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nephew, steven kennedy smith and brinkley reflect on 35th fe and career of the president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in strong military, but he had a much about what eption american identity really was. aisle,hed out across the started with the alliance for engaged in the space race. >> for complete american history go to c-span.org. >> "washington journal" continues. host: our topic this morning, nuclear safety. edwin lyman, who is global security program senior scientist for the union of scientists here to talk about what happened in hanford n state at the nuclear waste site. t's a 500-square mile expanse in remote interior washington. 200 miles from seattle, created in world war ii as part of the manhattan project build the atomic bomb. happened this week there? guest: workers were doing an inspection of an area at hanford called 200 east, which is where factory operated plutonium for weapons during the cold war, and they discovered a hole feet. ground, 400 square the problem was this hole was tunnel, over a waste which the site had used for radioactivelow

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steven kennedy smith. very good to have you both on. ennedy's greatest speeches, alongside essays by america's foremost historians and writers, coming our 35th president. >> douglas, we'll get to that in a minute. >> thank you. >> thank you for being with us. with gary, we have business first. >> all right. >> like the president before us you said yesterday, about the same time i was tweeting that things were getting worse by the day. >> yeah. >> you said it was one of the most bizarre 24 hours in american presidential history. and talked about its confused mental state. >> i can't believe the media rollout of donald trump over the last 24 hours, the confusion about andrew jackson and getting people -- giving a nonhistory lesson of -- it was idiotic what he said about jackson, but more to the point, that could be another trump misstatement, what he -- the way he's praising the north korean dictator right now, it's newsating to me when you know what that man does to human live, the schedule muching of the human rights policy since fdr, wi

. >> kennedy's 100th birthday and sunday, steven kennedy smith and douglas brinkley reflect on the lifer of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in strong military, but he had a much broader conception about what american identity really was. >> he reached out across the aisle. >> he started the alliance for progress and he engage d the space. >> go to cspan.org. >> saturday at noon eastern on book tv. military historians discussed their books on world war i. speakers include jennifer keen with her book, world war i, the american soldier experience. the path to war, how the first world war created modern america. retired colonel, and his book over there. america in the great war. and the recipient of this year's kole be award, david barren and his book, waging war, the clash between presidents and congress, 1776 to isis. watch the 2017 colby military writers symposium, saturday at noon eastern on cspan 2's book tv. >>> now, a panel discussion on president trump's $1 trillion infrastructure plan. how that proposal can be funded and what the federal gov

kennedy's 100th birthday and sunday at 8:00 p.m., jfk's nephew steven kennedy smith and historian douglas brinkley reflect on the life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in strong military. but he had a much broader conception about what american identity

kennedy's 100th birthday and p steven kennedy smith and historian dowling las brinkley reflect on the life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in a strong military. but he had a much broader conception about what american identity really was. >> he reached out across the aisle. he launched the peace corps in 1961, an incredible program for young people. he started with the alliance for progress and he engaged in the space race. >> for our complete american history tv schedule go to c-span.org. >> saturday, at noon eastern on book tv, military historians discuss their books on world war i at the 2017 speakers symposia. michael nigh berg and his book the path to war, how the first world war created modern america. retired colonel's books "over there: america in the great war" and the recipient of this year's award, david barron and his book "waging war." 1776 to isis. watch the 2017 colby military writers symposium saturday at noon eastern on c-span 2's book tv. >> next an advisor to the british government on its negotiations to leave t

kennedy could be released by president trump. back with me, steven brinkley and douglas smith. position to decide -- 3,600 secret files about the assassination of jfk to be released. what do you think? should they become public? >> i assume he will green light anything that opens up archives. >> are you eager to see them? >> we're eager to see documents. i believed of the oswald assassination near ro theory. i never want to see a president keep things sequestered. >> this is not just history. it's personal. you're a family member. what do you think about these? >> i think it's fine to release the records, for public information. i think my father and rfk believe the warren commission report was accurate. larry schiller who worked on the book with me, knew marine oswald and knew jack ruby. and went back to russia with norman mailer and went through the kgb files with oswald. and he's convinced that oswald acted alone. he was a disgruntled, unhappy man. and he needed to find an identity. but larry who knows the situation very well, never thought there was a conspiracy around it.

kennedy's 100th birthday and sunday at 8:00 p.m., jfk's nephew, steven kennedy smith reflect on my life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in a strong military, but he had a much broader conception about what american identity was. he reached out across the aisle, launched the for in 1961, an incredible program for young people started with the alliance for progress and he engaged in the space race. >> for complete schedule go to c-span.org. >> on monday, "washington journal" will be live from the offices of axis, a new foundation founded earlier this year. we will discuss the mission in funding and challenges facing new startups. we will also have the latest news from the white house and capitol hill. "washington journal" live from arlington virginia starting at 8:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. later a three-judge panel of the ninth circuit court of appeals in seattle will hear oral argument on president trumps revised travel been. hawaii versus trunk. the court is considering an appeal of the ruling that blocked the bay on on issuing vis

kennedy's 100th birthday. and sunday at 8:00 p.m., jfk's nephew, steven smith and douglas brinkley reflect on the life and career of the 35th president. >> he was a decorated combat veteran. he did believe in a strong military, but he had a much broader conception about what american identity really was. >> he reached out across the aisle. he launched the peace corps on may 1st of 1961, an incredible program for young people. he started with the alliance for progress, and he engaged in the space race. >> for our complete american history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. >>> sunday night on after words, physician and journalist, elizabeth rosenthal examines the business side of health care, in her book an american sickness, how health care became big business, and how you can take it back. dr. rosenthal is interviewed by dr. david bloomenthal, president of the commonwealth fund. >> so i was wondering if your book gave you any thoughts about whether health care is a free market, whether we can solve our problems in health care through free market forces. >> i think what we've seen is the answer is probably not. i me