. >> tiananmen square became the focal point of the protests. the square is right in front of the great hall of the people, where the seat of chinese government is. it was mind-boggling. i was in the middle of that march. i'm 6'2". i weigh 200 pounds. i was literally swept off my feet by those demonstrators. >> photojournalist jeff widner covered it for the "associated press." >> there was this amazing, uplifting feeling in the air. >> a few weeks later in mid-may, the situation intensified when soviet premier mikhail gorbachev heads to china. >> remains a world turned upsidedown tonight. >> he was an advocate in his home country. his visit gave them an opportunity to go to the streets and express themselves in a way they had not before. >> they knew they had the world watching them. >> and this also enraged the chinese authorities who are used to stage managing every photo op. and suddenly they had no control. >> after gorbachev leaves and the protests continue, chinese authorities change their tactics. >> the chinese communist party cracked dow

to hear freedom songs ring sung right now in egypt, in hong kong, you will hear them sung in tiananmen squareerlin wall. you will hear it sung in ferguson, i've heard it sung every place where there's a group of people yearning to have the rights that are routinely afforded to everyone else. i want people as they read this book to know i'm just trying to capture a snapshot of this music at this time and how it got from where it was to hear as is potent, powerful transformative agent in american culture. ♪ >> up next, the c-span cities tour of waco, texas visits the collection of letters, books and papers of the english poets robert and elizabeth barrett browning. >> robert and elizabeth barrett browning were victorian poets. they were both born in the 1845, 46,a and met in and lived for46, about 15 years in florence, italy. one of the things most familiar about elizabeth would the her lee andem, aurora especially the sonnets for the portuguese. she's known for her 43rd sonnet which is widely used for greeting cards and advertisements -- how do i love the -- let me count the ways. i know every

military parade will take place at tiananmen square in the chinese capital september 3rd. the rehearsal is carried out on sunday after sealing off the square to pedestrians and civilian vehicles. military helicopters flew in a v-shaped formation and some aircraft trailed red and blue smoke over the square. military officials say 12,000 troops and about 200 aircraft will take part in the parade. tanks and missiles will be along the equipment on display. along with the parade, there will be a separate ceremony on the same day. foreign countries attending events will show the depth of the relationship with china. sources say leaders of at least 20 countries have accepted invitations. among them are russia's president vladimir putin, cuba's president and cambodia's king. tear countries are known to be pro china. chinese state-run media says more than ten countries will send troops to take part. such as mon dpolia. south korean officials say the president will attend the ceremony but has not made public whether she's going to be at the military parade. pak is expected to make he

a military parade will be held at tiananmen square in beijing on september 3rd. the vice foreign minister announced the names of dignitaries that will be attending. they include russian president vladimir putin, south korean president park geun-hye, and north korea's worker's party secretary. representatives from 19 countries are also expected to attend. among them will be the foreign ministers of france and italy. countries including the u.s., germany, and canada will have their ambassadors in china attend. japanese government officials announced on monday that prime minister shinzo abe will not attend. the country's ambassador to china will also be absent. >> translator: the ceremony does not target present-day japan or the japanese people. >> he says china will work to improve and develop ties between the two countries. >>> now for weather. cloudy later, some rain in the forecast for us here in tokyo, where things have cooled down considerably. it's currently 73 degrees fahrenheit. sayaka mori joins us with world weather, starting off with the wildfires still

on the next day she'll view the military parade in tiananmen square.ce says park decided to attend in the hopes china will contribute to peace and unification of the korean peninsula. it also says she wants to honor south korea's own historic struggle for independence with china. chinese officials announced on tuesday that leaders from 30 countries including russian president vladimir putin and north korea's workers party secretary choe ryong hae will attend the parade. the japanese government said earlier this week that prime minister shinzo abe will not attend. the united states and germany are among the countries that will have their ambassadors in china take part. >>> the navy of russia and china have come together in the sea of japan for a joint exercise. they conducted a landing drill on tuesday using armored vehicles. the training exercise got under way last week. 22 submarines and vessels, about 20 aircraft and 500 marines are taking part. officials say they want to enhance their ability to fight terrorists and pirates. the landing drill took p

to hear freedom songs ring sung right now in egypt, in hong kong, you will hear them sung in tiananmen squareu will hear it sung in ferguson, i've heard it sung every place where there's a group of people yearning to have the rights that are routinely afforded to everyone else. i want people as they read this book to know i'm just trying to capture a snapshot of this music at this time and how it got from where it was to hear as is potent, powerful transformative agent in american culture. ♪ >> while we were in waco, the c-span tour visited the texas rangers hall of fame. we will hear about the agency and get a look at items in the museum, including some of the guns confiscated from the criminal couple, bonnie and clyde. >> the institute of texan culture in san antonio said the second most well-known thing in texas is the texas rangers. first thing the alamo. everyone remembers the alamo, right? they have had a long legacy. we're talking 200 years of legacy of upholding values of law and order and justice. it is something a lot of foreigners have taken two. we hear about ranger reenactment gr

we haven't mentioned so far, clearly that young man who stood in front of the tanks in tiananmen squarewe don't know what happened to him. another hero is malala yousafzai, the pakistani teenager shot in the head because she said girls should be able to get an education. she recovered and refused to hide. she kept speaking up. >> getting education is not only each person's right, but also responsibility. john: she's a hero of freedom. my personal heroes are economists and writers whose ideas became like a jungle gym for my brain. i was just another statist liberal reporter when i began to read hayek and von missus. i'm just about not that smart. i couldn't get through the book. i learned more from hayek and charles murray and ayn rand. rereading alice shrug made me realize rand understood the regulatory states way before others did. even before milton friedman, he's a hero of freedom. not just for his economics but he bothered to deal with the morons in the media and explain things simply. here he is in his tv series free to choose showing how government's rules keep increasing. >> 1936

even says in his autobiography he wonders if chinese students didn't go too fast with their tiananmen square protests. there's a sense that reagan understood this is a very long-term. he knew where it was going. it was a long-term process and i think he was aware, as we should be, of the struggle we've had in our own country over how many years in order to perfect our union so on one hand, you can be morally clear and i think it's going to be very spornt important for us to be morally clear about what are the essentials of a democratic society in all kul trs. >> well, i can't think of a better way than to end our question and answer z's session of the second panel here and our time is, unfortunately b drawing to a close. so i will make some closing comments and dismiss you all. i invite you to join me in thanking aram bakshian, k.t. mcfarland, gerson moreno-riano, eric patterson, craig shirley and kiron skinner. i'd also like to thank our sponsors, gold, silver and bronze, our friends at c-span for their coverage, the audience here in virginia beach and our audience online through the live s

in optics of participating the military parade, especially from standing in tiananmen square for any democratic leader would be difficult. i think that's why the european leaders are having a difficult time making decisions about how they want to think about the moment. on the other hand, i think there is an opportunity here and it is a big one. if president park and prime minister abe want to take it. that is, if they do show up to dramatically in separate jinping to talk to xi about stability in the region, that may be too much of a dream. but i think it is an option that should be fully discussed and considered.and if it is going to be difficult to do, then of course, maybe another occasion. but if it is possible to conceive of coming together on the part of both the president and the prime minister, i think i would applaud that. also, i think, ask of xi jinping is little bit of buy-in frankly to the importance of the trilateral relationship. i think there is one danger here that i see and i don't speak for our government at all, but one of the great advantages of that trilateral

the chinese government does not want a repeat of tiananmen square.ind things for them to do, and they have this mix of men and women because of former policy. young mene a a lot of without women, a dangerous situation if you do not have them occupied. brendan: this is fascinating because we started at a -- with job offerslooking at to job seekers. within 30 seconds, we were talking about tiananmen. keep: they are trying to the people young, dos file, with energy, and behaving. there is an argument that this is a healthy transformation, that that needs to happen for china. would you agree? david: it needs to happen, so transformation that is inevitable happens. healthy is a question of how is it managed. they are attempting to manage it . they are attempting also to be part of the world reserve .urrency and growth system they are the second largest economy in the world, the largest goods producing economy in the world. these are massive shifts. are the imfyou right now, are you heartened or disheartened by the way they did it? david: you are surprised

his autobiography that he wonders if maybe the chinese students didn't go too fast with their tiananmen square protests. demonstrations. he said they had allies inside the government, and maybe those allies inside the government would have been able to carry it a little further if they hadn't tried to push it too soon. so there's a sense that reagan understood this is a very long term -- he knew where he was going, what the objective had to be, but it was a very long-term process. i think he was also aware, as we should be, of the struggle we've had in our own country over how many years in order to perfect our union, in order to perfect our democracy. so on the one hand, you can be humbled and patient, but on the other hand, you can be morally clear. i think it's going to be very important in the next couple generations for us to be morally clear about what are the essentials of a democratic society in all cultures. >> i can't think of a better way to end our question and answer session of the second panel here. and our time is unfortunately drawing to a close. so i'll make some closing comme

does anybody remember tiananmen square? and look at the areas around it. malaysia ringgit down huge, indonesia rupiah down to 1998 levels, neil. long-term credit management. does anybody hear that ringing in their head and clearly this is a mistake on behalf of the chinese. they think that they can overcome the global slowdown by make products cheaper. neil: craig, they lied just yesterday. they said we're done. this devaluation about 1.9%, we won't follow up. what do we discover this morning? they follow up with another devaluation. it's one thing to lose the market's trust and to ad insult to injury, you don't make friends that way, do you? >> no, you sure not. especially not in the region. if you look at the asia pacific region. take a look at a couple of our american companies. apple gets 27% of global revenues from china. intel gets 36% of revenues. yum brands gets 50% of revenues from those areas. they either have to take it on the chops in the currency exchange and lower revenues or raise prizes to make the same amount of money. neil, this will back

we have tiananmen square. you'll see significant protests in china. chinese leadership have demographic issues, they have pollution issues, they have economic issues. not easy. >> i asked jon huntsman after he came back from china, i said what is the one thing the chinese government wants? do they want to expand? do they want to dominate? what do they want? what do communist want? he said they only want one thing. 9% growth. if they don't have 9% growth all of the problems that covers up starts bubbling to the surface and things can get bad fairly quickly for them. >> if they're lucky they have half of that and this is not a recipe for political stability. >> coming up, the moment we've all been waiting for. i'm so excited. >> sharon stone is in the green room? >> we're going to get our first look at donny's new tv show, which we're both in. >> this is amazing. >> recurring roles. "morning joe" is back in a moment. this is going to be so good. we'll be right back. song: rachel platten "fight song" ♪ two million, four hundred thirty-four thousand, thre