there seemed to be a bit of a hole with james madison. the one thing that tilted me was a morning in august, 1814 when the madison is president of united states in his second term and the war of 1812 has been going on for two years and were comes to the capital that the british are going to attack washington d.c.. they landed in maryland and have made a left turn marching north, they are coming to the capital. what president madison does that morning is saddled of course, his own horse, then his own horse goes lame, the soviets to borrow someone else's horse, borrow a set of pistols, and this short ailing man who has never heard a shot fired in anger, the least military person you can't imagine, he writes out with the rest of the cabinet for maryland where the british will have to come if they come to the district from the east to see the beginning of that battle, which will determine the fate of the capital. i thought that is pretty impressive. i would of expected washington to do that, and redaction, but madison did it, too. i thought th

james madison ties the game at 7. thi first and goal, this time from six yards out. blocked extra point. bison lead 19-7 right now in the second half. >>> let's go to lorton, virginia. high school football play-offs. stallions playing hanover for a spot in the state championship. first drive of the game for south county. shane foley goes up top to his big receiver michael ferguson. makes a great catch. 7-0 stallions. later in the first, foley, pitches to anthony rector. breaks the tackle. he's in. 22-yard touchdown. 14-0 south county. second quarter, same score. foley hands it off to ryan taylor. he flips it to jake josephs. back to foley. and he airs it out to ferguson. makes another great grab. stallions down around the 10 yard line. they cap the drive with more trickeration. foley pitches to josephs. throws to ferguson. touchdown south county. right now they lead 38-22 in the fourth quarter. >>> hometown hockey, caps will try to snap a four-game losing streak at home against the senators tonight. hunter going for his first nhl victory as a head coach. you can see

acquiring it is but a prologue to a tragedy or a farce or perhaps both and i'll remind you that james madison was not some hippie and arcus from one nine hundred sixty eighth he was the fourth president of the united states in the primary author of our constitution and you know the whistleblower protection enhancement act that is meant to protect whistleblowers so that they are said they do feel comfortable coming forward this seems to be being held up in congress to what extent do you think that the manning play if it's feeding this resistance. i think it's feeding it a great deal how much does that matter i don't really know i think this particular act is a very mild reform it's a cautious baby step forward it's a good thing but it's only when enough people in the united states are mobilized in the willing to be skeptical of the government's claims that every single whistle blowing revelation is somehow a grievous threat to national security then whistleblowers will be safe and that we'll be safe overall as a nation and when it comes to whistleblowing i mean how easy is it for someone to bl

james madison. but by gosh, robinson for all of the problems that he faced produces 600 pages of the virginia ratifying debates, and that marvelous event would be lost to history without his efforts. so i must say my heart goes out to him and i'm grateful to the man. okay, back to hudson. this is the problem with the stenographer's. maybe this go was up to this job. second, often they should speech is before the, you know, they would didn't transcribe it and he reprinted them in in newspapers or something. or the newspaper accounts of debates would be collected and published in book form. but before they saw print, sort in book form, this developers sometimes showed them to a speaker corrected him and hudson said that corrects the record. but the last reasons, and i think the reason which is probably the most damning is they were politically biased. and that is one side of these debates, the federalist one of the constitution ratified were often paid the shorthand meant to do the work, or own the ne

that up did the same thing sort of the thomas jefferson administration for president came along james madison and congress said hey let's give this money to the churches and let the churches administer the poor house instead madison yet vetoed that saying that it would establish a precedent of government money going to churches that could corrupt churches and this is because madison was a religious guy. he didn't want his church corrupt of them and has no power over the church did the government money is going to corrupt if they take the tax money they start taxing the church then they're going to start on taxes our church was a subsidize who had to go to church and all of a sudden now we're going to be paying to go to church we're going to have to start giving money to go to church we do that now it's called trying. to do what now it's not going to be a you know contribution it's going to be mandatory because now the churches have to pay fees there are and that's going to be a problem because who has one hundred dollars per week to pay caesar top of his taxes world into isn't this isn't this

mickey matthews and james madison on the road at north dakota state.ison just too much in the end. mcmorton runs for a 60 yard touchdown. north dakota state defeats james madison, 26-14. college basketball. georgetown hosting the new jersey institute of technology. thompson finishes with a career six three-pointers and and game-high 20 points. hoyas crush the highlanders, 84-44. georgetown improves 7-1. virginia beats longwood. 86-53. and george mason beats townsend. 65-53. that's your sports minute. i'm hakim dermish. have a great day. >>> the time now is 9:26. 85-year-old woman claims she was strip searched at the airport. the tsa, though, telling a very different story. we're going to bring you both sides of that story when we return >> that's right. also ahead -- >> i start screaming bloody murder, 911, police. >> terrifying moments for several georgetown students after they discover intruders in their homes. this morning those students are discussing their ordeals in a news 4 exclusive. ♪ [ male announcer ] from our nation's networks... ♪ ...to ou

the episcopal church was founded in 1815 and every president since james madison has attended at least one service there. >>> thousands of runners braved the cold this morning to take part in a holiday run. was the annual "jingle all the way" race. the runners took off from freedom plaza and headed down pennsylvania. the race marked the last big run of the year. no doubt they could not wait to get going with the temperatures the way they were this morning. but we hear things are warming up. let's check in now with our meteorologist. >>> a nice warm up on the way but we have to wait until later in the week. on the satellite and radar it's quiet and dry across the mid- atlantic. the entire northeast coast from d.c. to new york city to boston, it's quiet and cold overnight as temperatures tumble into the 20s. talking about a warm-up for the upcoming work and school week -- the question is how long or how warm will get and how long will last? by fall forecast is coming up in just a few minutes. -- my full forecast is coming up in just a few minutes. >> anything would feel like a heat wave

james madison, franklin roosevelt was a politician.e hear a little bit of that in this oval office recording. >> there is probably never anyone in the white house who was more of a wily politician than franklin roosevelt. it is just superb. he had a skill and ability and success that has few if any rivals. willkie had the misfortune of running against that skillful politician. >> was wendell willkie consistent on the issues in the 1940 campaign? >> i do not think so. few politicians are consistent on the issues. the campaign started to go badly for willkie. the disorganization, the chaos, the difficulty of challenging roosevelt. in the last part of the campaign, he moved toward a position on the war and the new deal that he may not have happily agreed with. they were more harsh, more vituperative then the true wendell willkie. >> amity shlaes. >> he was inconsistent, but we cannot downplay his success. he won more votes in that election than any republican had ever won. electorally, roosevelt was that wily fox. he had that large number

madison, james madison, have to have both the liberal voice and the conservative voice to keep things balanced. so as i was working on the book, one of the things that hit me looking at the current predicament was what has gone wrong? what has brought us to this point in almost all the other issues revolved around the economy and i don't care if you are talking about national security issues or education or immigration or the obvious where are the jobs tax issues is all an economic conversation so i went back to adam smith. interestingly published in 1776 right along with the declaration of independence and i thought i want to go back to the principles of capitalism because my gut is telling me that it has gotten really skewed in this country and that may be part of the big problem we are having with creating jobs, expanding economic opportunity and with the growing disparity between the well-to-do and even the middle class and even the poor in this country and in reviewing him it was like a light bulb going out adam smith wrote one of the nation's in response to the events in britain

and so james madison is debted with creating the grand compromise, the constitution. where he said neither the left, nor the right as they existed in 1789 are going to dominate. we are not going to create a system that favors one or the other. we are going to create a system that, in fact, is as level a playing field on which the various ideologies can wrestle as we possibly can. certainly, when they constructed this, the senate was going to be a bit more elite. i mean, back in those days, you know, it would be hard to get support across large swaths of territory. so someone with a little more power and money was likely to get elected. the people's house, the house of representatives, was going to be much more for the common man. jefferson and franklin got a little bit, and adams and hamilton got a little bit. we had a president, but he was going to be elected every four years. so it was this amazing, level playing field. i start there because today we're hearing that my party represents the founders. no, my party does. and i'm thinking, well, you've got to go back an

another example was a letter here where he began reporting to james madison that there are rumors that they would be returning to spain and not accepting the positions in the government like i was talking about earlier. claiborne suffered quite a lot of personal tragedy while he was here. his wife and daughter died of yellow fever on the same day in 1804 and his brother in law was shot in a duel of few years later defending him and his plight. in addition to the official correspondence that is in here there are a few personal letters and this is a letter he is writing to his in-laws telling them of the death of their son in the dual, march 23rd, 1805. so this volume is one of my favorites. it is fascinating to see it went back and forth and became part of america. how did that happen? change is happening and this volume tells us a lot about that and what things were like on the ground in liana at that time. >> it is the three day holiday weekend on booktv. the 3,000 year history of jerusalem tonight at 9:00 eastern. michael the zeneca on free will and a science of the brain and:00 p.m.

president battle taking about james madison. don't blink or you might miss tony taylor. he had 12.s is president on president crime. aj davis with 22. gmu up big and they win 62-57. all right. some football. minnesota coming to town. and that means redskins double this is an rc robotic claw. my high school science teacher made me what i am today. our science teacher helped us build it. ♪ now i'm a geologist at chevron, and i get to help science teachers. it has four servo motors and a wireless microcontroller. over the last three years we've put nearly 100 million dollars into american education. that's thousands of kids learning to love science. ♪ isn't that cool? and that's pretty cool. ♪ . >>> welcome to double coverage, everybody. i have my football just like you. [ laughing ] minnesota in town. mitch, i'm going to get right to you. how important is this game? because we've seen the redskins play down the competition before. how big of a challenge is it this week to go out and step on the neck of a lesser opponent, a game they should win. >> it's a great challenge. they have to

president battle taking about james madison. don't blink or you might miss tony taylor. he had 12.is president on president crime. aj davis with 22. gmu up big and they win 62-57. all right. some football. minnesota coming to town. and that means redskins double coverage. my boys and me next. . >>> welcome to double coverage, everybody. i have my football just like you. [ laughing ] minnesota in town. mitch, i'm going to get right to you. how important is this game? because we've seen the redskins play down the competition before. how big of a challenge is it this week to go out and step on the neck of a lesser opponent, a game they should win. >> it's a great challenge. they have to make sure they step on the neck ever the quarterback. they -- of the quarterback. they have to make sure they get behind and have to pass. >> absolutely. injury report, dave, you've been at the redskins park all week, toe, leg injury, we don't know how much we're going to see of him. mike shanahan has been quiet. what is the impact there? >> i don't think it hurts them that much. but obviously we'll lo

i am a scholar of james madison, and i will admit that james madison is like elvis to me. none of these people are james madison. he is one of the most brilliant scholars this country has produced. what i would encourage people to think about is where we would be if we did not have an independent judiciary. everyone disagrees. i have had courts will against me that i thought were in same. as citizens, we share a certain covenant of space. that is what the macedonian -- madisonian system is. we might disagree with each other. we might even hate each other, but it is a leap of faith. you have to trust the system. what gingrich and bachmann are talking about is the height of demagoguery. i do not want to challenge them personally, but they need to look at what the tories are saying about this country and what we will be left with -- what they are sang about this country and what we will be left if the independent judiciary is -- caller: he is on the right track, but i wish he would put the blame for all of this where it belongs. that is with the conservatives on the supreme c

a major all term of political party in the soil of course they want that but that this is what james madison freaked out about in federalist number ten right now we're there's only seven nations out of one hundred so democracies in the world that have first past the post winner take all actions awesome greece new zealand australia you know the rest of have act at least come up with boating we don't have proportional representation john stuart mill didn't invent that until we don't have to right so we're stuck with this system how do we how do you do you how do you do it how do you make a third party do something when we need to change the system when we need to confront and change the corrupting influence of money in our government and everybody now knows it's taken a long time for people to catch up and i think the occupy movement frankly has helped raise the car just he was right about these issues and there's never been such economic disparity in this country since the nineteen twenties and all of us are feeling it tom the american people don't matter if they're republicans democrats what

military bases all over the planet still a long way to go to escape one of our founding fathers james madison's greatest fear when he said of all the enemies of liberty war is perhaps the most to be dreaded because it comprises an develops the germ of every other no nation can preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare and of quote his warning is just as relevant today as it was when he said this two hundred years ago with one war down maybe we can begin fork of focusing on the crisis here at home the crisis that still threatens our economy which is massive unemployment and the death of the middle class. new numbers from the census bureau have just come out and they are grim and one in two americans half the nation are living in poverty or are living in low income lifestyles basically half of this country is poor a survey of twenty nine mirrors around the country found that one in four americans who showed up in need of food assistance and by and large were eligible didn't receive any help since the banks toure's wrecked our economy forward three years ago four million homes have be

[laughter] compared to james madison, yes, he was really, reallyú like, wait a minute, i want this toe, and i think you would make thhs assessment,3 i want ttis to be an awesome bathroom book. >> smith: right. >> borowitz: i want this to be the first bathroom book in the history of library of america. >> smith: right. yes. >> borowitz: you know because they'')re uued to doing -- >> smith: it's not exactly their brand. >> borowitz: no, i mean their books are usually you know these very black, serious looking volumes of things like the collected works of herman melville, or edith wharton, so i want to brand. >> smith: right, well and success. >> borowitz: and success. >> smith: i love it. >> borowitz: it's just -- it'sspersonal, it's not, it's not definitive. >> smith: and yet it says 50 funniest. >> borowitz: it says, well it says -- >> smith: you would be led to believe that it was definitive on the basis of the name. >> orowitz: right, it says the 50 funniest american wriiers. asserisk, according to andy borowitz. >> smith: right. >> borowitz: so it's actualll truth in advertising. t

benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson and james madison we seem to have forgotten how to win wars consistent with those kinds of values with those and lightman values but george washington understood this at the battle of trenton for example he'd captured a thousand has sions these were german mercenaries base and he ordered his troops to treat them in accordance with the values that this new nation it was not yet even a nation actually was fighting for then the battle of princeton washington sent this order to his troops in regard to how to treat british prisoners of war he said treat them with humanity and let them have no reason to complain of our copy in the brutal example of the british army and their treatment of our unfortunate brother and who have fallen into their hands is the fact the matter is the british army when they took american soldiers as prisoners they would torture them many of them died being tortured they would indefinitely detain them they could they kept them in in stinking cells and fed them virtually nothing or just water and bread indefinite detention and torture a

as jefferson wrote in a letter to james madison, a bill of rights is what the people are entitled to against every government on earth. since jefferson was not part of that constitutional convention, james madison took up the task of drafting the bill of rights. after much debate and compromise, 10 amendments were approved and added to the constitution. right at the very beginning we find the bedrock of the bill of rights, the great five freedoms of the first amendment. religion, freedom of speech, press, to peacefully assemble and petition the government. those are the most basic freedoms we have. they are not always without catastrophe. from the so-called war on christmas to government-led prayer in school we continue to debate what the free exercise of religion and establishment clause meant. that is not new. thomas jefferson found himself deep in the war over religious liberty as well. in response to attacks he was insufficiently religious he wrote in a letter to benjamin rush, for i have sworn upon the altar of god eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of

home that's why the constitutional convention was held in secret behind locked doors and it's why james madison didn't publish his own notes of who said what at the constitutional convention until eighteen forty just after the last of the other participants die simply put the wealthier men among the delegates were be train the interests of their own economic class and they didn't want others in their class to know about it they were voting for democracy instead of oligarchy they were voting to create and maintain a middle class instead of creating a nation of by and for the rich. as thomas jefferson's experience declares that man is the only animal which devours his own kind for i can apply no milder term to the general prey of the rich on the poor and that liberty is pure which is to go to all and not to the few or the rich alone and i am not among those who fear the people they and not the rich are our dependence for continued freedom and those seeking profits where they given total freedom would not be the ones to trust to keep government pure and our right secure indeed it has always been t

james madison is like elvis to me. none of these people are james madison. the necessity of an independent judiciary for a country like ours has proven itself over and over again. i would encourage people to think about where we would be if we did not have an independent judiciary. we all as citizens share a certain covenants of faith. this is a covenant of faith. we may disagree with each other or hate each other, but it is 8 leap of faith -- it is a leap of faith. you have to trust the system. i don't want to challenge them personally. they need to look at what they are saying about this country. host: let's hear from indiana, chris. caller: he is on the right track. i wish to put the blame for this where it belongs. the conservatives on the supreme court are the activist judges. they have eroded rights. i went through some stupid drug testing stuff. i cannot believe that private companies are allowed to get into my private business. the republicans on the supreme court have eroded rights. they have forced the president to sign it. now you put the blame on

i am a scholar of james madison, and i will admit that james madison is like elvis to me. none of these people are james madison. he is one of the most brilliant scholars this country has produced. what i would encourage people to think about is where we would be if we did not have an independent judiciary. everyone disagrees. i have had courts will against me that i thought were in same. as citizens, we share a certain covenant of space. that is what the macedonian -- madisonian system is. we might disagree with each other. we might even hate each other, but it is a leap of faith. you have to trust the system. what gingrich and bachmann are talking about is the height of demagoguery. i do not want to challenge them personally, but they need to look at what the tories are saying about this country and what we will be left with -- what they are sang about this country and what we will be left if the independent judiciary is -- caller: he is on the right track, but i wish he would put the blame for all of this where it belongs. that is with the conservatives on the supreme c

>> i was actually at james madison university for an event there, handing out fliers and speaking tonts about keeping campus gun free. >> that must have brought up bad memories for you and your family. >> it brought out a lot of bad memories. he showed me them and i was amazed about how fast he got them compared to even else. and i was pleased to see that the virginia tech community was being alerted about the shooting. it did bring me back to the day of april 16 and my heart goes out to the family affected, the families affected in the entire virginia tech family. >> of course. so let's get to the issue at hand here. you say a college campus is no place for a gun, but there is a movement underway to change the law in virginia that bars students and campus employees from carrying concealed weapons on to school grounds. playing devil's advocate here, if a student and employee is trained, why not be allowed to carry them? >> well right now in virginia, to get your concealed carry permit, there's no training requirement at all. you can just take a 20 question quiz after watching a one h

church officials say every president since james madison has gone there. >> the senate minority leadern extending the payroll tax cut saying its needed because the president has failed to lift the economy out of the recession. >> the reason we have to deal with these emergency measure social security the president's policies all put in place for the first -- in the first two years of administration when he had a compliant congress have failed. >> despite his criticism the republican says he is confident the tax measure will be extended before it expires. >> republican presidential hopeful rick perry got heckled today at a campaign stop in iowa. the heckler was saying why can't gays compete in the military and then you heard the crowd boo there. he interrupted the governor as he campaigned at a coffee shop. perry launched an add where he said he would reinstate the don't ask don't tell policy and expressed opposition to same sex marriage. >> new numbers show things may be looking up for the california budget. november revenue was up 9% compared to projections. most of the gains come fro

george washington, james madison. taylor popping it. a.j. davis, president on president crime. dukes win going away 62-57. that will do it for your morning sports. have a great friday, everybody. >> the ind an a -- the indianapolis colts are on a winning streak. they beat the texans on thursday night football. uconn grad made the winning touchdown pass. colts win 19-16. >> he was considered at one time one of the top quarterback bees in the upcoming nfl draft however, usc quarterback matt barclay will not be available for the redskins or any other teams in search of a quarterback. barclay announced last night he's going to return to college for his senior season. the trojans will be bowl eligible next year after being banned the last two seasons. >>> he wants to be in a bowl game. >> he does. >> we'll check in on the last- minute shoppers taking advantage of much longer store hours coming up. >> plus, barring another last minute -- today, the pay cut extension bill will pass. monika, ove to you. >> live look at the beltway at river road in bethesda. there are no problems betwee

. >> last night in foggy bottom, george washington hosting james madison.ony taylor had 12 points on the night. it was not enough, however, to prevent the sixth straight loss by the colonials falling to jmu final score 62-57. >> also last night, virginia tech beat eastern michigan. >>> our time is 6:25. up next, news from the presidential campaign and which big names will not be on the ballot in virginia. >> a unique way to search for a job. hear from a woman who put her resume in christmas lights. >> right now, monika has a quick check on traffic. >> we'll take a live look from sky 9 at the beltway and greenbelt. this is the outer loop north of the bw parkway where authorities have moved the accident to both shoulders just a bit slow getting by with the lanes open. coming up, an accident reported right near westfield montgomery mall. you're watching 9news now. we'll be right back. >>> a good friday morning to you. we're definitely looking at a chilly start. we have partly cloudy skies this morning. we'll see some sunshine later on this afternoon and our da

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because the congress consists, and you know, you want to blame somebody i guess you can blame james madison unlick england, unlike israel, japan, other democracies, we have elections that have station erred terms. so you have a president-elected by the american people in 2008 and then a congress elected by the american people in 2010, diametrically opposed to him. and the people are part of this equation. so no, people shouldn't lose faith. they should understand that now in 2012, they have a chance to cast a tie breaker. again, they voted one way in 2008, another way in 2010. now everybody is on the ballot in 2012, at least all the house and president, and if the public has a more consistent mandate that will make a big difference. >> woodruff: let's talk about barney frank's legacy or at least part of it, the dodd frank financial regulatory law, now law, clearly it has its detracters it has people who say it's the right way to go. but barney frank for you, how do you see what do you think for ode americans this law can make the most difference. >> well, first, we did a great breakthrough.

this is the correspondence that he sent back to thomas jefferson and james madison and other officialsto let them know how it was going to louisiana after the changeover. it wasn't always going so smoothly. the thing to think about is that back then and this covers october of 1804 to may of 1805 and they didn't have word-processing or xerox machines but wanted to keep a copy of something they had sent. they had to have a clerk copy it for them and this is the copy that they kept in louisiana of when they sent forward to washington as well as correspondence that were sent to people in louisiana. it was really an interesting time in louisiana because it was quite uncertain. there was a lot of debate and doubt as to whether louisiana was going to stay part of the united states. the french felt they had a claim to it. spanish felt they still have a claim to it. that made it hard for claiborne to establish the government he needed to because people were wait and see what is going to happen. they didn't want to cooperate with americans that went back to the french or spanish because that wou

c-span: now you--you--james madison came in second, but you only mentioned him on one page. >> guest: well, because our--our section did not read the federalist papers, but there were other sections that did. and i think, by the way, that since these--the--the idea of these courses is what has come from europe to the united states and an influence to civilization that it would be an excellent idea for all sections to read the federalist papers. i would also even consider in the literature course, perhaps, in the last week doing a week on emerson and whitman. c-span: the other... >> guest: there are no american--not many american texts here. c-span: the third one was marx in our list, and you... >> guest: yeah. c-span: tell the story about the kolikowski. >> guest: well, lesa kolikowski, a polish historian of marxism and a kind of liberal in the f--in the '50s--that is, an anti-stalinist in poland--who wanted marxism with a human face, you know, and socialism with a human face, and was defeated and left and went to oxford and then to the university of california and wrote--and has writ

james madison was as creative insignificant as james madison, father of the constitution. if people go to richard brookhiser.com, will they be able to find the article? guest: they will be able to find my book. host: as always, we appreciate your chatting with our viewers. the house is now in session. the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., december 14, 2011. i hereby appoint the honorable daniel webster to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 5, 2011, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall the debate go beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from north carolina, mr. jones, for five minutes. mr. jones: mr. spe