and heick: was decided engaged -- mccullough was decided, marshall talked about dissent. the course of every tribunal must necessarily be the opinion which is to be delivered as the opinion of the court is previously submitted to the consideration of the judges. if any part of the reasoning be disproved, it must be modified to receive the approbation of all before it can be delivered of the opinion of all. to thel was dedicated having the court speak with a single voice. but into this peaceful habitat became william johnson. jefferson's first appointment to the court. one can only speculate how he was licking his chops at the opportunity to put someone on the court who was not a federalist. and in particular who was not john marshall, his distant cousin who he despised. was a leitmotif from the 1790's on. letterrangely prophetic 1790, hemadison in complained about marshall and said we need to find something better to do with him to get him out of the way. nothing could be better done than to make him a judge. that was, became true much to jefferson's chagrin. the theory w

shortly after mccullough was decided and he engaged in his debate, marshall talked about dissent. the course of every tribunal must necessarily be the opinion which is to be delivered as the opinion of the court is previously submitted to the consideration of the judges. and if any part of the reasoning be disproved, it must be modified as to receive the approbation of all before it can be delivered of the opinion of all. and so marshall was dedicated to the idea of no more opinions, having the court speak with a single voice. into this peaceful little habitat came william johnson. jefferson's first appointment to the court. where one can only begin to speculate about how he was licking his chops at the opportunity to put someone on the court who was not a federalist. and in particular, who was not john marshall, his distant cousin who he, quite frankly, despised. was amity between the two leitmotif from the 1790's on. indeed, in a strangely prophetic letter to james madison in 1790, he complained about marshall and said we need to find something better to do with him to get him o

doris kearns goodwin or david mccullough or john meacham or robert caro, i interviewed john roberts. in the interview in the beginning, i said did you always want to be chief justice of the united states? and he said no. when i was little i had no interest in that. do you want to be a justice of the united states supreme court? know. did you want to be a lawyer? what did you want to be? i wanted to be a historian but all i can about was american history and that is what i wanted to be. i told my father that, he said it is a nice profession and how do you support your family? he majored in history. coming back from spring break, got off the plane at logan airport, and are you a student at harvard? yes i am. majoring in history, the cab driver said i majored in that also. so maybe his father had some good ideas. >> those are the types of things that come out. >> you get funny things, george washington, it turns out could have lived a little longer. now member of his family, no male member lived past the age of 50. when he was asked to be president of the united states he was 57. i'm to

nd scott writes incredible books now writing one on thurgood marshall but if you look at david mccullough he's incredible the way he does these books starting off from yale and then on the brooklyn bridge. but over 60 years with his wife they put these book on - - these books together he does a paragraph at a time then she reads it back to him and he listens and says i have to change that they have been doing this for a long time he told the story once at one time she read the paragraph back and she said that doesn't's mind - - that sentence doesn't work. read itt again. and said i don't think it works read it again. it's okay. leave it in. she did think it was good it was a bad sentence. and gore vidal said this is the bat on - - the best book is ever written but there is one sentence. [laughter] >> now taylor branch. >> taylor branch is somebody that was in politics then became a writer he wrote a trilogy on the civil rights movement and recover that. and martin luther king. that martin luther king stayed up late the night before preparing that speech and he had a speechwriter to help h

the american spirit by dade mccullough -- david mccullough, friends didded by gordoned wood. -- dividedy gordon wood. got on a little history thing there. a time for truth. if you can keep it by eric me

i will tell you, louise, but tv is covered two of those events the rachel maddow and david mccullough see now that all my books are about americans who set out to accomplish something worthy that they knew would be difficult and going to be more difficult even than they expected. and who did not give up and who learn from their mistakes. the characters are chosen to focus on always to our benefit. i think one of the reasons we ought to read history and no history is to increase our capacity for gratitude for those who went before us. of what they did for us what they achieved for us and for us to take it for granted is rooted in the extreme. i think two of the qualities history provides and what we read and teach our gratitude and empathy to put ourselves in the place of those who went before us, what they put up with in working for the last several years and trying to understand what these pioneers who settled in ohio had to contend with and what they accomplished against such adversities i can't help but feel, we are a bunch of softies. and how much we learn from them and how much w

ok journalist keith mccullough from the times of malta joining us tonight from valetta want to keep we appreciate your time and updating us on the story we appreciate it thank you we're now i'd like to bring in on the telephone kareena bella she is the sister of the murdered maltese journalist daphne gilead sia she joins me also from the lead. miss villa can you hear me. i think here you can yes i can hear you we appreciate you taking the time to talk with us i thought i'd like to get your take on this decision that we have received from the prime minister that he's promised a pardon to this middle man if the middle man cooperates and leads the investigation to the the murderer what's your reaction to that. how long i mean he's focusing on the cotton is something it is not really the issue this is a review about moving investigation for didn't it and from what i've seen and heard there seems to be enough profit potential evidence to move the investigation further than the person being arrested and. is now offering a plea bargain is a necessary step forward then it's a welcome step forw

journalists keith mccullough with the times of malta. joining us from valetta with the latest on murder investigation there surrounding that killing of the half me going to say i can't thank you. well some of today's fastest growing sports have nothing to do with ballgames or athletics computer based e-sports are attracting huge crowds international competitions and star players they can earn big rewards so it's no wonder that many youngsters dream of making a career in east sports some schools in sweden have latched on to the trend they are even offering lessons. 17 year old sean is on his way to school half an hour north of stockholm but his school is unique here kids can play games at 8 o'clock in the morning and it's part of the timetable so the shows will of course totally motivates me you wake up before academic classes start your brain switches into gear and you get to do what you like. shown as learning to play league of legends currently one of the most popular computer games more than 100000000 people play it worldwide and this

mccullough said we've stepped into bizarre land when senior policymakers are trying to yank a cia employee into the public spotlight in retaliation for making a whistle-blowing complaint, especially when they are credible threats to that employee's personal safety. and i don't know why our colleagues on the other side of the aisle -- >> would the gentle lady yield? >> i'm afraid i only have three minutes and -- >> the end of the article does >> the president of the united states has five pinocchios on a daily basis so let's not go there. ambassador sondland, in your deposition, you lamented, quote, i was truly disappointed that the state department prevented me at the last minute from testifying earlier on october 8, 2019. but your issuance of a subpoena has supported my appearance here today and i am pleased to provide the following testimony. so, it is clear that the white house, the state department did not want you to testify at that deposition, is that correct? >> that's correct. >> and since then, you have, on numerous occasions during your indicated that you have not been able to ac

comment that brought this to mind was that same conversation with david mccullough. he believes that george bush was the most qualified person to run for president since the founders at the time. did not say it at the time but said it afterwards. well,rought it to mind as all the jobs that president bush had done before he became president perfectly prepared him for that moment, and it is the reason why we were able to get through the cold war without a single shot being fired. that is what jumped out at me about that. he was very proud of that moment. only thing i felt was amusing on this one, that building is the old post office, which is now the trump hotel. what is interesting about this -- mary kate or others could fill you in. it is bad form to compare yourself to previous presidents. it was seen -- it is not the classiest thing to say i am the greatest president since so-and-so. simply to say that there are certain ways that they reference back to previous presidents. everybody wants to see mike kennedy. that is one of the interesting things i found in this ca

tuesday morning, former florida republican congressman bill mccullough will join us to discuss the politics of presidential impeachment. former clintonh, administration national security official talk about the implications of the ukraine phone call. and the executive director gabe roth will share the findings of the new poll on understanding and opinion of the u.s. supreme court. watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning. join the discussion. >> here is a look at our live coverage tuesday. c-span, fbi on director christopher wray joins other intel officials for a senate homeland committee hearing on domestic threats. c-span2, the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. eastern to consider judicial nominations for the u.s. court of federal claims and the ninth circuit court of appeals. a senate judiciary subcommittee takes a look at cyber threats and preventing data breaches. that gets underway at 2:30 p.m. eastern. >> earlier today, the chair of the house intelligence committee, adam schiff, spoke to reporters about the impeachment inquiry. he discussed the release of the

kevin mccullough, radio host with salem media. why are you shaking your head at me?not you, just the idea -- i don't know what it is about new york mayors, but they've all had this fantasy of running for president. that giuliani didn't get in until florida when he decided to run and it was a disaster. de blasio was an abject failure this go round, and bloomberg is going to wait until super tuesday? give me a break. these things are so predictable. you got to start building a narrative. you got to at least compete in iowa and new hampshire. >> harris: even if you have a lot of money? >> yes, of course. this is ridiculous. >> harris: i'm just saying, that's his plan. he's got billions of dollars. >> bloomberg isn't trump. he doesn't know how to leverage the same kind of grassroots activism that trump ingeniously put together an '16. this is a waste of time and effort and cash, i think, on bloomberg's part. >> harris: is it personal? when i heard that to deval patrick, friend of barack obama, former president, was thinking about getting in even though he said he wouldn'

david mccullough told a general election instead of spread out as to say that for many here in britain brags it is now a job ever since the country voted to leave the e.u. back in 2016 the u.k. 7 since the country voted to leave the e.u. back in 2016 the u.k.'s internet users have been trying to console themselves through the for internet users have been trying to console themselves through the 5 stages of grief denial when the buy of stages of grief denial when the brags it was all was fust announced even the queen was confuse legs that was all it was fussed announced even the queen was confused the british people have to leave the european union right she said he believed the british people have to leave the european union great she said. and then there was the time that everyone realized. it and then there was the time that everyone realized that adele song was about bread visit. that adele song was about bread visit. our. and brags it werry journalists started talking about the most important meal of the day 7 and brags that wary journalists started talking about the most important

he's now writing a good one on thurgood marshall but also to describe what he has written is dave mccullough. he's now 85 or 86 years old he's incredible the way he does this book then the first book was johnson and then panama canal. but he is married for 60 years to his wife so he will write it up in a paragraph. and she reads it back to him. and they have been doing this a long time. then he tells the story once in the interview where he says she read the paragraph back to him and said that sentence doesn't work. read it again. he said it's okay. she said i don't think it works. read it again. he said it's okay. leave it in. they have a little argument. so the book aims out with the sentence there is a review written by gore vidal who says this is the best book i have ever written except there is one damn sentence. [laughter] >> and taylor branch. >> he is somebody that was in politics then became a writer writing a trilogy of the civil rights movement. and taylor branch lives in baltimore and martin luther king you may remember the famous speech the way it was written that stayed up that

. >> woodruff: david mccullough telling you, he said the best and most effective people in public lifehout exception have been the people who had a profound and very often life-long interest in history. do you make a connection with today and president trump? >> i think many people who understand history are at an advantage, but because of stem, we have taken physics and history out of it. >> woodruff: focused on science and math. >> people are concerned about competing with the chinese, that's a legitimate concern, but i don't think people should take stem courses and not history courses. in the last eight years, history majors in the united states have gone down by 34%. very few people major in history and the result is very few people know about the history. >> woodruff: have you thought about which great historian will be in a position to write about trump? >> it takes about 40 years for a historian to get ahold of the documents and come up with a judgment. so i think it's too early. the person who will be the great historian and will write about the president is probably in grade

mccullough when i made the documentary. david said to me it takes about 50 years for historians to render judgment on a president, and how glad he was to see that historians had come around on george bush and had given him the credit he truly deserved and that george bush was alive to see it. think that he was admired widely, especially by the time he died. i do think the time of this is not accurate, but i am a little biased. so what is being portrayed here, one of the challenges for the panel is, for many of you, we don't need to explain what the references are in these cartoons. many of you probably remember they are talking about the wind factor. they are talking about bush as a wimp. for young people nowadays, they thought george bush was a wimp. why did they think he was a wimp? that is a really good question. the origin of the wimp factor label was a newsweek magazine cover that actually had a picture of book -- of bush under the wimp factor. at the time i was a career foreign service officer. i was not on the campai

tuesday morning, former florida republican congressman vilma: will join us to discuss desha usl mccullougho discuss impeachment. then, dave roth will share the findings of a new poll on public understanding and opinion of the u.s. supreme court. c-span's "washington journal" tuesday morning. join the discussion. our c-span campaign 2020 bus team is traveling across the country, visiting key battleground states in the presidential race, asking voters what issues they want presidential candidates to address during the campaign. >> something i want the presidential candidates to address is gun violence. i do not think there is just one clear-cut answer. we need to initiate that discussion discovering what options are available. >> my question i have for the candidates is how are you going to combat the rising prices and -- prices of drugs and also in health care? >> an issue that is important to me is fixing our criminal justice system. how can we rehabilitate offenders? how can we support a positive relationship between the community and law enforcement? how can we fix our mass incarceration

the american spirit by dade mccullough -- david mccullough, friends didded by gordoned wood. -- divided by gordon wood. got on a little history thing there. a time for truth. if you can keep it by eric me metaxas. david and goliath by i'll malcolm gladwell, and i read the power behind the light by richard simmons and the little things by andy andrews. and i think there's another one one -- or nine of them. that's -- i'll think of it in a minute. >> how do you select the books that you read? >> it varies. i'm big on biography and history. i tell people that smart people learn from their mistakes, but brilliant people learn from other people's mistakes, and that's why you should read history and biographies, because you have the opportunity to learn not only what went right and not necessarily a bunch of dates and names and facts, but experience. and it's just, in my opinion, as important, maybe more important to learn what went wrong. thus, you learn from other people's mistakes. >> where do you like to read? >> wherever i can. i like -- on vacation i'm not much of a beach guy, so i take

. >> over the last year i have read several books the american spirit by david mccullough and a little bit of history and a time for truth if you can keep it. david and goliath by malcolm gladwell and the power behind and andy andrews. they are nine of them. >> how do you select the books that you read quick. >> it varies. biographies and history i tell people smart people learn from their mistakes but brilliant people learn from other people's mistakes that's what i'm interested in biographies because it's not about dates and names and others but it's experiences just as important or more important to learn to learn from other people's mistakes. >> on vacation i'm not much of a beach guy i take a bag full of books and i go through them pretty quick i read on the plane anytime i can find a quiet place with a hot tea that i can read. i take notes. i keep a little journal to take notes on the books that i am reading and there are two other books that i didn't mention by charlie kirk and doctor in the house by michael burgess who is one of my colleagues. but i'm trying to draw from other

important role in a new award-winning book that i would recommend to you by that great historian david mccullough called "the pioneers" and it tells the story of the northwest territories and the founding of ohio in wake of the reflation nature war. his stately homes were an anomaly out on the frontier. his own home was described in the book as, and i quote, a large brick house in the federal style with a handsome front door flanked by recessed side windows and and elliptical fan overhead. the whole house was painted white and soon became a distinguished house of hospitality. end quote. this also describes the historic house we're trigg to preserve. these houses stood in sharp contrast to the log cabins on the rugged landscape. the barker house is currently owned by the u.s. army corps of engineers. it's owned by them because it's right i right next to the willow dam on the river. today the house is still standing. it is vacant, in bad shape, and it's unsafe to enter, but it is safable. i visited this historic house back in september of 2008. i learn then that the core was proposing to demolish t