missouri became missouri. now i ask you which is correct? missouri or missouri? >> missouri. okay. neither one. [laughter]. you can't say the native americans were wrong for saying missouri. you can't say the french were wrong for pronouncing it in their language, just different ways of pronouncing the same word. that is where we have the problem with the word different. different isn't a synonym of the word wrong. we have to be careful how we use it and our children. it answers the question, why do you write that? i write to tell the story. one that has fallen through the cracks, one marginalized by main stream history. either misrepresented or represented to the way in which it is a stereo typical, write to take those stereotypes, reshape them and give them back to you dressed in a new dress. i mean when i say different is not a synonym for wrong, it means that we should celebrate those things. everyone in this room is different in some way. but you should not feel bad about that. your uniqueness, as my grandson who loves to make up words, that is your wonderment. [laughter]. it

together, we will keep missouri moving forward. now, in our rapidly changing world, education is a very high stakes enterprise. there is no investment that will have a greater impact on the future of this nation, this state and on the quality of life for you, your children and grandchildren, than the one you have made in your education. your education has prepared you to take your place as global citizens who are informed on the issues important to your lives and the future of our planet, who respect and welcome diversity, who are engaged in building communities and strengthening democracy as voters and leaders. so graduates, take the blueprint your northwest missouri state university education has given you, and start building. use it to build strong families, green and vibrant communities, and a prosperous state. use it to build a just and secure nation and a stable peaceful world. the future is in your hands. we know you will make it very bright. congratulations. [ applause ] >> ibm chairman sam palmisano gave the commencement a

speaker at northwest missouri state. he spoke to the class of 2012 about the importance of higher education and alternative energy advances. jay nixon was the attorney general for four terms before becoming governor in 2008. his speech is 12 minutes. [applause] >> thank you, president, board of regents, a distinguished faculty, families, and the students, i am delighted to be here on this special day and among the first to say congratulations class of 2012. all of your hard work has paid off. it has brought you to this point, standing at the threshold of a new journey. since 1905, northwest missouri graduates have served with the highest distinction. you are about to become a part of that proud tradition. i will want to extend my congratulations to your parents, families, and friends whose love, support and sacrifice were essentials in helping you get here today. your diplomas represent the fulfillment of their dreams and their efforts as well as your own. you cannot repay all they have invested in new but i urge you to

next, missouri governor jay nixon speaking at northwest missouri state university. then we'll hear from ibm chairman samuel palmisano at johns hopkins university in baltimore, massachusetts congressman barney frank at lasell college in newton, massachusetts and joint chiefs of staff chairman, general martin dempsey, at norwich university in northfield, vermont. tonight, espn president john skipper on the network's expansion to different media platforms. cnn chief national correspondent john king on the ways technology has changed cnn, and cox business senior vice president phil meeks and their small business focus on the communicators, tonight at 8:00 on c-span 2. >> pulitzer prize winner author david mariness traveled the globe visiting places like kenya and kansas to examine the president's family tree. book tv gives you a preview with exclusive pictures and video, including our trip to kenya with the author in january 2010. join us sunday at 6:00 p.m. eastern and later at 7:30 that same night, your phone calls, e-mails and tweets for the author on c-span 2's book

i mean, missouri is rife with guerilla warfare. i mean, missouri is suffering guerilla warfare from the mid 1850s through at least the end of the war. john c. free momont in attempt control it just emancipates slaves. after northerners hear of his emancipation proclamation they're torched by parades and celebrations in most of the major cities of the north. until 12 days later, lincoln resipds it. why does lincoln rescind it? because he's worried about the border states. he's worried that kentucky, in particular, will secede, maryland might secede, and we know the border states start seceding, the war's over. another important catalyst in your road is the first six months, so the union is desperate for a victory. the first major union victories are ft. donaldson and shiloh. shiloh is an immensely bloody battle. the fifth bloodiest battle in the civil war. to give you some sense of the x extent of the bloodshed, shiloh at that time was the bloodiest battle in the western world. bloodier than every one of napoleon's battles, bloodier

i heard people saying missouri and missouri. what is the correct pronunciation of

graves of missouri. the chair: pursuant to the order of the house today, the gentleman from missouri, mr. graves, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from missouri. mr. graves: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, i rise today in support of my amendment which modestly reduces funding for the missouri river recovery program. since 2006, the federal government has spent more than $468 million on the program. this program is primarily intended to improve the ecosystem for the piping mover and others in the missouri river basin. projects funded through this program include shallow water habitat and other habtits -- hab taps -- habitats. it also supports unknown fms -- numbers of departments. it generates thousands of pages of documents and pays for numerous conferences and conference callless. many of my constituents along the missouri river have been flooded for the last several years due to mismanagement and misplaced priorities of the federal governmen

missouri -- passes a law that says free blacks in missouri. united states constitution as american citizens can go anywhere. so this is the compromise clay -- everything else is getting ready to fall apart. clay works out a very convoluted answer to that that satisfies everybody and satisfies nobody. at the same time it ends the crisis. he hopes the amendment slavery will not be an issue because to clay slavery is the real thorn in his side. he can never come up with a solution on that. and if it is -- if it is -- if it is a wound it is a self-inflicted wound because clay was a slave holder. >> that makes it difficult to please. he starts out people believing he is an emancipationist and is on the north side. it is a no-win situation for him. >> we are halfway through our 90-minute discussion on the life and times of the contender, henry clay who ran for the white house throughout most of his political career. five times in total. three times as his party's nominee. unsuccessful all the while. but the great effect on the direction and future o

. >> has he given up missouri? >> essentially, yes. it's not part of their map right now. in part because there aren't a lot of previous mccain voters who they think they can win over this time around. he will be looking at what he did last time essentially as his ceiling. >> who else isn't going? >> john tester, the senator from montana is on the list. two from upstate new york who are running for re-election. the key thing they all have in common is they are from parts ever the country or districts that the president just doesn't have a lot going for him right now. and so they look at these things. they know they will get whacked for this back in their home state newspapers if they go. a couple from west virginia, joe manchin. >> wouldn't you expect that? you would think you would. >> but they have to decide for themselves does this make sense based on where i stand? and if you are someone like joe manchin from west virginia where the president is deeply unpopular, it might make sense to say i'm not going anywher

the gentleman from missouri yields back? mr. clay: i urge passage of the bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri yields back. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. farenthold: thank you, madam speaker. i join with my colleagues in supporting this bipartisan, economic greth and jobs bill, it will create a vital new area in what is developing as a vibrant part of the district of columbia and urge my colleagues to support h.r. 2297 and i yield back the e-- the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and concur in the senate amendment to h.r. 2297? those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the rules are suspended, the senate amendment is agreed to and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> i move that the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 4251 as amended by

louis, missouri. a lot of you think i have said it in correctly when i said missouri. you think i got it slid into my southern dialect, right? no. i was not born in st. louis. i was born in nashville, tennessee, a little

. >> ne weekend heado e atpi n inof om jrsh tv drin hry tv in jefferson city missouri. saturday at noon eastern literary life with booktv on c-span former senator and missouri first lady jean carnahan on milyife sidee gooranom bo " oalk." also a provions li from ancient mesopotamia to the universi ofissouri's special collections, the stories behind eight miniature babylonian clay tabls. and nd at astn amanto-- aee, 1 ts llhe bloodiest 47 acres in america. >> a former warden takes you through the historic missouri state penitentiary. also walkack through history in the halls of the missouri stat capitol and governor's mansion. on m cn' l enhi ere t stanirye cies across america. next weekend fro jefferson city saturday at noon and sunday at 5 eastern on c-span2 and 3. >> here are some of the p-innfonle deenoorero cryor diound.org. this list reflects sales as of june 28th. topping the list is "wild.

saturday at noon eastern, literary life with book tv on c-span 2, former senator and missouri first lady on family life inside the governor's mansion from her book "if walls could talk." also a butcher's bill, a provisions list from an shent mesopta mimpb a. and sunday at 5:00 p.m. eastern -- >> at one time in 1967 this was called the bloodiest 47 acres in america. >> a warden takes you through the missouri state penitentiary. and walk through history through the governor's mansion. once a month c-span's local content vehicles explore life in cities across america. next week, jefferson city, missouri. >>> next, on american history tv, former reagan administration chief of staff, kenneth duberstein reflects ronald reagan speech at the berlin wall when he called on gorbachev to tear down this wall. mr. duberstein who was in berlin with president reagan recalls the impact on the end of the cold war. he's interviewed by james did you have chief executive officer of the nuseum. this program is 40 minutes. >>> let's talk about the days leading up to the great speech, ken, and identify had the

. >> we johnsons welcome you to the missouri governor's mansion! >> the first governor was becigarettes brown, and here we have a photograph of he and his wife. what is interesting is the fact that his granddaughter, margaret weise brown, wrote the book "good night moon" not only here in missouri but all over the united states. >> book tv and american history tv explore the heritage and literary culture of missouri's state capital, jefferson stitt with local content vehicles and american history tv inside the governor's mansion. >> he said he rode his horse into the dining room and proceededed to feed his horse oats out of this plate warmer as part of the side board. now, the comment was that he probably should not be feeding his horse in the governor's mansion, and his comment to them was, i have had to feed more people in this home with probably less in this home with probably less manners than my horse has. >> watch for booktv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri, july 7th and 8th on cspan-2 and 3. >> next on american history tv,

so he writes her a letter that he finds that her regiment is going through her part of missouri. he says i'm taking my children and you cannot stop me because you will burn in hell if you try and prevent a man from taking care of his family. so the link between soldiering and manhood is pretty explicit in that letter. there is another thing i think the black soldiers sometimes mean when they talk about manhood of the race. i think they mean recognition of the full humanity of all slaves, of all black people. i don't think they see this as just about men, they see this about black women, about black children, that by battling against an institution that keeps southern blacks in bondage, black men see themselves as smashing the chains of prejudice, dehumanization, that have kept all slaves and not just slave men in bondage. and that's a pretty powerful motivator. about 80,000 black men serve, they make up 10% of the union army. they make up only 1.2% of the northern population but 10% of the union army. the numbers, 34,000 of them were free black northerners, the rest escaped slave

. >> we welcome you to missouri governor's mansion. >> the first governor was b. grass brown. and here we have a photograph of he, his wife, and his child. what's interesting about b. grass brown is his granddaughter wrote the book "good night moon" which is a favorite of many of the school children not only here in missouri but all over the united states. >> july 7th and 8th, american history tv explore the heritage and literary culture of missouri's state capital, jefferson city with c-span's local content vehicle and inside the governor's mansion. >> there was a governor steward, the story says he rode his horse up the steps of the mansion, into the dining room and proceeded to feed his horse oats out of this plate warmer as part of the side board. now, the comment was that he probably should not be feeding the horse in the governor's mansion. and his comment was, i have had to feed more people in this home with probably less manners than my horse has. >> watch for book tv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri, july 7th and 8th on c-span 2 and 3. >> this is c-

. >>> we welcome you to missouri governor's mansion. >> the girs government was brown. here we have a photograph of him, his wife and his child. what is interesting about him is the fact that his granddaughter margaret wise brown wrote the book "good night moon", which is a favorite of many school children not om here in missouri, but all over the united states. >> july 7th and 8th, book tv and american history tv explore the heritage and literary culture of missouri state capital, jefferson city with c-span's local content vehicles and american history tv inside the governor's mansion. >> there was a governor stewart, a bachelor governor the story says he rode his horse up the front steps of mansion and the dining room and proceeded to feed his horse oats in this plate warmer part of the side board. the comment was he should probably not be feeding his horse in the governor's mansion. his comment to them was, i have had to feed more people in this home with probably less manners than my horse has. >> watch for book tv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri

, july 7th and 8th on c-span 2, missouri. >> i could have told you here's how it would run. and the republicans would look infeebled. there would be a nominee. the republicans would rally around the nominee. the true nature of the race would reveal itself. which is it's going to be close. i thought the media would eat that up. obama is surging. this is a race. and i'll tell you what the next phase is going to be. the next phase is going to be the media will become more alert to the fact that

re-election in state like missouri -- >> bob: she asked obama to appear with her three times after the convention. coming up, deadly wildfires erupted across colorado. burning homes and forcing thousands to evacuate. there are new threats that the fire intensified. stay with us.

they threatened to secede over the missouri crisis. they threatened to secede during the controversy over the status of the territories acquired from the mexican war. they threatened to seed in 1850, threatened to secede if nebraska and kansas were not passed. that was their main source of really getting what they wanted, this threat to secede. and so there was a long tradition of basically accommodating these southern views. and third -- second is that the majority of southerners, lincoln, himself, believed that the majority of southerners opposed secession. that it was only a minority that actually voted for it. as i mentioned, there's only one state, texas, in which secession was by popular vote or referendum. every other case is by delegates. one of if not the most noted authority on the south and secession, william freely, in his book, "disunion volume 2" argues if southerners voted, two-thirds were non slave owning southerners. and everyone understood the dire risks that one took by seceding. so linking felt if he could speak to

in missouri, you can elect claire mccaskill, who shares my hope for cures. what you do in missouri matters to millions of americans-- americans like me. >> narrator: but fox's activism didn't please everyone. >> he is moving all around and shaking, and it's purely an act. >> it just made me smile. i was just like, no, really? he really did that? and then i realized that we're in the last two weeks of the campaign, and people were talking about stem cells. as long as that happens, i'm happy. you can call me whatever you want. >> missouri went to democrat claire mccaskill. >> the nation was watching, and we showed 'iem! thank you so much. >> narrator: claire mccaskill won that pivotal missouri senate race, and the democrats claimed control of congress. but there still weren't enough votes to overturn a presidential veto, and the funding restrictions remained in place for the remainder of the bush presidency. >> it has obviously slowed research in this country. it's been, i think, a miserable time for everybody, a very sad epoch in our history. >> i think the p

he began his journalism in earnest back in kansas city, missouri. in texas, all his papers are at ut and he claimed it as his alma mater in though he dropped out. he started doing u.p. stories in the mid 1930's. they would have him go around. he helped open a station in el paso. he did sports announcing. he was just like reagan in the cubs. perhaps do ad lib. a lot of odd work. in overton, texas, he got national notoriety because over 230 students were blown up in a tragedy. he is all the charred bodies of children. he ran to a pay phone and call in to cbs radio and got his voice heard for the first time. he tried other jobs. he even worked for an airline for a while. he got drawn back to u.p. after getting all these clippings, he goes to new york after world war one begins. he was color blind so he could not go into the military. he could not fly planes. he tried to. east have uniform he would wear. he was put on assignment in europe. he embedded with the eighth air force with our bomber pilots that would do the missions. he goes from that and work

. >> we welcome you to the missouri governor's mansion. >> the first governor was b. grads brown, his wife, and his child grads. his granddaughter wrote the book "good night moon" which is a very favorite of many of the school children not only here in missouri, but all over the united states. >> july 7 and 8, book tv and american history tv explore the letterage and literally culture of missouri captain, jefferson city. >> there was a governor stewart, a bachelor governor that the story says he rode his house up the front steps of the mansion, into the dining room and proceeded to feed his horse oats out of this plate warmer. now, the comment that he probably should not be feeding his horse in the governor's mansion and his comment to them was i have to feed more people in this home with less manners than my horse has. >> july 7 and 8 on c-span 2 and 3. >> next weekend, award-winning author and historian david pietrusza is our guest on

missouri is still in the union, virginia was not. nonetheless, if you are a soldier, if you are an onlooker, there's a clear contradiction in army policy in 1861. union army encampment, we have seen a reliance on slave labor. yet we have halak issuing general odors number 3, which means no fugitive slaves would be permented to enter the line of any camp or forces on the march and those lines to be excluded there from. we have november of 1861, henry halak, saying all of these sort of -- all these black labors, former slaves, they're not supposed to be there. again, contradiction. ambiguity because the order is -- it's sort of recognizing the breach wasn't attractive. it drives camps crazy. what are we going to do? but there it is. it's a conundrum, and it's a conundrum that drives soldiers crazy. you have a wisconsin guy writing to his hometown newspaper in the hopes his elected official will read it, saying on this, the government policy makes no more sense than the ancient oracles. lincoln will say one thing to congress, another th

in missouri and we're showing right now of a sign from missouri where the kkk was victorious and wasicipate in this program. of course, georgia want a different result from what the supreme court found. they want to challenge the ku klun klux klan. some are saying that perhaps georgia with withdraw from being a part of this adopt a highway program rather than allow them to be part. >> that would be such a shame. civil rights groups call them a domestic terror group. can they be denied on those grounds? >> it could be but i don't suspect it's going to win the day. there is precedent. this fight has already been fought in missouri. it's already arrived at the supreme court. i don't believe that there will be a different result here. i know i'm going to get tons of e-mails about this but this is the state of law now. >> get ready. you'll have to respond the great to see you. see you back in new york. >> thanks so much. >>> we're getting word from apple on software advances and the company's big plans for the future. it's time to play reporter roulette. first to chad myers. >> reporter:

president in never nervetion mitt romney in missouri. tory dunnan. which one should we keep an eye on? >> reporter: the states highlighted in yellow are the key battleground states. we'll seat candidates make trip after trip. president obama is in neverness. here's what he's saying. >> we knew that recovering the jobs would take some time. we knew there would be ups and downs all the way. in las vegas i believe that. i believe we were come back stronger. we have better days ahead and that's because of people like you. >> reporter: beyond these bat many ground states, there are states up in the hair that might be leaning one way. the blue for president obama and the red for mitt romney. here's what romney is saying. >> president obama trusts in the wisdom of government. i put my trust in the ingenuity and creativity and commitment to hard work of the american people and that, we must restore. i need your votes. i need your help. i need to win missouri. >> reporter: the candidate's wives are getting in on the action. ann romney is in florida and michel

i went to school in missouri. i was a journalism major. the missouri senate race is one of the most interesting in the country. clear mccaskill is running for reelection. they have a late primary. they have three candidates. it is possible the republicans will nominate the weakest candidate. it is possible mccaskill could be reelected in a state that normally would go republican. there are a lot of things going on. the race in montana is a very interesting race. it is a republican state. he fits the personality of the state. do not forget, the old and a wild card, no one thinks has a chance -- the ultimate wild card, no one thinks has a chance, bob kerrey. >> right. [laughter] >> he is a very interesting candidate. he is an unusual candidate. it is not going to be easy for him to win. not impossible. >> he has lived in new york the last 10 years. he is a badly flawed republican. the three republicans running, one of them is critical disfigured politically speaking. -- quarter thickly disfigured politically speaking -- horrifically disfigur

state capital, jefferson city, with local content vehicles on the campus of university of missouri. >> this is our most famous book. this is the one we like to show to visitors when they come to the archives here at page library. and this is a book about harriet tubman. it's called harriet, the moses of her people. and the special thing about this book was written in 1866. the sperm thing about this book is is is that harriet tubman made her mark on there and that's really the most famous autograph, if you want to call it that of what we have here in page library. obviously she couldn't read or write. she left her mark, the sign of the cross. >> watch for book tv and american history tv in jefferson city, missouri. july 7th and 8th on c-span2 and 3. the veterans affairs department estimates that 18 veterans take their own lives every day. additionally the defense department confirmed recently that suicides are on the rise among veterans. both departments co-hosted a suicide provengs conference in washington this week. attendants heard from the son of a football player who committed

if the university of missouri's not playing the fighting illini, i'll root for the missouri tigers. missouri has a nuclear power plant called callaway. and what i did months ago i came down on the floor, these are old posters, and compared callaway to yucca. it is 650 metric tons of spent fuel on site. yucca has none. waste will be stored 1,000 feet underground. waste is being stored above ground. waste would be 1,000 feet from the water table. at callaway is 65 feet above the ground. waste is 100 miles from the colorado. at callaway, it is five miles from the missouri river. the state of missouri needs an answer by their elected members of how should we handle the nuclear waste at callaway. well, senator blunt has already stated that he supports moving nuclear waste to yucca mountain. in fact, on a floor vote just two weeks ago, eight of the nine members of congress, a bipartisan majority, said nuclear waste should be in yucca mountain or at least we should finish the scientific study to see if it's feasible versus keeping it in missouri. the members of the house who voted in suppo

west ward a prit teep strong frontal boundary pushing eastward heavy town pours -- downpours across missouri iowa. same system will be firing up strong severe storms across texas panhandle into arkansas. large hail damaging winds a concern. we can't rule out an isolated tornado. >> maria molina, thanks. >>> 11 minutes after the hour. former green jobs czar van jones now going against the president? that seems to be the case in one recent interview. we will report you will decide. this graduation speaker did not mince words. >> none of you is special. you are not special. yes, you have been pampered, doted upon, helmeted, bubble wrapped. >> that's not even the half of it. we have much more of that coming right up. >> 15 after the hour. who needs kurds and shiites who are part of the government accusing him of monday nop liesing power. this after a mortar attack left 6 people dead and 38 injured. the victims of jerry sandusky could confront the football coach as early as today following opening statements in his trial. he faces 52 criminal counts. he is accused of sexually abusing 10 boys duri

back in 2000 the state of missouri lost a similar fight with a group of the kkk and a court rules under first amendment, the state could not deny an adoption the highway application just because officials disagreed with the groups point of view. and judge napolitano is back with us as is fox news legal analyst. those against this, look, this is a hate group looking to pick up new membership and rebrand itself. if the state goes along with this, the state is complicity. >>judge napolitano: a hate group that would reject mercedes, me, a lot of people watching the show new but hate peach is protected in the united states of america, the supreme court has ruled that way and the circuit court in missouri, in my view, properly ruled that way. if this were a private highway, you could decide who you wanted to do business with and you could say i will not buy your product, i will not put your sign on my private highway but because it is owned by the government the government cannot make a decision based on its opinion of their opinion. >>shepard: they could do away with the program, which they

and warrants were served and arrests made in kansas and missouri. this car has missouri plates. neighbors said they never noticed anything out of the ordinary. the biz on american avenue, it is unclear how it is connected. neither the dea or police would talk with us on the record today. john sasaki, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> we know the identity of a teenager shot and killed last night, 17-year-old, he was walking in front of a elementary school when someone fired from the car. he was pronounced dead that scene. this marks san jose's 19's homicide of the year. police are searching for a suspect armed and dangerous. he is the suspect in the killing of a man. he was stabbed to death on february 27. they don't believe the killing was gang related. they believe he knows he is wanted and attempting to flee. >>> the family of sierra lamar raised the reward fund today. 70 people fanned out to look for her and they raised the reward to $35,000. this saturday it will be three months since she disappeared. antolin garcia-torres has been charged with her murder. a dive team will search aga