robert george has written "making men moral" and "conscience and its enemies". >> robert george, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you? >> must have met in the 1990s after brother cornell came and we were together in faculty, seminars under the auspices -- we didn't know each other very well. we would just say hello, we interacted a bit in the seminars. we began teaching together in 2007 and there is a whole story behind that. i don't know if you want me to go in that kind of detail but that is when our teaching and friendship began. >> host: how did the teaching profession again? >> a brother named andrew. >> a good student who studied with both of us. >> called cream, my course, resin mucin, david hume, he was taking a course from me on civil liberty and he asked me who i would like to have dialogue with, who was a conservative, i would love to have a chance to engage in dialogue. we got together, we had a 45 minute dialogue based on a recording, the recording was over, we continued to talk for at least two or three hours. we have to continue this conversation, we have

robert george remains at princeton.here is the way you can interact with these two. >> translator: if you live in east and central time zones. 202-748-8201 for those of you in the mountain/pacific. he can't get to on the phone lines and make a comment several ways via social media including twitter, @booktv, are a facebook page you'll see a video of these two together and you can make a comment right under there, they. >> .com/booktv. instagram @booktv and finally e-mail, booktv at c-span dot board. very quickly we want to do show you a few of the books that these two have written beginning with cornel west, , new 25th addition out brand-new of his bestseller "race matters" becomes originally published in 1993. "democracy matters" came out in 2004. "brother west", his autobiography came out in 2009 and his most recent book is "black prophetic fire" 2014. robert george a a couple of his books. "making men moral" 1995, the clash of orthodoxies 2001. "conscience and the enemies" 2013, and one of his most recent books, what

now it's your opportunity to talk with professors cornel west and robert george. professor west has written many books including brotherd west living out loud. the books include making men moral and conscience at its enemies. >> robert george, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you? >> in the 1990s after he came to princeton and we are together in faculty seminars but we didn't know each other very well. we wouldhe just say hello to eah other and we interacted in the seminars. we began teaching together and 2007. that's whe when our teaching partnership began. >> host: how does the teaching partnership began? >> guest: they set up a magazine i think it was called green light [inaudible] taking a course with a civil liberty and he asked who i would like to have a dialogue with and i said i would love a chance to dialogue so we got together and had about a 45 minute dialogue on the recording. he continued to talwe continuedt least three or four hours that we've got to continue this conversation and we've now been going for 11 or 12 years around the coun

sunday, live on in depth, professors cornell west and robert george will be our guest. >> anytime i get a chance to be in dying dog with professor to be in dialog with professor george. we go back 13 years. we share commitment to the world of ideas. we have had a chance to lecture around the country. when i see him, i do not see a conservative thinker, catholic philosopher, i see him as my friend, as my someone who has a right to be wrong. >> if you're going to work together in conversation, even , thee, to get at the truth people involved in the conversation have to recognize that they are fallible, frail, fallen human beings. they have to recognize that they could be wrong, each one has to recognize i could be wrong about my most cherished beliefs. i could be wrong. has thatct, one attitude and understanding, not in a merely notional way, but in a deeply appropriated way, then one will begin to develop a virtue that is indispensable for truth seeking. >> among the books mr. west has written are "race matters" and brother west. mr. george's books include conscience and its enemies. we

now it's your opportunity to talk with professors cornel west and robert george.rofessor west has written many books including brotherd west living out loud. the books include making men moral and conscience at

robert george has robert george and you meet the man sitting next to you? >> a little after he came to princeton were together and faculty seminars that we didn't know each other very well. and we interacted but we began teaching together in 2007 there is another story behind that but that is when the teaching partnership began. >>host: how did that begin professor west? >> there is a man named andrew he set up a magazine and was teaching a course and he asked me who i would like to have a dialogue worth that was a conservative. i said i would love to have a chance to have a dialogue with bobby george. we got together with a 45 minute dialogue based on the recording then when andrew left we continue to talk to her three hours and continued to talk and said we have to continue this conversation. so now we go 11 or 12 years all over the country. >> we had a wonderful time i have learned so much and vice versa it has been magnificent. he has been so good to me and my family. we aspire to that. >> so the meeting that began the teaching partnership we had the gr

outgunned they did not hesitate a answered the call of history nikki, a jack, don, robert jack, don, robert, george and alexander on that sunday morning getting ready to play a football with the fleet championship and never got that game? [laughter] you won the war. what get neil. [laughter] can you do that one more time? i am not playing him in football. he reported to the battle station in the crow's nest of uss pennsylvania wearing his football uniform and helmet that he threw off because he figured he didn't need it. he saw something few have ever witnessed before her carjack survived the enemies attack and went on to fly dozens of missions in the battle of midway and all along the solomon islands. and to think about the lessons of pearl harbor he hopes we can build up of military again beyond what you ever thought but it was defeated over a long period of time. now the budgets are higher than ever before and to the best and we're doing the job. robert? nice to see he was serving them returned fire against the enemy giving it to them pretty good you look pretty good. you must have spent six yea

. >> today live on "in depth" professors corner west and robert george will be our guests. >> anytime i get a chance to be in dialogue with professor george, my dear brother robert, we go back 13 years. we share a fundamental commitment to the mind and the world of ideas. we had a chance to teach and lecture around the country. and so when i see them i don't see them first and foremost as a conservative thinker, catholic philosopher, one of the major political figures of our data i see it as my brother. i see him as my friend and so on who has a right to be wrong. [laughing] >> if you're going to work together in conversation, even the fate, to get at the truth, the people involved in the conversation first have to recognize that they are fallible, frail, fallen human beings. they have to recognize that they could be wrong. each one has to recognize, even about my most cherished beliefs i could be wrong. and if, in fact, one has that attitude and understanding, , nt in merely a notional way, but in a deeply appropriated way, then one will begin to develop a virtue that is indispensabl

. >> today, live on in depth, professors cornell west and robert george will be our guest. >> any time i have a chance to 13in dialogue, we go back years. commitment to ideas. we have had a chance to teach around the country. i don't see him as a conservative thinker, catholic philosopher, i see him as my brother and friend. someone who has a right to be wrong. >> if you're going to work together in conversation. truth,bate to get at the the people first have to fallible,they are fallible human beings. they could be wrong. cherished -- most i could be wrong. if they have that understanding, in a deeply appropriated way, one will be able to

watch "in depth" with cornel west and robert george, live, sunday from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. . >>> the

watch in depth with cornel west and robert george live sunday from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span2. >>> earlier this week, the senate banking committee held a confirmation hearing for federal reserve chair nominee jerome powell. mr. powell answered questions on his overall monetary philosophy and the fed's forthcoming meeting. >>> and the committee will come to order for the hearing. this morning, we will consider the nomination of the honorable jerome or jay powell to be chairman of the board of governors of the federal reserve system. governor powell, welcome, and congratulations on your nomination. i see friends and family behind you. and i welcome them here today as well. governor powell has had an accomplished career in financial services.

[applause] [inaudible conversations] >> today, live on "in depth" professors cornell west and robert george will be our guests. >> anytime to get a chance to be in dialogue with professor george, my dear brother, we go back now 13 years. we revel in each others humanity. we share a fundamental commitment to the life, the mind and the world of ideas. we have a chance to teach and lecture about the country. and so when i see them i don't see them first and foremost as a conservative thinker, catholic philosopher, what are the major political apartheid, i see them as my brother. i see him as my friend. and someone come up with the right to be wrong. [laughing] >> if you're going to work together in conversation, even debate, to get the truth, the people involved in the conversation first have to recognize that they are fallible, frail, fallen human beings. they have to recognize that they could be wrong. each one has to recognize, even about my most cherished beliefs, i could be wrong. and if, in fact, one have that attitude and understanding, , nt in a merely notional way, but in a deeply app

. >> today, live on in-depth, professors cornell west and robert george will be our guests. >> anytimeyou get a chance to be in dialogue with professor george, my dear brother, we go back 13 years. we revel in each other's humanity. we share our fundamental commitment to the lives and the world of ideas we've had a chance to teach in. around the country. when i see him, i do not see him first and foremost as a conservative thinker, catholic philosopher. what are the major political leaders of our day. i think of him as my brother. i think of him as my friend and someone who has a right to be wrong. [laughter] >> if you're going to work together in conversation. even debate, to get at the truth, the people involved in the conversation first have to recognize that they are fallible, frail, human beings. they have to recognize that they could be wrong. each one has a recognized check or even my most cherished. i can be wrong. and if in fact, one had that attitude and understanding. not in a emotional way but in a deeply appropriated way, then one would begin to develop a virtue that is in

watch "in depth" with cornel west and robert george, live, sunday from noon to 3:00 p.m. eastern on book tv on c-span 2. . >>> the deputy prime minister of qatar recently spoke about the middle east and other foreign policy challenges, including the economic boycott against qatar, implemented by several countries in the region back in june. the center for the national interest hosted the event last week. >>> welcome to the center for the national interest. we have a very special guest today. the minister of foreign affairs and vice prime minister of the state of qatar. his excellency -- a very young man. a very impressive career. and already was in his position for more than a year. and somewhat familiar with washington. i assume washington is becoming somewhat familiar to you. i have to say that however, a little difficult to understand his region. things are constantly happened. in addition to qatar, there's a small state called saudi arabia and there's another small state called iran. they interact in a whole variety of places and there's russia and of course the unite

and on sunday we're live with authors cornell west and robert george for years that two professors whom opposite ends of the political spectrum have lectured and taught university classes together. they discuss their work and take viewer questions begins at noon on sunday. david horowitz examines the left's impact on americas universities and colleges "rolling stone's" mat taibbi, and we visit kansas city, missouri tour, the city's literary sites and talk to local authors, this weekend on c-span2 booktv, television for serious readers. >>> for a complete schedule, visit our web site, booktv.org. >> welcome to kansas city, missouri, on booktv. locate on the eastern banks of the missouri river, this once mall frontier town went on to establish itself with the help of booming livestock and railroad industry as. as the city grew i

watch in-depth with cornell west and robert george sunday on book tv on c-span2. >> next on "the presidency," joe wiegand gives life to theodore roosevelt in a portrayal. he recounts the 26th president's life and times, including his unexpected ascension to the white house after william mckinley's assassination. this is just over an hour. john: i am john elliff, president of the lincoln group of the district of columbia. the lincoln group has existed since the 1930s to honor the life and legacy of abraham lincoln. and this year we have a special opportunity to hear from an extraordinary speaker. and in introducing him i would like to repeat something that he said at the first national republican convention that he attended as a young man in 1884. he was part of a reform wing of the republican party, and they had an insurgent candidate to be temporary chair of the convention, taking on the candidacy of the republican national committee. that candidate happened to be the african-american congressman from mississippi, john r. lynch. here is some of what our speaker said. it is now less than a

." >> host: robert george, when did you first meet the man sitting next to you? >> must've been in the 1990s, a little while after brother cornel came to princeton, and we were together in faculty, seminars a think under the auspices of the center for human values that we didn't know each other very well. we would just say hello. we interacted a a bit in the seminars. we began teaching together in 2007 and is a whole story behind that. i don't know if you want me to go into that kind of detail but that's w o

george yamasaki: japantown as we know it today i think is the product of the nihonmachi community development corporation and cdc. robertrst guide for our san francisco j-town journey is george yamasaki, an immigration attorney and a longtime member of the community, including heading up the annual cherry blossom festival. george: well, it's our 50th year for the cherry blossom festival, which began in 1968 with the opening of the japan center. when i moved to san francisco in 1959, japantown was, i think everyone would agree, run down. it had been through the war years, it had transitioned from really being a nihonmachi pre-world war ii to a kind of a mixed neighborhood. alan okamoto: if you go out to japantown and you see a lot of asians. but if you listen to them speak, you can tell that they're chinese, or korean, or vietnamese. which is good, it's progress, it's the future. robert: long-time san francisco realtor alan okamoto. do you think that there's a chance that the japantown that you would like it to be is gone? or will there always be a part of it still here? alan: that is really an interesting question. afte

robert: welcome back to "asian pacific america" in la's japantown, where george takei is bringing hisy show, and maybe even to the bay area, and how non-profits are helping j-town retain its culture. robert: "allegiance" coming here, and any chance it might come to the bay area? george: there is that chance. we're going to measure how successful we can be here. so, support us here in los angeles. "allegiance" played from 19--2015 to '16, and this is my hometown. so, i said, "we have to bring it to los angeles." and if it is enormously successful here, the prospect of it traveling is very good. kristin fukushima: we are at a crossroads of, you know, what will happen to our community? robert: kristin fukushima, managing director of the little tokyo community council, talked to us about the activity of non-profits in la's japantown. kristin: my organization is a coalition of all the different non-profits, and organizations in little tokyo, as well as the businesses, residents, and churches, and temples. and technically, churches and temples are also non-profits. and so, we have eight of

watch "in depth" whip cornyn west and robert george live today from noon to 3 p.m. eastern on booktv on c-span2. >> welcome to kansas city, missouri, on booktv locator on eastern banks banks of the missouri river this one small frontier town went on to establish itself help of a booming livestock and railroad industry. as the city grew immigrants flocked to find work. without of our spectrum cable partners for the next hour and 15 as well as for cities history and literary community. .. we say it the oldest continual retail operation west of the economy be in the whole world. but it's kind of our community center, one of the corner neighborhood grocery stores where people are extending credit in the neighborhood come and people came here for generations and it's now the same thing, people come here to gossip and compared notes and help and kids and all those things come as so it's like a small town crossroads store in ireland. in this sense than in kansas city we are along the river and so it creates this river bottomland for a lot of the irish immigrants first is b

sunday, live on "in-depth," professors cornell west and robert george will be our guests. >> anytime i get to be in dialogue with professor george, we go back 13 years, we revel in each other's humanity, we share our fundamental commitment to the world of ideas. we have a chance to teach and lecture across the country. when i see him, i don't see him first and foremost as a conservative thinker, catholic philosopher, one of the major political figures of our day, i see him as my brother, i see him as my friend and someone who has a right to be wrong. [laughter] >> if you are going to work together in conversation, even , thee, to get at the truth people involved in the conversation first have to recognize that they are fallible, frail, fallen human beings. they have to recognize that they could be wrong, each one has to recognize -- even about my most cherished beliefs, i could be wrong. thatf in fact one had attitude and understanding, not in a merely notional way, but in a deeply appropriate way, then one will begin to develop a virtue that is indispensable for truth seeking. >> am

the idea that a guy like robert mueller, george w.tee is director of the fbi is engineering some kind of coup, the comparisons that people like sean hannity have made with the kgb. it's really quite extraordinary. again, the idea is sort of seed little nuggets of misinformation, doubt, because the general hiypothesis is once you have all the idiots in town on your side, i'm quoting someone here, you've practically won. the suggestion is mueller's doing something illegitimate, that this is a fishing expedition, that there are all these questions. all of that adds up to a political case for the president to fire him. i agreed with everything that eddie said except for one point. i don't think we're heading towards a constitutional crisis. we're headed towards a political reckoning. where this country's really going to have to make a choice as to whether it wants to have this kind of governance. >> they made the choice already. mitch mcconnell and paul ryan and bob corker sort of getting on board. tax reform is such a giant win. they're

. >> reporter: this is george's defense attorney, robert langford. >> there is absolute reasonable doubt george tiaffay's involvement in this case. >> reporter: those surveillance videos, for example, that the prosecution found so damning? none of the hammers they bought was the actual murder weapon. and besides, most of what they bought together was simple --and innocent camping gear. george helping a man in need, as usual. >> he thought he was helping out noel stevens to live out where noel wanted to live, which was outside of town. >> reporter: as for the 87 phone calls the prosecution said proved george and greyhound had conspired to kill shauna, there was nothing sinister there, said the defense, just a man trying to contact his charity case handyman. >> i live out in that area. and cell service is notoriously bad. on top of -- have you ever tried to call a handyman in this town? it is ridiculously difficult to get hold of those kinds of workers to come do work. >> reporter: in fact, said the defense, the only thing the state had tying george to the murder was noel stevens's word. >

robert: don't look now but george mason women's basketball making noise this season. is head coach is off best scene. 10-2 record. >> is it coming together? >> we are excited about where we are at. playing good basketball. robert: they are becoming the team to beat. they haven't lost a game at home. >> we have never been in a situation they have been the target. so we are excited. but it's, i accept the challenge as a coach. >> everyone has a relationship with her. >> we have seniors that understand what it's taken to be at the level. we are excited. we are not satisfied. and build on the good start. >> team. >> with the coach of the week, i'm robert burton. >> coming up next on "abc7 news at 4:00", making sure the smallest and the most vulnerable are ready for the first christmas. >> one of the bad things that can happen so long in the nicu is to feel alone. jonathan: don't miss santa's special visit for families with no choice but to spend christmas at nicu. >> i'm cheryl conner on the campus of george mason university where graduate saved her life and earned her deg

robert somerville. >> we remember them. george walter said williams. kelsey woods. debra lynn woods.han woods. joe woods junior. andrew c.g. wright mark james zwynenburg joanna flanigan. kathleen flanigan. thomas flanagan. marie's henry. dora henrietta henry. mary lancaster. >> my uncle. them.remember special forces captain, joseph curry, my brother-in-law. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> i would like to welcome ellen nglehart, the widow of anthony hopkins, who left behind her and her son. she is a dedicated and ferocious activist and has been a part of this pan am family for as long as i can remember. she is going to come up and say a few words. >> determined, maybe. thank you. this is a tribute i never wanted to give. i had to be here to do it. i met frank the first time, when he came up to one of our early group meetings, in a rather dingy hotel, not quite sure why we were meeting their -- meeting there. we were trying to go up and down the east coast to be near some of the places where so many of us lived, because the plane had been filled with people whose homes were all over the country, as far away

robert somerville. >> we remember them. george waterson williams. kelsey woods. debra lynn woods. joe nathan woods. woods junior. andrew c.g. wright mark james zwynenburg joanna flanigan. kathleen flanigan. thomas flanagan. marie henry. dora henrietta henry. mary lancaster. >> my uncle. >> we remember them. army special forces captain, joseph curry, my brother-in-law. ♪ [♪ choral ♪ >> once again, i'd would to welcome another longtime friend, ellen englehart, the widow of anthony hopkins, who left behind her and her son. she is a dedicated and ferocious activist and has been a part of this pan am family for as long as i can remember. she is going to come up and say a few words about our frank -- come up and say a few words. ellen: determined, maybe. that song just wiped me out, thank you. this is a tribute i never wanted to give, and didn't expect to. i had to be here to do it. frank, i think i met frank the first time he came to one of our early group meetings, in a rather dingy hotel in hudson, new york. not quite sure why we were meeting there. except that in the early years, we were trying to go

. >> great for anecdotal evidence but i want to talk about who robert mueller is. appointed by georgee's a republican. took over the fbi a week after 9/11 and is a registered republican. again, he's a marine and vietnam war veteran. mueller worked for the u.s. attorney for the northern district of california six years. he went on to boston to work in the u.s. attorney's office. he's a guy with unimpeach ant credentials. a man newt gingrich praised at the beginning and republicans praising left and right. here's my question -- it's not about republican or democrat it seems. seems the closer you get to donald trump, if you are seen maybe going after him or maybe finding out something negative about him, you are immediately an enemy of donald trump, and not to be trusted. there's no way that you could criticize the president for find fault with him, because if you do, you are an enemy. >> well, if you expect the president to invite mueller over for christmas dinner, you're probably mistaken, at the same time -- listen, katy -- >> american citizens to trust the independent counsel? >> whe

this question, compare george thomas to robert e. lee in 1861. why did lee resign his commission and thomas stay in the army? i don't how much you know about george thomas, but take a crack at that. allen: george thomas was strongly tempted to go to the confederacy. he almost did. gary: his whole family did. they wrote him out of the family. allen: one thing that held him back was he had a northern born wife. that was one restraint. another restraint was simply the oath. at the end of the day, he cannot bring himself to go back on the oath. that he believed he had sworn and he believed, as lincoln said, it was registered in heaven. so thomas stays with the union, but it was not an easy decision. why does lee make a different decision? lee justifies it in terms of virginia. i've not been entirely satisfied with that as an answer, if only because lee spent so little of his time in virginia. most of lee's career is spent in other places. it is spent in georgia, in new york. it is spent in texas. st. louis. he actually spends a fairly small amount of

member of the trumped administration so far to be charged as part of robert miller's inquiry in october former campaign aides george papadopoulos pleaded guilty to making false statements to f.b.i. agents regarding his contacts with russia and trump's former campaign manager ford and his deputy were accused of conspiring to defraud the u.s. in dealings with ukraine a charge that arose from investigation they both pleaded not guilty. well the u.s. president has been quiet on the plains guilty plea and talk is turning to who next might be implicated in the investigation into russian meddling in the twenty sixteen presidential election particle has been gauging reaction on capitol hill. general michael flynn was a very visible part of trump's campaign for president one of his earliest and closest advisers his job often go after hillary clinton. by her that's right. that chance came back to haunt him friday oh. his guilty plea will make it that much harder for the white house to downplay the investigation that the f.b.i. now admits is looking into potential collusion between russia and the trump campaign which the pres

number one, it explains why robert mueller was so interested in george papadopoulos in the first place. remember, when papadopoulos's plea deal came out, it was the first time a lot of people who followed the investigation or followed this campaign had even heard his name used. and now we have a much clearer sense of what he was doing behind the scenes during the campaign, meeting with russian intermediaries, trying to set up foreign meetings, and it turns out, bragging to an australian diplomat at a bar in london about the fact that russia had obtained these damages e-mails about hillary clinton. it also casts into some doubt the white house's claim that papadopoulos was just a bit player in the campaign and that when they told him to knock it off essentially, or when jeff sessions told him not to be representing himself as part of the campaign in such a way, he didn't do it. the white house is responding to this report today with a statement from the president's outside legal counsel, who writes in part, out of respect for the special counsel and his process, we're not commenting on

the fbi and robert mueller are about that, and of course robert mueller has secured two guilty pleas from michael flynn and from george papadopoulos, and indicted two other individuals and it doesn't seem like robert mueller is done yet. so like a lot of americans, i am waiting to see whatever else -- by the way, you asked about the delegitimization of the fbi and a lot of other people are trying to set the guide path to delegitimatize what else they might uncover. >> do you get the idea house republicans the investigation to come to a hasty close. >> we did eight interviews, and two interviews not in the city of washington, and that makes it hard for people to get to those interviews, and these require a lot of preparation and work, and so it sure feels like, you know, somebody decided the clock was particularing and they needed to jam -- >> who is that person? >> hard to say. hard to say. as i said all along, i think congressman c congressman conaway is doing a nice job, and they have been tainted by what seems to be a command from the white house to end this thing, which is what we know the president wants. >> than

. >> i think it is important to remember robert mueller was appointed by president george w.s fbi director. why do you think nunez would try to undermine a republican appointed fbi director? >> i think there are some republicans who have raised questions about personnel choices. i have heard a number of republicans praise robert mueller as an american hero. i think there had been appropriate question raised about some of the information that has come forward. i think we need transparency in all of our government agencies including the doj and fbi. this past week president trump said he expects robert mueller will treat him fairly and he praised mueller after he did the interview. i don't really hear people claiming corruption on mueller. i think questions have been raised about the judgment he showed in hiring some of the people he did. people can draw their own conclusions about whether the investigation was fair and unbiassed. i think robert mueller is a hero and does need to be allowed to do his job. we have to get to the bottom of the meddling. even if we never find collu

robert mueller, for that point he would face consequences, not least among them is contempt. >> contempt. the other character talking about in this investigation from the mueller team, natasha is george papadopoulos his fiance speaking out to them. what is the takeaway? and might it be used against papadopoulos? >> definitelily introduces two new players in terms of their connections with bannon and flynn. of course they are not commenting. it solidifies this idea that papadopoulos felt emboldened enough during the campaign to make all these contacts with high leaf tell campaign officials. had him emailing lewandowski at the time. and paul manafort trying to set up this meeting between putin and donald trump. now the question is why did he feel like he was important enough on the campaign to make all these contacts with these high level campaign officials and continue to do so through september? why did he continue to represent the campaign even through january after trump was inauguraled? these are all questions that mueller of course is going to want to find out. and now that papadopoulos is cooperating with him, there is no doubt in my mind that he will, you know, discover the ans

is key, because facts are key, the evidence is key, and what's happening to george and how is he working with, you know, robert mueller. when you think about it mueller is piecing together his case, piece by piece, step by step, doing so with complete and utter discretion. so now we're having a little bit of the onion peeled back and we're starting to see that statement of the offense that george papadopoulos released and admitted to in october of 2017 were the facts, you can actually now plug and play. you can take the names from "the new york times" article, plug them into that statement of the videos and now it's all starting to make sense. >> to that point, rick, you can imagine that everyone in the republican party is probably agreeing with this approach of let's attack robert mueller, let's go after some of those senior members of the fbi and try to dig up as much dirt on them as possible. do you think that there's a growing rift over this in terms of what's traditionally been the party of law and order in the republicans, that they're going after the fbi and the department of justice? >> yeah, i think i

at that same time, special counsel robert mueller also announced a third trump campaign adviser georgeplead gill toy lying about contacts with russian operatives. then a month later, another person mentioned in the steele dossier pled guilty to lying. it was trump's former national security adviser michael flynn. flynn has agreed to become a cooperating witness in the mueller investigation. above all else, we know this about the now famous dossier. christopher steele had this story before the rest of america did. and he got it from russian sources. and whether or not the compromise, the alleged american-russian conspiracy at the heart of steele's narrative is ever proven out our understanding of what russia did and why and how well they did it and whether they had help, it's all still in its early stages. >> what is important is that the american public gets the truth, the full truth and nothing but the truth about what happened in our elections in 2016. >> it took an ex-british spy to give us a first look into what moscow might have been into. american investigators and journalists an

george mcclellan. if we lucky, a u.s. grant or a robert e lee. these are people who live among us today on their personality and method. others, in addition to their own accomplishment, rise by virtue of their efforts to pair down those around them. joseph hooker could muster little good to say about peers or superiors. if any figure of the war was successful in rising by diminishing -- of those around him, it was joseph hooker. that success and context seems remarkable to us today. in the army of the potomac, people talk about the changing war. i would suggest understanding the war requires an understanding that it changed dramatically from the beginning in 1861 until the end. the change affects military practice, we see that here. also, military policy. the armies would become a dominant tool for implementing policy. it affected social institutions, the institution of slavery, and southern civilians. those policies would become the major point of debate within the union war effort. in 1861, 1862, and 1863 with the armies themselves, because the

george h.w. bush spoke with numerous ambassadors. when robert miller was named special counsel, we were in that these investigations really stay limited to their original purpose. they wind up trapping people whose only crime is during the investigation. so far nothing has happened to disprove that warning. if investigators can prove that the trump campaign worked with vladimir putin in order to steal the 2016 election, by all means, prosecute. will be the first to true that on, to call for longer prison terms. but this? so far it's hard to see how this makes america better. robert ray knows a lot about these kinds of investigations. he's a former prosecutor and was in ken starr's investigation team. from what we know now, what is this about? what's the point, do you think, of indicting general flynn on this charge? >> independent of a special counsel investigation, obviously false statements to the fbi are a serious issue that may warrant prosecution and the prosecution was brought. i think people have known from the early stages of the mueller

roberts, thank you so much. let's bring our legal panel, bradley mott is a -- a former deputy assistant under george w. bush. i want to ask you, maybe i can start with you, bob, when robert mueller's team said that these lies had a material impact on the investigation, what does that mean? what is a material impact? >> partly, they are satisfying a legal standard, if all statement to the government that can be prosecutable has to be a material false statement. it can't be, i had a ham sandwich for lunch, when you really had turkey? it has to mean something. the statement was false in a great enough way as to throw the investigation off or cause them to spend more time or send them in the wrong direction. from the statements that were laid out, the information, it certainly seems that is the case. they were looking at these conversations. he said they didn't happen or certain topics did not come up and later admitted they did. they've got the admission now that he intentionally, you know, misled the agents about that. the materiality question is one that they probably satisfy the legal standard when they say t

i'm saying mohler robert muller who is the head of this was a ronald reagan appointee to a top law enforcement position he was george h.w. bush appointee to a top law enforcement position he was at george w. bush to a top law enforcement position well or so this notion about who is on the staff you know who gave contribution or to a political party is it or thought you were just appointed to the supreme court well i'm not i mean i just i don't know i'm not so worried about democrat or republican guys i'm more worried about the deep state that's what i worry about ok you know john one of the yes exactly one of the things i really worry about here is if you look because the way things are going men are for it in flint seem to have been unfairly treated because they said something that wasn't true i think a whole string of people. in the obama administration didn't forthright with the f.b.i. you know when it got to be the saddest feeling guy right now in the whole world he was doing what everybody else was doing it but what i what i find worrisome and i hope richard can respond to that is a rapidly running out of time

lincoln and his grief stricken face, george pickett's charge at gettysburg, the battle were robert e. lee meeting cigar grant. and ulysses s. the rich sense of variety in american life during this time ranknfidence and crisis into focus of another event, other characters. the impounding of the ima pearl as it tries to see washington dc with a boatload of fugitive slaves. hungry women ran through the streets of richmond, begging for bread during the war. elizabethony and stanton riding on wagons without springs through kansas to secure the ballots for women. , pt barnumen embracing the anguished honesty of hermann melville, the popular editor oren's really his political strides bread the execution of the lincoln conspirators. the end of the anderson present. the impeachment of a president. dickinson, aty the art cooper union. the saga of the anti-slavery general fired from the friedman spiro by a soon to be disgraced chief executive. and the grander and no promise to mormons, or two men such as clarence king, who possessed nature in the wild. then there was the war, the terrible war. a

, last time the special counsel brought charges we were surprised by the george papadopolous news as well. special counsel robertueller, you know, maybe likes surprises. we're watching that very, very closely. standby. we have a lot to discuss here. >>> this is cnn breaking news. >> the major breaking news this morning, you are looking at live pictures from washington, d.c., the federal courthouse, where any minute, we are expecting to see former national security adviser michael flynn. he will appear in court and is expected to plead guilty to one count of lying to the fbi twice. remember, michael flynn, a key foreign policy adviser to then candidate trump's campaign, then ultimately the national security adviser in the white house for more than 20 days before he was fired, this is a major advance in the special counsel's investigation into possible russian interference into the

robert mueller. he made comments despite his repeated criticism of the investigation. mueller is investigating whether there was collusion. >> prince georgesearch for a missing 14-year-old girl this morning. police say barbara aparasio was last seen at school. they believe she left on her own. if you know where she is call police. >>> good morning. thanks for join, us. >> today is monday december 18. good to see erin como roads >> that's good news. good news on this end. what about on your side. >> pretty good news on this end. you're from the south. you like the warm weather. >> uh-huh. >> warm weather is coming back for a little bit. >> yeah. >> all right. okay. >> so, there is satellite and radar and notice it's quiet. yes, there is snow flying offer to the north but cold air is retreating off to the north as well. and some warmer air will be moving in as we work our way into the afternoon hours. temperatures outside still chilly. still jacket weather. it is mid to late december. 38 in dulles, 30 manassas, 31 culpeper so there's some below freezing temperatures for you. hagerstown at 37, fred vic at 36. winds conflicted for now but even