frugalty served him and the country badly when war broke out with britain in 1812, having starved john adams navy, adam -- madison was forced to entrust much of the battle at sea to privateers, as if the president in modern times were to outsource the war in afghanistan to bill gates or warren buffett. for the better part of two centuries, historians judged madison the intellectual to be a better theorist than war time leader. in the latter capacity he was seen as the un-lincoln, solely lacking in ruthlessness or capacity. and yet, as an illustration of how presidential reputations can bounce around like corn in a popper, in the wake of subsequent conflicts and assaults on civil liberties ranging from the incarceration of japanese-americans after pearl harbor to more recent debates sparked by our own war on terror, madison has come in from reappraisal. to his admirers he is the supremely constitutional war time president. a leader who never abused the liberties for which his armies were contending. no one went to jail for criticizing the administration and his conduct of the war. no alien an

coming back again to john adams' quote. we have suffered through a time in american history where people on the far left saying in have been essence, there's no real right or wrong. you know what may be wrong for you may be right for somebody else. so it's all relative. there's no absolute right and wrong. c.s. lewis pointed out, although -- it's like music. some people may come closer to singing the proper note, just because many can't don't mean that note does not exist. the law does exist, and some will closer to following the law more easily. the law exists. it must be enforced, and it's one of the things that's made the united states so successful, to become as it was the greatest country in the history of the world. i would humbly submit even .reater than solomon's israel because americans had more freedoms, more opportunities, more assets. first time that i can find in history anywhere anytime that the number one health problem or the nation's poor was obesity. that just doesn't happen through history. but it's happe

john adams wrote to his wife, abigail, that july 2, 1776, would become -- these are adams' words -- july 2nd, 1776 will become the most memorable day in the history of america with pomp and parade from one end of the continent to the other forever more. oops. what happened? well, why doesn't he get credit? that's what asked when i started writing this book. i learn that after passing lee's resolution on july 2nd, congress decided that a few dozen words weren't grand enough to announce the birth of a huge and great new nation. so congress appointed a committee of five, including franklin and jefferson, to write a more grandiose document. four of the final, live franklin, were old and tired after week of debate and told young jefferson to stay up plate extend lee's document. he opened the new document with a magnificent preamble. then filled the heart of the document with dozens of grievances written in pretty boring prose, the king did this or that, a bad boy. he ended by repeating the stirring words of richard henry lee that i just read to you. he gave lee no credit. and that's pretty ty

john adams described the bible as the most republican book in the world. the most republican book in the world. i have picked up my bible thousands of times over the course of my life, but i have got to be honest with you. i never picked it up and said, now, for some good republican reading. it is not what i'm thinking when i picked up the bible. but he is not alone among his contemporaries in making this claim. i have some language from john dickinson, a founder we should all be more familiar with, somewhat forgotten in our own time but acclaimed in his own time as the penman of the revolution. he makes almost precisely this same statement. here i have him saying -- the bible is the most republican book that ever was written. again, even these two are not alone among their contemporaries in making the statement. the bible is many things to the christian. it is god's word, the counsel of god, a divine lamp, for instruction in righteousness, but is it republican? is it republican? and in what sense is the bible republican? what are they talking about here?

argue ande john adams use this text and many others. let's think about their argument. they say, look again at the historical context. peter and paul, what they were really doing is making general statements about respecting authority. meanssion did not unlimited submission to anything or any authority. saying theywith were endorsing unlimited submission to any king is there were too many biblical texts that show people of god revolting against kings. anybody remember accidents and pharaoh? anybody remember darius and daniel? got did not have to just take it from any bad king. so it could not have been about unlimited submission to any king. let's look at paul's situation. paul specifically writing to the romans. he was dealing with christians for taking too literally the --a that christ's kingdom sometimes people take that too literally. not of this world does not mean this world is gone. it means you still have to live in the world but live in this different way. paul is saying the key to understanding that is one specific section of a verse people tend to overlook. a

he did not write in his books like john adams. john adams would write tons of stuff in the margins. george washington very rarely wrote in the margins. but one thing he did do pretty consistentently was to correct typos. [laughter] and so, if you can look at a book that he owned and you can see a typo corrected on page 10, one on page 50, and when on page -- and one on page 100, that is a pretty good indication that he read that whole book. and i found those in this book. and so, this is the first of many different religious books that i talk about in the first chapter. something else that is significant about that particular book was that it was e's lecture boyl series. robert boyle was a great scientist of this time. we all know boyle's law from 10th grade history. -- 10th grade chemistry. you still remember that, don't you? [laughter] anyways. he was a great scientist but also a great religious man. -- as the enlightenment was starting to go, he was worried that science would overtake religion. so he created a series of lectures for the importance of emphasizing the divine in our

i heard somebody referring to john adams and -- they were really rough on each other. unbelievable.nd thomas jefferson saying george washington was senile. all kinds of horrible things are coming up. so, any one of them alone were a problem. but they gave us a system that is enduring. they gave us separation of powers so we don't have to worry about too much executive authority. they gave us federalism so governors can governor their states and be close to their own people. and they gave us, most importantly, that area where government should not enter civil society, where each and every one of us gets to practice democracy. >> they're yelling at me. i have to ask you one question. i watched this, i was so moved. you tied together freedom of religion, you tied together the role of the military. reminded me of some of the best moments of president obama's presidency, of president bush's presidency. it sounds a little bit like the idea might launch their own political effort. are you thinking about running for office. >> i've told you privately and publicly because we're friends, i do

john adams campus. we entry the emts into our department to work shifts at station 49. we did have a recent graduation of 123rd academy this month. we are in the process of selections for the 124th academy underway march 26th and that will become prosed of 54 members. 42 off the list and 12 from station 49. then to summarize since the last meeting, what we have been involved in. last week on a well deserved few days off the deputy chief and i met with local 78 as part of the monthly labor management meeting. on the 22nd prepared for the public safety hearing today which deputy chief participated in. had to do with the department of technology as related to the red call boxes and some have been out of service so we can provide additional information on that if you want. we had a meeting with the recently appointed director of technology as well as the city administrator to prepare for the presentation today. on the 23rd last friday, deputy chief nicholson and i attended at the request and invitation of the agent firefighters association the coalition of asian-american go

they will eventually eat themselves alive but i love what john adams said. country or our constitution and by extension america is made only for a moral and religious people. i take it a step further to say america cannot exist, america and you and i have come to know her being the land of freedom and opportunity, the land of prosperity, shining beacon of hope to so many nations cannot exist apart from the influence of christianity, apart from the influences of jesus christ. christianity is a significant part of our culture. >> the rights of everyone, the rights of christians seem to be more excluded. >> these are the people who stand on her tip toes screaming out tolerance, but they tend to be the most intolerant people we have ever seen especially when it comes to christians or conservatives or patriotic attitudes. >> we run behind the american flag and willing to surrender our lives to something greater than ourselves, the premise behind the declaration of independence, there is a god who believes we should be free and not the subject of another and the v

regarding franklin's chameleonlike religion, john adams once remarked "the catholics thought him almost a catholic, the church of england claimed him as one of them, the presbyterians thought him half a presbyterian, and the friends believed him a wet quaker." quakersically means a is not so well behaved. the key to understanding his ambivalent faith is the contrast between the skepticism of his adult life, and the indelible imprint of his childhood. is not so well behaved. the key to understanding his the intense piety and faith of his parents acted as a tether, restraining franklin's skepticism. as a teenager, he abandoned his parents. beliefs.s puritan that same traditional faith kept him from getting too far away. he would stretch his moral and doctrinal tether to the breaking point. by the end of a youthful sojourn he made to london. when he returned to philadelphia in 1726, he resolved to conform more closely to his parents' ethical code. he steered away from extreme deism. could he craft a christianity centered on virtue rather than traditional doctrine and avoid alienating his p

john adams, when he had a conversation with thomas paine about drawing on the old testament in "common sense," thomas paine brushed it aside and said, "i got it from milton." you know? this is an argument both against how the bible was influential in various ways, regardless of whether or not the people quoting it actually believed that the bible was the revealed word of god in a specific way. this is a quote from gordon wood, one of the most eminent american religious, not religious historians, but american historians specifically , in the revolutionary era. he says it was the clergy who made the revolution meaningful for most common people, because for every gentleman that read a scholarly pamphlet and dealt in , a week and agent history for an explanation of events, dozens of ordinary americans who read the bible who look to ministers for interpretation of what the revolution meant. so the bible was part of the language. symbolism, of the part of the narrative everyone knew. if everyone owned one book, this is the case in the 19th century, it was probably, if they owned one book, it

traditionally, one of the leading parties electors voted for somebody else or cast a blank ballot so that john adams would have one more vote than thomas jefferson and so forth. but in the election of 1800, 73' electors voted for jefferson and others voted for burr because burr is attempting a coup. it goes to the house of representatives february 1801 in a tie. washington's buried in a snowstorm, there are 16 states so the winner has to get nine of the states in order to win. each state has one vote cost my his congressional delegation and the first ballot eight for jefferson, six for burr and two tied. and there are only one of those states is only tied because congressman joseph h nicholson, who is suffering from a fever, is put on a stretcher and carried two miles through snow-bound washington d.c., put in a committee room where his wife fears he's going to die and he is there to keep maryland tied, otherwise the vote would go to burr and it would be-- it would be seven-- excuse me 8-7. and after 36 ballots and six days, the first day the 11th of february they begin voting at 10:00 in the mornin

she moved when she was 16 and attended john adams high school. she's lived between the bay area and texas for most of her adult life. she's the mother of three children. tisha, shondra, and sade. she's known for her quick wit and her love for food. she's got an amazing green thumb. she's brought back to life many plants. she's given a huge amount to our city hall community from judging the holiday bake-off to finding and watering office plants. some of you do not even know this, but she's going into your office and sharing life. you know what? she's also offering doctor referrals. she gives me fashion advice, particularly when she thinks my skirts are too short. she is that loving spirit you run into in the hallway. she has criticisms and critiques abound. some of them are solicited, but most of them are not. she's like that auntie that will pull your skirt and will check you when you need to be checked. she's got something to say about everything, ladies and gentlemen. that is what makes her so special. sometimes we can overlook people like clau

>> mostly on the motion of john adams they picked thomas jefferson who proved to be a beautiful writer of pamphlets leading up to the american revolution, and they wanted somebody who could write in an elevated way and a moving way. mark: and they had various iterations so they finalized it. >> that's right, that's right. he sat and wrote it in a room by himself, july 1st and 2nd and they debated it and voted it and altered it in some ways. >> uh-huh. let's start at beginning. when in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's god entitlement, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation. here are the words i want to focus on with you, laws of nature and of nature's god. are those important? what does that mean? >> well, the document is unprecedented, and unprecedented for two reasons. one is it's a law,

john adams was called a hermaphrodite by jefferson. jefferson said he had a man said over a woman's body. can you imagine that? that was a rough comment. i did vote for president obama. i can't fit into either of these two parties, because i'm socially inclusive and fiscally responsible. if you say you are socially liberal, you tune out half the country because we spent billions of dollars for the country to hate that word. if you are fiscally conservative, you tuned out the liberals because we spent billions of dollars the other way to hate that word. we have to right-size the budget process and curve the excessive spending because if you don't do that, you will lower living standards of the middle class and poor. bob: what did you think it will increase the deficit? anthony: i'm torn on the taxes because there are parts of the tax plan that i like. the lowering of the corporate taxes, if you understand the way the markets work from tr 35% to 21%, you made the country way more competitive relative to the tax base around the world and

traditionally one of the leading parties electors voted for somebody else or cast a blank ballot so that john adams would have one brother vote down thomas jefferson and so forth. but in the election of 1800, 73 electors voted for jefferson and 73 voted for burr because burr is attempting a two. it goes to the house of representatives on the 11th of february, 1801 in a tie. washington is buried in a snowstorm. there are 16 16 states, so the winner has to get nine of the state in order to win. each state has one vote cast by its congressional delegation, and the first ballot is eight for jefferson, six for burr and to tide. only one of the states is only tied because congressman joseph h nicholson who is suffering from a fever is put on a stretcher and 32 miles through snowbound washington d.c., put in a committee room where his wife fears that he's going to die and he is there to keep maryland tied otherwise about would go to burr and it would be eight the seven. after 36 ballots, the first day 11th of february to begin voting at 10:00 in the morning and devote every hour until the following evenin

you know my first guest from "sideways," "john adams," and and now "billions." >> your wife, still down, and the train ride is only-- >> sure it is. but the problem is the free flow of information, the casual details of the day can get lost. over time, even though we did reside in the same house, my wife and i lived that way. >> you're telling me you and your wife had no secrets? >> oh, no, i'm certain some are still lurking. we all mask certain emotions, often our most intense ones, like bjorn bother did. but like borg, eventually, it will end up costing you everything, so we're digging in. >> stephen: please welcome paul giamatti! ( cheers and applause ) >> fantastic! >> stephen: please. >> oh, man! wow! fantastic! >> stephen: yes, fantastic. nice to see you again. >> nice to see you. >> stephen: i always enjoy my conversations with you. >> likewise. >> stephen: the last time upper on the show, we talked about science fiction and our love of science fiction. you love jack vance, i love larry levin, and we got in a little trouble when we were out at something called "the television cri

john adams represented british soldiers in the boston massacre. as john said, he's a bad client.esn't treat his lawyers particularly well. he may not pay him. and let's remember we are sitting on the edge of our seat every day wondering if trump is going to fire mueller. i don't think you want to be his attorney if and when that happens. because news flash, the investigation will go on and then as the attorney, you might get sucked into the vortex also and become questioned by mueller and no attorney wants to go down that road. >> john, we always make the caveat we want to be careful with any watergate comparisons but president nixon's personal lawyers, as i understand, he wasn't even agreeing to meet with them at certain points, much less take their advice. the notion of a president who trusts his own instincts more than anyone else, does that ring familiar to you? >> it does, very much so. in fact, what happened with nixon, he refused until really after he left office to get a highly competent criminal lawyer. notwithstanding advice to the contrary from yours truly, that he nee

john adams said facts are stubborn things. and indeed they are stubborn things. and we want all of the stubborn things to be laid out for the american people. two, louis brandeis, former supreme court justice described sunlight as the best disinfectant. we're going to bring as much sunlight to this as possible. it is righteous. we're going to let the american people see the facts and they're going to decide. >> are the facts going to get x-rated or r rated any time soon? >> stay tuned. >> can you tell us anything else about how your client felt about last night? there was controversy, men and women experienced it differently. we talked a little bit about some of the twitter reaction. some people said nothing to see here. other people, i don't know what their expectation was, i think most women in america are pretty interested in a president who has operationalized, albeit incompetently, a hush system. what do you think the take away should have been last night? >> well, here's what i do know. i haven't heard from any mothers who did not hear that story and were n

i know george washington and ben franklin and john adams. but i did not know the story.nd there is a story. going forward, the mexican-american war, no one knows about that. i like telling a story no one knows. and most people never heard of -- the man who taught robert e lee how to be a soldier for one thing. going to world war i, persian. the red baron. there is a name you might know. i was appalled when i went around the country for my book on the first world war to the last man. how many people thought the red baron was a cartoon character! [laughter] >> not the way history should be taught. when i started looking at world war ii i was really nervous. because when i say like it's a story that you don't know, what to tell you about world war ii that you don't know? hollywood alone has given us so many stories on world war ii. john wayne alone, has given us so many world war ii stories. all of the names and all of the famous places, we know all of that. when i began researching the rising tide is the first of a trilogy. the war in europe. the story covers america's fir

john adams represented the british soldiers in the boston massacre.erybody has a right to an attorney. so i would advise them to think about it. i think what is turning off a lot of lawyers are two things, the taint and the tweets. with respect to the taint, i think there is a concern that if you represent this president, it could taint your career forever. and if you are already a very prominent lawyer, maybe you just don't need this. and the risk is just too high. and then the tweets, this is a president who seems not to take the legal advice of the lawyers around him. i am absolutely certain that his lawyers have told him to stop tweeting about this because every statement he makes can be used against him as an admission down the road. you know, think about the statement about -- i had to fire mike flynn because he lied to the fbi, that was a fact we didn't know before. now his lawyer has to take responsibility for that tweet. who wants to deal with a client like that? you want to deal with a client who will follow your advice and at least make rea

john adams said at that moment the child, revolution, was born. so liberals and conservatives believe that any electronic searches today is, by definition, unreasonable and unconstitutional law and an anathema to liberty. cell phone surveillance, the supreme court is about to drive about the most important case for digital privacy in the 21st century. can the government subpoena -- which is demand without warrant -- five months of our geolocation records? that is locations owned by the cloud, verizon or whoever our provider is, and with these, we can use the movements of a suspected drug dealer and see that he was -- he was not suspected of selling drugs, he was suspected of stealing cell phones -- you cannot make this up. the government concluded by breaking into his cell phone records, but he was a cell phone theft. the objective of there was no valid warrant and said the search was unconstitutional. the supreme court do? my predictions are as good as yours, but i believe that this court will, by a strong bipartisan majority, hold that the searc

obviously with john quincy adams it's a lot that can be done with manuel and nobody has a big popular biography of him. in modern context and make us there's a big biography on cesar chavez. highways, national monument, everything and yet nobody is invested in the life and times of cesar chavez. those are examples of how you think about how it opened unintimidated so much. i would have to do and take off like george washington at valley forge, what is an american memory at peace with them because i'm not so good in the revolutionary war. even though i wish i was. >> can i say some pain and see if you all agree. soup to not order a piece of it. i think the biggest threat and i don't want to drag you all into it, but what we do is netflix. let me explain. tv is now so good it's a case of deregulation working. you broke the monopoly of the network, technology, it turns out yes there's an enormous amount of talent that needs to be unleashed. my sense is since i try to write books, it's mission creep. but 20 hours, to however long it takes people to read a single book, that time is by a la

i keep come canning back to the quote of president john adams , so 8 when he said prophetically, and analytically, this constitution is meant for a moral and religious people. it is wholly inadequate for the gove

john barnett and adam alhanti have become anti-gun advocates since watching fellow students die around them.they told this crowd...no one would have to think about fortifying schools if the common denominator in mass shootings - the guns- were properly dealt with - calling out the roseville joint unified high school district for taking 300,000 dollars in grants from the nra, more than any other district in the country.adam alhanti/ marjorie stoneman- douglas senior "even schools are taking money from the nra... and i didn't even know why a school would need money from the nra."add that to the list of concerns... in this room.pamela lyons is worried about lockdown protocols. pamela lyons/ kennedy high shool senior: "i don't feel safe just being stuck in a classroom. if would feel better if we had somewhere to go"others are how their peers in parkland are changing the conversation about guns.dani davis/ kennedy high shool senior: "i feel ready to take action." ( marty ) coming up on the kron 4 weekend news... we have more coverage of the shooting in yountville... including new details on

obviously with john quincy adams the monroe doctrine it is a lot that can be done with monroe and nobody'sdone a big, popular biography of him. in modern context i'm aghast there is not a big biography on caesar chavez. there are sees a chavez boulevards, parks, highways, national monuments, his name, nobody invested in the life around times of caesar chavez. those are examples how you think sometimes, wow, that is wide open. or forget it. i will do somebody i want to do. i would love to write on george washington, i'm intimidated. there is so much. what i'm doing with space and margaret did with china i would take off like george washington at valley forge, just what is valley forge in american memory, a piece of them. because i'm not apt, i'm not so good if the revolutionary war period even though i wish i was. >> can i say something about stray observation, see if you all agree because doug's talking about it, you know, sometimes we call them slice books or the full meal, you know. soup it nuts. you do soup-to-nuts or do you do a piece of it? i think the biggest threat to what, i don't

he also liked to quote the immortal words of john quincy adams, who said, we are friends of liberty all over the world, but we don't go abroad in search for monsters to destroy. [laughter] you know, he did not say this now. he said this first in his speech of 1953. now what does this have to do with europe? it has something to do with a view of his, about which he hasn't written but it goes through a red thread to his writings and thoughts. you see, again, what i wanted to emphasize until now is he is mostly known because of his wisdom and knowledge and understanding of russia. and communism. but you see, his understanding and concern with america are in my opinion, even more important than that. i have a, a chapter in my small book i entitled and i feel, no, feel, i'm convinced without exaggeration for long time this man was a conscience of america. and he saw this, his relation, you see, he had no time he never wrote about it, but he troched about it for the american frontier theory. the frontier theory, which an american second-rate historian frederick jackson turner, first proposed

we recognize john adams. but when we go to committee hearing rooms, one or two chairmen past, we don't know who they are. i guess it was an attempt to achieve immortality. but it is an act of ego that is a little embarrassing even for washington, d.c. this is an important bill, commonsense bill, that brings us all back to earth that none of us is inexpendable and that frankly, we make our contribution and we move on. this bill strikes at the uncontrolled egos and i hope sends a message to those among us, that they can stay that way if they wish, but the taxpayer isn't going to pay for their oil painting. i support the bill and urge its passage. and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from iowa is recognized. mr. blum: i would like to make the gentleman aware i have no further speakers and am prepared my ose and i enjoyed my ol's eeg rather dry sense of witt. mr. connolly: and i will remind im, being irish that leprechauns are always on my shoulder.

adam and john. they inspired us all with their dedication to a future without a fear of gun violence. the students that filled the auditorium of kennedy high school in sacramento to listen o adam and john were fully informed, passionate and focused on the future. they wanted to know how we can enforce stronger background checks, ban assault weapons, change a culture of guns in this country and how they can amplify their voices. after hearing their thoughts and questions, i know one thing for sure. these amazing young people are not going to back down from achieving progress on this issue. and i believe it will be incumbent upon all of us to listen to their voices. they are the voices of the future. as adam from parkland said during our town hall, this issue of gun violence affects all of us. no one wants to live in fear about going to school, work, movies, church, a concert or just walking on the street. so no one can afford to sit on the sidelines and do nothing to reform gun laws in this country. w

to hurt people, and we just got to get back to having a moral right and a moral wrong and like john adamsd, our constitution was intended for a moral and religious people. it's not -- it's inadequate for governing others. stuart: on that subject of knowing right from wrong and teaching right from wrong. now, the president, he is doubling down on sanctuary cities. roll that tape, please. trump: sanctuary cities in states like california put innocent americans at the mercy of hardened criminals, hardened murders. sanctuary cities are dangerous, and we're going to take care of the problem. stuart: yeah, well, look. following up from that, three illegal immigrants who escaped capture after an ice raid warning from the oakland mayor. they've since been rearrested for new crimes, including robbery and spousal abuse. louie, if you want to vent, go for your life. >> well, it is absolutely insane what the sanctuary cities are doing. they basically have said we want the federal money. in fact, we demand the federal money keep flowing. but otherwise we're succeeding from the union. we don't care wha

john quincy adams had a very famous passage the united states support the self-determination of people around the world and we should extend our prayers and hopes but not going out to destroy. because that's not in the united states's strategic interest. what do you think is our national security strategic interest? what is being served by putting more weapons in ukraine? how does that make the united states more secure? how does it make constituents in my district more secure? >> the united states has come to the assistance of people and a nation that seeks to establish themselves with the west in a democratic way and make reforms to do that. i think it's important that the united states be seen as a good ally in that and, of course, where that takes us here in the future will be set against, you know, our vital, our vital interest in this as countries move forward. i think it's important that we support those who seek democratic values and ways and in the world as well. otherwise we forfeit that movement to others like russia who would like to undermine and establish a world order th

john barnett and adam alhanti have become anti-gun advocates since watching fellow students die aroundm.they told this crowd...no one would have to think about fortifying schools if the common denominator in mass shootings - the guns- were properly dealt with - calling out the roseville joint unified high school district for taking 300,000 dollars in grants from the nra, more than any other district in the country.adam alhanti/ marjorie stoneman- douglas senior "even schools are taking money from the nra... and i didn't even know why a school would need money from the nra."add that to the list of concerns... in this room.pamela lyons is worried about lockdown protocols. pamela lyons/ kennedy high shool senior: "i don't feel safe just being stuck in a classroom. if would feel better if we had somewhere to go"others are inspired by how their peers in parkland are changing the conversation about guns.kennedy high feel ready to take action." (justine) the family of a woman killed in a hit-and-run accident in vallejo tells me.. they feel better and blessed police made an arrest in the case.

are going to be working with our colleagues across the aisle to get a report drafted. >> john: your colleague adam schiff has complained long and loud about a number of people from either the trump campaign or trump white house not answering questions, claiming privilege. did you lose anything by not having those questions answered? >> we don't believe so. the hearings i sat there, i believe we got the information that was relevant. it's not surprising folks would disagree. they wanted to continue the investigation. maybe some on the democratic side that never want this to come to a conclusion. they feel it has some advantage to keep this open. we believe it's important to move forward. we have elections coming up. primary season has started and we have important things to discuss with the american people. >> john: congressman conaway, thanks for coming in. this is another fox news alert. there appears to be a serial bomber on the loose in austin, texas. police report two package bombings today, one killed a teenager and the other badly wounded an elderly woman. this follows another fatal bombing

john adams has said something about like what togethkville is have said about our system of governmentder to operate, a good and moral and well balanced people in order to do its job. i found that remember mayor to be a rather impressive fellow. i always like it when people buck their party for serious reasons. it is my sense we talked about this the previous hour, that conor lamb, the democrat, will seem because of the issues stands he has, he will seem to some people, i think there in pennsylvania, to be a sort of trumpan fellow without the trumpian baggage. do you know what i mean? a nice young man whos has sort of trumpian policies. i am wondering, just, just a point of information, a, is it snowing in pennsylvania or in pennsylvania 18 right now? and b, if so, what are the implications of that fact? >> yeah. it certainly is lately. and, you know, peggy, what i love is also -- and we talked about it a lot, how the people like that mayor can vote for donald trump and then two years later vote for a democratic congressman. four years, six years before voted for barack obama. before 2