a lot of it in the 1830s starting with pt barnum is where i began the book, really comes about from new media coming in now, which sounds familiar, right? the new media, kind of the penny press and then it became a penny. they were pretty scandalous. they were filled with fakery. we are talking emmaus readers. someone pretended they could see life on the moon. that's really poured on a lot of what we are seeing now on fake news, but it's as old as 1835. >> host: in your book you write the transformative access most resembles the current change demonstrated this not cause. >> yeah. i think the internet in the sense of taking the penny press to its extreme access for folks in austin getting requested back what they like. the penny press is very competitive and you see a lot of proliferation of them. a similar thing on the internet. also it is hard sometimes to debunk. they kind of circulate and circulate. whether we talk about the fake news that today or how hard it can be to untangle ourselves from some of the shared notions. some people become hard to eradicate. >> y p. t. barnum? >> r&

stuart: i once called him pt bar numb -- barnum. elon musk does grab headlines and does live on tax credits but now emerged as a visionary and a successful one at that. what he has done a take a futuristic concept and turn it into reality. by the end of this year 5,000 tesla model 3 cars a week will roll off the production line at the plant in free month, california. 10,000 a week next year. advance orderers for 450,000 of them. musk says he has no worry that he can meet the demand. middle-income car on the market and elon musk built it and the tesla company is now worth $53 billion. general motors, only 50 billion. just wait till you see where tesla stock is headed first this morning. you get it all on the program. the watch is enraged by the trump's immigration tramp and mr. trump will reveal new plan for trade with china. varney &company about to begin. ♪ ♪ ♪ stuart: we are starting from record close yesterday. 22,000 and 16. tesla, that stock is going straight up at the opening bell. the official reason is that they lost less mo

we did the pt barnum posters. they were deteriorating and needed to be saved. we have done all kinds of different projects to raise the money because history matters. it matters a lot. once it is gone, it is gone. we cannot let it be gone. it is the report and where we -- it is very important where we come from. where we come from is where we are going. it is linked. they are linked. we take that very seriously. my novels, i'm trying to bring awareness. i've done a wide range of things and the smithsonian is my latest example. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2017] >> coming up this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, tonight at 10:00 eastern on real america, the u.s. office of war film "why we fight: the battle of china." >> three fax the never must be forgotten. that never must be forgotten. china is history. china is land. china's people. sunday at 11:30 p.m. eastern, author robert wright on how ale

we'd -- we did the pt barnum posters. we have done all kinds of different projects to raise the money because history matters. it matters a lot. is gone, it is gone. we cannot let it be gone. it is the report and where we come from. where we are going. it is linked. they are linked. we take that very seriously. my novels, i'm trying to bring awareness. i've done a wide range of things and the smithsonian is my latest example. >> tonight -- responsecial and legal to the issues that black men have is to lock us up, to put us in cages, to stop and frisk of, to treat us as citizens whose rights other people do not respect. we are not full citizens of the united states. professor paulaw bowler looks at the u.s. criminal justice system and its impact on african-american men. >> there has never been a time where community relations has been anywhere near good. werer a long time, if you a black person and called the police to report a crime, if you were the victim, the police did not pay that much attention to it. now the sense i

we did the pt barnum museum with old posters that were deteriorating and needed to be saved. we have done all kinds of different projects to raise the money because history matters. it matters a lot. once it is gone, it is gone. we cannot let it be gone. we have to know where we came from. it is very important where we came from. because where we came from is where we are going. it is linked. they are linked together. we take that very seriously. in my novels, i'm trying to bring awareness to those things. i've done a wide right of historical stuff and the smithsonian is just the latest example. >> monday night. >> hackers hack humans. >> we are at the conference in las vegas talking about cyber security and cyber threats. >> it is not easy to keep patching a large organization month after month. today, we have to think of proactive defense. we cannot keep reacting to attacks anymore. we have turned the whole concept around. we set booby-traps. we have to create customized environments. we have to engage in threat hunting. >> watch monday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span2. >>

trump is a pt barnum, a huckster salesman. what he sold was excitement.ou look at consumer sentiment from the university of michigan, you will see it peaked in january. as we got more deep into the trump administration, it started to level off until it started to roll over. if you look at these soft surveys that are more emotional than facts -- the soft versus hard data -- what you will see is as we got through the first quarter, especially what we saw with obamacare not been repealed, the height started to dissipate, and there was a question with what carson was saying earlier -- building on the dysfunctionality. we have classic gridlock in washington. consumers and household saw that. companies did not necessarily buy into the trump hype, but there is a volatility in the euphoria. if you look at the growth, it has have over the past six months. it has been on a downslope. the excitement has gone away. people are looking at the pocketbook and saying my income is not growing as fast as it was a few months ago. i now have to work within that context of les

he is pt barnum, his sister a federal judge told his biographer in 2005.al complex had been annexing presidential politics far more than half a century. trump's campaign and presidency are its ultimate expression. let's take a step back. the thesis of this piece is that america has lost its mind. >> that in a word. >> is that fair? >> yeah. >> okay. and not to go through the spire 500 years, but how did we get here? >> let's just do the last 50 or so. there were strains of this for various reasons in our international bloodstream. we can believe whatever we want, a good thing. we can attempt possible things, good thing. all these things, but then, i argue in the late 60s, it got kind of out of control with the reality checks and balances with dream the impossible dream. in the 60s from my quote, really starting with jfk but then ronald reagan and bill clinton as well, presidential politics did become a kind of subset of entertainment, and cable news didn't encourage that as well. and so once a reality show guy like donald trump is running for president and

pt. barnum and you get a sense of how trump operates. one of the books you should get shortly after reading understanding trump is by tom evans, and it's called the education of ronald reagan. now, the reason it matter it's a very small book but the reason it matters is evans goes back and looks at the eight years that reagan works for general electric. and general electric had a very sophisticated education program for their employees and the reason was they had seven unions, two of them communist and five were very left wing, and they knew they couldn't negotiate with the leaders of the unions because they were hard core committed left wingers but they could educate the members about economic reality so they would not vote for a strike. so they built a very elaborate education program and they wanted a happy positive celebrity to be the front face of the program. so they hired reagan at the end of his movie career and reagan spent eight years criss crossing the country, giving speeches largely to blue collar workers and having pictures

stuart: i once called him pt bar numb -- barnum.ed as a visionary and a successful one at that. what he has done a take a futuristic concept and turn it into reality. by the end of this year 5,000 tesla model 3 cars a week will roll off the production line at the plant in free month, california. 10,000 a week next year. advae