mr. powell would never let me quit in any case. beautiful! you paid that bookie yet? why? have a feeling it's not going to be maddock's night. you don't want to disappoint me, do you? please don't do that. please! someone help me, please! (car engine whirring) (bluesy theme music) ♪

hall inwalk out of the philadelphia, mrs. powellcomes up and famously says, what have you rot in their -- wrought in there? , madam,ays, a republic if you can keep it. you knew it was up to us to pull together to keep it healthy. even in a year like we are having now. during his lifetime, benjamin franklin donated to the building fund of each and every church in philadelphia. he believed that much in inclusivity, that the strength of our nation was that we brought different types of people together. one of the greatest historians of america once said, all franklin ever gave us was the notion of a good-natured religious and ethnic policy. look around the world today and think, wow. that was a very important notion. not something to be dismissed. which we key notion of were bill. at one point, they were building a new hall in the via -- in philadelphia for preachers who came for the great awakening. it is still to the left of independence hall, even called the new hall, and he wrote the fundraising document for it. if -- ofote, even c

as they walk out of the hall in philadelphia mrs. powell, one of the grand matrons of philadelphia comes up and famously says "what have you wrought in there, dr. franklin, what have you given us?" and he said "a republic, madam, if you can keep it." he knew it was up to each one of us to be able to pull it together, to keep it healthy even in a year like the year we're having now. during his lifetime, benjamin franklin donated to the building fund of each and every church built in philadelphia. he believed that much in inclusivity, that the strength of our nation was that we brought different types of people together. one of the great historians of america once said all franklin ever gave us is -- a dismissive sentence -- was the notion of a good natured religious and ethnic tolerance. look around the world today and think wow, that actually was a very important notion, not something to be dismissed. it's the key notion upon which it was built. so he donates to the building fund of each and every church built in philadelphia. at one point

mr. powell. and i think that book did that. i think now he is soon as a fuller american figure, warts and all. no one is perfect. but his talent far outweighed any flaws that he had and so that is where i can put your question finding the positive in these stories. >> host: i want to show video of adam clayton powell. >> i adam powell belong to a group of people that some others may think are inferior but i belong to a group of people that god, god of all power, said you are my children and you are the same as anyone else. and with that kind of faith in me and courage in me i know i am as good, if not better, than anybody that walks out. it is not the color of your skin, brother. it is what you got in your heart and your mind that makes you a man or woman. remember that. and if you all will stand together then nobody in this world that can stop a united mass of people moving as one, standing together, working together, ticketing together, voting together, win together, walk together. take me to the promise land. >> host: and fr

powell. join me in welcoming mr. mean. >> i also wrote "67 shots." i'm going to talk about that tonight instead of 76. thank you, amanda. ammann to is also herself a very accomplished novelist, and mystery stories, won an agatha christie. everybody who was at kent state in 1970, stand up and raise your hand. okay, this is scary. this is really scary. i wanted to point out jerry back there. [applause] >> jerry was a great help to me in putting -- getting contacts and writing the book, and as some of you are perhaps taking his course here for over 55 on kent state itch'll start with a slide show, just to sort of get us all on the same page about the times-what the background noise was that happened on may 4, and the people would weren't at kent state can envision what the situation looked like. it all begins -- begins april 30, 1970. the evening richard nixon addresses the nation. he had previously two weeks el area announce third would be a drawdown in vietnam of 150,000 troops, and on april 30th, and he announces instead the war is going to be expand

powell. concludes that mr. blair's note, which had not been discussed or agreed with colleagues, sent the u.k. on a path leading to diplomatic activity with the participation of military action in a way that would make it very difficult for the u.k. subsequently to withdraw support from the united states. but that was not what was being told to parliament at the same time. parliament was not told of assurances to george w. bush on military action. the prime minister was only striving for peace, that he was trying to find any way to avoid a conflict. saddam,was all up to whether he chose peace or conflict. and that deliberate misrepresentation of what was being said to the americans at what was being said to parliament continued into the very onset of war itself. memoir, quoted by my honorable friend, when blair was telling parliament, even in "i never put out justification for action as regime change." he was quoting george bush only a few days later. iraq's weapons of mass destruction is the immediate justific

same thing with secretary powell when we found the two classified e-mails that were sent to him. >> okay. mr. mccullough what do you think about this? >> with regard to? >> the lack of response by secretary powell four years and then getting zero from condoleezza rice as well. >> my office's role here was extraordinarily narrow. when we came in, ig linick's office was doing this review. it was limited to the past five secretaries. we don't have the resources -- the tasking, i believe from congress -- >> we just spent $7 million investigating secretary clinton. we don't have the resources to, you know, to -- >> i'm talking about my office. the tasking from congress was to determine whether classified information -- one of the taskings that i believe steve received was to determine whether classified information had traversed nongovernmental systems at the state department. his office scoped that down to the past five secretaries. when i came in, we thought it was the easiest thing, and quite frankly, we thought it would be the fastest thing to do, since they already had 30,000 documents they

powell. so john chilcot concludes that the meaning of this, mr. blair's note, which had not been discussed or agreed with colleagues, set the uk on a path leading to diplomatic activity in the u.n., the possibility of participation in military action in a way that would make it very difficult for the uk subsequently to withdraw support from the united states. that that was not what was being told to parliament at the same time. parliament was not told of assurances to george w. bush on military action. parliament was said the prime minister was striving for peace. that he was trying to find anyway to avoid a conflict. that it was all up to saddam whether he chose peace or conflict. and that deliberate misrepresentation of what was being said to the americans and what was being said to parliament continued of course into the very onset of war itself. and when the, the memo put in by my honourable friend early on in this debate, when blair was telling parliament even in the speech in the war or peace debate, i have never put out justification for ac

powell. so john chilcot concludes that the meaning of this, mr. blair's note, which had not been discussed or agreed with colleagues set the uk on a path leading to diplomatic opportunity in the u.n., and the participation in military action in a way that would make it very difficult for the uk subsequently to withdraw its support from the united states. but that was not what was being told to parliament at the same time. parliament was not told of assurances to george w. bush. they said they were striving for peace, he was trying to find any way to avoid a conflict, that it was all about to saddam whether he chose peace or conflict. and that deliberate misrepresentatn of what was being said to the americans and what was being said to parliament continued, of course, into the very onset of war itself. and when we -- the memrow quoo by my friend, when blair was telling parliament even in the speech and the war and peace debate, i have never put our justification for action as regime change, he was telling george bush only a few days later, that's w