the second soldier we have is corporal swain pearson. he hailed from san francisco, california.d he was served with company a 348 machine gun battalion part of 91st division which was known as the wild west division. we highlighted him because unlike evan miller, he had some great writings to his mother in a series of letters that he sent home after his unit came off the line. so once a unit spent x amount of days on the front line, whether it could've been a couple of days or as much is to -- two weeks depending on how they work, troops were wrote hated to come off the front line. and we picked swain pearson because he talked a lot about what they did in the front lines and then as soon as they were done making a trench raid, basically as part of the offensive, what they did after they came back, after they will pull up the front line. they went to doug at that had time to relax a little bit, and write some letters home, read some mail and to generally repair the uniforms and rest a little bit. so that was another key thing for soldiers that were not yet, or not directly on the

a second soldier we have here is corporal swain pearson.e hailed from san francisco, california, and he was served with company a 348th machine gun battalion, part of 91st division, which was known as the wild west division. we highlighted him because unlike evan miller, he had some great writings to his mother in a series of letters that he sent home after his unit came off the line. so once a unit spent x amount of days on the frontline, whether it could have been a couple of days to as much as two weeks depending on their sector and how active they were, troops were rotated to come off the frontline. and we picked swain pearson because he talked a lot about what they did in the frontlines and then as soon as they were done making a trench raid basically as part of the offensive, what they did after they came back, after they were pulled off the frontline. whether they went into a dugout, they had time to relax, write letters home, read some mail, and to generally repair their uniforms and rest a little bit. so that was another key thing

they are actually doing but they don't seem to be learning anything from it of moment but they are swain public opinion all over the world by killing those hundred fifty kids and in the great march the return home the protests near the fence that surround the prison. people who are up poor by. it because it is almost impossible not to be if you see it. you know you have to sit b.d.'s helps people see it i hope people see it up also most much of it as i can always because it's so important to me still there's another side to this story and that's just regular israelis some of them still come to our show they have them know like voted for netanyahu they're not for silence how thyrza to punish that people tell me that unfortunately still so huge majority of of israeli jews believe that the policies in relation to go sir and in relation to the settlements in the lakes and to do with romance now really a fight that unsettled. this is a big big. majority. of israelis maybe no not not israeli arabs who are but they're only twenty percent of the population so that eighty percent of the eighty pe

. >> desmond swain. >> is she concerned about religious persecution in the holy land and will she welcomed the visit of the patriarch of jerusalem? >> i thank my right honorable friends and he will know that this weekend does mark the start of advent, time of expectation and hope for christians and read wednesday when lance work buildings including these houses of parliament will turn scarlett and max solidarity was persecuted christians which i would like to welcome the patriarch of jerusalem for his upcoming visit and i know some israelis could face additional structural challenges particularly christian and muslim israelis who experience higher rates of unemployment and discrimination and we certainly encourage the is really government to uphold equality for all enshrined in its laws but i give my right honorable for the assurance i will work with government and the international community and united nations to support the rights of minorities including christians. >> vince cable. >> in the next 10 days there will be informed debate on government proposals on brexit and various alternat

another thing on swain pearson, pieces -- we have his persian boots that he wore over there. case, ouris particular conservation staff said while we were planning the exhibit came to me and said, the boots -- pearson's boots are enough to put out on exhibit so we were able to come to an would put one we original out while they woshd and onserved -- worked conserved the other. in that sense, we put out a of get a on to kind sense of what they would have looked like new. done conserving he one they are working on, we will switch this out and put the conserved one out and take this out of exhibit it is kind of a neat way to show we're able to do here. our next section is called the front. that basically means once our roops are coming off the rear lines, coming towards the front lines, what kind of troops and there?s would you see well, our very first one is balloon ervice or the corps. heyward is harles who we highlight. him.on't have artifacts of but we do have a photograph and our archives. we have his materials that state what he did as a up in a bserver, went balloon basket

pietersen with all the sports shows that marino is second by manchester united the portuguese paul swain's would be english giants of their worst store to a season in twenty eight. thank you for joining us of three key power brokers in the syrian conflict have failed to agree on the make up of a committee that would draft a new constitution and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met in geneva but as smith was saying and has this report. the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee here in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because of this meeting these three countries overlooked by the u.n. special envoy stephan to restore it when i were unable to agree on the final fifteen members of the committee there are fifty from the syrian regime fifty from opposition groups but these other fifty there

and then vander swain who was the dutch lawyer, he got 30 days. so different judges do sentence in different ways but obviously that will be one of the things that will tell us the degree of cooperation with flynn. he could get probation and that would be a pretty good sign he's got some pretty valuable stuff. >> gloria, tonight this comes as we have this roger stone information invoking the fifth amendment after the request from the senate judiciary committee from the democrat there, senator dianne feinstein, interview and documents. their investigation is still ongoing. stone's attorney wrote in a letter to feinstein when this request came in that stone has already testified to the house sbil je intelligence committee saying these requests are far too overbroad, far too overreaching, far too wide raininging in their all-embracing list of persons to whom the request could relate with whom mr. stone has communicated over the past three years and the documents concerning imprecision of the requests. does it sound like roger stone has something to h

susan swain interviewed her. i'm sure susan would tell you the same thing.traight shooter, doesn't pull any punches. historically, they did those, they canvassed capitol hill staff. she was one of the most difficult to work for. but on camera, and in the floor speech, she tells you how it is. brian: here's rick santorum, who left the senate back in 1995. he spent 12 years there from pennsylvania. sen. santorum: some have likened this chart to a depiction of an appendicitis operation. my god. appendicitis. that's not an appendix. that's not a blob of tissue! it is a baby! it's a baby! brian: other than the emotion of the argument he's making, the camera angle on that, it didn't show the whole chart. why not? whose cameras are those? mark: the senate recording studio that is funded and run by the senate, run by the government, controls the cameras and the camera angles. i think if you watch more of it, they do make a point of showing the charts. senators want these charts and the images to be seen. it popped up a bit later. it was very interesting. it was in t

it's a great pleasure to have susan swain join me here. she's the co-ceo of c-span. joining her is our panelist. first barbara perry. jeffrey engel. richard norton smith. jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center. koki roberts, journalist at pbs. please join me in welcoming our guests here today. [ applause ] susan, i'll turn oifver to you. it's delightful to be with you. welcome to my panel of shrinking violets. we're going to talk about presidential myth making and disruptions to the factual history that all of us in this room and whatever capacity we are in strive to tell. we had a really lively organizing conference call and some wonderful back and forth e-mails. my job was to try to organize that for the next hour and a half. what i've done for this morning is to think about the techage. we always hear about disrupters. what i've done is organize our discussion and their thoughts into six disrupters of presidential history. popular culture, current events, research, constituent groups, digital technology and funding. bring in so many s

it is a great pleasure for me to have susan swain join me, the co-ceo of c- span and will moderate the panel. and joining her on stage, is our panelist. first barbara perry, the director of presidential studies at the university of virginia, the miller center. jeffrey ingle, the director of the center for presidential history at southern methodist university. richard norton smith, presidential historian and author, jeffrey rosen, president and ceo of the national constitution center, cokie roberts, journalist at pbs, national public radio. mark updegrove, the ceo of the lyndon johnson foundation. join me in welcoming our guests today. >> good morning everyone. it's delightful to be with you and welcome to my panel of shrinking violet. we have been giving this house to talk about presidential mythmaking and disruptions to the factual history that all of us in this room and whatever capacity we are in strive to tell. we had a lively organizing conference call and then some wonderful back-and-forth emails and my job was to try to organize all of that for the next hour and a half. what i h