quote: i look working forwar.>> political panel is bak john mccormick and washington examiner susan ferrechiot of all, is this endorsement likely to make any difference in the outcome of this race, susan? >> no. i don't think so. >> do you agree with it. >> i don't see it. i think people coming around are already there. >> so let's get to the question which may be a more interesting question. what is cruz doing here? i mean, he surprised a lot of people by not endorsing at the convention. and taking full speaking slot. then he waited a long time and now he has done it. what's going on here? >> well, i think it's a pure political calculation. those two reasons that he made the pledge and he realized that hillary clinton is worse. i mean, those reasons were apparent back in july. so what happened the last two months? nothing of substance. trump actually went on to attack cruz. say that his father was involved in jfk's assassination completely unsubstantiated. conspiracy theory. never recanted that. what happened is the race got close. it's a tight race right now. there are threats that ted cruz

brea >> host: on the phone to give us of what's expected this week, susan ferrechio up "washington examiner," chief congressional correspondent. good morning. morning >> caller: good to be on. >> host: with three weeks or a so left before the next breakk what are the major issues that congress has to type of us witht the issue of spending andn keeping the government from closing on september 30 transfer that scheppach september 30 is the final day of the fiscal year. they need to pass something by then to keep the governmenta functioning, federal government. there's a plan in the works right now beginning on the senate side of congress we have the majority leader mitch mcconnell working with the minority leader, democrat harry reid, and the white house. they are trying to come up with a plan that would keep the government open for a very short time until december 9. that legislation would include funding for the federal government to help abate mosquito's and come up with a vaccine for the zika virus which is spread some in the southeastern portion of the united states.os that du is reporte

host: susan ferrechio, also coming under the spotlight this the i.r.s. commissioner. that? latest on susan: we have same republicans. they will probably bring up a resolution this week because they would like to have the vote on impeaching john costa and the i.r.s. commissioner. republican leaders of the house do that.t to they're more interested in maybe at the very extreme. that's what they think as far as they want to go with it. floor,oes come to the they'll have the option of vote it.able they could just vote on whether to impeach him or they can vote to send it to the judiciary committee. those are among the possibilities. i don't know -- i don't think loves idea of impeachment. it's a rare thing. it hasn't happened with a cabinet member or administration mid-to latece 1800s. the entireing amongst republican leaders. they know it's coming. it's under decision. a big divide over whether it should happen. i suspect they may table it or committee. real before we let you go, quick susan ferrechio, a story you posted today on the examiner website. in onicans zero row obamac

"the washington examiner" susan ferrechio and real clear politic politic a.b. stotd stoddard. >> it's a big deterioration for her, she counted on having the buffers of trump's numbers. his unfavorables and honest and trustworthy numbers being worse than hers. i actually see the drop in her poll numbers happening really as a result are of the push back by democrats on the record, including ed reynolds, former governor of pennsylvania and others saying they need to stop taking donations to the foundation and neutralize or shutter the clinton foundation now. a bunch of editorial boards wrote articles. what it does is people who have going to oppose trump and might have voted for hillary is repel them even further into the arms of gear johnson or just staying home and that's bad for her numbers on the margin. >> susan, does it seem to you and what you are seeing here, in this number that trump has helped himself? >> yeah, slal. i think it's a combination of things. exactly what a.b. was saying. >> this is a reversal she was the more trustworthy candidate for along

political panel is here from national review, jonah goldberg and from "the washington examiner" susan ferrechioat leaped out at you as you looked at the numbers. >> i agree with tom bevan. it didn't move the needle much for trump. this is where he has been pretty much the whole race. he didn't do much during this debate. he didn't do what really he needed to do, which was break in to the undecided voters, break in to some of the people who he has not been able to bring on to his side. he had many opportunities to do that during the debate, he didn't do it. he got nowhere basically whereas clinton was able to, i don't think she had really an outstanding debate performance either. but she was pretty confident, adequate. she looked composed and able to avoid any of these attacks from trump that would have potentially wrought her numbers down. so she was able to win out a little bit. that's why we see the polls looking pretty tight. this 40%, i think it would take a lot to lose some of these 40%. we make the joke he could do just about anything and he would still be at 40 percent that debate perfor

our nightly political panel, "the weekly standard's" fred barnes and "the washington examiner" susan ferrechio. well, first of all, what about after, you know, hillary wants us all to believe shoe that she fully recovered and got the pneumonia under control backs out on the campaign trail we find her daughter has never seen her so fired. does that help? >> she sounded better today. she still sounded sick to me. >> yeah, me too. >> i think it matters just depending on what happens next. if she stays healthy and she starts to sound a little more robust and we don't have more incidents like what happened on sunday, maybe knob of this will matter much in the end. other than contributing to the whole theme of duplicity where you have the server, the emails, no big deal here. nothing to look at. i wasn't really sick. i had the flu. oh, it was newspaper i can't. you know, it just adds to the whole issue of, you know, can voters reallysure she. if they're not entirely certain they're getting a full picture. >> voters think she is sick. is that enough reason to vote for donald trump or is that an issue

. >> will review the expected congressional debate with susan ferrechio. join us thursday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span for congress this fall. >>> c-span, created by america's cable television companies and brought to you as a public service by your cable or satellite provider. >>> dartmouth college professor colin calloway leads a seminar for high school teachers on native american history, from the colonial era through a westward expansion. he talks about how tribes operated as separate nations, both in their interaction was each other and with european countries. this class is hosted by the gilder lehrman institute of american history. it's about an hour and 15 minutes. >> good morning. so we have been talking about ways in which we can incorporate, integrate native american experiences into american history. and i suggested kind of a little cameo appearances, pocahontas, indians waving rifles at wounded knee in 1973. doesn't really help. and i think on sunday i said if we really did this seriously and effectively, we would come up with a very differ

host: susan ferrechio, also coming under the spotlight this the i.r.s. commissioner. that? e latest on susan: we have same republicans. they will probably bring up a resolution this week because they would like to have the vote on impeaching john costa and the i.r.s. commissioner. republican leaders of the house do that.t to they're more interested in maybe at the very extreme. that's what they think as far as they want to go with it. floor,oes come to the they'll have the option of vote it.able they could just vote on whether to impeach him or they can vote to send it to the judiciary committee. those are among the possibilities. i don't know -- i don't think loves idea of impeachment. it's a rare thing. it hasn't happened with a cabinet member or administration mid-to latece 1800s. the entireing amongst republican leaders. they know it's coming. it's under decision. a big divide over whether it should happen. i suspect they may table it or committee. real before we let you go, quick susan ferrechio, a story you posted today on the examiner website. in onicans zero row obam

. >> we'll review the expected congressional debate with susan ferrechio, senior congressional correspondent for "the washington examiner." joining us tonight at 8:00 eastern on c-span for "congress this fall." >>> on "lectures in history," chapman university history professor jennifer keene looks at myths about america's involvement in world war i, including the misconceptions that the u.s. was not involved in europe prior to entering the war or that world war i failed to have a lasting impact on american society. this class is about an hour 20 minutes. >> all right, so today we're going to talk about america during the first world war. and i've called this lecture "americans at war: the mistbusters edition." and i did that kind of intentionally, because when we think about understanding the first world war in general, there are so many myths and misconceptions that are attached to the war that it's really interesting for us to first understand why those myths exist and then to unpack them a little bit and think more about the reality of the experience, right? and i wanted to start first by

. >> we'll review the expected debate with susan ferrechio. join us tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span for "congress this fall." >>> u.s. air force academy professor chuck steele talks about the state of the british grand fleet and the activity of submarines and argues that the actions of admiral william sims. his class is just over 50 minutes. >> go ahead and take your seats. okay. so we're going to close out world war i talking about the american contribution and close out the lesson today by talking about william sims, one of the more neglected figures in military history as per the article i sent you, kind of comes off, you know, a distant second to pers hchling if that and so today this is a sea power class, we'll talk about the significance of sims and, you know, possibly get in to arguments as to who really made the more relevant contribution. that is sims, as you guys know, from being looking at the article. the painting is return of the mayflower. that shows the first group of american destroyers after we had entered the war arriving in ireland to begin opera