads and steam locomotives. the big distinguishing characteristic, british railroads were well built, level grades, stone brenlgidges, larg locomotives. they had fenced off right of ways. in the united states we're moving fast. go. go. go. we don't spend a lot of time making things permanent. our railroads much less expensively built than british railroads. they steppeded to be rough and bouncy. the reason 440 worked well handle the rough track we would build wood bridges rather than stone bridges and we didn't build fence around right-of-way. it was not uncommon for livestock wandered onto a track. that gets to be a problem if a train is coming along. generally in that situation the cow comes out on the short end of the conflict, doesn't survive but the body could still be caught underneath the train and cause it to derail. the cow catchers designed not to pus

primary actor herbert hoover, secretary of commerce through those rules, 90 years ago, still govern the way we actually allow resources to be used in our economy today. it is tremendously important, fundamental to innovation, to technological progress, the way we talk, that way we get medicine. everything is changing to wireless, for obvious efficiency reasons but we have a lot of problems still with some of the ery rigid -- i would say traditional old-fashioned rules put into place and previous generations. we are trying to break away. it has been a pattern of liberalization that has been extremely successful, but we have a long way to go, and so much more could come forth if we really understood that. brian: what is a radio spectrum? tom: it is a space through which signals travel. it was originally thought to be a gaseous substance, the ether. it turns out, that is not t. even in dead space, these radio signals can still travel. they are used recommendations. radio transmits, radio receives. we put stuff together and all of a sudden, you are in the wireless world. they think that is

by march, 1922, the american relief administration under herbert hoover is paid toing ten million russian million russians. but in march, 1923, lenin suffers a stroke. the following january, he is dead. stalin and zinn nov yef force him into exile. three successive five year plans are designed to emphasize constructive capacity. especially heavy industry and power output. russian industrial capacity rises nearly 300%. hydroelectric output is up nearly 8%. housing starts are less than population increase. if you're an average russian, this means more work, not enough to eat and less and less living space per family. if you don't work hard enough or if you plain there are plenty of trains to siberia where many hydroelectric dams are being built. on the other hand, if you work hard, you can get a metdal and small wage increase. that's better than a trip to the reindeer country. these are also the years of the great executions. how many people are permanently removed from circulation no one knows. in some provinces, as much as 4% of the population vanishes. zinoviev, who helped stalin seize p

the reasons we average just 1.5% economic growth under obama, worse than any president since herbert hoover, and we lost an entire decade of prosperity. e marxists tell us it's just trickled down economics and it's never worked. in fact, it's always worked. it worked when warren harding did it in the 1920 earks when john f. kennedy did it in the 1960's, when ronald reagan did it in the 1980's and les we forget it, when bill clinton approved the biggest capital gains tax cut in american history. concerns over the deficit are legitimate and must be addressed by spending reforms in the coming year. we must always remember that taxes and debt are driven by just one thing -- spending. the proof of these policies will manifest itself over the coming year and every american will be able to decide for themselves if this has made them better off. i think that's why the left has pulled out all the stops to defeat it. their arguments are exactly the same, economically illit rate attacks filled with class envy they made against reagan. when the american people awaken one day to find out it was morning

herbert hoover. president of the united states. he renamed the locomotive the president. you see the plaque and the date. really at that time it was called the edson institute. this place founded as a tribute to him. i thought it was interesting the place opened october 21, 1929. days before the stock market crashed. one of the last good days of hoovers administration. american railroads are distinguished from british railroads and britain is where we turn to in inspiration. but the big characteristic that is british railroads were well built. they often had stone bridges. substantial construction. they had really larger locomotives and fenced off right-of-way. in the united states of course we're always moving fast. go go go. so we don't spend time making things permanent. ou railroads were less expensively built. they tended to be rough and bouncy. part of the reason why the 440 worked well it could handle rough track. we build road bridges instead of stone. we didn't bother putting fence. and livestock wandered onto the track. it becomes a problem. the cow comes out on

about his book, "the political spectrum: the tumultuous liberation of wireless technology, from herbert hoover to the smartphone." politics history and of u.s. communications policy. at 8:00 eastern, the conversation between walt mossberg and the america online cofounder, steve case. c-span bus tour continues its 50 capital tour in january with stops in columbia, atlanta, and montgomery. they will speak with state officials during our live "washington journal" program. join us january 16 at 9:30 a.m. eastern for a stop in rodham, north carolina when our guest is north carolina attorney general, josh stein. a look at how violent extremists use social media, and what is being done about it. washington journal talks with a federal official who wrote a book about it. host: we continue our authors series, welcoming haroon ullah. his book was published in october called, "digital world war: islamists, extremists, and the fight for cyber supremacy. ullah, before we get into the fight for the digital battlefield first define some , terms for us, especially the important distinction you make in the tit

president herbert hoover wielded the trial as the cornerstone was laid into place. and very likely robert h jackson was watching from a position quite deep into the crowd, we will refer to that as a euchre seat. take aa that he would seat in this completed building on that seat behind me, what have in far-fetched. i doubt the daydream would have occurred in jackson's own mind even though it was a place of great confidence and high ambition. and yet it came to pass within nine years. is for a myriad of reasons the president of united states, franklin d roosevelt. the second date i will use to introduce this evening is may 13, 1952. it was a moment when roosevelt had been gone seven years, but he came intensely to mind that day, particularly robert jackson. -- on a day in two days that day, may 13, 1950 two, the solicitor general of the united states who would also be acting attorney general, speaking in his oral argument directly to justice jackson argued that truman had the constitutional power to seize private property, lawyerrett: and his told him he had the const

nobody leaves an investigation except herbert hoover. how was he viewed by current agents whether or not he was there. how was his tenure viewed? >> he had a lot of respect. he is a very rigorous person. he speaks with precision. he never would have gratuitously said a certain someone had been extremely careless, which was not a federal crime. wouldn't have let that slip. and i talked to him at length about six months ago, and he and comey got along great, but he wasn't terribly happy about the way that played out. >> he wasn't terribly happy about comey's behavior? >> that particular instance, i think, he thought was poor judgment. but they get along really well, having worked together for years. >> comey's public statements about mueller are glowing. >> and mueller's private statements about comey are glowing, too. so i think what happens now is that the fbi sticks with its counterintelligence investigation, and mueller looks at crime. and he looks at money. and he looks at obstruction of justice. the fbi is set up as an intelligence a

just think back to the herbert hoover days where he was a rogue bureaucrat because he had dirt on everyoneackmail them. you don't want bureaucrats not politically accountable. that's a reason the framers built in accountability to our constitution. >> that may be a legal answer, but think back to richard nixon to think there's an issue beyond a legal matter. sure, you can fire somebody or order someone to be fired, but it will have ramifications beyond a legal matter, correct? >> yeah. one of the things we see at the justice department is a bifurcation. that sort of political accountability, and a number of decisions are committed to career prosecutors, the civil service level, because avoiding that perception of any kind of pl politicizization. president trump appears to quite not understand that, as he talks about eric holder's loyalty to the president. >> the president lamented that jeff sessions isn't as loyal to him as eric holder was to president obama. >> his continuing attacks on jeff sessions are astounding to me, because sessions, in many respects, has been as loyal an attorney g

it was a treasury secretary under three different presidents including herbert hoover and he started the national counterpart. he was a very austere and autocratic man who forced his son to work for the family business, pittsburgh conglomerate. paul bought this we can place in virginia and after his father died he moved to the place full-time. he had racehorses and use enjoying the resources. during world war ii bunny suzman and paul mellon were both in the osf, which as you probably know was a predecessor to the cia. they were both station in london and they ring together. we are talking really small world. stacy was a major war hero doing daredevil stuff. paul was in a funny way nobody want to give them a serious post kassie was so wealthy. he began the work teaching horse riding infantry in kansas. he begged to go overseas. they sent him to england to work on victory gardens. he finally gets to the oss. they put him in a paper pushing chapter here are these two men rooming together and having interesting time of it. as i mentioned these world war ii letters were a lot of fun becau

i went to herbert hoover middle and school and the high school for the arts. i'm now a student at san francisco state university. i love san francisco. i was one of those kids on irving street. i totally get it, but i also have lived most of my life without getting into obsessive compulsive disorder and medical cannabis has been the single best thing that improved my quality of life and allowed me to continue being a productive member of my society. so barbary coast has my full support with the new location and i'm just one of almost a thousand patients who would benefit from a new location a little closer to home. thank you. >> next speaker, please. >> hello, my name is kit. i'm here leapting all the patients in the sunset, the veterans, the cancer patients that constantly make the trek all the way downtown, every day, to get their medicine. i think that the irving street location will benefit the community. there is lots of talk in restaurant owners that think that it's going to disrupt their business, but i think if anything, the mcd will improve the busine

herbert hoover's policy, although he never put it in these words, was basically take the idea, because is only one. if it doesn't work, try it again. if it doesn't work, try it again. above all, keep trying the same thing. they have been doing this ever since. if you concentrate all of the income in the country or the vast majority of it at the very top, it's certain that the economy may do all right for a while, but it's going to collapse. it's very interesting that the two points since the beginning of the 1920s at which the greatest percentage of national income was going to the top 0.01% occurred in 1928 and then again in 2007. both of those times around 6% of all the income going to the top 0.01%, which these days is somewhere around 13,000 to 15,000 households out of the entire population. in both cases, that concentration at the top led to an economic collapse. >> so this trickle-down theory, it's just a theory that has never been implemented and worked by your accounting here, and by history's accounting. in this article, you also mention the treasury secretary at the time was

times it neared on a quarterly basis 3% never on an annual basis we've never seen that since herbert hoover so katrina the idea is that we're about the facts your opinions are not facts. go ahead. >> well we're in a new age of media post 2016 election and a lot of the media particularly on the left are essentially still doing the bidding of the democrat party nare a political action committee for the dnc and they are continuing this narrative that everything about trump is bad and essentially it's emotional opposition. they still can't get over the loss and still can't accept the fact that donald trump won the election and so they just have to be against. fortunately, this is going to out weigh the media just as the campaign did. people are going to have money in their pockets, their taxes are going to go down and they will be grateful for it. liz: katrina pierson we love having you on. >> merry christmas. liz: now to this story deputy fbi director andrew mccabe under scrutiny after delivering what some lawmakers are calling a conflicting testimony that didn't jive with what other people ar

then herbert hoover. solution was to send eleanor out to the camps and have her sing songs and listen to the veteran plate and sympathize with them. he also offered them jobs. 25,000 civilian conservation jobs would be set aside for veterans. with those two actions, the veterans went away peacefully. and he was able to go through with his regulatory changes. brian: the economy act of 1933 was what? what did that do? john: it literally repealed all federal entitlement programs for veterans compensation programs. it repealed the entitlement of veterans had to world war i, disability benefits, rebellion benefits, spanish-american war benefits. the only entitlement program that was exempted was the civil war pension program. but in addition, it allowed the president to set the new rules of eligibility and allowed to set new benefit levels. brian: you say the night before it was introduced he had his first fireside chat. this fireside chat, seems to me, because he had 30-some, like twitter in those days. here

herbert hoover ate under it. planted by andrew jackson during the campaign, 1828 to 1837.. an expert told her to do it. andrew jackson lives on. not as big. pieces will be taken off and planted elsewhere. so don't panic, america! >> and thank you very much. don't ever miss an episode of "the five." there's a quiz at the end. make sure to use your dvr. now it's time to go to mike emanuel. he's my only friend. >> aren't you usually taking a nap this time of day? >> i am. that's why i didn't make much sense. >> thanks for staying away. the heat is on at the fbi as a top republican says the agency is falling short on answering congress' questions. sorting fact or fiction. the president is planning on signing more legislation than any other administration. and we look at what is on the agenda for 2018. this is "special report." good evening. welcome to washington. i'm mike emanuel in for bret baier. another republican condemns the nation's top law enforcement agency over failing to comply with its probe into the so-called trump

herbert hoover, a chicken in every pot, a car in every garage that was his promise during the 1928 campaignp. voters appreciate it. they always do appreciate it if they think you are trying to help them. bill clinton got elected twice because he campaigned on actual tangible concerns of middle class people. that all seems like ancient history. democrats don't do that anymore. moderate democrats understand changing the minds of voters is hard. especially when you despise them and attack them for the sin of, i don't know, being white or male or privileged or hetero normative or whatever. they don't like you if you don't like them. so, you don't bother changing their minds. you change the voters themselves. look at virginia. it just happened there. the state's elected representatives decided long ago they didn't want the state's laws made by those who break them so they deprived convicted felons of the right to vote. terry mcauliff knew it would benefit his party if felon could say vote again, so he unilaterally restored those rights and attacked anyone who disagreed as baking got. remember th

>> i'm not sure we knew at that time that herbert hoover had no ability to deal wit. >> we saw the marketout of windows. >> i think it was clear when it was clear what hoover was doing was a total disaster, you were close enough to an election that he was moving. i think complete incompetence circumstances i think going to war in iraq measured up to that standard. thank you, ezra klein and thank you john feehery. the president has officially endorsed a man accused of pedophilia, we know about that, roy moore. and a top republican is defending tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires by implying that average americans are just wasting their money on women -- how do you actually mean that? loose women? what retalking about here? going down to the bar and buying drinks for everybody? what is he talking about? and of course booze. you're watching "hardball." so that's the idea. what do you think? hate to play devil's advocate but... i kind of feel like it's a game changer. i wouldn't go that far. are you there? he's probably on mute. yeah... gary won't like it. why? because he's gary. (phon

it's worked since herbert hoover. they're expecting it to happen again. >> the democrats saying the sky is going to fall because of this bill. if you look at the tax center's analysis, 91% of middle class earners get a tax cut on average of $1100. once people see that money coming back into their paychecks, and maybe not so many things happening in the short term that are bad, won't this backfire on the democrats? >> there will be voters who look at democrats and say, things were just not as bad as you said they were. i think a big concern for democrats, we're living in a time where there is so many conversations about inequality. and the reality is, although most people will get a cut. it's very clear that some people will get more of a cut than others. a lot of voters are uncomfortable with that idea. >> the tax cuts for individuals are temporary. >> that's right. >> the tax cuts for corporations are permanent. that's a hard thing to sell. >> yeah, that's right. ten years, will get republicans through the midterms a

herbert hoover came out of retirement and wrote the civil service act. david: right. mr. a lot of good things. and i feel, you know, that george and i have been blessed because we were reasonably young. barack obama is young. so you got, you can be double lucky. you can serve eight years as president and do some other good things. david: john kennedy was once asked at a press conference, what do you think about this job and would you recommend the job? he said not to others right now, so i can finish my tenure. would you recommend the job to people? would you say it is worth the aggravation factor to become president, or would you recommend they pursue something else? mr. clinton: in a heartbeat. [applause] david: the highest calling of mankind i have often thought was private equity. but you would saving president of the united states is better than private equity? [laughter] mr. clinton: i don't know. mr. bush: we make $200,000 a year in pension. what do you make? [laughter] david: money isn't everything. but yes. [laughter] mr. clinton: if we could say one serious thin

about his book, "the political spectrum: the tumultuous liberation of wireless technology, from herbert hoovero the smartphone." politics history and of u.s. communications policy. at 8:00 eastern, the conversation between walt mossberg and the america online cofounder, steve case. c-span bus tour continues its 50 capital tour in january with stops in columbia, atlanta, and montgomery. they will speak with state officials during our live "washington journal" program. join us january 16 at 9:30 a.m. eastern for a stop in rodham, north carolina when our guest is north carolina attorney general, josh stein. a look

not herbert hoover, jay edgar hoover. we have jay edgar hoover type fbi it appears that the leadership level. when you have three top people who are very questionable involvement, violating the hatch act, talking about the general counsel with the left wing publication mother jones to try and get up the phony dossier that mp and president trump a couple weeks or three weeks before the election. with clinton supporter, trump hater in charge of investigating. i hope christopher reddy is going to take this leadership of the f. t. i a part. they need to clean house. i frankly wish we had a new attorney general because there's a lot of the department of justice allow and we need somebody there. i wish we had somebody else running the justice department. it is to be cleaned out. this is serious. i think it was mild and i would rather see his surrogates. i would rather see other republican leaders point out this problem. congress is investigating it. we need another special prosecutor to investigate the malfeasance under loretto

the last president to propose raising taxes with a declining, rapidly declining economy was herbert hoover for the republicans. stuart: david, answer me this question, jeff flake voted for it, but bob corker did not. was bob corker'sç opposition basically personal because the president had been nasty to him? >> i think you have to let that speak. i had a conversation with one of those individuals, or a discourse with one of those individuals the morning before the vote and made the case -- this is austerity economics. i mean, this is what the imf proposed for greece and look how that ended up. i said you don't want to go there. i said, but i think that -- i don't understand what the personal motives there and all the rest, but i do know this, that it's worked out, and i think it's time the move on for those guys. stuart: we've got a house-senate conference committee, and they're going to work out what the final deal will be. i take it that they're only going to tweak this thing as opposed to major rewrites. is that correct? >> actually, i think there's a little more going on there. you kn

last year was herbert hoover.mas eve fire at the white house in 1929. commemorative one. we pause every few years and honor a significant day or individual related to the white house. this honors the irish architect james hoban and crushed into that resin is actually stone from the quarry of virginia where the stone from the white house came from. ainsley: who do you use the funds for? >> we are a nonprofit organization. and we support conservation, preservation, and restoration at the white house. those beautiful state rooms. we keep them that way. we acquire art and furnishings for the permanent white house collection. and we are a private partner. these are nongovernment funded. brian: last two real quick? >> lineal con 1999. george healey portrait that hangs above the man tell in the state dining room. call village coolidge was the first president to light the christmas tree that one lights up on the back little switch. steve: not only this year is available but all. >> a lot of people now get a separate tree