ida mckinley home. i was wondering, is it just a memorial named after her? i don't know if you would know that. >> specifically that, i don't know. i will say this. there was, you know, again, the story never gets fully written and people get miscast and caricatured. she was involved with two organizations. one was the crittenden house and the other was the red cross. the crittenden house was interesting because it specifically helped women who had been battered, who were homeless, and it provided them with shelters, and with shelter, education, and really helps them reestablish their lives. she didn't, you know, willy- nilly support every group and everything. she did do the slippers. they fetched a lot of money at auction, but she was very careful about where she allowed her name to be used. it might well be that there was a connection either with the jane addams and hull house, the crittenden organization, but i am not sure entirely. >> we heard that the president didn't really consult ida on his dec

mckinley would never write. he did not want to put anything in writing. -- itime, it crated crated a greater harm. , it can damage the nerves. >> in an attempt to help her he made her condition worse? >> yes. can you define for people what to be salts are? the chemical.call i think it is potassium. a white powder that would be stirred into water. it was not a tablet. there were tablets that i made reference to. largely by looking at his canceled checks. and hented to get rid did not reply to the doctor, he did not agree of the checks. but it does the senses and nerves. >> we saw the use of campaign. was this a new trend, it into the country where the wives helped the candidates of pill to the public? the last of the old- fashioned campaign. theodore roosevelt exploited it. they were very exploitable. edith roosevelt was the least willing to go along. the children had a great time. .his is the hinge you have newspapers with pictures. all of a sudden, presidents and their families who were very , they haveres befo

mckinley took control. mckinley was the one who actually planned a lot of the dinners. she was at them. receptions.he she did a lot of the traditional stuff, but she was not particularly interested in making those decisions. >> presidents are being sworn in in march. it was six months later, in september, that they went to the exhibition. we have more footage about the exposition. it is a new american century. is america beginning to change its place in the world? >> absolutely. the pan-american exposition was a celebration of the western hemisphere, but in a larger sense, it was a coming out party. america now owned most of the western hemisphere through the spanish-american war, cuba, puerto rico, and the pacific guam, of course, hawaii, and the philippines, all in one presidency. again, you have this remarkable explosion of activity, and the american people are having this debate, which in some ways goes on to this day, what is our role in the world? and time, heace was shot by this anarchist. how long did he linger before he died? >> was it six days? eight days. >>

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between her story -- her husband william mckinley.i spent 30 years together which brought them happiness early on. their life into illness and devotion to shape the presidency at the turn of the new century. joining us tonight to tell the story of ida mckinley are two guests returning to the table, richard norton smith and carl anthony. we are going to start our program would fail.

health, first lady i the mckinley also suffered from epilepsy. because of that, her husband, william mckinley would sit next to her at state dinners. if she had a seizure, he would shield her face from guests with a large tanker tif until the episode past. despite her health problems, she traveled as first lady, even extending the 1901 pan-american exposition where her husband was assassinated. we will look at the life of i at mckinley live tonight 9:00 eastern on c-span and c- span3 and also on c-span radio and c-span.org. ida mckinley. >> looking at the legislative agenda in congress this week, the house will gavel in tomorrow at noon eastern, 2:00 for legislative work. lawmakers will focus of an era of the week on the 2014 defense authorization act. that includes $552 billion in spending for national defense. an additional $86 billion for overseas contingency operations. senate will be back at 2:00 eastern today and will continue debating on the bipartisan immigration proposal, creating a congressional -- a conditional path to citizenship. it

but in poor health first lady ida mckinley also suffered from epilepsy.and because of that her husband, president william mckinley, will sit next to her at state dinners so when she had a seizure he would shield her face from guests with a large handkerchief into the episode past. despite her health problems to travel as first lady, even attending the 1901 pan american exhibition where her husband was assassinated. we will look alike of ida mckinley as we conclude our first series on first ladies. tonight at 8:00 eastern on c- span and c-span 3, also on c- c-span.org.ndi --as the voluntary optionshi)ii now i doare upon ushii think the fcc has to steer this small,y that is very medium-sized, and large companies can be able to compete relative to spectrum. the idea that the big fish swallow up little fish, i do not think it is healthy for our economy. they all have a business plan, obviously. they want to make money. when you look at the markets in in country, 80% is owned terms of the beachfront, the most valuable spectrum. spectrum is gold in our country.

william mckinley would shield her face if she had a seizure.espite her health problems she traveled as the first lady, pan amng the 1901 exhibition, where her husband was assassinated. idae will look at the life of -- we will look at the life of ida mckinley monday night. "washington journal" continues. host: we continue our conversation about the summit between president obama and fishing -- xi jinping with dean cheng of the heritage foundation. security to be discussed? some of the things that will certainly be on the agenda is cyber espionage. at this point we have had lots of stories about china raking into american defense programs, engaging in cyber espionage. the chinese have rebutted by saying we are the ones being hacked, cyber-assaulted, and many of that is green from the united states. in addition, there were almost certainly be on the agenda north korea and some other territorial disputes that china has, including with japan and then brought transnational issues including terrorism. host: one of the issues that came off leading up t

ordered again by mckinley and roosevelt and even as late as jacklin kennedy and mrs. clinton. >> in addition to the official design that she did, she was an avid painter of china as a hobby and in fact she gave classes in this at the white house. >> right. >> which may have been a political move. she had -- she was a musician. >> politics in the white house. >> and a former lobbyists. >> she was a musician, painter and was fluent in french. and i think she spoke spanish. did she? >> i know she spoke frenchment i'm not sure about spanish. >> she had classes. >> she did have language and china painting. >> it smoothed the feggetters of some of the people -- feathers of some of the people. in washington, they kind of silenced themselves about her because they wanted to be part of those classes. they were ladies classes. >> next, a phone call from phil in north hollywood, california. >> hi there. thank you so much for the wonderful series. i'm just wonderfully addicted to all of you. you mentioned baby mcfiat first. i was kind of curious about it because i remember readin

ordered again by mckinley and roosevelt and even as late as jacklin kennedy and mrs. clinton. >> in addition to the official design that she did, she was an avid painter of china as a hobby and in fact she gave classes in this at the white house. >> right. >> which may have been a political move. she had -- she was a musician. >> politics in the white house. >> and a former lobbyists. >> she was a musician, painter and was fluent in french. and i think she spoke spanish. did she? >> i know she spoke frenchment i'm not sure about spanish. >> she had classes. >> she did have language and china painting. >> it smoothed the feggetters of some of the people -- feathers of some of the people. in washington, they kind of silenced themselves about her because they wanted to be part of those classes. they were ladies classes. >> next, a phone call from phil in north hollywood, california. >> hi there. thank you so much for the wonderful series. i'm just wonderfully addicted to all of you. you mentioned baby mcfiat first. i was kind of curious about it because i remember readin

william mckinley, would sit next to her at state dinners.o if she had a seizure, he would shield her face from guests. with a large hanker chiff until the episode -- handkerchief until the episode passed. she traveled as first lady, even attending the 1901 pan american exposition where her husband was assassinated. we'll look at the life of ida mckinley as we conclude the series on first ladies love monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c-span 3 and also on c-span radio and c-span.org. >> next a look at the future of the u.s. economy. and housing market. with scott andersen. economic advisory chair with the american bankers association. from washington, d.c., this is 0 minutes. >> all right. hello, everybody. welcome. i would like to -- i'm jeff singman, public relations for aba. aba is an economic advisory committee that meets twice a year to provide its consensus forecast. and meet with washington officials including the federal reserve board. the members of the e.a.c. in attendance today are scott brown, raymond james and associates,

about three to four years ago general mckinley and others who was the commander of an to at the time came together and said we need to work on this. they worked with us and the second of homeland defense. they came up with the structure called dual status command. dual status command is usually a one star that will come from the state. we will run them through training with fema so they understand that national management system. they will understand civil authorities. they will go through a jdf commander scores posted by northern command then it will go through the designated, it will go through a course of study and actually office visits with the senior leadership of both dhs as well as the military, and that dual status command of course this allows general jacoby and i to certify them that they command and control active and guard and reserve troops. today we have at least one in every state, most states have to, somehow 33 of the dual status commanders. last year, we used these folks were unity of effort and unity of command. we used in probably six times. we use them for the n

and william mckinley while living in can't ton. this is the setup they had everywhere they went during his political years. always when he conducted business the door stayed open to the living quarters and ida stayed in the living quarters so she could hear what was going on. she was a silent political helpmate to william mckinley. they would discuss things but she would never take part in meetings. she would never express our political opinion. she would never come and join in. this type of setup while they were in lump bus, while he was governor, there was no governor's mansion then. also in washington and here at the thaxton house. >> our conversation on ida mckinley is available on the website, c-span.org/first ladies. >> the name of this place still resonates with a shuttering in the hearts of the american people. more than any other name connected to the civil war except lincoln's gettysburg reverberates. americans retain the knowledge that what happened here was the crux of our terrible national trial and even americans who

poor health, first lady ida mckinley also suffered from epilepsy.of that, her husband would sit next to her at state dinners. if she had a seizure, human ts isd her face from gues a large handkerchief. despite her health problems, chicago's first lady, even attending the 1921 -- 1901 pan- american exposition. we will look at her as if included our first season on first ladies. a discussion on how to convert urban spaces into biological organisms. separation and environmental destruction. this is about 45 minutes. these are events where more than 70% of species on the planet die out over a time of one million years. it is short in geological time. it is quite long in human time. most of these have been caused by climate change area did there is a lot of evidence mounting now that humans may be about to enter a new mass extinction. partly the proof is that we are seeing climate changes. part of the proof is we're seeing elevated extinction levels among animals. more animals going extinct there we might expect over the past couple of centuries. the evi

she was a silent political helpmate to william mckinley. she would discuss things, but she would never take part in meetings. she would never join. this type of set up they had when they were in columbus when he was governor. also in washington. idaur conversation on mckinley is available on our website. .ww.c-span.org/first ladies the c-span video library has reached a milestone. there are now more than two hundred thousand hours of original programming. a public service created by private industry, and -- america's cable companies. >> national security agency erector keith alexander said the nsa director keith alexander. this hearing of the senate appropriations committee is 2.5 hours. >> this afternoon i'm opening a hearing for cybersecurity. we will address efforts to protect the american people from sovereign threat and to protect our domains of .com and .gov. we need to make sure the american people know what we are spending our money for and to make sure that we make wide use of taxpayer dollars so that there are no -- we hope to mak

. >> in poor health, ida mckinley also suffered from epilepsy. because of that, her husband would sit next to her at state dinners. if she had a seizure, he would shield her face from guests until the episode past. despite her health problems, she traveled as first lady, even attending the event where her husband was assassinated. we will look at ida mckinley as we conclude our series on first ladies. in onehe famous passage of william crawford's novels, he is still 1:00 in the morning on july 3, 1863. tickets charge has not happened yet. it is all on the line. maybe this time, a victory, independence." in the minds of both northerners and southerners, northerners at the time and southerners in retrospect, this became the mythic moment of victory. >> the 150th anniversary of the battle of gettysburg, live all day sunday, june 30 tom a on history tv on c-span3. davidtish prime minister cameron and members returned to the house of commons after a two-week recess. the prime minister answered questions on reading times in the national health service.

next week, ida mckinley will be the final first lady in our first season of first laities, taking us into the new century and we look forward to seeing you then. >> thank you. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> "first ladies. influence and image" continues next monday, when we focus on ida mckinley who appeared regularly at front porch rallies in 1896. she was the third first laity to lose her husband to an assassin. next monday in the final program of season one of "first ladies: influence and image.? you can watch or listen on c- span, c-span3, c-span radio and online at c- span.org/firstladies. our website has more about the first laities, including a special section, welcome to the white house, produced by our partner, the white house historical association, which chronicles live in the executive mansion in the tenure of each of the first ladies. with the association we're offering a special edition of the book "first ladies of the united states of america" with a biography and portrait of each first

i think he shot mckinley. >> bill: he would be too old.e couldn't do that. >> i think he gave zachery taylor an rights. he fdr cerebral hem hemorrhage. i think he shot jr ewing. [gunshot] >> i think he might have knocked up january jones from madmen. >> you are going to have a lot of first kisses. >> bill: we will put you in the not sure category. >> the guy was busy. >> bill: do you believe paul mccartney actually died in a car crash in 1966 and secretly replaced by a lookalike so the beatles could continue. 5% do believe he was killed. not sure 14%. that means 19% do not believe 80%. is this an alien pod person. >> no. there is nobody else that could be in the beatles except those four. that's what made them the beatles. gear jerry and the pacemakers were put here to eventually inhabit dick cheney's heart. ♪ >> bill: i think it was freddie and the dreerms. >> what's up? >> bill: final question. do you believe that shape shifting reptilian people control our world by taking on human form and gaining political power to manipulate our socie

. >> in poor health, ida mckinley also suffered from epilepsy.ecause of that, her husband would sit next to her at state dinners. if she had a seizure, he would shield her face from guests until the episode past. despite her health problems, she traveled as first lady, even attending

. >> in poor health, first lady ida mckinley suffered from at celebrity -- from epilepsy. her husband would sit next to hers when she had a seizure, he would shelter face from guests with a large handkerchief until the episode past. despite your help problems, she traveled as first lady even attending the 1901 pan-american exposition where her husband was assassinated. we will look at the life of ida mccann lay as we conclude the first season of our series," first lady's." this morning, the assistant secretary of defense discusses u.s. defence policy in the middle east, africa, and europe. than a modern health care reporter looks at the affordable health care blahs impact on insurance coverage for adults under age 26. later, we will examine the cost of operating u.s. military bases overseas. "washington journal" is next. ♪ good morning is monday, june 10. today the united states senate officially welcomes its new member when vice-president joe fill swears in a center to the seat of the late frank lautenberger. it lured a debate begins on high profile immigration overhaul p

we will look at the life of ida mckinley as we conclude the first series -- first season of our series live tonight. >> on monday british foreign >>host: told the commons that they circumvented laws to gather data on british citizens were baseless. the statement comes after a former nsa employee reported the u.s. government is using phone and e-mail records to spy on its citizens. this is 10 minutes. >> i think that matters have been fully explored for foreign and commonwealth affairs secretary william hague. >> i will make a statement on the work of the government communication to the legal framework about it. as far as secretary i am responsible for the of work of the secret intelligence service of mi and the authority of the prime minister. and am responsible for the work of mi-5 there has been media disclosures classified u.s. documents relating to the collection of intelligence by u.s. agencies and questions of rule. the u.s. administration has begun a review into the circumstances of the leaks in contention with the justice department and u.s. intelligence community and obama has

. ♪ >> in poor health first lady ida mckinley also suffered from epilepsy.liam mckinley would sit next to her during state dinners so he would shield her face from guests when she would have seizures. , evenaveled as first lady to the 1901 american expedition where her husband was assassinated. -- weclude the first lady conclude our series on first ladies tonight on the c-span and c-span3. incentive options and voluntary options that are upon now i do think that the fcc needs to steer this in a way that small, medium, and large companies can compete relative to spectrum. the idea that bitg fish swalllow up little fish -- i don't think it's healthy for our economy. when you look at the market in by thentry, 80% is owned)))) beach front -- the most valuable spectrum. spectrum is gold in our country. host: the fcc -- >> the sec spectrum auction tonight on the "the communicators. >> "washington journal" continues. mr. chollet, was the office of international security affairs and what is its role in the pentagon? >> the office covers four regions in the world. i

is it mckinley, arthur, garfield, and lincoln?and, yes, i know, there's a rival sculpture of crazy horse, but the sight of that one is ball-shrinking because crazy horse never allowed his image to be captured, so which sculptor do you think he'd now attack? i've never been to mount rushmore. it's just too silly. even now, as i write this i'm thinking about george w's wartime lies, clinton's cigars, and nixon's microphones, and i'm cringing because i know every president, no matter how great on the surface, owned a heart chewed by rats. who's on that damn rushmore anyway? is it buchanan, both adamses, and mr. lincoln? answer me this -- after the slaughterhouse goes out of business, how long will it go on stinking of red death and white desire? should we just cover the presidents' faces with gas masks? who cares? i've never been to rushmore. it's too silly. even now, as i write this, i'm thinking -- "who's on that damn mountain anyway? is it jefferson, washington, reagan, and lincoln?" >> bill moyers; now go eight pages over to page

. ♪ >> in poor health, first lady ida mckinley also suffered from apple at sea, and because of that, president william mckinley, with synnex it were -- would sit next to her at dinners so she had a seizure, he would shield her face from guests with a barred -- a large handkerchief. attended a pan-american and physician where her husband was assassinated. our series on first ladies, life monday night at 9:00 on c-span, c-span3, also on c-span radio and c-span.org. one offamous passage in william faulkner's novels, he said for every southern boy 14 years old or older, it is still 1:00 in the afternoon on july 3 1863. it is all on the line. and they can come and their imagination, say this time, maybe this time victory, independents. so in the mind of both northerners and southerners -- northerners at the time, the southerners more in retrospect, this became the mythic moment of victory and defeat. >> the 150th anniversary of the battle of gettysburg live all- day sunday, june 30 on american history tv on c-span3. " continues.journal host: a recent pew research report looked at "breadwi

. >> in poor health, i do mckinley suffered from epilepsy and because of that, her husband would sit next to her at state dinners. if she had a seal -- a seizure, she would -- he would shield her face from guests until the episode past. we will look at the life of ida mckinley live monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c- span three. appointed thestie state attorney general to the u.s. senate. the cp can -- became vacant upon the death of senator lautenberg on monday. jeffrey chiesa will serve in the senate until a special election is held. >> i am honored to let you all know that i intend to appoint jeffrey chiesa to be new jersey's next united states senator. i have known just for 22 years. he has been an extraordinary public servant. graduate of the university of notre dame, catholic university of america law school, and outstanding private practice attorney, assistant united states attorney. ,hief counsel to the governor my first two years of governor, and now new jersey's attorney general. i said on monday that i was going to select the person who i thought would be the bes

my school is mckinley technology high school, so we do have a lot of technology, a lot focused in a lot of our strands. we're a stem school, so we have a lot of media equipment, biotech n. my classroom, i teach math. i have a smart board, and i thought i was so with it, and then these guys are so, you are so outdated already. but it is true. i'm always -- you know, it's really hard to keep up with how fast things are changing in the land of technology, and then, you know, die firmly believe that the most important thing is that you have a really strong teacher in every classroom, and then, yes, technology will absolutely -- can absolutely help, but when the strong teacher then gets that great professional development, if someone offered me, you know, 30 ipads right now for my classroom, that would be great. i would certainly not turn it down, but i would need, before i even handed an ipad to a student, i would need a really good plan of, ok, what am i going to do with this? is this going to be a fancier way to get their attention? because then there's no point. but i want it to be somet

first ladyhealth, ida ida mckinley suffered from epilepsy.or has been with the next order at state dinners so when she had a seizure, he would shield her face from guest until the episode past. despite her health problems, she traveled as first lady, even attending the pan-american exposition where her husband was assassinated. it will look at the life of ida mckinley as we conclude the first season of our series of first ladies come alive monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c-span three. >> new jersey governor chris appointed state attorney general jeffrey keyes a -- jeffrey chiesa. he willican, he will -- serve into a special election in october. he says he does not plan to run in that election. in massachusetts last night, two seante candidates debated -- two senate candidate debated. now a look at that june 25 special election with the boston political inquirer. >> now we want to turn our attention to the senate race to fill secretary of state john kerry's exceeds that he left. the boston globe front page this morning had this head

ordered again by mckinley and roosevelt and even as late as jacklin kennedy and mrs. clinton. >> in addition to the official design that she did, she was an avid painter of china as a hobby and in fact she gave classes in this at the white house. >> right. >> which may have been a political move. she had -- she was a musician. \she had -- she was a musician. >> politics in the white house. >> and a former lobbyists. >> she was a musician, painter and was fluent in french. and i think she spoke spanish. did she? >> i know she spoke frenchment i'm not sure about spanish. >> she had classes. >> she did have language and china painting. >> it smoothed the feggetters of some of the people -- feathers of some of the people. in washington, they kind of silenced themselves about her because they wanted to be part of those classes. they were ladies classes. >> next, a phone call from phil in north hollywood, california. >> hi there. thank you so much for the wonderful series. i'm just wonderfully addicted to all of you. you mentioned baby mcfiat first. i was kind of curious ab

we didn't use it much in contingency operations until admiral and general mckinley met. it's the usual customary way. the most recent one over the weekend -- actually last week when the dual status commander stood up. general jacobi brought in some forces from fort carson. colorado brought in helicopter and security and engineers and they teemed them up. i'm going to stop there. i wanted to give you a flavor of how we progressed. let me pose a few questions to you. realizing we have invested best equipped, best trained and best led guard today. we have the schools, we go to the same schools our counterparts do. given the budget constraints we have today and the fact in sequestration, $50 billion, $37 billion had to come out of $500 billion this year. next year might be a deeper cut. what can a nation afford in its military? what can we put in the rereserve component that can be ready at some time frame. brigades might take longer depending on what you can accomplish. what can you afford when you -- you pick the number of what the cost difference is. some studies cost --

mckinley as we conclude this series.n c-span and c-span 3 and on c-span radio and c-span.org. >> next is a look at the future of the u.s. economy and housing the american bankers association. from washington, d.c. this is 20 minutes. >> all right. hello, everybody. welcome. i'm jeff sigmund, public relations for a.b.a. a.b.a. is an economic advisory committee that meets twice a year to provide its consensus forecast. and meet with washington officials including the federal reserve board. the members of the e.a.c. in attendance today are scott brown, raymond james and associates, peter hooper, deutsche bank, ethan harris, bank of america, merrill lynch, christopher lowe, f.t.n. financial, nathanial carp, bbva compass, gregory miller, suntrust bank, george mokshon, huntington bank, richard moody, regents bank. karl tannenbaum, northern trust. and scott andersen, e.a.c. chair and chief economist for bank of the west. also in attendance is bob davis, a.b.a.'s executive vice president of mortgage market policy, and once a ban

silent help mate to william mckinley. they does cussed things but meetings or rt in discuss their political opinion. in columbus, there was no governor's mansion then. washington and here at the saxon house. website, le on our c-span.org/first ladies. fifr mags hearing for todd jones. mr. jones is currently the agency.director of the this hearing also included the the g attorney general for civil position. this is 2 1/2 hours. >> calling the hearing to order. we have a packed house. todd jones to be the director of the bureau, alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives. first, mr. dellry. the acting assistant attorney general for the civil largest component within the department of jus tills. kappa anded fie theta earned the j.d. from yale law school in 1993. yale, he duating from went on to corporate chief judge joe flath of the 11th appeals.court of mr. dellry went on to private at wilmer, cutler & wilmer-hail wn as where he was a litigator for 14 years. if contract and corporate dministration and administrative law mat

mckinley: i rise in support of h.r. 1919. let me bring attention the provision in the bill that we were just discussing about electronic distribution of prescription information for health care professionals and pharmacists. the industry and the f.d.a. have been in discussions for years about eliminating the paper attach the bottles of prescription drugs. let me show you this. this is what we're talking about. this wad of paper on the top of a prescription bottle. t's a folded up piece of paper . it can be in three and four parts. this is not an efficient way to distribute critical information about prescription drugs. eliminating this wad of paper would save consumers millions of dollars in printing and shipping costs. the house committee recognized the need to allow pharmacists the option of electronic or paper copies, because some rural pharmacies may not have internet capabilities. unfortunately, this labeling provision is not in the senate bill. so as the process moves forward into conference, this labeling provision nee

during the years of william mckinley's political career, the house served as their residence.hey had living quarters on the third floor of the house which originally was a ballroom but was turned into living quarters with a bedroom and a sitting room. and alsoaining area off of that room and office that william used to conduct business. we are in his office right outside the ballroom which later becomes the living quarters while they are in canton. this is the setup they had everywhere they went during his political years. when he conducted business, doors stayed open to the living quarters. ida could hear what was going on. she was a silent political helpmate to him. she would never take part in meetings or express her political opinions. this type of setup they had while they were in columbus while he was governor -- there was no governor's mansion then. our conversation is now available on our website, c- span.org/first ladies. continues. journal" host: we are back with connie cass. how does washington investigate itself? guest: there are several different ways built into t

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ida mckinley suffered from epilepsy and because of that her husband would sit next to her at state dinners, so if she had a seizure he would shield her face with a large handkerchief until the episode past. she traveled as first lady lady, even attending the 1901 pan- american exposition where her husband was assassinated. we will look at her life as we conclude our first season on first ladies tonight at 9:00 eastern on c-span and c-span 3, also on c-span radio and www.c-span.org. talked abouto preventing sexual assault in the military today. this was held at joint base andrews in maryland. this is a little over 10 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. how are we doing ech? it is good to see everybody here. i want to welcome everybody. this is a very important conference. we have this once a year and i think it is important for us to have a discussion, and that is what i want to do, have a andussion with the two- three-star leaders. are, what you you do, we have to set the tone for our civilian leaders as well. this is to make sure we are doing what is right. , youcause of many factors hav

tune in monday for next program, first lady ida mckinley. " continues.journal host: we are back. we want to welcome a former congressman allen west, republican of florida and now the programming director at next-generation tv. we will talk about what you're to now here in washington. that's begin first with the military hearing yesterday on sexual assault in the military before the senate armed services committee dared all the top brass lined up at one table. what do you think? we were getting our viewers take of taking the legal authority away from commanders. what are your thoughts? guest: having been a commander at the captain level and lieutenant colonel level, the military invest a lot of resources in training to managers. the pre-command courses you go through, understanding the legal system. if you start to take away that legal authority of the commanders, then you are going to our road his command climate and air rode his ability to truly and properly lead. we already see on the battlefield that commanders have to be second-guessed by a a lot of lawyers even on the battle

. >> he is right that side of the ballroom that leader becomes the living quarters of william mckinley. this is set up everywhere they went during his political years. when he conducted business the door stayed open to the living quarters and she stayed in the living quarters that she could hear what was going on. .. >> the same panel is live and would have renewed the chain of command about whether military sexual assault cases go to trial. this market is 90 minutes. >> mr. chairman, thank you. i want to thank you for holding this open session. this was held in open session yesterday and it is appropriate that this legislation be marked up. this comprehensively addresses sexual assault in the military and includes the justice improvement and establishing new authority and a new convening authority asked set for specified military. it removes the character of the accused for the rules for court-martial and commands how to decide. it requires command to report allegations to criminal investigations organizations and includes provisions in the justice improvement act offered by article 6

." >> first lady id mccanna les severed from epilepsy and because of that, her husband william mckinleyld sit next to her at state dinners so if she had a seizure, he would shield her face with a large handkerchief until the episode past. despite her health problems, she traveled as first lady and attended the 1901 pan-american exposition where her husband was assassinated. we will look at the life of ida seriesy we conclude our on first ladies at 9:00 on monday night. host: we want to welcome back congresswoman carolyn maloney, a democrat from new york -- new york, who sits on the oversight reform committee. the headline in "the wall street journal" - about the irs -- it seems that higher ups in washington were well aware of the workers and cincinnati targeting conservative groups, tea party groups. what do you make of this story? presidentoined the and the republican leadership and being totally outraged as i believe every american is at the abuse at the irs. the reaction has been strong. everyone should be held accountable and those that are responsible should be appropriately punish

mckinley: madam speaker, today the great state of west virginia is celebrating its 150th year birthdaye unique history of the mountain state is a source of pride for all west virginians. on this day in 1863, west virginia entered the union to become the 35th state. it is the only state born during that divisive war between the states and the only state formed by a presidential decree. from these challenging years, our state has become a significant contributor to america's economy. west virginia's natural resources, coal, oil, natural gas and timber have played an integral role in the industrialization of our country. now in addition to providing energy to continue fueling our nation's economy, west virginia has grown into a leader in health care, research, education, biotech, aerospace and many our diverse industries. the mountain state's natural beauty also attracts people from all around the world to visit and enjoy its breast taking scenery. mr. speaker -- enjoy its breathtaking scenery. mr. speaker, we take pride in our wild and wonderful state. we celebrate our past and look forw

>> we started with mount everest in russia, we went to mount kilimanjaro in africa, mount mckinley inth america. mount vincent in antarctica. >>brian: where is this? >> the summit of mount everest. >>brian: who's holding the camera? >> pro-go cameras. >>brian: you guys are tied together. is that as perilous as it looks? >> 7,000 feet drop. >>brian: what is the trick? >> kind of focus and keep going up or down if you're on your way down. >>brian: is there a way to describe the feeling once you're on the top? >> i didn't go on top. major marshal opened up the trip to wounded warriors. he to bring wounded warriors with him because he understands the recuperative power of the mountains. >>brian: how do you get the word out? >> we started a website called climbing for warriors.com. all it is is a place for airmen that maybe are depressed or have ptsd or life problems and they want to go in the mountains with us. >>brian: gretchen, if you would come here real quick. we got a lot of bragging in the green room. major marshal said he can do 30 push-ups in 30 seconds. i said gretchen can do tha