intelligentsia opposed reagan's tax cuts and smeared good and energetic man like attorney general ed meesewhen it mattered that supreme court was going to did the balance of the court, they tried to destroy and ultimately derailed robert bork. this and ronald reagan is going they had noworld, nukes conferences all over the world saying he was going to lunch the first strike against the former soviet union. he was going to start world war iii. developed 80's we had a strong economy, a strong military, a strong sense of purpose. but we still had a group in hollywood, entertainment industry, and on the left and politics and the culture, even in the churches, were infuriated by reagan's success. it was no cakewalk in the 1980's. it was a daily struggle and constant battle. it was a battle over policy, philosophy, ideas, in view of and whatca is now should be in the future. thinking, 25 years from now when a lot of you are my age. you are going to hear about how good things were in 2016, and how the next four years there may be a new upstart running against the establishment is not as optimisti

and also was the writer for ed meese in the reagan administration. so he has that. he's had military experience, he's now the head policy person at pri, pacific research institute, on the education track. and delighted to welcome him back. ladies and gentlemen, mr. lance are izumi. [applause] >> well, thank you very much, erica, for that very kind introduction. thank you very much, all of you, for welcoming me back here to the silicon valley to, i guess the biggest group therapy session in the bay area? [laughter] yeah. and so, yeah, as erica mentioned, i started my career after law school -- and i'm a recovering lawyer -- i started my career as a speech writer. and, you know, for those who remember the governor, i always tell folks i was the guy who gave the duke all that charisma. [laughter] so i, you know, i was speech writer for the governor, i was a speech writer for ed meese when he was attorney general of the united states, and i also tell folks behind every great man, there's a japanese guy at a keyboard. [laughter] i'm glad to hear from joel that the bar's

she tells meese she's attempted to take her own life repeatedly. like so many here, she's lost in a world without hope. this is someone's blanket. this is where they hang their clothes. that's the entrance to their door. you can see some of the clothes are on the floor in the mud. conditions in here are really horrible. even the kids are doing this because of the smell is so bad. and just filth absolutely everywhere. and there's a hidden danger here. many women avoid the bathrooms at night scared of the risks of sexual assault. i mean, this just -- it's like an informal encampment, not something that's actually run and organized by a government, by the european union. this really is shameful. the camps are a melting pot of misery. migrants and refugees from not just the middle east but afghanistan and africa. >> moria no good, no food. no sleeping for days. >> reporter: many like this man have enough. >> we're suffering here. they're treating us bad. >> reporter: he says he's been here almost two years. >> we've been thinking they're going to save

i was with former attorney general ed meese the other night, and he reminded me of what i generally know, but from 1964 to 1980, crime in america tripled. when i began as united states attorney in 1981, the murder rate was high. the murder rate has dropped to half of what it was in 1981. this is primarily the result of more sophisticated, better trained, smart policing and throughout this country. that is where most of the work is being done and we, and -- we hadvernment honesty in sentencing. we had no parole. we did a number of things that also helps turn that side. it was a long and historic the klein, something i don't think most people in the early 1980's thought was possible -- it was a long and historic decline, something i don't think most people in the early 1980's that was possible. crime went up every year during that time. so, over the last two or three years, the country, and some leaders, i think, lost some focus that led to this progress, and our work, your work has become more difficult. the result of some of our missteps is that violent crime in 14, 15,nearly 7% and 16.

the weather sponsored by cats and meese. i was always telling him how famous he was going to make it that's how he presented hello my name and body without manchester city's northwest representatives kind of. teacher pretty cool. actually you'll remember that we had this special meeting about the nail and he said no. that's not the topic and you mean this is a cover up in a piece on the mainland city al-jazeera investigation. build of silence this time. you're watching al-jazeera a reminder of our top stories kurdish officials say they've reached a deal to allow syrian troops to enter our fingers city to help protect it the move could mean syrian forces confronting turkish troops who've been carrying out an operation against kurdish fighters since last month israel's prime minister has taken aim at iran and a key international security conference accusing it's have been the biggest threat to the middle east benjamin netanyahu is head of a component from what he said was in a rainy and drone that had been shot down by his for

presidential personnel, special assistance to the president and special assistants to attorney general ed meese and was undersecretary of the department and assistant secretary for fish, wildlife and parks. joan me in welcoming me colleague and friend, becky north don-dunlop. [applause] >> thank you, john, and let me add my words of welcome to you. we love having people come to the heritage foundation, either personally or online -- oren television, so, welcome, welcome, welcome. you know, the heritage foundation has promoted the american conservation ethic, we call it land of liberty, stewardship of america's environment. the number one principle that we outline is people are our most important unique and precious resource. and our number eight principle is that the most successful environmental policies flow from liberty. people and liberty. so, when i read the opening sentence of chapter one of the become that i got from encounter books, i read this sentence: this book is about freedom. and i was hooked. i knew i had to read the rest of this book. well, the author of this book is with us tod

political analyst jonathan lemire from the "associated press" joins meese now.athan, what do we know about this? it's a fast-breaking story. there are lots of developments many of which are starting to sort of ensnare john kelly about what did he know and when did he know it. >> that's right. this is a white house with a remarkable level of urnover. in its first year, it saw more senior level departures than any white house that came before it for generations. rob port ser not the household name that a steve bannon or reince priebus or certainly an anthony scaramucci was. but he played a vital role inside that building and it grew enormously under john kelly. and the question of kelly's behavior in all this is now central to where their story goes from here. porter was one of kelly's top aides. kelly credited him with helping streamline and better control the flow of information into the president which was a reproblem for months and months in this administration. as you indicated, porter was a frequent presence at the president's side whether it's in the oval o

i haven't gotten to this technique or we haven't studies they meese and they have so much more to do.45 minutes a week. i have taught a few students in some capacity who has gone on to study music. that feels anaysing. >> it is incredible to watch how they grow. somebody can make amazing project from you know, age 15 to 17 if they put their mind to it. >> i think i have 18 students now. these more than i've had in the past. i'm hoping to build up more of a studio. there will be a pee ono, lots of bookshelves and lots of great music. the students will come to my house and take their lessons there. my schedule changes a lot on a day-to-day basis and that kind of keeps it exciting. think that music is just my favorite thing that there is, whether it's listening to it or playing it or teaching it. all that really matters to me is that i'm surrounded by the sounds, so i'm going top keep doing what i'm doing to keep my life in that direction. laura thomas sitting in for our president bryant tan. so welcome, it looks like we're up and running. first of all, please make sure any cell phones,

because to me, to let meese victims lives be taken without any change in return is an act of treason to our great country. >> the students issued a warning to the love gun lobby and lawmakers they're coming. > no longer can you take money from the nra and do whatever it is that you want to do because we are coming after you, after every single one of you and demanding that you take action and make a change. >> they can walk around any question they want. but the more they don't act, the more they don't deserve to be in office. >> no more. no more placing nonsensical politics above our lives. no more accepting donations from the nra who seem to care more about their right to own a gun than the lives of american children. >> to everyone at the nra and affiliated with the nra, we will not afraid of you and will not be silenced by anything you have to say. we are here, our voices are loud and we're not stopping till change happens. >> the students are not alone. high school kids staged walkouts an you over the state some marching to show their support in person. students holding signs an

there with sponsored by qatar and meese. they're the children of jailed chinese criminals with nowhere else to go one beijing shelter is giving them a home when i when he speaks the children growing up with their parents behind bars at this time on al-jazeera. al-jazeera. where every. good skin his arms kid. didn't have been fined for what is right on the shores of paradise progress for some can create a living hell for others challenging his government and big business one man risked his life to see the community he cherishes these not to be that someone can do stand. for and. the opposition a witness documentary at this time on al-jazeera. you're watching audience here a reminder of our top stories this hour at least and nine people have been injured in a suspected clothing gas attack in syria's northwestern province activist video shows people being treated in the town of saka reported a fall smell following a raid by syrian government aircraft u.s. secretary of state rex tillerson has been meeting his argentinean counter

but importantly trying to score political points against his owner meese, and then making the tragedy all about his own problems, while he's basically standing over the body es of dead children. that's beneath contempt. i wish he would stop doing things like that this week you would expect the eloquency from the president actually came from high school students. >> they are fighting for their right to remain alive to even have a future. and i'm betting on them. because young people have changed america in the past and won. february 1st, 1960, you had a very small handful of black students who conducted single sit i and broke the color barrier and launched a movement that changed america and ended segregation. and my uncle, chester arbiter kirk endal, hello, sir, still alive in memphis, was a college student at that time, and he got arrested in those protests. my godmothers helped to lead that movement. and here we are every color in the rain boy, in many ways we are living in la world that young students dreamed of and fought for. so that's the hope we have. and now no young person ha

they smeared good and patriotic men like attorney general ed meese.court was going to maybe tip the balance of the court, they tried to destroy and ultimately derail robert bourke. they said that ronald reagan was going to blow up the world. they called him ronnie ray-gun, they had no nuke conferences around the world saying he would launch the first strike against the soviet union and he was going to start world war iii. in the '80s we had developed a strong economy, a strong military, a strong sense of purpose, but we still had a group in hollywood, entertainment industry, and, of course, on the left in politics, in the culture and the academy, even in churches, who were infuriated by reagan's success. it was no cakewalk in the 1980's. it was a daily struggle. it was a constant battle, it was a battle over policy, philosophy, ideas, our view about what america is now, was back then and what she should be in the future. i was thinking about this, maybe 25 years from now when a lot of you are my age, you're going to hear about how good things were in

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recently i gave a talk based on my new book, sigh meese twins book -- siamese twin books, i gave a talkat the maritime museum in santa barbara where i live. and this is, you know, a pretty moneyed crowd really. pretty high class. but anyway, i talk about the twins and stuff and show some slides because it's maritime, and the prologue to the book opens with a game on the high seas. but anyway, at the end of my lecture, somebody came up to me because i was displaying also selling my charlie chan books on the side, and a woman asked me, in your charlie chan book? is it political? so in my kind of usual kind of, you know, wise heymer mode, i said, well, i'm chinese, and this book is actually radical. anyway, whatever that meanings. [laughter] i think bob, you know, definitely i think the rescue and nurture, you know, if i can summarize in one sentence what bob talking me been what bob taught me as my editor, as my friend and as my teacher in many ways is really to teach me about america really. i mean, given my -- so far i've spent actually bigger part of my life in the united states than i

along list of those in the executive branch is headed by attorneys general william meese and william smith who along with alan c nelson have contributed to passto our efforts immigration reform. future generations of americans will be thankful for our efforts to humanely regain control of our borders and to thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people, american citizenship. so now i will get on with the signing and make this into law. i hope nothing happens to me between here and the hill. [laughter] [applause] [applause] >> of pleasure for me. i got my name's in the right order there. announcer: for nearly 20 years, in depth on booktv has featured the nation's best-known fiction writers or conversations about their book. this share, we are featuring fiction writers. join us live sunday at noon eastern with colson whitehead, author of the 2016 best-selling novel "the underground railroad." are also in our sunday lifeepththe special sers from noon until 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv, on c-span2. more than 35 million people has a visited the ellis islan

along list of those in the executive branch is headed by attorneys general william meese and william smith who along with alan c nelson have contributed greatly to our efforts to pass immigration reform. future generations of americans will be thankful for our efforts to humanely regain control of our borders and to thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people, american citizenship. so now i will get on with the signing and make this into law. i hope nothing happens to me between here and the hill. [laughter] [applause] quark's i got my name in the right order. [laughter] the state department u.s. diplomacy center pavilion opened in generate 2017. the center uses programs, exhibits and artifacts to educate the public about diplomacy. they plan to eventually open a museum at the location. up next, and the second part of a two-part program, we visit the center's collection storage area to see some of their 7000 katie and allison continue the story of american diplomacy beginning with artifacts from the cold war. >> we are in the thick of the cold war n

a long list of those in the executive branches headed by attorneys general edwin meese and another who have can tribute it greatly to our efforts to pass meaningful immigration reform. future generations of americans will be thankful for our efforts ofhumanely regain control our borders and thereby preserve the value of one of the most sacred possessions of our people, american citizenship. so now i will get on with signing and make this into law. i hope nothing happens to me between here and the table. [applause] [laughter] [applause] >> i got my names in the right order there. [laughter] c-span's history series, landmark cases returns next month with a look at 12 new supreme court cases. each week historians and experts join us to discuss constitutional issues and personal stories. beginning monday, february 25, live at 9:00 p.m. eastern. and to help you understand each case, we have a companion guide written by supreme court journalists. landmark cases, volume two. it cost eight dollars 99 cents for shipping and handling. for a copy go to c-span .org/landmark cases. american artifac