like ed meese. also, the head of the criminal division at the justice department resigned in protest at having to work under somebody like ed meese, who was under all of these multiple criminal investigations while still running the justice department himself. four other top officials resigned at the same time, along with those top justice department officials. all of those officials had actually conveyed a demand to the white house. they told white house chief of staff james baker that reagan needed to remove ed meese for the good of the country. needed to get him out as attorney general. get him out for the good of the country, the good of the justice department, if reagan wouldn't do that, they said they would all resign in protest. they all ended up resigning in protest, because reagan wouldn't remove ed meese. he still liked ed meese. he was his longtime friend. he wouldn't let him go. ultimately, the only way they were able to pry ed meese out of the justice department is when that last indepe

edwin meese was born into a family committed to public service. police court clerk, his dad had some incredible stories from what i was told. stories of serving the people of oakland inspired his lifetime of passion and his law enforcement career was unparalleled. after graduating from yale in 1953 he attended the california berkeley law school and servant two years of active-duty in the united states army. he remained in the reserves another two decades retiring as a colonel in 1984. i didn't know that. that was pretty good. he married ursula, the love of his life coming in 1958, they wanted me to say that and he meant it truly, the love of his life, a beautiful thing. he then became deputy district attorney of alameda county, california, the same county where he had grown up and regularly road with local police on patrol. one officer later said about him, finding someone around you who doesn't like edwin meese is like trying to find a 4-year-old it doesn't like santa claus so he was a popular guy. when chaos and violence broke out, he was instru

meese: thank you, mr. president. thank you very much both for awardery fine award, and which i will cherish obviously forever. it also for the kind words you gave. and when you mentioned particularly for the privilege of being with you and having my family here to meet you and also to listen to this particular ceremony. it is just a great privilege that i appreciate very much and appreciate all that you have done to make us welcome here and as i say, for the kind words. i am also very grateful to the vice president for being here, mr. vice president, you and i have been friends since you were here in congress not so many years ago and it was great to have known you and followed your career also. and i think you and the president make one of the finest teams in our country and i am very grateful to have this a word coming particularly from the two of you. and so i thank you. [applause] mr. meese: i also want to mention bill barr and i thank this.r we started work together in the first term of ronald reagan. you were i

meese: by the way. not only was it 99-0, but the person who was absent that day sent her a book with an apology had not been there to vote for her. >> max baucus. dahlia: but i do think we have to talk for a minute about the confirmation hearings themselves. they are televised. mr. meese: this was the first time confirmation hearings had been televised. and you know, up until that time they were not usually very contentious. as a matter of fact when william o. douglas in the 1930's, probably the most liberal justice ever recommended by franklin roosevelt, he sat outside the hearing room and after he sat outside about one hour, somebody came outside and said, mr. douglas, you can go home. we do not have any questions. [laughter] quite a difference from today. they were not contentious at that time. and i suspect there were a lot of members of the senate who did not want to be in the position of voting against are either her, either, because she had made such a good appearance and also this was the first

presidential medal of attorney general ed meese. after than, c-span interviews with presidential candidates john delaney and tom steyer. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ is the story you tell in the book "the vagabonds?" >> the story that i meant to tell at the beginning, how america morphed into a car culture, in just about 20 years. wagon,e going horse and to cars. so the book became a susan: head of the idea come to you for telling the story at this time? jeff: when i try to do when i write nonfiction books is to go everywhere where the people i write about went. i'd rather drive and that way you really get a sense of place. somewhere along the line in the 30,000 or so miles i drive every year i started wondering how we got to be a country, a culture where we take for granted and we can get in a car and go anywhere we want to. i thought it would be a good idea to write a book about that and as always happens when you look into history, there's more to it than you ever expected. susan: your book begins and ends with someone that's a minor character, jeff

>> katie: meese. >> juan: , no it's not. set your dvr.f "the five." >> hailing from a place where the moose is a national animal, the plural of moose is moose not meese. [laughter] see you tomorrow. thanks, juan. ♪ president trump last democrats over the impeachment and glory and urges china to dig deeper into the bidens. plus, the democrats get their first deposition but some republicans say he is blowing holes in the democratic case for impeachment. bernie will be back on the trail. the question is when. we will let you know. this is a "special report"

>> katie: meese. >> juan: , no it's not. set your dvr. never miss an episode of "the five." >> hailing from a place where the moose is a national animal, the plural of moose is moose not meese. [laughter] see you tomorrow. thanks, juan. ♪ president trump last democrats over the impeachment and glory and urges china to dig deeper into the bidens. plus, the democrats get their first deposition but some republicans say he is blowing holes in the democratic case for impeachment. bernie will be back on the trail. the question is when. we will let you know. this is a "special report" ." good evening and welcome to washington. i'm john roberts and for bret baier. at this hour, president trump has just arrived back to the white house from florida where he delivered more sharp criticism to democrats over what he called impeachment crap. earlier double down on his calls were joe biden and has on to be investigated, now saying china should look into them, too. this is house democrats getting their first deposition in the impeachment inquiry and the

wanted to alert one powerfuln democraticor. s >> senator kennedy got a note that attorney general meese calling for him. of thestepped o hearing into a phone booth and took the call. and, and meese told him that it was going to bbork. >> narrator: kennedy headed forn to the liberal senrom massachusetts, bork was a dire threat. >> everything that bork had written and stood for meant that the cie l rights and affirmative action push of the cheil rights movement was in danger. >> ...and the senator from massachuses is recognid... >> narrator: it had only been an hourince reagan's announcement.e kennedy let esident and bork know they were in for a fight. >> mr. president, i oppose the nomination of robert bork to thr e court, and i urge the senate ttereject it.ff >> and our said, "hey, go hear what kennedy is saying." so i went over. >> robert bork's america is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, roguk police could bown citizens' doors in midnight raids. tl>> whoa, this sounds a l er the top. i knew robert bork, he'

and he stepped out of the hearing into a phone booth and took the cal and, and meese told him that it going to be bork. >> narrator: kennedy headed for the senate chamber. to the libal senator from massachusetts, bork was a dire threat. >> everything that bork hadatwr ten and stood for meant that the cie l rights and affirmative ngtion push of the cheil rights movement was in . >> ...and the senator from massachusetts is recognid... >> narrator: it had only been a' hourince rea announcement. kennedy let the president and bork know they were in for a fight. >> mr. president, i oppose the umination of robert bork to the supreme court, ande the senate ttereject it. >> a our staff said, "hey, g hear what kennedy is saying." so i went over. >> robert bork's america is a land in which women would be forced into back-alley abortions, blacks would sit at segregated lunch counters, rogue policeould break down citizens' doors in midnight raids. >> whoa, this sods a little er the top. i knew robert bork, he'd been a profsor of mine, and i liked the guy, but certainly my journalistic instinct was

i haven't gotten to this technique or we haven't studies they meese and they have so much more to do. we only have 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. >> my name is kamal lane, and i've lived in san francisco for 30 -- let's say 31 years. i lived there a year february 29, 2017, my grand

p pieces meese missig from this. exhibition notably the salvatore monty that was sold almost by back in two thousand and seventeen- any other absences that we should know about- well with the mona lisa will is. will be after you've museum but couldn't be displaced from the room where it's usually exposed so i wouldn't it won't it won't be in the public exhibitions and people will have to go and- look at them and then he sat. in the roof we seem so obviously it's quite am. an important absence- but once you buy the ticket for the exhibition. you can go and have a look at them under the sun this room. joe at the same time- it's been a very expensive and complicated. shin getting all those works assembled a- like getting the vitruvian man from venice that nearly didn't make it why was it so complicated you think getting a list together- very fragile that mostt pieces of very fragile actually the virtue of men will only be shown for several weeks instead of the whole. length of the exhibition- because of the lights and a

president trump announcing that he'll meese china's vice president you had a on friday that's raising hopes that some sort of agreement could be in the works the last three times these two men mass in the oval office positive steps in the talks followed so i've just follow that one closely. on thursday you have a match with the us trade representative robert lot tizer on treasury stacked secretary stephen munition. that both the us and china working to avoid an increase in tariffs on two hundred and fifty billion dollars worth of chinesese. goods sat to come ino force next week. the markets took some cheer from news of that meeting on friday traders viewing. the trump meeting is rereason to believe that some sort of deal perhaps a partial deal could be done to avoid those tired hikikes. almost ratd helplp to boost chairs across te main interface but the us markets are still lower than they were at the startrt of the week trade worries driving much of dot movemenent to that's the closing picture on wall street earlier in your- the tweet from donald trump came just in time to spare a ri

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because i'm 72 years old and i remember john mitchell, edwin meese and oliver north and have all been pardoned and have been able to become rich afterwards and did serious harm to the , whole nation. and we have to do something in politics where it doesn't happen. because frankly we have a bunch of concerned citizens but a lot of people have given up on our government. and nice to see the high school students that came here tonight and see what is going on in this country and it's a problem that , is almost unbelievable. i never thought i would see the day where the united states of america was operating concentration camps refugees, or the other things that are going on today. it is criminal. and it is very discouraging. [applause] representative harder: thank you. and this is very troubling to me. i think that you're right. cynicism is growing about our political system and people are , right to be frustrated. now i'll talk about what i'm , trying to do, and then i will talk about what everybody else ought to be doing as well. what i'm trying to do is we need to change the law and f

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i looked at meese numbers, i looked at manufacturing in wisconsin, pennsylvania, michigan.e have peaked there. if we peak and start to slide a little bit into the election, that could have an impact, couldn't it? >> it all has to do with confidence. ceo confidence bean began to trail down, i don't know, three or four-month ago. democrats don't believe corporations are people but they're actually run by people. you have to have people confident to make a decision, build new plant, invest in inventory, lead to economic growth in the manufacturing sector. that is not what we're seeing. no question in my mind the trade battle with china has hurt ceo confidence. they don't really know what the next steps are going to be. charles: there is a danger for that with a ceo. earlier this week, thor industries maker of rvs was up 22%. what struck me dealer inventories are at two-year low. i show up to buy a 100,000-dollar rv, you don't have it, you made a huge mistake as a ceo. if you want to be cautious with a consumer out there spending? >> no question the manufacturing sector, capita

under brad reynolds and the great attorney general ed meese. my question for the three of you is, what kind of feedback have you gotten from the hill in the last 10 months about what you are doing? what kind of oversight, harassment or whatever -- >> i have not heard too much from capitol hill. [laughter] >> have not heard or have not listened? >> i testified in front of the house subcommittee a few months ago. one of the members suggested the administration was hostile to civil rights. i responded that i thought such a statement was inaccurate and offensive. that was the end of it. under our constitutional system >> under our system, congress >> has certain oversight rights and responsibilities. all power needs to be checked. our belief is those are good and healthy. our department has had our share of -- no more than our share of oversight issues. one in particular i believe related to our actions to ensure religious liberty and to address constitutional issues and some statutes we administer. of the by and large, we have been able to accompl

and this john spakovsky, senior legal fellow for the edwin meese center for legal and judicial date at the heritage foundation. and you very much for being here. we're looking forward to your testimony. without objection our witnesses statements will be included in the record and is with the previous panels since your written testimony is included, we would ask you to please limit your comments to five minutes. we will now proceed with the witnesses, start with mister proctor. >> writing member meadows and members of the subcommittee, my name is michael foster, legislative attorney in the american law division area you for inviting me to testify today on behalf of crs to provide background information on the monuments clause of the u.s. constitution and recent litigation in certain those provisions in brief other what i'll refer to as foreign and causes of the constitution, any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states is prohibited from accepting of any present emoluments office or title of any kind whatsoever from a foreign government unless congress consen

then, president trump awards the presidential medal of attorney general ed meese. after than, c-span interviews with presidential candidates john delaney and tom steyer. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ is the story you tell in the book "the vagabonds?" >> the story that i meant to tell at the beginning, how america morphed into a car culture, in just about 20 years. wagon,e going horse and to