like thomas edison -- make sure to keep fighting. just like thomas edison. and then my john glenn, find excellence and fulfillment that works for you. god bless you all. go eagles. [applause] >> i am honored to be here today , but i have noticed that some of your fellow students have raised questions about me being your commencement speaker. i want you to understand what is behind these protests. we did have a good conversation and i am sure she is here i heard her concerns , and while some i found legitimate, others i disagreed , but whether i agree with her or not, i say i am proud of her to speak out. it is fully ok to hold me accountable for the things that i am accountable for. we should all be held accountable. what does it mean to hold someone accountable and how do you make yourself accountable? today, i will talk about what it means to be accountable in hopes it will provide some value to you in the years to come. views with you, i do not mean to imply that i have done it all right. i have not. many lessons i learned i learned by making mistakes. it

like thomas edison -- make sure to keep fighting. just like thomas edison. and then my john glenn, find excellence and fulfillment that works for you. god bless you all. go eagles. [applause] >> we all should be held accountable but what does it mean to hold someone accountable and how do you make yourself accountable? today i will talk about what it takes to be accountable and hope it will be of some value to you in the years to come. out that inint sharing my views with you, i do not mean to imply i did it all right. many of the lessons i have learned i have learned by making mistakes. it takes kurds to be accountable. throughout my life, i've seen many people embarrass themselves by failing to stand up, and acting like lemons by -- acting emmings by following along with the pack. graduates you will soon leave this wonderful community and enter into a new world, you're ready for new opportunities and new lives. along the way you're going to face a lot of pressure, pressure to go along and get along, to toe the line and look the other way when things are no

thomas edison. he grew up nearly deaf. his teachers told his parents he was either inattentive or unintelligent. he was sort of kicked out of school. he left school at 14 and started selling newspapers. he also started tinkering with things, because he had a mind that was racing. he wanted to be an inventor. when he was 22 he made a vote counting machine that he tried to sell to the u.s. congress. this may shock you, but congress times.ind the it took them until 1974 to get the machine. he failed there. his first attempt at inventing was a total failure. he was rejected, but persistent. he didn't give up. by the time he was 31, that nearly deaf kid that nearly failed in school invented the phonograph. he made some of the first sound recordings in history. after that, he went on to work on everything else, including incandescent light bulbs. he and his staff conducted 2000 experiments on the lightbulb to find the best materials. they experimented seven days a week for five months, when one day a friend dropped by to say "i'

just like thomas edison. and then my john glenn, find excellence and fulfillment that works for you. they said again for letting me be here today. god bless you all. go eagles. [applause] >> i am honored to be here today. i also know that some of your fellow students have raised questions about me being your commencement speaker. when i heard about these protests, i wanted to understand what was behind them. conversation.ood i am sure she's here somewhere. me, theconcerns about nation's banking system, and about capitalism itself. and some were legitimate, others i disagree with. whether i agreed with her or not, i say good for her, i am proud of her for speaking up. in fact, it is completely appropriate to hold me accountable for those things i am responsible for. we all should be held accountable. but what does it mean to hold somebody accountable? how do you make yourself accountable? today i will talk about what it takes to be accountable in the hope that it might be some value to you in the years to come

continue up, you will come across other governors, perhaps most notable, charles edison, the son of thomas edison, who served as governor for one term in world war ii. as we make our way to the governor's office, we walk arch, that is the original location of the front door of the 1792 statehouse. as we pass through the arch, you will see a second arch. the first arch was the front door and the second was the back door. you get a sense of how small the original 1792 construction was . as the state grew, population grew, government grew and the building did, as well. we just entered the governor's reception room. this room was built in 1871. this is used as the governor's reception room. it is also where the governor holds press conferences. anytime you see the governor of new jersey at the statehouse, it is usually right behind the podium. woodrow wilson was the only new jersey governor to become president. the portrait of wilson that hangs in the statehouse is his gubernatorial portrait. wilson would use this room as a reception room. we are standing in the legislative wing of the statehouse. we

but america is more tolerant of trial and error we know about thomas edison but the people know thatdreds of times he was fired by the telegraph office and lost money in the iron business is in the company and henry ford failed completely the first time dr. seuss was rejected by 27 publishers an old pro was fired from her first job they called her an unfit for television. [laughter] they all failed and tried again. where you can write the script of your own life in america. [applause] so when a pessimist like me says bearden some government regulation i hope you will ignore me to prove me wrong. that is the show for tonight from loss biggest and freedom fest. go live the american dream. [cheers and applause] >> i'm bob massi. for 32 years, i've been practicing law and living in las vegas. i help people with all sorts of real-estate problems, from trying to save their homes to closing major deals. eight years ago, 6,000 people a month moved here, looking for employment and affordable homes. little did anyone know that we would become ground zero for the american real-estate crisis. no

but america is more tolerant of trial and error we know about thomas edison but the people know thathe was fired by the telegraph office and lost money in the iron business is in the company and henry ford failed completely the first time dr. seuss was rejected by 27 publishers an old pro was fired from her first job they called her an unfit for television. [laughter] they all failed and tried again. where you can write the script of your own life in america. [applause] so when a pessimist like me says bearden some government regulation i hope you will ignore me to prove me wrong. that is the show for tonight from loss biggest and freedom fest. go live the american dream. [cheers and applause] guys. my poolings. lou dobbs is coming up next. >> and good evening, everybody, i'm tom sullivan in for lou dobbs tonight and president trump today hitting back at the left wing national media, which has been printing all kinds of falsehoods about him since before he was elected. the latest is the new york times claiming that the president asked ousted fbi director james comey to pledge his loy

genius like many genius was the product of hard work. 10% inspiration and 90% perspiration to quote thomas edison. like mozart, newton and edison, james madison changed the world. his hard work makes another point as well. he was often ill, many historians have called him sickly. he was even a hypochondriac. when he was well he was very well. traveling 1000 miles through new york, traveling through that blizzard, indeed in the beginning traveling from my failure to philadelphia was quite a challenge. he often traveled in the rain, i am struck by how often it was on the roads.ddy he was forced to dismantle his carriage, taken apart and make three trips with it which involved something like a poet over a pond. then he had to get his horses across. this is an extraordinary amount of energy to expand if he is sickly. it is true that he had gastrointestinal problems that plagued everyone in the 18th century. many people believe illness was caused by bad air and doctors did not wash their hands. he also suffered from what he called sudden attacks which he describes as somewhat resembling epilepsy and s

thomas edison. >> guest: yes, but born in ohio. read the book. the book is excellent. [cheering] thanks so much for coming tonight. i'm the director of events and

. >> there are six different trade areas back at thomas edison high school they wlern plumbing masonry and air conditioning an trades around the house. they learn theory and practice at the school and get hands on real life opportunity at the site. >> pretty cool. construction on the house will be finished next may. >> gives uv a sense why technology education is still really important in schools to do the hands on sort of thing. >> absolutely. we need these skills, too. >> absolutely we do. >> beautiful house. >> looks great. >> on done of everything else there. >> hopefully the roof is on. >> it looked like they did. >> don't want the drywall or anything you're framing get wet i'm glad the rain held off we had a cool site in annapolis this is commissioning week and blue angels were doing a fly by and alived in annapolis tuesday morning and they doe performances -- did performances today which are usually show stoppers an i have to tell you the weather did not cooperate. it was not raining and there was so much cloud cover and low ceilings and poor visibility. normally they do an hour

thomas edison form ad commission of scientific preparedness to get science organized. they had chapters in 48 states. charles mayo, of the famous mayo clinic had medical preparedness. columbia university had a pacifist president in 1916, sent out a memo to the faculty of explaining army's g status whatever it was in 1916 and where on the g staff system their services could best help the country in time of emergency. in 1916 and every single member of columbia's faculty agreed to put their names on the list this is ad from at&t, from bell telegraph, in the fall of 1915, very early on, fall of 1915 that says, we are prepared. in the little semicircle that is paul revere, 1775. the bigger picture is the united states army staff officer, 1916, behind him is a map that says, the bell telephone system. and the text reads in part, in its wonderful preparedness to inform its citizens after national need the united states stands alone and unequaled. it can command the entire bell telephone system which completely covers our country with its network of wires. the message is, cor

. >> thomas edison. >> yes, but you know, born in ohio, as you know. >> we have, we're joined. >> yes, we're joined at the hip. >> host: well, we have to wrap up and i want to thank you, it's been fun. >> thank you. >> host: it's been good to see you. >> great to see you and hope the viewers found it interesting. >> host: the book is excellent. read it. >> thank you. c-span, where history unfolds daily. in 1979, c-span was created as a public service by america's cable television companies and it's brought to you today by your cable or satellite provider. here is a look at some books published this week. former secretary of state condoleeza rice looks at struggles for independence in democracy. and david garro, the pre-presidential life of barack obama in rising star. pat buchanan former speech writer to richard nixon offered an inside look at the nixon administration in nixon's white house wars. journalist oliphant and wilkey recall president kennedy's campaign on the road to camelot. a look at war crimes committed by the british and continental armies during the revolutionary war in

i think that, absolutely, this is a bet on a guy who is probably the closest thing to thomas edison inur generation. why bet against a guy like this? why would we not want to see his world view? >> well, look, the boring company, i hope it's -- i'd like to scale that, do that across the country, the hyperloop, all that stuff. fantastic. we need that. more of that. i hope they get it going. i want us to talk about something mundane quickly while you're here, that's oracle. you talked about you like net suite. oracle bought them. you are focused on big tech companies working right now. what about the older tech companies there? anything that you think the markets are looking past? >> so oracle is not a business you can short today, but it's also not a business that's going to win tomorrow. the reason you can't short it is because there's an unbelievable sales and marketing machinery that will figure out how to tax its existing customers in umpteen numbers of ways that are unbelievable and like, unknown to the cfos. >> put ibm in the same category? >> absolutely. they are a services compa

years later, you can see the information came from the new york stock exchange from a fellow named thomas edisonan improvement opn a stock ticker. i think it is going to help you a lot. this was the main way convention information was conveyed for the next 60 years. the edison stock ticker became very famous. the nyc has always been involved in technological change. we want to bring an update on the markets. things are moving rather quickly. we bought at 2374. we are just off the lows for the s&p 500. banks are moving down. the dollar is at a new low since the election. it has been helping some commodities. banks have been weak as the yield has been below 2.3%. tech is weak. that's a big, high, beta sector. generally, flight is safe and goals and consumer staples, a bit stronger. whe whe what's changed? improved for risk, global economy. most participants feel that president trump, a little bit of political drama, the markets can handle easily but when you have falk about obstruction of justice or an apiecement fight, that's a different story. that's what the markets are reacting to today. back

so, you know, i talked about thomas edison he tried a thousand times before he got the light bulb to work. kju is going to continue to try until he gets his icbms to work. >> what does thaad do for us and south korea? >> i think the point that kju's rhetoric and he's threatened the united states and cities by name. just this week he threatened australia by name. i think his rhetoric, if you were to project it on a graph, it's going in one direction and then his capability is approaching the line of his capability is approaching the line of his rhetoric. and where those lines cross, i believe we are then at an inflection point and we wake up to a new world. >> what does thaad do for us? >> thaad enables us and our south korean allies to defend south korea or a big portion of south korea against the threat from north korea. it is aimed at north korea, the systems, and it posed no threat to china. >> isn't it incredibly difficult to counter the 4,000 artillery pieces that the north koreans have on the dmz which could attack a city of 26 million people? >> it is, sir. and thaad is not de

so the -- watson you saw was, was it actually edison's watson? what -- >> thomas j.hat's right. so it's not watson and crick either so it's none of those things. >> blame it on being a millennial. >> because i would have -- i wouldn't have thought sherlock holmes. i would have thought edison, right? edison is on the phone calling, are you there mr. watson -- >> okay we're going to continue this conversation in just a moment. we walk to talk tesla and elon musk. >> u.p.s. striking an exclusive sponsorship and shipping deal with the dubai world expo coming up in 2020. our morgan brennan spoke with ceo david abney ahead of today's event. morgan joins us from the u.p.s. sorting center in new york city. hey, morgan. >> hey, melissa, that's right. so u.p.s. ceo david abney says he's hopeful about -- that he hopes that handling all of the content for dubai's massive world's fair will give u.p.s. name value in the fast growing legion. of course we also talked about package deliveries with gang busters growth of e-commerce. u.p.s. has struggled to keep pace. something that's