strikes and avoiding to take a decision on on bin laden. osama bin laden was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. a strategy memo from bin laden's close aide to mohammed ought to have was found to join the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east africa embassy attacks this memo written by mohammed that says it states clearly that as far as the taliban were mentioning relationship in some way was with american businesses over his project or u.s. diplomats. and their security and tightest security is guaranteed. to him. the terror attacks against the east african embassies tested the relationship between the taliban and the al qaida leader. because chris is not going to stop. making a big part of the trip. there that in there in the early should between a kind of sign and the international community. there are. a lot of. that would be part of those see was a victim of thirty bucks or so you know sort of blood because you know sid valuable though baseload near zero but the kind you oh by the way those shooter was on thursd

one of the rebels was osama bin laden. the cia trained osama bin laden, supplied him with weapons to fight the soviets. osama bin laden uses some of what he has learned to attack america. have this tie in from the cold war to the war on terror. that's lights important for students to understand the significance of the cold war. to understand how it got us here today. >> this weekend, american history tv joins our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of i celia california. to learn more about the cities visit current tour, c-span.org/cities tour. we continue to look back now with a look at the history of visalia. this was created to dam some of the waters in the spring time to capture some of that water for later use down in the valley.

one of the rebels fighting the soviets was osama bin laden. e cia trained osama bin laden, supplied him with weapons to fight the soviets. jump forward to 9/11, osama bin laden uses some of what he has learned to attack america. here we have this tie in from the cold war to the war on terror. that is why it is so important for students to understand the significance of the cold war to understand how it got us here today. >> this weekend, american history tv joins our comcast cable partners to showcase the alia, california. to learn more, visit c-span.org/citiestour. we continue now to learn about the history of visalia. >> we are at a lake, it was dammed to capture some of the water for use in the valley. it was elevated to hold the percent more water fairly recently. it is used for recreation but is also a really important -- to us in the valley. one of the largest native americans inside a

strikes and avoiding to take a decision on on bin laden. osama bin ladin was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. a strategy memo from bin laden's close aide mohammed ought to have was found joining the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east africa embassy attacks this memo written by mohammed that says it states clearly that as far as the taliban were mentioning relationship in some way was with american businesses over his project or u.s. diplomats. their security and tightest security guarantee. that. the in. the terror attacks against the east african embassies tasted the relationship between the taliban and the al qaida leader. his presence in afghanistan. became a big part of the trip. that in their in the early shift between a kind of sign and then from our stomachs. there are. a lot of. as you. see it was a victim of tactics or so you know sort of blood because you know sid no baseline near zero but the kind you oh by the way those shooter was one thirty. the deer kind of that is you know. and just sort of figu

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osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taliban and these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the northern alliance this enabled been logging to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. was this your first book that idea that is this early yet but what i think you know i think that there are. enough safeguards that are left out of government no doubt most proud that while they're going very well and their value and they know it you better be careful over focusing on this and. yet. on the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u.s. embassy in nairobi. similar tenuously a bomb detonated in neighboring towns and in two hundred twenty four people died in these terrorist attacks and building four thousand were injured. the i'll call you to trademark was established serial attacks triggered by sui

one of the rebels fighting the soviets was osama bin laden. cia trained osama bin laden, supplied him with weapons to fight the soviets. jump forward to 9/11, osama bin laden uses some of what he has learned to attack america. -in fromhave this tie the cold war to the war on terror. that is why it is important for students to understand the specifics of the cold war, to understand how it got us here today. . >> it seems to be happening just about every week that somebody, either a famous person or even an ordinary man on the street was getting subject to the social media condemnation. just found themselves in the middle of a shame tornado for some kind of misbehavior, either generally or perceived. e-ons werehese pil much bigger than they had ever been at any time in human history because of the internet. editor of the "washington examiner" magazine experienced online shaming. she is as our guest on q&a. >> it was a hard decision to write the essay because it brought back what was very troubling and an almost traumatic experience in my life. th

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its leader the little known osama bin laden became public enemy number one. and the hunt to track him down a. new tack on the world trade center reconfigured the geopolitics of the world the united states launched a war in afghanistan a war that would soon spread far beyond what it was nine eleven the threat of terrorism is very real to the american public and from from a policy standpoint we are looking for specifically at the threat were over at me in may show up. a few months after september eleventh the u.s. military returned to the horn of africa with plans to stay in. they established their first military base in djibouti at camp. a former french foreign legion fort . rudolf a talent directed counterterrorism efforts in africa for the u.s. department of defense. the cell played a key role in looking at the movement of weapons the movement of potential foreign fighters organized crime during that time period you also had an influx of cocaine flowing in through the sale so all of this was was of primary interest and in a continued to grow. print press the

not only in the form of osama bin laden and the al qaeda network and with that muslim brotherhood philosophically had emerged these enemies either came from the laughter from the outside what about the enemies on the right? for many years i was convinced the american conservative one - - conservative movement starting in the 19 fifties with the godfather of modern american conservativism and in national review. the same thing was done to the segregationist like john bircher and so on. i began working the editorial pages of the 19 nineties and that was complete sure it was pat buchanan but it wasn't where it needed to be. but on the whole the leading figures of the right and then to operate within the framework of political decency. the optimism turned out to be premature and then with free trade from latin america. also claiming both are to blame for the struggle of the american working class. from that premise with globalism in the deep state and now routinely issue from the white house. so what we have now is a framework with fear of that shadowy conspiracy with no sense of loyalty to the count

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obama is still able, why he's ranked number 12, the killing of osama bin laden, the expansions that he did with national monuments using executive orders. his promotion of climate change, the paris accord, the iran deal, the opening up of relations to cuba. so you can see him using his executive power in effective ways but there's a warning label put to that because when you get an adversary, particularly one as fierce as donald trump coming in, in many ways he's defined himself as undoing obamaism, taking the old mitch mcconnell line and seeing obama as the enemy and anything that has his signature or fingerprints on can't be good. and that's where our politics are right now. and it goes back and forth both ways. it's just very hard for people to govern from the center now because of social media you get attention if you're on the far left or the far right. people want sensational comments to be made. i'm watching democrats right now running for president having to outleft each other, take it one step further. but beto o'rourke, no wall, not even a hunk of wall along the border is sup

able to write about this for today we just assume we have these special locks that will kill osama bin laden. they have problems with the idea of special locks meaning taking the best soldiers and the best of the best and taking them out of companies and putting them into the elite fighting groups because you are taking the national leadership pull out. why would you let them stay to keep the morale up. it's the 225 best of the best. an earlier session i was talking about nasa and space finding the mercury seven and the tests they would have to do. we did what nobody knew would be a top-secret obligation to take out 155-millimeter guns in france, big plastic guns that were intel boxes over the cliffs into the key to d-day. there's a lot of deception going on but meanwhile there are thousands that wanted to be in the u.s. army second rangers and we ended up going through training where the seals were not created yet that we were doing amphibious training and getting stung by a jellyfish and the like. then they go up to fort dix in new jersey and learn how to climb up a rope straight up the wa

special forces the woods of osama bin laden about the al qaeda network standout. it appears he may have been proved right al qaeda is showing signs of confidence what will threats and threats from radical islamic terrorism a continuing threat posed by al qaeda as it stands the look likely to be around for a while yet peter all of r.t. . protests have been taking place across india in the wake of a suicide bombing that killed over forty part of military police and the rest of the province of kashmir on thursday after a pakistan based terrorist which the indian government claims receive support from the authorities in islam a but took responsibility for the attack. demonstrators in the film shouting out on t.v. pakistan's slogans on burning effigies on the country's prime minister the bombing dramatically escalated tensions between india and pakistan which have been fighting for control of kashmir since india's partition in one thousand forty seven. but i want to tell the terrorist organizations and those who patronize them that they have made a huge mistake they wi

navy seals did the operation to kill osama bin laden you know what about the air force denied that you know they had any hand or color and that they were not complicit or did they were unaware and so on and so this is an order problem with the fog sonny stitt about it as being first of all they have a culture of jihad which they sponsor for strategic reasons against afghanistan against iran against india its all its neighboring countries and secondly they want plausibility and i am to say that listen there are no terror camps at all in our country so india hit terror camps both in two thousand and sixteen what we call surgical strikes one and now with the air force in surgical strikes to incite bugs senator kerry so far this week some old you know convincing their public that everything is all right and that there are no let me the tower and says those they're helping out here and says that india has a general election in late spring is there any kind of substance that the tension is being exploited somewhat but the numbers there we're talking to three hundred deaths from new delhi tha

special forces the words of osama bin laden about the al qaeda network standout and it appears he may have been proved right al qaeda is showing signs of confidence what will threats and the threat from radical islamic terrorism a continuing threat posed by al qaeda as it stands they look likely to be around for a while yet peter all of our r.t. . other headlines this out of a morning the number of children living in conflict zones has doubled since the end of the cold war according to a new report by save the children the charity says that means about one in five youngsters live in areas affected by armed conflict. the fact. that a while i won my lot of head up. the order to get. in and. they didn't care you had the hoodie. that's what tory had no idea what they'd. done badly. but i get it done much. a lot of them and it's just that. not only are they in good love. that was our. concern all of us last out of us. does. not break every enemy you show me a feeling. or all your. heart the heart. some four hundred twenty million children live in these conflict zones at least one thousand

i think chapo, other than osama bin laden, i think he is the number one bad guy of our generation. responsible for thousands of deaths. his organization as it stands today is still responsible for killing people. host: when did you first hear the name el chapo? guest: it was in the early 90's, 1990, 1991. i was attached to a special operations division and we began looking at mexican methamphetamine traffickers, which chapo had a piece of. but what really got my attention was his ability in terms of logistics. he is a mass murderer of grand proportions, no doubt about it. he is also one heck of a corporate ceo. in the way that he managed -- he was innovative. he did research on the u.s. market to make sure his organization could supply the demand. we saw that come to fruition at the end when the opioid crisis spread. so in the early 1990's in particular we were concentrating still on columbia with the cartels. we were beginning to piece together the evolution of the mexican cartels. quite frankly, up until that point the cartels in mexico were really not cartels. we used to refer t

boo ea hearing at some point, once he gos on a television show and he was treated worse than osama bin ladeno. but it's on laa matter of time before there's a full gag ord oer on him. >> meanwhile acting director mccabe seems to have got under the president's skin. he said deputy attorneygeneral raised the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment to are move trump from office, according to a newly are leased transcript. how men a other cabinet officials might support the effort. president trump quoted harvard law dershowitz is a despicable act of ounkauns tuesdayal power grabbing which happens unthird world countries. this is an attack on our system and our constitution. you have another statement coming out today from mccabe. seeming to down play the significance of any discozes that did take place but it was raised in some context at some point. the only thing i can think about is in the second term of ronald regan's presidency, the chief of staff got a memo sawing they weren't sure he was to it. baker observed him on the job and concluded we're not going to go forward with this. but to

chapo, in my opinion, other than osama bin laden is the number when bad guy of our generation responsible for thousands of , ashs and his organization it stands today, is still responsible for killing people. >> when did you first hear the name "el chapo? >> in the early 1990's. 1990-1991. i was attached to a special operations division and we began looking at mexican methamphetamine traffickers. el chapo had a piece of. but what really got my attention was his ability in terms of logistics. he is a mass murderer of grand proportions. no doubt about it. he is also one heck of a corporate ceo in the way he managed. he was innovative. he did research on the u.s. market to make sure that his organization could supply the demand. we saw that come to fruition with the opioid crisis and how it spread. in the early 1990's, we were still concentrating on columbia -- colombia. we were beginning to piece together the evolution of the mexican cartels. quite frankly come up to that point, the mexican cartels were not really cartels. we refer to them as federations. they were loosely tied smuggled --

america's enemy in afghanistan is best known for harboring osama bin laden, as he planned the 9/11 attacksbrutal repression of women and for meeting out harsh justice under a draconian interpretation of islamic sharia law. we want to find out who the taliban is today, if after 17 years of war with the u.s. their islamic emiric has changed. our journey begins in the southern border of sharif, force to withdraw after a bitter battle of 2001, now, they are just a few miles away. we're headed out now to meet up with our taliban escorts. as you can see, i'm wearing the full facial veil. i'm wearing it to keep as low profile as is possible because there are no western journalists in the areas we're headed to. the government controls the highway out of the city. but once you turn off the main road you are quickly in taliban territory. to reach our hosts, we have to cross the small river on a ferry. billions of u.s. dollars have been poured into building up afghanistan's infrastructure. but little of that has trickled down here. there on the other side of the river. after months of negotiations, t

we killed osama bin laden. >> flynn is invited by russia in 2013 to be the first american military officialvisit. it was the foreign intelligence service, the gru. >> i think he would look at the russians, the gru, putin, and said these guys are fearful of sunni and al qaeda fighters also. i guess an enemy of my enemy is my friend. >> a really well-trained intelligence officer would be thinking why. why are you inviting me here? what is the purpose of this? you have to assume that there is always a nefarious reason. >> back in washington, there are growing concerns inside the dia about flynn's views. >> there came this phrase that people around him used called flynn facts which were things he would say that just didn't hold up. for example, he said that hezbollah killed more americans than al qaeda. it's not true. it's something that he believed. >> i knew a special forces sergeant major who knows him personally who was there. he started saying, some of the things that this guy thinks about the rest of the world are a little screwy. >> as flynn expresses in his book, he also believes that t

america's enemy in afghanistan is best known for harboring osama bin laden as he planned the 9/11 attacksr its brutal repression of women and for meeting out harsh justice under a draconian interpretation of islamic cheria law. we want to find out who the taliban is today and if their islamic emirate has changed. our journey begins in the northern city. the taliban was forced to withdraw from here after a bitter battle in 2001. now, they are just a few miles away. we're heading out now to meet up with our taliban escorts. as you can see, i'm wearing the full facial veil. i'm wearing it to keep as low profile as is possible because there are no western journalists in the areas we are headed to. the government controls the highway out of the city, but once you turn off the main road, you are quickly in taliban territory. . to reach our host we have to cross a small river on a ferry. billions of u.s. dollars have been poured into building up afghanistan's infrastructure. >> that escort is there on the other side. >> reporter: after months of negotiations the taliban leadership has agreed to

america's enemy in afghanistan is best known for harboring osama bin laden as he planned the 9/11 attacksal repression of women and for meting out harsh justice under a draconian interpretation of islamic sharia law. we want to find out who the taliban is today and if after 17 years of war with the u.s. their islamic emirate has changed. our journey begins in the northern city of mazar e sharif. the taliban was forced to withdraw from here after a bitter battle in 2001. now they are just a few miles away. >> we're heading out now to meet up with our taliban escorts. and as you can see, i'm wearing the full facial veil known as the niqab. i am wearing it to keep as low profile as possible because there are no western journalists in the areas we're headed to. >> reporter: the government controls the highway out of the city. but once you turn off the main road you are quickly in taliban territo territory. to reach our hosts we have to cross a small river on a ferry. billions of u.s. dollars have been poured into building up afghanistan's infrastructure. but little of that has trickled down h

america's enemy in afghanistan is best known for harboring osama bin laden as he planned the 9/11 attacksits brutal repression of women. and for meting out harsh justice under a draconian interpretation of islamic sharia law. we want to find out who the taliban is today and if after 17 years of war with the u.s. their islamic emirate has changed. our journey begins in the northern city of mazar ishirif. the taliban was forced to withdraw from here after a bitter battle in 2001. now, they are just a few miles away. we're heading out now to meet up with our taliban escorts and as you can see, i'm wearing the full facial veil. i'm wearing it to keep as low profile as is possible because there are no western journalists in the areas we're headed to. the government controls the highway out of the city, but once you turn off the main road, you are quickly in taliban territory. to reach our host, we have to cross a small river on a ferry. billions of u.s. dollars have been poured in to building up afghanistan's infrastructure. but little of that has trickled down here. that's our escort just the

television show and, again, repeats that it's all a conspiracy and he was treated worse than osama bin ladenl chapo, which is apparently what he's been doing. he'll have these little rallies out front. it's only a matter of time until there's a full gag order. >> former acting fbi director appears to have gotten under the president's skin. andrew mccabe confirmed after james comey's firing, deputy attorney general rod rosenstein raised the possibility of invoking the 25th amendment according to a newly released transcript. quote, rod raise ed the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort. attacking mccabe in a tweet last night, president trump quoted harvard law professor alan dershowitz saying trying to use the 25th amendment to circumvent the election is a dispickble act of unconstitutional power grabbing which happens in third world countries. this is an attack on our system and our constitution. jeremy, you have another statement coming out today from mccabe, sort of seeming to try to downplay the signifi

he likened himself to a suspect roughed up on par with deceased osama bin laden. and the tactics that you just saw, well, he says they are like nazi secret police. >> to storm my house with a greater force than was used to take down bin laden or el chapo or pablo escobar, to terrorize my wife and my dogs, it's unconscionable. this was an egregious overreach by mr. mueller. these are gestapo tactics. >> gestapo tactics. now the video is coming out as today roger stone is fighting a possible gag order from a judge. the mueller team seeking one and in a court filing today, new tonight, stone's lawyers say this would be . right to work and pursue a livelihood and their brief cites kim kardashian arguing that stone is not nearly as popular or as big an order and saying a gag would silence their client's voice. we've reported before that roger stone has a point when it comes to freedom of speech, but then there is another filing i want to show you today, as stone's in the news where he breaks a broader claim that his case is now, in his view, not even, quote, related to

and then at the age of 19 i pledged allegiance to osama bin laden. at age 20 i realized the errors of my way and left. but when i left, you know, you just -- can't just go back into normal life. you have to atone for your sins. you have to do something to undo what you've done. i ended up basically working for the uk intelligent services. that's why when we deal with each one of them, we have to deal with each one as individual cases. because someone asked me the question, what do you think shamina should do? i said, look, if shamina wants the uk as a government, as a country, as the people, to take a risk for her, she must take a risk for the uk. she needs to open up. she needs to provide intelgliget services with everything that happened from the day she left, or before, groomed, who purchased her tickets, where did she move, which safehouses, which camps until the -- before she ended up in this refugee camp. >> one of the things -- you make a good point. she needs to divulge everything she knows. but one of the things i assume people like yourself

strikes and avoiding to take a decision on bin laden. osama bin laden was also interested in continued pipeline negotiations. a strategy memo from bin laden's close aide to mohammed ought to have was found to join the investigation of the nine hundred ninety eight east africa embassy attacks this memo written by mohammed atta as it states clearly that as far as the taliban were mentioning relationship in some way was with american business is over his project or u.s. diplomats. and their security otitis security guarantee. the little. the terror attacks against the east african embassies tasted the relationship between the taliban and the al qaida leader. because chris in afghanistan. became a big part of the trip. and they did in there in the early should between a kind of sign and the international community. there are. a lot of. it. would be part of those c. was a victim of thirty six or so you know sort of blood because you know it suited the low base line near zero but the kind you oh and your way those shooter was on thursday. the gee it

obama is still able, why he's ranked number 12, the killing of osama bin laden, the expansions that heid with national monuments using executive orders. his promotion of climate change, the paris accord, the iran deal, the opening up of relations to cuba. so you can see him using his executive power in effective ways but there's a warning label put to that because when you get an adversary, particularly one as fierce as donald trump coming in, in many ways he's defined himself as undoing obamaism, taking the old mitch mcconnell line and seeing obama as the enemy and anything that has his signature or fingerprints on can't be good. and that's where our politics are right now. and it goes back and forth both ways. it's just very hard for people to govern from the center now because of social media you get attention if you're on the far left or the far right. people want sensational comments to be made. i'm watching democrats right now running for president having to outleft each other, take it one step further. but beto o'rourke, no wall, not even a hunk of wall along the border is suppo

osama bin ladin was busy building training facilities. bin laden eventually became responsible for organizing the flow of foreign fighters between chechnya bosnia and the arab world for the taleban these soldiers were useful reinforcements in the fight against the northern alliance this enabled been logging to strengthen his alliance with the taliban and to recruit soldiers for his holy war on the western world. was this your first post that idea that it is yes but what i think you know i think that there are. there are safeguards that are left out of government on the level found that while they're going very well and their value and they know it you better be careful both of them off and on and. yet. on the seventh of august nine hundred ninety eight a bomb exploded at the u.s. embassy in nairobi. simle tenuously a bomb detonated in neighboring towns and in two hundred twenty four people died in these terrorist attacks and building four thousand were injured. the i'll call you to trademark was established serial attacks triggered by suicide bombe

they were navy seals in the one nearby, and more security officials chasing after him than did osama bin laden to go to the agree they did to get him? >> it looks with the benefit of pictures to be disproportionate force. so that's an unfortunate visual. you've got to be careful trying to second guess the fbi and law enforcement what level of force is appropriate. neil: what would warrant this use of force? >> i don't know. i do know with regard to ordinary arrests that, you know, you prepare for the worst and hope for the best and most times, na level of force is unnecessary, but, again, if you want to go in each individual case and try to second guess how many agents are enough or how much show of force is necessary in order to effect an arrest. neil: you use a show of force like that, right, for a fear that he might destroy something or run? what? >> well, sure, the safety of the agents is paramount. is it necessary here? look, every family of an accused claims, wait a second, that's just ridiculous. you know, my loved one, the person that i know would never do anything that would warrant t

they used more people than taking down osama bin laden. thinking about it, you know who can give me good context on this, brilliant former federal prosecutor, john, help me with this, seems to be overkill but what do you make of it and is that, you know, procedure? >> good morning, neil, well, following joe theismann is a little daunting. neil: i hear you. >> of course, the proof of the pudding, not just monday morning quarterbacking but when he was taken to court and my main office is in south florida, when he got to the courthouse he was locked up and the fact he's released on the bond only on signature agreed to by the special counsel's office so they can see he was not flight risk and not a danger. i just don't understand why they did it. i've not been a critic to have special prosecutor but emboldens their critics because i think it was act of poor judgment, i don't think it's the fbi. i think it's the prosecutor's office, i don't think we can get to micro managing how law enforcement executes a raid but the real question is should th

did they learn something from having given safe haven to osama bin laden? do we believe there's a mind set change that that could be an enforceable or a reasonable expectation? director haspel? >> yes, and you're referring to recent and fresh news that's come out of the ambassador's very intensive efforts, but particularly over the last eight days in doha, where he's been engaged in talks with the taliban to seek to achieve a framework under which -- >> can we believe that the taliban will do? >> because we have inflicted set severe damage on al qaeda in the theater, i think, however, all of us at this table would agree it's important we maintain pressure on the terrorist groups that are there. so if there were an eventual peace agreement, a very robust monitoring regime would be critical and we still need to maintain the capability to act if we needed to. >> thank you. another note, director coates, you mentioned i wouldn't say in passing, but it was just a sentence of your introduction, which i think is a very important point and maybe the big news of rig

i think chapo, other than osama bin laden, i think he is the number one bad guy of our generation.ponsible for thousands of deaths. it standszation as today is still responsible for killing people. host: when did you first hear the name el chapo? guest: 1991. i was attached to a special operations division and we began looking at mexican methamphetamine traffickers, which chapo had a piece of. what got my attention was his ability in terms of logistics. he is a mass murderer of grand proportions, no doubt about it. he is also one heck of a corporate ceo. the did research on the u.s. market to make sure his organization could supply the demand. fruition atcome to the end when the opioid crisis spread. in the early 1990's, in particular we were concentrating still on columbia with the cartels. we were beginning to piece together the evolution of the mexican cartels. up until that point the cartels in mexico were really not cartels. we referred to them as the federation. they were loosely tied smugglers, not necessarily narcotics traffickers. they would smuggle anything they could to

osama bin laden uses some of what he has learned to attack america. have this tie in from the cold war to the war on terror. that's lights important for students to understand the significance of the cold war. to understand how it got us here today. >> this weekend, american history tv joins our comcast cable partners to showcase the history of i celia california. to learn more about the cities visit current tour, c-span.org/cities tour. we continue to look back now with a look at the history of visalia. this was created to dam some of the waters in the spring time to capture some of that water for later use down in the valley. it was elevated to be able to hold 30% more water. it is used for recreation, but it is important to us down in the valley. one of the largest american communities inside the national park here in sequoia national cup park. when it flooded, it did flood some of the areas, native american areas. they pulled some bedrock mortar up and had it on display here. edy -- inrtar is, in easy terms, they were able to take acorns and mashe