jack kennedy's kooky race. when joe kennedy found out about the moon speech, he called the white house -- i think evelyn lincoln got the phone and said, tell jackie is going to blow the whole budget on one of his crazy schemes. god dammit, i knew jack would do something like this. his own father thought it was a reckless idea. kennedy was enough of a pragmatist to keep occasionally in meetings questioning is this wise? is this smart? after the cuban missile crisis, shouldn't we be collaborating with russia, should we not e? make no mistake in the end he never waivered. days before his death, virtually two days before his death he was in san antonio at brooks air force base with astronaut gordon cooper at his side talking about all the medical marvels out of nasa. cat scans, m.r.i.'s comment kidney dialysis machines, etc., space medicine as a new field. he goes to houston and is there with albert thomas. it is a funny moment because he says to thomas, we will put the biggest payroll -- then he says, i mean pay ro

when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he is killed in dallas, computer science classes are everywhere. people are flying more and more. hub airports being developed across the country. it was the jet age, the space age and kennedy made that the cornerstone of the new frontier. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's queue and day. &a.q an >> stephen dinan joins us after the senate failed to move forward on changing -- for senate nominees. what they are proposing to change and why did the vote fall short? to changes vote is the amount of time that can be demanded for debate. once

by the time, when jack kennedy runs, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he's killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. i mean, people are flying more more, hub airports being developed all across the country. the spacethe jet age, age. and kennedy grabbed on to it and the that the cornerstone of new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern c-span's q&a. >> our guest on newsmakers this is a familiar face. congressman jim jordan, ohio's fourth district. welcome back to our program. >> familiar face because i've while now?gress a >> and on the c-span screen often, yes. republican,ad called the ranking member of the oversight and reform committee in the house of representatives. house member of the judiciary committee. puts him in the middle of all the debates, over investigations which we'resident, gonna talk about this morning. let me introduce the two reporters. to us today, washington examiner's chief congressional correspondent. cheney is back from politico where h

by the time -- when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he's killed in dallas lr computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. i mean, people are flying more and more, hub airports being developed all across the country. the jet age, space age, and kennedy grabbed onto it and made that cornerstone to the new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> earlier today, f.b.i. director christopher wray testified on the 2020 budget request for his agency. he also talked about keeping pace with technology, combating sex trafficking, and agent recruitment. held before a house appropriations subcommittee, this is an hour and 20 minutes.

sputnik motivated jack kennedy.60 in the debates with richard nixon kennedy charged nixon if you're president i see a soviet flag on the moon if you elect me president there will be an american flag on the moon. >> doug, this calls for a judgment. how would lbj and jfk take the news that in this very day if we want to get our astronauts up to the international space station our ride is the russians, we don't have a spacecraft ready for the task? where did we lose it along the way, our jets still fly at the same speed they carried john f. kennedy and we can't built a high speed train in this country. >> what a great question. you know, i think when john f. kennedy became president he's part of the world war ii generation where we did big things, industrial mobilization or the willow run, ginning up airplanes, we created things like radar in world war ii, the manhattan project, eisenhower did the interstate highway project and the st. lawrence seaway. kennedy was part of the world war ii generation. he did right was p

modern aviation starts kicking in and by the time jack kennedy runs there are no classes or universities. air travel is replacing in many ways people are flying more and more be made that the cornerstone of the new frontier. >> eat eastern on c-span q-and q-and-a. rand paul blocked a resolution calling for the report on the russia probe to be made public. senator mark warner is the chair of the senate intelligence committee. he called for the resolution too thbe passed instead of releasing the basic transparency this is the fifth time senate republicans blocked the measure to release the report. here is what happened on the floor.

jack kennedy came in with a program of seven points, protecting textiles and more recently our good friend president ronald reagan, he put in voluntary restraint agreements on automobiles and seal and hand tools -- steel and hand tools and semiconductors. president reagan hadn't put in that measure, there wouldn't be any [indiscernible] we did that with [indiscernible] and everyone knows it. aidtarted treating trade as in the war of capitalism versus communism right after world war ii. we had the industry. we set -- the marshall plan moneys, expertise, experts and everything else of that time, the equipment. we started giving away the textile industry and giving away -- i'm looking now and 70% of the clothing is imported. 86% of the shoes on the floor are imported. that is gone and all that time they said, don't worry, we will be a service -- my light bill in south carolina is administered in bangalore, india. we have lost the service economy. we have lost the hard manufacturing economy and capacity, and what happens is your actual -- your security is like a three like it -- three-legged s

got to know each other and then his brother ran for president and i got involved with that with jack kennedy. one thing after that he came down he asked me look i want you to work with me. two months later he is he's gone and he's killed. later on i see clearance town. he asked me to work with him. i want to get involved in their stuff anymore. again the role of the world of brown. you don't want to transfer your enthusiasm to vice president humphrey. in your crossing the street in new york and you --dash my can you run into these two people. and one of the other guys. and they wanted me to work with the republican party. party. and get nixon elected. we talked about a long time. i agreed to go with it. then i got involved with reading more about the nixon background and where it came from. and then they have a crisis at one point mister humphries went to upstate new york. and they want to went to let them in. he have to get back on his plane and get out of there. mister next and was supposed to be there the next week. he was coming for a rally and a fund raiser. they asked me did i know any

when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes. by the time he is killed, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel. people are flying more and more, , soairports being developed the jet age and space age, kennedy grabbed onto it and made it the cornerstone. announcer 1: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q and a. announcer 2: on thursday the house voted to end u.s. military .ssistance in yemen's civil war 16 republicans voted in favor of the war powers resolution which passed the senate last month. president trump is expected to reject the resolution which would be the second veto of his presidency. here is a look at the floor debate starting with house foreign affairs committee chair eliot engel. mr. engel: thank you, madam chair. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. engel: madam chair, it's a little surprising that we find ourselves back on the floor debating this resolution. after all it's already passe

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by the time -- when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he's killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in means ways. people are flying more and more hub airports being developed all across the country. so it was the jet age, the space age and kennedy grabbed on to it and made that corner stone of the new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> speaker of the house nancy pelosi responded to allegations against former vice president joe biden. that he inappropriately touched two women. during a conversation with "politico" this morning, she also discussed president trump's threat to close the southern border. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you so much, speaker pelosi. ms. pelosi: thank you. >> we usually don't give that kind of applause ever. >> or anything close. >> we want to kick off the day today, equal payday. we wanted to talk to you, get your read. what are democrats doing to highlight that? ms. pelosi: frale first of all, we pa

he could have beaten jack kennedy or richard nixon in 1960. maybe vietnam when you started seeing the collapse of the lyndon johnson with the vietnam war, and then there was gerald ford who had pardoned nixon and nixon did not finish his second term. there was some churning going on. i always find incumbency is a great benefit in modern times, just to have air force one take you around and have that much infrastructure around you. i think obama has been the first nonwhite person is president. all of these white presidents and then barack obama, and then inheriting a great recession which we worked our way out of, started seeing signs of it by the time he ran for reelection. but also the killing of osama bin laden was a big deal. he was outlawed number one. we all wanted to get him. obama was good -- was able to say, did it on his watch. things that are forgotten outcome of the bailing of general motors, that helps in michigan, in toledo, ohio. the moves he made in his first term ended up helping him get reelected. but he did not have coattails

by the time, when jack kennedy runs, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he's killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. i mean, people are flying more more, hub airports being developed all across the country. the spacethe jet age, age. and kennedy grabbed on to it and the that the cornerstone of new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern c-span's q&a. >> our guest on newsmakers this is a familiar face. congressman jim jordan, ohio's fourth district. welcome back to our program. >> familiar face because i've while now?gress a >> and on the c-span screen often, yes. republican,ad called the ranking member of the oversight and reform committee in the house of representatives. house member of the judiciary committee. puts him in the middle of all the debates, over investigations which we'resident, gonna talk about this morning. let me introduce the two reporters. to us today, washington examiner's chief congressional correspondent. cheney is back from politico where h

modern aviation starts ticking and peered when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities, by the time he is killed in dallas, they are everywhere. trainavel is replacing travel in many ways. airports all across the country. it was the jet age, the space-age, and kennedy >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. on lectures in history, wake forest university professor john howey teaches a class on the cold war both influenced and was influenced by photography. about perceived documentary nature of photography and how this idea was manipulated during the cold war. senator joseph mccarthy's use, for example, of doctored photos during his anti-communist crusade or president kennedy's exhibition of greaney spy plane photos to support his position against the soviets in the 1960 one cuban missile crisis. professor curley also discusses how artists use the already illogical --

by the time -- when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he's killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in means ways. people are flying more and more hub airports being developed all across the country. so it was the jet age, the space age and kennedy grabbed on to it and made that corner stone of the new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> speaker of the house nancy pelosi responded to allegations against former vice president joe biden. that he inappropriately touched two women. during a conversation with "politico" this morning, she also discussed president trump's threat to close the southern border. this is 40 minutes.

jack kennedy wanted to be a journalist. he wanted to get rid of david halberstam from writing for the "new york times." he went after him. he shouldn't be writing about me. reagan did it very well. reagan just floated about it. he didn't read every -- you can't read all of the press or listen to cable news and every bad thing and respond to it because you start getting hatred in you and you start going after reporters by name and trying to dehumanize them. i'm afraid nixon and trump both do that which puts them on a bottom ranking on how they are with press relations. pewter roosevelt which is to invite you into the room. his trick was to do every reporter have quite the recent article was. the best article i've ever read, you know, brilliant. they all kind of floated up with him. then he would invite cartoonists to the white house and get them all going to write a negative car t about his opponents or the fireside chats of fdr, and you would call reported in an spin the globe around. it's better to interact in a positive w

in the oval office with jack kennedy during the cuban missile crisis he said to me helen you don't close we came to within three minutes quote unquote. i think this situation could well be compatible with that. decisions to launch a nuclear strike need to be made quickly and then there are the crews who would actually launch the missiles caldicott has heard some alarming reports. the man and the missile silos in america. is to have minutes just to hide there are aged eighteen to twenty six like pavlovian dogs just so nurse or press the button. there with the pistol one shoot if one shows signs of deviant behavior but the deviant one much the other one recently it's been determined that many of those men taking l.s.d. not in their missile silos but beforehand and having wild socket experiences and lowering it that taking marijuana cocaine and the like. caldicott things a nuclear strike could be launched by mistake. here both going issuing a meets dmitri trenin a former senior soviet army officer who took part in disarmament negotiations with the us. both experts are concerned a new cold w

e had dinner at the home of jack kennedy and jacqueline kennedy and somebody asked him, and cheek, if he had any ideas for offering fidel he came up with a crazy plot he would drop leaflets over havana advertising radiation was in the air and it tended to cling to men's beards. he only way to getry of the radiation would be to shave the beards so therefore all of shave s minuteions would their beards and supposedly lose mystical power. tried to track down them down while in washington but it was too late. leming had already flown back to london. another method the c.i.a. considered was assassination. assassinate not just fidel but also his brother another, a sort of assassination trifecta. plan was ious c.i.a. approved by dwight eisenhower later in the month. march 17, 1960. the plan developed by richard c.i.a.'s famously brilliant director of plans, was cubans who of the had been fleeing castro mainly to florida to return to cuba and him.hrow originally the idea was to infiltrate these men in small but gradually that shifted to something more world war ii style amphibious invasion. w

by the time jack kennedy starts running, the will be no classes at universities. the time he is killed in dallas, there's computer science classes everywhere. and more, flying more of airports all across the country. so went the jet age, the space-age. kennedy made that a cornerstone of the new frontier. at 8 p.m.night eastern on c-span's "q&a." what can we expect in the coming house debate to raise federal spending caps? becauset's interesting democrats passed out of committee legislation that would defense toending on $30 billion of nondefense, overcurrent spending levels, and that is to make sure the existing budget caps for next year -- that would lower spending dramatically.

jack kennedy seizd on this. he started saying there was a missile gap, a space gap.o did lyndon johnson. in fact, lbj helped create nasa in 1958. our whole creation of nasa was a response to sputnik. in the late '50s, everything became nik. they put a dog out there and it became poochnik. so sputnik kind of motivated kennedy, and with the debate with nixon, kennedy charged nixon, if you're president, i see a soviet flag on the moon. if you elect me president, there will be an american flag on the moon. >> this calls for an assessment, but you're a historian, after all. how would lbj and jfk take the news on this very day, if we want to get our astronauts up to the national space station, our ride is the russians'. we don't have a spacecraft ready for the task. where did we lose it along the way? our jets still fly at the same speed as john f. kennedy and we can't build a spacecraft in this generation. >> i think we did big things, industrial mobilization, or the plants jimming up airplanes. obviously the manhattan project. eisenhower did the interstate highway projec

runs, time jack kennedy there are no computer science classes.e time he is killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. hub airports are being developed all across the country. age,et age and space kennedy grabbed onto it and made that the cornerstone of the new frontier. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's q&a. coming up this weekend on book we areurday at 10:00, live in annapolis maryland for the annapolis book festival. , an author joins us about her book in career. at 9:00 p.m. eastern, investigative reporter vicki ward investigates the career of jared kushner and ivanka trump in her book. watch book tv this weekend on c-span2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: a busy week in washington, a busy day in washington. we want to know what you're interested in chatting about. republicans can call in, (202)-748-8001. democrats, (202)-748-8000. independents, (202)-748-8002. start calling in now. we will take you to the house briefly at 9:00 this

about you in the context, when bobby kennedy was the attorney general for his boss, his brother jack kennedy, was he as pliant as barr appears to be? >> bobby kennedy did things for his brother, but i don't think he would have abased himself the way that william barr did yesterday. i wasn't surprised by this because when william barr was appointed, first time this was mentioned in connection with donald trump, i remembered 1992, the end of that year. barr was the attorney general, as you know, for president bush 41, and he basically shut down the iran-contra investigation by pressing for pardons for six reagan people, including casper weinberger, the independent counsel, lawrence walsh said, you just killed my investigation. he said this was like a saturday night massacre. you remember the old "new york times" late columnist william sapphire whom we both knew. he called barr in those days the coverup general. >> that's true. you just invoked ronald reagan, which reminds me that after a major chapter in the reagan presidency that resulted in a commission and a report, he came out and said in

modern aviation starts kicking in and by the time jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer sciencees at universities. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. ,eople are flying more and more airports being developed across the country. the space age, kennedy grabbed onto it and made that the cornerstone of the new frontier. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on q&a. ryanio congressman tim officially launched his 2020 democratic presidential campaign with a rally in youngstown, ohio. this is 25 minutes. ♪

jack kennedy made the space race about beating the soviets, but it was also about creating technologyou know, armstrong is a sustainable hero, in my mind, and buzz aldrin, still alive with us, michael collins. but you know, don, so often, we have big moments in history, pearl harbor or 9/11, the kennedy assassination, they're tragedies, but neil armstrong going to the moon was -- brought the country together and believing that an aroused democracy can accomplish anything. >> let's listen to jfk capturing the nation's imagination, 1962 address by him. here it is. >> we choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard. because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we're willing to accept. one we are unwilling to postpone. and one we intend to win, and the others, too. >> you say that kennedy was an amazing salesperson for space. how important do you think his personality and his leadership and inspiring america to go to space, go to the moon

other and one thing after another then his rather ran for president and i got involved in mac with jack kennedy and then one thing after that, after martin luther king jr. had been killed, he came dowshe camedown to atlanta and h other there and she asked me look, i want to be president, i want you to work with me so i agreed and two months later he's gone, he's killed. and later on i see clarence town who was the head of the republican party he asked me to work with him. i'm working with baxter next and we are trying to get him elected president and i said i don't want to get involved in that. everybody i touch is dying. [laughter] to get in the role, you have been meeting with robert kennedy and think of joining his campaign and he is killed so you don't think that you want to transfer your enthusiasm to vice president humphrey so you don't know what you ar you're going to although you want to be engaged then you cross the street and run into these two people and suddenly to a sort of proposition and -- >> and clarence town town's whos running a section of the committee they wanted me to work

>> douglas: i was surprised how jack kennedy of the 1964 election. he was going to lose and they wanted to consciously put money into the southern states to hold them into the democratic party. the politics of going to space. i should have known that surprised me but also that the soviets were still determined to go to the moon and almost did it. but in 1967, russia had a big explosion, they are in one rocket got blown up. they were getting ready to put tortoises on the moon right when we accomplished it with apollo 11. the fact that we really were in space and one and not just american drum beating. >> bret: the rest might be about china but we will see. the author, historian of america moonshine, congrats. >> douglas: thank you. >> bret: douglas brinkley and next up the panel president trump considering a plan to send illegal immigrants to sanctuary cities. ♪ i don't keep track of regrets. i never count the wrinkles. and i don't add up the years. but what i do count on, is staying happy and healthy. so, i add protein, vitamins and minerals to my di

all of the congressmen said, yeah, we'll fund jack kennedy's pledge to the moon.mer of '61, nasa funded the money they needed to get the project up and running. >> you set out to lay out the president's motivation. what conclusion did you reach? >> kennedy hated losing, michael. he never lost an election. he won congress -- i mean, he won the senate in 1952. and the senate again in '58. never lost for congress. and in 1960, he had beat nixon. and on one of the nixon/kennedy deba debates, kennedy said if you're elected i see a soviet flag on the moon. i want an american flag on the moon. lo and behold, kennedy wasn't going to lose. we had already lost to the russians with sputnik in 1967. kennedy saw it as a cold war imperative to be first in space. but to sell it as basically a science education. and one of the things i write about in the book all of these technology corridors were developed in places like huntsville, alabama, san antonio, houston, texas. jacksonville, florida, langley, virginia. on and on. nasa gave job us. and it helped kennedy show that he was

running is on the right side of that matter and every democrat running stands for those things that jack kennedyevery democratic candidate are brothers and sisters compared to donald trump, mike pence, and our other opponents vladimir putin and the attorney general william barr. >> all right. all right. so we have got kind of the challenges laid out before him. i want to play now a little sound bite from cory booker as his potential rivals begin to talk about him entering the race. take a listen. >> excited about having a vibrant debate in the coming year. we are still a very long way from first votes being cast and i think it's going to be a really wonderful debate and i'm looking forward to that. but my philosophy has always been from the time i was running track in high school is that you [ inaudible ] left and right when you run your race. >> reporter: you were talking about all of the different candidates, brent, in there. what does biden entering the race do in terms of how anybody else is going to be moving forward? does anybody start to change up their game or do you think they all kind

going back to jack kennedy and the bay of pigs. you know? and he owned up to it. guess what.ster and he owned up to it. the americans appreciate people who are frank. listen. alex, i don't think we're going to move to impeachment. i think reasonable people on both sides of the aisle are opposed to moving to impeachment. republicans i think with some justification said, well, listen, you have the two years of investigation. didn't turn up a crime. you didn't have enough evidence for a crime. how can you go to impeachment? there's no underlying crime on obstruction. democrats say but this is unacceptable behavior. so they're going to continue to fight this out. i don't think they'll get there. democrats realize if you look at the polls, the majority of the country does not want impeachment. what they do want for investigations to continue and let's see what turns up. this isn't the last chapter. i do also want to say one other thing, alex. it is interesting, cnn is hosting a set of town halls tomorrow night, five major, significant candidates on the democratic side. don't you t

when jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities. by the time he is killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways. airports are being developed across the country. so the space age, candy grabbed onto it and made that the cornerstone -- kennedy grabbed onto it meant that the cornerstone. the chisholm trail was a route used after the civil war to her texas cattle north. it stretched from southern texas to the city of abilene, kansas. next kansas state university , history professor james sherow talks about his book, "the chisholm trail: joseph mccoy's great gamble." mr. sherow chronicles entrepreneur joseph mccoy's success in national and international cattle trading. that sparked the growth of the u.s. beef industry. the watkins museum of history hosted this event. it is about 90 minutes. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to our latest raven book chat. i will hickox amcoordinator here at watkins museum of history . i welcome you. these days, when the

today, get developed in the late 1950s, modern, modern aviation starts kicking in, by the time, jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities, by the time he is killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways, i mean, people are flying more and more, hub airports, being developed all across the country, so, it was the jet age, the space age, and kennedy grabbed onto it, and made that the cornerstone of the new frontier.>> sunday night at eight eastern, on c-span's q and a. >> up next, a discussion on ways to make changes to the criminal justice system's use of fees, fines, and bail. this panel focused on issues with excessive fines, and how state and local governments use it as a source of revenue, held by the brookings institution, this is about an hour.

speech, he delivered it beautifully, it was well crafted, it had lines that were reminiscent of jack kennedybama, i think democrats were kind of swooning over the possibility of this young man. but granted, i don't know that everybody is looking at him and sees an instant president. but this is someone who is probably going to be part of our political future for some time to come. >> yeah. >> picking up on the other point about president trump, he has set a goal of a billion dollars for his campaign, and he's raised far more than all the democrats together. and remembering barack obama and hillary clinton in 2008, barack obama raised almost 26 million in the first quarter. so the numbers this time around, they're interesting, but they're not blockbuster really. >> as you were speaking, we're looking at live pictures of mayor pete buttigieg in brooklyn where he is speaking at a fundraiser, and this is someone that brooklyn 6:43 p.m. on the east coast, this is something democrats are interested in as well as kamala harris, who had even more impressive numbers, and of course senator sanders is

aviation starts kicking in, by the time, jack kennedy runs in 1960, there are no computer science classes at universities, by the time he is killed in dallas, there are computer science classes everywhere. air travel is replacing automobile and train travel in many ways, i mean, people are flying more and more, hub airports, being developed all across the country, so, it was the jet age, the space age, and kennedy grabbed onto it, and made that the cornerstone of the new frontier.>> sunday night at eight eastern, on c-span's q and a. >> up next, a discussion on ways to make changes to the criminal justice system's use of fees, fines, and bail. this panel focused on issues with excessive fines, and how state and local governments use it as a source of revenue, held by the brookings institution, this is about an hour. >> welcome. i am bob rubin, and on behalf of my colleagues at the hamilton project, welcome to today's forum, which as you know, is the economics of bail, fines, and fees in the criminal justice system. in 2008, about two years after the beginning of the hamilton project, we h