saigon's troops made a stand. it was a vital one.ht be lost, and south vietnam could be cut in two by the north vietnamese and the viet cong. >> the plan that the north vietnamese conceived would be a two-year plan. what happened was that when attacking the central highlands town of ban my thuit the thieu government lost its composure. >> government troops were secretly ordered by president thieu to pull out of the central provinces. >> the withdrawal became a rout, civilians and soldiers fleeing in panic, leaving behind huge supplies of american-made war materials. >> the north vietnamese never dreamed it would result in such a dramatic decision as to abandon the highlands which had been fought over for 12 years so they reconvened their central military committee and determined that the iron is hot, and this is the time to stke. >> president thieu said he would not abandon the city, but the people are leaving anyway. the president said he would not abandon the city, and that city is gone. >> the world witnessed the tragedy of the ov

saigon's troops made a vital stand. and south vietnam could be cut in two. >> the plan that the north vietnamese conceived would be a two-year plan. what happened was that when attacking the central highlands town, the government lost its composure. >> government troops were ordered-to-pull out of the central highland provinces. >> the withdrawal became a route. civilians and soldiers leaving in panic, leaving behind huge supplies of american-made war materials. >> the north vietnamese never thought it would result in this decision to abandon the highlands. they reconvened their central military committee and determined that the iron is hot and this is the time to strike. >> president tiu said the people are leaving, anyway. he said he would not abandon quang tre. >> the world witnessed the tragedy of the overrunning of the d.m.z. followed by other places. those of us sitting in saigon are watching our map legitimately bleed red. >> a somber henry kissinger outlined in a news conference what he saw as the choices now fa

they thought it would be easier to throw the americans out of saigon than to take the city of hue.rian: in your book, you use a lot of quotes. whitel -- who was he and was he significant -- who was he, and why is he significant during your research question mark mark: he has he come probably the most famous news reporter from the vietnam war. he wrote a book called "dispatches." he had convinced "esquire magazine" to send him to vietnam to write sort of periodic and very unconventional as is about the war. and so he spent a number of , years putting himself in the most dangerous places in vietnam and writing, firsthand, about the fighting. he was also a tremendously skilled writer. he just wrote memorably. and so, one of the essays that he wrote for "esquire," which is in the book "dispatches," is called "hell sucks." it was about the battle of hue. and it was fascinating to me because first of all, he is such a gifted writer. -- heso, he was riding was writing about the people and situations that i was studying and writing about. i could read michael, who was not particularly good

the propagandists argued this quicklyd the ward that the americans would be forced out and the saigonegime would collapse. moreuld add that the hard-headed north vietnamese military officers who had a lot more experience fighting in the field did not share that optimistic estimate. and they told their political superiors, we can take the city but the people will not rise up in support of us. they will come back and take the city back but we don't think we can hold it for more than a few days. brian: how me cities in south vietnam were attacked? not know the exact number but just about every city and sizable town and village in south vietnam, including saigon was attacked. brian: how many of them were anywhere as close to as bloody hue? mark: none of them. it was the primary thrust of the offensive. as i said, 10,000 troops were amassed outside of the city to take the city. saigon, which was probably the second biggest clash, they had fairly -- probably hundreds of troops -- but nothing on the order of what they had outside of hue. and the reason for that was the hue,ral significance o

saigon, which was probably the second biggest clash, they had fairly -- probably hundreds of troops -- but nothing on the order of what they had outside of hue. and the reason for that was the cultural significance of hue, and i think, the fact that it was significant. they thought it would be easier to throw the americans out of saigon then it would be in other parts of the city. nine: you use a lot of quotes. michael, who was he and why was he significant? mark: he has he come probably the most famous news reporter from the vietnam war. he wrote a book called "dispatches." he convinced esquire magazine to send him to vietnam to write sort of periodic very unconventional essays about the war. and so he spent a number of years putting himself in the most dangerous places in vietnam and writing, firsthand, about the fighting. he was also a tremendously skilled writer. he just wrote memorably. and so, one of the essays that he wrote for esquire which is in the book "dispatches," is called "hell sucks." it was about the battle of hue. it is interesting to me because he is such a gifted w

in saigon which was probably the second-biggest clash they had probably hundreds of troops. nothing at the magnitude of what they had and way. that was culturally significant of way, the fact that it was honorable -- vulnerable. the military knew they could throw the americans out of saigon and that would be to take the city. luck quotes lot of from journalists are the years. is a quote from michael hare, who was the and why was he significant? >> he has really become the most famous news reports from vietnam. it is a book called stitches. he had gathered in touch with esquire magazine to send him to periodic essays about the war. he spent a number of years putting himself in the most dangerous places in vietnam, and writing, firsthand about the fighting. he was a tremendously skilled writer. he wrote memorably. one of the essays he wrote for esquire is called "hell sucks." it was about the battle of hue. he is such a gifted writer. he was writing about people and situations that i was studying and writing about. i could read michael, who was not particularly good at nailing

darpa.the the story begins in 1966 in vietnam with the psychotherapist who was sent to a prison in saigon to interview a vietnam fighter they are. part of the classic test of inks blotches. he asked the imprisoned fighter, do you see anything that reminda you that pms? no certified or replied. how about you in the picture? anything there that reminds you of? no. do you see anything here to remind you of a woman's vagina? now come a reply. neither man is in a particularly good mood. they were going through cardiff were shot past to diagnose personality trait. he was sitting in a prison in saigon staring at inkblots rather than planting bombs and killing americans which is what he was doing before. an american firm called the i cinematic corporation in cambridge, massachusetts under their processes, to help the pentagon understand and let's calibrate where we are in 1866. 180,000 american troops in vietnam which is as many in iraq and afghanistan at the height of her worst bear. it had grown tremendously. the pentagon papers estimated 280,000 communist fighters byr 1966. about 1,001,862. th

he was astounded because he would , corporate signs like shell, the show had corporate offices in saigon, the same with exxon. i was amazed. during my last year in college i met this gentleman who was a geologist. he always had a bunch of books about vietnam and i asked him his interest in vietnam and he said there's a lot of crude oil ,eserves in the south china sea which is where vietnam is. found it interesting, yeah, we have oil dominance, but you know, this is eventually going to end. host: thanks for your point. i will let brian scheid take it up. guest: i do think that vietnam toduces oil that is exported the united states, but the idea of what he's getting at is that importing oil from our quote unquote enemies, we are still importing a lot of oil from opec nations. we certainly don't consider them enemies, we consider them allies . but saudi arabia was still importing a significant amount , to other opecom nations. we don't import anything from iran because of sanctions in place. we import a little bit from russia. are: at the same time we exporting a lot of our own oil, right?

is that saigon can fall, but our guys cannot be there when it happens. we have to have an interval between us leaving and saigon collapsing, and by the way, kissinger even wrote this in a briefing book with the chinese, because it is what he told the chinese. for the chinese going to tell? they're going to tell the north vietnamese. why? why did he demand a decent interval? nixon refused to be the first president to lose a war. sort of like johnson's rationale also. fourth-grade this country defeat the united states. -- third-rate country defeat the united states. everyone are members this image, -- members this image, right? that evening, henry kissinger called up an old friend from the academic circles, and said we should have never been there. true, but you got there a little late, henry. this guy said this in 1952. military of american assistance in indochina can conquer an enemy which is everywhere and at the same time nowhere. an enemy of the people, which has a sympathy and covert support of the people. 35 years old. foreign policy visionary, and

the sailor had gone to saigon a month later as a brief r&r and he describes in his diaries sitting in his tall room looking out the window and watching a storm come onto the city and he wrote the sky is black now. it's illuminated now and then by silence stroke of lightning. people bustling about before the storm and for the curfew. soon the reins will come and cool us all and slow the motion and the city will become quiet under the soothing rhythm of the rain. people will move inside and watch the monsoon downpour from a darkened window and some, perhaps, will reflect on the day that it's just ended. the closing line and some perhaps will reflect on the day just ended. i can assure you that those who were there have never stops reflecting and it's long past time for the rest of us to understand something of their experience in this war telling their story, hearing it and all of us reflecting on it is a burden we share. i want to share some of my reflections on the days of that war and the years of that war now ended to discuss the very human experience of those americans who serve in

shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets. they literally got a lot of young americans killed. denied the city have been taken. it was a fact, but he continued to deny it for nearly the entire time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. >> next, former white house ethics director walter schuh on ways to strengthen ethics will's. he also shares his thoughts on the trump administration and its attempt to avoid potential conflicts of interest. this is one hour. >> good morning. i want to thank everyone coming out today and those joining us this morning via c-span. my name is jamie horowitz, i'm on the headliners committee here at the national press club. on behalf of our president, jeff, and our 3,000 members, we're honored today to have mr. walt

the sailor had gone to saigon on a brief r&r and he described in his diary sitting in his hotel roomlooking out the window and watching the storm come onto this city. he wrote, the sky is dark now, illuminated now and then by silent strokes of lightning. people hustling about before the storm before the curfew. but soon, and the rains will, and cruel assault and slowed the motion in this city will become quiet under the soothing rhythm of the rain. people will move inside and watch the monsoon downpour from a darkened window and some perhaps will reflect on that date just ended. the closing line and some perhaps will reflect on that date just ended. i can assure you that those who were there had never stopped reflecting and it's long past time for the rest of us to understand something of derek's eerie and fitness for, telling their story, hearing it and all of us reflecting on it is a burden we share. so i want to share a few of my reflections on the days that that war now and it the year is about war now and it to discuss the very human experience of those americans who served in v

. >> i've done "miss saigon" and "jesus christ super star". >> my last production of "the king and i." across the street, joan was starring in "miss saigon" and now we get to play a married couple even though we started on broadway around the same time, 20 years ago. >> a lot of history. and what's next for both of you? >> i think we're going to be with the show for a little bit as we take it around the country. and i think right now, we're enjoying -- joan actually gets to travel with her son. >> my 8-year-old son, who's also in the show. he plays a royal twin. >> so we're having a real great time and with our costar, and it's an incredible company and it's a family. our company is a family, and what's nice is that we get to put -- present this show as a family to many other families and maybe be the first "the king and i" for a lot of people, which is a special thing. >> i guess coming home is really special for you. do you get calls from friends? >> thanks to facebook and social media, t.j. alumni and even my friends from linbrook elementary and garfield elementary and key intermed

." >> the battle shocked me, because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets, they literally got a lot of young americans killed because what the general denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact that he denied it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. consequence, we would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces in the city. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. onouncer: sunday night c-span's q and a. governmentthe accountability office set up a sting operation using a fake law enforcement agency which was able to obtain surplus equipment from the defense department. an estimated $1.2 million of military equipment, including night vision articles and simulated pipe arms. gao and pentagon officials testified about the findings before the house armed services committee. mr. wilson: good morning. the hearing will come to order. ladies and gentlemen, i welcome you here today and call

." >> the battle shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the realityf all is happening in the streets. they literally got a lot of young americans killed because general westmoreland denied the city had been taken. it was a fact that he continued to deny it for the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces in the city. small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces and entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q1 day. -- q&a. >> washington journal continues. us,: bill piper is with national affairs senior director for the drug policy alliance. we're talking about jeff sessions' plan to crack down on the growing, selling and use of marijuana. good morning. guest: good morning. host: what is the drug policy alliance? guest: we are the nation's largest organization working to end the war on drugs entry drug use as a health issue and set a criminal justice issue. we have several hundred th

he appoints comber to go out to saigon and set up a new organization called cords. the cords organization working with the south vietnamese. this is where i was. we defeated the vietcong. and nobody knows it. he sent out general abrams to be the deputy to focus in on the south vietnamese forces. so we had bunker at the top level dealing with the political evolution of vietnam. you had comber dealing with all the villages and all the cities. and abrams working with the south vietnamese forces and westie focusing on search and destroy missions. if you read, these are declassified, all of the cables to johnson which i asked doug pike to do. at berkley after ellsworth passed away. you can read these. every weekly. the thing that strikes me, if you read them, they are obviously written for an audience of one. these are official government documents going back to various people. but bunker is writing these to his president and what he is pointing out to johnson is every week we are making progress. something has happened, political, economic, military, in this past week w

. >> the battle shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of a was happening in the streets. they got a lot of young americans killed. they denied the city of been taken. it was a fact he continued to deny it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. small units of her mean -- marines were being ordered to attack positions held by overwhelmingly severe -- superior in forces. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. president trump traveled to brentwood new york and delivered remarks on his administration's effort to combat gained violence to the ms 13 gang. the president was joined by the acting director of immigration and customs enforcement and new york representative peter king. this is 40 minutes. [applause] >> good afternoon, i'm the acting director of i.c.e. as a career law enforcement officer, i want to begin by saying thank you. the work we have chosen, the job we do is tough and i'm honored to serve along side so many american patrio

forced to diversify its economy finding new trading partners as a way of coping with the measures saigon reaction earlier from international oil economist octomom to sell in may he told me that the us foreign policy is becoming modeled. p.c. news section sanctions are illegal because they're out of big. names or fresh and meddling in the american elections in twenty six. thirty is the biggest economic blow in the world and they have the economic bow out of behind them and they can the easy. ball is sanctions on american companies and medicaid interests but i think the that it can. fight him but as he is becoming the mud the it is they make it as they go with it day off but today we see changes which must fill it deeply all. hedge fund investor william browder who years ago lobbied for the first sets of until russian sanctions known as the magnitsky act has been testifying in the us congress is part of the investigation into moscow's alleged meddling in the u.s. election last year and he's given his version of the infamous meeting between trump and the russian boy in the sky let's go live

. >> it shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets. they literally got a lot of americans killed. denied, theerals city had been taken. it was a fact that he continued to deny for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence would never ofcede the sheer number enemy forces that were in the city. small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces and entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. america,"ek on "real korea visited, a big picture episode detailing the improvements of south korea's living and working conditions following the 1953 armistice. here is a preview. armistice has the finally signed on july 27, 1953, the death include -- dead include 35,000 americans, 5000 troops from the other assisting countries, and more than 400,000 south koreans, both military and civilian. ♪ >> of the south korean survivors, countless thousands are starving, homeless refugees. ♪ >>seoul, the repub

. >> it shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets. they got a lot of young americans killed. what the general denied was that the city was taken. it was a fact he continued to deny for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, we never conceived the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. each week, american history tv's railamerica brings archival films that provide context for today's public affair issues. on july 4, north korea successfully test launched an intercontinental ballistic missile, leaving the u.s. and e. u. to consider tougher sanctions. up next, korea revisited, a 1960 nine u.s. army big picture episode detailing the vastly improved living and working conditions in south korea since the 1953 armistice that ended the korean war. the film shows the war's aftermat

. >> the battle shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what is happening in the street. they literally got a lot of young americans killed because what general westmoreland denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact but he continued to deny it for new result on the battle was fought. and as a consequence would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the taron m. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched position. >> sunday night at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. >> next australian foreign minister julie bishop speaks about u.s.

other was the closest area to saigon with they would strike and strike and retreat to sanctuaries theyad eight of them nixon says we're going into every one of them. and he said we're starting bombing. and i was taken aback sir you are started bombing they know we're coming. and that's where i learned secret of the administration he said we've been bombing those guys for a long, long time. and this was a famous -- bombing of cambodia which allegingedly later trying to impeach richard nixon but they did not do so. so -- nixon gave me a draft from are the national security counsel that he didn't like. he said there's some good paragraphs in here but it's -- it's dry. and we need something else. so he dictated paragraph after period of and wrote them on a famous yellow pad and he says give them become and get this become to me in three hours and don't tell min or give the speech to anyone. and so i said well i have to tell my secretary because you're going to have to type the draft as i start writing them. tell her but no one else but i knew this would make a problem that had individual l

shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening on the streets. they got a lot of young military members killed. was a fact that the city was taken but he continued to deny it while the battle was being fought. as a consequence, you could never conceive the share number city.my forces in the so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy positions.ntrenched announcer: sunday night on c-span's q&a. pentagon'sook at the 1030 three program created in the 90's to allow state and local law agencies to purchase excess military equipment at a reduced cost. this subcommittee hearing theudes officials from government accab

. >> it shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets, they literally got a lot of young americans killed. because general westmoreland, you know, denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact but he continues to deny it, so nearly the whole time the battle was fought, and as a consequence would never concealed the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q & a." >> yesterday the house armed services committee held a hearing on a program to allow state and local law enforcement agencies to purchase excess military equipment at a reduced cost. this hearing is an hour. >> good morning. this hearing will come to order. ladies and gentlemen, i welcome you here today and call this hearing of the house armed service also subcommittee of

using one is a concept headquarters for vietnam of the communist and the other was closest area to saigonhe north vietnamese would remain a strike into south vietnam and retreat to sanctuaries. he said we have already started bombing and i was taken aback because i said sir, if you started bombing they know we are coming. that's when i learned the secret of the administration. he said we have been bombing those guys for a long long time and this was the famous bombing of cambodia which were allegedly later they would try to impeach richard nixon, but they dared not do so. nixon gave me a draft from the national security council that he did not like. he said there's some good paragraphs in here, but it's dry and we need something else, so he dictated paragraph after paragraph to me i wrote him down this famous yellow pads and he said give them back and get this back to me in three hours and don't tell anyone and don't give the speech to anyone, so i said i have to tell my secretary because she has to type the draft as i write it. he said tell her, but no one else. i knew this would make a

one of them is the headquarters for vietnam and the other was closest to saigon.had eight of them, nixon says we are going into every one of them. and he said we are going to start bombing. and i was taken back because he said if you start bombing and they know we are coming. and that is where i learned the secret of the administration but he said we have been bombing them for a long, long time. and this was the famous bombing of cambodia which lately they'll try to impeach richard nixon but they did not do so. so, nixon gave me a draft from the national security council. if he didn't like. he said there are some good paragraphs in here but it is dry. we need something else. so he dictated paragraph after paragraph to me and i wrote them down on those famous yellow pads. he says give them back and get this back to me in three hours. and don't tell anyone and don't give this speech to anyone. and so i said, i had to tell my secretary because it she will have to type the draft as i start writing. so tell her but no one else. i knew this would make a problem for the

. >> the bottle -- battle shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening, they literally got a lot of young americans killed because the general denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact he continued to deny it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. smaller units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack provisions that were held by overwhelmingly superior forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. >> the commissioner of the sec talked about business regulations and their impact on the economy. the sec's agenda and future priorities. from the heritage foundation, this is one hour and 20 minutes. >> good afternoon. welcome to our heritage foundation. welcome to those of you joining us on our website or in house. we ask for a courtesy check to see that our various mobile devices have been turned off. devices have been turned off. for those of you online, you can ask questions at

. >> that battle shocked me because the saigon military withnd was so out of touch the reality of what was happening in the streets. they got a lot of young americans killed because what the general denied is that the city had been taken. it was affected he continued to deny it for the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. so, small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions could >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. sunday and at afterwards, connecticut democratic congresswoman rosa delauro talks about her efforts to cut social programs in her book "the least among us." -- whensocial security social security reaches lowest point, we had ronald reagan and tip o'neill who came together, enacted, and congress acted to make social security solvent. ringing of hands about social security and being insolvent can be solved immediately by lifting the gap. >> much afterward sunday night --

. >> the bottle -- battle shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening, they literally got a lot of young americans killed because the general denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact he continued to deny it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. as a consequence, would never concede the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. smaller units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack provisions that were held by overwhelmingly superior forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. >> the commissioner of the sec

. >> the battle shocked me, the battle of hue, the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets. got a lot of young americans killed. because what general westmoreland denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact, but he continued to deny it. for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. and as a consequence, we've never conceded the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >>> senate foreign relations subcommittee held a hearing examining north korea policy. specifically on ramping up pressure against china. acting secretary of state for east asia and pacific affairs, susan thornton offered her thoughts to the committee. >> this hearing will come to order. let me welcome you all to the fifth hearing for the senate foreign relations subcommittee on east asia, the pacific and international cybersecurity policy in

. >> the battle shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with reality, and they literally got a lot of young americans killed. one of the generals denied that the city had been taken. it was the fact that he continued to denied for nearly the whole time that the battle was fought. as a consequence, he would never conceive the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. so, small units of marines and troopers were being art -- ordered to attack from positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. announcer: tonight, at 8:00 eastern on q&a. tonight, on afterwards, connecticut them a credit congresswoman, -- a congresswoman from connecticut, talks about a program -- waging a battle for the normal. social security -- when social security reached its lowest point, we had one of reagan, and tip o'neill, who came together and acted, along with congress, to make social security solvent into the future. hands this, wringing of about social security so security -- social security can be self immediately. >> tonight on

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. >> the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets, they got a lot of young americans killed. deniedneral westmoreland that the city had been taken. he continued to deny it for newly the whole time the battles fought. as a consequence, would never conceive the sphere number of enemy combatants in the city. units werers of being ordered to attack positions everything held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "uma." -- q and a. >> as part of our freshmen profile interview series, we talked to representative mike johnson about his political career and agenda. this is 10 minutes.

the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality they got a lot of americans killed. it was a fact that he continued to deny that the city was taken for the whole time the battle was fought. as a constant once, and never conceived the sheer number of enemy forces in the city. small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to heldk positions that were by, overwhelmingly, superior enemy forces. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q and a. now a house oversight hearing on legislation to reauthorize the off national drug control policy. the acting director of so start this is just under two hours. i do like to thank everyone dutch to members, staff, everyone for help commented in this morning. we had an unforeseen contingency , so thank you for being so understanding. over the past few decades, drug use has emerged as a public health and safety crisis, with overdoses becoming the leading cause of death or injury in the u.s.. opioids, percent to our look causes of most overdoses in the united states. 95 hecarolina, at least died from heroin in 2015, which is alm

. >> the heat is on in saigon. >> reporter: more a lovable clown than a scheming political operative. but goldstone came into the trump orbit helping to promote and stage manage trump's miss universe pageant in moscow in 2013. working for the son of a russian billionaire, all three of them goldstone, the son and trump in this photo making plans for the pageant. when the son made a music video he got trump to make a trademark appearance. >> you're fired. >> reporter: it was goldstone's e-mails last year that set up the fateful meeting a described as a russian government lawyer, bringing high level and sensitive information that would incriminate hillary clinton. this morning in moscow the lawyer, natalia veselnitskaya, told abc's terry moran she does not know why trump was told to expect that she had any such information about hillary clinton. [ speaking a foreign language ] >> translator: listen, i never had any compromising information against hillary clinton. >> reporter: it was all a misunderstanding, she claims. the meaning took place one floor below the office of donald trump sr.

. >> the battle of hue shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the realityof what was happening in the street. they literally got a lot of young americans killed. because what general westmoreland denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact but he continued to deny it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. and as a consequence would never concede that sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at eight eastern on c-span's q&a. >> justice department officials will be on capitol hill in the morning to briefed members of the senate judiciary committee on the requirements for foreign agents to register with the government. we will have live coverage starting at 9 a.m. eastern on c-span3, online@c-span.org, or.org, or listen live on the free c-span radio app. yesterday treasury secretary steven mnuchin testified before a senate appropriations subcommittee picky was j

on c-span. ," and authora talks about his book "way ,1968," >> the battle shocked me because the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening on the streets. they literally got a lot of young americans killed, because what general westmoreland denied that the city had been taken -- it was a fact but he continued to deny it for nearly the whole time the battle was fought -- and as a consequence, would numberoncede the sheer of enemy forces that were in the city. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to heldk positions that were by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." in his weekly address, the president talks about the military and law enforcement. representative betty mccollum of minnesota delivers the democratic address, discussing her party's efforts to improve the economy. pres. trump: my fellow americans, this past week we have celebrated, saluted, and honored american heroes who have devoted their lives to god, family, and country.

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. >> the battle shocked me, the battle of hue, the saigon military command was so out of touch with the reality of what was happening in the streets. got a lot of young americans killed. because what general westmoreland denied that the city had been taken. it was a fact, but he continued to deny it. for nearly the whole time the battle was fought. and as a consequence, we've never conceded the sheer number of enemy forces that were in the city. so small units of marines and troopers were being ordered to attack positions that were held by overwhelmingly superior enemy forces in entrenched positions. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a.