john quincy adams, john taylor, millard fillmore or james buchanan?an infrastructure. megawatts of power, rails and open road, .. all running on countless invisible networks, making it a prime target for cyberattacks. but the same ai-powered security that protects all of google also defends the systems running america's infrastructure. for these services. for the 336 million of us living here. ♪ brian: breaking news, new jersey senator cory booker calling on his fellow lawmaker from new jersey senator bob menendez to resign. joining a fast growing the course of democrats calling from menendez to step down, mo grossly the progressive side as he faces federal bribery charges. we asked which president served in congress after his presidency? can we put them up please? there we are. who do you think? >> number one, john quincy adams but i had a little hint. david: i will go to number one as well. i knew the answer. i saw the movie, stud and it is in it, john quincy adams defended the people. and we are going to give you a birds eye view of the reagan pres

>> number one, john quincy adams but i had a little hint. david: i will go to number one as well. i knew the answer. i saw the movie, stud and it is in it, john quincy adams defended the people. and we are going to give you a birds eye view of the reagan presidential library. we were one day from the second republican debate. stuart varney, ilia called her own moderating the debate. coast-to-coast starts right now. david: president biden making a historic visit to michigan becoming the first sitting us president to join the picket lines one day after donald trump's planned visit, a report from the wolverine state. chicago crime getting congressional attention with a hearing in the windy city but democrats not showing up. we will hear from victims who want more help. bad blood between the irs and those who resold tickets to seiler swift's tour, the new role that could end up costing resellers. i packed our ahead. let's get right to it. welcome to the show. i am ashley webster in for neil cavuto. president biden expect to join striking autoworkers on the picket line. we have the late

it quits show in the 1960's post the question which american met in his lifetime both john quincy adams -- john quincy adams and alger hiss? that was oliver wendell holmes, who had met six presidents, another friends -- friend of his foster boyhood when he was five years old, and would employ a future soviets fight as one of his favorite law secretaries. but it was the civil war that was his touchstone. i hate to read about those days, he told friends, and had no interest in reliving any more squalid player luminaries poured the blunders and worse of the battles. -- for the blunders and worse of the battle. when he was sent a biography of lincoln, he said that i should please god if finished -- i should finish this book are some it. but he was keenly aware to the oars meaning for him, the profound waste those terrible and ennobling experiences of youth had shaped his life. the drive to fort stevens was always part of the program, for out-of-town visitors, and for each new secretary. he marked each anniversary of his brushes with death by solemnly drinking a glass of wine to the living a

he is published biographies of thomas carlyle, mark twain, henry james, charles dickens, john quincy adams, abraham lincoln gore vidal, and now thomas jefferson in his masterly pen. kaplan offers us a biography of thomas jefferson by giving an english professor's kind attention to jefferson's written words. jefferson only published one book in his lifetime notes on the state of virginia. but, of course, jefferson wrote consul treatises like a summary view of the rights of british north america legal briefs, memoranda the declaration of independence, and above all letters, thousands of them, which kaplan calls among his most powerful and revealing writings throughout his masterly pen, kaplan brings a skilled biographers attention to how jefferson reveals himself through his writing, often without without intending to, as kaplan says of notes on the state of virginia. it's a book about jefferson partly because jefferson did not want it to, a book about himself. the jefferson we meet here is not surprisingly learned and forceful. but kaplan also shows this jefferson as a writer who's often ev

and i couldn't believe i mean, mark twain, charles dickens, henry james, abraham lincoln, john quincy adams, a finalist for the pulitzer prize. i mean, missing a lot of people, too, aren't i. well. i have to confess. i'm not missing them anymore. for right. and he is. and here tonight to talk about thomas jefferson, who's he has recently written and is a finalist. mary sarah builder, who's a professor of law, boston college, and one of the leading thinkers on the constitution, who wrote a bancroft prizewinning book on james madison in the constitution, which was a finalist. the george washington book prize, which is here. she's here tonight to talk about female genius, the biography of eliza, harriet. we're going to learn a lot more about. and then we have maurizio valsania who has written eight books for italian and four in english and three on thomas jefferson. and he's recently turned his gaze to george washington, which the subject of his book that's a finalist for the george washington prize. so all of you. thank you very much much. so i have to meet with another mike. so give us a sec

as john quincy adams said, america must never grow abroad in search of monsters to destroy. but we must support other freedom loving nations in defending their sovereignty. by helping our friends defend themselves. we deter our enemies. we secure our freedom. the next president of the united states wasn't sure that america is prepared for the great power or the military for the task. i have a great honor of serving as your commander-in-chief. i will approach the task with these guiding crystals. after continued publications and even sending a surveillance balloon over the continental united states, i will reverse the spending and build toward the widening challenges. dublin did not blow off course. it traversed critical -- if i had been president, i would have shut that thing down. instead of kowtowing over the bite and administration, sending the back -- sending the secretary of state today for a meeting with president xi, i would have sent an aircraft carrier. maybe two. but the message don't ever try that again. my first principle as your commander-in-chief is simply this

in fact, john quincy adams, after he served president back and served in the house of representatives can you imagine a president today lowering to to serve in the house of representatives. but that's where the power resided in the earliest days and congress has just they've they've not embraced this at all and i agree with what two just said regarding some of the rules changes. but the one rule change that they needed they didn't push for and is that you needed wrest power away from committee because if don't arrest power from committee chairmen and chairmen are subject to the speaker. the speaker still got too much power. and the way you rest power away from committee chairmen by having committee chairmen selected by the members of the committee because then that then that chairman would be beholden to the members of the committee rather than the speaker who selects and the significant change they could have made is done. and then you would to devolve power back to the members and that great wisdom, the crowd that you speak of in your book could emerge. but right. the the the, the c

john quincy adams who is not a congressperson says am i g agged? and he insists on speaking anyway.is not a few americans know about it because it does not show up so much in judicial opinions. it is been subsumed by brought right of free speech. our modern first amendment sweeping, capacious that the ability to communicate with government and congress today, you do not have to send a petition. you can tweet or email or speak on facebook. the need to send a former petition is less crucial. host: washington with different associations and lobbying groups, is the city for people petitioning their government? guest: absolutely. exercising their constitutional rights as founders intended. this question of how responsive congress is supposed to be to the petitions goes to the heart of debates of the original convention. should be a democracy or a public? -- republic? should we have representatives directly elected by the people or should they be filtered like the electrical college tuition ensure only the wisest and most temperate and moderate should be chosen? this is the debate between

john quincy adams who is not a congressperson says am i g agged? and he insists on speaking anyway.is not a few americans know about it because it does not show up so much in judicial opinions. it is been subsumed by brought right of free speech. our modern first amendment sweeping, capacious that the ability to communicate with government and congress today, you do not have to send a petition. you can tweet or email or speak on facebook. the need to send a former petition is less crucial. host: washington with different associations and lobbying groups, is the city for people petitioning their government? guest: absolutely. exercising their constitutional rights as founders intended. this question of how responsive congress is supposed to be to the petitions goes to the heart of debates of the original convention. should be a democracy or a public? -- republic? should we have representatives directly elected by the people or should they be filtered like the electrical college tuition ensure only the wisest and most temperate and moderate should be chosen? this is the debate between

even john quincy adams stated this years and years ago as far the connection between the executive branchesnd judiciary. people have lost trust. the judiciary is supposed to be the balance between the two, and people have lost trust because of politicians who have brought themselves inside the court and never been pulled out. we need to figure this out and do something about it as americans. host: next is bertha in memphis, tennessee. >> caller: i do not trust republicans and because if you -- to me, they are not for the people. people are suffering now. people have lost jobs. and our children are being battered. they need to come together, not just start looking at their own selves because a lot of times they have money and do not care about poor people, so that is why i do not trust them, because they are not putting the people in concern. we have too many people suffering and losing homes and houses. it is awful. just disgusted with them. i do not trust them. our democrats need to get a little more strong and hold to your leafs. host: paul is next in new jersey , independent line. caller

even john quincy adams stated this years and years ago as far the connection between the executive branchesnd judiciary. people have lost trust. the judiciary is supposed to be the balance between the two, and people have lost trust because of politicians who have brought themselves inside the court and never been pulled out. we need to figure this out and do something about it as americans. host: next is bertha in memphis, tennessee. >> caller: i do not trust republicans and because if you -- to me, they are not for the people. people are suffering now. people have lost jobs. and our children are being battered. they need to come together, not just start looking at their own selves because a lot of times they have money and do not care about poor people, so that is why i do not trust them, because they are not putting the people in concern. we have too many people suffering and losing homes and houses. it is awful. just disgusted with them. i do not trust them. our democrats need to get a little more strong and hold to your leafs. host: paul is next in new jersey , independent line. caller