the blue arc of truth -- to general mead at tony town. along with the division at the base of little round top, down here. it became the skeleton of the famous line the army used for the better part of the battle. shows the incline that the army should have warned, were it not for one volatile factor. was third corps commander major general dan sickles. idea of thean volatility that came from this political general, there is the marriageof sickles' close to the eve of the civil war. sorry about that. got me to a piano recital once and i thought it was funny that there was somebody sitting next to the pianist, just to turn the pages of the book, now that i am turning pages, i understand. it does not seem funny anymore, it seems important. anyway, while a united states congressman from new york, den sickles, found -- dan sickles, found his wife was having an attorneyth barton key, general of the district of columbia and son of francis scott key, author of the star-spangled banner. on 27 february 1859, sickles shot and killed key in the ensu

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within two days, i was back at meade. when ike returned to camp, he discovered the situation had changed. now that the 675th engineers was in a new branch of service it received a new designation as the 30 is -- 301st tank battalion and enough much to his dismay, ike found himself no longer in command of company. a instead, colonel well born, who had been so impressed with ike eats handling of new yorks had another task in mind. the chief said he was impressed with my organizational ability. i was directed to take the remnants of the troops who would not be going overseas and proceed to an old abandoned campsite in gettysburg, pennsylvania, of all places. once again, his expectations have been crushed. at this low point in his career, he simply wrote administration model was black. on march 15, a moody eisenhower journeyed to gettysburg in the company of captain robert gardner to inspect the new command. a training camp where six wedge comblments of infanry had established their home lamb a year only. guard never, a spani

so basically it was founded and its directors were concerned about the mead eye environment, it television environment and the monopoly the three networks had and the control they had. so they were very interested in opening up the media environment. nixon saw this as an opportunity that he could use policy to combat the media institutions he believed were biased. so nixon saw this as an opportunity, that creating this office in the white house would allow him to shape the conversation about telecommunications policy in ways the president had not before. so thru the work of the staffers and the attitudes of nixon and his belief that it was really poornt th important and to a lot of new technologies were discussed in various different ways. and they talked about deregulation and they challenged some of the assumptions that have really made it television industry since the 1960s. >> was it successful? >> it was. in the short-term, no. in the short-term the policy became very linked to this broader war that nixon wanted to wage. he felt the network television was very biased against him, and

>> carver mead is one of the great scientists of our era. he was one of the first people in the microchip revolution. i wrote about him and a book called microcosm, and he went on to both do the research for moore's law and the name moore's law. carver has been my counsel for decades, and he's got lots of ideas for the future of technology. it's not necessarily going to be based on, if you want to actually have intelligence, it's got to be carbon. you can't do it in silicon. >> george gilder, as always, thanks for talking with us on booktv. >> it's great to be here. thank you. always appreciate your brilliance. >> tv recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> senator murkowski, what's on your summer reading list? >> i don't know if i have a list but i can tell you what is on my nightstand right now, and it's a little awkward because it's all starting to tip over. i have the tendency to take on the books that i might give any officer with the one next to because i want to read them later. i'

madeleine albright, former secretary of state edmund of a book by walter mead called special providence. the foreign policy and how much he the world. and anything recommended by madeleine albright is on my list and certainly that one have a lot of respect for walter mead as well. and of course madeleine of course madeleine albright spoke has also been recommended. fascism is warning. i respect her and her work. that is part of my nonfiction list on foreign policy and the united states in the world. i also have a light nonfiction book called the canon that i'm ready to read about science and a sort of two or of the basics of science that is a wonderful book about the science. this is my nonfiction list and i know that its ambitious but i also like to read fiction. i get great recommendations from my children who are avid fiction reader is so my daughter recommended that kind of mother that is a fairly new book about a woman i don't know the time. co. yet but she's married to a diplomat and it's about parent and race relations and privilege. so i'm looking forward to that and then finall

>> guest: carver mead is one of the great scientists of our era.he was one of the first people in a microchip revolution in a book i wrote called microcosm and he went on to do the research for moore's law and the name moore's law. carver has been my counsel for decades, and he's got lots of ideas for the future of technology. it's not necessarily going to be based on if you want to have intelligence that scott to be carbon. you can do it in silicon. >> host: as always, thanks for talking with us on booktv. >> guest: it's great to be here. thank you. i've always appreciated you. >> booktv visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> right now i am reading courage and consequence written by karl rove. i'm only about halfway through right now, but it focuses on the sort of political strategies of how to be sort of propelled george bush into a position where he can run for governor and when an aide race that was determined to be not winnable, but of course they proved that wrong. and then after that, the politi

it seeks to be sensitive as you know this so you try so on one entrees through to fort meade sat on the other there are all kind of the issues related to it you might arise from the international perspective in soviet evra a canadian government on the other has made it human rights to woman issues out so for the one up to be components of foreign policy and consequently it is under a lot of pressure the canadian government from a you side up kind of international humanitarian organisation is true for you got it too and to. meet your cooperation beat it. despite all of that the canadian labor our government said the current government tried to justify its babysitter days and can't get out so. it seems that from the so deep space they didn't go out meant he's great to fart makes it so easy to do he says pay for it remember i said. ok sequence be it in the sense that he should i'm going to get a final thought from you i mean we know that saudi arabia has given the canadian ambassador just twenty four hours to leave but what's likely to be the canadian response is it likely to be more measu

meade, maryland. they complained of headaches and tingling.ther did not impact all of the national night outvents in the area. it aims to bu a better relationship between police and the communities they serve. >> tre were several events, including a big cookou put on by police and community organizers at objectionon run park in d. there was also a -- the -y r-old shot and killed three weeks ago. her family hopes eveike these help to end gun violence in d.c. no one has been arrested in her murder. >>> the historic run comes to an end for the little league team. >> the fst predominantly african american team to advance to the a mid-atlantic coming ohome. we're proud of them. they took on a team from maryland. while t hometown boys scored five runs in the first inning, theyould not hold on. the season may be over, but the johnson team made us allproud. just so glad andor excited their run. they'll be back next year. >> i bet they will. >>>enother liteague team keeping its world series dreams alive. this is the loudoun south little league. they mo

it's on my list and certainly that when i have a lot of respect for russell mead as well. of course, my one albright's book has been recommended "fascism: a warning" interested in that. irix spec to her a lot and her work, so that's part of my nonfiction list. foreign policy in the united states, in the world. i also have a lighter nonfiction book called "the canon, that i want to read about science. the beautiful basics of science. supposed to be a wonderful book about the sciences. that's really ambitious, but i also like to read fiction. i get really great recommendations for my children who are avid fiction readers and so my daughter recommended "that kind of mother", which is a fairly new book about a woman-- i don't know the time period but she's married to a british diplomat and it's about parenting and race relations and privilege so i'm looking forward to that and finally "exit west" which is a timely book about a couple from an unnamed country who go through greece and end up as refugees in the united states and it's-- of course with all the conversations we are

they mead at plaza decaesar cavez from 6:00 to 9:00. >> going crazy for crazy rich asians. a chance to see a special screening. the asian realtor's association organized the event at the kabuki theater. it's the first hollywood movie in 25 years to have an all-asian cast. i got to host the event alongside a woman who made history herself. why it was so important for her to show support for the film. >> we're want more representation and this can possibly kick the door open. >> kristi, by the way, saw the movie last night and tonight and again with her family on saturday and yes, it is that good. i got the chance to see it and i laughed and i cried. it's fantastic. >> on a scale of 1 to 10? >> like 90,000. >> hopefully that's not our temperature over the weekend. >> no, not that hot, that's for sure. it will be off the charts. live doppler 7 shows that we do have fog around. it is going to be limited to just parts of the coast and bay in the overnight hours. temperatures in the 50s and 60s for most of you nuls are out territories brent wood where you have changes. here's a t

as our crews draws to a close i'm going to show off some of the skills i have learned here on lake mead with people on shore or on the other boats really enjoy watching amateur skippers struggle to maneuver their produce into the birth. process. but vision if i've done the right. i made it total freedom on the mecklenburg lakes so much water so much nature and i've only seen a small part of it so i definitely have to come back again. to . the destination on out check in some especial takes a look at stake it to the rhine also be more exact to the upper middle rhine valley and in chanting the landscape. the river is always have a really relaxing atmosphere i can sit next to them for hours just lost in thought and this isn't just any old river it's the rhine one of the longest rivers in europe. the river rhine extends eight hundred seventy kilometers across germany alone at this stretch here between quadrants and who decides it's considered the most beautiful. that's what you know school says and they've declared this section a world heritage site but what's so special about it that's exa

meade. >> reporter: during the night, it happened over and over, 75 times. >> i'm looking for files that may contain data such as databases. >> reporter: we have not seen this yet. one of the hackers has been asked to stop what he is doing after gaining access to a secured site. now with marines standing around watching, he is being allowed to continue on to see just how far he can go. the bounties pile up. more than $80,000 paid out. every dollar paid an invaluable investment in making america's military stronger in cyberspace. how serious are these cyberbreaches? >> unfortunately, they can be very, very serious. so far we haven't had any loss of life or any big physical damage, but unfortunately, it is probably likely that it will happen. >> reporter: an unusual partnership marines and hackers united for a common cause. securing the nation against cyberthreats. tammy news, las vegas. >>> and check this out. she teaches theology at chicago's merion catholic high school. sister mary jo looked like a professional member of the chicago white sox last night. call it divine intervention. the

there is a sense in washingtonmi that this t squeeze the regime to further concessions or mead to protests that end up challenging the re itself. whetr it will get to that point, you don't see it yet. but november 4, which happens to behe anniversary of the takeover of the u.s. embassy, the day that oil sanctions will go into effect, will be the most pivotal moment. if iran nnot sell its oil, it is very hard to see itself some some of itst solves basic economic problems. laura: so when hassan rouhani says this is about creating division within iran, is he right to some degree? robin: president rouhani is probably accurate that this is a campaign that is targeting iran not just for its meddling, htsan ribuses, foreign influence, supportive extremism, -- support of extremism, and its nuclear program, that it also is aimed domestically. the regime is, frankly, rather paranoid about what u.s. intentions are. there have long been claims by assorted iranian leaders at the -- about the u.s. atteevt at a velvetution. it will be interesting to see if -- as the united states ranges of sanctions what

his daughter sure meade was born while they were all hiding from the military in a forest in me and more she'll turn one in just a few days early as his older children long for a home they no longer have but for his youngest it's a home he fears she may never know. how much improvement does either but they could to prolong refugee camp in cox's bizarre on with their. hundreds of venezuelan migrants fleeing the economic crisis have poured into peru on saturday despite the country introducing new entry force restrictions over the last week thousands of people desperately trying to reach through ahead of the new rules which require them to show valid passports instead of national id cards on friday ecuador open what it called a humanitarian corridor or to allow bus loads of people through to peru in time the u.n. estimates that some two point three million venezuelans offend the country since twenty fourteen causing a migration crisis across the region the majority escaped to neighboring brazil and colombia brazil has taken in tens of thousands of people on more than a million venezuelan mi

previous rulers of the previous administration would mean handling the foreign policy because you know mead. you know i should leave you know was a very clever person he did not have a foreign minister a foreign of a whore an obvious because he knew that he does not have a foreign policy he can't control a foreign policy he did it is controlled by someone else then the foreign office so you know you can from around come can assert themselves as foreign that they voted for. only in foreign affairs if we can versus in frederick and show independence you know of course he would have to consult with there but it's a crucial because like army has got the stakes and there they have to have a role in that there's no doubt about it but still brown as the leader of the country as the prime minister. will have to be as an ficarra liberal door and not any other prime minister because a valid but last time foreign policy foreign office had some glorious m. independence and was not dependent on and. as it does now. very much how do you think he's going to handle all of this i mean he won because he appe

, -- fort meade, maryland, a program to train psychic spies and use their powers against russia. john ronson writes about this in the men who stare at goats. clinton, releases documents, nazi scientists brought into the u.s., this is not a revelation, as early as 1947, 1946, we knew some of this, people who designed the v2 that hit london, are soon in huntsville, alabama, working on the apollo program. this is not just the things about big secrets, but all of the other nazis, snuck out into the united states, right? that argument of, the u.s. government wouldn't do this is beginning to fall apart, too. so project northwoods, a plan, a series of false attacks in the u.s. that would be blamed on cuba to justify military action, made public in 1997. in 1997, when kennedy comes in, the joint chiefs say we want to invade cuba, we need a false flag theory, so the conspiracy theorists are not inventing it out of whole cloth, it's not like they come up with an idea that no one has ever thought of the government, right? mongoose was a series of plans to harass cubans, assassinate fidel ca

william mead died of sepsis aged just 12 months after health professionals failed to diagnose him.ut awareness is improving. campaigners like his mother believe the struggle against sepsis is far from over and it will take a much bigger effort to bring it under control. andy moore, bbc news. the online retail giant amazon paid less tax in the uk last year than the year before — even though it saw a hugejump in profits. the company insists it pays what is required and is investing heavily in the uk. our technology correspondent rory cellan—jones is with me. so what is going on here first, in terms of the figures? this is about one part of amazon's operations in the uk, amazon services uk, the warehouse and delivery system that delivers parcels notjust for amazon but for a bunch of other sellers. it has seen a big rise in profits, up from £24 million in 2016 up to 72 million in 2017, but over the same period, its tax bill has gone down and it actually paid less than that because some of the tax ended up being deferred. but a lot of this falling tax paid is about to share scheme that

trading not the high speed trading but computer trading that that takes for example a company like meade paper or somebody of that every time this year it's back to school time would uptick in sales and they're there for stocks and they do this sort of thing this allman at analytics for all day every day of the year and they can go back and spar as you you want so i'm curious steve what are the big companies when we talk about back to school sales what are the big companies that should be making moves now well you have for amazon prime started its amazon give its prime day a little earlier start in the in the month of july and back to school sales have just skyrocketed and stores like j.c. penney and target and kohl's i mean they've benefit of a lot from these sales and you know this when you talk about the billions of dollars that. this industry brings in we're talking about eighty three billion twenty seven billion in k. to twelve grade and then fifty five billion in college student spending as they head back to school and you know i never would have guessed this i would have thought s

i'm just wondering meade and other officers were involved in lighthouse building. was west pointe more engineer oriented? i would think the navy should be more involved in lighthouse building but it seems like maybe the engineering -- did west pointe put more emphasis on engineering then naval at that time? >> the naval academy wasn't founded until 1845. so we have a time. where their training wasn't as scientific and was more ad hoc. west pointe then was focused on engineering and math. and i think the case of lighthouses and roadbuilding those are examples where the united states did not have a large civil service. the government did not have a lot of civilian employees. so there was -- i cannot remember what they called it but there was sort of an ancestor of the u.s. geological survey and they are the guys that do the lighthouses. but they only had to essentially here is the head of the agency and here is the clerk. so the u.s. government because there was so much antagonism to having a large government because of the emphasis on limited government decentraliza

melissa mead's i2—month—old son, william, died after developing sepsis which was not detected by doctorsther campaigners, she's tried to raise awareness among staff and patients. screening of vulnerable patients has improved, but figures given to the bbc suggest sepsis is an increasingly serious problem. using official nhs data, experts at imperial college london say there were just over 15,700 deaths recorded at english hospitals in the 2016/17 year where sepsis was the main diagnosis. two years previously, there were just over 11,300 such deaths. that was a 38% increase over the course of two years. nhs england says its efforts to to increase recognition mean that cases previously recorded as simple infections are now classified as sepsis. experts say that may account for some of the increase, but there are other factors that need explaining. we've got the increasing pressure on the nhs. we've got fewer health care professionals delivering more care to ever—increasing numbers of patients, and that's got to play a part in these figures. campaigners believe that the struggle to contain s

trading not the high speed trading but computer trading that that takes for example a company like meade paper or somebody of that every time this year it's back to school time with uptick in sales and they're there for stocks and they do this sort of thing this allman at analytics for all day every day of the year and they can go back and spar as you you want so i'm curious steve what are the big companies when we talk about back to school sales what are the big companies that should be making moves now well you have amazon prime started its amazon give its prime day a little earlier start in the in the month of july and back to school sales have just skyrocketed and stores like j.c. penney and target and kohl's i mean they benefit heck of a lot from these sales and you know this when you talk about the billions of dollars that the. this industry brings in we're talking about eighty three billion twenty seven billion in k. to twelve grade and then fifty five billion in college student spending as they head back to school and you know i never would have guessed this i would have thought

. >> a kenyan born muslim myself, he was not in any of the meadings. >> i don't think he would believe you, but the point there to take it a step further, but if you are living in a world in which you have trouble believing or accepting the fact that there is a black president, okay, you essentially have to accept donald trump's reality instead. if you are willing to believe that lie, it's an original sin. this is just everything is an extension of that. >> various polling indicates 22 or 23% of people believe that story. it's not that much of a leap to get there. it is a leap. no one else who has run for the republican nomination or successfully got it was able to get this group of people. this band of extremists, experience theorists. how does the republican party fix this? >> they have a choice to make in the post trump era and there will be a post trump err a. are they going to be part of these experience theories like qo none and the art right boys and the scum backs. citronlea isis or they can rediscover the limited government and rule of law that are out of fashion right now wit

so you can be 50 and theoretically meade meet a burden of proof beyond a reasonable doubt but are deemedponderance of the evidence. help me understand that. >> for the civil claims, it's the preponderance of the evidence, over 50% of the certainty of the evidence. what's happened in philadelphia and across the kun company. we have fact coming out across the entire state of pennsylvania. we have lawmakers that continue to take the side of the bishop. they don't want civil claims. why? you don't get a line that's in a report. you get a full complaint you get all the fact. what this grand jury report is, is a summary the lawsuits would open the door. if we were to revise the expired claels, that would open the door and that's what the bishops are fighting. >> i'm so glad you are here. we have put this on the radar screen as a challenge to see who will stand up and pursue this they'd be alcoholping at the bit for tv time. thank you, marries, i appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still to come, how much do bitters in delaware pay for the privilege of a low digit license plate? would you believe n

in the afternoon of july 2, george meade finds out sickles has moved forward. he is not happy. they have a kurt discussion. sickles says i will withdraw if you want me to. he almost says the artillery will open upon them. that is his afternoon attack of july 2. on the flipside, will one of my favorite stories, sickles makes this movement and he says they will soon come tumbling back. the confederates start to have more indecision. longstreet an dld lee are not getting along at this point. he is a good soldier. he is a solid soldier. whenever they reorganized the army. he is going to be outranked and there are other men who they thought would do better at the job of second and third corps command. then you have droopy dog over here, that he looks like. he is a ladies man. he is known as a hard fighter. he gets this division command distinction. he only fights in one battle as division commander. he is constantly getting shot. he is shot here in gettysburg and again. eventually he will rise to army command. he thought he would arrive near the area of the longstreet tower and marc

. >> reporter: kristen davis the woman known as the manhattan mad arms meade meeting with special counsel mule ear's team earlier this week. investigators apparently interested into her ties with roger stone. she and stone have been close fend for a decade. they expressed interest in having davis testify in the garage prosecutors are trying to build a case against stone. davis' lawyers declined to comment. stone tells cnn kristen davis the a long-time friend and associate of mine i am a god father to her two-year-old son. she knows nothingant wikileaks collaboration, clux, or anything which i thought was the subject of this probe. i understand she appeared voluntarily. i am highly confident she will testify truthfully, if called to do. so davis once ran a high end prostitution ring and went to jail surrounding then new york governor eliot spitzer. >> the remorse i feel will always be with me. >> she has worked with stone over the years, in late 2016, she joined his payroll. mueller's team has been working out possible impacts twurth 2016 campaign. >> i follow assange's twitter sheet. i re

william mead died of sepsis aged just 12 months, after health professionals failed to diagnose him.ake a much bigger effort to bring it under control. andy moore, bbc news. some news coming in westminster in the last few moments concerning the continuing row about anti—semitism within the labour party. we are just hearing the jeremy within the labour party. we are just hearing thejeremy corbyn, the labour leader, has written an article for the guardian which the paper has just put on its website. he has acknowledged as part of this piece that there is a real problem. that is a quote. he is rejecting the idea that the party throws is any —— poses a threat to the jewish community in the uk. he says, i will root out anti—semites within labour. they do not speak for me. i am paraphrasing a fairly lengthy article. but clearly, it would appear he has written a piece now that endeavour to be a rebuttal of the criticism that has surrounded him. there have been senior people within the party criticising him and the way the party has handled this. and he says is part of this that labour has b

police tell us this happened as th tried to cross fort mead road. victim has been identified now as arnold wilfred mumford. the driver did stop and called 911. he td police he didn't see the victim in the roadway. >> so much of our lives revolve around our digital devices. deliver hail someone to your next meal all using your cell phone. >> soon, you'll be able to rent space to store your stuff, even if it's just for a few ikurs. i this. a new app called bounce is getting ready to debut right here in washington. news 4 jackie benson explains just how it works. >> reporter: the estimated0 million plus people who visit washington, d.c., this year will bring with lhem aot of luggage. those numbers are why a new temporary baggage business has chosen the district as its third city in the u.s. our bounce partners would utilize space kind of like this room. >> reporter: people will pay $6 per day to have their stuff stored and insured after, for example, checking out of a hotel. >> each tag has a unique number on it. >> reporter: customers are given aock w

meade and leesburg. 70 in charlestown, west virginia.f the news 4 nation, covered up with a flood watch that's extended to 6:00 a.m. tomorrow morning. today, rainy, breezy, southerly winds today. one to locally as much as three inches of rain possibleto y. there's the deep plume of moisture going all the way into the western carolinas in the north georgia mountain these rain drops, they will impact our afternoon. and the rains down here in the western carolinas, they will impact the lateight and early saturday timeframe. let me show you future weather and you see where the train stretches are going t be. not much around town, until we get to lunchtime here. doesn't like like it's a lot of rain. but underneath each one of those cells,ou can pick up a quarter to half an inch of rain. theftnoon commute, likely to be hard hit by thunderstorms. that trip over the bridge to the beaches can be frustrating. more areas of heavy rain across northwesternvirginia. tomorrow, by about lunchtime tomorrow, the rain will be coming to an may get to see so

that pump would drive water upstream to lake meade to the dam's massive reservoir where it would turngy again when needed. this is what's known as pump storage and it is an impressive fete offal chemny, spinning solar and wind into hydroelectric power and solves a very real problem. we're clearly in the midst of a renewable energy revolution. the first phase was about generation, harnessing the awesome power of the sun and wind. there's been lots of progress on that front as cheap chinese solar panels flooded markets, increased more than 25,000%. wind generation grew by more than 2,500%. that's good news in terms of limiting depend again ens on fossil fuels but now we need storage. solar and wind are so-called intermet ent sources. that means they are here one minute and gone the next. as they scale up, they start causing problems. take california which leads the nation in solar capacity. in the middle of the day when the sun is shining, solar floods the electricity grid but then disappears at night when people need electric power most. sometimes the state simply shuts down solar pane

in the form of mead. it's no surprise. not to mention such familiar crops as apples. even coffee. it came to us long after the bees. it dates back at least to the middle kingdom of egypt. where sophisticated clay hives. with seasonal wildfire blooms. and also to the classical mayan time. where they have a good sense to attend royal ladies. with the agreeable trait. they show up again and again throughout recorded history. our connection to bees should not be measured in thousands of years it should be measured in millions. with the evolutionary consequences for our own species. haswell is the peculiar african bird. it comes just from chapter six of the book. and also begins with the quotation the same from the dutch renaissance. we catch up with the narrative in south africa. i cannot resist going out in the native habitat. i had wondered so long. i will get it right from now on. the wonderful habitat. now, if i were writing a novel this is when i would tell you that a brown bird landed on a nearby tree. chattering excitedly to get my attention. and an insensate in insensate cry t

six piem had to be treated for residual effects as they set upo for nl night out event in fort meade,hey complained of headaches and tingling. the event w canceled for the second year in a row. >>> here in d.c., s drms damage, too. a tree fell on to a house on 30th street northwest. another round of flooding, too, on broad branch road. the damage shouldn't impact your commute this morning. melissa mollet is back in first four traffic today of the she'll are v. a look at the roads. >> sheena parveen and lauryn ricketts are looking at more storms too. >> the humidity will make it feel close to 100ro degrees h the afternoon. before the storms get here, it will help to fuel some of those. >> absolutely. some of the storms could be on the strong side. i know we had strong storms yesterday given what we were showing you. by the time we get to thursday and friday, things calm down a little bit. 77 is our temperature right now. again, we're headed into the mid- ts before noon hour. temperatures outside the beltway, just a little cooler. w, watch out a little patchy fog is forming out there. 6

i am barbara mead. i'm here to introduce john ross. he tells me he thinks this is the fifth time i've introduced him. i can't verify that. i know it is the third time. but i can remember two times specifically. just tell me that tomorrow he is going to be on science friday? is that -- i'm sorry, what? at 2:00 in the afternoon and then next week linda wertheimer will interview him. i hope everyone will listen for those. john is a prize-winning author. a prize-winning historian i should say. he has three good solid prize-winning biographies under his belt. the first one was were on the run about an american frontier ranger, robert rogers. the second was enduring courage about world war i pilot who went to become a race car driver. and now the third one is about john wesley powell. and i read all three and enjoyed all three. immensely. i want to start with an anecdote that i read in this book. that this week reminded me specifically of this anecdote. a very hot day in the summer of 1881, president garfield, who had been shot by would-be a

and fox news host brian kill mead with his book, andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans. the battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival live on c-span2 booktv. saturday at 10 am eastern. >> syndicated columnist, jonah goldberg argued tribalism, populism and nationalism are threatening american democracy. he is interviewed by john podhoretz, editor of commentary magazine. this is one hour. >> jonah goldberg, in your book, you posit that everything we take for granted, every freedom that we have, every economic advantage that we possess as americans, all of these are actually a radical new development in history of humankind, number one. and number two, it is unnatural that western civilization as we understand it, or contemporary american western democratic civilization is unnatural. what do you mean by that? >> well, first of all, great to see you, john. [laughter] >> wow isi was following the br lamb model of that we don't know each other. and possibly exchanging insults on twitter and all of that. but -- >> i d

scale is important to me, but i believe innovation typically happens in very small groups as margaret meadeever doubt a small group of dedicated people can change the world. so i have no experience dealing with public statements and the sec. i think on one hand, keeping pressure on industry and government to move quickly is a good idea, making sure everybody is honest, transparent is a good idea forcing people to make short sighted decisions is a really bad idea because most big problems in the world are not going to be solved by 90 day wonders. >> one thing you have expertise in, dean, creating something, a prototype, and taking it to scale. that's the crossroads musk is at help viewers understand how you make the leap, what stresses do you go under making that leap. how much do you rely on others to create things at scale? >> again, i think the status quo is very good at keeping things stable and making incremental improvements every year, bringing down costs by a little or performance by a little and that's a good thing. but the disruptive changes, the light bulb was not an incremental i

how she told that story of the meading at best was naive, at worse was complicit. what is corporate america going to say. when you got involved in the whole mess, not over and done with and then went back? strange. i really appreciate you joining me. next, nbc news exclusive. president trump has now gone from separating children to attacking people who are applying legally for citizenship and green cards. we're going to explain his new plan to target legal immigrants and why it would not need congressional approval. remember? ivanka trump said the child separation issue was a low point. how is she going to feel about this? you're watching "velshi & ruhle." for investors. introducing zero account fees for self-directed brokerage accounts. and zero minimums to open an account. we have fidelity mutual funds with zero minimum investment. and now fidelity has two index funds with a zero expense ratio. because when you invest with fidelity, all those zeros really add up. ♪ so maybe i'll win ♪ saved by zero ♪ so maybe i'll win are you ready to take your then you need xfin

the meade -- media's not going to do it. the renaissance and manufacturing and talk about how you want the economy to benefit all people, forgotten americans of all backgrounds, races, ethnicities, like you did this afternoon. >> one of the single most important things we're doing is help former in mates in creating jobs. we're creating so many jobs that former in mates for the first time are getting a shot at it. our unemployment rate is so historically low. 50 years. the economy is booming. businesses are hiring, and recruiting workers that were previously overlooked, they are being hired. it's a great feeling. it's a great thing we have all accomplished. >> laura: prison reform, job training, that's vital. it's a vital issue to this country. recidivism. we want to decrease it if we can. and it's an issue that the president is desperately trying to get to yes on and it might also have the added benefit of helping with some of those discontented voters who are on the fence as well. finally, mr. president, don't ignore the r

turbulent times, ron churned out with his book brandt and fox news host brian kill mead with his book andrew jackson and the miracle of new orleans, the battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 13th annual library of congress book festival live on c-span2's book tv at 10 am eastern. >> the director of the national institutes of health testified on the ongoing science and research projects at nih. he was going by his colleagues at the senate health committee hearing chaired by lamar alexander. >>. >> the senate committee on health education and labor will come to order. senator bennett and i will each have an opening statement and i will introduce our witness, help director francis collins, then we will hear from doctor collins and the senators will each have five minutes to ask questions. we have a vote at 10:30 but we will not in the committee but on the floor and so we will continue straight through with a questioning of senator bennett and i and other senators will share the presiding today so we can continue the discussion . not long ago i ran into a friend from the vanderb

i'm not mead yoimmediately fami with any other issues he may have from a financial standpoint. it's serious. he surrendered himself to the fbi this morning. he's going to be presented in court later today. he's been indicted. this is kind of a more long-term case. something they developed a significant amount of evidence to. phone conversations, people that have agreed to provide cooperating information. i think at this point, the congressman's in a heap of trouble here. as it relates to the specific securities charges that he's been hit with. >> again, it's not just the congressman. it's his son, and the son's soon to be father-in-law? >> yes. there's a number of family members involved. including his son's fee iancfia >> there's another individual shovelled in sto ininvolved in stock trading. >> anything the president can do to help collins here? has the -- the president has not said anything yet. but this is definitely a member of congress who's been an early and ardent supporter of president trump. >> will he do anything? will he pardon him? >> is this a situation where he

water levels in its two biggest reservoirs, lake mead and lake powell, they've been dropping fast.. so what does that mean for you? >> the cost of water's going up. it's becoming more expensive because there's increasing competition for water, and there's a lot of components that go into the cost of water. for example, it takes a lot of power to move water. and so if power costs go up, water costs go up. >> water is a valuable commodity. it's undervalued. it's underpriced. the more people come here, as the drought that we've been experiencing continues, it is going to become more expensive. >> arizona's ahead of its neighbors in terms of planning for the future and ensuring that water use is considered when building homes. developers, home builders can't just build wherever. they have to follow certain rules. >> you have to go to the arizona department of water resources and demonstrate that you have sufficient water supplies for 100 years. in order to be able to sell a new house, you have to demonstrate that you've got this water supply. >> they are also stocking up to buffer agai

well, when manafort lawyer said that, the mueller team mead jumpeimmediately jumped upd objected.k responsibility for many mistakes he made he said it wasn't the time for that the manafort team was trying to catch him in a lie after the mueller team worked hard this morning to establish that they never promised rick gates anything for his cooperation and that if he lies they will rip up his plea agreement which could mean more than 100 years in jail. the manafort defense team got rick gates to testify back in 2014 when the fbi interviewed him about a probe they were doing concerning the former ukrainian president, gates told them all about accounts that he opened up in cyprus that are now at the center of the manafort fraud trial and that before meeting with the fbi agents, paul manafort told rick gates to be open with investigators. the mueller team though trying to brush off this 2014 fbi interview getting gates to admit that he didn't policy tell him these accounts had hidden income within them and there were no irs agents present. at one point this morning judge t.s. ellis did

booking holdings mead neneeded v itself they earned more than 20 bucks a share when analysts were onlyooking for 17 and change. this time the forecast for the next quarter is particularly grim [ booing ] >> what's clear is books are slowing. yet glen fogel blamed the weather and the world cup before he admitted the new marketing strategy has contributed to the slowdown i didn't like that part of the problem, the company scaled back its online ads without ramping up its tv ads fast enough. the problem here is straight forward. it doesn't matter how you slice it, frankly. bookings' growth is slower, whether you're looking at room nights booked or total bookings or revenue and based on management's guidance, the slowdown is going to get much worse. they just delivered 15%. now they're looking for 6 to 9% next quarter they posted 17% revenue growth new they're talk about 6 to 9% revenue growth next quarter. and the mid point of their earnings is $ 2.50 lower. this is the most important time of the year for the travel companies. everybody goes on vacation at the end of the summer. and the t

mead, maryland, was a fitting surrogate to represent the 34th president as a young officer, parks had commanded company "a" at camp colt. the memorial tree, a stout yellow pine was planted from soil from all 48 states and territories of alaska and hawaii. in most cases, the soil was taken from a significant historic site. for example, texas sent soil from the alamo. then the national commander of the world war tank association presented the plaque to general parks. it bore a simple inscription seen here. united states army tank corps, this site marks the birthplace of the spring army in 1918. behind the marker stands a tree plant on soil from each of the 48 states and dedicated in honor of the commanding honor captain dwight d. eisenhower who on january 2, 1953 was inaugurated 34th president of the united states of america. this living testament is a tribute of the affection and high steam of his tank corps comrades, dedicated august 23, 1954, world war tank corps association. the plaque also included the organization's insignia, a british mark 5 tank encircled by a wreath. in his rem

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