hoover's idea. his original intention was to insist what's in the original riga agreement was defeated. 1 million soviet children. but his plan was quickly revised after the american relief workers made, their way to the towns and villages, the volga region, and filled their reports with descriptions of piles of tangled corpses. i'll spare that. there's a lot of it in in the exhibit of hundreds of thousands of ragged, vermin ridden and desperate refugees fleeing famine zone in search of food. you a scene at a local railway station here on the volga and also of children. the cries of children, many with bellies swollen as you see here. a couple of the kids have that problem the edema swollen from eating grass in leaves and bark and worse. in other, this was not simply hunger and extreme hunger, which the area had been used to dealing with. this was mass starvation. clearly the relief was going to have to be extended not only to more children, but also it would have to adults. the area had never fed a

herbert hoover. the three volume, the life of herbert hoover, details hoover's life from his birth in 1874, through his career as the head of the u.s. food administration. nash, also edited two of his unpublished book manuscripts. the crusade years. 1933 to 1955. herbert hoover's lost memoir of the new deal and its aftermath. highly acclaimed a movement in america since 1945. it has undergone several expansions and revisions. please welcome, the first speaker,. and i read about that. >>> thank you, tom. i could probably make that a little bit darker? it is supposed to come back. we are hoping the map comes back to brightness and focus. maybe i can coax it into that? thank you, tom, for the introduction. today we mark a centennial. two centennial's. 100 years ago, there was a massive famine in soviet russia. also, 100 years ago, a monumental american relief mission. in the summer of 1921, soviet russia, was the scene of a truly catastrophic famine. the famine was caused by several factors. first off,

as president, herbert hoover reviewed the abused recognition. hoover must be punished. by the 1930s, the party line instructed that the purpose of his a had been espionage under the cover of philanthropy. that is what they were saying. in 1947 came the marshall plan and european recovery program better known as the marshall program. economic assistance of europe for four years. he was offered to the soviet union and eastern european satellites, as well. it wasn't soon before moscow turned on the off anyway. equally predict was the hysterical picture of rejection. profess to see in the marshall plan quote, the grading snout of the imperialist beast of prey peeping behind from the intertwined wakes. they could have been talking about the ara at that time in 1947. the magazine plucked the quote and used it as a foil for an article by colonel haskel titled, how we said saved the starting russian. finally, the negative portrayal of the ara in the soviet union would continue right up to the ends of the soviet regime or until he became president of 1985. this is a favorite exa

edgar hoover and it led in part that's one of the reasons that hoover became obsessed with really destroying king. it began with the communism and with the fact that king dared to criticize the fbi. yes. king said that the fbi had a problem because it had no black agents in, the south, no black fbi agents operating in the south. they were supposed to be helping to protect the civil rights marchers, the activists. but how could they when they were all white and they were all in bed, basically, the white police and sheriff's departments in the southern towns in which they were working and most of them were members, many of them were kkk members. so when king said this to edgar, who was famously sensitive to criticism, became, how dare this barrhead as he liked to call king, how this guy criticize me and and that's really a big part of why the entire weight of the government's law enforcement bureau came down on one moral leader. those are some of the strong men that surrounded. king. tell me about the strong who worked there. skin off the bones. don't let me get personal here and oftentimes we

now, hoover didn't know of that letter but hoover knew full well what fdr was saying on the campaign trail in pursuit of the democratic nomination. and then he drives it home, fdr of course, in that speech of his, that acceptance speech. it's important. that acceptance speech is a promise of a new deal. he takes this agenda he has laid out and promises a new deal. moreover, i'm pretty sureth it's in that speech, he actually says that he that economic laws are not a product of nature. basically they are humanly created. that is one of the most radical statements of the modern age. at the cannes thing would almost expect to hear from the likes of karl marx, okay? so hoover in one way how does he come to judgment as radical? the guys was very privileged background, our man fdr. but in many ways hoover saw what a lot of people may not have seen, that he was confronted politically by a radical who was going to literally bring an end to the gilded age order, the gilded age political and economic order and is going to do it not only by harnessing powers of a democratic government but engage

now, hoover didn't know of that letter, but hoover knew full well what fdr was saying on the campaign, in pursuit of the democratic nomination, and then he drives it home. fdr, of course, in that speech of his that acceptance speech is important at acceptance speeches, promise of a new deal, he takes this agenda. he's laid out and he promises a deal. moreover i'm pretty sure it's in that speech he actually says that he laws are not a perfect nature they basically they are humanly created that is one of the most radical statements of the modern age this kind of thing it almost expect to hear from the likes of. karl marx okay. so hoover's in one way how does he come judge him as a radical? the guy's from, as you know, very privileged background. our our man, fdr. but in many ways, hoover saw a lot of people may not have seen that he was confronted politically by a radical who was to literally bring an end to the gilded age order the gilded age political and economic order. and he was going do it not only by harnessing the powers of democratic government, but he was going to engage ameri

now, hoover didn't know about the letter. full well what fdr wasde saying on the campaign trl in pursuit of the democratic nomination. he drives it home, fdr courts come in that speech of his death acceptance speech. an acceptance speech is the promise of the new deal. he takes this agenda he is laid esout in promises a new deal. moreover i'm pretty sure it's in that speech heay actually says economic laws are not of nature. basically they are humanly created. that's one of the most radical statements of the modern age. that's the kind of thing you almost expect h to hear from the likes of karl marx, okay? so in one way a guy from this very privileged background and in many ways hoover saw what a lot of people may not have seen, that he was confronted politically by a radical who was going to literally bring an end to the gilded age order, the gilded age political and economic order and he'd do it not only by harnessing the powers of a democratic governor but he would engage americans in harnessing that power and empowering t

lexis by the reagan institute -- --the hoover institution all os were working.e have to make a concerted effort to rebuild our confidence but confidence in who we are as a peoplenf confidence or democratic institutions and principles and processes. and i think we can do that, right? we have to do is demand more from political leaders who are too often compromising principles to score partisan political points. butt we cannot wait for them either, right? we have to do our part to trecognize the great promise of america. to celebrate the fact that we have a say in how we are governed for as will said i don't think the chinese people are any people are predisposed to not wanting a say. we live under rule of law we have freedom of speech, freedom of expression. we need to encourage institutions to reform themselves. i would say the state is one of those it has work to do. but ultimately i think the number one priority for us these days are the education. with you and jamie and will. we learn the history of the reagan years you see the contrast between the carter mal

all of us in the hoover institution were all working this space so we have to make a concerted effortild our confidence who we are as a people and in our democratic institutions and pencil and processes. i think we can do that. i think what we can do is demand more from political leaders too often are compromising principles to score points. but we cannot wait for them either we have to you are part to recognize that great promise of america and to celebrate the fact that we have a say in how we are governed. i don't think the chinese people or anyone is culturally predisposed to not want to say and how they are governed we should celebrate we have freedom of speech and freedom of expression and we need to encourage institutions to reform themselves. the fourth estate is one of those and has some work to do. but ultimately the number one priority is the education particularly it is our history as i'm so excited to participate in this discussion. because when you learn the history of the reagan years , you see the contrast between the carter malaise and a crisis of confidence in the se

so did hoover know? in but hoover knew and orchestrated the deadly raid.ck on the book fairs and festivals tab or search beverly. >> you are watching tv for complete television schedule visit booktv.org. follow along behind the scenes on social media cap of tv on twitter, instagram and facebook. >> in-depth program, best-selling author. empire of the summer moon, most recently his majesty's airship about a british airship that crashed and went up in flames in 1930 telling more people than when it caught fire and was destroyed seven years later

hoover didn't know that letter hoover new well fdr was saying on the campaign trail in pursuit of thec nominationdrives it will invest each of his . that's acceptance speech. the acceptance speech is the promise of a new deal. he takes this agenda and promises a new deal. moreover and it's in that speech he says economic loss are not determinative nature. basically they are dramatically created, that is one of the most radical statements of the modern age . it's one of the things once likely to hear from karl marx so in one day if he has come to judgment from his privileged background, our man fdr but in many ways hoover saw what a lot of people may not have seen, he was confronted politically by radical who was going to literally bring an end to the gilded age were, the gilded age political and economic order and was going to do it not only my missing the power of democratic engagement but engage in harnessing the power and empowering them to do so. i've come away little by little i came to the conclusion fdr was arrival, maybe not in the same sense as the standard radical who buys i

one was president hoover and the other was donald hoover trump. only two presidents in american history. my predecessor promised to be the greatest job producer in history. it did not work out that way. he lost 2 million jobs over the course of his presidency. 2 million. we created 13.4 million new jobs. we added millions more. we have seen record lows of unemployment. i focused on is my whole career. particularly for african-americans and hispanic workers and veterans. workers without high school diplomas. the lowest unemployment rate in 70 years. when i got elected, i promised i would want an immense ration like america. i got for women in the cabinet that any president has in history. more women than men in the captain. i put more black women on the appellate court in state court and every other president combined in american history. a higher share of working age americans in the workforce then any time in the past 20 years. we are growing the economy. my dad used to have a saying. i am not making this up. he said a job is about dignity and re

- [announcer] "firing line with margaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. [bright upbeat music] - roya mahboob, welcome to "firing line." - thank you for having me here. - it's been two years since the fall of afghanistan to the taliban, but i wanna take you back to the first time that the taliban took over afghanistan in the 1990s when you were an eight year old girl. what was it like living in afghanistan in the 1990s? - i mean, at that time, obviously, the situation was different. and i just remember the day that the taliban took over the city. they came to all the houses and they collected the tvs and books. and from the window of my house, i just see that they turn everything in the fire. and i see the ideas, the freedom is turned to ash. and it made me angry. but then we left afghanistan. - you ft wi

- [announcer] "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - walter isaacson, welcome to "firing line." - thank you, margaret. great to be here. - you spent two years shadowing elon musk. in 680 pages, you set out to answer the question, could he have been more chill and still be the one launching us towards mars and an electric vehicle future? what's your answer to that question now? - you know, you gotta take elon musk the whole cloth. the absolute intense person is what's getting his rockets launched. it also makes him a very difficult character, but if you had a chill elon musk, a restrained elon musk, we'd all probably like being around him a bit more sometimes, but i don't think he'd be the one shooting the rockets to mars or getting us into the electric vehicle future. - you agreed to

he was personally blackballed by hoover as a young man, light glowing recommendations because hoover found out that ford had been involved with america first. at yale. he spent more time at yale then heated at the university of michigan. he knew about the legal problems six months before he ever acknowledged it. the interesting thing is that means the white house new earlier, too. ford was a much more ambitious figure than the persona. he wanted to be richard nixon's running mate in 1960. he discovered a process just before he left the presidency. he was approached by bill, secretary of the treasury, about john mitchell. the campaign manager who went to jail for his part in the watergate affair. ford turned him down. i don't think it was because of any sort of aftermath. quite simply, ford had been taught to look for the good in everyone. that led some people to see him as naive. the other side of the coin was, just as he was honest with people, he expected them to be honest with him. two days after the watergate break-in, ford confronted mitchell one-on-one and asked did you know an

there is no hoover dam or lincoln tunnel for this nonsense spending. just a new makework program when there is plenty of work to go around. some activists are calling it climate justice, but it does not sound like get by on president biden's watch. >> since 1979, in partnership with the cable industry, c-span has provided complete coverage of the halls of congress from the house and senate floors to congressional hearings, party briefings, and committee meetings. c-span gives you a front row seat to how issues are debated and decided, with no commentary, no interruptions, and completely unfiltered. c-span, your unfiltered view of government. >>d activists discussed democracy, freedom, and culture at the congressional black caucus foundation's annual conference in washington, d.c. live coverage starts at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and then in the afternoon, keegan speaks about the role of democracy in the u.s. you can also watch our network by using the free c-span now video app or go online at c-span.org. >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we ar

. >> reporter: -- hoover spent part of her childhood in bayport, and chose to come back here to buy a home last year. >> this is my community, a staple i always want to have in bay point. so i was excited and a little apprehensive. >> reporter: she remembered the limited resources that pushed her family to leave while she was growing up, and had concerns about what would be there for her now. >> my major worry was that we would not have first responders in a timely fashion >> reporter: leaders at con fire thought about this issue, too. >> one of the things i worry about is not just the first fire, but the second fire and the third fire. >> reporter: the eastern half of the county had tens of thousands of residents relying on just a few resources. >> firefighters were getting ready to the ground, not able to adequately protect our communities as a whole. >> reporter: unified contra costa and east contra costa firefight district made sense. >> previously, we were using resources from central contra costa that had to surgeon from antioch and pittsburgh, then surged into the far east. so

- [announcer] "firing line with maaret hoover" is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation, and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - baratunde thurston, welcome to "firing line." - thank you for having me. it's good to be here, margaret. - standup comedy, digital media, bestselling author, successful podcast, a pbs series based on the outdoors. what's the throughline for you that connects the various pursuits you've been involved in? - the throughline is how do we get to the future? and the throughlin is my mother. my mom was a computer programmer. my mom was a community organizer and a politically active person. my mom was very black, as am i. and my mother was a avid lover of the outdoors and our connection to nature. - arnita thurston. - yes. - was your mom's name. - yes. - you describe her as a pro-black pan-african tofu-eating hippie who had me memorizing the

next we have the family of lauren hoover. -- of taylor hoover. >> first of all, i would like to thank general mccall, thank you for being here and the rest of this committee. we want answers and we need answers. we expect those answers. i am calling on you, please, please, do not let this fall through the cracks. you haven't thus far and have made us proud. please continue it. i am not going to talk a lot but i am going to be a little bit. -- breathe a little bit of fire. i want to know why this current administration isn't able to take responsibility for their action in the days, the weeks and months leading up to this fateful day. not a single thing was set in stone since the date was pushed back. if this timetable had been pushed back a couple of months, why was evacuation so truncated? and on a specific timeline? on or about august 18, general milley stated this, there was nothing that i or anyone else saw that indicated the pullout of the afghan army or this government in 11 days. how is that not possible? secretary austin stated, we will evacuate all americans that we can, at le

edgar hoover building right here. they are going to and 15,000 of those employees are going to be reorganized into the u.s. marshals and financial crimes enforcement network into other parts, the d.e.a. taking on the drug enforcement problems. because part of the problem that runs the bureaucracy is that they find things to do that they shouldn't have been doing. post-9/11 they took on counterterrorism, from drug enforcement to child sex trafficking and financial crimes and white quoll collar crime. they had no specialization in the first place and less effective in enforcing the laws on the books while creating the formula for the corruption that we suffer today and we face a choice. do you want incremental, replace christopher wray with james comey or recognize it is the underlying machine that was the source of the corruption itself? and i believe the correct answer to restore the integrity of our law enforcement apparatus will be to begin with shutting down an institution like the f.b.i. itself. we'll move to the

- [announcer] "firing line" with margaret hoover is made possible in part by robert granieri, vanessa and henry cornell, the fairweather foundation, the tepper foundation, the asness family foundation, the mckenna family foundation, charles r. schwab, and by the rosalind p. walter foundation, and damon button. corporate funding is provided by stephens inc. - governor doug burgum, welcome to "firing line." - margaret, great to be with you, excited to be with you, honored to be with you. - you, governor, have an extensive record of success in the private sector, and you have been elected to a second term as the governor of north dakota. your family has deep roots in north dakota dating back to the 1800s. your great-grandmother was the first woman to hold elective office in the dakota territory. how has this legacy influenced you? - well, one of the things that i find amazing about my great-grandmother and her coming to north dakota after the civil war with her husband, who was a doctor fighting for the north, she kept a diary. some of the earliest history of north dakota was her writing

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pentagon, dod all the way down have failed us and our kids miserably. >> you lost your son taylor hoover marine corps staff sergeant 31 years old lofted ? lost in afghanistan and our prayers are with you and your family. cheryl, you are the mother of dylan and lance corporal us marine he was 20 years old and i don't know how you recover from that to be honest i am sure your heart is broken into this day what was your reaction watching joe biden check his watch every two seconds? >> it took a lot for us not to yell out and call him out while we were there. it was a major disrespect to all of us and our families. that was not the first time he made the entire situation about himself. he came up to me and said he knew how i felt. how does he know how i feel? >> he has falsely claimed his son came back in a flag draped coffin. that is not how he died his son died of cancer. >> he compared his son's death into our 13 and he said he brought his son home in a flag draped coffin and that he knew how he felt and there's no comparison. >> christie you are the mother-in-law you lost your daughter-i

and margaret hoover and senior political analyst with us also. appreciate you joining us after a late night. a lot of things to get to including nikki haley's reference to a "billy madison" quote, which i loved. down by 30 or 40 in the polls need to chip away at it. heard some of it. take a listen. >> you know who else is missing in action? donald trump is missing in action. he should be on this stage tonight. >> my former rahningmate donald trump actually has plan to start to consolidate more power in washington, d.c. consolidate more power in the executive branch. >> this is where president trump went wrong. focus on trade with china pt not the fact he was buying up our farmland, killing americans. >> you're ducking these things. let me tell you what's going to happen. keep doing that, no one up here's going to call you donald trump anymore. we're going to call you donald duck. >> roasted. >> i think the thing, we polled that, a little more a frontal assault to some degree but still not, margaret, a significant one people came out of the debate

herbert hoover. not coincidental. we are turning things around because of you.st guy was here, your shipping jobs to china. no green jobs homes in china. [cheering] in the last guy was here, we saved millions of pensions with your help. he looked at the world from park avenue. i look at it from pennsylvania, and delaware. only time have been recorded at middle-class. that's who i am. you know your family has to work to be able to make it. one thing, i know who built this country, i've been saying this since iran the first time. wall street didn't build america, the middle class built america. [cheering and applauding] that's a fact. unions built the middle class. people with courage and people who busted their next their lives and people got up every day. you don't talk about what you have to do but american union workers of the best and have been around in america has the best workers in the world. that's a fact. [applause] you are to talk about it more. it could take four to five years train as an apprentice going back to college, jobs are constantly changing.

but in the meantime, plenty to discuss with john avlon and margaret hoover. they join us now to bring all of this into perspective for us. john, let me go to you first. i mean, when we woke up this morning, we thought, when the clock hit midnight tonight, we were going to be shut down. all of a sudden, the house speaker kevin mccarthy reaches out to democrats and they get this bill through the house. not everybody likes what's in this bill. the funding for ukraine being excluded is a problem for republicans and democrats. your sense of how this played out today. >> look, i think the only way that government works at the end of the day is when people reach out to the center. we learned this over and over again. every shutdown the last 30 years has happened when the republicans control the house. and the only way we get out of these ditches, these self-inflicted ditches, is when republicans reach out to democrats and they band together, excluding usually the far-right on the republican party, which is what happened again today. it's what happened with the debt

in the last couple of years pulitzer prize winner on j edgar hoover's legacy how this was an institution created to be corrupt from the beginning the same one that used illegally collected is now being used to target political opponents of a different persuasion. it comes from something you would predict should exist for a bureaucracy that sits in between a doj and assay others like the u.s. marshals which haven't been corrupted in the same way as the fbi. so this is what the situation looks like today. that's the status quo. and in more detailed plans for the short version there will be more detailed versions right now laying out the detailed organization plans this is deeply pragmatic. take the 35,000 employees at the fbi, 20,000 of them are in non-essential functions, back office roles many of whom reported to the j edgar hoover building right here in washington, d.c. they are going to go home when we try to find honest work in the private sector. about 15,000 of those employees are going to be organized into the u.s. marshals and financial crimes enforcement network at the treasury a

you're seeing that the, the crash either come to the side or the result and then quickly suppressed. hoover, the north of the north of the concert, know the diplomatic efforts are on the way to yes. going to distribution. the medical officials have brought more parties to find a way for a solution, however, that deprives of demand. they say that they want, as they have to stop the force, constriction of the miners and out of citizens. they want the employment in the living conditions in the region. and also they want to see the presentation in administration of the region. and they said that they would not stop until the demands are not. this is rarely prime minister. it has cool to the media deportation of are trying to solve them. seek is involved in violent protests. some televi tv's is ready, police were among 170 people injured almost as a day. as a trend excel's fault with retry and government supports is mastercard. it's made up cuts the what's happened just to the cross, the red line. it's a riot blood should. these are riots we cannot accept. therefore the 1st thing i do is to assu

, but there is the switch in time that saved nine with justice owen roberts, appointed by herbert hooverthe man fdr had defeated. but very soon after that, in the next few years, there is a wave of retirements and a couple of deaths. one interesting thing, it is well known that fdr's court packing plan failed, the plan to enlarge the court. there was a little noticed companion piece of legislation which consider libby -- considerably improved the retirement benefits for justices if they were 17 years old or older and if they had served for more than 10 years. and remember, his plan was to appoint a new justice for every justice over 70. whether it is cause or effect and causing an effect or not? pretty soon after congress passed that law, considerably enhancing those benefits, a number of the justices retired in the next few years. they may have been reacting to the change in the dynamic with owen roberts but it is remarkable that in the summer of 1941, fdr had appointed 70 -- seven of the nine justices and validated harlan fiske stone, originally appointed by calvin coolidge, he had ele

so the hoover administration was very concerned about children's starving and they said that we want to send the children's bureau out to look at what's happening at scott's run and see if we could do something to ameliorate that suffering and they were thinking about something like a milk program where they could bring milk to families and children could have milk. so the children's bureau will solicited the help of the quakers social action division. and that's the that's the american friends service committee, and they went out to help figure out what was going on. and they when they looked at the extent of the suffering in scott's run, they said that they needed a bigger solution than just milk for kids. they needed something that's more comprehensive because it was such an intense suffering that was going on and kids were at risk. so they recommended something that would ultimately become the subsistence homestead program and they said really to make it reasonable for families to live. they need to have a healthful house and you have us that's a domicile somewhere to live. they

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