government of using torture against the detainees including what it calls previously on documented torture maddux for example its sides these so-called simulated drowning reach to me sounds very similar to a practice american practice of waterboarding and i think we all would agree the u.s. united nations certainly agreed that the treatment of detainees in iraq constituted torture the treatment of detainees in guantanamo constituted torture. there are also a numerous reports of torture in the lead be in prisons. i guess the question i'm asking is do you get a sense that torture is essentially becoming trivialized in war zones these days because we can talk about accountability of the assad government for the crimes against humanity that they committed but always admittedly the assad government's record on human rights has never been particularly strong whereas certain countries like the united states for example that is considered a champion of democracy and human rights has committed torture on record and yet has never been brought to account for that well as you know on mandate the commission i

looking at some of your facebook responses, it cheryl maddux says they should vote no and going in there. this has been mishandled from the beginning. innocent lives will be lost. a says they will vote for limited strike if there are no consequences. what about charging syria with international war crime atrocities? the murder of men, women, and children should be addressed but i do not know what the response should be. we would like to know what you think. share your comments at facebook, .com/cspan. kids they win by the data did not play with stuff. parents said they want to keep their kids safe. no parents have used the safety features on the programs they buy for their kids. if you just act on the data you were going to be in big trouble. people live. do note jobs say, people know what they want until they see it. you can as in a million questions and then you can give them and i've had. -- an ipad. there were no focus groups in the building of the ipad. >> this discussion on the digital revolution is one of our future programs today on c- span. will discuss the future presidential d

maddux then barely misses the trooper's cruiser as his car goes up in flames. he's ejected from the prius as it careens off the road. inside the car, an 18-year-old passenger who is trapped in the burning wreckage. >> we have one over here! >> he's inside? >> yes. >> reporter: officers move quickly to pull that teen to safety. >> not only is he facing a bench of charges, he's in the hospital, so are two people in the car that he hit. this was a bad situation all around. lucky it wasn't worse. >> that's exactly right. >> good story. thank you for that. >>> let's get back to indra petersons with a look at the weekend forecast. >> i love that. this is the word weekend, it sounds so good. it's nice. we have a double whammy out there. we talk the northeast to the southeast. generally being dry. florida you'll always have your afternoon thunderstorms but overall, temperatures are perfect and only an afternoon thunderstorm in florida. no complaining there. d.c. 70s. atlanta, more 70s. loving this. we see the story going to be once again, notice all the cool temperatur

when she's 15, kathleen maddux, living in kentucky, crosses bridge over the river to a town called ironton. she sneaks out, goes to ironton because there are some clubs there where people can dance. and at one of these clubs, ritzy ray's is the name of it, she meets a man, an exciting older man. 29 years old, his name is colonel scott. colonel is his given name, not a military rank. but the colonel doesn't mind letting the 15-year-old girl think he's a war hero. of course, he actually works in a factory, is married and has two children. that's the part he leaves out. not long later kathleen becomes pregnant. she's 15. and she tells colonel scott. the colonel announces that he's going to do the right thing for her, but he's just been called away by the army. he's going to come back in just a couple weeks. they'll take care of everything. and so kathleen goes to her mother, says she's pregnant, the father is going to marry her. you can imagine her mother's reaction, but nancy really does love kathleen, and so she says she'll stick with her, they'll all get through this, it's not the child's

and that is something to think about as well, because apt maddux does not necessarily signal the end of fighting. many of the military, you think of sherman or sheraton or caster who were soldiers during the war, particularly for the north, they went to the west, and they became part of a army movement out there. so asking these kinds of questions, seeing these juxtapositions, coming in from my other planet and looking at these disconnected events or people suggested to me a different can kind of path -- a different can kind of path. so instead of necessarily rehearsing for you what happened at bull run, i thought i would think about how is it covered? who covered it? who are the journalists there? how did they get there? how did they get tear dispatches? did they write them at night in the tent and then have somebody ride it to town very quickly? those are the kinds of questions that intrigued me, and that got me to thinking about the journalists who covered the war. not just, as i said, the photographer. or in that particular context, or stepping back from that context, i began to

established is that the rails and the locomotive themselves are pointing toward the station at ap maddux. and barring some extraordinary intervention of some sort, then the real result was already in the cards after gettysburg. in fact, it might have congresswoman quicker had george mead been quicker. he was not, but still. after that the confederacy is really fighting a series of defensive campaigns, defense you have campaigns -- defensive campaigns which bit by bit drain the last of its strength away and make the end if not outright inevitable, then about as predictable as we can make historical events be. >> okay, thank you. >> i have to admit that as soon as i got the book, i did not start at the beginning. i turned to the part about stewart's ride. because i wanted to see how you would handle that, and i thought it was fascinating. you quote a statement by moseby that no one could define and act that lee did or didn't do because of stewart's activities. and that prompts my question which is really a two-part question. i'd like your analysis of moseby's comment. is that, in fact, tru

. >> she is a very and the maddux figure. >> and you do not get much until the book. >> the book is wonderful. i remember asking the people close to her, the word shy was often used, and someone who knew her very well said she was not shy. she was self-effacing, and there is a difference between the two. what a self-effacing modern first lady is often a contradiction. referring to the victorian painting lady. had a number of first ladies who struggled with life in the white house. >> struggled with a lot. and politics. do think generalizations are dangerous, but i do think in the modern era, we think of the president and first lady, that they are a political partnership. >> together. case at thenot the time of franklin or james beard, in the 19th century. >> or even martha washington and george. >> yes. >> certainly, she rose to that occasion, but i do not know that she ever thought, well, who would have thought when they got married that there would be a revolution? a change of government. line of a prisoner saying anything else, and i am personat every sympathizes with that. more it has bec

a lot of american veterans are alive today because of maddux and american veterans of world war ii whourvived the war and what not to have lives after world war ii because of medics who were very much come as your father was, in the line of fire. medics are out there crawling around, protect it by an armband with a red cross on it. the medical of search at the united states particularly in the second world war is pretty extraordinary. they discovered a lot of things that help save lives. they were discoveries like penicillin they were absolutely indispensable at preventing carnage from being even worse. there were many men who lived because of penicillin and the ability to convert the discovery by british scientists and industrial strength operation whether it's penicillin available ultimately for discovery of things like the importance of plasma and whole blood and how you would mix them together. these are battlefield lessons learned, learned the hard way frequently that are absolutely indispensable. ask your question of what happened to a soldier when he was wounded, there is a whol