keach: yes.is a little arcane, but he controls 80% of the national amusements, a holding company. that company controls 80% of the voting shares of cbs and viacom. brian: one of the reasons i go this way is there were people on the board that are well-known. of maineilliam cohen was on the board. parsons came on as chairman for a while. with all of these shenanigans in his life, plus having a federal license to cbs owned stations, how was he able to maintain control? why didn't some of those board members say, what is going on? keach: that is the $6 billion question. especially because some of the members on the board who are not the ones you listed -- he had good friends on the board. cbs producers who would go over to his house every sunday. they knew the situation. one of them who just passed away went into his house and took a video in january of last year -- this year, to prove to the world he is not ok. we will see whether it will ever see the light of day. your question is, how do the boar

we talked with "wall street journal" investigative reporter keach haney about her book. keach: after his battle with he really sawr, being seen with women as a sign and the and with them was a sign that he could tell the world "i am going to " the lovesr, h to say. so he would go to the hollywood parties, and sometimes he would go home with his grandson's date. cbsas awkward for announcer 1: next on the civil war, historian edward ayers talks about the civil war and its consequences. he describes how people in surrounding areas might have experienced the battle and the logistics of the confederate which all to virginia. this talk was part of the annual lincoln form symposium. >> what do we say about our speaker that hasn't already been said? , who servederitus for eight years, and author of this lincoln prize winner of this year. the thin light of freedom. you ought to get your copies if you don't have them already from our bookstore, which remains open during this presentation. ayerst president

we talked with "wall street journal" investigative reporter keach haney about her book. keach: after his battle with he really sawr, being seen with women as a sign and the and with them was a sign that he could tell the world "i am going to " the lovesr, h to say. so he would go to the hollywood parties, and sometimes he would go home with his grandson's date. cbsas awkward for announcer 1: next on the civil war, historian edward ayers talks about the civil war and its consequences. he describes how people in surrounding areas might have experienced the battle and the logistics of the confederate which all to virginia. this talk was part of the annual lincoln form symposium. >> what do we say about our speaker that hasn't already been said? , who servederitus for eight years, and author of this lincoln prize winner of this year. the thin light of freedom. you ought to get your copies if you don't have them already from our bookstore, which remains open during this presentation. ayers can signnt it, if you can't make the signing that is scheduled for this forum. about ed

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. >> my last name as my family was given as the first name keach hagey. but the weird thing it is my mom's sister's husband's last name so i'm really glad they did not get divorced because that would beam awkward. that is my weird name. i went to stanford as far away as indiana as you couldford get. i then wanted to write. i did journalism i got interested in i college. i loved language and i majored in english. english and french and got a masters in english and i really like poetry so i am not one of those people that were at the paper all the time i did rock concert reviews but i was not a news junkie by any stretch. my first journalism job. [laughter] that was for the queens chronicle like a community paper in queens and the thing about new york you can live in new york but you can take so many jobs before you can actually work in new york. it takes a long time to actually be able to work at all in new york. >>host: with your career path where you networking or trying to make things happen for yourself? how did it all come together quick. >> i'm proba

according to "the san francisco examiner" the city is planning to keach deescalating tactics to drivers. police officers already received similar training. sf mta data reports show assaults on operators peaked in 2015, there were nearly 800 of them then. 2017 that number dropped to more than 500 assaults on operators. >>> right now at 6:07, as you get ready to head out, we are under a microclimate weather alert. keep checking in throughout the day for updates as the storm approaches. right now, scattered light showers, making things soggy on your way out the door. we're going to see heavier rain moving in, as this storm system approaches, bringing in some waves of heavy rain, and also some gusty winds. our rainfall may total up to one to four inches today. we will also as a result have an elevated flood risk, and our winds may gust up to 60 miles per hour for the coast and the hills. it will be a slight chance of thunderstorms as well and the surf could churn up to about 25 feet, as we time it out for you going hour by hour in the north bay, you'll start to see some of the rain heavier

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. >> road crews out in force trying to keach up with all the snowfall.on the roads to track this onditions for morning. >> the government shutdown continues after three weeks of stalemate over a southern border wall. is there any path forward to reopening the government and putting thousands of federal employees back to work? >> boy. is it snowing or >> i think so. >> is it snowing out there? >> a couple of flakes fell. >> yeah,e, on your too. >> i brought the snow tie. >>eay cute. >> it's our first snowfall of 2019. >> ydeed. >> prearn excited about if, but it's also pretty tricky out there. have you covered from front to back. good morning to you, i'm adam. tu >> good morning, i'm meagan fitzgerald. lot to get to this morning. we have teamcoverage, and right now you're taking a live look outside a reagan airport. thereto are cars on the road. be careful out there because the roads are a little owacked. >> and this massive weather system far from over. news 4 has full team coverage. first snow blanket of 2019. our clay anderson outside on t front lawn t

keach: after his battle with prostate cancer, he really saw being seen with women as a sign of physicalitynd the and with them was a sign that he could tell the world "i am going to live forever," the loves to say. so he would go to the hollywood parties, and sometimes he would go home with his grandson's date. it was awkward for cbs and viacom because he was still a controlling shareholder, and he did awkward things. 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from new york city is "foreign affairs'" gideon rose, whose piece, "the liberal order and the united states," looks at a century or more of the united states' role in foreign affairs, america, china, and the global order. gideon rose, defined for us, what is the liberal order, and where is it, in your view, and 2019? guest: that is a great question, thanks. essentially, ever since 1945, the united states has tried to its foreign policy like a team sport rather than an individual, so it landed a group of allies in europe, and asia, the middle east, and elsewhere, rather than doing everything by

keach: one of the great media moguls of the 20th and 21st centuries.e amassed an norma's media empire that spanned cbs and