remember, there is the national security advisor, the council, there is a national security staff, a couple hundred people that support the president and then there are interagency committees at the area's levels that do things. what is the whole purpose of that? three purposes. one, particularly on the nationals -- national security staff, to support the president in his unique role in national security. right speeches and prepare him for trips. secondly, it is to be the advocate for the president's initiatives within the government as a whole. if the staff working with the president does not advocate's initiatives or her initiatives, things won't happen. thirdly, it requires various agencies to work together and accomplish a coordination function. that is really what you do. if you are sucking up into the white house, the white house review, issues that are a province of a single agency, stop. do not substitute the white lion staff for the responsibility of the cabinet secretaries. that is why i say it is the interagency thing -- things that require coordination or that are importan

huge appropriation of the everglades, one of the most amazing national parks. it is not the easiest to access but would would florida be without the everglades? >> host: you were on nancy reagan's team. >> guest: i met with her many times, she turned over her husband's personal papers to me, the white house diary he kept and a couple speeches and things, and the reagan diaries became a best seller. it is a nice relationship. to be one of the people to obtain guns at funerals because the family had this relationship. >> host: brad is in lakeland, fla. you are on with douglas brinkley. >> caller: hello, professor. your dad was -- brinkley, was? >> host: we are having a bit of an audio problem. we have to let you go. let's see if we can get the next caller on the line, steve in new york. are you -- >> caller: between national monuments and national thought and funded. >> host: i am sorry. are you hearing? i am not hearing it. it is very fuzzy and distorted. maybe we can get that fixed. what percentage of the united states is dedicated? >> caller: >> guest: every st

when we talk about the national park service the first national park is 1872 with ulysses as grants. it is not the centennial and that cents. the revolution and the the revolution in the idea of national parks and public land the preservation kicks off with the presidency of theodore roosevelt from 1901 until 1909. he believed that democracy was about wild spaces and to our heirlooms, taj mahal and places called the tetons or the olympic or big ben, or mammoth cave this is what defined america in the view. it's preserving the american landscape he views the number of mechanisms to get things going while he was in president. one one was to get a national park created. when fdr who loved executive power more than any other president would start signing executive orders and he did so by using the antiquities act of 1906, along with the congressman john lacey of iowa they put through the landed desk at capitol hill in congress, will lacey lance commissioned if you are a westerner and needed to deal with the federal government on grazing rights, mining, gas, etc., et cetera, you would go t

he had a believe but by this time malcolm has been silenced by the nation. because, we are talking novembes assassinated and we're talking about a fight that is now february 25. we are just a few months away from that. america is just coming out of the morning. one of the great stories and we talked about a pipit in our culture at that time, mohammed was introduced -- there is a beagle. here we have cassius clay dealing with each other before the fight. you can almost foresee the direction of our american spivak the two of them of the two most important cultural phenomenon of the 1960s. the beatles and cassius clay. >> well that is my opinion. you're not going to convince me they were not the two most important. >> at this point malcolm and elijah mohammed are having their differences. not only because malcolm wanted to become more politically active but because he was becoming disillusioned. elijah mohammed having defended him would live with that. but when cassius clay went to fight these two men are very close together, what pulls them apart? >> what pulls

to be under the constraints of the nation of islam. he wanted to become more active in the struggle. that we do not deal with members of the naacp is to think in the back of his mind to take shape to see the charisma of this person. to have a potential political use and he never seemed to listen. without going talkative person those are several questions there. who knows who the real cassius clay was. and was the most wonderful the neck actually have heard this before if you say something he liked the next day he would say it is a better then you said it. to become better than he could become. but there is one line to say there will be time to prepare to meet the faces of the ada is who is he? one person with friends or a succession. it to be representative of america. in then to say don't worry about that. it maybe hard to get dinner the district of columbia but it is taking care of. including you russia. [laughter] and there is that ah-ha! moment where he is merely in the morning by radio was also an arrest -- a wrestling match so the

howard works to reflect the robust history of our nation. we look to make sure that overlooked places are protected. what my colleague will talk about, this is something that is critically important for our future. duchess for the future of preservation, but the future of the nation and our national understanding of who we are, and where we come from. beope our work together will just the beginning of our collaboration. i want to encourage faculty and staff and students here to tell us about more historic places that have been overlooked and underappreciated for too long that deserve our support. i hope ande can -- expect we can apply the knowledge and wisdom that has been accumulated here and developed for partnerships together to help craft a more inclusive vision for our future. fork you all once again being here today and for your warm and generous embrace of the national trust in this partnership. we will not watch a video that was put together by the national trust and howard university on the meaning and importance of this place and ou

the book won the national book award last year. when asked why he wrote it, he said i had a memory of myself as the young person, sitting in the founders library at howard university, and reading baldwins fired next time cover to cover. i wanted a book a young person could do that with. this is whatns founders library has been about. young people have come here to this source of knowledge and awaken their own creativity and inspiration. they have learned of scholars, thinkers, philosophers and leaders who changed america for the batter and discover the most important lesson there is. us the powerithin to transform the world. for all of these reasons and more, the national trust is delighted to partner with howard to craft the next chapter of the founders library story. which is why i am proud to announce that founders library is the newest national treasure of the national trust for historic reservation. [applause] stephanie: thank you. it is a signature initiative at the national trust, a revolving portfolio of the 60 diverse and i

let's put the country back together and build a national republican party. white southerners behave differently under lincoln? with lincoln have behaved differently than johnson? lincoln misjudged the southern white majority every step of the war. he could not believe that people who love the united states did not still really love it even know they had been tricked into rebelling. he kept thinking give them a chance. he had a 10% plan. their true selves are come forward. lincoln appeared to believe that after the war. give them a chance and they will prove their true love for the founding would come forward. scholars study all this a great deal. they looked at the course of the war under lincoln to see what you might even thinking. we had to look hard because he just did not show all his cards. generally in lincoln's last speech given only two days after appomattox and devoted to the challenges of reconstruction in louisiana, lewis maser has an interesting new book called "lincoln's last speech." -- read theeech last speech and it is not classic lincoln. "pr

we were the national party, we're the union party. if you're not those things, you shouldn't be voting at all. but the return -- but the renaming also was a way to make the purposes of the party more palatable to voters who had come to identify the republicans with a single-minded dedication to defeating and punishing the lave holders of the south. with andrew johnson's nomination the leaders of the national union party wanted to signal they were primarily concerned with putting the united states back together. this time on a firmer foundation of universal freedom. the party would be so strong and so inclusive that it would not be a party at all. but a reflection of the highest ideals of the united states. they denied the legitimacy of partisan conflict in the middle of the nation's greatest crisis. the national union party had numerous advantages. the united states army dwarfed any previous manifestation of federal power, patron age and communication. with more than half a million voting men gathered in the army, the party and power

it is part of the national discourse on both sides. you know, and i'm still so taken aback by the level of the discourse and the fact that we are even having this discussion, having it at a national level. donald trump, whether he placed the story or not, or somehow involved, you know, it almost -- i'm wondering to the extent the trump campaign believes he is now running for the general, and this is going to help him. donald trump has made a career during this campaign season of appealing to people who feel marginalized, and what we've seen, if you take a look at the reporting elsewhere, the advent of these men's rights groups who feel marginalized, they support donald trump, they love this, they love the picture of his wife. >> let's go back to what we think might be marginally true. roger stone would love to be interviewed by "the national enquire enquirer". suppose that's what was done here, an associate of trump's, jumping in and basically helping to push the story by giving the quote. is that grounds for cruz to jump back and blame

to tear the nation apart. congressional are local. presidential are national in a way other elections weren't. he came up with what he believed to be a brilliant idea. presidents should not be elected by the american people. instead, there should be a box in the senate with a lot of white balls and one black ball. each senator would pick a ball out of the box and whoever got the black ball would be president. problem solved. when i first strumible estumble, i thought it was a joke. but it wasn't. i searched and found marshall's response. they actually debated this. interesting idea, mr. hill-house. it really does give you a sense about how these national political contests and particularly the run for president really was causing extreme partisanship of a kind that panicked people. the solution that he came up with, then no more national political contests of that kind. 50 years later, a similar political crisis didn't end as well. this later crisis as in 1800 was infused with a do or die ethos and at sum gs th

of natural history, the national zoo and the national museum of american history. and as mentioned, our other priority is strengthening our intellectual foundation and programs. our ranks of cure or thes throughout the institution have shrink substantially, especially in some of our museums. we need to reverse this long-term trend in the loss of curatorial and research staff. we need new experts who can acquire the collections and also ensuring the availability of the collections for critical research. the smithsonian does face a future that holds both exciting opportunities and imposing challenges and working with the congress and the administration we'll aggressively address these challenges and take full advantage of many new opportunities. again, i thank you for the opportunity of testifying. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, doctor. as you mentioned in your opening statement, the national air and space museum, which is the most visited museum in the united states, second most visited in the world behive only the louvre in paris is in needs of major repair

the national portrait gallery in the national museums offer insight into our nation's leaders. our diverse music collections would comprise the largest in the world if they were all in one place. now they are at a new of say -- as a new website -- now they are at a new website called "smithsonian music." a gallery reopened in november, following a two-year renovation. its debut division, wonder, has attracted more than 368,000 visitors in just the first four months. and in 2015, we welcomed a new at the national zoo. beloved by the public, bebe represents our extensive work in species biodiversity. in addition to the nearly 30 million visits to our museums in washington and new york city, we are extending access and education across the country. we now have 208 affiliate museums in 46 states, puerto rico, and panama. the smithsonian traveling exhibition service reaches more than 4.5 million people annually . we offer online educational materials in grades k through 12 to students of all ages, and teachers with more than 2000 learning resources available online. all of them for f

the hopes of 200 million people. that is why we want this to be national. must go directly to the people and derive its strength from the people. and we want people all over this land to sense the greatness of this moment, to participate in it, to help us all to discover what that great spirit is. and so i would charge this commission to move forward, to yes in reaching the great material goals of which we know we are capable. that is the easiest part of the job. but recognizing that the best bet, the best clothed, the best housed people in the world, the strongest nation in the world, and the richest nation of the world still will not deserve to be the hope of the world unless it has that splendid spirit, the lift of a driving dream which meant so much to the world in 1776, and for 200 years since that time. i would conclude simply by saying that by that year 1976, the world will be at peace. by that year 1976, america, we trust, will find the understanding that perhaps we do not have in many quarters today. but above everything else, i would trust in that

it's used not to mean remaking the nation, restoring the nation, reunifying the nation. the states in succession begin to use the word reconstruction to discuss reconstructing the constitution so as to accommodate their concerns and their needs. cindy of ohio dhb an abolitionist carried a cane to protect himself. he declared in february of 1861 we hear much talk about reconstruction, that the succeeding states may come back with new constitutional guarantee to slavery. let no one can sooef himself with such a fallacy. to go to hell is easy, but to come back again that is labor, that is toil. well within once the war begins, from the very start, lincoln is concerned with the question of how is the union going to be restored. how are the states going to be brought back in again. and he signals that from the stas start by apinting military governor to five states. he appoints andrew johnson in tennessee, in north carolina he appoint sherman, john phelps in arkansas, andrew jackson hamilton in texas, and most important george sheply in louisiana. louisiana and new orleans is

to take -- tear the nation apart. congressional elections are local, presidential ones are national. fill house came up with what he believed to the problem of partisanship and presidential election. he decided basically presidents should not be elected by the market people. -- american people. instead there should be a box in the senate with a lot of white balls and one blackball. each senator would pick a ball, whoever got the black would be the president. [laughter] problem solved. when i first stumbled upon that come i thought it was a joke. it was not. i searched and found marshall's response, they actually debated this. light, interesting idea. it really does give you a sense about how these national political contests, particularly the run for president was really causing extreme partisanship of a kind of panic people. who solution of hill house came up with, ok, then no more national, political contest of that kind. 50 years later, a similar political crisis did not end. this later crisis, as in 1800 was infuse

wyoming has the smallest population in the nation by far. and when half of our state is controlled by the department of the interior and the policies that you have initiated with regard to jacking up coal, oil, gas royalties and proposed to increase them at a time when coal companies are going bankrupt, railroad workers are being laid off, coal miners are being laid off. there are coal miners jobs declining every month in 2015. and the year just passed. there were coal mine jobs lost every single month. in the face of the desire of this administration to literally destroy coal, oil and gas, how is it consistent with getting a fair return on the value of federal lands? because no leasing means no financial return. that's my first question. >> congresswoman, wyoming is blessed with many natural resources. they also are tied to worldwide commodity prices. oil, gas and coal are tied to commodity prices. you also have a situation in the case of coal where natural gas has become a competitor to coal for electricity generation. there's no question t

each exhibit is inspired by the national park in honor of the 100th anniversary of the national park rvice. from yellowstone to the liberty bell visitors might feel like they are traveling the country without leaving the convention center. >>> it's fascinating to see how one looks at the national parks. >> reporter: hopewell furnish anyways is a national park that was designed by the temple students. >>> it is very realistic, this is the hopewell what they would see and smell. >> reporter: pennsylvania horticultural society officials say tickets are up from last year. >>> everybody can relate to the national park and have been to the national parks, that theme is resonating. >>> it is my favorite. >> reporter: some want to shake off the winter dom doldrums. >>> you walk into the door and you smell spring. after five inches of snow you want spring. >> reporter: a lot of people agree with him. 250,000 people visited the flower show last year. they hope more will visit this year. it runs through sunday march 13. >>> we have an exclusive behind-the-scenes look of the flower show. our one

history, the national zoo and national museum of national history. as we mentioned our other priority is strengthening our intellectual foundation and our programs. our ranks of curators throughout the institutions have shrunk substantially especially in some of our museums. we need to reverse the long-term trend in loss of curator staff and we need new experts to acquire and exhibit our unique collections and insuring availability of collections for critical research. the smithsonian does face a future that holds both excites opportunities and imposing challenges and working with the congress and the administration we willinging a aggressively address the challenges and create many new opportunities. thank you for the opportunity for testifying. thank you, mr. chairman. >> thank you, doctor. as you mentioned in your opening statement the national air and space museum which is the most visited museum in the united states and second most visited in the world behind only the louvre in paris is in need of major repair work. projections i've seen project

the nation has changed the partisanship that exist today. if there's -- if two members of one party vote with the rest of the other party, it's declared to be a bipartisan vote. they are so desperate to get any kind of swing. i think we've gotten a really good foundation of what brought us to the era that we are in today. i like to open the floor to you to raise some questions of our speakers. you can identify yourself. >> my name is laura. my question is for dr. freeman i enjoyed your presentation. one of your scenes was how the lack of party product -- structure was the lack of party. i think that's true today. a decline in regular order and use of the committee system. there's a list. >> immediately it's not controlled by the partisanship. >> absolutely. there are a number of different ways that you can look at that. i'm wondering from your historical background, are there some of those aspects that are more destabilizing than others what seems like a reasonable fix to them to the extent there is none? >> it's an interesting question. one

because most people don't have the kind of medical coverage that people here in cherokee nationo? >> we won't be able to extrapolate what we do or find to every medical scenario in the united states. but i think everybody will learn a little bit from some of the things we did. like, for example, we expanded age targeted screening to-- from 20 to 69. the recommendations right now are only baby boomers in the u.s. >> reporter: john ward from the cdc says the cherokee program could become a national model for eliminating hep c. >> well, the number one lesson we can learn from the cherokee nation is the power of political commitment to tackling this problem. >> reporter: so far, the cherokee program has treated almost 300 hep c patients, and of those who've completed treatment and finished evaluation, 96% are disease- free, including gaye wheeler. >> thompson: the state government in utah has become the first in the nation to publish online, a list of people convicted of white collar crimes. complete with their mug shots. anyone who's committed a financial crime will be posted for a

it will also be the first digital museum on the national mall. that means anyone can share the experience. people in minnesota are so excited that they will be able to be there as part of the opening. virtual collections provide amazing educational opportunities for millions of children. and, you are bringing the museum right into customs. -- right into classrooms. you provide scientific and artistic light to this nation. i yield back to mr. chair and thank you for your time. mr. calvert: and with that i yield to you dr. sport in. dr. skorton: thank you for this opportunity to testify. on behalf of the entire smithsonian institution, we appreciate the continuous, generous support of congress. this support makes for a huge and very collections of national treasures accessible to the american public. from display of the star-spangled banner, to research on the evolution of the tyrannosaurus rex, we take our obligation to the american public very seriously. this unique public-private partnership is working well. today, i would like to share a few of

center which explored the founding documents of the nation. anlike to think that we are example of what happens when a people are allowed to live in liberty. one of the big stars in our , thistion is right here is correspondence between george washington and the jewish congregation of newport, rhode island. these are on load -- loan from the morgan foundation. in august of 1790, washington traveled to newport to thank the community for ratifying the constitution, the last state to ratify. -- including the jewish community of newport, and this is the address that was read out loud to washington that day. afterwards, washington would write back to the congregation, a very eloquent letter confirming his belief that the new nation -- his commitment to religious tolerance in the new nation. it is one of the founding documents for american jewish history and a very important thing for us to have on display. artifacts help us tell stories about history in a way that we can't get out of books. when you are standing in front of an artifact, there is a v

when the nation of iran named as their ambassador to the united states -- nations -- united nations, orist who held hostages in the late 1970's, people in washington said there was nothing to do. i was proud to introduce legislation to bar him from coming to america. that legislation passed one hundred-zero. it passed the house 400 35-0 and it was signed into law by president obama. [cheers and applause] sen. cruz: when israel was facing relentless rocket attacks from hamas into the prayers of all of us and people across the world were with israel, prime minister netanyahu powerfully observed, we are using missile defense to protect our civilians and they are using their civilians to protect their missiles. i entirely agree with prime minister netanyahu. hamas would place rockets in elementary school. they placed their headquarters in the basement of a hospital. and, i would note, that hillary clinton, in 2014 explained this as follows. i quote. hamas puts its missiles, it's rockets and civilian areas. part of it is because gaza is pretty small and it is densely populated. well, madam

the news is all over the country that the presidential council of the national of the government of national court have finally reached the capital tripoli and now in their headquarter. you can see behind me, the maritime base, this is their new headquarter. until this moment, it is quiet. it has not gone violent so far, but again, there is a lot of challenges facing this government, especially in the capital tripoli, two major opponents in this city that members of the general national congress and also the government of the national salvation government, they are are both opposing the national -- the government of national accord, but now, the question is how this new government will manage all these challenges. >>> iran's supreme leader said missiles not talks are the keep to the country's future. he says iran's military option must be maintained. the u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon said iran's ballistic missiles test this month is causing alarm in the international community. >> out of for this agreement now iranians have launched the bliss system missiles, that, it is true that that

when we talk about the national park service the first national park is 1872 with ulysses as grants. it is not the centennial and that cents. the revolution and the the revolution in the idea of national parks and public land the preservation kicks off with the presidency of theodore roosevelt from 1901 until 1909. he believed that democracy was about wild spaces and to our heirlooms, taj mahal and places called the tetons or the olympic or big ben, or mammoth cave this is what defined america in the view. it's preserving the american landscape he views the number of mechanisms to get things going while he was in president. one one was to get a national park created. when fdr who loved executive power more than any other president would start signing executive orders and he did so by using the antiquities act of 1906, along with the congressman john lacey of iowa they put through the landed desk at capitol hill in congress, will lacey lance commissioned if you are a westerner and needed to deal with the federal government on grazing rights, mining, gas, etc., et cetera, you would go t

and the nation itself is geographically expanding. the boundaries moved west and jews are traveling along with those boundaries, going out with for the gold rush in different opportunities and to be out in the open. and for adventure as well. for exploration. we talked about the civil war. the american jewish experience of the civil war. jews found themselves on both sides of the conflict. they divided mainly along geographic lines. if you live in the north, you are likely to support the union. if you lived in the south, you are likely to support succession. jews were on both sides of the debate over slavery. it's a vivid artifact. this is -- the original is in the magnus collection in california. is a lithograph of reverend dr. max lilienthal, a rabbi in cincinnati. he apologized for not speaking out against slavery, saying that right must be right whatever the consequent is. one of his former supporters, and man named jacob cohen defaced his portrait and send it back and processed. -- in protest. his family eventually donated it to t

african-american history month, including by the director of the national parks service, the unveiling of a commemorative stamp, and a keynote address by loyola university maryland professor karsonya wise whitehead. a'lelia: it is my pleasure to introduce broderick johnson. please quiet down and join me in welcoming mr. john jarvis. >> good afternoon. it's a great honor to be here with you at this incredible to celebratecheon the contribution of african-americans to the memory of the united states of america. gardner, sylvia cyrus. in two, the national park service are celebrating our centennial. year centennial theme is hallowed ground. this year's theme is directly connected to the national parks it prompts us to reflect on the legacy of national -- african-americans. when i became the director in 2009 i made it a priority of the national heart service to use our parks to create civic dialogue to reawaken history and create new memories. we are encouraging all americans to find your parks. find that hallowed ground that resonates with you. those hallowed

say its purpose of the national security -- remember, there's national security advisor, there's national security council, which is the president, vice president, secretary of state, secretary of defense, various other folks. there is the national security staff, couple hundred people to support the president. then there is these inner agency committees at various levels. what's the whole purpose? i think it is three purposes. particularly the nsc staff to support the president in their unique role in foreign policy, help write his speeches, help brief him for meetings, help prepare his trips. secondly, it's to be the advocate for the president's initiatives within the government as a whole. because if the staff doesn't advocate the president's initiatives, no one else is going to. finally, it is to take those issues that require various agencies to work together and accomplish that coordination function. that word requested coordination" is in the -- if you're sucking up to the white house for white house review issues that the province of a single agency, stop. don't substitute the whi

they have the smallest population in the nation by far. and when half of the state is controlled by the department of the interior and the policies that you have initiated with regards to jacking up the royalty is proposed to increase them at the time when the companies are going bankrupt and railroad workers are being laid off and cool minors are being laid off, there are coal miners jobs declining every month in 2015. and there were jobs lost every single month. in the face of the desire for the administration to literally destroy the coal oil and gas, how is it consistent with getting a fair return on the value in federal lands because no leasing means no financial return. that is my first question. >> we are blessed with many natural resources natural resources and the euros are tied tied to the worldwide commodity prices. they are tied to commodity prices and you also have a situation in a case where natural gas has become a competitor to electricity generation. there is no question they had been an important part and will continue to

the new president has asked the nation to be patient. for decades, the burmese have proven that this is exactly what they are. step vaessen, al jazeera, napido, myanmar. >> the world's largest mangrove rain forest is under threat. in bangladesh it's been damaged by pollution. >> reporter: in the late afternoon of march 19, a barge carrying more than 1200 tons of coal sank in a dolphin sanctuary. they are still painstakingly securing the coal from another barge that thank this area backn october of last year. >> we have to be careful. it can star break apart and stao dissolve in the water. >> salvaging this barge is expected to be a much more difficult task. after the latest sinking, the bangladeshi government announced a ban on barge traffic in the riff. after a large oil spill only to be lifted last year. >> this is the only route that connects the mangla port to dacca. the other routes have become too shallow. to shut this down has become a huge economic blow to the country. >> the mangrove forest has become the focus of large protests.

the gulf islands national say shore and the v.f.w. support this land exchange and the department of interior needs congressional approval before it can make the land exchange official. that is why i encourage the house to pass this bill today. and i would like to thank chairman bishop and ranking member tsongas and subcommittee chairman mcclintock and the committee on natural resources for their support and help in bringing this bill to the floor and seeing it across the finish line. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlewoman from massachusetts is recognized. ms. tsongas: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back and the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mcclintock: if only the budget were this easy, i ask for the adoption of this measure. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h.r. 4119 as amended. those in favor say

a darn good whe he was a true friends to america's gun owners and the men and women of the national rifle association of america. we all mourn him and miss him. the thought of president obama replacing justice scalia is harrowing. but i will tell you this. the thought of the next president putting perhaps to two weree justices -- more justices on the bench should scare all of us. here is someone already planning for that day. >> i do have a litmus test. i agree with you. the next president could get as many as three appointments. many reasons we can't turn the white house to the republicans is because of the supreme court. mr. lapierre: you got it. she could not pass a polygraph, but she already has a litmus test. you know what? she flunks both. we cannot all sit on the supreme court and make the kind of difference that justice scalia made. if we follow his simple advice, we can make an incredible difference. our change the course of entire country in this next election. here it is, real simple. in scalia's own words. the only article in faith that plays any part in my judging is the comm

certainly it's the national security concerns that we're all feeling. but i think the american people are focused on immigration and are asking, you know, why are we having such overwhelming problems at our borders and wanting something to be done about it. but i think deterrence is part of it. the administration has to sends a message that we're serious about enforcing our laws and we're going to do the best we can to enforce them efficiently. people who are not entitled to be here ought to expect to be turned around at the border promptly, getting a prompt asylum interview on the spot. not a credible fear interview but an asylum interview. and if they're denied asylum, they should be turned around immediately. >> mr. judd. >> yes, if you will. what you have to have, congressman, you have to have agency officials that are going to tell you the truth. not the truth, they have to be open. they have to tell you everything. i will tell you right now that you have a chief patrol agent right now that has been very open and has given you all candor and i fear

now, at the time of dropping these charges, the national prosecuting authority says that that was evidence of political interference in the process. the da is argue regardless of whether there was political interference or not, the strength, the merit of the case against the president was strong enough that he should have had his day in court. it once that decision to trop the charges reviewed, over turned and for the charges to be reinstated. the about has always argued there was a political conspiracy against him at the time and he says in a statement issued late last night that this is merely an effort by the da to score political points and to win votes, but on the same day in parliament in cape town the president will be facing a vote of no confidence, so this is a very difficult day for him >>> the man accused of ruining monday ewe meant in mali is due to stand trial. it is the first time time it has been included as a war crime at the icc. our correspondent reports. >> reporter: the ancient city here was occupied by rebels four years ago. fighters from who linked to al-qaeda destroy

they were the founders of national historic preservation. they are an all woman run preservation and they're built on private donations from patriotic donations and the people who come here to visit. it's a great honor to serve that mission to preserve the estate at the highest level and teach people all over the world about the life, leadership and legacy of george washington peer we couldn't do it without the generation of important donors like ford. henry ford ford was an early donor to mount vernon. he gave mount vernon their first fire engine. ever since we have gotten fire engines from ford motor company and they have sponsored a number of excit of exciting things including this book talk. i would also like to welcome the c-span audience who is filming tonight and we always appreciate when they come out and help the publicize these events. they're popular in their popular on c-span as well. we have a very special guest tonight. an old friend to mount vernon in the story of george washington. we have ed l'engle who is the editor-in-chief

the national park service says the bridges growing weak and has been that way a while. since 2010 $10 million in repairs have been made and another temporary fix at the cost of $5 million on the way which is a move that will keep it open another five years but that's it. full reconstruction is needed at the cost of $250 million. >> i think it's worth the $250 million to restore the bridge. >> reporter: they said the steel that supports the bridges rusting in the concrete decking is down to gravel. those are just two of several problems that could be solved with more funding. reporting from the district mikea turner wusa9. >> the national park service has $11.9 billion in deferred maintenance projects across the country and 50% of the costs are related to transportation infrastrreuctu it's about taking a stand. for too long, wall street banks had their way. they cedrash our economy. but democrat donna edwards won't take their money because she stands up for us. as a single mom, she knows the challengures oil famies face. she'll be our voice. tightening regulations on the

the process there. i think they have this broader scepticism of u.s. led national initiatives and particularly international substitutions that might lead to a step back >> reporter: also at issue the u.s. sanctions in response to russia's annexation of crimea. >> if an act of nuclear terrorism was to take place anywhere in the world, the entire international community would be affected by the environmental fallout, by the financial consequences and certainly by the catastrophic loss of life. >> reporter: the russians are sticking by their decision saying the nuclear security summit has come to the end of its usefulness >>> still to come here on al jazeera, colombia a step closer to ending a 50-year conflict. we will tell you why. plus, brazil's embattled presidential is accusing a plot against her. against her. >>> welcome back. a moment to remind you rft top stories. the-- of the top stories. the prime minister says that he wants to achieve national reconciliation but gunfire was heard after they arrived. tripoli's self declared government and armed groups that b

when the nation of iran named as their ambassador of the united nation, a a known terrorist who participatedsaid there was nothing we can do. i was proud to introduce legislation bearing barring him from coming to america. that pass the senate 100 - zero. it passed the house at 435 - zero and it was signed into law by president obama [applause]. when israel was facing relentless rocket attacks from hamas and the prayers from all of us and people across the world were with israel, the prime minister observed and said we are using missile defense to protector civilians. they are using their civilians to protect their missiles. i entirely agree with the prime minister and yahoo, if they would place their headquarters in the basement of a hospital. and i would note that hillary clinton, 2014 explain this as follows, "hamas puts its missiles, its rockets in civilian areas. part of it is between cousins gaza is pretty small and it is densely populated. ". with all respect the reason they are in schools is not because gaza small it's because hamas are terrorist monsters using children as human shie

we weren't engaging the national guard. we were engaging the republican guard. we were cutting them off from coming back into baghdad. they were having a bad day. why were they having a bad day? because of leadership. because of general schwarzkopf. talked to his war planners, general schwarzkopf said, don't give me a meat grinder, meaning don't set me up for failure. don't set us up where we are going to get a lot of our people killed during this operation. day, make them have a bad not us. , great schwarzkopf general. president bush, fantastic president. he allowed his generals to do their job. he allowed them to do their job. he allowed them to succeed. he did not get in their way. he built that 34 coalition. 34 member coalition. that has never happened before. it has not happened since. very, very impressive leadership. i was impressed with the leaders that they would write me a letter, that i would have to this day. unbelievable. so what do i remember from desert storm? mainly leadership. i remember the good times and i remember the times i felt like it was

the president will spend a busy two days on the communist-ruled island nation. >> reporter: only eight months after the flag was raised at the reopened u.s. embassy in cuba, for the first time in more than half a century, the streets of havana are decorated with american flags and images of president obama. the president and the first family are beginning their cuban visit with a walking tour of historic old havana tonight. mr. obama will meet tomorrow with cuban president raul castro and attend a state dinner. obama has no plans to meet with former president and revolutionary leader fidel castro, older brother of the current president. but he does intend to spend time on tuesday with critics of castro's government, many of whom have faced arrests for their outspoken opposition. the white house would not disclose which dissidents mr. obama will see but insists the list is not negotiable: >> but i can tell you that the president is going to move forward and host meetings and have a conversation about human rights with the people that he chooses to meet with. >> reporter: this afternoon

our national parks, especially those that demonstrate the african-american story, tell us as a nation to live up to our highest ideals. when i became the director in 2009, i made a priority to use the parks to create civic dialogue, to relate history and create new memories. this into neil year, we encourage all americans to find your park. this is an invitation to, and finds that hollowed ground that resonates with you. those hallowed grounds can include national parks such as carter g woodson national historic site in washington dc. [applause] park infind your somewhat montgomery historic trail, -- selma montgomery historic trail. in thethe full 54 miles path of those brave foot soldiers 50 years ago. or frederick douglass, or little rock central high, or george washington carver, or tuskegee airmen. we at the national park service love our existing parks that detail the african-american experience, we realize that after african-americans went out looking, they might not find their park because there are missing important stories in places. presidentoach to obama to use his powers u

and this is a quote from the national governors' association. cently they came together and they endorsed emergency appropriations to address this crisis. they wrote -- and i quote -- "governors applaud the introduction of legislation that would provide emergency assistance to states working on the front lines of the opioid crisis. investment is needed to help states mount an effective response to opioid addiction, from increasing prevention and education regarding the dangers of illicit drugs, to strengthening state prescription drug monitoring programs, expanding access to addiction treatment, and enhancing support for law enforcement." the fraternal order of police has endorsed this amendment. they've written this bill will help our state and local law enforcement officers by giving them the necessary funding and tools to battle their community's heroin and opioid problems. something needs to be done. " end quote. i ask unanimous consent to place the take tenial order of police -- fraternal order of police order into the record. the presidin

the national press portrayed him almost literally as a messiah figure for his party. he's been the guy whose concession speeches were treated like victory speeches.

park the golden gate national recreation areahat there has to be this balance and we have to not just look at it as some said the happiness of dogs and dog owners and the need for exercise, but i think we have to preserve the sacred space as john muir called that as we develop our national park system. also want to say the balance of habitat preservation endangered species and other species with allowing the people to have off leash and on leash dogs is that balance. i think the rule that's been proposed by superintendent leonard national park service still is going through this comment period what we can give our input and i think even for me, i want to see more expansion of the off leash but boy since i control dog areas including on ocean beach which is limited from 21 to the clubhouse and kelly's cove area. i would like to see that expanded. also in communication with national park service to urge strongly the port funds in the area have much more off each areas did i know that's an ongoing issue that many from the port for a

the national weather service says this may have been caused by ef-1 force winds. power lines were knocked down. the good news is nobody was injured in this location and houston. severe storms are blamed for at least one death. alison: a rare phenomenon so luray- a total clips, when the moon completely hides from the solar surface, cutting off rays of sunlight. the next one will not happen until august of next year. leon: that one will be cooler because everybody in the country will see it, traveling west to east. alison: this weather -- steve: we are all watching the thermometer. alison: tomorrow will be really warm? steve: even warmer than today come and thursday will be the warmest of the week. it was awesome the only bad part was the pollen count. tree who suffer from the pollen, it is out there and it's only getting worse. now that we have pushed up the bloom date for the cherry blossoms, the next seven to 10 days you will start seeing the yellow film on your car. was the high earlier this afternoon, 26 degrees above average this time of year. right now, but co