the portrait of thomas bract reed. a congressman from maine. served in the u.s. house of representatives in the late 18 hundreds. several times as the speaker of house of representatives was an extremely powerful speaker. earning himself the title, czar reed. many of the rules that he instituted as speaker of the house are still used to this day. reeds rules. i especially like congressman bracket for his various servic wit. he was once asked if he would attend the funeral of a political rival. he said no but i do approve of it. he was asked if he thought his party might nominate him for president. the republican party. he said they could certainly do worse and very likely they will. and finally a fellow congressman at one point very stated i'd rather be right than been president. and speaker reed said well, the gentleman need not worry he'll never be either. we're in the house chamber. means house consist of 151 members. each represents about 86 or 8,700 people. the representatives serve two year terms. in maine we have term limits. they can serve no more than fo

this is a portrait of a gentleman named thomas bracket reed, a congressman from maine served in the u.s. house of represe representatives. several terms as speaker of the house of representatives was extremely powerful speaker earning himself the title czar reed. many of the rules he instituted as speaker of the house are still used to this day. they're called reed's rules. i especially like congressman bracket for his very acerbic wit. he was once asked if he would attend the funeral of a political rival. he said no but i do approve of it. another time he was asked if he thought his party might nominate him for president. he said they could do worse and very likely will. finally a fellow congressman at one point very pompously stated i'd rather be right than president. speaker reed said well the gentleman needn't worth he will never be either. we are in the house chamber. maine's house consisted of 151 members. each member of the house represents about 86 or 870 oh people. the representatives serve two-year terms. and in maine we have term limits. they can serve no more than four conse

this is a portrait of a gentleman named thomas bracket reed. a congressman from maine served in the us house of representatives in the late 1800s. several terms as speaker of house of representatives. was an extremely powerful speaker earning himself the tit title czar reed. many of the rules he instituted as speaker of the house are still instituted today. i especially like congressman bracket for his wit. he was once asked would he attend a funeral of a political rival. he said, no, but i do approve of it. another time he was asked if he thought his party might nominate him for president. the republican party. he said they could certainly do worse and very likely they will. and finally a fellow congressman at one point very pompously stated, well, i'd rather be right than be president. and speaker reed said, while the gentleman needn't worry, he'll never be either. so he had a very asur bik wit. we are in the house chamber. means house consists of 151 members. each member of the house represents about 86 or 8,700 people. the representatives s

today thomas reed says he justs the reason why but still calls it a mistake. >> that is an individual choice the ceo's made i am a fan if you want to influence the agenda you need to be at the table and in the room and pitching your vision how to go forward. obviously they chose to leave that table. from my perspective they lost the opportunity to influence the agenda. >> the group was established in january with two dozen members meets to offer the president guys on job growth, the executives leaving say that the message was not enough and there is no place for racism or discrimination in this world. but just this afternoon denise marsden a ceo from campbells soup will remain on the council. >> thanks. >>> time for the "action news" traffic report. gina gannon is in for matt pellman. >> reporter: well, unfortunately the first look is showing us an accident many traveling off into south philadelphia we see a live look here of an accident scene blocking two right lanes on the northbound side of 95 at the walt whitman bridge exit. a lot of emergency personnel are on the scene and an amb

thomas finished only two strokes ahead of francesco molinari and patrick reed. mike thomas was there to congratulate him on his first major title. justin called it a great win for his family and said it's a moment they will never forget. >> sure is. >>> an update for all those feeling lucky this weekend including myself. there were no winners in saturday night's powerball drawing. estimated jack mot is $430 million. on friday, there was one lucky winner illinois. the only ticket for the megamillions jackpot worth $393 million. let's check in with bill karins who is watching out there. little spots. >> there's thunderstorms here and there. these storms are over the top of wichita falls and die off towards the dallas-ft. worth area. we'll deal with more afternoon storms. this is hit and miss stuff. not a lot of big headlines or chances of flash flooding. by 6:00 p.m., northern mississippi and anywhere north of atlanta through the mountains of north carolina, your best chance of seeing showers and storms. heaviest rainfall in northern mississippi and the storms in o

it at a the is string annette gordon-reed talks about her book, then eric on his book, "if you can keep it". journalist thomas friedman discusses accelerating pace of technology and globalization in his book, thank you for being late. part of our we could book tv in prime time on c-span2. >> with the house and senate in session on tuesday, september 5 were taking a look at the work the members of congress will be handling, the federal budget, tax reform, the debt ceiling, and healthcare. join us for review of what's ahead for congress, thursday night at eight eastern on c-span and c-span.org, listen on the free c-span radio app. >> book to be on c-span2 in prime time continues. i want to show you what a couple members of congress told us about a book they are both reading. >> we recently visited capitol hill to ask congress what they're reading the summer. >> next on my reading list is "hillbilly elegy. this fantastic and everything i heard about it is wonderful. it talks about association of life in america, i've been looking into that issue and it talks about some of the struggles of people in appellation a

reed talks about monticello. and the book if you can keep it. thomas friedman in his book thank you for being late. a report on the opioid epidemic in dreamland. >>> when you think about a one-day festival, the national book festival and you have over 100 authors from children's authors, illustrators, graphic novelists all of these different authors there all day, other 100,000 people come in and celebrate books and reading. you can't have a better time, i think. i'm a little prejudiced because i'm a librarian. but anyone who wants to get inspired, the book festival is great. >> the live coverage begins saturday at 10:00 a.m. including david mcculloch and thomas freedman. former secretary of state condo lisa rice. and michael lewis and j.d. nance on c-span32's book tv. >>> you're watching american history tv on c-span3. next, stanford university professor claiborne carson talks about martin luther king jr.'s upbringing. this took place in atlanta where martin luther king jr. and his father were both pastors. this class is an hour. >> who is martin luther king? when we look at martin luther king, th

thomas. nick: as good as you can do. jim: that's paul casey inside of him and casey is at two under with the likes of patrick reed, who shot9 earlier today and is in it to. 17. ian: how about the putt at 16 for jason day? peter: this is an 8-iron right now on the way. >> what is that? ian: oh, peter. that's exactly what chris stroud did. it didn't roll down quite as far. just a little safe. it's so hard with the water there on the left and you're not too sure? peter: he's kind of had that frustrated look all day. he realizes his golf swing is out of sync and he's battling it all day long. ian: and when the course is as tough as it is, it plays on your mind and that's one of the hardest things to get by when the course is tough and it keeps beating you up hole after hole. nick: it really does. the mental effort on ere shot. makes your eyes go wandering. you're going to look to the right and left. see the water, see the bunker. you have to paint yourself a really good picture and that takes a lot of mental effort out there today when it's pretty warm. ian: hideki now, peter. peter: 8-iron. ian: looks pretty straight from her

we talk with thomas reed x about his book "churchill and orwell: the fight for freedom." >> they never met, but the hero is named winston. churchill loved it. interestingly, orwell, though a socialist, a real leftist all his life, and murder churchill across the little chasm and wrote really that he was the only conservative he admired. q&a.nday night on c-span's recently visited capitol hill to ask members of congress what they are reading this summer. >> i'm a big history buff. right now i'm reading "franklin and winston: a portrait of a about the" that talks friendship that the former president and the prime minister had particularly during world war ii. how it evolved and how close it was and how they talked together to bring together the victory that was necessary for the country that we live in today. it reminds me of the need of the continued close relationship that we have with the united kingdom and with our european allies. i am reading that and hope to finish that shortly thereafter. then i went to one of the congressional series on presidents. they had -- there's a book the

francis hutchison, thomas reed, stewart are all or daned minute stirs with the exception of david.witherspoon is a member of the more conserve tiative parties. i'm not a religious historian. i'm not away or inform sects. there were perhaps individuals but it doesn't translate in our modern landscape. pres pe tier church u.s.a. which is a little more main treem and might be more liberal one might say. that's the best answer for that. okay. time for one more. >>. [ inaudible question ] >> all right. so is the question is about free masonry and whether or not it is con grgruent with masonry. it's a secret society. although one guy gave me the handshake. he thought i was a free mason because i had been lecturing. i wish i had been paying better attention. now i could get into the lodge if i knew what that was. my sense is that free masonry is fairly con grut. in the so called blue lodges there was a sacred book. it was always the holy bible. the text of the bible is identical to bibles of the time. so no difference in the akred text. the free masons were and are a fill an tlopic societ