americans called the war of 1812, madison's war, because james madison and his incompetent cabinet, urged him to declare war on britain and invade canada, instead of waiting for a peace treaty to arrive from england. madison and his war secretary left the city of washington undefended. when he realized the mistake, he pleaded with james monroe to become the secretary of state and then to become secretary of war to hold the two positions imultaneously. monroe all but galloped into battle to protect washington, but it was too late. so he took all the men he could muster to baltimore to protect it. that battle raged through the night, but at dawn, our flag was still there and the british retreated, thanks largely to the rilliance of james monroe. but the capitol building and the presidential mansion, as it was called, had been gutted by fire. they slathered on thick coats of white paint to cover the black exterior of the president's house, and that's when the house got it's name, the white house, for the first time. it was elizabeth monroe, the first lady to live in it after the war who rede

fort madison was in even worse shape. local militia, about 80 strong, had thrown up a fort at the end of chesapeake avenue. it's right down the road from my house. they did not have any cannons. all they had were 80 militiamen who according to various sources maybe had 20 muskets between them. i don't know what the other guys were doing. maybe they were the cheerleading squad. the defenses of annapolis were not very good. the governor of maryland screamed for help. finally, james madison decided to listen. throughout the british campaign money, equipment, arms flowed into virginia. virginia happened to have a democratic governor. the federalist governor of maryland would request everything he could possibly get and he got nothing. there is nothing written in any source, it's not an madison's papers, it is not in james monroe's papers, there is nothing to say madison doled out the money and arms based on politics. but i think it is relatively easy to see, and it's kind of funny how things have not changed. if you look at t

james madison did not. james madison believed it was the chesapeake, who once it? it's a bunch of fishermen. he did not count of the british looking at the city is a nest of pirates. baltimore has set up more than 170 privateers, private vessels given legal permission by the government they go out and rate of merchant vessels and selloff the trade with a cargo. they get a percentage of money and they have to pay a bond to the government and the government gets its cut. fleetsre was sending out of the baltimore clippers, ships of the british could not catch. the british had to stop it and knows the second objective. stop the privateering, put pressure on the americans to get them off the canadian border. warren's second in cockburn. he was a fascinating guy. he was a modern admiral in the early 19th century. he somehow innately understood how to use amphibious troops. how to begin to pioneer small boat warfare as both a tactical, meaning to attack the enemy from several different directions at one time, to conducting amphibious rates. also on a strategic level, sew

wills attributed that to james madison, and then he attributed it to james madison's reading of david hume. is what garysting wells was pointing out is that was the heartts of the scots, particularly david hume, who writes on if it doesn't work, is got to work, something's got to work, it's got to make sense in order to do something or have a policy, it has to be a policy that works. has to be an institution works. we need to be able to get along, and that's what david hume, according to gary wills, influence medicines writing of the constitution. they were more connection, it doesn't involve the constitution , i just want to say that ben franklin and david hume -- james madison never met david hume, but ben franklin did. claire and i have been trying to her where they met. i thought it was in a parlor in london -- i thought it was france, you think it's in edinburgh. i'm not sure, now i have to go back and dig this out. we need to get together to talk. ofnow it was under this type relationship the ben franklin met david hume. i don't know a lot about their relationship, i was fortuna

here in madison, wisconsin the , graduate student union at the university of wisconsin-madison has voted to join the global boycott, divestment and sanctions movement. the 9000-member union is the oldest graduate student union in the u.s. it becomes the third student union in about a month to vote to divest from israeli state institutions and corporations who do business in the israeli-occupied palestinian territories. and today would have been the 95th birthday of civil rights activist yuri kochiyama. until her death in 2014, kochiyama championed civil rights, protested racial inequality and fought for causes , of social justice. her activism began after the bombing of pearl harbor, when she and her family were held in a japanese-american internment camp. she was with mathematics -- malcolm x the day he was gunned down in harlem's audubon ballroom, cradling his head as he lay dying on the stage. today, google marked her birthday with an illustration of the civil rights activist on its homepage. to see our interview, go to democracynow.org. and those are some of the headlines. this is de

in 1789, james madison had a problem. after living for 10 years under the articles of confederation, madison worked tirelessly behind the scenes to bring about a constitution to divide the convention to devise a new constitution. in september 1786 he participated in a preliminary convention in annapolis. by 1787, he secured enough support of key players like george washington and ben franklin to convene the constitutional convention in philadelphia. now the pressure was on a 36-year-old madison. before returning to philadelphia, he crammed for the gathering like a student for his exams from a chest full of books that had been supplied to him by his friend and mentor, thomas jefferson. for those madison had a truly fundamental problem to solve. like many others, he had included the american regime governed by the articles of confederation was grossly inadequate and contrary to what the virginia declaration of rights referred to as the common nsa protection and security of the people. but why was this happening? why have re

they believe madison broke mckenzie's fall. >> madison is the one that is hurt, mckenzie, she seems toe all right. the or one didn't have a mark on her. >> reporter: collins says after the fall mckenzie ran to the the front of the house looking for help, her sister, madison was rushed to st. christopher's hospital. what is the lesson here? >> the lesson here just to be on top of things, to always, have your children checked and quadruple check, and make sure your kids are okay, if you are taking a nap. >>> now, madison in the wake and alert but has had some head injuries and staying overnight to be monitored by doctors. reporting live from st. christopher's, christie ileto for channel six "action news", walter. >>> developing news from bensalem where two people were injured by a large branch that fell from the tree in the neshaminy state park. it happened just after 4:00 p.m., police say branch crashed on the ground injuring two people along the way. they were rushed to aria torresdale hospital. no word on their conditions. >>> much more to come on "action news" tonight, a baby is amon

now madison was not alone.at the pennsylvania convention, first attorney general of the united states observed that the general object to the convention was to provide a cure for the evils under which the u.s. laborerred and he said in quote, in tracing these evils to their organize inevery man had founded in the turbulence of democracy. robert sherman of connecticut, that every man of observation had seen in the democratic branch prescription in congress, changeableness and every department excesses against personal liberty, private property and personal safety. even those who had remained more amenable like george mason of virginia admitted that quote, we had been too democratic, unquote in forming state governments. at the conclusion of the philadelphia convention, anxious citizens gathered outside independence hall to learn just what had been produced behind closed doors. the convention had been governed entirely in secret. it is said that as benjamin franklin left the building a woman in the crowd called o

madison repeated the argument in federalist 38 writing. "it is not necessary that the former should be perfect. it is sufficient that the letter is more imperfect," meaning that the old rules were worse than the new ones. they understood that the perfect author was the enemy of the good. many understood that the documents were of a temporary nature, that future generations would mold it to their needs and there would be groups and individuals to find ways to recruit the constitution's provisions to advance narrow provisions and corrupt the system and gain power for themselves. jefferson suggested that there ought to be a revolution at least every 20 years. have we had one? any questions? >> i'd like to start off. i noticed that each chapter that you begin with a quote from madison's writings and you used the resource of montpellier in the papers. what source does madison himself cite in the writings of european philosophers? >> he actually doesn't cite any sources at all. but what we do know is the -- we have his notes -- we have that, ok?

what precipitated marbury versus madison? the so-called midnight judges when john adams, after losing, tries to hack the judiciary with even more federalist judges to make life difficult for thomas jefferson, to protect his side. again -- political appointments. and they have a lot of tenure thereafter. that is the backdrop of marbury versus madison. the race of the tenure for justices versus the very different tenure for presidents. is offered chief justice again, he declines it because the judiciary lacked the -- basically,ght i don't know how to make this thing work. it is broken. john marshall began to see the possibilities of it. but you have heard of it, marbury versus madison. , among other things, the proposition that courts can invalidate acts of congress. first, what was the great issue of liberty involved in marbury versus madison? correct. there was no great issue of liberty. original versus appellate jurisdictions and who cares? thecan see how i important court is initially. do you know how many justices original

madison and his team kept searching until they recovered his body. the number of climbers this year is down by 40%. but madison is glad to be back in business, and this year he's chosen a different route to the summit, longer but safer. >> i would say we're a little more cognizant of the hazards and we avoid the icefall on the west shoulder. we go to the right side to avoid that hanging ice. >> the team is very strong and no problem. eq reporter: madison's sherpas are now equipped with radio beacons and are receiving higher pay, part of the new reforms for alcal guides since the avalanche. g we're looking forward to having a great expedition and getting everybody up safely and back with all their fingers and toes. >> reporter: don dahler, cbs news, new york. >> pelley: and when we come back, why are these fans pslirious? how about an upset for the ages? mary buys a little lamb. one of millions of orders on this company's servers. accessible by thousands of suppliers and employees globally. but with cyber threats on the rise, mary's data could be unde

what precipitated marbury versus madison? the so-called midnight judges when john adams, after losing, tries to pack the issue with even more federal judges to make the life more difficult for thomas jefferson and to protect his side because again, political appointments, and they have life tenure, that was the backdrop of marbury versus madison, the race against the clock created by life tenure for the justices versus the very different tenure for a president. when jay is offered chief justice ship again, he declines up because the judiciary lacked the energy and weight indignity. i do not automate this thing work. it is just broken. john marshall began to see the possibilities of it. you have heard of marbury versus madison. name me, among other things, the proposition that courts can invalidate acts of congress. first, what was the great issue of liberty involved in marbury versus madison? correct. there was no great issue of liberty. [laughter] dr. amar: it was original versus appellate jurisdictions and who cares? you ca

what sources does madison in the writings of european philosophers? >> he doesn't cite any sources at all. we have his notes. about five or six pages that he wrote of what he studied. the sources of that are not there, but we do have a list of it in his library. in those days they called it minister. list of also a book books that madison recommended in 1783 for the library of congress, because he was disgusted with his colleagues. he thought they were ignorant, small minded, and he saw i need to educate them. books thatlist of include encyclopedia, french encyclopedia. and then there is the library list that was reconstructed afterwords. at the time, probably 3000 oaks in it. one of his cousins or nieces describe it as you couldn't move around. eventually he ended up as -- ended up with 6000 books. >> the dutch revolution of the 16th and 17th century were part of the study he did? >> you talked about the influences of the various and the different groups that came. virginiealk about how a was influenced in terms of social stratification. >> stratific

so madison thought we needed to do something about that. montpelier, and he locked himself up in the library so that he could study what other countries had done and maybe learn from it and design a system that would work for us. y, we can look carefull see him sitting in his library there. this was the first color in 1786 and he's reading a newspaper, apparently. from? do these values and they came from people. when people came to this country very early on in the 17th century, they brought with them their families. they brought seas, they brought keple, they brought tools, they brought furniture. they st importantly what brought was what was in their heads. and what was in their heads were they had old values picked up back home, where they came from. and the various colonies that hey settled, each reflected those values. is that one e colony, plymouth plantation, in 1620, was ded found by separatists. they came from england, but they had lived in the netherlands for 12 years, particularly the city lieden, and what they picked up in liden

madison is glad to be back in business.nd this year, he has chosen a different route to the summit. longer, but safer. >> i would say, we are a little bit more cognizant of the hazard and we avoid the ice fall on the west shoulder. the route goes to the center, right side to avoid that hanging ice. >> the sherpa team is very strong. so no problem this year. >> reporter: madison's sherpas are equipped with radio beacons and higher pay part of the reforms for local guides since the avalanche. >> we are looking forward to having a great expedition, getting everybody safely, back with all fingers and toes. don dahler, cbs news, new york. >>> and when we come back, why are these fans delirious? how about an upset for the ages. >>> we have new video of the derailment of a csx freight train. look way over on the left side of screen. yesterday.derailed in washingto- 16 cars came off the tracks including one that spilled about 750 gallons of a caustic chemical. >>> a false start caused a huge pileup at a bike race in brooklyn, new y

he died during the second term. -- madison. since that time we have operated and evolved from that basic structure. thank you very much. [applause] >> i love american history tv. >> it is something i really enjoy. >> it gives you that perspective. >> i am a c-span fan. >> madam secretary, we probably to 72 of our delegate votes the next president of the united states. ♪ >> coming up next, a panel discussion titled worst president ever. mosteast successful and forgotten presidents in american history. what makes the present the worst enemy offered nominees the title. the americans historians annalee -- annual meeting held in rhode island. it is 90 minutes. host: welcome to the oah 2016 and welcome to the plenary panel, "worst president ever."

of james madison. host: wrapping up, this office was a spectacular view of the mall. senator mcconnell: two things about this window. bob dole, when he was in this office, called this the second best view in washington. he wanted the first best view, which he said was down at the white house. host: he tried. senator mcconnell: didn't quite work out. but outside this window there are the steps of the capitol. and my first internship in washington, in 1963, was in a congressman's office. i had the good fortune to actually be here on august 28, 1963, when martin luther king made the "i have a dream" speech. i confess, i couldn't hear a word because i was down at this end of the mall. he was on the lincoln memorial looking out at throngs, literally thousands and thousands of people. but you knew you were in the presence of something really significant. i went home that night and turned on the tv. if had any doubts, they were dispelled about the significance of that day. it was a thrill to think back upon t

madison divided the power and nobody can do everything they want to. and every president is sobered by the reality. all kinds of impediments. in today's politics when people are legitimately unhappy, the average person is about $3,000 or $4,000 a year worse off today than when president obama came to office, you can understand the anxiety and the desire for a kind of quick turn around. what i think and the reason i don't have any trouble supporting donald trump is i don't want four more years justice like the last eight. n i don't want hillary clinton -- >> but isn't hillary clinton somebody who has played the long game? isn't she should be that like trent would come up and say hillary clinton is a joy to work for because she keeps her head down. she -- this is when she became a senator. and she is very respectful of the institution and very respectful of those who were members of the institution. >> her philosophy was never centrist. >> right. and given where the dynamism is in the democratic party, there's no chance hillary clinton is going to be any

the good news, madison was on the hill today. the last time the giants lost when the ace was pitching was april 20th and it would stay that way because this afternoon he got plenty of run support. the giants games two in denver, buster and madison chatting it up before the game. he clobers it over the fence in right field. three run blast. his most at any road ballpark. bottom seven giants up 4-3 with josh pitching and gone zol ez gives the rockies a 5-4 lead. dejavu time in the top of the eighth. two on and see you later. three run homer. giants take a 7-5 lead and san francisco would later add a few more and the giants go on to win big thanks to posey 10-5. >> as a group we know there's going to be ups and downs throughout the season and it's a matter of keeping confidence. i believe we have an offense and at the end of the year we're going to have good npz and it's important to have confidence even when things aren't going your way. >> after losing seven they are looking to turn things around against detroit. billy butler at t

the james madison-framed document behind you? host: somebody gave me that. a big james madison fan. i just finished reading lynne terrific biography of madison. very active in first amendment-type issues. the author ofwas the constitution and a supporter of the bill of rights, i just found -- fond of james madison. this officeng up, was a spectacular view of the mall. senator mcconnell: two things window.is bob dole, when he was in this office, called this the second washington. he wanted the first best view, which he said was down at the white house. tried.e senator mcconnell: didn't quite work out. but outside this window there the capitol. of and my first internship in ashington, in 1963, was in congressman's office. i had the good fortune to be here on august 28, 1963, when martin luther king the "i have a dream" speech. i confess, i couldn't hear a thisbecause i was down at end of the mall. he was on the lincoln memorial looking out at throngs, literally thousands and thousands of people. but you knew you were in the presence of something really significant. i went home that ni

madison. you know, i won't play a game because i wanted to go back to ft.is participation in the program required him to meet the sister of one of the officers he murdered. >> i was scared. you know, because we be under the illusion they'll come and scream and cuss us out. i'm sitting down and i'm scared. you know, i'm saying, i'm truly scared so first thing she asked me she said why you kill my brother. i didn't have no reason. you know, she said, well, did you kill my brother because he was a police. i said no. she said, suppose i kill your mother or something? we broke down. you know, we cried. you know, we cried, you know, because she said, you know, she said i hate you. she said i wish you was dead. you know. and it was hard for me because all this time i been the one that was in control and she took that control and i couldn't like attack her or nothing like that. you know what i mean. that wasn't even in my mind but i didn't have control of the situation. she took control of the situation. she asked me could i be forgaven. i said, no. she said, well,

i have little doubt that the author of our constitution, james madison and for anybody who is a student of american history and constitutional history, we know that above all else what the framers detested about the british rule and british tierney was the so-called ritz of general assistants that gave precisely purported to authorize officials to engage in inchris anymore gnat survey out by the standards of the nsa. this would be rather trivial, right, invading your physical space and rummaging through your papers as many people have commented, james madison and others would have rolled over in their graves if they could imagine, the infinitely more intrusive pervasive indiscriminate surveillance to which all of us are subject every single communication, every single thought, every single association, financial transaction, health information and the full treasure troef of information about us that has been subject to the indiscriminate surveillance that judge leon found fit to find unconstitutional. however, there has also been specific abuse, even beyond the secretive, at best, decep

really long t was so long ago that james madison was president of the united states. james madison was one of the founders of this nation, a true constitutional scholar, and most importantly of all, one of the not, of believe it or party.ocratic republican when you think about the world we live in today, consider that 200 years ago, we actually had a democratic republican party. you would never know that based on the politics that we all live age.in today's day and at that point in time in 1815, states.re 22 22 states. to ne of the things i want say to all the folks who are ehind me who represent the leadership of nichols and to all hose who came before them, congratulations, 200 years. 200 years, this school has found adjust, change, and stay relevant to the young people and to the families of massachusetts and this nation. that, my friends, is an extraordinary achievement, and ne that should be honored and recognized every single year. [applause] i want to thank you all for the today and i here want to congratulate all the graduates. while we honor you today and rec

>>gary: it was not aboard the celebration the rock is that four rounds before madison baumgartner and long night for the giants everything going that way and then they started madison baumgartner was struggling to then he got going off in the giants' best data on the gang did have a lot of fans in your immediate people bring back the giants from office to keep nichols to the vet. >>gary: for this series goes on to play the winner of oklahoma city and san antonio. >>marty gonzales: you see the green spa showing a loss of rain in the bay area but were expecting that to take off the lead on this afternoon. >>rebecca: very light rain today we expect him to the sentence of an inch is you can imagine this going to be not quite that without them but you might need a light jacket because temperatures of course to the conditions because of the overcast skies. >>rebecca: is likely trouble getting into san francisco but it is gripping this to review if you're headed to san francisco and in a point this morning. >>rebecca: flight jacket with for sure trip on to the heading of the door anytime soo

thomas jefferson spends two terms there before handing the keys to james madison. then british troops set it ablaze in the war of 1812. [ indistinct shouting ] first lady dolley madison orders the staff to remove this beloved portrait of george washington by gilbert stuart. but according to william seale, author of two books on the white house, the building's interior is destroyed. >> they burned the second floor with rubble, and then they broke up all the furniture and poured lamp oil on it. and the attic fell in, and then it burned through the main floor and the whole thing, in about two hours, was just a shell. >> after the war, the original architect, james hoban, rebuilds it exactly as it had been -- in what will become known as the federal style. >> president madison decreed that it be rebuilt as a symbol of survival. >> by 1817, the renovation is almost complete and our fifth president, james monroe, moves in. a dozen years later, the seventh, andrew jackson, lets a drunken mob trash the place during his inaugural ball. maybe this poor piece of wood was part

madison and his colleagues are very concerned about precisely this kind of manipulation. in fact, there is a provision in the constitution called the elections clause that says while the space at the voting rolls, congress and the federal government explicitly have the power to override those roles. that is one of the only places in the whole competition with the federal government is giving up power. madison was very committed very worried that state legislators would rig the voting rules to favor their own side. you can't even imagine what the abuses are going to be. the things they were thinking about for things who would later call gerrymandering, changing the district lines are passing laws to make it harder for your opponent to though. now they would move the polling place from one county to another and nobody could find it. but it is the same idea. one of the things we need to do this kind of recovery the notion that the constitution actually addresses precisely these kinds of shenanigans trying to rig the rules to benefit themselves or their own side. that has bee

many of the name she think of, george washington, james madison, benjamin franklin, thomas jefferson and the idea really in chart was that the new constitutional order created, which we take for granted in our day was really in the process of being built and they turned to education as one central way of trying to foster in further the kind of political culture, the kind of education they thought was necessary to sustain that constitutional order. >> host: what would it look like? what we teach? >> guest: what's really unique about the idea of a national university at the time is that, i mean, first week it goes back two centuries and think what the dark educationalists institutions look like and today what we think are now institutional education, harvard, yale, princeton, that is not what they looked like at the time. at the time they were by and large parochial institutions and theology was often the organizing basis of the curriculum and is so against that backdrop there was an idea that we had a profound dispatch between our educational institutions and the republican form of go

madison bumgarner loving it. madbum drives in the only run of the game. rbis, giants take two out of three, chicago, 1-0 the final. >>> and a's and ricky anderson, a's had the lead twice in this game but a's responded both times, castro, base hit in the sixth. they come back to win 5-4, abc 7 news sports brought to you by river rock casino, we'll see more about draymond green heading into the game on tuesday. >> yeah, we sure will, >>> live from the kgo tv broadcast center, this is abc 7 news. >>> good evening, i'm eric thomas, and tonight headlines, family and friends tell abc 7 news they fear their safety. friends of keith green spoke to us and concealed their identities, after a confirmation that a third person was arrested for the murder. one of the people in jail is green's ex-girlfriend, tiffany li, and others fear her even though she is in a jail cell. >>> and in vallejo, fire officials are trying to figure out if this morning's deadly fire on stella street was started on purpose, the boy died, another teenage and the mother suffered burns. >>> and

down in san diego, madison bumgarner cranky and very good off the mound when it counted.he local nines, giants playing like a slow burning fuse, took them a while. but they are fully lit right now, six straight wins. that's a legit win streak and a very ornery madison bumgarner tonight, took a shutout into the ninth inning. early on, everybody is very congenial before the game, giants and padres. brandon crawford, opening the offense. in the second, 3-0 count, two on, ticket to ride, crawford drives in all five giant runs tonight. then it gets weird in the third, strikes out wil myers, no big deal. myers has a couple words and he's like, what are you saying? then the two exchange more pleasantries, the bench is clear, matt kemp, peacemaker for the padres, here comes the bullpen, they finally settled him down, just gets nasty out there, padres two on, two out, bumgarner pitches a beautiful game, don't forget that. brandan bell helping him out of a jam with a beautiful catch. then wil myers, late in the game after madison bumgarner walks, a few more words but they seem plea

>>mark d: the san francisco giants fan is of this series against chicago cubs madison baumgartner thelaw himself on the mound i place a tag on the san diego and once again to nine first pitch at 715 the sock back russell dipody is due in court today is the molesting a young from will have more on the charges commingle. ♪ ♪ the best way to get together, is with the treat you make together. ♪ ♪ wheall i can think abouthit, is getting relief. only nicorette mini has a patented fast-dissolving formula. it starts to relieve sudden cravings fast. i never know when i'll need relief. that's why i only choose nicorette mini. >>darya f: a lot of them stars what the states for the annual billboard music awards of the biggest moment belonged to the veteran performers. >>reporter: celine dion is emotional performance the show must go on for months after losing her husband had a fans in tears of the billboard music awards but it would lead to get choked up when the sun came to resent her with the billboard icon ward and when she and is set the stage with family and one was left in las vegas and the

mckenzie and madison whitney are inseparable. >> madison is the one who is hurt.e, she seems to be all right, you know. one had blood on her, the other one didn't have a mark on her. >> the girls' father think the twins climbed on a window street and fell through the screen which you see right there. >>> two people recovering after injured by a large branch that fell from a tree in the neshaminy state park. it happened just after 4:00 this afternoon. police say the branch crashed to the ground, injuring a father and his young son. they were rushed to the hospital and the people there at the park say it was a frightening scene. >> a big noise, what tree falling, everybody running to the tree. when we got to see three people were under the tree, one of the men was stuck under the tree. they had to cut the tree to get the man. >> the people nearby were able to pull the young boy out. crews had to cut down the branches. at last check the two victims were listed in stable condition at the hospital. >>> police in new jersey are searching for the hit and run driver who s

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traditionally, people have frowned upon james madison. until the last, maybe decade or so, when renewed questions of liberties in wartime have invited us to reconsider what we thought we knew about james madison. the fact of the matter is, to his admirers, to libertarians everywhere, james madison is a supremely constitutional president. only fitting, since he helped write it. nobody went to jail for criticizing the madison administration's ineptitude, frankly, in conducting the war of 1812. that may have been a bigger victory than gettysburg. the plain truth is that most presidencies, like most lives, combine elements of success and failure. their contradictions are magnified by the conflicting demands we make on this ceremonial, operational figurehead turned crisis manager. traditionally, along with economic management, the conduct of foreign policy and public persuasion and the ability to get his program through congress, we judge presidents as party leaders. well, john adams blew up his federalist party and what we today judge to be a

that pickup truck on to the mall right near third and madison. shomari stone is on the scene. i understand you're getting some new information? >> that's right. right now i'm here on third street northwest and pennsylvania avenue northwest. i am outside the u.s. capitol. moments ago, literally two minutes ago i received an update stating that the u.s. capitol police inspected this man. they did a dna swab and another type of swab to try to see if he was exposed to anthrax and those tests came back negative. let me move out of the way and we look over here and there is the truck that he drove on to the national mall. park police say the man believed he was exposed to anthrax according to u.s. park police and the man says he saw the substance on the field. park police are using a robot. let's take a live picture for you right now from a different vantage point. they're using a robot to inspect the car and keeping the truck. worth mentioning that the from pennsylvania avenue northwest to madison all of the way to independence. the u.s. capitol police is advising people to avoid t

look, our nation's founders -- franklin, madison, hamilton, jefferson -- they were born of the enlightenment. they sought to escape superstition, and sectarianism, and tribalism, and know-nothingness. they believed and rational thought and expand mentation and the capacity of informed citizens to master our own fate. that is embedded in our constitutional desire. th spirit informs our ventures and our explorers -- the edison's and the wright brothers and the george washington carver's and the norman for lots and the steve jobs. that is what built this country. and today, in every phone in one of your pockets, we have access to more information than at any time in human history at a touch of a button. but ironically, the flood of information has not made us more discerning of the truth. in some ways, it has made us more confident in our ignorance. we assume whatever is on the web must be true. we search for sites that just reinforce our own predispositions. opinions masqueraded as fact. the wildest conspiracy theories are taken for gossip. i am sure you have learned during your years of colle

in his notes, madison summarized the exchange. the third section -- vice president shall be ex officio president of the senate, being thus considered. mr. jerry, mr. jerry opposed this regulation. we might as well put the president himself as the head of the legislature. this makes it absolutely improper. he, meaning jerry, is against having any vice president. mr. sherman, member of the committee of 11 -- he saw no danger in this case. if the vice president were not president of the senate, he would be without employment. mr. randolph, remember, he introduced the virginia plan. mr. randolph concurred in opposition. mr. williamson from the committee of 11 observed such an office of vice president was not wanted. he was introduced merely for the sake of the valuable mode of election which required to be -- two to be chosen at the same time. that is the proponent. mason thought the office mixed too much of legislative and executive, which ought to be cut -- kept in separate offices. that is the exchange we have from the convention.

prior to coming to tutor place, he was the assistant curator of collections at the james madison mike kelly or and worked for nearly nine years on the mansion interiors initiative team to research and furnish the market leader mansion following is architectural restoration. prior to his arrival, he was the staff archaeologist at james monroe long silent. long island. arts in master of anthropology with a concentration in historical archaeology from the university of south carolina. him.e welcome >> good afternoon. i want to thank heidi and 84 their invitation to speak today. my talk directly relates to this exhibition as i'm focusing on how members of the peter family of tudor place commemorated the revolution and their familial connections to george and marcia washington. at the end of my talk, i will briefly discuss longtime tudor place resident memberships in the dar. i want to do highlight some of the documents from our archives. tudor place located in the georgetown neighborhood is the home of the peter family from 1805 until 1983. the house designed by william thorton and featur

is not very there were a number of calls at the constitutional convention it comes up there james madison in particular he went to a national institution of the education that would be the greatest sectarian commitment in washington calls for a number of times and says yes we support the development of arts and literature but then it was the politics but education in sweeping terms so there is a lot of serious debate the early 1800's but there really doesn't get that close and at one point then the approval of funding while searching to the congressional record and it comes up on multiple occasions in our history candidates of the founding which was a request from an english man who never saw it set foot on american soil but wanted an education but bin to establish partly founded because it is not a national university just like you can imagine where we are torn by the conflict that would help to unify and we have hearings and debates and advocates but it doesn't come close. >> as a government professor what is your personal feeling? >> the way i look davit an incredibly interesting idea

madison bumgarner strikes out 10. in baltimore. >> tim lincecum took the mound with no team behind him. i is trying to show them he is sill the freak following hip surgery. it's a job application. they call this the showcase. he hit 9 is on the radar gun and is hoping some team will offer him a job as a starter. stiff curry will probably not play tonight in game three of the warriors-blazers game. but he looks really close to coming back. he is trying to return from a sprained knee. he wore a knee brace yesterday. looked very good in the morning. the problem is time. they want to see steph play 3-on-3 and five-on-five but there's no came before game three so steph probably will not play. the blazers, though, they aren't buying any of this. >> do you expect curry to play? you have to prepare that way. >> yes. >> they are saying there's a chance. [laughter] >> today, he just looked like he had a bounce to his step where in the last week he's been slowly inching his way forward, moving a little bit quicker each day. but

dementia has left madison unable to understand his death sentence. he was convicted of killing a police officer in 1985. in a 4 to 4 decision, the u.s. supreme court stayed the execution thursday night, only hours before madison was scheduled to die by lethal injection at the holman correctional facility in atmore. later in the broadcast, we'll go to holman correctional fility to cer anoth issue tre, a 10ay work rike by isoners presting sere overowding, poor ling cditions d the use of uaid pris labor. and weill try go behi bars to speak with a prisoner in solitary confinement who helped lead the strikes. meanwhile, alabama's governor robert bentley has signed into law a measure banning abortion clinics from operating within 2000 the of a kindergarten through eighth grade public school. it's the same rule applied to sex offenders in alabama. the law will force at least two clinics in alabama to close. the immigration and customs enforcement agency, known as ice, is reportedly preparing to launch a month-long campaign of raids specifically aimed at rou

madison was very worried state legislators would rig the voting rules to favor their own side. you can't even imagine what it was going to be. the things they were thinking about things we would later call gerrymandering, changing district lines are passing laws to make it harder for your opponent to vote. there were different things in those days losing a polling place from one to another and no one could find it but it was the same idea so one of the things we need to do is recover that notion that the constitution actually addresses precisely these kinds of shenanigans by partisans trying to read the rules to benefit themselves on their own side. that is present throughout american history and there are strong legal and constitutional bases for regulating that even beyond the voting rights act which was focused necessarily on one particular thing which was racial discrimination in states with a history of discrimination. >> there are a lot of colorful heroes and villains in the book, but the courts at best are a bit player, a bit player, most people who know the history of t