but it's also newspapers and learn about what tom paine has to say. he was able to ripple throughout the colonies had become extremely widely known. and franklin prepares the ground for it in tom paine and other writers of evolutionary. richie used his sister to spread the idea that it's a way forward >> let's move forward in history. let's talk about the 1900s, 1920s, the rights of ham radio. amateur radio. >> guest: the interesting thing about radio is initially it was a social media. if you look at the rise of the 20th century, they were to build radio centers. with both the transmitter and receiver could do audio. this is promoted in the family teaching your kids how to program today, building robots, that kind of stuff, which i like to do. we think these are the skills that will be useful. radio is promoted as a way to improve your child because marconi had made his parents attic and develop the whole technology. so if he wanted to get the radio, the way to do it is to give the senate radio checking he would learn morse code and communicate with

this is the system that tom paine and others are able to use in the runup to the american revolution, just spread the idea that america should become independent from great britain. and, obviously, he writes "common sense," and it's distributed as a pamphlet, and it's passed from person to person and recommended and copied just like happened with luther's pamphlets, but it's also printed and excerpted in the newspapers, and those newspapers spread to oh towns, and people learn across this whole media environment about what tom paine has to say. many papers actually printed "common sense" in full, so it was able to ripple throughout the entire colonies and become extremely widely known very, very quickly. so ben franklin kind of prepared the ground for it, and tom paine and other writer in the revolutionary period were able to use this system to spread the idea that independence was the way forward for america and, of course, that's what came to pass. >> host: let's move forward in history a little bit and talk about the 1900s, 1920s, googly elmo, mar coney and the rise of amateur radi

antecedents of our left right divide in this country looking at edmund burke and his debate with tom paine i mean you know we have gone through incredible struggles in this country where we used to kill each other over some of these political disagreements so yeah there are still some you know loud nasty parts of our democracy but i do think the context of history calms us down a little bit to say yeah the first african-american president america is probably going to be subjected to some racism and there's certainly some of that why did they not how did they get off on the wrong track with their health how did that was the website set up so badly. that they let that happen i think. a couple things i think that the president understood intuitively that if you give the only way you make a health care system work like this to insure more americans is if young healthy people sign up he knew intuitively that the means of signing up had to be great the user experience had to be great otherwise young people are not going to mess around with technology that doesn't work they don't have time for th

are many other example that have occurred throughout history made martin luther used pamphlets, tom pained his common sense, the way that the pamphlets were used more broadly, they went to the american and french revolutions. >> the first 2000 use of social media. -- years of social media. paulpublican senator rand speaking about u.s. foreign policy. the kentucky senator is considered by some as they potential 2016 residential candidate. he spoke for about a half an hour at the citadel. this is part of c-span's road to the white house 2016 coverage. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. thank you. thank you, thank you. i understand you guys have a big game on saturday. who is going to win? all right, all right. i'm glad to see there is no debate on that. it is an honor to be with you today at the citadel. i want to thank general rosa for inviting me and having me at the citadel. i went to knowledge the chairman of the board and cadet colonel colin hicks, resident -- regimental commander. on a more serious note, some of you may one day be called to defend your country. if you choose to serve

. >> how did tom pain contribute to the american revolution? >> he took advantage of the social media environment that was constructed by ben franklin. ben franklin constructed a platform for social discourse. he was a publisher and one of the many jobs was postmaster general for the american colony. he improved the efficiency of the postal service. and he made a rule that newspaper publishers could use the service for me and collaborate with other papers. it is mostly letters from scribers or speeches or reports of funny happenings or stuff copied from other newspapers. there are not professional journalist writing reports. this is a social, local platform. and ben franklin built the system, and didn't realize it, but he is encouraging the spread of information. and his is what tom pane was able to use to spread the idea america should be independent from great britain. and he writes the pamphle pamphlet "common sense" and it is printed in the newspaper and they spread to other towns and people learn across the environment what tom pane has to

tom paine and his pamphlet common sense, and the way that templates were made more broadly up to the american and french revolutions. >> the first 2000 years of social media, tonight on the committee caters at eight eastern on c-span2. >> -- on "the communicators." >> recently the cia and the clinton presidential library released 300 newly declassified pockets about the war in boston. john gannon spoke on a panel that included former secretary of state madeleine albright, former national security advisor sandy berger, and general wesley clark. president clinton also made remarks later in the program. it's the first time a president participated in a declassification event. >> [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon, everyone and welcome to the clinton presidential center. i'm stephanie streett and i served as executive director of the clinton foundation. thank you for attending this historic conference. this event is a first in several respects. it is the first time a president has participated in a declassification event at a presidential library. it is the first time a presiden

hoops hard to believe, coach at north carolina roy williams at unc 6-0 against tom iz sow in michigan state. bringing the pain michigan state jacked up 24-3 and made seven and the tarhills took advantage. jp on the break away here. williams now 7-0 against izzo. the heels roll and kind of surprising because north carolina has had a couple big wins this season but losses to teams like belmont who are way lower in a scale ranked you would expect. it's been a roller coaster ride but beat the number one team in the nation. the nation. >> this edition of abc 7 news at [♪] thanks for a great year. you got it. mr. winger. i hope you will be seizing the day this summer.

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pain. federal long term unemployment benefits will end tomorrow for more than a million people, and cnn's tom foreman is breaking this down for us. tom? >> this is going to be quite a blow to some people out there. now, what's going to be different, if this -- if you're long term unemployed this affects you. if you simply become unemployed in the coming year, you will still get regular unemployment benefits for 26 weeks. for several years now, we have had these additional benefits that go on beyond that for people who are long term unemployed. that's what's going away. they get about $300 a week. that means a lot, if you have been out of work that long or longer, and there are about 1.3 million people who will be immediately affected. it's not the same all over the country. those places that have more people out of work longer in the dark areas here like new york, new jersey, pennsylvania, florida, illinois, texas, california over here, they will really feel this much more than others. >> tom foreman, thank you so much. let's bring in our economist peter maurici, a professor at the university

bowler and obvious pain has tock carted off the field, and according to multiple reports an mri revealed today that he has a torn acl and mcl in his right knee. in the season is over. >> and tom glavine nice to see him going with one or both. >> those pictures of govern are tough. >> it is nasty. >> all right, thank you very much. it is better than cutting coupons how one super market is able to provide high quality foods huge discounts. plus, out of work, and soon out of money, while millions of americans can soon be losing their unemployment benefits. power of the people until we restore our fr add home, and can passd through metal detectors uno tied. ice, snow, and a bit of cold have been slowing travelers from coast to coast, winter weather, watches warnings all posted from arkansas to main, more than 1500 flights have been cancel sod far. today, one of mandela's daughters that continue to stop by the family home. she said she wanted them to know the family affection they had for her father. now the deadly violence in the central african republic. is pledged support from the u.s. to protect its civilians caught in the cross fire. the pentagon authorized military transport

pain of another government shutdown. as the vote approaches, one lawmaker is calling out his colleagues for wasteful spending. senator toms released his list of wasteful government spending, $25 billion of what he calls stupid spending. let's bring in chief business correspondent christine romans. i'm surprised they passed anything that would do anything. but apparently they did. >> just $25 billion, that's all? carol, this is something he does every year, annual tradition. in 2010 he started doing it. we started to look forward to it. he finds -- his research team finds funnily little things, such as a robot squirrel, part of a government funding to build a robotic squirrel to chase away rattlesnakes. and the do-nothing congress, how much we pay for our congress that does nothing. this $10 million for this superman campaign for the national guard even as sequestration is nearing and there are cutbacks for the military. on one hand, you're spending money to try to recruit people, men and women of steel. oh, wait a second, we're cutting money and jobs there. that seems to go one against the other. it's against the backdro

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