our national anthem. by the way, we are not just bringing to the -- people together here on the national mall but also all over our country and world. i would like to send a special welcome to our streaming audience who is watching us via youtube and espn three. -- espn 3. it is very appropriate that our opening conductor is well known for bringing together singers from all over the world with his infamous and very well-done virtual choir project. i would like you all to join me in thanking grammy-winning composer mr. eric whitaker. [applause] also, let me introduce you all to today's choir. i got to tell you these guys are great and i have a lot of fun with them earlier today at rehearsal. they are organized by the john f. kennedy center for performing america, and classical movement. 400 voices from 45 states age nine to 81. let's give them a hand. [applause] would also like to bank our men and women -- we would also like to thank our men and women of the united states air force. please give them a hand

[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> next, eric holder talks about the 1964 civil rights act. then, charles bolden on the anniversary of the moon landing. >> john quincy adams was the second adams to be elected to the white house. the second northerner to be elected to the white house. twoas only one of anti-slavery presidents to be elected to the white house. he was deeply feared by the south. they worry that his vision of a unified country in which the federal government of the states were partners in a relationship that enabled the federal government to play leading roles in binding the country together through infrastructure projects, supporting manufacturing, and so on. he was deeply suspected by the southern states who thought that he wanted too much power for the federal government. >> frank kaplan on john quincy adams. >> on tuesday, eric holder spoke at a ceremony at howard university. commemorating the 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act. that law was signed by presi

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> this year, c-span is touring cities, exploring american history. up next, a look at our recent visit to des moines, iowa. all weekend, every weekend, american history on c-span 3. >> americans have tried to bypass iowa, either because they do not think the party is a good fit for what their message might be. sometimes they are worried they cannot campaign here because they are against certain issues that are important in iowa. as problem is that as long the media continues to pay attention to the iowa caucuses, the candidates are basically missing out on part of the debate and part of the spotlight if they are not here. there is over 1000 precincts, and people gather at a certain time during the day. they start at 7:00, usually. they can expect to spend a couple of hours. voting on a presidential candidate is only one thing they do during the caucuses. there are also discussions about platforms. different parties have different rules, but they stand separately to be ele

[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> you are watching american history tv all weekend, every weekend on c-span3. to join the conversation, like us on facebook. >> all weekend, american history is joining our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of mississippi's capital city, jackson. to learn more about the cities on our 2014 tour, visit www.c-span.org/localcontent. we continue with our look at the history of jackson on c-span3. >> we hope to send into mississippi this summer upwards of 1000 teachers, ministers, lawyers, and students from all around the country who will engage in what we are calling freedom schools, community center programs, voter registration activity, research work, work in the white communities, and in general, a program designed to open up mississippi to the country. >> did you hear me? >> with freedom summer, the idea was they needed to attract national attention to what was happening in mississippi. civil rights activists worried a there wasir efforts, a lot of v

[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> thank you so much. >> the next, attorney general speaks about the civil rights act. and then a talk on u.s. diplomacy and the downing of malaysia airlines flight 17. and then charles bolden on the anniversary of the moon landing. >> tomorrow "washington journal," marking the 45th anniversary of the moon landing. buzz aldrin responds. a bloomberg news reporter will talk about talks. she will discuss the democratic presidential candidates. abouttrick clawson talks the status of talks concerning the iran nuclear program. and youtake your calls can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. >> for over 35 years, c-span yougs events directly to putting you in the role of hearings and conferences. and offering you complete gavel to gavel coverage all as a public service. created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago. watch us in hd and liked us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> on tuesday, attorney general eric holder spoke at a ceremony at howard univers

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nation. far too often, however, the discoveries made in our labs get stuck in our labs. this is due to a number of reasons and this bill seeks to break down many of those purely bureaucratic barriers. by extending the pilot for act agreements within d.o.e., the labs are given the ability to negotiate more flexible contracts with nonfederal entities that would like to take the lab's research and turn it into a viable product. this legislation would also grant to the directors of the national labs the signature authority for many agreements with nonfederal entities. currently the secretary of energy must make these decisions. so decisions a lab director can make over a phone call must weave their way through unnecessary bureaucracy before they land on the secretary's desk. this bill would streamline that process. h.r. 5120 also seeks to improve the department's relationship with small businesses that can take part in the sbirsttr program and it encourages the secretary to enter into agreements

our national anthem. by the way, we're not just bringing people together here in washington, d.c., on the national mall, but also all over our country and indeed world. i'd like to send a special welcome to our streaming audience who is watching us via youtube stream and cspan3. it's very appropriate our opening conductor is well known bringing together singers with his infamous and well done virtual choir projects. i would like you all to join me in thanking grammy-winning composer mr. eric whitaker. also, let me introduce you all to today's choir. i've got to tell you, these guys are great and i had a lot of fun with them earlier today at rehearsal. they are organized by john f. kennedy center of performing arts chorus america and classical movements. 400 voices from 45 states aged 9 to 81. let's give them a hand. we would also like to thank our men and women in the united states air force. as you guys can see, we have the united states air force band and singing sergeants with us today, but they're not

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] spoke inresident biden his remarks are in a moment. followed by the homeland security secretary jeh johnson, making the case for the senate approval of the 3.7 emergency request of minors entering the u.s.. >> 40 years ago, the watergate scandal led to the only resignation of an american president. throughout this month in early august, american history tv revisits 1974 and the final weeks of the mixture and administration. here the supreme court oral arguments as the watergate congressional prosecutor attacked the president's claim of privilege in the overall -- oval office -- >> the president might be right in how he reads the constitution but he might also be wrong. if he is wrong, who is there to tell him shut -- tell him so? free to pursue his course of your on this interpretations. what becomes of our constitutional form of government? eastern onat 8:00 american history tv on c-span three. >> now you can keep in touch with current events from the nation's capital usin

fan close second. >> i have tickets to the nationals and my kids like the nationals. >> some say this is washington, they're my team, i'm not rooting for anyone but my home town. >> i have actually struggled th i feel so closely aligned with the nationals, and because my kids do and because it is my home now, and i feel this connection to the team, and it's in some ways harder for me to keep that connection to the dodgers. you know, i always felt like it's treasonist to say that, but i do feel that lure. what do you think the nationals have done well to sort of create that other than just being here? >> being good, i think, is a very important one. they've had a competitive team and they've made things a little entertaining. the president's race is a big draw. they're actually doing a lot in the community now. they're doing events ligat libraries. matt williams, for instance, was at the library. i took my son there. they're encouraging kids to read over the summer. they're doing a lot of great things for the community, so that combined worked out well. >> you have to ask yourself how

national park, and big cypress national preserve.get to any of those places if you live in miami, you need a car. and a lot of working class folks don't have a car. there was also very the public transportation. so, yes, part of it is about poverty. but we live in a larger system, in a larger set of structure. part of it is also about the cities and the states that we live in, and their concern and care for all of us. >> the link between poverty is well documented. people who live in poverty don't have access to transportation. >> but it doesn't mean we don't have a relationship with nature or the environment. because we all do. my belief is we all have a story and a connection, but those stories aren't always valued or put front in center. >> but let's just be politically incorrect, i can handle that and obviously you can too. part of the fact is we have always had a connection to the land. but for many of us, that land has been stripped from us, taken away from us. you can talk red folk and black folk and brown folks. so the very p

and make our nation whole.easured strength and our unbounded spirit will be free to do the great works ordained for this nation by the just and wise god who is the father of us all. >> ladies and gentlemen, united states representative from the 5th district of georgia, the honorable george lewis. [ applause ] >> we gather here in the capitol to honor dr. martin luther king, jr. and his beloved wife coretta scott king. one of the most distinguished husband and wife teams of the 20th century. often history remembers speeches or facts and figures, but i cannot forget their love. from their union came an enduring strength that carried many of us through the darkest days of the movement. when they stood together, their bodies became great pillars of hope, the roof of the american house resting on their shoulders. they led a nonviolent revolution, a revolution of values, a revolution of ideas. mrs. king had the rare ability to tell the story of the movement through song, through music, to travel the length and breadt

this is who we are as a nation. and when we have children, innocents escaping violence and terror and crimes against humanity where we as a nation are not even fully relieved of culpability for what is going on, when the drugs that our nation consumes is helping to drive that violence, we have a responsibility. that is who we are. that is our truth. we know this. we are a nation of people who came from persecution, who came from famine, who came from religious wars. we are a nation settled by those who are yearning to be free. i know the statue of liberty well because new jersey has its back. when i travel around the state, i often get a great view of her noble torch, and i know that it's not down along our southern border, but the ideals of the statue of liberty still hold true. give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free, the wretched masses of your teeming shore. send the homeless, temptest toss to me. i am grateful and support the senator's leadership and by following the letter of the

there were murders and beatings that were not attracting national attention. the idea is if you can bring in outsiders, northerners, whites, that can attract more national attention, then they could show to the country and the rest of the world what needed to change. they brought down civil rights activists to come help in this process and the deed they attracted a great deal of national attention and quite tragically, with the murder of the michael schwerner, andrew goodman and james chaney. if focused national attention on what was happening. we are in the cofo building. from 1963-1965 this was the head of the council of federated organizations, which was the group that oversaw and ran of freedom summer. cofo was made of of different things. there was the naacp, there was the sclc, and all these different civil rights groups decided to achieve much more working together so they decided to found cofo and partnered on doing voter registration work. mississippi had the reputation, and i think what rightfully, as the most difficult place for the civil rights mov

we are a great nation. we are capable of safeguarding our national security while simultaneously proceeding with humanity in addressing this crisis. and any future challenge this country faces. this problem demands action now to provide these agencies with the funds they need to meet this crisis. now, if we don't pass this and if these departments run out of money and if facilities have to be closed and if there is nowhere for these children to go, let us think for a moment what happens to them. should they experience the same thing in this country that they have back home? what will they do? and what does that do to our conscience? i think that this supplemental is well-put together. the chairman of our committee has gone through it with a fine-tooth comb. she has reduced it in size. i think it is well-representative of the situation that dramatically needs funding. so i really hope that there's a heart in this body and that this supplemental appropriations is approved. i thank the chair. i yield the floor

france and there the national the national interests and indeed threats and there they're. on political models the other thing that i would like to say is of course the simply cannot understand the second war without one the second is launch a product of the first but again these are not part of the same conflict there are very clear differences and also war was not and war is never one of the policy makers may like us to believe inevitable and in fact in the war years we know the treaty of versailles and the league of nations failed on this only after fell and it's important to remember that it's the end of the day the second war like the first was a product of failures by policy makers. drastically exactly and i wonder if we've really learned from them ivan eland and we just heard here that you know we have france and britain in getting involved the world out of now a nationalist sort of perceived national interest but the war ended really as. a net loss for them it wasn't thought of at the time because they got to start colonizing the middle east but it was the united st

it's about we're a nation with borders. we're a nation with laws. orderly immigration policies so that people are safe, so our citizens are safe, so that people that are trying to get here are safe. you know, we're not a borderless nation. >> there's 11 million undocumented people here. and there's people that keep migrating to the united states. it's not an us versus we situation. it's a we. it's everybody together. >> reporter: back live here in murrieta, these ladies are actually sitting down because of heatstroke, jake, one problem that they're now facing is that it's so hot out here people are starting to suffer from heatstroke. jake? >> kyung lah in southern california. thank you so much. let's bring in our political panel. cnn political commentator ross dowth dechlt for the nrkds. sayed kapur, cnn congressional correspondent for talking points memo. this all comes as president obama today was naturalizing more than two dozen active duty service members at the white house pressing lawmakers to do immigration reform. but i have to say this immi

[applause] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cablete corp. 2013] ♪ [don't get around much anymore playing] rx for over 35 years, c-span brings you public affairs directly to you, putting a new the rooms at briefings and conferences in offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service of private industry. we're c-span, created by the cable industry 35 years ago and brought to you by a public servant. watch us on hd, like us on facebook thomas and follow us on twitter. >> a few live events today about today on c-span three. immigration services will testify at a house judiciary oversight committee. our live coverage starts at 10 p.m. eastern -- 10 a.m. eastern. live from the atlantic council at 1 a.m. eastern. ups truck driver will testify at a truck safety hearing also once he said -- c-span3. talkg up this hour we will with mississippi senator roger wicker about the house-senate deal on the veterans health-care bill and the debate over immigration and border security. weigh inurke will also on that l

nationals lead by a run.all three runs driven in by jayson werth. >> f.p.: change-up right there at 81. two kinds of change-up. the one he throws for a strike, and one like strasburg, down and away. big out to get here. ryan howard thinking about doing big things. >> kenny: 1-1 from clippard. now 1-2. >> f.p.: so change-up, curve ball, this is where clippard will stick that baseball right between his middle finger and his index finger, and just let it fly. it's a pitch he was fooling around with last year, and has become a weapon for him. >> kenny: the 1-2 to ryan howard. and he pops it up to the left side. >> f.p.: if you're playing straight up, that's an out. ian desmond playing shortstop, they moved ryan zimmerman just to the right of second base. then anthony rendon, out in right field. you see so many shifts now, when you talk about it, you should talk about when teams are playing straight up nowadays because everybody uses a shift, especially against a guy like ryan howard. >> kenny: think we will see a

the program ends with the simultaneous singing of the national anthem. this event is about an hour and a half. >> how's everybody doing today? pretty good? great. i want to welcome you all to your national museum of american history and to anthem for america. my name is xavier. today we're celebrating our national and international flag day sing-along for the 200th anniversary of our star-spangled banner.

joining us now, fox news national security analysts katy mcfarland. this is now a full on escalation at least in rhetoric, the number of strikes and your thoughts about where we're headed? >> i think we can be going, hamas turned down the deal that was offered, seize fire. why? i think very cynsi want to stac gasties. the israelis killed this many palestinians and not have many israelis have died. >> that's a tire some thing. it worked at some point over distance times, but now people are sophisticated enough to realize what they are doing. to watch it can be utterly remarkable as i commented on this broadcast. >> you're right and while a lot of people understand what is going on. there are people maybe in 1600 pennsylvania avenue who don't get it and i think the hamas and palestinian objective and their goal so separate israel from the united states. they know if they can get israel not only isolated not region, if the united states walks away, israel is suicide. >> i think there may be a more difficult problem for administration than it recognizes b

they attracted a great deal of national attention. tragically, with the murders of michael, andrew, and james, it focused national attention on what was happening in mississippi. we are in the cofo building. from 1962 to 9065, this was the head of the council of federated organizations that ran freedom summer trade it was a partnership of different civil rights organizations. you had the student committee, the congress of racial equality, the naacp, the fdlc. these different groups decided they could achieve more working together so they founded cofo doing civil rights activism across the state. mississippi had the reputation as the most difficult place for the civil rights movement to make progress. there was an entrenched notion of white supremacy and blacks were disempowered. the real impact was voter registration, understanding the political power that stemmed from the vote was most appropriately focus and goal in mississippi. there were counties in the state that were black majority. if african-americans had the right to vote, th

and national security are becoming blended. and we're seeing this as many, many different levels. from a scholarship perspective, if you look at the foreign intelligence surveillance act, there's always been a carve-out for foreign intelligence. foreign intelligence is seen as being within the purview of the executive branch. it has consistently been carved out over time. what's happening is the foreign intelligence surveillance act is being applied to criminal law when the primary purpose of the investigation is criminal in nature as long as there's a significant possible terrorism, counter-terrorism, national security type aspect to the case. we're starting to see institutions, next generation identification run by the f.b.i., it blends the terrorism and the national security aspects with criminal law enforcement. you have dual missions. so institutions are becoming bleb blended. there's a situation where national, local and state officials with upload to the f.b.i. which can be uploaded to the dod's platform. you have a nati

more to do with every word in the united nations charter and every institution of the united nations that's ... today. i am saying without howard university -- [applause] without thurgood marshall, judge hastings and many others we wouldn't have had a basis for the margin. i got out of here 63 years ago. [applause] and i said if you give me one more chance -- [laughter] i promise i will do better but i didn't know what happened to me. i say i neglected my studies and math my teachers knew my name, but i got a hell of an education. [applause] don't play yourselves cheap and let anyone else define you. let me go to december 171962. fred shuttlesworth's church was bombed for the third time in the last 18 months. there were 60 bombings in homes where nobody had ever been charged or investigated. fred came to see martin luther king the next day ends at -- first of all the home came completely down and everybody was sure he was dead but he walked out with his shirt and tie on and said if this didn't kill me i can do anything i want to do. so he came to atlanta and got us to say we couldn't

and make our nation whole. let us hasten that day when our unmeasured strength and our unbounded spirit will be free to do the great works ordained for this nation by the just and wise god who is the father of us all. thank you and good night. [ applause ] >> thank you, sir. >> speaker first. >> thank you. >> i think we ought to move out. >> here my friend. >> thank you, mr. president. >> we did better today than we did the other day. >> thank you. >> johnny, you got one? >> you bet. thank you, mr. president. >> thank you, mr. president. >> thank you. >> held jobs edgar. glad to see you. hello, phillip, glad to see you. hello, roy. so glad to see you. did anybody talk to you about i wanted to talk to you before you leave. will you see that the others, i want to talk to them when this is over with. cabinet room. >> mr. president, thank you very much. >> thank you, wayne. thank you, my friend. wayne has approved. >> this one just won't work. >> i'll distribute them right now. my daughter's birthday, july 2nd. >>

-- not to downgrade the national hispanic university, but it's huge when you compare it to the national hispanic university, your global name and brand attached to that. >> well, i appreciate that. i think we do have a lot to offer. i go back to the idea that we have a social justice mission which means we are different than other places. we understand how it's important to be culturally responsive in the classroom, empathize with the students, have teachers that are bilingual or mono lingual. we don't hopefully limit anybody who's coming into the programs because of their previous experiences. i would say we honor bilingualism. for me, it needs to be seen as a strength that we embrace, not a deficit from which we want to run. i think that's what makes us different at santa clara university, in particular our school of education. we're not a 20th century school of education. schools of education, frankly, have failed for a variety of reasons nationally. we're looking to be different than that. >> bilingual education was kind of a -- kept my career afloat, if you will. you probably could

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navy sea chanters singing the national anthem. ♪ ramparts we watched now in their seventh season at nationals the team is again in the hunt for postseason playoffs and a shot at the world series. but baseball already is a winner. it's helping redevelop the southeast-southwest waterfront where the city now is considering adding a new soccer stadium deal for d.c. united. >> hoping to give a little more sizzle to kind of burgeoning areas of the city, we think the soccer stadium probably has the same capability to bring that kind of buzz. >> win or lose, the nation's capital is flush with financially winning teams. the capitals and wizards that helped revive the downtown area at the verizon center. and many city leaders even would like to lure the washington redskins maybe with a name change back to the city. sports are big business. >> but if we were not making big moves like this as a city, we're going to stagnate. >> the verizon center neighborhood isn't stagnating. $200 million in sales and property taxes collected every year clyde's restaurant is one of the businessrie business. an average n

let me say this, without the national archives, and this is not pandering, without the national capital planning commission and the parks service, the task of remembrance, preservation, and public use, public recognition would be infinitely harder. public records and planning and foresight links together then with now and into the future. we're not there yet, the future. believe me. what we have is using the laboratory of historical site and event, the records official and private, the awareness, the education, the furthering of agendas is what the sesquicentennial must be about. i listened to the president of the civil war trust yesterday given the opening address and he pointed to the fact that preservation of land will outlive all of us, including of course machine-readable and print readable records. surprisingly to say. 1814. washington was a small village that purported to be the capital of a new nation. it was the seat of government. by 1864, washington is much more than that. it is the fortress of washington. a fortified city. 60 odd, or more, forts, 93 batteries, entrenchments,

the first step in restoring national unit. >> we are the place where the nation comes to celebrate, torn. >> reporter: the work is painstakingly slow. so, too, is raising the $26 million in private donations it will cost, which means it could be another decade before all the pieces of this national treasure are back where they belong. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> pelley: and that's the "cbs evening news" for tonight. for all of us at cbs news all around the world, good night. captioning sponsored by cbs

the world needs the united nations. so when the country's single out israel for unfair treatment at ae u.n., it is not just problem for israel. it is a problem for all of us. today, we see anti-semitism flaring up around the world including in europe. is the passion coming out of the current conflict. we all know it has its roots in something ancient and ugly. and we should not shy away from calling by its name. the rightthing to use of free expression to criticize particular policies of a particular government. no nation is immune from criticism, fair and otherwise, including our own. take it for me as a former u.n. ambassador. but, and anti-jewish riot is not a critique. it is not free expression when a protest turned into a mob that attacked a synagogue or a kosher grocery store. it is one thing when the message is to end the fighting. when the message is a death to the jews, it is an outrage. [applause] and it is dangerous. the mayor of a major city takes to twitter to invoke hitler and insight hostilities against t

harvey chair the aba's ad advisory committee on national security and a former professor at the national war canaling -- war college, and he was a legal counsel to the fbi's deputy director and has had his hand in drafting this is my tenth never here and it's -- ten inch anniversary and this book is a product of that ten years. i started working on it when i came here after the iraq war, and this is my effort to try to make sense of the iraq war, and the afghanistan war and allow the other conflicts we have been going through as a country. it's also great to have gary as the moderator. a perfect person. one of the few people who shares an intense interest in the framers and national security and intelligence, and i would be remiss if i didn't say that i had stolen one of gary's great ideas from his dissertation on my last book on thomas jefferson's views on executive power. gary has the opinion that jefferson had a robust approach to the presidency in practice but not in theory, and i had tried to disseminate that idea through my own work and you were the first one to realize that and to

where is this nation going? it is a sad time in this country that we find ourselves at this point, ok this didn't work. we couldn't get him on that. the birth certificate he, showed up with that, ok, scratch that. i know what, let's repeal the affordable care act. try 50 times. that didn't work. i got a new one. et's just sue him. ladies and gentlemen, mr. just because republicans disagree with the president's policies or political persuasion doesn't ive them the right to sue him. even the nation's most conservative supreme court justices have said that the congress cannot sue the president in these circumstances. meanwhile, millions of americans are out of work, including nearly 300,000 people in my home state of new jersey. instead of working together to create jobs, new jerseyans are learning that the republicans are at it again. wasting taxpayer time and money on frivolous lawsuits. my constituents are outraged. but just because republicans won't do their job, the president and democrats in congress will. i

so we are two confident nations connected by core values, optimistic nations, never losing sight of how much more we can and must achieve. from women's rights to minority rights, there is room to go further with our work together, and we also have to speak with a common voice against the violence against women in any shape or form that is a violation against our deepest values. the united states and india are two nations that began both of their founding documents with exactly the same three words. we, the people. and by deepening our partnership we can work together to deliver opportunity to all of our people and become stronger nations. president roosevelt, of course, described america as having a rendezvous with destiny. india's first prime minister, prime minister nehru, spoke about india's tryst with destiny. this can be a moment where our destiny actually do converge, and if we harness our capacity of our two nations, if we deepen our partnership, if we make smart choices, if we seize these opportunities, the united states and india can create a more prosperous and secure future f

this is especially true of national historic sites. federal officials have long viewed commemoration as a kind of patriotic all to me, as a way of conjuring unity from divisiveness by appealing to shared perceptions of the past. good as a getss for civil war content. i'm kidding. presidentexample, lincoln's first inaugural address. the president suggested that if americans would pay heed to open court the mystic chords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hard stone across this land, those courts would once again swell the force of the union." sites around the united states, sentiments like president lincoln's, sentiments that have been an abiding faith of the nationalizing power of public memory are carved into stone. these monuments are supposed to serve the nation's interest by linking together its peoples and legitimating federal authority. out of common memories, the americans have and will continue to forge common identities. memories of sand creek, speakers at the opening ceremo

it's about a nation with borders. we're a nation with laws. orderly immigration policy so that people are safe, so our citizens are safe so, that people that are trying to get here are safe. you know, we're not a borderless nation. >> reporter: so that's one half of the debate. the other half is that this is a humanitarian crisis, that this is women and children who are coming here and that need a safe place to stay, even if they are coming across the borders illegally. but what we're seeing here, brianna-s a lot of words. a lot of yelling today. but so far we have not seen any fists being thrown. brianna? >> kyung lah, thank you so much for giving us a look there at murrieta, california. and this showdown that kyung was talking about near the border, it comes as president obama today celebrated the swearing in of new u.s. citizens, immigrants themselves. let's turn now to cnn's athena jones. she's at the white house, live. and tell us about it. this was a pretty special ceremony today. >> it was. hi, brianna. the ceremony today was celebrator

electrical -- and our nation's electrical infrastructure. the amendments my colleague, mrs. ellmers, and i are offering increases funding for electricity delivery by $20 million and decreases the departmental administration amount by the same amount. making smart investments to address issues facing our nation's electricity infrastructure will have a number of benefits. it will ensure long-term stability and the -- in the electricity and energy systems, it will spur innovation, it will help make the transition to more efficient use of electric power and will create technical and manufacturing jobs. ensuring a reliable and resilient electricity grid will reduce costs for piss and onsumers by saving energy. grid industry groups such as grid wise alliance and the national electrical manufactures -- manufacturers association support this amendment. i urge its adoption. now i would like to yield to my colleague and the amendment's co-sponsor, mrs. ellmers and thank her for her leadership on this issue. mrs. ellmers: thank you to my colleague, the

national summit in oklahoma city. we presented the various components for our comprehensive aproach so we could develop type line of workers for our states economies. i was very proud to be joined by governor branstad and governor nixon. thank you very much for joining me in oklahoma city. and so we've had a very productive time this past year meeting with all of our various officials, bringing together all of our state leaders, and it has been a great year on america works and training for tomorrow's jobs. i frankly think it's probably one of the most important issues that our nation faces right now, and we're very proud of the tremendous work that the national governors association has done on our behalf. excuse me just a moment, i'm looking for hi next paper here -- my next paper here because i got a little bit out of line here. there it is. so what i wanted to show you was the book itself. and i think each of you have a copy of this on your, on your desk. but it also lists all the different components. it has some

one, it is a national security issue. it is a national security issue. i don't think anyone would argue that the restructuring of congress after world war ii and the subsequent stretching from the department of the war to the department of defense has provided more aggressive and effective oversight of the dod. but that isn't an organizational much of this is a national security issue, number one. no one is arguing about the need for the oversight. we just all the leave the oversight should be comprehensive would be more effective if it was narrowed on the subject matter experts that could help the maturation and the development of this. finally writ large i would wager that if you took a private poll of 535 members of congress and ask them in their heart of hearts if they truly be leafed the committee structure in the executive branch was as effective as it needs to be or should be in the 21st century given the range of issues and size of the government, i have to believe most would say no it's not we are just going along to get along because that's the

national oth in our interests and the united states' national interests. i will be signing it within days of taking office. the agreement has been reviewed by a consulttive representative council across the board in afghanistan. they have recommended that it be signed. i find its signing in our interest. and i hope we can demonstrate that president obama's decision to scale down the number of american troops very significantly within 2-1/2 years can be matched by a major program of reform of our security institutions, of our legal system, our system of governance, and our economy, so we can demonstrate both to the american public and to the world at large that we can take charge of our destiny in afghanistan, is a working and growing proposition. we would like to broaden the partnership from just being focused on security to being an economic and cultural relationship. we would like a university to university set of relationship, mosque to church relationship, people to people. >> do i assume you are saying that you are confident that afghan can as america

archivesthe national facsimiles.ontaining freedom readable reproductions of the declaration of independence, the constitution, and the bill of rights is a popular souvenir of a visit to the national archives. the national archives is the custodian of the living past and a link to the unborn future. there is significance in the phrases "study the past" and "what is past is prologue." these are beneath the statues at one entrance of this beautiful building which preserve the drama and romance of america's history. ♪ >> next month, former republican congressman from texas and presidential candidate ron paul. he has written more than a dozen books on history. join the conversation as he takes your calls, e-mails, and tweets live for three hours sunday, august 3. next month is mary frances berry. in october, a supreme court sessions bothes past and present. brooks.ber, arthur readers.n for serious from a, we will hear motorola researcher who headed a team that invented the first cell phone in 1973. and then became the fir

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they used to be a national consensus on both of them. the sooner that we reestablish that consensus, the faster we are going to grow and create real jobs and we are going to continue to lead the world in large part because of all of y you. [applause] i'm not hanging around for applause. i'm supposed to take questions. i'm sorry. >> we appreciate your time and we know you have a very busy schedule. we are going to take a couple of questions. we look forward to having that sign but how would that legislation affect the current work on the training programs. the bottom line is that will enhance it. it's the bare minimum because we should measure objectively whether the program is working. it should be applied to everything in my view. those of you that work with me in the act the first time we did that is when we had less than one and a half% of waste, fraud and abuse according to the outside groups so there should be an objective matter to be the measure whether these programs are worthwhile. by example, back in the when the shipping indus

our nations symbol of vigilance, the eagle. everybody here works for the president of the united states. we carry on our badge is the great seal of the united states. if you look at the great seal, you see an eagle with its wings spread. it is called an eagle rampant in heraldic terms. the eagle holds the all in branch of peace. and the 13 arrows for war for the original 13 colonies. during world war ii, a war eagle looked to the left, to those arrows. after the war, president truman decided we would no longer project a bellicose image. truman had the eagle flipped. postwar, our eagle looked to the right, in an advancing position, to the olive branch of peace. there is a defense shield. intelligence is our country's first line of defense. in the center, you will see a 16 point compass rose that symbolizes information coming from all points of the globe to a central point. our mission statement states that we are the nations first line of defense. we accomplish what others cannot accomplish, and go where others cannot go. we col

diplomatic editor live at the united nations. now we're going to go to gaza itself, and to our correspondent john hedron. are we seeing any evidence of this being threatened by prime minister netanyahu. are you seeing anything of that in gaza? >> we're seeing that nothing has changed. the rocket talks coming out of gaza, the airstrikes coming in. you can only stand in the middle of the city to see the answer from both sides is no. we see rockets coming out of gaza just over my shoulder, that happened just a few moments ago. and then airstrikes coming in from time to time. just in the last hour and a half a number of rockets were fired to israel. israel responded back in a matter of minutes with 20 airstrikes. you can hear them behind me. and there is one development that remain takes up the escalation of this campaign. that is three rockets were fired from gaza to the nuclear plant. hamas took responsibility for that. the rockets were fired at the town. they did not strike at or near the plant, however, that's not the point. thos

the victory of fort mchenry filled us as a nation with such tremendous triumph. to us it's perceived as the ultimate victory against the british. certainly it's a victory that many people never thought would come to fruition and so as we move through to the end of the exhibit we look at all of the commemorations. our city and citizens were gathering funds to create a monument to the war of 1812. we are also the home for lady baltimore who once sat atop that monument and it took more than two decades to have that monument completed and now lady baltimore who once presided over the city is at the historical society in perpetuity for safekeeping for so many decades. that was the center of baltimore and every baltimorean knew of the victory because it was commemorated by that monument. we at the historical society, have long been the repository for the treasures of some of the prominent families in maryland's history. we are standing in front of a case of artifacts associated with mendes cohen. he was a member of one of the most prominent, wealthy, philanthropic jewi