if you read that, you go way back, way, way to the summer of 1756, when john adams, 20 years old. 1756, 20 years short of the summer of 1776. and he was teaching school in worcester, massachusetts, which was then the frontier. keep in mind that in that time, two thirds of all of massachusetts were still forest. two thirds of pennsylvania were still, for us, the largest building in all of america. nassau hall at princeton. civilization was just a little grim along sub wealth of european civilization. american western civilization, just a little grim along the coast, only about 50 miles deep. it was a vastly different not just from the present, but from europe. and here he was out with what he thought was the the frontier teaching in a one room schoolhouse was miserable. he knew he didn't want to be a schoolteacher and his father had thought he would be a minister. that's how he got his why he got his scholarship to harvard. but he decided he didn't want to be a minister. he wasn't cut out for that. he decided he wanted to be an attorney, a lawyer, and to get public life. and on the nigh

>> john: adam boehler helped negotiate the abraham accords and negotiated with the taliban. >> sandra: greg palkot, any word if the truce will be extended for a second time now? >> sandra, no hard word, but certainly a lot of talk. a lot of developments, a lot of moving parts in this israeli war against hamas. let's start with the reports the latest transfer of hostages from the gaza strip. there are reports this could be underway. the former captives had been transported to israel crossing the southern part of gaza, women and children again, the red cross involved. israeli military talking about two so far but the number in the past few nights around 12, that proves to be true, when the total number of hostages freed to over 70. this as the fate of the youngest hostage, 10-month-old, and 4-year-old, and mother and father also a question. earlier this week, report hamas had transferred custody to another militant group. the family said they have been informed by the israeli military they would not be a part of the return tonight. there have been varying reports about their conditions,

and john adams, you know, wasn't quite there for all of this. and he kind of missed the memo. and so he makes it a crime to criticize donald trump and criticize john, excuse me and and he's thrown out on his -- by the american. he's the only early president who is because he doesn't get it but to day threats come not just from religious extremism as salman said, and maybe not just from certain media outlets that have monopolies, but from state and, local governments. think about actually the threat today and this one isn't going to help you very much. says congress shall make no law. well, there's another war, america, to sit the revolution war locals against the central government. and we like local juries and local militias. and that's the bill of rights. congress shall no law on the 10th amendment and militias and juries and the fifth amendment. grand jury sixth amendment trial jury amendment. civil jury. that's steve story. it's about revolution, but the rights actually originally don't apply against states and localities and that's a mistake because states and localities s

if you read that, you go way back, way, way back to the summer, 1756, when john adams was 20 years old, 1756, 20 years short of the summer of 1776. and he was teaching in worcester, massachusetts, which was then the frontier. keep in mind that in that two thirds of all of massachusetts still forest. two thirds of pennsylvania were still the largest building in all of america. nassau hall at princeton, civilization was just a little grim along some wealth. a european civilization, american, western, just a little grim along the coast only about 50 miles deep. it was a vastly different world just from the present, but from europe. and here he was out with what he thought was the the frontier teaching in a one room schoolhouse, miserable he knew he didn't want to be a schoolteacher. and if his father had thought he would be a minister. and that's how he got his why he got his scholarship to harvard. but he decided that he didn't want to be a minister. he wasn't cut out for that. he decided wanted to be an attorney, a lawyer, and to get into public life. and on the night of. august 22nd, a

as john adams said, facts are a lot less stubborn than they have been in the past. if we did that -- if we listen to each other, if we focused on arguments, if we let the other side talk and then we talked and we treated everyone with decency and respect, then our elected leaders could get together and find real solutions for our problems. they would work together. what obama said about transcending red and blue might become a reality. that may sound like a pipe dream today but that kind of discussion, where we listen to each other has occurred in the past. i hope that we can get there once again. in a way, that is what training for this class -- maybe -- obama ran for re- election in 2012. it was a bad economic time. he explained why he was optimistic. again and again. and then he said, let me tell you. i am optimistic not because of me but because of all of you read that attitude, that it is in the hands of the american people to change the nation for the better by listening to people on the other side, responding respectfully and treating everyone with respect by

john adams could see the future. he warned about this very thing about unscrupulous men in power in our newly established government. if left unchecked would become in his words ravenous beasts of prey that would undermine our freedoms and democracy. he was right. we've seen that with the department of justice, the fbi, intelligence agencies, unelected bureaucrats, weaponnized their authority to go after people, the russia hoax for purely political reasons. david: you know, law and order, we used to watch a show on tv called law and order and it was very simple and started first of all with a crime, a specific crime and the detectives and cops work together with the das and work in joint action against the perpetrator of that crime, gathering evidence as much as they go back to the crime scene and now you don't even need to have a crime to begin with. i mean, that's the absurdity of all this just getting back to the original case, is it clear that the presidential records act protects president trump from taking the

today was a supposed to have been a national day of celebration in john adams vision. that is, it was on this day in 1776 at the continental congress, actually approved the resolution that declared the united states a free nation, no longer part of the british empire. adams believed that the second day of july 1776 will be the most memorable in the history of america. as it turned out, we now celebrate the day, the 4th of july, that congress told the world of its brave action with the declaration of independence this afternoon, elizabeth mitchell will tell us about another symbol of our independence, the statue of liberty. lady liberty stands in new york harbor as a welcoming beacon for those who come to our shores in search of the american dream. our guests will reveal how lady liberty herself came to our shores. before we get into this afternoon's program, i'd like to tell you about some exciting things coming up here at the national archives in the next few days on friday, our annual independence day celebration will begin at 10 a.m. on the constant fusion avenue st

you have john adams.obviously, he's sitting, looking i suppose, a little bit inscrutable in the center. franklin is running his eyes over the text. and jefferson is looking, i suppose a little bit nervous because he would be a bit nervous if benjamin franklin was about to critique your copy. but this is this is this this really central moment. and i suppose we can imagine here. franklin, reading those famous words when in the course of human events and so on and going through the words around which i structure my book life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. now, this is a 20/20 century representation of an 18th century moment. so it's, i suppose, a romanticized image. but we do know that something like this happened. it's it's it's testified in the documents that we have. we know this that franklin did make editorial interventions and that this moment really was at the start of a period of redrafting that went on between maybe the 20th of june and the 4th of july with the critical moment really coming

even john adams, who was his ally, despite praised him because hamilton kept under meaning. john adams and in fact, so hamilton could have been president of the united states if he had, if anybody ever would have voted for him. but nobody would because they just didn't like him, which does bring up something that's really important in the context of american elective politics and the politics actually of any democ racy. if you think about it, elections in democracies are at the bottom popular early contests. who do you like? and i studied the presidency long enough to conclude that if you know who the two candidates are and you want to know who's going to win in an election, don't look at the political platform that they're running on. don't look at their policy. don't look at their experience. ask yourself one question, which of the two would you rather go have a beer with and the one that gets the most votes is likely to win. i was writing a book on andrew. in 2000 and you will remember the 2000 election and it was it was a close one. but even before the votes were cast, i

john adams famously said facts are stubborn things. and you heard a recitation of that here this morning, these facts are alarming. they're alarming to the american people. they are alarming to us. and so while we take no pleasure and uh in the proceedings here, we have a responsibility to do it. we're very proud of the work of these three chairmen that you've seen here, chairman comer and jordan and smith, they've done an exceptional job in uncovering the obvious corruption. you have heard it here, summarize this morning very succinctly, president biden and the biden family. we, we owe it to the american people to continue this process, but to do it methodically and transparently, many of, you know, i was on uh i'm a lawyer, i'm constitutional law attorney. i served on president trump's impeachment defense team twice and we lamented openly and we decried how the democrats politicize that process. they were brazenly political and how they brought those meritless impeachment charges against the president. this what you're seeing here is

john adams said that -- without institutions and without patience and humility, these virtues that are so missing, that we are all craven political beasts, basically. that's what he said. so look. what i hear the most often is, i hear a little more from the left than the right. but from the left i hear, why would i engage with those people? who hate everything about me, disagree with who i am as person, lgbtq community, why would i engage with those people whoan they don't give me the respect or dignity of humanity. and the answer actually is and the studies were clear, first of all, it's the only way to get them to change hearts and minds and engage in their humanity. when we engage it never changes minds. it never works. but it feels good to us. it feels good on social media. we get that dopamine hit. it gets eyeballs. >> not the atlantic but other media. we are of no party. governor cox: this is true. i'm grateful to be a token conservative on the stable. [applause] >> we love republicans who quote atlantic writers back to us. that's why you were invited. governor cox: it goes again

political differences between founders alexander hamilton, james madison, thomas jefferson and john adams. fox news host and best selling author brian kilmeade takes a look at the friendship of theodore roosevelt and booker t washington. his book, teddy and booker how to american icons, blazed a path for racial equality. and pulitzer prize winning poet and author tracy k smith is out with a memoir about black life and black community. the book is entitled to free the captives a plea for the american soul. also each week, new book reviews are published here three in the washington times history as it happens, podcast host martin de caro reviews a new offering by stuart reid, who is executive editor of foreign affairs magazine. mr. reid's book is entitled the moomba plot, and it details the us sanctioned plot to assassinate the leader of the newly independent democratic republic of congo in 1960. quote in his page, turning narrative history. stuart reid tells the story of patrice lumumba's meteoric se and tragic demise at a critical cold war juncture. tha's martin to carol writing the stren

, yet our government, agencies, doj, and fbi or intel agencies have squandered that trust, from john adamsut, in my book, he warned of unprincipled men, if left unchecked. would become r ravenous beasts of prey in his words. 200 years later his warning has come to fruition, we saw it with russia hoax and now running a protection racket. david: there are questions whether or not chief envoy to iran was sharing information with masterminds of terrorism, with iran, rob malloy. now suspended because of his misuse of intel documents, 10 seconds. >> yeah, and that is probably the tip of the iceberg. we have seen that kind of lawlessness almost indemmic in our own agencies that have as i say, squandered our trust, they need to be deconstructed and reconstituted. and only solution in a democracy is at the ballot box. david: great gregg jarrett have a great thanksgiving we'll be right back. nd b cially. then you came along and made every mile worth it. hi mom. at vanguard you're more than just an investor, you're an owner. helping you prepare for today's longer retirement. that's the value of owner

the founders, quote from john adams, it is important to remember, division of republic to two great parties we are seeing interest in a third party, joe manchin is right, it is hard because both parties agree, we don't want parties to have a third option. it is a threat, whether no label candidate or bobby kennedy jr., it takes a lot of money and resources and a lot of people to take on both political party machines. >> lawrence: they can't escape new polling. they want a different option. >> that is the strong message to both president trump and president biden to both political parties, why is that, why such a strong number of people who are disaffected republicans or democrats, people who i meet are frustrated people who are charged with mission to serve interest of the american people first ahead of any political party interest, they feel left behind and forgotten. >> carley: what is your message to joe manchin, he's on a listening tour and strongly considering jumping into the race. do you think he should? >> that is a decision only joe manchin can make, something i've looked at before

my first guest this evening is an emmy and golden globe-winning actor you know from "sideways," "john adamsllions." he now stars in the film "the holdovers." >> there was an incident when i was at harvard with my roommate. >> and? >> he accused me of copying from his senior thesis, plagiarizing. >> well, did you? >> no. he stole from me. the blue-blooded prick's family had allies. he accused me in order to sanitize his treachery and they threw me out. >> you got kicked out of harvard for cheating? >> no, i got kicked out of harvard for hitting him. i hit him with a car. >> stephen: please welcome paul giamatti. ♪ ♪ [cheers and applause] >> paul: strong crowd. >> stephen: there you go. >> paul: that's a strong crowd. thank you. lovely to be back. >> stephen: always nice to talk to you. i want to get into "the holdovers" which i think it's a beautiful movie. everybody should see it. >> paul: yes indeed. >> stephen: i want to talk about the thing they may not know about. i hope they all know. you have a podcast with professor stephen called chin wag which i have done and enjoyed immensely. >>

we should privileged facts because as john adams said facts are, stubborn things and dead, unfortunately. and today, america facts are a lot less stubborn. they are than they have been in the past. if we did that, if we listened to other if we focused on arguments, if we let the other side talk and we talk and we treated everyone decency and respect, that our elected leaders could get together and find real solutions for our problems. you know, they would together. and what obama about transcending red blue might become a reality. i that may sound like a pipe dream today, but that kind of discussion where we listen to each other has in the past and i have that we can get there once again in a way that's what training for this maybe made it in obama's. when you ran for reelection in 2012, it was a bad economic time. and he and his convention acceptance speech, he he he explained why he was optimistic. he talked about you as optimist again and again. and then he said, let me tell you why i'm optimistic. i'm not because of me, but of all of you. and that attitude that it is in the hands of

agencies, the doj, the fbi, our intel agencies have squandered that trust and it is precisely what john adamse warned of unprincipled, unscrupulous men if left unchecked would become ravenous beasts of prey and would destroy our constitutional republic and undermine our cherished freedom. 200 years later we saw the warning come to fruition. we saw it in the russian hoax and they're running a protection racket for the bidens. david: whether the chief envoy of iran was sharing information with the masterminds of terrorism, with iran itself. rob malley was a chief envoy to iran, now suspended because of his misuse of intel documents. you have only 10 seconds. go ahead. >> yeah, that is probably the tip of the iceberg. we have seen that kind of lawlessness, almost endem being in our own agencies that as i say, squandered our trust. they need to be deconstructed and reconstituted, evenly variable solution in democracy is at the ballot box. david: the gait gregg jarrett. have ae lu great thanksgiving but i'm protected with arexvy. arexvy is a vaccine used to prevent lower respiratory disease from r

a wonderful letter to john quincy adams, who was then president of the united. and he said this.but week, as his material frame, his mind was enthroned. if you read that, you go way back, way, way back to the summer, 1756, when john adams was 20 years old. 1756, 20 years short of the summer of 1776 and he was teaching school in worcester, massachusetts, which was then the frontier. keep in mind that in that time, two thirds of all of massachusetts, this was still forest. two thirds of pennsylvania were still forest. largest building in all of america was nassau hall at princeton. civilization was just a little grim along subways of european civilization. american western civilization, just a little grim along the coast. only about 50 miles deep. it was a vastly different not just from the present, but from europe. and here he was with what he thought was the the frontier teaching in a one room schoolhouse, miserable he knew didn't want to be a schoolteacher. and his father had thought he would be a minister that's how he got his way he got his scholarship to harvard. but he decid

just a footnote, you know, when you had the jeffersonian and the hamiltonians and you had john adams at amazon's get together and their surrogate and they themselves contributed to what the northwest ordinance would be, isn't it interesting jefferson issued rejected slavery. the jefferson ions in this process reject it slavery for this territory but let's go to now defining the midwest we we have written or edited together a number of books you know north country trying to figure out where the midwest sort of blends into what becomes the north interior borderlands was wonderful wonderfully fun book to work on where the midwest really leads into the great plains, where we're currently finishing up another which sort of looks the east, you know, where the midwest began and sort of what david mccullough takes up in his last great book, the which i recommend everybody to to read about the origins of sort of the midwestern and how we have a civic ethos which is much different from that in the east and in the south. so what is the midwest then and what does it become now? i'll get to that

lies through the lies repeated with thomas jefferson and john adams supervising the media production of these articles that were blatant lies. so we've had some rough times. the 1960s. well, see, i'm just old enough to remember a bit of. 1960s. you got a good laugh with that one? that's right. some historian that. that's right. that's right. the 1960s were really interesting because i what i remember well, i had a brother who graduated from the air force academy, and so he was flying a force in the vietnam era that kind of has a way of riveting your attention when there's a lot of civil unrest, a lot of anti war protests. that was a period of of great protests. the college i went to had old main burned down at that period. for example, 1970, where there was a lot of destruction. i mean, we worry about seattle and portland and some of the things that have happened. ladies and gentlemen, i think a lot of you also remember the 1960s, if i could say, and we remember that there was a lot of unrest we had three prominent americans assassinated, for pete's sake. now, a lot of people are pre

john adams did not serve adams sort of inherited the washington mindset. and of course, you have people running the federalist faction like who was himself a veteran and an absolute brave beast on the battlefield. then thomas jefferson, third president in 1801 two 1809. jefferson is leery of a strong military. he sees that as a step toward dictatorship. jefferson pretty for eight years, does nothing but cut the military budget readiness. some of the forts, including fort warburton is then fort washington, which were to protect the strategic potomac and protect capital city and capitol building. jefferson just ignores it the ford is staffed by a drunk that's the garrison and the artillery is mismanaged. some of the guns cannons don't have a i a firing platform. and then madison comes into office and madison is the heir apparent to jefferson sort of his disciple the way hamilton was washington's. so madison continues so by 1812 our standing army is a couple of thousand poorly trained folks without adequate weaponry or artillery. our navy a mismatch, our alon

with thomas jefferson and john adams supervisorring the media production of these -- supervising the media production of these articles that were blatant lies. theus 1960s, which i'm just old enough to remember a bit of -- [laughter] >> got a good laugh with that one. >> that's right. >> some historian you are. >> that is right. [laughter] the 1960s were really interesting because what i remember, well, i had a brother who graduated from the air force acad amy, and so he's flying f-4s in the vietnam era. that kind of has a way of rivetting your attention when there's a lot of civil unrest, a lott of anti-war protests. that was a period of great protest. the college i went to had -- burned down at that period, for example, 1970. there was atr lot of destructio. we worry about a seattle and portland and some of the things that have happened. ladies and gentlemen, i think a lot of you also remember the 1960s, if i can say, and we remember that there was a lot of unrest. we had three prominent if americans assassinated, for feat's -- pete's sake. now, a lot of people are predicting the k

john adams did not serve adams sort of inherited the washington mindset. and of course, you have people running the federalist faction like who was himself a veteran and an absolute brave beast on the battlefield. then thomas jefferson, third president in 1801 two 1809. jefferson is leery of a strong military. he sees that as a step toward dictatorship. jefferson pretty for eight years, does nothing but cut the military budget readiness. some of the forts, including fort warburton is then fort washington, which were to protect the strategic potomac and protect capital city and capitol building. jefferson just ignores it the ford is staffed by a drunk that's the garrison and the artillery is mismanaged. some of the guns cannons don't have a i a firing platform. and then madison comes into office and madison is the heir apparent to jefferson sort of his disciple the way hamilton was washington's. so madison continues so by 1812 our standing army is a couple of thousand poorly trained folks without adequate weaponry or artillery. our navy a mismatch, our alon