raiders of the american revolution." he is currently the lead historian for electronic document to him as the spanish-american war. dr. conrad received his doctorate from the university. [applause] >> my purpose here tonight is to highlight the publication of volume 12 of naval documents of the american revolution. it is a little difficult, hawking a book that even your publisher is less than enthusiastic about. to quote a blurb, "this book is a key scholarly resource for a narrow group, naval and military historians and researchers of early american history and the revolutionary war, who require primary source materials. potentially interested may exist with some military and revolutionary war enthusiast, students studying this war may be interested in the naval perspective through this comprehensive source." but the president of the united states is very enthusiastic about volume 12 so it balances out. unlike the government printing office, i think volume 12 is an important book that should enjoy a wide audience. i am h

and the indian americans for instance. were some efforts to whip up anti-british fervor among those communities as well. the british spent a lot of time trying to thwart this. during the war itself -- there were minimal laws against this at the time in the united states -- when the united states entered the war, actual german and austria-hungarian espionage activity dropped to near zero because suddenly it became dangerous. you are likely to end up hanging from the end of a rope. also, espionage at least requires some degree of communication back to the home country and it became very difficult for somebody in the united states to secretly communicate with german intelligence back in berlin during this time. there were lots and lots of reported spies in world war i during the time we were actually in the war, very few. a lot of very silly misconceptions among the american population. >> thank you. one of the turning points and americans wanted to get involved in world war i is the u.s. government intercepted a message from

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first request made by the american commissioners in france, asking that the french navy convoy attacked american denied.s was wase the french leadership unwilling to commit resources to protect american commerce, they were willing to commit their navy to assist the americans. in able to move that was credited to the triumvirate of nd thee, his assistant, adn th chevalier, the french decided to dispatch the squadron to american waters. since the british had few ships in the mediterranean, they were free to go on the offensive. at the same time, the presence of a larger french squadron, the threat of a cross channel invasion, and concerns supported by intelligence that was incorrect but on good authority, that the spanish were preparing to enter the war as allies of the french, disquieted the british and forced them to keep theificance naval forces in english channel and to delay sending a reinforcement under admiral john byron to north america. orders tot received sail with reinforcements to america on 3 may, but avoidable delays and a decision by the lords of the admiralt

the american people deserve a do-something congress. in fact, they deserve a do the right thing congress. this is exactly what house democrats are ready to do by working across the aisle to achieve results and we know it is possible because we have done it. there have been a number of moments over the past four years when speaker boehner frustrated in his conference turned into democrats to pass key legislation. we supplied the votes to keep the government open and reopen it after the october shutdown. we pushed the budget control act over the finish line to avoid defaulting on our debt. and after hurricane sandy, devastated families, farms and small businesses and 179 republicans walked away from the victims of sandy and said you are on your own. but 192 democrats voted for the disaster relief package which is the only reason it passed. same true for the violence against women's act, highway bill and the farm bill. when president bush was in office, democrats worked to pass a new gi bill, a bill to increase energy independence and legis

the americans look indecisive. they look incompetent. hey also look inhumane in the eyes of a wide number of people in the middle east. >> narrator: but with the pullback from fallujah, bremer managed to push through an interim constitution, form a new government, and hand iraq back to the iraqis. >> sincerely, l. paul bremer, ex-administrator of the coalition provisional authority. (men chuckling) >> narrator: it was time to go home. but they were worried about surface-to-air missiles. >> so we had to devise a way to get out that didn't involve a c-130. and we had to keep, of course, all of it secret. >> narrator: for the cameras, bremer appeared to leave on this airplane. >> and we pulled up the stairs and we just sat in the c-130. we sat there for about 15 minutes while the press and everybody went away, and then we went off, out over the cargo that was in the c-130, in the back, and flew on a helicopter to another part of the airport. and instead of going out on a c-130, went out on a government plane, a smaller government plane to jo

so the mainstream media but it is a contradiction in the american mind. but of course there is no such thing. the opinions of the american people reflect the wisdom of the ages, namely they went off to seek peace and stay out of trouble but they went to her and that he is by being terribly assertive against her enemies and we had failed to do that. my book is an attempt to rekindle tension to the basic fact that the basic objectives and the natural objectives of this is the provision of peace. just as plowing fields is not an end to itself but an end to the crop that one wishes to produce. and we lead the life here at home that we wish to lead and the purpose of security and peace abroad to secure peace among ourselves at home. and it just so happens that the failure to secure peace among foreign nations, it really does talk about the lungs contract loss of peace amongst ourselves. and so it is that sparta and athens destroyed their own domestic peace by failing to fight with the purpose of somehow bringing that fight to an end. in nature tells us that the

the americans agreed to sign the treaty document, but the americans were very bad at enforcing that. hey did not really cooperate with the british. one of the worst offenders was john quincy adams who signed the treaty, he was the principal negotiator at gent, and do you think john quincy adams could force the trade when he was president a few years later? no z and one of the reasons is it required the naval vessels to have stopped american merchant men and slaves in the coast of africa ask snd say, let me see cargo. let me see your manifest. this was sdplz and john quincy adams, who was the last wuchb in his open right, so that became pretty much a dead letter. the other clause you're referring to is an agreement that the united states and the british would undertake to restore the indians to the safest place in 1811, the year before the war broke out. now, the british insisted on this even though we know as they were doing this, they were in the process of throwing indian allies to the wind in 1782 and 1783. the british put there largely a fight-saying device. in the beginning of ne

she is the ceo of the american red cross. talking earlier about the value of volunteers and you count on them every day. talk a little bit about we have blood marrow centers that are in just as much need as the blood donation centers themselves. >> we do encourage people who can donate bone marrow to do so. to find out about it and do so. charlene has done so much work to encourage people to do that. >> that's critical. >> it is critical. the best possibility of a match for a american with a blood disease is a ethnic group. if you're hispanic, if you're african american, if you're white, if you're asian you need to have your name on the computer. you need to have your protein typed so if someone has a need they can go to the computer, they can call you and they can say will you help? and there's a real integration of the work of marrow and of blood. and i want to say just about my family that my older sister is named for a blood bank because -- >> okay. >> the nurses at the hospital named her because my parents hadn't done tha

-- immigrants, investigating the german-americans. covering almost 300 years from colonial era to the present. the livesct traces and careers of eminent german-american business people. -- thewant to learn more ability to draw on immigrant entrepreneurs was a key factor in the united states emergence as a world economic power. it remains crucial to its economic success. the united states has traditionally allowed immigrants to pursue business ventures which would help the country retain its attractiveness. the absence of rigid social in the superior opportunity structure should be added to the list of comparative advantages that have contributed to the cycle of immigration and wealth creation. the u.s. is still the most important destination worldwide for immigrants. foreign-born residents in the u.s., not far below the historic peak before the world war. in some cities, immigrants represent more than one third of the population. between immigration vitality is strong. although small and often precarious businesses prevail in immigrant

then the americans. the way that the french ran the fur trade was probably the best way that anybody could run the fur trade. they really understood the indians. they, at least as far as the indians thought, they really cared about them. they took on their customs. there was a really good culture -- cultural exchange. they intermarried with the native americans and started a whole nother group of people. those were the people involved in the fur trade even coming into the british period. people of indian and french descent. now, britain kind of came into play around here right after the french and indian war because they won it. the french were still involved in the fur trade as far as being the traders. so the people actually still dealing with the native americans were the french here but now they had to answer to the british as far as, you know, what is fair trade and where they would receive their licenses and that respect. john jacob astor started the american fur trade company and its effect in gree

take the american workers there hostage. hold a sit-in. >> it was not until they managed to break into a basement window and actually get into the embassy that we -- the cia began to destroy documents. >> we were very carefully destroying everything that was confidential and secret and higher. and it finally got to the point that it was taking too much time. >> i sought permission to go out and negotiate with these people. they kept insisting that you know, they wanted to occupy the compound and they wanted to do a protest. and i said you just can't do that. and so they marched me out in front of the embassy. they had tied my hands behind my back. and they started yelling. john was a fluent farsi speaker, was speaking with them through the door at some point. it was decided that he spoke farsi, he would come out there. i think that probably lasted 23 seconds. i mean, if that. and then thegrabbed him. >> al had been taken and blindfolded and saw there was a gun to his head. and i just started talking to these people as i woul

then the americans. the way that the french ran the fur trade was probably the best way that anybody could run the fur trade. they really understood the indians. they, at least as far as the indians thought, they really cared about them. they took on their customs. there was a really good culture -- cultural exchange. they intermarried with the native americans and started a whole nother group of people. those were the people involved in the fur trade even coming into the british period. people of indian and french descent. now, britain kind of came into play around here right after the french and indian war because they won it. the french were still involved in the fur trade as far as being the traders. so the people actually still dealing with the native americans were the french here but now they had to answer to the british as far as, you know, what is fair trade and where they would receive their licenses and that respect. john jacob astor started the american fur trade company and its effect in gree

the work was terrible. but an image in american society, the reason that our olympic teams almost always poses with cowboy hats time of both parties play off of that image, or is it really kind of a conservative/republican thing? i'm just kind of curious. >> guest: that history of the west is not uniform. it's a very important -- and agents in an 1880s. to some degrees in the 1890s and, of course, the spanish-american war, buffalo, teddy roosevelt roughriders were named after the roughriders and buffalo bills wild west show. the early 20th century the western image fades. during the depression nobody wants to be from the west. those are the okies. they don't have anything to do with that. the western energy takes a downturn and pops back up and takes off after brown v. board. the 1960s when we get westerns all over the american tv and the 1970s when, for example, levi's go from being on folks like james dean and his movies to ever. the sales of levi's take off in 1971 and the western imagery polls i think from the same scene that d

and so early on, the americans have huge setbacks at detroit. they surrender an army without a fight. in the niagara peninsula, they get defeated by a smaller british force. they are having setbacks all along the border. really surprised by that. the army is really just trying to get its feet under itself. command and control generals a lot of elderly guys who had been to war in the revolution. not for the last 30-odd years. so these guys are pulled o ut of given commission, put in charge, and it is not going to go well for the americans on land and on the water in 1812, except, when you get to lake champlain. lake champlain is a little smaller, over here. nobody is really looking at it closely. the british are to the north of it. we have got a bunch of gunboats on the lake already. and by the middle of first year of the war, the navy says, you know, we probably ought to have a little more presence on that lake. we are going to send a navy person. they choose out of their ranks a guy, a 29 year old lieutenant, thomas donna. -- thomas mcdonough. m

is a law that the americans cannot cross the appalachian daniel boone does it in because across the appalachian from virginia to kentucky opens up and tacky and we have this new concept of what an american west is going to be. once he's there in kentucky and for various reasons that filters back to the east coast of virginia and affects people like abraham lincoln's grandfather once people start to point to kentucky what happens is a complex a very explicit obvious conflict, it's not a state actually put a region in virginia and kentucky between the idea that poor man like daniel boone can go out there and make a fortune versus the slaveowners, the planters to come in and take over the legislature and take over the laws. so what the founding fathers say because this will take place in the 1790s. what they see as this conflict. ken bennett actually rise in this new land or is that nuland going to be taken over by wealthy and in this case slaveowners who then change the law and manipulate the laws so that they are able to a amass land and property in their own hands? >> host: said the

the american people are pushing for that. r constituents are pushing for that. [ all speak at once ] >> you got to ask the libs that. >> there's your political shot -- >> i'm sure their constituents are, and the fact that this question was skirted around and was not answered directly, i thought was -- >> do you want a ban? >> yes, why not? absolutely. >> tell me about this thinking, the democratic side about why you don't want to rush to a ban and shut down the traffic? >> the question is, whether a ban would be effective. the doctors without borders basically say it would hurt. you would have a lot of issues getting your medical personnel in and out. problems getting some of the medical equipment back and forth. then when you have a ban, the experience has been, people will find a way around it. if they find a way around it, and an infected person gets here, legally, without having any monitoring and review of their health status situation, it means that we're not going to be able to get them the treatment right away that the

>> guest: this is the front end of american politics. we are seeing the judicial races becoming increasingly like the congressional and congressional counterparts. money is flowing into the races in places like a small county in missouri or states like north carolina or montana, ohio, texas they are increasingly partisan and what we are seeing is the same kind of forces shaping the politics nationally are shaping the traditional races. >> host: you covered a judge in new york -- north carolina rather. tell us her story in what she is facing which he is facing this year as opposed to the previous years. >> guest: justice beasley was appointed by the then democratic governor and she is fighting an uphill battle to keep her seat. she's facing a well-funded republican and i should mention that the race in north carolina is nonpartisan but on the ground nobody b. visa to be the case ended in fact both the democratic's are endorsed by the respective parties and nobody is fooled by what's going on so in justice beasley's situation these are race

this was the spark of the american revolution. it shows you, i think, how distance we have been from our roots when we think and listen to these ringing words. the poorest man in his cottage may bid definance to all of the forces of the crown. it maybe frail, the roof may shake, the wind may enter, the storm may enter but the king of england can't enter. thing of how our lives are today compared with the understanding of the right to be left alone. there is a 4th principle i will address and that is we believe that it is more acceptable for us to take the risk of being the victim of injustice than to be complicit in it. we don't want to take stupid risks but let me explain one situation where the point is grade graphically. there was a hearing made by alan grayson which featured a 9-year-old daughter from pakistan. he relayed her 68-year-old grandmother asked her to help pick vegetables. they were out picking and once darkness appeared in the sky, then a humming noise, she began to run and thought see heard screams. she looked at h

angeles, 1920-1950", the experiences of of second-generation japanese-american women. in the years surrounding world war ii. this 20 minute interview as part of booktv's college degrees. >> valerie matsumoto, when did japanese immigration to the united states begin and really take off? >> the first to come were students who came in 1890s and they were talking and said to have tried to strengthen imperial role. so the first went to hawaii and then by the 19 hundreds more were coming to the continental united states. two how big was that wave imax. >> we are talking as we work backward, there were about 120,000 japanese-americans and two thirds of who were american-born in the continental united states. >> on the eve of world war ii, 120,000 japanese-americans in the united states. >> who were in fact incarcerated >> when one hears the term, what does it mean? >> it means literally first-generation and it refers to the japanese immigrant. it means second generation carefirst of u.s. citizens american-born children. >> is there a third generation as well? >> yes, there is.

>> well, i think there are two principles we need to stick with, one, protecting the american people is paramount but to do that -- >> they did agree with you on that. >> you have got to make your decisions and policy based on the scientific data, which tells us people who are not ill, who don't have symptoms with whom you don't come into contact with body fluids they north a threat, they are not going to spread it. we have to be careful when we make policy we don't have unintended consequences where you group everyone in the same category, that just because you came back from there, that therefore you're in this category. we do have stratification of risk and stratification of monitoring. that's critical, based on scientific data. i'm concerned of the disincentive for the health care workers and it's interesting i think people lose that the best way to protect us is to stop it in africa and one of the best ways to stop it in africa is to get health workers who are going there and helping them with their problem. when they come back, they need to be treated in a way that doesn't disin

the left is dr. chad williams i&< of african-american studies. executive director ofify alpha threat da national history honor society and a board member of the world war i association. and last but not least, author of borrowed soldiers, americans under british command 1819, he is a national archivist who also teaches history at the u.s. naval academy. gentlemen, our panel of experts will be answers questions from me. if you're watching live, they can also answer questions from you as well. they'll be taking questions from our audience. you can tweet questions to us @www1cc or message us on our face boork page at world war i spelled out. world war i centennial commission. before we hear from our panel, we would like to take you to gaza and to al jazeera correspondent john henry who has been watching the crisis unfold for the past few weeks. he filed this report for us last week before the most recent round of cease fires. >> somehow i ended up at the wrong war, on sunday morning i had a ticket to iraq and by monday evening, i was on my way to gaz

also i think, the american role in the world. i think this kind of doublespeak is not intentional, and i think we see it in president after president. this is not a democratic or a republican problem. one that werican suffer from not knowing exactly where we have come from and why. i think it is a lack of understanding about the structure of the world in general. if we don't understand our history, no one else will. the ones whoe write about it, we are the ones who tell people, "this is who we are." by the way, i hate to be a tease, because i cannot possibly answer all of the big questions in 45 minutes, but i will do my best. theuse the fact is that u.s. actually exercises a very unusual role as the nation with the greatest and yet, nonetheless, very limited power in the world. the power to determine outcomes in foreign affairs. if things go wonky, people always ask, "what is the united states going to do about it?" nobody asked what mexico is going to do about it. 95% of soldiers across the world are americans, and that include

the fear-theme. so how is americans, and how do you help to bring back the confidence that you say that the american people need in the system, and these are doctors, and not politicians who came out here to say these things that later proved to not be exactly right. so how do you, how do i not look at your hearing, and how do i not look at the continuing criticism of the president who, you know, you can say he was late to the game, but trying to now put some procedures in place, and how do we not look at that through the political prism and say this just fits right into the republican talking point points? >> by ranking member mr. couple can in cannings and i asked for to a hearing, because we need the transparency to make it available to the american peo e people. ranking member mr. cummings, and this is the way of opening up, and doing business, and they make the business to open up, and make the information available to congress, and congress then makes a decision with the president that we are doing the right things, and then confidence is restored. that is what we are doing with the war, if the

and that became more apparent during the spanish-american war. one ship was asked to go to fight in cuba. so it left san francisco. on the west coast. and it took two months to reach cuba. by the time it reached cuba, the war was basically over. so that gave new impetus for the idea of finding a way a short way to unite both coasts. because it became, you know, apparent and particularly now for the u.s. who had a two ocean navy. so it needed to have a route to cross from one ocean to the other. and so in 1903, when panama was fighting for its independence the u.s. supported the rebels. and it bought the construction rights from the french canal company for $40 million. and it began, it started construction in 1904. but at the beginning, they just took baby steps. because even though the french had already started, everything was a shambles. because the first french company went bankrupt. it took a while to get it started. because there was no organization. and also, they had to deal with disease. malaria and yellow fever, which were the two main c

he has been active in the asian american community for over a decade. i know he looks a lot younger than a decade, but he has been extremely active. he's been involved in grassroots activism in the asian american immigrant worker and lgbt communities on both coasts of the country and his vision for social justice is grounded in the realities of those communities. after graduating from brown university and ucla law school, chris worked as a ford foundation new voices fellow where filipino advocates for justice in oakland before joining the positive resource center in san francisco as a staff attorney representing clients living with hiv. he is currently the executive director of the asian law caucus which works on housing rights, immigration, labor, and employment issues in the asian community and ha been very active in effecting positive social change on the policy level here in san francisco and right here in our own board of supervisors. thank you, chris. i know you're here today with your partner ed and thank you for your dedication and service. and o

cleo, the muse of history, recorded american events as they occurred. she rides in a vehicle propelled by eagle wings, aka prorks pe, by the house of representatives. the chariot's front decorated by a portrait of washington. the chariot sits astride a globe encircled by a band enscribed with signs of the zodiac. the 12 constellations that traditionally represent the universe from earth's northern hemisphere. the presence of the zodiac has been noted by others but not explained within the context of american history. a congressional resolution on june 14th, 1777, authorized the design of the flag of the united states. 13 red and white stripes were its major identifying elements, but the resolution concluded that the union be 13 stars, white in a blue field representing a new constellation. both the designer of the american flag and latrobe conceived of the historical importance of america's governing system as extra ter restrial. the great library in alexandria egypt inspired latrobe's choice of the architectural look. it was inspired in 1812. a u-shaped

the american people watched all this unfold. fed up, the modern tea party was born in a positive turn of the pendulum. i founded the tea party caucus in congress. just so every day, real americans can have a voice and a way to share their concerns with their elected representatives. more than anything, it proved to be a listening caucus because ulse of reale poll people who live outside the beltway bubble. this was pretty refreshing for washington, d.c. americans of all backgrounds organized rallies. they went to town hall meetings. they showed up here at the u.s. capitol. it was a spontaneous organic uprising. so, of course the left called it , astroturf. it could not possibly be real people would actually stand up and say they wanted to have self-determination. a rally to stop obamacare that i called -- produced tens of thousands of americans, showing up at the capitol. they had less than one weeks notice, no organization, and no one paid them to come. and they came here simply to legislators, "not with my health care you don't

we need to restore the belief in american exceptionalism. i truly believe that this is the first president that i can remember that does not believe in american exceptionalism. so even before the budget changes and the defense buildup, think there needs to be a change in our strategic positioning, vis-a-vis our allies and enemies. and a new strategy without the investment of the military will ring hollow. i think that a new administration hopefully supported by a bipartisan majority of the congress will take the steps to increase the investments in military for things like the modernization. i say, as a guideline we should , get to 4% of gdp. it needs to be informed by threat analysis. i don't think we simply give the pentagon a blank check, but we can start by going back to the secretary gates baseline the last time there was a comprehensive and consistent threat analysis done with a realistic, not just a political, number to undergird the military establishment. we owe or men and women the tools and readiness and training. one of the growin

in a way they saw fit and live the american dream. which is why we came out to colorado, where many of those travelers ended up. we're here at the capitol building in denver. for a while the american dream may be something that each citizen must discover in the 21st century. what the government does can have quite an effect with how easy and how hard to reach that dream. and a close incumbent race between udall and cory gardner. millions are focused on an election that could strongly affect their future. >> the american dream to me is having opportunity to have the promise, if you do the right things, you succeed and can go. >> as a child, robert bray, now 58 had the classic wish that millions of american kids had before him. >> it was my dream to be a cowboy. >> and that's exactly what he became, of course, it helped that he was raised on his family's ranch. today, mr. bray is the owner-operator of bray ranches. 60,000 acres in red vail, colorado, on the western slope of the state. ranch wife is plenty of work but he gets plenty of he

the american scientists had one vision of this. academics were saying oppenheimer were saying they would get the bomb in a year or two. guys.underestimate the but the government scientists broadering them a prediction. york gives you an idea what the government scientists were saying. military, people like leslie were predicting 20 years before the soviets got the bomb. politicians like truman famously asked when will the soviets get the bomb said, "never." that asiatic comment gives you an idea of what he was thinking. had aigence agencies different view. i will go through this quickly. the first estimate of when the bomb wasould get the o.r.e.-3-1. of report and estimates. they would develop a bomb between 1950-1953. next estimate was the joint nuclear energy intelligence committee. same prediction as before. isjuly 1948, acknowledge impossible to determine when they would get the bomb but maybe by 1950. date is mid-1953. not a lot of changes. june 1949 report. same as above. july 1949 report. a month before. the o.s.i. report, of

and also, i think, the american role in the world. i think that this kind of double speak isn't intentional and i think we see it in president after president so this is not a democratic or republican problem. it's an american one that we suffer from not knowing exactly where we come from and why. and i think it reflects a lack of understanding about the structure of the world in general, and if we don't understand our history, no one else will. because we're the ones who write about it, we're the ones who tell people, this is who we are and if we don't understand it, they won't, either. i hate to be a tease because i can't possibly answer all of the really big questions in 45 minutes and my idea is to give you 300 years in 45 minutes but i will do my best, because the fact is that the u.s. exercises a very unusual role as the and,n with the greatest yet, nonetheless, very limited power in the world, the power to determine outcomes in foreign affairs. when things go wonky, people invariably ask, don't we all ask, what is the united sta

>> guest: it means that it's the american mona lisa. now, the fame of a painting is a really mysterious thing. nobody really knows whether mona lisa got famous, although i have some theories. this one became fantastically famous. i think in part through its ambiguity. i mean, first of all, it's a very, very memorable image, one which strikes deep into people's ancestral memory or what they would like it to be. there he is, the stern puritan father holding up the pitchfork be, defending the virtue of his not very alluring daughter. and the -- it is humorous and at the same time it's hard to be sure whether he's, whether wood was praising that kind of midwestern rectitude or not. so people project on it. that comes from a painting by gilbert stuart, the so-called -- no, not the -- [inaudible] stuart got to paint washington three times. this is derived from the unfinished picture, and, of course, it's on the american dollar bill. that's the canonical image of george washington. c-span: what do you think of americans putting this painting on

military, more than all of the nations in the world combined. americans do you see anybody in the political landscape today who is asking those questions? i mean we think about hillary delinton or elizabeth warren or jim webb. >> maybe elizabeth warren is. i think bernie sand issues is. i think even rand paul is asking po those particular questions. >> fair to assume you wouldn't necessarily be a rand paul supporter, though? >> no. i wouldn't be a rand paul supporter. but, you know, i believe that he has some of his philosophy has a lot of appeal to me. >> would you support hillary 2016? >> i -- i love hillary clinton, and that doesn't mean that i agree with everything that she says. i think that we have gone down a wrong bad road in this country, you know, towards a kind of a fwar state. scan sc scan. the real damage done to us by the 9-11 attacks was the damage ourselves, you know, suspending -- basically treating the bill of rights -- i am a strict constit-tuesdayal constructionist and i believe that the bill of rights are sacred and that, you know, th

lisa monaco has been charged with overseeing the american response to ebola. and the president in a speech at the cdc, there is also an overseas contingent on this, but an energy czar here to oversea the response statewide. lisa monaco, after all is the homeland security advisor and counter terrorism advisor. many think she obviously has a lot on her plate at this point. there should be others involved as well. so you are likely to hear both of have it real coming from critics those who want to see more restrictions placed around individuals coming from those countries in west africa, and tighter screening all around, and others who are going to be appealing for calm principally from the two witnesses here. >> mike viqueira for us in washington. mike as always please stand by as we wait for the testimony to begin in washington right now. also joining us in our studio right now is dr. annie spare row. as you heard mike viqueira say, there are a lot of political concerns in washington. will this improve the situation or will it make things worse? >> well, first o

history tv, on c-span 3, one of the first african-american labor unions. and saturday night at 8:00 on lectures and history, propaganda and america's view of the japanese during world were ii and on real measuring, a film on uberculosis. email us at comments at c-span.org or send us a tweet at c-span hashtag comments. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> president obama spoke today about the government's evidents to prevent the spread of the -- efforts to prevent the spread of the ebola virus. his is 20 minutes. [applause] >> in december of 2013, a young child in a remote part of guinea became the first unfortunate soul to suffer the scourge of ebola virus disease in west africa. since that time, more than 10,000 people have contracted the virus and more than 5,000 have died in eight countries. the medical professionals of the three nations hardest hit by this epidemic, liberia, guinea and sierra leone have fought with valiant effort against menace, but they need the help of the international community to turn the tide of this devastating outbrea

but wouldn't tell the american people. instead, the president has created a myth that somehow a 60-nation coalition that is basically doing nothing is going to defeat isis. i mean, the turkish army, part of the coalition, is one mile away from the terrorists watching them slaughter civilians. and the turkish army is doing nothing. great coalition, mr. president. way to go. summing up, the american people are not being told the whole truth by the obama administration about two very important situations and the b.s. has to stop. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction, joining us from washington, mary katherine and juan. where are am i going wrong? >> i think you are right. i'm troubled by what's going on in dallas and nebraska. when it comes to dr. frieden, i think accountability is key for our officials, especially in this situation. my one question to you, bill o'reilly, what's on the bench? who's coming next? who have we heard from in the american medical company saying he's wrong in allowing the hosp

the american legion, of course, a classic example. veterans getting together to share stories with each other. they feel like they can't share a lot of those stories with the civilian public, with their family members. it's interesting, because you will run into hemmiingway. i think it's good for us to push back a little bit on the story, the way that you have done it now, and to figure out, what's at the heart of the story. disillusionment doesn't really fit in. that word is too general for us to get at the heart of what hemingway is actually writing about. since i brought up the big d, let's talk about charles carrington. he wrote a book, a memoir no longer in print. he did write kind of a revised half history, half memoir, which is still in print. it's a memoir of a junior officer's service on the wet earn front. and it shows two battles. like so many british soldiers, he was at two battles and he shows them in great detail. what i think makes the book really, really distinctive is that he felt a need -- he wrote his publisher about

the american people watched all this unfold. fed up, the modern tea party was born in a positive turn of the pendulum. i founded the tea party caucus in congress. every day, real americans can have a voice and a way to share their concerns with elected representatives. more than anything, it proved to be a listening caucus because the polls of real people who live outside the beltway bubble. this was pretty refreshing for washington, d.c. americans of all backgrounds organized rallies. they went to town hall meetings. they showed up here at the u.s. capitol. it was a spontaneous organic uprising. astroturf. called it it could not possibly be real people would actually stand up and say they wanted to have self-determination. a rally to stop obamacare that i tens ofproduced thousands of americans, showing up at the capitol. than one weeks notice, no organization, and no one paid them to come. but they came here to say their "not with my health care you don't." one woman from hawaii came and told me she saw me make the call on the s

only the native americans were doing the trapping.there were hardly any europeans at all doing the trapping. the french set up outposts right in the indians' backyard. the bird trade -- fur trade cabin was used as a business and a residence for the traders. the french called their traders the bhuj law. he would set up his life in this wilderness, and the indians would come to him in the spring of the year to do the trading. thatwould bring their furs they had been trapping and hunting all winter long, bring them into the cabin, and this is where the trade would happen. they were giving the indians trade goods mostly coming from europe. it was technology not available to the indians. by this old trade, the indians went from stone age to iron age. now they were starting to do things with a lot better tools. for instance, they could now have it, hack -- a tomahawk or an ax blade made out of metal. it would be a whole lot that are than the stone and bone they were using before. beads involved are coming from europe, and they would be porc