three newsreels produced by mgm studios for the 1934 governor's and we will speak to greg mitchell who argues they were the first modern attack ads. in 40 minutes, the first of three interior department films which highlights the efforts of the civilian conservation corps or ccc. its emergency conservation work in the great smoky mountains from 1936. in 50 minutes, we travel back to 1937 outdoors in the garden state shows young men employed by the ccc working to protect and maintain new jersey state parks. and, finally, in about 55 -- 65 minutes, rebuilding indian country. on interior film on preservation status and across the country. from forest, to desert, to the northwest coast.

eastern on real america, we feature the 1934 newsreels on california governor's campaign, produced by mgm studios in an effort to defeat upton sinclair. at 6:30 p.m. eastern, a discussion with charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and time served with the air force flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8:00, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson, discussing their roles and shaping -- in shaping revolutionary war era america. exploring the american story, watch american history tv today on c-span3. >> tonight at 9:00 eastern on afterwards, john of the american enterprise institute with his book after the people vote, a guide to the electoral college. he is interviewed by the author and former editor, tara ross. >> congress should be hounding the electors as presented to them because it was the state that, as a process, made the decision. i will not say never but it would be extremely rare and it would be wise to not have objections in a regular way or in the big way we had in 2020 because it is

on real america, we feature the 1934 newsreels on california governor's campaign produced by mgm studios in an effort to defeat democratic gubernatorial candidate upton sinclair. at 6:30 p.m. eastern, discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and the time he served with the air force flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8 p.m., a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing their roles in shaping the revolutionary war era america, constitutional government to produce. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span 3. >> sunday on q&a, author and history professor -- joseph talks about his book "the sword and the shield, the lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr.." >> we see with king, the revolutionary king he starts talking about using nine violence as early as 1965, after los angeles rebellion of 1965, to paralyze cities to leverage nonviolent civil disobedience to transform american democracy. malcolm x had cal

eastern on reel america, 1934 newsreels on the california governor's campaign produced by mgm studios in an effort to defeat democratic gubernatorial candidate upton sinclair. then, discussion with rick at general charles mickey, looking back on his military career in time as a tuskegee airmen then flying more than 400 combat missions in three wars. then, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing revolutionary war era america and the government it produced. explore the american story, what american history tv this weekend on c-span three. >> on january 3, 2021, more than 60 new members of congress were sworn in to serve in the u.s. house of representatives. in the weeks since taking their oath, these members have been part of history. their first few weeks included debating challenges to electoral college votes, surviving an attack on the u.s. capitol and voting on whether to impeach the president of the united states. before these historical events, we spoke to several new members about what brought them to congress and what life experiences and influenc

governor's campaign, produced by mgm studios in an effort to defeat democratic could -- at 6:30 pm eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with it tuskegee airmen and time served with the air force, flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8 pm on the presidency, a reenactment between brand truman franklin and thomas jefferson discussing their roles in shaping the revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span 3. >> next on american history tv, vanderbilt university divinity professor, james bird, discusses how the founding fathers used the bible to defend their patriotic convictions and to justify the revolutionary war. this top was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible here in washington d.c.. it's 45 minutes. >> our third session today is the bible of the american revolution with james bird. and this presentation, based on his latest book, james bird shows that the bi

on real america, we feature the 1934 news reels on california governor's campaign, produced by mgm studios in an effort to defeat democratic could -- at 6:30 pm eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with it tuskegee airmen and time served with the air force, flying more than 400 combat missions across three wars. at 8 pm on the presidency, a reenactment between brand truman franklin and thomas jefferson discussing their roles in shaping the revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv. this weekend on c-span 3. >> next on american history tv, vanderbilt university divinity professor, james bird, discusses how the founding fathers used the bible to defend their patriotic convictions and to

and among them was an importantly was hollywood studios most notably mgm. under producer irving thalberg. creating three newsreels that were then shown in theaters at the peak of the campaign and of course at that time newsreels and and film in general was tremendously popular people went and were tremendously affected by these movie shorts and israel's that they saw ladies and gentlemen, i am the inquiring cameraman all day i travel around california the highways and the byways the downtown districts the residence districts the factory districts all districts. i stop people on the street. i pry into offices and shops and stores and restaurants. i knock on the doors of homes or for the purpose of digging out voters of california to express their views for your edification. remember, they're not actors. they're nervous. you'd be scared to death yourself the first time you face the cameron microphone if they seem awkward bear with them. i don't rehearse them. i'm impartial i ask them questions only to help them express themselves more clearly. what do you see

in two hours, greg mitchell discusses three mgm studios newsreels produced for the successful 1934 campaign to defeat democratic editorial candidate upton sinclair. >> i am from northeastern texas. my relatives migrated here and my father-in-law and some other relatives migrated here during the manhattan project back in 1943. i was a young man back home and 10, 11, 12 years old, and we would hear people talking about hanford. they worked on the hanford project. when i got out of high school in 1947, i was 16 years of age, and i ended up coming to hanford. i came into east pascoe first. >> tell us about -- you were a lord -- allured by the stories of your uncle. cj: they had worked out here and they came back home and they got much more money. the word got around pretty fast and people were going not only to -- not only out here, but they were going to california, houston, dallas, beginning to migrate to different places. >> did you go by yourself as a 16-year-old? cj: when i came out to washington, the first time, it was myself and two first cousins and two other people from the community.

eastern on reel america, we feature the 1934 news reels on california governor's campaign produced by mgm studiosir. at 6:30 p.m. eastern, a5> discussion with charles mcgee looking back on his military career, specifically his time with the tuskegee airmen and across three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> next a look into disinformation campaign

and in two hours on reel america greg mitchell discusses three mgm studios newsreels produced for the successful 1934 campaign to defeat democratic gubernatorial candidate upton sinclair. in this introductory course, we're continuing our historical survey of american intelligence under each presidential administration. and now we've come to the presidency of john f kennedy. january 1961 to november 1963. kennedy was a formal former naval officer. so he thought he knew something about intelligence. he was also a big fan of the james bond novels written by ian fleming. i've pictured him with his brother robert kennedy because the brothers together had great influence on us intelligence. there's a lot to say about us intelligence center kennedy, even though he served less than a full term because of course he was assassinated by a pro-cuban american leftist a disturbed former marine named lee harvey oswald at the end. i'll have some reflections about the assassination. before we get to the main intelligence events of this administration. i want to mention a couple of other developments t

eastern on reel america, we feature the 1934 news reels on california governor's campaign produced by mgm studios in an effort to defeat upton sinclair. at 6:30 p.m. eastern, a5> discussion with charles mcgee looking back on his military career, specifically his time with the tuskegee airmen and across three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >>> next a look into disinformation campaign tactics such as silencing journalists and political opposition and how best to respond to those tactics. the mccain institute hosted the discussion. >> again, my name is paul fagan, welcome. i'm from the mccain institute and we're very happy to be hosting this event today countering use of disinformation and the road ahead in 2021 we're very pleased to have everyone here. i'm going to, before i introduce the panelists i'll turn it over to my boss and executive dire

in two hours, greg mitchell discusses three mgm studios newsreels produced for the successful 1934 campaignto defeat democratic editorial candidate upton sinclair. >> i am from northeastern texas. my relatives migrated here and my father-in-law and some other relatives migrated here during the manhattan project back in 1943. i was a young man back home and 10, 11, 12 years old, and we would hear people talking about hanford.

on sunday at 4:00 eastern on reel america, we feature 1934 newsreels produced by mgm studios in an effort to defeat upton sinclair. at 6:30 p.m. eastern, a discussion with a brigadier general, charles mcgee, looking back on his military career particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and his time serving with the air force through three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> book tv on c-span2 has top-notch fiction books and authors every weekend. coming up tonight at 8:00 eastern, a discussion on the book "now what -- the voters have spoken." with steve and cynthia and anthony scaramucci. on sunday, the american enterprise institute's john fortier with his book -- after the people vote -- a guide to the electoral college. he is interviewed by tara ross. at 10:55 eastern, author janice with her book -- how to pioneering sisters brough

and in two hours on reel america greg mitchell discusses three mgm studios newsreels produced for the successful 1934 campaign to defeat democratic gubernatorial candidate upton sinclair. in this introductory course, we're continuing our historical survey of american intelligence under each presidential administration. and now we've come to the presidency of john f kennedy. january 1961 to november 1963. kennedy was a formal former naval officer. so he thought he knew something about intelligence. he was also a big fan of the james bond novels written by ian fleming. i've pictured him with his brother robert kennedy because the brothers together had great influence on us intelligence. there's a lot to say about

eastern, the 1934 newsreels on california governor campaign produced by mgm studios to defeat upton sinclair30 p.m. eastern, a discussion with bigoted general charles mcgee, looking back -- regular general charles mcgee -- brigadier general charles mcgee. it :00 p.m., -- at 8:00 p.m., a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson in shaping revolutionary war era america and the government it produced. exploring the american story. watch american history tv today on c-span3. >> here is our live coverage. tuesday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, to senate confirmation hearing for javier becerra, hhs secretary nominee. on c-span2, the confirmation vote on tom vilsack and debate on linda thomas-greenfield's nomination as u.n. ambassador. jerome powell, chair of the federal reserve with his semiannua monetary report to congress. on c-span.org, the confirmation secretary for debra haaland. also on c-span.org, a joint oversight hearing to examine the security failures that led to the u.s. capitol breach on january 6. watch live coverage on tuesday on c-span, c-span2, c-span3, and c-span.org, o

on real america, we feature the 1934 news reels on california governor's campaign, produced by mgm studios and an effort to defeat democratic candidate upton sinclair. at 6:30 pm eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with it pesky airman and time served with the air force flying more than 400 air force combat missions across three wars. at 8 pm on the presidency, a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the rules and shaping revolutionary war era america and a constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story, watch american history tv, this weekend on c-span 3. >> american history tv continues as american university professor daniel dries back looks to the bibles contributions to the american constitutional and judicial system. including its impact on due process, the separation of powers. this top was part of a symposium hosted by the museum of the bible in washington d.c. this. is about 45 minutes >> hello everyone, our second session today is the bible and t

hollywood movie — the rights to the story of the gamestop—reddit stock saga have been bought by the mgm film studioing the feathers of investors all over the world? well, dr richard smith is chief executive of the foundation for the study of cycles. welcome to the programme. we mentioned janet yellen, the us treasury secretary, she is reported to be calling a meeting of key financial regulators to look into what has been going on. what you think may happen from that perspective?— think may happen from that perspective? well, i think it is interesting _ perspective? well, i think it is interesting that you are l is interesting that you are covering this story at the same time you are talking about google and amazon and others, because i think part of this story that is not really being talked about is this user as product business model from the likes of google and others that is being experimented with in the financial services space right now. i think what is not really being talked about is how good this has been for the owners of the platform, the technology platform robinhood and market makers

eastern on real america, we feature the newsreels on california governor's campaign produced by mgm studiosn an effort to defeat upton sinclair. a discussion with a brigadier general looking back on his military career particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and timed served across three wars. at 8 p.m., a reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing their roles in shaping revolutionary war era america and the constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story. >> a house technology subcommittee is looking into broadband issues during the covid-19 pandemic. the committee discussed expanding access to rural and underserved communities, the importance of 5g, and the importance of the potential of creating jobs by expanding the broadband network. here is a portion starting with opening statements by the chair. >> as we have all become far too aware over the last year, universal connectivity is critical to our economy, our education of our youth and in keeping our economy safe and connected during this unprecedented crisis. americans have struggl

wall street that's going to the box office mgm studios gaining rights to a book proposal about the walltock market last week. brian what hollywood stars fit this part? [laughter] >> maria, i'm embarrassed to say i had to do a google search for hollywood stars to try to figure out here. chris pratt came to mind maybe a james franco or something in that category guy who is kind of play that role of a -- you can imagine sitting at home kind of shaking up the world from their, from their desk. but it is kind of crazy we're talking ab movie being made ab story that we're right in the middle of. how do we know this is a good movie we're so right in the middle of it we don't know how it ends so premature. maria: what do you think? >> timmy would star many it like young people who i probably wouldn't recognize but we already have the big short which i thought was -- kind of a terrible movie. [laughter] i mean it is hard to make a film about people sitting in front of a computer. right? that's, that's essence of it. >> it takes a lot of explanation too. we'll take a break when we come back we ar

among them, and importantly, was hollywood studios, most notably mgm, creating three newsreels that wereman theaters and at that time film in general was tremendously popular. >> i travel all day long, i stop people on the street, i knock on doors. remember, they are not active -- they not actors. they are nervous. they seem awkward. i asked questions only to help them express themselves. >> what is your first clue? >> they would recognize actors from the mgm stable portraying some of these people. they are basically reading lines. some are no doubt authentic. many are actors. and people at the time and they would laugh about it. >> i call these the first attack ad on the screen. this is the first use of the screen. >> learn about these early attack ads tonight at 7 p.m. on american history tv. >> american history tv -- follow us at c-span. history. >> we are looking back at this day in history. >> i will support and defend the constitution of the united states against all enemies foreign and domestic, that i will bear faithful allegiance to the state. >> that i will well and faithfully

it is by mgm studios in an effort to defeat a gubernatorial candidate in sinclair.t 6:30 eastern, a discussion with brigadier general charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly, his time with the tuskegee airmen. at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, and reenactment between benjamin franklin and thomas jefferson discussing the role in shaping the revolutionary war era america and their constitutional government it produced. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> washington journal continues. host: our first guest is tom kean. he served as the former chair of the 9/11 commission. he is a member of the bipartisan policy center on the task force on the ideology cochair and former governor of new jersey. thank you for giving us your time is money. guest: thank you. host: he wrote a letter to president biden advised president harris and others about this idea of a commission looking at the events of january 6. can you give us the just of the letter and why you wrote it. you do we -- guest: we look at this event

do they acquire the studios at mgm?hat is a bit of a focus because right now they are in a massive position heading to the $3 trillion market cap, and now do they go aggressive on m&a? emily: what is your outlook on whether or not they do that? apple has never made a massive acquisition. a few billion dollars, that is as high as we have been. dan: beats is the largest deal that they have done, and it is not in the dna of cupertino, but in this arms race or streaming with netflix, disney, and other players, for apple to be legitimate, they will have to buy a studio. otherwise, they will be a tertiary player, and the window of opportunity continues to be there. that is something, when you talk about that and then next leg will be ev, we believe the next six to nine months, they announce an ev partnership, and it could be worth $30 per share more at the some of the parts as we go to apple in the coming years. emily: the big question, will they or won't they, they -- we are anxiously waiting to find out. dan ives, thank you

on "reel america," we feature the 1934 news reels on california governors campaign produced by mgm studios in effort to defeat up ton sinclair. at 6:30 p.m., a discussion with charles mcgee, looking back on his military career, particularly his time with the tuskegee airmen and teem served with the air force flying more than 400 combat mission across three wars. at 8:00 p.m. on "the presidency" a reenactment between benjamin frankly. exploring the american story, watch american history tv this weekend on c-span3. >> sunday on "q&a" author and history professor talks about his book "the sword and the shield: the revolutionary lives of malcolm x and martin luther king jr. ". >> so, what we see with king, the revolutionary king, he starts using non-violence as early as 1965, after the los angeles rebellion of 1965, to paralyze cities to leverage non-violence civil disobedience to transform american dplok si. malcolm x had called for the same thing at the march on washington, which malcolm criticized as a farce on washington because he wanted a display of civil disobedience that was going to b

now, play studios is offering well known casual games on apps and social media games and these are free to play like my vegas black jack, but the players earn real rewards like a night at mgmnd a partner to play studios and they have nearly 300 such partner around the globe, and big plans for expansion. this deal values the play studios at $1.1 billion, and the institutional investors blackrock, clear bridge, and newberger have signed on already, and joining me now for the first exclusive on cnbc is jim murren and andrew pascal. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> and jim, you bring to the table, a wealth of knowledge about the world of gaming and by that i mean gambling. and where it can go digitally. what are the hopes and expectations for this acquisition? >> well, i believe firmly of the intersection between live entertainment like casino gambling and digital entertainment and i think that consumers are increase lig looking for opportunities to consume entertainment in multiple channels. and play is right in the center of that gaming space, and allowing the customers to redeem real stuff in the live world. so, i expect that play studios will be abl

a worker for mgm gave a copy of the script to the daily worker, and the daily worker passed it on to the office of war information and the double double in naacp, who pressured the studio to make changes before that movie came out. the naacp saw a less than demonic portrayal of stevens, and mgm didn't go as far as hoped, because they told a usc professor, who i'm not gonna name, that they advised the original scripts -- which unfortunately was true. yet some scenes of stevens were cut, were re-shot making a little more human and's scenes were deleted meaning they're few african americans in the film. now historians of the civil rights movement have sometimes pointed to this alliance between the office and the naacp as a strategy which would work in the civil rights movement. at the same time, movement. at the same time, conservatives even today point to this as a symbol of political corrective misleading to censorship in hollywood. all three then, they have all agreed on the politics of reconstruction. david to witness impeachment and the trial of andrew johnson, 1903. i'm gonna give you a sense of what that agreement of reconstruction was from the way it. people who d

mgm makers of shorts and narrators of shorts at the time. host: if the narrator says that these are actual people and he is actually an actor, is a studio employeewere there any laws at the time that said you could not do this? that this is lying to the public? mr. mitchell: propaganda, i think you are trying to say. no, there was nothing like this. this is so new, this was a fresh concept to use the screen this way. so no, there wouldn't have been anything like that. you would've had the usual, maybe the press would have called out. eventually, near the end of the campaign, the new york times and some others did report that these newsreel seemed fake. and that sinclair people were riding at the box office or in the cedars -- in the theaters. there were suspicions of the time. but it was not until later when ian palmer admitted that he made these newsreels. and, he admitted it, others talked about it a bit. these newsreels were, although the scribes as people remember them, they disappeared time -- they disappeared at the time. i found them at -- mgm had put them in some archives. i screamed them one day in los angeles in 1991. we know how them

first three newsreels produced by mgm studios for the 1934 governors campaign and we'll talk with journalist greg mitchell who argues they were the first modern attack ads in 40 minutes the first of three interior department films that highlight the efforts of the civilian conservation corps or ccc. it's emergency conservation work in the great smoky mountains national park from 1936. in 50 minutes we travel back to 1937 outdoors in the garden stage shows young men employed by the ccc working to protect and maintain new jersey state parks. and finally