for here, too, as well and more fortunate nations are makers of tomorrow.there be new einstein's, madame currys, or new hitler's, mussolini's tojo's, for the access had carefully contrived a legacy, a legacy designed to drive down nations into one common ruling, jeopardizing the next generation for the next round. for germany in particular, of ripping thece entire fabric of a nation's life , so the state of enduring weakness could be assured, liberation or not. the czech village that once filled this valley, then was wiped so completely off the face of the earth so that not even rubble remained. for all the women were sent to concentration camps, of which these are among the surviving few. for all the men and boys of the village were shot and buried in one common grave. and all the little children sold for 50 marks of peace to various german families, and perhaps lost forever. the effects of which will linger long after men like these, captured ss men, have been tried and condemned. and their bigshot counterparts who created to a greater degree a design for

her favorite color of pink, which reflected in her wardrobe, she was voted one of the nation's best dressed. the senate at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's original series, "first ladies." examining the public and private lives of the women who fill the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency. from martha washington to michelle obama, sunday at 8:00 p.m. eastern on "american history tv" on c-span3. u.n. generale assembly heard from several world leaders this week at its headquarters in new york city. among the speaker was ukraine's president, talked about russia's aggression in crimea and urged members to push for the release of ukrainian citizens. he also spoke about peacekeeping efforts and the need for u.n. aid in ukraine's eastern region. this is almost 30 minutes. >> [indistinct chatter] president poroshenko: distinguished mr. president, your colleagues, ladies and gentlemen, on behalf of ukraine, i sincerely can graduate -- congratulate on the election of the president of the 70th session of the united nations's general assembly. i wish you, mr. president, every succ

she spoke at the national press club for about an hour. >>> welcome to the national press club. my name is john hughes. i'm an editor for bloomberg first word. that's bloomberg news's breaking news desk here in washington, and i am the president of the national press club. our speaker this morning is the chairman of the national endowment for the arts, jane chu. we invited jane chu to be with us on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the nea which i understand the actual anniversary day is tomorrow. first, i want to introduce our distinguished head table. this table includes members of the national press club and guests of our speaker. h right, lisa matthews, vice-president at hager-sharp and a member of the national press club speaker's committee. melissa walker, creative arts therapist and healing arts program coordinator at the national intrepid center of excellence at walter reed national military center. amy henderson, curator at the smithsonian portrait gallery and a member of the national speaker committee. able lopez, associate producing director of the gala hispanic

that hurts national security. the inability to raise the budget caps in this bill and the appropriations process is a critical blow to our troops and to our national security. the second reason is -- reason this is important is because the oco funding in this bill is not going to happen. all right? part of it is because the president is going to veto it but the larger part of it is, the senate, as they have been unable to do for a number of years, has not passed any appropriations bills. because they have rejected their own budget resolution. so this $38 billion in oco funding we're going to hear about, all this great money, it's not going to happen. buzz the appropriators have said it is not going to happen. so to have a national defense authorizing bill with $38 billion in imaginary money is not good for our troops. and it is not good for our country. we need to lift the budget caps. we need to spend the money that we need to spend on national security. i will also say that there are other pieces of national sec

nation and nation relationship, which is keep her first nations because first nations consider themselveso be sovereign with their own laws in jurisdictions. he has an opportunity here to talk about decision-making and sharing of lawmaking and things like that. but he also talked about very specific things. for example, the truth and reconciliation commission's an initial report had 94 recommendations. he was telling first nations during the campaign that if elected, he would implement those recommendations. he was also in support of an inquiry for murdered and missing indigenous women. many firstntly for nations and environmentalists, who is also saying that he would respect the requirement that government has to consult and get the consent of first nations before anything happens in our territory. and that in order to do that, he would remedy some of the laws that were abolished by prime minister stephen harper. now, he did not have a lot of civics on that, but he has at least indicated that he is willing to look at those things like water protections and land protection said things lik

i want to support national laboratories. i want to support national defense. i want deeper harbors all around our coast. i want inland waterways that aren't broken down. i want us to move ahead in this country. this bill is a pro-growth national defense bill. it came out of the appropriations committee with 26 votes for it, four votes against it. senator feinstein and i worked with almost every senator in this body for it. why should we not consider an appropriations bill that has that kind of support? now, we get on that path every time we change majorities here. then the republicans lose the election and they say, look what you did to us in the last election? we're going to block all your appropriations because we'd like to spend less. so we won't ever do any appropriations bills again in the united states senate because one body or the other blocks the amount of money. we're supposed to vote on that. the last congress the democrats were in control and they wouldn't bring the -- and they wouldn't bring the appropriations bills to the floor. thank you, i'll c

executive director of the national security network. i'll be back in a moment with a final thought on general assembly week and a peaceful world. stay with us. it's inside story. >> there's a line of police advancing toward the crowd here. >> ferguson: city under siege. >> it isn't easy to talk openly on this base. >> and america's war workers. >> it's human trafficking. >> watch these and other episodes online now at aljazeera.com/faultlines. i just had a horrible nightmare. my company's entire network went down, and i was home in bed, unaware. but that would never happen. comcast business monitors my company's network 24 hours a day and calls and e-mails me if something, like this scary storm, takes it offline. so i can rest easy. what. you don't have a desk bed? don't be left in the dark. get proactive alerts 24/7. comcast business. built for business. >>> today brought reminder after reminder that diplomacy is a game played with the most brutal of tools and the most formal of rules. today the russian military officially informed nat

then the nobel committee with the consent and quartet and national dialog.speaking native language] we know the nobel peace prize for 2015 the national dialog quartet of tunisia and mike harris is executive of advising ngos and he joins us from london. so surprise, is this? >> it's a huge surprise and it's also a really, really excellent decision by the committee. the arab spring has seen pessimistically but there is one country that stands out and that is tunisia where civil society has played an absolutely crucial role for building the foundations for what could be an extremely successful democracy. i think what the committee are pointing to is that struggles for human rights and democracy and often extremely challenging it exercised and the broader community play an active role, you know, and there can be established democracys and so it's appointed to two things and it's appointed to the arab spring and appointed to the role of movement and there is also a broader pointer to the importance of ensuring that civil society is represented in those dialogs be

the national defense authorization act, the defense of our nation. and we're moving forward because we're following regular order, we're working in the way i just described in both the senate and the house and that's what we need to do. it's hard to overstate the importance of this legislation for our men and women in uniform and for the security of our nation. so i'm pleased that we're now debating this conference agreement and i look forward to moving to final passage. and in just a few hours, at 2:00 p.m. eastern time today, we will be voting on final passage on this legislation. now, there are several key features of this bill that i want to highlight and i'm going to talk about just a few of them. there's many, many important provisions but i do want to highlight some of them here over the next few minutes. the first is in the area of personnel and benefits, taking care of those who put on the uniform, men and women who wear the uniform, and put it all on the line for us and for our country. this bill represents a continuing commitment to the we

groups to whom the future of these nations comes the children of these nations. and secondly, i've also come to the deep conclusion that the roots of many things that we value such as democracy and human rights are to be found in the character of societal relations between men and women. democracy atave the national level if you have no shared decision-making power within the household? house anyone that society going to understand democracy if what they see is autocracy within each household. things that are often not spoken of but are critical to speak of. so without further do i think that means that one of the most important discussions we is the discussion that we are going to have today. i am thrilled to be part of it and let's begin. thank you very much. i would like to invite michelle to come up on the stage now and all she does we're going to have a conversation with her. she is a cofounder and chief executive officer of the center for a new american security. if you're not familiar with that organization, i think it is one of the brightest most innovati

our national security. well, the bad news is, mr. speaker, we are not energy independent. we use 17 million barrels of oil a day. but we only produce nine million. which means we are still importing nearly half of all the oil we use. now, here's the good news, mr. speaker. horizontal drilling and all this oil we are finding in the shale formations gives us a chance to truly be energy independent. we could produce an additional nine million barrels a day, and we wouldn't have to depend on any other country in the world for our oil. all we have to do is produce what we have in our own country and make sure that we have refinery capacity to take care of this crude and we are energy independent. so the question is, mr. speaker, why aren't we investing in our own domestic refringery capacity to keep high-paying jobs here in the united states in the refinery industry, in the maritime trades, and in manufacturing like steel making. why aren't we doing that for america while enhancing america's security? we had the

the national defense authorization act authorizes funding for our nation's military and our national defense from equipment and training, for our soldiers, to critical national security priorities like supporting our allies against russian aggression overseas. in my state of south dakota, we are proud to host the 28th bomb wing at wft nation's -- one of the nation's b-1 bomber bases. they are a critical part of the united states bomber fleet and bombers from the 28th bomb wing played a key role in armed conflicts the united states engaged in over the past 20 years. during operation odyssey dawn b-1 from ellsworth launched from south dakota, flew halfway around the world though libya, dropped their bombs and returned home all in a single mission. this marked the first time in hoifort the b -- history the b-1's launched from the united states to strike targets overseas. without the defense national authorization act the funding levels needed in 2016 to maintain these bombers and the readiness of our airmen at ellsworth won't be authorized. it's that simple and that's, mr. president, wh

visited our troops to thank them on behalf of a grateful nation. could take great pride in the progress they help to achieve. they struck devastating blows against the al qaeda leadership, delivered justice to osama bin laden, prevented terrorist attacks, and saved american lives. they pushed the taliban and back some of the afghan people can reclaim their communities and send their daughters to school and improve their lives. our troops trained afghan forces and so they could take the lead for their own security and protect afghans as they voted in historic elections leading to the first democratic transfer of power in their country's history. today, american forces no longer patrol afghan villages or valleys. our troops are not engaged in major ground combat against the taliban. those missions now belong to afghans who are fully responsible for securing their country. but, as i've said before, while america's combat mission in afghanistan may be over, our commitment to afghanistan and its people endures. as commander in chief i will not allow afg

the executive order also created the national declassification center within the national archives with the mandate to review for declassification some 400 million pages of classified records going back to world war i and to do that by the end of 2013. we successfully met that goal in the declassification process emphasizing a risk/management strategy and expanding data capture efforts. i'm proud to report that the six oldest documents were released. they are classified by the c.i.a. they are on his last day -- just about his last day in office, leon panetta announced the release of these six documents all formulas for secret ink. most recently, we coordinated a multiagency activity across government to answer a white house request for declassified records response i have to the brazilian national truth commission. the desire for records relating to human rights abuses during 1964. vice president joe biden provided the first of several cd collections to the brazilian government last summer and the national declassification center is concluding this resflu 2015 with the web release that

nation.and then, third, attribute it to an aggressor nation. if that is, in fact, the case. you might find out that it's a legitimate internal movement. but if we recognize, characterize and then attribute to an aggressor nation, now there are things that the nations of nato can talk about how do we more directly aid a country that's under such an attack? in nato, through several of our military capabilities, to include our special operations forces, both in nato and ucom, we are working with nations to look at this problem. inside their own country and how do they work it. i'll just tell you that in some of the nations we work with, it's done completely differently. in one nation it's almost an entirely a military remit. and the chief of defense is given the mission. in another nation, actual nation, it is almost entirely a ministry of interior remit and it is handed over almost completely to policing and judiciary functions. so we work with the nations in their own way of dealing with the p

for 53 years in a row now, our nation's national security needs have been taken care of. sadly, that may not be the case this year. the reason, not because of representatives of the people did not do their work. it's because the commander in chief has chosen to use the military as political pawns to advance his domestic agenda by choosing to veto the ndaa. never before in our nation's history has a president vetoed the national defense authorization act in order to leverage concessions on other areas of government spending. let me say that again. president obama's veto stems not from defense policy but rather from his desire for more domestic spending unrelated to national defense. this is unprecedented. four times during the past 53 years, presidents have vetoed the ndaa, but it was over specific defense-related provisions in the ndaa itself. differences were able to be worked out with congress and concerns quickly addressed so the bill could move forward and our men and women in uniform would have the tools, equipment and resources they need to keep us safe. not this ye

a great nation." ladies and gentlemen, i think we have been managing the decline of this great nation for quite long enough. [applause] ms. fiorina: i am prepared, though. with your votes and your support and your prayers, to lead the resurgence of a great nation. [applause] ms. fiorina: so it is worth thinking about, what is it we need to do? the answer is we know what we need to do. in order to get our economy growing again, we have to start thinking about small business. and quit protecting big business. the truth is the bigger and more powerful government gets, the more powerful the wealthy and well-connected are advantaged. it is called crony capitalism. progressives want you to believe that the answer to crony capitalism is more government but it is the problem with crony , capitalism. [applause] ms. fiorina: we need to get our small businesses and entrepreneurs growing again. we need to quit tangling people's lives of the interdependence. and we have to encourage, indeed require, that people go

this is the second national. this is the first national. >> how is it that the flag that everyone thinks of as the confederate flag is that one? >> that has more to do with what happened since the war. this design, and really more often today we see it in a rectangular design, it just caught on as the emblem of the confederacy. we can get into speculation as to why, but one of them is that this is robert e. lee's army flag. his was the most successful. it is a striking design. it achieved the stated goal of being different from this flag and the u.s. flag. i mentioned that we usually today see a rectangular design. that actually is the battle flag of the army of tennessee or the confederate naval jack. technically speaking during the war, the square pattern was the battle flag of the army of northern virginia. another thing to comment about that is that sometimes that is called the stars and bars. that is not correct, at least in terms of the terminology the confederates used. the confederates called this the sta

bush's national guard service record.now all of a sudden the whole story wasn't about president bush, but about cbs. it was that backlash that ultimately ended the long and storied career of one of the giants of journalism, who will be with us here in a moment to talk about this. but the question that is cbs was addressing in that report, the questions about george w. bush's time in the national guard, those questions really did just disappear in the uproar over cbs and its fonts and the documents that they used in their report. the overall story fell away into nothingness for a long time, not just past the presidential election that year, but for the rest of george w. bush's time in office. now there are three things happening related to that scandal which absolutely engulfed the news media in late 2004 right before the presidential election that year. now three things happening. number one, george w. bush is back as the rehabilitated hero of the republican party who's going to save his brother jeb's presidential campaig

the nobel peace prize for 2015 is to be awarded to the tunisia national dialog quartets. >> the tunisia group wins the prize for paving the way for democracy in the country. ♪ i'm julie gosh in doha and advising syrian forces has been killed near aleppo. another tension heightening in israel and occupied palestinian territories, proposes to end conflict in india but the parliaments still need to ap broov it. approve it. ♪ tunisia's national dialog quartet has been awarded the nobel peace prize and nobel committee honored the quartet for contribution for building democracy after the revolution in 2011. >> the quartet was formed in summer of 2013 when democratzation process was in danger of collapsing as a result of political assassinations and widespread social unrest. it established an alternative, peaceful, political process at a time when the country was on the brink of civil war. >> the kwar tell is has four important groups and organizations represent different sectors and values in tunisia society and members work to protect the rights of the entire population irrespective of gende

to 1984 nation at 84 nation at risk report. all of these together .2 a deep dissatisfaction among americans in the way our schools proceed. when the common core started taking shape in 2007 it was building on a pent-up dissatisfaction. that dissatisfaction has a variety variety of forms, one of them is the dissatisfaction that the education establishment had with the way in which our system of education served students who don't perform very well. one of the very first steps of common core was the idea that it was going to set higher standards, it was going to redefined the word higher to include the more inclusive for more students. so the common core begins, the story begins in 2006 when david coleman and his partner jason december, a professor of mathematics get together and start thinking how to read cast the standards. they're coming on the heels of a long series series of efforts by people who wanted to nationalize our standards, makers cool something of a national project rather than a local estate project. they came up

groups to whom the future of these nations comes the children of these nations. and secondly, i've also come to the deep conclusion that the roots of many things that we value such as democracy and human rights are to be found in the character of societal relations between men and women. democracy atave the national level if you have no shared decision-making power within the household? house anyone that society going to understand democracy if what they see is autocracy within each household. things that are often not spoken of but are critical to speak of. so without further do i think that means that one of the most important discussions we is the discussion that we are going to have today. i am thrilled to be part of it and let's begin. thank you very much. i would like to invite michelle to come up on the stage now and all she does we're going to have a conversation with her. she is a cofounder and chief executive officer of the center for a new american security. if you're not familiar with that organization, i think it is one of the brightest most innovati

national security planning? >> first off, let me say thank you for inviting me to join you here today. i can't think of a more important and timely topic for us to be wrestling with. i think -- i thought your presentation was excellent in terms of bringing data to the question. people often only talk about these issues as a issue of morality and fairness. seen from a data-driven outcome and outcomes perspective. what is that one of the things that needs to happen is more of this data that connects the state of women in society and male and female relationships to the kind of outcomes that do affect both the security of that nation, international security, that needs to be brought much more to the four -- fore. a lot of the things you talked whether it was security, poverty, whether it was violence we talked a very good game about the primary objective being to try to prevent conflict, rather than having to go and respond to crises and fight wars. we don't do a very good job of , implemented a policy in a way tha

many things make up the image of a nation.ing mohammed zahir comes to arlington national cemetery, where thousands of american soldiers library. -- lie buried. this how look place lies just across the potomac river from the capital city. we afghans know the meaning of bravery and loyalty, of service and devotion to one's country. we understand this respect for fallen heroes. solemnly he visits this place of the dead. he rests in honored glory, an american soldier known but to god. on behalf of all the people of afghanistan, his majesty places a wreath of flowers at the tomb of america's unknowns. washington children's hospital. her majesty queen humaira comes to pay a call of her own. hundreds of children, wide-eyed with wonder, await her visit. children, a poet once wrote, come like eggers -- beggars, but each can find a room in a corner of a mother's heart. doctors from afghanistan's neighbor, iran, serve on this hospital staff and they are honored to act as her majesty's guides. during their second day in washington, their

advanced voting is already under way for nationals living and working abroad.e of the two main parties have chosen any muslim candidates. despite them making up around 10% of the population. phil reese reports. >> reporter: despite the prominent role that myanmar's muslims played in don front being the former military regime, the opposition national league for democracy has refuse today let any muslims represent the party in 40 coming elections. a senior party insiding spoke to al jazeera provided their identity was concealed. >> translator: they have selected 1200 parliamentary representatives and none of them are muslim. someone said i think they are concerned about the committee for the protection of nationality and religion. so it became an islamic purge here. that's the situation. >> reporter: the committee for the protection of nationality and religion known by its burmese acronym is headed by an influential anti-muslim monk and supporter of the government party. he is notorious for his anti-muslim rhetoric. his messages feed the fears of myanmars rural b

they make our nation great.to you was born and bred in my home state of pennsylvania. it was 1863, christian capehart, a store keeper and a father of four girls enlists in the union army. the blair county native was already 31 years old, at 5'11", with hazel eyes and a dark complex and dark hair, i'm quite sure he was a handsome man. it's hard to know why a man being of his age and with a family would decide to enlist. even if it was to be part of the famed 13th calvary regiment for which he served. mr. bill miller ponders that same question. why would his great great grandfather choose to enter the war at the age and with a family to care for. why did he serve? perhaps it was because the union victory at gettysburg had galvanized enlistment among men and women in the north. perhaps it was because he felt a calling to fight against the sins of slavery. perhaps it was because of the enlistment bounty could do his family well in this time of need. perhaps mr. miller will never know what prompted his great great gr

we wouldn't be such a strong nation and a beacon of hope to the world unless we were a diverse nation of immigrants. our diversity is our strength. our better days are ahead of us because of our diversity and the arrival of new americans in every single generation. [applause] mr. o'malley: there's nothing more american in my mind than to come here to live the american dream. that's what my great-grandfather did. his name was also martin o'malley. many of you might know about the irish. a shame, a whole race of people, but only seven first names. [laughter] mr. o'malley: he came here back in the late 1800s without any money. his first language was not english, it was irish. he was a stranger in a strange land. but the hopes and dreams he had for his children were purely american. starting from zero, like so many americans today, he worked beside a lot of other new americans who risked their lives in the mines of southwest arizona to feed their families, to give their grandchildren a better future. new americans today have very similar experiences, the same drive, the same spirit, the s

to the national conversation. moderating our discussion will be offered on michael o'hanlon, codirector of the center for 21st century security and intelligence and brookings. every well-known expert on defense budget. senator mccain position well known for his service to the nation both in u.s. navy and and represent the people of arizona in the u.s. congress. even when the key voices in the fight to strengthen american nationals good to eliminate wasteful government spending and reform government. congressman thornberry has served in the house permanent select committee on intelligence as those on the budget committee come resources committee of the select committee on homeland hod security and is widely known as an innovator and a strategic thinker in national security and the two have been working together to put together the national defense authorization act. in a moment i will turn to mike to frame the discussion but let me make two briefs point of contact. seems to me were clearly into a moment of intensif

as the national secretary of the nation of islam.rehouse college, i was determined to be an attorney. and i have been an attorney now for 17 years, and i've tried cases in multiple states thanks to my mentor, attorney louis myers. but the greatest case that i ever tried was a case of police brutality. and we lost that case, but listen to the facts. before there was a freddie gray in baltimore who died in police custody, there was a fred grady in chicago who died in police custody. now, this was mr. grady's mug shot when he got arrested. you can see him, there's nothing wrong with mr. grady. three hours later in police custody, this is what he looked like. now, we were told that mr. grady died from a heart attack. now, watch the injustice system come into play. because when the paramedics got there, they said mr. grady was already turning colors. that means he has been dead for a while. there was no blood in his cell whatsoever. then when the coroner got there, they filled out a report that said he died from a heart attack. the proble

james clapper, director of national intelligence, admiral michael rogers, national security agency director, and deputy defense director or robert work testified. this is two hours and 15 minutes. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning. the committee meets today to receive testimony from deputy secretary of defense robert work, director of national intelligence james clapper and admiral mike rogers, the commander of u.s. cyber command. director of the national security agency and chief of the central security service. we thank each of the witnesses for their service and for appearing before the committee. we meet at a critical time for the defense of our nation from cyber attacks. in just the past year, we all know the united states has been attacked by cyberspace, in cyberspace by iran, north korea, china and russia. indeed, since our last cyber hearing in march, the attacks have only increased, crippling or severely disrupting networks across the government and private sector and compromising sensitive national security information. recent attacks against the joint chiefs of staff, the

[laughter] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] mr. brennan: thank you very much and thank you for your outstanding work that has brought us to this event. good afternoon, everyone. having spent some wonderful greatat ut, it is my very pleasure to be back in austin. >> [applause] mr. brennan: i want to thank mark and his excellent staff for hosting this event. and president johnson said, it is all here, the story of our time with the bark off. you can get much further below the bark than top-secret intelligence reports, so i think president johnson would approve of today's proceedings. i want to thank my good friend, admiral william a craven, chancellor of the university of texas system, for speaking this afternoon. it is highly appropriate for bill to help celebrate the history of the presidents daily -- president's daily brief because for a number of years, he helped fill the book with some of -- with some of the very best intelligence. gossr cia director porter for lendingman their insights and expertise to

>> if you look at volume and nation statewide, nation state wise, china, the prc has been a the one thatve been the most vocal about. they're not the only one by any stretch of the imagination. >> i thought the last time you were here i recall you saying that you had more concerns over russia having more of the ability or the expertise to do us damage. >> i thought your question was really focused more on volume. if the perspective is had mo capability, if you will, then w. have been very public about ium. saying i would probably put thed russians at a higher capabilityi >> but it seems like china is more committed and determined to do it? >> they certainly do it at a volume level. >> got you. i understand. and director clapper, if i may, i know that you just said no, et emphatically no you don't believe that this agreement that the president of china and our president has made last week will work.agreem with that, is there any penalties in this agreement if one or the other violates it? or is it just basically what we have agreed and let it go at that? as you understand it. don' >> the

in the nation's capital. my name is john hughes i'm an editor for bloomberg's first word. as bloomberg's breaking news desk here in washington and i'm the president of the national press club. our guest today is u.s. women's world cup winner abby wambach the world's all-time international goalscoring leader but first i want to introduce her distinguished head table which includes club members and guests of the speaker. from the audience is right, pam lembo, senior public affairs officer at the canadian embassy. salome head of communications at the swiss embassy. rachel oswald, foreign-policy reporter for congressional quarterly and a native of rochester, new york. our speaker's hometown. judy wambach the mother of our speaker. angel live this, president of d.c. media connections and a member of the national press club softball team. sarah hoffman, the wife of our speaker. jerry jastremski washington bureaus chief from the buffalo news chairman of the national press club speakers committee and former president

we built this nation.ion must be answered by all of us. we are here today alert and aware that black lives have not mattered. latinos lives have not mattered. native american lives have not mattered. we are here today because many of us are not aware that if we have been lied to, lied on, lied about, trick and bamboozled. we are here today because too many of us have been satisfied to sell ourselves out by the fact that we have a black president and a few black men today while the masses more people still live in squalor and poverty. we are here today because of gross health disparities in the native american, latino and black communities. and the fact that we are still being used as human guinea pigs. we are here today because of slavery still exists in the american prison and social complex, where companies are making extraordinary profits off of our incarcerated brothers and sisters who were paid as little as 17 cents an hour. we are here today because we have problems in the black community, in our own

according to the national security archive the u.s.ongress provided nearly $3 billion in covert money and arms to the afghan mujahideen fighters in the 1980s. in this 1983 photograph president reagan meets with a group of afghan mujahideen commanders in the white house. in february of 1988 reformist leader gorbachev announced the soviet government would withdraw their 100,000 troops from afghanistan. the final troop withdraw was a year later. >>> american history tv airs all weekend every weekend on c-span3 and in prime time on week nights when congress is in recess. on our website, c-span.org/history you can watch all of our past programs. find the tv schedule, see youtube clips of upcoming shows and connect with us on twitter and facebook. tonight we feature "reel america" with a sampling of archival films made between 1946 and 1982. this a weekly program you can watch every sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern. only on american history tv on c-span3. >>> travel with us to historic sites, museums and archives to learn what artifacts reveal ab

- the national press club mug. [applause] in the time remaining, i wanted to ask you a couple of questions about the big picture. said a nationedy will be judged not to buy is politics or wars but by its contributions to the human spirit. how is the united states doing? jane: i tend to think in terms of what we can be. and so it really is back to the united states thriving and winning when we can imagine and when we can dream with our own creativity on what we can be. and so icing think when president kennedy made those comments that is back to the spirit we do not want to lose. we do not want to have anybody take it away from us either. let's continue to spark of the spirit within us. it sounds like a commercial but arts are great at doing that. let's give ourselves permission to make sure we can honor that. that is when america is at its finest. john: on the eve of the 50th anniversary, what do you see for the next 50 years? what would you like to see nea celebrating at its 100 anniversary? what would you anticip

whole of nation, not merely joint and interservice, not merely interagency, but whole of nation. federal, state, municipal government, and private sector, and citizenry. we must defend critical infrastructure, of which 85% resides in the private sector. we must defend military personnel in shopping center recruiting stations. we must defend military installations that are integral parts of their communities. we must defend these installations against classic kinetic attacks but against cbne and cyberintrusion and against terrorist attack. the 2015 national security strategy clearly directs the u.s. military to defend the u.s. and support civil authorities at home. the national security strategy addresses the top strategic risks to our nation which include catastrophic attack on the u.s. homeland or critical infrastructure, the threat of attacks against u.s. citizens abroad and our allies, the proliferation and the use of weapons of mass destruction and the effect of severe global infectious disease. the dod strategy for force protection and mission assurance tells us the critical

meanwhile chinese people are celebrating national day more than 50,000 watched the national flag beinghe ceremony commemorates the founding of the communist people's republic of china 66 years ago. and is a start of a 7-day holiday known as the golden week. now, another key date is being commemorated in the far west of china, people are marking the 60th anniversary since becoming an autonomous region, a top party leader gave a speech. but as adrian brown reports, not everyone is celebrating. >> reporter: a troubling anniversary. posters trumpeting the communist party's chief little, but outside the city, little sign of celebration. people we net in this village were all ethnic muslim. some old enough to remember when the people's liberation army marched in. >> when a first saw the sale soldiers i was so young, i was so scared i cried. >> reporter: but she says her life is far better now. >> we have enough to eat and enough clothes, life was really hard before. >> reporter: talking to foreign journalists carries risks and so none wanted to give their names. this man complains of discrim

national security. as president you would be the nation's commander-in-chief and and as a global power the u.s. is constantly facing threats both here and abroad. we're currently seeing a syrian regime aided by russian forces supposedly. a refugee crisis nations throughout the world are trying to grapple with, and continued spread of isis throughout the middle east. to name a few things off the top of our heads -- you were going to ask me another question? >> ukraine. you left them out. throw them in there. >> my question is, in your view what are the biggest national security threats our nation faces today, and how would you prioritize the national resources to combat them as a president? >> well, first of all you can chew gum and walk at same time when you are america. our problem is the voids we created around the world, inability to kind of assert ourselves. i think the president's spokesman probably said it best in defining their strategy, which is, javier, you lead from behind. now you never led f

our national security. well, the bad news is, mr. speaker, we are not energy independent. we use 17 million barrels of oil a day. but we only produce nine million. which means we are still importing nearly half of all the oil we use. now, here's the good news, mr. speaker. horizontal drilling and all this oil we are finding in the shale formations gives us a chance to truly be energy independent. we could produce an additional nine million barrels a day, and we wouldn't have to depend on any other country in the world for our oil. all we have to do is produce what we have in our own country and make sure that we have refinery capacity to take care of this crude and we are energy independent. so the question is, mr. speaker, why aren't we investing in our own domestic refringery capacity to keep high-paying jobs here in the united states in the refinery industry, in the maritime trades, and in manufacturing like steel making. why aren't we doing that for america while enhancing america's security? we had the

the young men and women who sign up to defend our nation don't ask for a lot, but our nation certainlyot of them. these heroes shouldn't have to worry that their benefits or health care or housing and support their families need might not be there. there is a long tradition in the senate of bipartisan support for our troops, our veterans, and their families we sa. we saw that on full display months ago when republicans and democrats came together in the appropriations committee to pass bipartisan legislation to fund our troops and support our veterans. we ask a lot of the men and women who serve. they don't need a bigger i.r.s. or political games like the democrats' self-described filibuster summer. they need our care and our support. it's our turn to give back to them. why don't we get back to the bipartisan tradition of supporting these bills so we can do it what we need to do for our veterans. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. reid: it is hard for me to be patient and listen to my friend, the republican leader, talk because he's talking about

it's the national defense authorization act. it has a history of being bipartisan. the speaker did an enrollment assignment, sending it to the president. never in the history did we have a president say he wanted to veto something of this nature on something that's not in the bill. we should never get to the point in this country where we play politics with our troops. this deals with the future. it deals with the security. it also deals with the payment of how we treat them. i know there's problems in washington, but it should never get that low. i hope the president reconsiders. mr. scalise: yesterday we sent president obama the national defense authorization agent. -- act. this bill was worked through the committee process. chairman thornberry and so many others worked in a very bipartisan way to put together a bill that not only makes sure that our troops are properly funded, increases their way, makes sure that guantanamo bay inmates are not sent to america and given american rights, does so many other things to protect america's safety abroad where there's inc

he viewed national courts as essential to avoid local bias in expounding national law in deciding cases of citizens of different states. obsessed with reigning in the states. the national government should be armed with positive and complete authority in all cases which require uniformity." he wrote to washington. -- he regulation recommended placing state militias under national control and suggested that, as in colonial days, the central government should appoint state governors, recognizing the in expediency abolishing the states altogether, which is what hamilton wanted to do, madison called for a federal system, some middle ground which may at one -- at once support a new supremacy of national authority, and not exclude the local authorities whenever they can be useful. [laughter] at least in a areas -- in areas under its domain, he believed that the national government could act on the people, not just on the state. , andhree men, jay, knox madison, agreed on this point. in response, washington embraced the proposals and made them his own. " those enumerated in your ofters are so

i will just call it the national league. this is a picture of the national league owners. the reason for the founding of the national league -- they told us. they left is the record of why they did it. to capitalize and extended baseball's popularity. what does this mean? they wanted to establish familiar features to us, but new to the time -- a recognized national championship, control and standardize the game rules, so somebody attending a baseball game in cincinnati would also be able to attend one in boston or new york and understand the game just as well. the national league at this time was limited to eight. its number would rise. it was comprised of very well-financed teams from cities that generally enjoyed populations of at least 75,000. the national league in the beginning tried to bar liquor from the stadiums. they wanted no gambling, they at first didn't offer sunday games, although that would change. they were trying to make their game open to the widest variety of fans possible, including the middle-class. including women. and they wanted to organize their bu

state, wages are growing faster than the national average. it helps businesses create more jobs and pay those higher wages. by cutting tax rates and simplifying the tax code, we will also make it possible for businesses to bring back the money they have been storing overseas. companies are making profits. we believe they have an trillion in profits that are sitting in europe. they are beginning to invest in europe instead of the united states of america. when you like to have that money come back here so they begin to invest in american jobs and american factories and american equipment? that is what we are going to do. cap those taxes -- cut those taxes. they do want to invest here, but we have clobbered them and have made it difficult for them to bring it home. you talk about a stimulus package? this could be the most successful stimulus package i've ever seen by letting the private sector do the things they want to do to invest here in the u.s. and to spark a wave of research and innovation, we must strengthen research and development tax