. >> this weekend, historian james robertson talks about robert e lee's ties to virginia and various civil war campaigns throughout the state. here's a preview. >> speaking of the outbreak of the war, if i could make a comment about lee's anguished decision about which way to go in april 1861 when he turned down every soldier's dream of being commander of the army in order to go with his native state. we virginians talk all the time about our history. we probably talk too much about it but i am not apologizing. we do so because we have so much more of it than everybody else. 1787, when a nation was proposed, virginia was already 180 years old. we celebrated colonial thanksgiving a decade before the pilgrims got the nerve to cross the atlantic ocean. 1860, the united states was 70 years old, not old enough to have wisdom. that time hadt been living in virginia 225 years. i do not think lee anguished at all over the decision that he made that april evening. >> you can watch the entire event tonight at 6:00 p.m. eastern on the civil war. this is american history tv, only on c-span3. >>

james robertson talks about robert e. lee, his ties to virginia, and his military campaign throughout the states. this sunday, the film a private decision chronicles the presidential race in 1958. and president johnson surprise withdrawal. at 8:00 p.m., on the presidency. >> he wanted a result of th at, the leading power in the world to think responsibly about what one can achieve and to try and define what his policies and geopolitics would be. >> the origins of the cold war, and focusing on dwight eisenhower to military man and president for a complete schedule go to c-span.org. on wednesday the supreme court heard the appeal of former virginia governor bob mcdonnell's conviction for bribery. several judges expressed concern over laws that could give prosecutors too much power. the former governor was convicted on 11 counts of fraud in 2014.

. >> historian james bud robertson talks about general robert e. lee, his ties to virginia and his various military campaigns throughout the state. then sunday morning at 10:00 on "road to the white house rewind," the film "a private decision" chronicles the 1968 presidential race. from the first primaries in new hampshire and president johnson's surprise withdrawal through the assassination of robert f. kennedy and richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey in the general election. and at 8:00 on "the presidency" -- >> he was one as a result of that because i think one's ability in foreign policy and as a head of state of the united states as the head of the chief of the armed forces of the leading power in the world and very much the leading power in the free world, is to think responsibly about what one can achieve and to try and define one's policies and to try and understand geopolitics in that light. >> military historian jeremy black looks at the origins of the cold war and focuses on guite d. eisenhower as a military man and president. fo

just james robertson, presided over four days of hearings, two of which mohamedou himself testified 20010 the judge issued an order and found that the government was holding philadelphia unlawfully and the evidence was insufficient to detain him and ordinary mohamedou released. the obama administration appealed that decision. the d.c. court of appeals held that the judge had -- the law had evolved so the department of justice is really litigating what the standards were so the law had evolved since judge robertson issued his opinion and the court of appeals sent th case back down to district court for hearing. since then nothing has really happened in the district courts. president obama then issued an executive order requiring that everyone at guantanamo who wasn't charged by military commission get what is called a periodic review board hearing. so in habeas, in the guantanamo cases, the question is, was the u.s. authorized in detaining someone at the moment they grabbed them. so, when the u.s. government grabbed mohamedou in november of 2001, was it justified? and the judge robertson s

he joined lebron james and oscar robertson and michael jordan as the only players to average 29 pointsseven assists and six rebounds in a season. he saysring on the warriors. >> you have to face them anyways . no matter if it is the first round. we have a great opportunity. we have to take it one game at a time. stay tuned for after the game. the sports director larry beil will be in the studio and mike shumann will be at oracle for post game interviews. this sports report is brought to you by riverwalk casino. and did i say the warriors you can watch them here. >> this television station. >> our sports department, you are going to be on high alert. >> it is fun to watch. >> thanks very much. >> abc7 news continues on-line, twitter, facebook and all of your mobile devices. our next newscast is at 5:00 a.m.

he joined lebron james and oscar robertson and michael jordan as the only players to average 29 pointsseason. he says bring on the warriors. >> you have to face them anyways . no matter if it is the first round. we have a great opportunity. we have to take it one game at a time. stay tuned for after the game. the sports director larry beil will be in the studio and mike shumann will be at oracle for post game interviews. this sports report is brought to you by riverwalk casino. and did i say the warriors you can watch them here. >> this television station. >> our sports department, you are going to be on high alert. >> it is fun to watch. >> thanks very much. >> abc7 news continues on-line, twitter, facebook and all of your mobile devices. our next newscast is at 5:00 that's how much garbage visitors to our national parks add to the country's landfills each year. but this year, subaru is sharing their zero-landfill expertise with the national parks to work toward the goal of making garbage there a thing of the past. to get involved visit subaru.com/environment. and for warriors fans al

he joined lebron james and oscar robertson and michael jordan as the only players to average 29 points assists and six rebounds in a season. he says bring on the warriors. >> you have to face them anyways . no matter if it is the first round. we have a great opportunity. we have to take it one game at a time. stay tuned for after the game. the sports director larry beil will be in the studio and mike shumann will be at oracle for post game interviews. this sports report is brought to you by riverwalk casino. and did i say the warriors you can watch them here. >> this television station. >> our sports department, you are going to be on high alert. >> it is fun to watch. >> thanks very much. >> abc7 news continues on-line, twitter, facebook and all of your mobile devices. our next newscast is at 5:00 a.m. and for warriors fans all-around the bay area, our coverage of the warriors' first playoff game against the houston rockets begins at noon. we appreciate your time. i'm dan ashley and right now on jimmy kimmle, bill murray. enjoy the weekend. >> today on our show, another player will at

this year he joined lebron james, oscar robertson, and michael jordan as the only players to averages in a season. he says bring on the warriors. >> you got to face them anyway no matter whether it's first round or coverage final. we got a great opportunity. a lot of people counted us out. >> reporter: following the contest, stay tuned for after the game on abc7. larry beale and former warriors center o'donnell foil will be in the studio while mike shuman will be at oracle for post-game interviews. that's sports for saturday morning. enjoy the game. >>> lisa, we entered the weekend with a little bit of wind but you've brought out the shine. >> the winds have dialled back and that's helped in our warming trend. winds gusting from east bay to the south bay and the north bay and eventually working that warmth down to the surface for a quick warmup. already plenty of neighborhoods in the 60s and we're about 12 degrees warmer than we were yesterday in concord and by the delta. check out live doppler 7 hd. no clouds to speak of. it's all about a big ridge of high pressure. the storm track

. >> historian james bud robertson talks about general robert e. lee, ties to virginia and military campaigns throughout the state. sunday morning at 10:00, road to the white house rewind, "a private decision" chronicles 1968 presidential race from primaries in new hampshire and president johnson's surprise withdrawal through the assassination of kennedy. at 8:00, on the presidency -- >> he was one as a result of that because of one's ability in foreign policy as head of state of the united states as the head of the chief of the armed forces of the leading power in the world and the leading power in the free world to think responsibly about what one can achieve and to try and define one's policies and to try and understand geopolitics in that light. >> military historian jeremy black looks at origins of the cold war and focuses on eisenhower as military man and president. go to c-span.org. >> the president of somalia recently washington, d.c. one of his stops at u.s. institute of peace where he talked about some mallian politics and security in the

historian james robertson talks about robert e. come his ties to virginia and the various campaigns throughout the state. then sunday at ten on the road to the white house, the film a private decision chronicles the 1968 presidential race from the first primaries in new hampshire and president johnson's surprise withdrawal for the assassination of kennedy and richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey in the general election and on the presidency. >> he was one as a result of that because i think on the stability and foreign policy and the head of state of the united states with the chief of the armed forces are the leading power in the world and in the free world is to think responsibly about what one can achieve and to try to define one's policies and to try to understand the geopolitics in that fight. >> jeremy black looks at the origins of the cold war and focuses on dwight d. eisenhower as a military man and president. for the complete history scheduled to c-span.org. >>> senate armed services committee chair john mccain has

. >> historian james "bud" robertson talks about robert e. lee, his ties to virginia and his campaigns throughout the state. then on road to the white house rewind, the film "private 1957 on" chronicles the presidential race. -- 00 on the -- >> his ability and foreign policy as head of state of the united states, the chief of the armed forces of the leading power in the world, very much the leading power in the free world is to think responsibly about what one can achieve and to try and define one's policies and try to understand geopolitics in that light. >> military historian jeremy black looks at the origin os they have cold war and focuses on dwight d. eisenhower as a military man and president. for the complete american history tv weekend schedule go to c-span.org. >> coming up on c-span, defense secretary ashton carter and joint chiefs of staff chair dunford testify before a house committee on the plan to close the guantanamo bay detention center. then a senate armed services hearing on u.s. strategy to counter isis in the middle east.

virginians.ad been james but robertson talks about .obert e. the film "the final decision" the 1968 presidential race. presidency.he won as a result of that. his ability as the chief of the armed forces in the leading power in the world and the chief of the free world is to think responsibly about what one can achieve and to try to define one's policies and try to understand geopolitics in that light. >> military historian jeremy blatt looks at the origins of the cold war and looks at dwight d. eisenhower as a military man. >> "washington journal" continues. last 30 minutes, we are asking, what is the proper role of government? we have split up the phone lines by age groups. 418-29-year-olds -- for 18-29-year-olds. the reason we are asking this question is because speaker paul ryan talked about what he believes the proper role of government is when he was addressing a group of georgetown university students yesterday. [video clip] at the democratic national convention in 2012, they showed this video that government is the only thing that we all

. >> historian james but robertson talks about general robert e lee. and then sunday night at 10:00 o'clock on road to the white house rewind chronicling the 1968 presidential race. president johnson's surprise withdrawal and richard nixon's victory over hubert humphrey. at 8:00 o'clock on the presidency. >> ability and foreign-policy cohead of state, chief of the armed forces, very much to think responsibly about what one can achieve and to try and define one policies and geopolitics in that light. >> the origins of the cold war and focuses on dwight d eisenhower as military men and president. for the complete schedule go to c-span.org.a deep d >> pennsylvania is the biggest prize of the race today. we are joined by harrisburg. if you have learned anything about this primary season,throu it is that each state has its own rules for who can vote and how that works.to take us through the rules governing pennsylvania agday. who can vote in today's primary? >> guest: you have to be legal, and for the most part we have not have very much controversy in the

robertson. >> superior court of california county of los angeles in the matter of people of the state of california versus orthenthal jameshe above entitled action find the defendant not guilty of the crime of murder in violation of penal code section 187a, a felony upon nicole brown simpson in count one charged in the information. >> oh, my goodness. do you remember that? i mean, and my heart is beating just like it was then. joining me now are the writers and executive producers of "the people versus o.j. simpson, american crime story." that's amazing when you watch the scene and 21 years later there's still that drama. why is that, guys? >> it's really interesting. there's been this joke the entire sear where people say don't spoil it for me, which you just did. even we were worried about it. our marsh orders were to tell you a side of the story you didn't know. we were always worried about episode ten, the final verdict. what we found was actually knowing the ending, knowing how it turned out, it actually gave the episode almost more power. it was almost like the "titanic" or united 93, you knew this horrible thing wa