here in the city here the deputy leader of the opposition free democrats in the german parliament mr alexander graf lamb star of a very warm welcome mr lamb do you believe the u.k. is ready for a no deal back that well i believe what happened today was a welcome sign of realism because the british government in the past has been pollyannish about the situation in the knowledge has now that dominic robb called pragmatism is now what's called for because there is a likelihood of no deal being reached i don't hope that it's going to be the case but we don't know it may well so i mean be right in your assessment do you still think there is a glimmer of hope and that a deal is within reach well i believe that if the u.k. finds a solution for the irish border and makes it position clear on whether it wants to stay in the customs union with the european union a deal can be reached but the red lines that the u.k. government has drawn are still there so no membership in the single market no membership in the customs union and that makes it exceedingly difficult what's so interesting to have you here wi

mr. alexander: well, mr. president, if i may, i thank the senator for his remarks and his leadership hon this amendment. i think it is important to be clear on this. of course the senator has the right to object to an amendment, i suppose, but sooner or later this amendment or something like it is going to become law. i support the amendment. president trump supports the amendment. senator durbin has worked with republicans and democrats over the last three or four weeks to think of different, appropriate ways to require television advertising to state what the price of a drug is. and there would be different ways to do it. i asked him to take a few weeks to help us talk that out. he did that. i think he's come up to a conclusion that deserves support. i support the bill. i'm change of the authorizing committee, the health committee in the senate. so this is going to happen one way or the other, senator durbin. and so i would suggest we try to find a way to go ahead and do it now. because if the president sup

come back and talk to us once there is a deal thank you so much for taking out to speak to us mr alexander graff lamb star of leader deputy leader of the opposition free democrats the chairman thank you didn't. get you caught up now with some of the other stories making news around the world. over the australia is embroiled in a leadership crisis that could topple prime minister malcolm turnbull he has promised to quit if enough members of his liberal party vote for a fresh leadership challenge on friday turnbull has described the move against him as an internal insurgency to push his party further to the right. the democratic national committee in the us says an attempted hack into its voter database has been thwarted this comes two years after russian operatives hacked into democratic party computers during the presidential election facilitating their release of tens of thousands of emails it's not yet known who was behind this latest hacking attempt. spain has deported over one hundred migrants from its north african territory ceuta the migrants were sent back to morocco after breaching

mr. alexander: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the mandatory quorum call be waived. the presiding officer: is there objection? without objection. the clerk will report the motion to invoke cloture. the clerk: cloture motion, we, the undersigned senators in accordance with the provisions of with the provisions of rule 22 of the standing rules of the senate do hereby move to bring to a close debate on the nomination of lynn a. johnson of colorado to be assistant secretary for family support, department of health and human services, signed by 17 senators. the presiding officer: by unanimous consent, the mandatory quorum call has been waived. the question is, is it the sense of the senate that debate on the nomination of lynn a. johnson of colorado to be assistant secretary for family support, department of health and human services, shall be brought to a close. the yeas and nays are mandatory under the rule. the clerk will call the roll. vote: vote: vote: the presiding officer:ville all senators voted? any senator wish to change their vote? on this vote the yeas are 60.

alexander does she have a point because mr cohen is in dire straits and he hasn't always been very truthful here. that's true and it's really seems to be the main defense line of trump's lawyer to say that cohen is a liar and they're referring to contradictory statements made by trump's former personal attorney in the past however we have to say that it was a different situation yesterday in the court in the courtroom that michael cohen was answering the judge's questions. and that he apparently provided evidence there are trends there are apparently tepid conversations with the president so at the moment indeed we don't have any indication to believe that he is lying alexander how is all of this playing out in the u.s. . when we talk to critics there are convinced that it could prove to be the most consequential day or time of trump's presidency and presidency that is in deep crisis however we have to say that lawyers his advisers and many republicans are convinced that cohen is lying and lying that there is no wrongdoing by the president some even are convinced that the president can turn

i never heard of alexander van der zwaan or mr.s or the russian military officials did that, every single time. so i presume that we have a tiny fraction of what mueller has. and even trying to guess at what he has that we don't know about i believe is a fool's errand. >> joyce vance, what's your sense of what we may learn of all of these things that mueller has collected? how much of it are we going to see? and what of it do you think might be the most critical piece here? >> well, prosecutors don't have any kind of a political timeline. so i feel pretty sure, chuck can correct me if i'm wrong, that bob mueller didn't wake up this morning and look down at his watch at the calendar function and say oh, mix, it's almost lai labor day. i need to get a few things out of the way. prosecutors indict cases when they're ready to be indicted. they don't delay them, they don't rush them. so inch what we'll see in the next few weeks, could we see another indictment or a few more informations with cooperation agreements? absolutely we could,

party alexander gallant about the protests and violence in kenya it's. also what mr gallon the starting pointing kemet was the horrible death of a young man a city is in turmoil how great is the political success for you in this situation in cabinets what you consider it is such. that the deficit issue world the two i would never consider a person's death and riots a political success there have been serious mistakes. there's been no talk of the death itself only about the demonstrations encampments and yes right wing radicals and hooligans have jumped on it is but it's still legitimate for people to take to the streets because they no longer feel safe. but of course that has nothing to do with success for the f.d.a. for. you in. your own need to vital has said can it says every way she speaks of knife men on benefits saying thousands of violent criminals have come to germany so you are actually declaring germany unsafe at the same time in march some a.f.d. members of parliament were in syria and spoke to the. and said that syria was safe for the return of refugees h

mr. ritchie: there is a broadway musical now about the shooting of alexander hamilton.e was shot by the sitting vice president of the united states. that's pretty dramatic. we've had terrible political times when passions have flared up. the system is designed, actually, supposedly, to calm those things down, and when you had somebody like robert byrd in the senate, that was his job, cooling down the tempers and getting senators to step up and do their jobs. it does happen, though, and we are in a very rough spot right now. brian: do you ever study whether or not -- obviously, you know this, there were guns on the floor of the house of representatives. mr. smock: oh, yeah. members carried weapons before the civil war and some even afterwards. of course officers and police , are armed. the sergeant at arms is armed. when jack russell was the sergeant at arms of the house of representatives, was a real gung ho guy, like central casting created him, i think he carried three guns on him, when in his shoe, but there were shootings, and people pulled pistols on one another on

mr. president, one of my colleagues, i think it was either george voinovich or lamar alexander were working on legislation to address for our air pollutants, night are tron oxide, mercury and carbon dioxide. and we offered legislation in response to the bush administration. they said they who dealt with nitrogen oxide and mercury. they called it clear skies. pretty clever. we added that to carbon dioxide. we called our proposal really clear skies. and i remember having a meeting in my office about a decade ago and we had -- in my office we had my colleague, my republican cosponsor, we also had representatives from six, seven, eight, nine utilities from all over the country and we were debating, discussing whether or not clear skies, the bush proposal, or really clear skies, our proposal, really made sense. at the end of the discussion, i'll never forget what one of the utility c.e.o.'s said. i foe he -- i know he was from the south. he said, senators, here's what you should do. tell us what the rules are going to be. give us a reasonable amount of time, some flexibility, and get out of the

he appointed sadie tanner mozel alexander in 1946 to a presidential commission. >> thank you all very much. colonel bradford, mr. james it , has been a pleasure to have you here. great discussion. ron will be in the lobby to sign some books. thank you for being here and please do come again. [applause] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [crowd talking] >> interested in american history tv? visit c-span.org/history. view our tv schedule, crazy upcoming programs and watch college lectures, museum lectures, archival films and more. c-span.org/history. tuesday we will be live at 9:00 p.m. eastern with arizona state university professor jonathan park to take calls come ets ands -- call, twe emails on injured jackson's presidency. i never thought i would say this, injured, but thank you. clay. i am not done. clays says, what do you mean you're not done? jackson says there is one other thing. the bank. the bank? it's funny you mentioned that because i was thinki

mr. manafort. we have coverage with nbc national correspondent peter alexander. hey, peter, good morning. >> hey, hoda, good morning to you. rick gates, that is donald trump's former deputy campaign manager is due back on the stand today after a dramatic day of testimony pointing the finger at paul manafort saying they are both guilty. this morning rick gates becoming the first campaign official to confess his crimes on the witness stand. gates, long time deputy and right-hand man asked, were you involved in any criminal activity with mr. manafort. his reply, yes. did you commit any crimes with manafort? again, yes. special counsel robert mueller's star witness in the case admitted he and manafort hiding millions of dollars from the irs in 15 offshore bank accounts all done at manafort's direction insisting both men knew they were committing a crime. manafort, trump's former campaign chairman has pleaded not guilty to tax charges. another stunning confession, gates also admitting he stole hundreds of thousands of dollars from manafort while working for him. insid

mr. chairman, i would like to introduce my partner, michelle edelman and youngest son alexander who just finished an internship at the state department this week. i would also like to thank my son -- introduce my son andrew. their love and support over the years have been invaluable as they have accompanied me around the world. it has been my privilege to serve the american people in eight countries over the past three decades and to see my sons grow into such accomplished young man. it is an honor to be nominated to serve the united states in such a strategically important country at such a critical time. eighth largest country by population, bangladesh is known for its moderate and secular and perspectives. bangladesh aspires to become a middle income country. increasingly important as a trading partner for u.s. investment. it is a vital link between south and southeast asia. it is a country of commerce and opportunity. we work closely with bangladesh on a variety of issues. security and defense cooperation as well as trade and investment. the u.s. is committed to a free and open into

well, we can speak now to alexander downer, who was a former leader of the liberal party, and australia‘s longest serving foreign minister for 10 years. and mrour spirits think we know a thing or two mag about parties can‘t get on amongst themselves, but australians seem to have it down to a fine art. —— us british people. this is most unusual. this spate of prime minister is being removed over the last ten years. i think a lot of australians regard it as a bit embarrassing as well. it is not the history of australia. in the last quarter of a century. we had three prime ministers until ten years ago. thenin prime ministers until ten years ago. then in the last ten years, we have had this constant change. is it possible to unpick what is a play in the last decade? there seem to be a couple of things. the first is that the politicians themselves become obsessed with opinion polls in what is admittedly a short parliamentary cycle. the australian parliament only lasts for three years, whereas in the uk it is five. naturally enough, they are focused on opinion polls throughout that period then you might be in the uk. but they have become quite ob

possibly have imagined, which was alexander butterfield revealing that nixon had in one of the most ka lousily stupid maneuvers in history had taped himself. besides that, mrs. lincoln, how was the play? richard nixon would tape himself. we just don't know in trump world what possible evidence there could be that, whether it's tapes or memos or testimony. we just don't know. and third was the fact that he actually was, in fact, guilty. and there was a bit -- there was a common sense recognition of this after the supreme court ruled in late july of 1974 that he had to hand over the tapes and he was gone within about two weeks. here's one of the questions that sort of brings the political and the legal together, and we don't know the answer to this. there is the legal process, and an open question about whether a president, a sitting president can be indicted and tried. there's opinion on it, but it's very mixes. the supreme court has never ruled on this. the politics of impeachment is very much about that. from andrew johnson to bill clinton, to nixon, the nature of impeachment is that a high crime and misdemeanor is really whatever majority of the house dec

alexander bach who was head of the u.s. survey, and grandson or great grandson of ben franklin. might be acceptable. >> thank you. >> particularly -- >> mr. krist and mr. lawler, any that you would recommend that were sort of the small pieces that you couldn't expand on? >> i think that there are some wonderful biographies of the characters that i touch on, particularly -- one thing that amazed me in researching this book was how much wonderful writing there has been about early hollywood. there are wonderful biographs -- auto biography of gloria swanson, sound -- it is actually extremely well-written, stromly informative, and hard to put down. i think it's called "my life," and also, hollywood historians who are just fascinating and i never really expected that to be the case. maybe that was condescend offering me, but i was very pleasantly surprised by that. >> i'm kind of nerdy about american history, but -- his set fair for roanoke is a wonderful book. there really are not a lot of narrative nonfictions i read recently about early -- the early settlement of the americas i can recommend off the top of my head. there's one about the fo

mr. alexander: are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are. mr. alexander: i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. alexander: thank you, madam president. madam president, the united states senate has developed a bad habit, and that bad habit is treating presidential nominees as innocent until nominated. i hope to see better behavior during the next few weeks as the senate begins hearings on president trump's nomination of judge kavanaugh to be a member of the united states supreme court. instead of treating judge kavanaugh as someone recently released from san quinten prison, i hope we treat him with dignity and respect so americans can better understand about his temperament, about his intelligence, about his character. that's what we should want to know about a presidential nominee to the supreme court. the current rudeness is a recent phenomenon. historically senators have recognized that bipartisan approval of qualified nominees helps improve the esteem of the court. it confirms its impartiality, it

mr. adelman: i don't know if it is true. alexander gardner, the photographer of the dead at devil's den, he did come back. he covered some of the things going on. the gettysburg address and the consecration of the national cemetery. he went back and found the musket and the bones of the soldier. this is a confederate soldier. they were left in the ground for about eight years. then they were removed south. it is possible the soldier could have been there. could they found the gun against the rock in such a prominent location? highly unlikely. i don't know the answer. i find it amazing, very unlikely there could be a gun there four months later. there is stuff all over the battlefield. they find stuff. it might have taken 150 pounds to kill a person. that's a lot of projectiles. that was the job to collect the small arms and report on those. i find it highly unlikely. maybe one more question. does anybody have one? then i can take questions off-line. i will be signing books. go ahead, sir. >> how did you guys decide on the order for th