the first man who tried to shape the mississippi delta area was la salle. he tried come back to try to establish a permanent settlement in america. that was la salle's seconds ill-fated voyage. nearly all of the settlers and his crew died from sickness and starve vacation. when they got into the gulf of mexico, they overshot the mississippi river's mouth and ended up off of texas and mat dord -- matagorda bache. at that point one of the ships it a sandbar and began to sink and it yielded this that we have generously on loan from ver sigh in france. we think this is the ship that sunk during la salle's voyage. this is a romantic depics of his voyage. you see the ships he was arriving on, the crew attempting to disembark into exas and over here you can see native tribes that were attempting to push them back. we've moved to about 14 years later and there are people that want to try again. pierre lemoine, the son of a canadian fur tripper wants to france to louis xiv of to petition to build around the gulf of mexico and the mississippi river. his is his river t

they were reforming -- referring to the mississippi and new orleans. that planted the seed for a lifelong fascination for new orleans and louisiana in the mississippi river, that eventually became my life dedication. >> you're going to drive us all around the city. we're starting out in a place that maybe you typically don't think of when you think of new orleans. this doesn't look like the stereotypical picture you see of the city. where are we? is at thenic imagery narrow streets of the french quarter, the cast-iron balconies, the old buildings. this is city park over here. this is beautiful by you say john -- bayou st. john. you almost can't overstate its importance in the history and geography of the city, because it directly influenced why our founder established new orleans here exactly 300 years ago. the year 2018 is a tie centennial of new orleans. but i thought we would do is look around here and follow the bayou into the city and talk about the role it played and how it led to the founding of new orleans. >> let's do it. >> let's talk about ba

they were referring to the mississippi and new orleans. that piqued my little boy imagination. that pointed the seed for a lifelong fascination with new orleans and the mississippi river that eventually became my life dedication. >> so you are going to drive us all around the city. we are starting off in a place that you don't think of when you think of new orleans. this doesn't look like the stereotypical picture you see in the city. professor campanella: the iconic image of new orleans is the narrow streets of the french quarter, the cast-iron balconies, the old buildings. this too i new orleans. this is city park. this is volume st. john. -- bayou st. john. this byaoayou -- you almost ca't overstate its importance in the geography and history of the city. ourirectly influenced why founder established new orleans i. nd,hought we would loop arou follow the bayou into the city, and how that led to the founding of new orleans. let's talk about basic geography here. behind us to the north, if you look at cardinal directions, is a tidal lagoon known as lake country. if you go in th

the first is that it is along the mississippi river. is a port city controlling trade and vessels in an out of the gulf of mexico. ofis cousin of this hub trading that goes around that norlin's has always been very important and the british figured if they could capture that, they could control the trade that comes out of the country here if you control the trade of a country you are at war with, you can help determine the outcome. >> as a port city, new orleans' cultural history is tradition. got it, the as it goes into everything is seller, bell pepper, and onions. that is actually what i like to refer to as the cradle mayor creole. we are painfully aware of being seven feet under sea level to matter where you are. how are you going to grow carrots? you can't go a caret. you cannot -- carrot. the water table is too high. >> >> people see the jazz is the only original american art form. i'm not sure it's the only one, but it is the most famous. >> for the next tune of ours, we will learn about the city's history. we begin our special f

it has spread up the mississippi river system and crowding native fish. so congress stepped in and decided to instruct the army corps of engineers to close the upper st. anthony's falls lock to mitigate the threat of the mitigation. the army corps of engineers took a disposition study of the lock and visitor and interprettive center. the city of minneapolis, the minneapolis park and recreation board supported repurposing the lock. my amendment would expedite this study would authorize a study by looking into modifications to the lock and dam to preserve recreation opportunities for the space as well as preserve the health of the ecosystem and maintain portions of the lock and dam necessary necessary to maintain flood control. the lock is the only major water fall and it presents a very unique opportunity to transform the waterfront of the twin cities. and within the st. anthony falls city district. it is significant to the city and to our state. the central riverfront is a jewel of the state and the stone arch bridge and st. anthony falls are two iconic fe

. ♪ >> southeastern louisiana on the mississippi river. a major port city during atlantic slave trade. with the help of our communications cable partners. learn about the history of voodoo in new orleans. >> people assume even the scholars that the history they equate the insert population with the origins of voodoo in the city. the evidence we have the prosecution of voodoo practitioners. bhutto has been criminalized from the majority of the history of louisiana. the earliest reliable we found have to do with the prosecution of folks practicing voodoo in the 18th century. again, that doesn't tell us what the prior dislike or if it resembles what we think voodoo is now and people are being prosecuted >> new orleans does have a right to its voodoo history. bhutto came via slave trade that were taken then brought here. we had slaves that were taken from different areas, so there are different spirits. people always wonder, they find new orleans voodoo the tradition to be very eclectic. well, there's a reason for that. because if you go to wi

it's explosive in florida, the mississippi coast, on the texas coast and on the texas coast a lot of it is industrial and the same with the louisiana coast. what is interesting is that i write about, i devote one of my chapters to hurricanes in the book and one of the things i found in researching hurricanes is after these big devastating hurricanes, .there's almost in every case a building boom that follows. real estate prices rise significantly. local chambers of commerce, local officials are eager to get the economy up and running so they create incentives to bring developers in to help them restore the flames. and americans particularly those in florida have very short historical memories and despite the fact that hurricanes such as hurricane camille leveled the mississippi gulf coast, they quickly forget about those tragedies, those disasters and people move in and they develop away. >> so one thing you write very beautifully about in the e book is the estuaries. and the mangroves. and i as a person who often goes down to florida once every couple years had no appreciation for t

john's, this involved reported route, and get to the mississippi river without going up the mississippiat is in the french quarter. and st. john draw a line, in the foreground to the left of the high-rises there. and this particular route, and over st. john right now, because this was -- an early plantation region, truck farms and dairies and larger commodity plantations. and old colonial era plantation houses. we will see, 1788 plantation house known as the old spanish customs house that embodies that great look over here. and a spectacular -- 1788, old spanish custom house, noticed the double hitched roof, raised construction, center chimneys post construction, by that size and various setbacks in the french quarter and roughly speaking that is what really french colonial new orleans looked like. we are on right now, slightly elevated ridge that allowed foot passage by the french quarter. and swamps to your left, swamps to your right and would be a really narrow foot road that allowed people to get to the river without going up the river, if it weren't for the imperceptible ridge you

so they could study the mississippi and the tributaries and everything about that that simulator was pushing sludge and water through this giant simulator that tells them where the water will go and changing the direction of that. >> lovele louisiana, man. >> it's the center of water study because of the mississippi, which this country economically does not function without that river >> it's a big river from what i understand it's friday. diana, awesome piece see you soon. >>> we promised you a rocket launch here's your rocket launch. moments ago the spacex falcon 9, look at that, i will do the rocket launch noise. it's resupplying the international space station it will attach to that space station on monday. it will take a couple days to get there. what a great way to start. what did you do this morning i launched a rocket. >>> still ahead, your second half playbook. the best places for your money for the rest of the year and your mystery chart the top stock in the s&p 500 this month here's a hint. the company is up nearly 30% since june 1st here's another hint, it's in the tv bus

i look forward to hearingore about his work to train the next generation of workers in mississippi and across the country. in the last decade, the app economy has clearly brought value to consumers and businesses. it promises to continue delivering this value as apps increase in personalization and utility for users while adequately safeguarding consumer data. to that end i look forward to hearing from our witnesses today about how to preserve the many economic and societal benefits of mobile applications now and in the years to come. before introducing the members of our panel,l recognize my dear friend senator schatz to make whatever opening remarks he would like to make. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you for holding this hearing on this important topic. i'm looking forward to the conversation. before i get into my comments, i think i'd be remiss if i didn't address the issue that is hitting the senate for tomorrow which is net neutrality, and that's about the internet itself. it's hard for me to be in a hearing around apps or anything else about the internet and not me

the mississippi river, those that run through trade 80% of the continental u.s. so anything you put in the ground will make its way to the gulf coast. as the gulf of mexico dead zone probably thee best-known and i discovered a direct connection between that dead zone and the baby boom era saturday morning cartoon commercials. and if you want to know that connection. [laughter] read the book but i will put it this way the midwest is directly connected but we have wonderful beaches on the gulf coast originally coming from thet appellation mountain have many of you have seen the louisiana beach? >> deadliest beaches in the world. i'm sorry. you know that but they are the brown carpet have you ever seen a field in iowa? that is the future of louisiana beach. if you go to texas arp and yellow because that settlement comes as far away as the russian mountains. >> florida beachesbe you point out will you look at the tax dollars. >> you are because they erode state of of florida fence millions of dollars each year i think $65 million to restore those beaches that is the

[applause] >> we're on the banks of the mississippi river in new orleans where we are learning about the city's history. new orleans is the birthplace of jazz. up next we take you to the new orleans jazz museum to learn about the music history. >> ♪ walking through new orleans ♪ >> people say that jazz is the only original art form. i'm not sure it's the only original, but certainly the most famous, most world-renowned, change the world type of music. to stay eaving here i'm walking through new orleans ♪ >> it is something the country can be proud of. it is something that has defined america, people outside america, and like any great art, it has poken to families. the troops and the great issues of our time. right now we are on the second floor of the jazz museum. the jazz museum has been in this building since 1983. then after hurricane katrina, the jazz exhibit was moved out and put into storage until basically now. e slowly, but surely started king the instruments and the and putting them back and slowly but surely, we have the women of note exhibit, the gonzales mural. there is a

and it was part of that charter that allowed us to form the mississippi coding academy. in our state alone there are 1,200 open jobs for coding professionals. our colleges and universities produce 250 computer science graduates a year. about half of them leave the state. so enormous gap just in our state. at the national level it's even more compelling. code.org will tell you there's 500,000 open jobs in programming and development today. and it's going to grow to 1 million by the year 2020, and there's 43,000 computer science graduates to meet the 500,000 today. so the demands of the digital economy are just going to continue to grow, and things like the app economy like we're discussing here today are going to worsen that gap over time unless we do some things differently. here's what's interesting. at the other end of the spectrum there are a lot of highly motivated young people who for various reasons mostly soc socioeconomic are not able to attend a two-year college. but many of them have the basic analytic skills to become coders. and those jobs will ensure them wag

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from mississippi, mr. kelly, for minutes. mr. kelly: mr. speaker, i ask permission to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. speaker, it's an honor today to rise in member riff army sergeant julius e. kiy who paid the ultimate sacrifice while defending our nation during the korean war. sergeant mckinny was a member of the heavy mortar company, 32nd infantry regiment, seventh infantry division. while engaged in heavy battle in north korea on december 2, 1950, he became unaccounted for and was later declared missing in action. many years after the korean war, permission to excavate burial sites in the areas where fighting occurred led to the recovery of human remains. more years would pass before the use of d.n.a. technology would help unite families with their loved ones. eight years ago, retired mississippi state guard kohl member, bill,eant mccontinuey's nephew, submitted d.n.a. samples along with two relatives to the united states army n march, 2018, sergeant mckinny

understand what a trade war means for america follow the mississippi river. president donald trump has threatened to add charges on $450 billion in chinese goods. the reliance on trade makes it a microcosm of how the terror battle will affect america. ,oining us, a wonderful story you have followed the mississippi river. is tied tojobs international commerce. how many jobs would be at risk? those oneingle one of in six jobs tied to international trade. if you start from baton rouge and go to new orleans, that is just a small chunk of the mississippi river. we think about trade jobs you think about the ports, the people loading the freighters, the ships at any given point on that river between new orleans and baton rouge. you think of the jobs tied to that as well as the cold. it is interesting to go to his microcosm of how the trade war would play out across the u.s. but also to see people who support the president and his economic policies who would be hard hit by this. a greatyou have example. barges could offload at factories along the river and then head t

who did the native americans in the mississippi delta think they would have to replace in order to create cotton plantations? not ae i'm pretty sure whole weren't interested in planting cotton. know, most of the native american participation in the war is from what is today oklahoma, then the indian territory, and people east of the mississippi who are mostly in the north. iroquois.gneca, in the upper midwest in minnesota, native peoples are probably watching the war thinking this is great, they are going to leave us alone for a little while. and again, this in part goes , at the end of the war, where do these great heroes who emancipated the slaves and destroyed slavery, where do they end up? the end up fighting the nas perce war. ironies are tragic and sad everywhere. audience member: it's interesting when we look back, we don't realize but the confederacy sent out diplomats, diplomatic relations, to recruit the native americans. they were just choosing size, they said we are going to promise you certain things if you fight for the confederacy. so you had that going on as well, a delibe

eastern on american history tv on c-span3 >> we are on the banks of the mississippi river in new orleans were c-span is learning about the city's history. new orleans is the birthplace of jazz. musicians like louis armstrong got their start here. we take you to the new orleans jazz museum to learn about the city's music history. ♪ >> i'm not sure it is only the original one but certainly the most famous. most world-renowned, changed the world kind of music. i'm going back home to stay ♪ ♪ i'm going to new orleans ♪ >> something the country can be proud of. something that has defined america not only for americans but people outside of america. like any great art, it has spoken these truths and great issues of our time about humanity. right now we are on the second floor of the new orleans jazz museum in the u.s. mint at the herman leonard museum. after hurricane katrina the jazz exhibit was moved out and put in storage until basically now. we have slowly but surely started taking the instruments and artifacts out of the archive and putting them back here are your slowly but surely having

the waters of the mississippi would've reached out. connolly was an advocate of that plan. when governor connolly was trying to sell that plan, one thing he used was that if we don't do this, the federal government will. that plan failed but you know how much it failed by? it failed by 6000 and change. there are more people at the festival today then counts for the margin for which that loss. i'm not saying that would've been an answer, think it would it created problems we do not anticipate there are a lot of reasons to oppose the network of the waters. that was really the last one. an approach was taken for the top down. maybe we need to revisit that. >> you can watch this other programs online at booktv.org. >> the u.s. north korea summit is set for tuesday. book tv will feature authors and books about the region. starting at 5:00 p.m. eastern with the book, in order to live, a north korean girls journey to freedom. and undercover among the sons of north korea's elite. bruce in his book, north korean regional security in the kim jong-un era. and thomas hendrickson in his

he applied to the law school and went to visit with e.j. stringer, president of mississippierence to talk about the conference supporting him in admittance instead they talk today him into taking position of field secretary for naacp and opening office in jackson, a very, very interesting time. it was not only typing organizing events or celebrations or even the sad things to acknowledge people who had been hurt, who had been killed, i did research for his speeches. i even learned some of them. we were behind the cotton curtain because you cannot get information out to wire service that you could in any other part of the country. it end up being concise of what you supported and sending that information to naacp office in new york city and you did it and young people here by telegram. i was a welcoming committee to people who came in. everyone visited our house, our house was so small but we always found a place. i think of thurgood marshall. attorney, what a terrible time i had trying to balance a budget of $25 every two weeks feeding and housing people. but it was our home

it is right along the mississippi river. the port city that controlled all of the traded vessels coming in and out of the lf of mexico , and it is because of this hub of trading that new orleans has been very important. the british the good if they could capture it, they could control that trade. if you can control the trade of a country you are at war with, you can determine that outcome as well. there are some important people that helped diate wh would happen during the battle of new orleans on the british side. one general eventually became commander of the entire ground assault out here and he is the brother of the duke of wellington. he has a lot of clout in british circles there. you also have admiral cochrane who won't necessarily be here but will be in command of the overall assault force of about 15,000 troops. on the american side, andrew jackson would probably be the most famous because he commanded the u.s. gulf forces at the time. the also have joseph, who which was a refugee from the revolution from the island

everyone in the state of mississippi needs to go to. i thought they did a wonderful job of marrying the two. and first, my reaction was, why do need two museums? why can't we just have one in mississippi history? because it's all part of the same story. but it's an old story about how that happened and that totally makes sense. but when you go you see your professional historians and scholars of public history who have been incredibly thoughtful about telling a very inclusive, powerful story about the states history. one that kinda scrapes the barnacles offer the history that we've all grown up with and that we can see it clearly in a new and important way. but also that relates to history of the civil rights era. we've got to make clear to everyone, you have to go to both sides. you can't do that unless you understand the longer mississippi history story. i'm just enormously proud. having the two museums i hope everyone will go see them many times. >> the question of course, about after to kill a mockingbird, did you gain any insight in

the first was his right along the mississippi river. it is a port city that controls trade and vessels coming out of the gulf of mexico. it is because of this hub of t new orleans is very important. the british felt they could capture that trade. some of the important people that helped dictate what would happen during the battle of new orleans on the british side, general packing him, who becomes the leader of the ground assault. he is the brother of the duke of wellington, so he has a lot of clout in the british circle. you have the leader of a command of the overall assault force of british troops. on the american side, the famous is going to be andrew jackson. a haitianople like refugee who puts together almost 260 free men of color to put together a battalion. it is generally accepted 700,000 british troops were here during the ground assault, and someone about 400,000 american soldiers. between thehelming british compared to the americans. the british were professional soldiers. many were very decorated military men. even though th

first, it is right along the mississippi river. it was the first city that controlled all of the trade and vessels coming in and out of the gulf of mexico and because of this hub of trading, new orleans has always been very important and the british figured if they could capture that, they control that trade, and if you could control the trade of a country, you could help determine that outcome as well. there are so many important people out here that helped dictate what would happen on the british side. it really includes people like general packing him who eventually becomes the commander of the entire ground assault out here. he is the brother of the duke of wellington. he's got a lot of clout in the british circle there. there's also admiral cochrane, who not necessarily was here, but was in command of the overall assault force, 15,000 troops, that the british have. on the american side, the most famous will be andrew jackson who commanded the u.s. gulf forces at the time. you also have people like joseph, a refugee from the hai

rights, championing the poor, and destitute, living in third world conditions in apple asia, the mississippi delta, challenging south africa's students to chat -- stand up against apartheid, or organizing , his life was dedicated to helping others. when our nation seemed poised on the brink of tearing itself apart, there was bobby kennedy, preaching a message of love, of wisdom, and compassion to one another. . message of reunification a message of reconciliation. this, his efforts to take that vision, that vion of wisdom and compassion and reconciliation to the presidency, never happened, because that opportunity was cut short by an assassin's bullet. that happened just after bobby kennedy left oregon and flew down to california. weeks after i had the opportunity to see him speak at a high school gymnasium, andid not seize the moment to do it. as bobby kennedy said in his speech to the city club of cleveland, our lives on this planet are too short. the work to be done is too great. but we cannot let that stop us from working together to seek and build a new world. we will never know whether

now you want to come back and be treated like you are exactly the same all the time? mississippi if anybody understands the civil war, i understand it. or ben either be subject welcome back but here are the terms. we have a new deal now and that is what it is. it talks about privileges and immunities, that was supposed to the old bill of rights. it does not wind up that way. this is a key phrase, equal protection of the law. i know you want a seventh inning stretch, but we are really at about the eighth inning, so we do not have that much time left. , with equalndment protection of the law, that is the first time that a notion of equality, a right of equality has been introduced to the constitution. the very first time. let's see how the court enforces that. another book that i recommend corporations," which just came out. it explains that equal protection of the laws was applied to corporations before anybody else in terms of protection. as you know, the story with african-americans is the very people that were intended to be protected by the fourth -- the 14th amendment are not

inress of a child's face the shop and house in the mississippi delta. ter of a coal miner in eastern kentucky. a small piece of bread he shared in the dusty fields. father, son, brother. husband and uncle. a family home adorned to this day with photos of loved ones, and sillys, weddings, moments and grandkids and great grandkids. ever-growing, love ever enduring. of his extraordinary wife and partner, 50 years after his passing still wears her wedding ring. [applause] with a family who strives every day to make him proud. those images accumulate here today. chicana spirit, of john lewis, a brother and mentor. onzalez and her army of young activists. -- such fear list words of the future my grandfather imagined. robert f kennedy, this was a measure of a life well lived. connections, a touch and a look, in the moment ,etween strangers and friends where we leave aside expectations and ego ended -- and acknowledge each other's worth and wisdom, where we posit and see each other. when we look past color or creed or class, to recognize a humanity we all share.

august 18th, the mississippi book festival in jackson with john meacham, salman rushdie and others. for more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and to watch our previous festival coverage click the book fairs tab on booktv.org. >> we want to introduce a first-time author, her book is called noncompliance, a known whistleblower exposes the giants of wall street, it comes out in october of this year. give us a brief synopsis of your career. >> i'm a lawyer by training and profession. i started working at law firms, that is what lawyers do and after a while i went into banking. one of the few fields that allowed women to progress. so i joined, and at some point the 2008 crisis hit and at that point in my career it was time to do a shift because you are getting older, getting up there and you are more senior and the opportunity came up to work at the bank of new york and i took it. >> reporter: what work do you do at the fed? >> i was a senior bank examiner and that is a fancy way of saying my job was to go into any bank the fed supervises and make sure they are complyin

we are at the site of camp the largest prisoner of war camp west of the mississippi during the civil war. it existed as a prison camp from august 1863 through may 1865. stagedt prisoners work may 27, 1865, 6 weeks after appomattox. at the greatest time, somewhere around 3000, but all told 5437 prisoners can be had as having come through this facility. if you had to have been a prisoner of war in the civil bestthis probably was the or one of the best camps to exist in. it started as a camp for officers and the summer of 1863. winter, they were able to build reasonably substantial log quarters. the spring came in at the southwest corner of the stockade, and when large numbers of prisoners started to be of 1864, late spring this camp had a sense of internal order and discipline. the officers quarters were above the spring and they could control the water supply and keep it you are. so the primary thing is that they kept their water supply good and clean and pure. i have been a longtime member of the county historical society and have been working with this -plus years in0 terms of resea

the. mississippi blazing counterattack from the mexicans maisano made a nifty move i measured is in the box and fired the ball passed to help the smile neuer excell tension for mexico dejection for germany. germany got their best chances in the waning minutes first mario gomez heading over the bar from close range and two minutes later yulia brown to moscow to ice to come as but he couldn't flick it past yammer would show up the ball then found its way back to bronze but his st ching long range shot clipped the post mexico now top group out while germany needs to go back to the drawing board. press there was really an onion mitigated disaster for germany what did you make of the performance you know take a page out of euro he their head coach addressed the media he called it negligent in haphazard i would have to agree because as the finny champions you expect more from them they're known as a turning ment team you know but considering their form in the friendlies leading up to this tournament they only had one win so it was a kind of a shocking enough say that no one saw this coming. inclu

the. mississippi blazing counterattack from the mexicans maisano made a nifty move i measured is it in the box and fired the ball past a helpless mind will neuer fix attention from mexico dejection for germany. germany got their best chances in the waning minutes first mario gomez heading over the bar from close range and two minutes later yulia brown to moscow to ice to go home as but he couldn't flick it past yemo it show up the ball then found its way back to brunch but his screeching long range shot clipped the post mexico now top group while germany need to go back to the drawing board. because this is really an unmitigated disaster for germany what do you make of the performance you know. i agree with you good love what he had to say about the performance he called it haphazard negligent you know because germany created twenty six shots on goal they had the ball sixty six percent of the time i mean this is pretty much the m.o. of germany to have the ball create opportunities but to no avail they just couldn't find pay dirt you know and when you look at the way they came in the tourna

it was the most fearful time of all to be going around in mississippi, but he loved the people. and stokely carmichael said i saw a different side of king, not the one we think of giving great speeches but just a good human being and there he is again. this is another campaign in mississippi. there is another one, grenada, mississippi. many small meetings like this in churches everywhere. the church was the main line in many ways so king would give big speeches and give little speeches in the poor people's campaign of 1968, traveled through the deep south. in little communities all over. and in the detroit area we had these tremendous upheavals in the 1960s from 64-68. king said i feel responsible for this because we raced people's hopes but not delivering jobs and economic justice. i see what time it is here but it was a time of terror in the north as well. let me finish, this is gross point michigan. king has just been. down, had to shut off the meeting, anti-communist, pro-war group, so mad about his stand against the vietnam war, got a speech done but everybody had to leave,

a man who loves language the images that tell his story best, the caress of a child's face in the mississippi minor in kentucky. a small piece of bread he shared in the dusty fields. images of a father, son, brother. husband and uncle. a family home adorned to this day with photos of loved ones, graduations, weddings and silly moments and grandkids and great grandkids. his brood ever whirling with love ever enduring. of his extraordinary wife and partner, 50 years after his passing still wears her wedding ring. [applause] with a family who strives every day to make him proud. those images accumulate here today. with his kindred chicana spirit, john lewis, a brother and mentor. emma gonzalez, young activists such fearless stewards of the future my grandfather mentioned. and to robert f kennedy, this was a measure of a life well lived. people and human connections, touch and a look, in the moment between strangers and friends leaving aside expectations and egos to acknowledge each other's work and wisdom. where we posit and see each other. when we look past color or creed or class, to recognize

he is the associate professor at mississippi state university. you have taken on a subject that a lot of people may not know a whole lot about. the presidency of ulysses s. grant. why? part of a panel where we are discussing life after the white house. i work on ulysses s grant's presidency. i have done some research into his life after the presidency. one of the most interesting things about his life after the presidency is he took a trip around the world. world tour's were pretty prominent. in the 19th century. grant is the first american president to travel the world. few other presidents had gone to europe. he truly traveled the world. asia, thessia, caribbean, mexico, the united states. including a visit to london. a meeting with the queen. why was that significant? >> it was a significant because the other countries of europe looked to queen victoria to see how she would receive him. thenteresting anecdote in work that was going on prior to his visit. they were discussing how should the queen receive him. should he be considered a private ci

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from louisiana, we had up the mississippi river to illinois.ssman rodney davis, republican of illinois and he deals with key issues such as trade and immigration. thank you so much for your time. as we heard from our reporter, we are talking about all of these tariffs imposed by the president and halifax these states. trying to attach language raining in the -- presidential authority when it comes to tariffs and imposing them on national security grounds we know the house passed a farm bill. he is trying to attach a language to the farm bill in the senate are what are your thoughts about w happening? the senate i hope can get a farm bill passed so we can go to a conference committee and work out our differences to see if it will be necessary to add a provision like that or not. i agree with senator corker. i'm concerned about the tariffs and the impact they may have on the people i represent in central illinois. there are countries being affected by these proposed tariffs. and tariffs that we have trade surpluses with in many of the commodities

. >> for different cameras on top of the tallest building, west of the mississippi river.>> it captures changing beauty of the bay area. expect original coverage from kpix5 news , expect more. tonight on the cbs evening news: [take vonumber:550a] the post-summit path forward. global reaction including analysis from former cia deputy director michael morell. [take vonumber:550b] a number of troubling deaths force a houston hospital to suspend its h m. [take vonum >>> the evening news is coming up next.>> we have a preview. >>> the post summit path going forward, the reaction including the reaction of michael morel. >>> a houston hospital had to suspend its heart transplant program. >>> the story of how this picture -- picture celebrated after striking down his childhood friend that's next on the cbs evening news.>>> coming up, one of the most bizarre ways to catch a croak. >> we are back in just 30 minutes. captioning sponsored by cbs ve glor: on this tuesday evening dere in singapore, the president deports great progress toward ridding korea of nuclear weapons and declares only the most

the wiretapping of martin luther king jr. in 1963. still, there kennedy was. in mississippiputting poverty on the map. >> he was just shocked. >> good luck. >> peter edelman who would meet maryann on the trip and would later marry her. a kennedy aide. >> you see, children with swelling bellies. i have been in third, fourth world countries and haven't seen anything as terrible as this. >> for a citizen living here in the state of mississippi doing reasonably well, you don't run up against this kind of poverty. >> i watched him interact with children. the thing that i grew to like most about him to see that he was really absorbing it was his touch. he would rub a child's cheek. and, that, that, meant a lot to me. >> a lot of people in this room. >> little more than a year after that trip, bobby kennedy was gone. >> i didn't expect that to happen. >> writer pete hamil is still haunted. >> i wanted to write you. >> so taken by rfk's potential he had written him, begging him to get into the race. >> the fight you might make would be the fight. >> i have to take my share of respon

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. >> four different cameras on top of the tallest building west of the mississippi river. >> capture the changing beauty of the area. expect original coverage from kpix 5 news. expect more. hirteen hundred hours. my math class, room 302, was in the trenches. davy roth had it the worst. fractions were coming at him left and right. he just didn't get the damn things. two days ago, i tried to teach him what 1/4 of 1/2 was using different sizes of blocks. yesterday, i tried again by dividing up pizza. both missions failed. rachel: oh no. sam: but today...i was ready. sam: i created a combat math game where the only way to beat the enemy is to out-fraction them. davy conquered every last denominator. my game was so successful, the principal is deploying it to math squadrons all over the school. rachel: wow! sam: anyhoo, how was your day? rachel: oh, uhh... today my boss treated the office to salad wraps. sam: mmm, salad wraps. rachel: i know. >>> welcome back to "mosaic." i'm ron swisher. i mentioned to regina earlier that my first ministry began in 1972 at elmhurst united methodist church

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the gentleman from mississippi. mr. thompson: i yield one and a half minutes to the retired chief of police of orlando, florida, the gentlelady from orlando, florida. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one and a half minutes. >> mr. speaker, during my 27 years in law enforcement, i fought many threats to our families, but today i have to say that i am ashamed that our leaders now say that those families are the threat. mrs. demings: families seeking asylum are not a threat. toddlers and children at the border are not a threat. dreamers who are brought here as young children, both of us know, are not a threat. mr. speaker, i ask why is it so easy to reject those who we believe are different from us. we will not allow this administration to make america a country that only accepts the rich and well connected. when we know better, we are supposed to do better. so i urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, you're right, let's stop playing politics. let's do better and reject this dangerous pi

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the mississippi coastline, the beautiful white beach on the mississippi is completely artificial. built beach. >> so what do you see as the future of the gulf? a lot of the -- when we go down there,e see the development, the shoreline seems like it's permanent now, and a lot of it's concrete. what do you see as the future? >> well, despite all the doom and gloom we've shared here, i am optimistic about this future for the gulf. and there are, there have been a lot of -- and i try not to be all doom and gloom in the book because there are a lot of success stories. i have a lot of heroes in the book who have done much over the decades to restore those estuary environments. we almost lost every bay and bayou on the gulf coast by the 1970s because of the raw sewage that was coming down those rivers but also pumped into the water locally and industrial waste as well. and then those engineering prompts. but through volunteer groups for local, federal and state policy, we were able to bring those bays and bayous back to life. and so a lot -- and that requires a lot of volunteer effort. th

these are like to say days where we walk the muddy roads of mississippi to the muddy roads of resurrection city. tose are those who decided make their bodies and their brains and their flesh and blood the dream of martin luther king jr. >> watch the entire film on "reel america" sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on american history to the only on c-span3. >> because the airplane had captured the public's imagination, there were many men who go into that part of the war. chief among them was quentin roosevelt. quentin roosevelt was the youngest of teddy roosevelt's sons. teddy roosevelt was a passionate supporter of world war i and encouraged his voice to fight at the front. kermit and theodore as well. ofntin is shot down in july 1918. we have a letter from roger kipling who lost his own boy in france in 1915, consoling teddy roosevelt about the loss. kipling doesn't want to say he's dead, but kipling knows he is. nonetheless i believe you now and i know how hard this is. as it turns out, quentin had been shot down. by can see in the scrapbook eleanor butler roosevelt that this captures the scen

starting out with 68 degrees we do have potential for some severe storms across the plains they in the mississippivalley as well. the past 24 hours the shower and thunderstorm at david e. that has been in place for many days now or you can see the potential for hail, damaging winds and isolated tornadoes for a widespread area across the mid-plains, mississippi valley and towards the southeastern atlantic. also with this not only the threat for severe storms with heavy flooding. heavy rainfall across the theory is especially across the southeast and parts ohio tennessee river valley. remaining warm and sticky across the south, the southeast, southwest is so very warm. california remains driver we have potential for wildfires in the stormy weather across the plains in the midwest and through parts of the mid-atlantic states. here in new york city, 84 and partly sunny skies. >> wow, i love it. good to see you. nice to see you too. cheryl: coming up, facebook denies they are listening into your conversations. gerri: are we buying it? creepy stories beginning to come out. worker shortage in the fast fo