what's interesting about george ross is that of course is betsy's uncle through her marriage to john and deeply involved in the defense of the delaware. george ross makes perfect sense for a member of a party of people coming to her shop in the spring of '76 because philadelphians were very concerned about the defense of the delaware and the british arriving in philadelphia; washing was in philadelphia. he was gathering up things including tents so i know he's making the rounds through those shops. george ross makes perfect sense as a visit to her shop as does robert morris who was a member of congress in these years but also deeply involved in the defense of pennsylvania. as you work through the stories a lot of it does ring true. when i think about the moment of the cutting of the star i'm seeing a young woman widowed in her twenties worried about the future. the partnership that she had with her fellow up pull sister husband is not husband is not to be. what i see is a young artisan seeking a government contract. she's saying to washington the six pointed stars that would be fine b

so there are some hints that john ross was not altogether of sound mind at his death, and what interested me to that sarah, wass mother, committed to an asylum for lunacy when john was a teenager. so john's family struggled with sarah's mental health, john struggled with mental health, and then betsy had a cousin who was really raised with her more like a sister named rebecca who her lifehe end of describes herself as having gone lunatic and seems to fear -- today we would call it a persecution complex. she seems to see people all around her who are conspiring against her. i am interested in the history of mental health, so to see that any the 18th century was sort of surprising to me. so the family stories let me in a lot of different directions. that is the duty of biography is you have to follow the story wherever it goes. i got taken to a lot of interesting places. lisa. i was found that with aspirin, i could never find information about him. have you uncovered anything new? >> josep ashbourne, i cannot find any clear reference to the ashbourne family on the eastern seaboard of the u.

tonight it is my pleasure to introduce john ross. [applause] >> thanks, kimberly. thank you all for coming tonight. it is a real treat for me. i spent a lot of time with this past book at the national archives, not here but in college park doing work. it is a real treat to be asked to come here and talk to about this research on this remarkable figure. before i start -- before a friend dragged you here tonight, be honest, who has heard of eddie rickenbacker? raise your hand. two generations ago, everybody would've known this guy's name. not only his name, but they would've told you stories about him. his facial recognition -- he was more familiar than the president. he was a hero. anyway, so researching your book, i spend a lot of time sitting down behind a machine. occasionally, some of my research trips takes interesting turns. i was bringing my 20-year-old back home from upstate new york from college. we stopped off in connecticut. i had been corresponding with the big expert on the earliest for motor cars in the world, and the country certainly. i had some tech

author john ross talks about his book "enduring co urage." in 1890, eddie rickenbacker was a well-known racecar driver before he earned a medal of honor as an ace in world war i. he was ceo of eastern air lines after the war. owned indianapolis motor speedway for almost 15 years and was a motor car manufacturer. he barely survived two plane crashes. the national archives in kansas city a hosted this event on the life of eddie rickenbacker. >> tonight it is my pleasure to introduce john ross, the author of the epic story of the conquest of america's first frontier. forer of the prize contributions to american history, he served as executive editor of the american heritage and on the board of editors at smithsonian magazine. publishedes have been in reader's digest, parade, the new york times, newsweek, and washington post. he is appeared on more than 50 radio and television programs. is worked -- he has worked with many pulitzer prize winning writers. is my pleasure to introduce john ross. [applause] >> thank you. kimberly. thank you all for c

it's a pleasure to introduce john ross and will hylton. begin i talking about what i do think both of these books share and that is people finding more time. i wonder if you could tell about what it like to find world war i airplane. >> good morning everybody. one of the things it was interesting about this book was trying to re-create what it was like to get into a world war i biplane in the middle for the here downhill just more my. there's so many liars the chicken had a hard time getting out. they do you very much. users these guys went to the air force commandeer me at the the time when a fairly quickly above 10,000 feet because you start getting loopy at that point. they are taken up to 17, 18,000. it also got extremely cold. these are open pits. they were teddy bears. , teddy bear suits and at the end of the day they often had to manually peel their fingers up the joint ticket was so cold. you aha

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ross was mentioned here by john or someone. ross went to the pen and it was a sad thing but the first guy that contacted him in the pen was george. any time somebody -- the reason it passed is because he knew all the guys he worked with in the house they loved him. because he knew sony montgomery and knew these guys, he knew david, he knew these people. it's a government of law not laws. it's a government of men and women who know the law and try to make it work. but anyway, i'll never forget how i was -- i think i was at popularity rating of 3%. i had been doing a labor for him for, with bork and thomas and these were cheerful work that i was out there doing. [ laughter ] getting chomped to bits by every group in america. he's at 93%. i get a call 6:00 one morning. he gets up and listens to country music at 5:00 i think or 5:30. he said hey read "the washington post" yet al. he said they nailed you again. i said good of you to call, george. [ laughter ] and then he said how would you like to go to camp david for a couple of day

than 5 feet tall this brass piece has been a point of pride for free church of saint john in kensington. allison ross is a 20 year member. >> it is a beautiful eagle and the script tour readings are done from there, on the wings of eagles. >> reporter: it has been at saint john's sanctuary 100 years but now the the iconic symbol is gone. stolen from the house of worship when no one was around. >> i'm heart broken. >> reporter: a member discover the break in this afternoon. >> he went to look at the door and it was opened and smashed in. >> reporter: thieves made off with the piece and at some point between monday night and early this morning. it the is not a solo job. the eagle podium ways about 150 pounds. >> the the thing to move around, it is heavy, take two to three guys to take it out, or to lift it. >> reporter: also stolen two large wooden chairs used by bishops. a lot of the goodwill and work performed here at the church is done by volunteers, and including these men who are boarding up the broken down door. leaders tell me they would have gladly helped the people who stole from them. >> it m

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. >> reporter: john ross from phoenix is on a working vacation with his family in california.tle bit. >> reporter: folks at work who plan to sneak peeks of the game on a phone or tablet need a log-in, but there is still a way to watch the game for free. the bbc app. just make your phone look as if it's online in england. >> changing ip addresses is easy. you could set up multiple parallel ip address setups. >> reporter: got that? at florida international university, at the phi gamma delta frat house, the sigma kappa sorority prepared red, white and blue for today's game. >> usa! usa! usa! >> reporter: i think there's going to be a lot of noise in a lot of offices today. take a deep breath, and of course, go team usa. back to you guys. >> thank you, kerry. >> that looks comfortable. >> yeah, that's going to be a familiar scene at work today. we asked you to tweet whether you're working or watching the match today. 63% of you going to be working, 37% of you watching, although the truth lies somewhere in the middle there, maybe watching somewhere at work. by the way, if you are a

. >> hey, ross, john harwood. >> hi, john. >> i would just want to know if conversations with joe are what you're going to miss the most about the television business. >> and dessert. we have dessert when i visit him. >> dessert? we can still do that, joe. john, as you know, conversations with joe, this time of the morning are very unique and special. >> you need to be on your toes. >> i will miss that part of my life. >> people in europe, at night if you're not going to have cocktails, we have dessert. we do that when we go to visit. >> do you see any significance that ross's last day was the 70th anniversary of d-day. >> wasn't it ten years that president reagan died yesterday. i saw nancy laying some wreaths. i'm crying about ross and i'll start crying if i talk about reagan and d-day. do you have a report or is this just --? >> do you want me to recap something for the last time? would you like me to do that? >> if you can get through it, i don't know if we can. >> for old time's sake. >> let's do a quick recap. european equities are a little bit firmer. we moved higher post the e

john x. in mobile has a nine hundred billion dollar deal with russia's ross nafta hanging in the balance and six hundred million already invested j.p. morgan a must also be holding its breath as the u.s. threatens to target the financial sector it earned a fifty six million dollars in investment banking fees in russia last year and technology firm intel is also a keen investor it has spent around a billion dollars in russia over the last twenty years and now the next set of sanctions could target russia's an r g sector but that could also be a big blow to u.s. and european energy giants have a lot of interest in russia and some an a g bosses were spotted at the latest petroleum congress in moscow here's the c.e.o. of exxon mobil rex tillerson bob dudley had of british petroleum was also present as was the boss of norwegian oil giant status while a manny there said they wanted to keep politics away from business. this is really affected their doing relationship is developing. according to the culture so we don't believe this kind of problems we want these now some in the u.s. business communi

ross. i mean michaela pereira. >> have a great weekend, john, and also michaela. >>> islamic militants target your wallet. the crisis in iraq causing a nasty spike in gas prices. >> fascinating details about what daily life is like for sergeant bowe bergdahl. can military doctors undo what the taliban did during five years of captivity? >>> not again, new recordings of donald sterling lashing out at doctors who proclaim him mentally unfit. >>> i'm john berman. >> happy friday, i'm michaela pereira. it's 11 a.m. in the east. 8 a.m. out west. if you think the crisis that's ongoing in iraq doesn't directly affect you, you should think again because the more territory islamic militants capture, the more you may be starting to see the pump prices rising. >> we're already seeing them starting to go up and experts say prices could jump up another 5 to 10 cents a gallon over the next two weeks. my other work wife, christine romans, and rick francona. i want to start with you, christine. break down the numbers for us. gas prices now and what we can expect in the next few weeks. >> no question, no ques

. >> secretary of state john kerry yesterday discussing the decision to withdraw u.s. troops from iraq. joining us now, carne ross, former british diplomat who resigned over the war in iraq. he's head of a non-profit, nonpartisan diplomatic advisory group called independent diplomatic. mr. ross, thank you for being here. >> thanks for having any. >> having been there in the middle of the initial international debate over the war in iraq in 2002 and 2003, how do you feel like the international debate is going right now? in terms of the quality of the debate about the very critical security situation in iraq? >> it's very confused. in a way what we're seeing is the epic playing out of the final neocon project in iraq. in a sense what's happening is post-invasion order established by the u.s. after the invasion is collapsing. president maliki was appointed essentially by the u.s. he was chosen by the then-u.s. ambassador who was, himself, a bush appointee. and it's a function of his government the way he's conducted himself that we face this disastrous situation we see in iraq today. it's a confusing situation. it's

john mccain have changed their tune. great to have you both with us on the show here. ross, let's start with you.have wrong person up. there you are, ross. >> great to be here. >> why don't we start with you since we gave you delayed intro there. one has to wonder if republicans are trying to make this into a political issue. >> sure. i mean, i think the administration tried to make this into a political issue. what's peculiar about this is white house had to know going in that all of this information about bergdahl possibly being a deserter and members of his platoon thinking he had run away in the middle of the night would come out and would come out quickly. you would think they wouldn't have done a rose garden victory lap and sent susan rice out to hail this as a great day for america and so on. the white house is in a position where it looks like they were trying to make political hay out of this and then we've had 72 hours of new information coming out that makes the trade at best look a lot more complicated than it did over the weekend. >> what about that? do you think the white house was

ross, we're going to talk about the outlook for nonfarm payrolls this week. will may bring a decline from that big number in april? john hatseus will join us shortly. back to you. >> more on that, that's coming up. chris, still wondering what the ecb should do this week? >> should do or probably will do. they flagged it pretty well, haven't they? we are going to get a cut in the race. >> that's interesting. it is whether they do some kind of funding for lending or whether they stop talking seriously about a framework for qe or whether they believe it is necessary. >> they may announce the back pocket qe if they need it, which would be quite interesting, but we have already seen the u.s. starting to react to that. not surprising, i think that will continue. but, yeah, it's sort of -- if you are in that mindset, it's too little, too late, isn't it? instead of classic ecb. i suspect the moment has passed and they probably should have done it a year ago. >> well, of yours, we want to get out to turkey. stay there. protests in turkey clashed over the weekend on the first anniversary of the deadly government protests. the fl

john dingell at the national press club in washington. office since 1955 and has titled his speech "when congress worked." >> what i have is a partially ross asked client that i have cut down and then i took off all of the big leagues and those were sent into the kitchen. they have a small amount of thc. these little leaves are the tight trim. that can be dried and made into joints or sent to the places that make extractions. and then right here, we have the finished blood. to dry sent over to cure before it goes to the dispensary. >> washington journal looks at of marijuana in colorado. friday morning from 7:00 to 10:00 on c-span. >> we want to welcome hakeem jeffries, and democrat of new york. you also have a law degree. the do you make of situation of these minors crossing the border in the united states to flee the central american countries? this is a significant humanitarian crisis that requires multi pronged action in response. we have to do a better job trying to secure our borders billwas inherent in the that was passed in the senate that has been stalled in the house of representatives. we ine to work with mexico terms of dealing

john mellencamp, no pink floyd. welcome back. cnbc. the adults are caught up. hold on,ly read the headlines. >> that's a good insult. >> i'm joe kernan with becky quick and andrew ross excellance. then you said enough of me talking about me. why don't you talk about me. >> i'm here, too. >> hi, we are here, too. >> i want to say that, are you jackson, right. we are about 15 minutes away from the adp private payroll report futures right now are down 7 after 2 on the s&p. we had a little dip yesterday in the averages. we have been doing pretty well. but nothing has been doing well as autonation stock because of their management. >> that's true. unfortunately for us. as for that adp report, economists are looking for $210,000 jobs for pay, that comes after an addition of 200,000 jobs in april. we have that at 8:15 eastern time. united health announced an increase in its dividends. it's also authorized a $100 million share buy back program. >> that stock is up by 1.4%. shares are jumping. the life insurer has agreed to be bought for $5.7 billion by daichi lie. it's up an additional 18%. >> we have another special guest from the yale ceo summit, merck chairman ceo ken fr