but he's uncle sam. and uncle sam sits down with the president, and they talk for a while. he has a very short attention span, the president. so after a while, he's kind of tired of him. and he gets up, and donald trump walks -- with melania, they walk back to the family quarters, and don king follows behind. and he yells, the king, the president, the great president, the great president at the top of his lungs. and donald walks down and it echoes down the hall. and that's how my bookends. i tried, in this book, to be fair. i'm appalled by the partisanship that we have in this country now, you're only on one side or the other. i saw that last week on my book tour in new york. i think it's going to croix our country if we -- destroy our country if we don't get over. that i tried to be fair. the reviews are strange. think it's a savage attack, some say why are you so favorable. but i tried to be fair in the book, and i tried to write it in a way that readers can draw their own conclusion. because i think in a democracy -- i graduated from the columbia school of journalism 50

thrage american family spends a lot more this time of year thanks to uncle sam. steve liesman explains. >> reporter: james aguilar counts on his yearly tax refund and this year he knows exactly what he's doing with his check. >> what do you want to do with is? this yea we're going miami. >> reporter: he's like a lot of americans. a new studyy the j.p. morgan chase institute takes anonymous spending from millions of chaset cardholders s tax refund is the biggest pay day of the year for nearly 1/ of households. >> we were most surprised to learn that the tax refund is the way people step up year to year. they think of it as a year end sey incr what we find is it's really this tax refund where they reset dey rebalance their spending. >> reporter: theyo more than rebalance. the study found that spending spikes i74%the week after the check arrives in the mail from uncle sam. the average refund equal to six' we salary for the average recipient. >> i put some in savings and then ifth e's something that i need or my children need, i get it for them. >> people spend their

we will look at a silent film that was produced in 1916 titled "uncle sam watching the mexican borderieto. she is the historian and author of the mexican expedition: 1916 to 1917, put together by the u.s. army center of military. put this time into context. what was happening during these two years and it's importance today?

we will look at a silent film that was produced in 1916 titled "uncle sam watching the mexican border." here joining us is julie prieto. she is the author of the mexican expedition: 1916-1917. put together by the u.s. army center of military. put this into context of what was

then a master, uncle sam. -- their new master, uncle sam.uffering a mortality rate higher than the accompanying white soldiers by at least 5% to 10%. freed people with particularly valued work skills such as blacksmiths tended to receive the highest pay and enjoyed somewhat better conditions, follow this made some wages laboring for the army has pioneers, cooks or launderers. whatever the compensation, black civilian labor came to undefined amount -- just as enslaved labor did in the confederacy. each refugee who fled to union lines deprived the confederacy of vital supportive work, with 80% of the white male military aged subpopulation mobilized in the army's. for better and for worse, became the site of transformative social processes, and why soldiers representing virtually every northern region, economic class and ideological stance interacted with african-americans, often for the first time. the number of black americans living in the prewar free states was a mere 1% to 2% of the overall population. in the best of circumstances white so

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average family receiving a refund jumps 74% in the week after the refund arrives in the mail from uncle sam. if you want to know, kelly when christmas really arrives think february not december. >> the rate was lower last year you get the benefit that way if you weren't aware you might get less than expected, different story. >> you're now into a big behavioral economics thing because people should not be getting refunds if they can help it however, it could be a method of forced savings people use. >> for sure. let's bring in a senior retail analyst. you've been looking at the retail companies, the stocks which are really geared towards this how are they performing. what is that telling us? >> it's exactly that point you think about the sticker shock of how much money do you have that you've been thinking about the entire year versus what do you just get today and as you think to steve's point february is christmas, valentine's day, a lot of retailers that will year, last e where it looked like we were really falling behind, and i think as we had victoria's secret last month results were l

we will look at a silent film that was produced in 1916 titled "uncle sam watching the mexican border." here joining us in our studio for some context and analysis is julie prieto. she is the historian and author of the mexican expedition: 1916 to 1917, put together by the

they would have had to write a check to uncle sam next thing you know, the stock of macy's is cut in more than half, and it wasn't a two for one split. it hit a tipping point courtesy of competition from amazon and it got crushed those who didn't want to share the profits with uncle sam ended up with no profit at all what kind of lesson is that make your peace with the tax man. some gains are simply unsustainable and need to be taken. a profit on paper, is not the same thing as a profit in your bank account gains can be ephemeral the last thing you need is to be worried about capital gains taxes. when it's time to sell, you sell in short, stop fearing the tax man. start fearing the loss man you won't regret it. and i'm not saying blow out of everything i'm saying take some profits bottom line, remember my top two rules. bulls make money, bears make money. pigs -- don't be greedy. it's okay to pay the taxes, don't be so worried about taking a taxable profit because you may end up with no profit at all. chris in ohio, chris >> caller: hi, jim, thanks so much for having me >> good to ha

uncle sam needs you and he is pointing at you. controversially, right as the nation is discussing going to war in 1917, the militants wearing of the suffragists starts protesting and you can tell from the language, they are using president wilson's words against him. january with him in 1917 and asked for his support. like many presidents do when they want to put on an issue, they say it is a states rights issue. an issue, they say it issue.ates rights they changed some of their signs. some of the war signs started calling wilson kaiser wilson. chained themselves to the white house fence, which got them arrested and sent to the workhouse. so, wilson came around on this question and through his support behind the 19th amendment and that was in part because the republicans have first thrown their weight behind it. the role of women in the war was critical. women stepped up big time to conserve the war effort. this is the red cross. do you see what they are copying? pizza -- pieta. they are trying to get people to to war as nurses or

uncle sam gets his money. >> you get the rest. >>> you could hit the scenic view jackpot if you plan to s sit the tidal basin t weekend. it's no april fool's joke. peak bloom of the cherry blossoms is expected to be monday, april 1s >> it better happen. >> people will be looking for ait. >> that'it earlier than previously anticipated. the annual cherry blossom festival runs through april 14th. we have information in the nbc washington app. don't try to drive down there. it's going to be mayhem. >> i drive that way every day, going to and from home, now it's not bad. >> right now. >> all the fencing is up. the tre look pretty nice. not crazy crowded. you wanted to get that peak bloom. >> so beautiful. >>> just about 4:37 now. coming up, grocery store concerns. a popular chain c sidering closing down all of its stores. we'llet you know what's next for anybody who shops at shoppers. >>> and ergency landif a boeing max jet. deadly crashes grounded those claims nationwide. claims nationwide. whyhis one was up in t t for 50 years, cracker barrel has been making folks feel right at home, wi

. >> reporter: uncle sam has an urgent message for taxpayers, come get your money. the only way to get a tax refund is to file a t return. but not everybody does that. maybe you forgot or didn't think you had to especiallyf you didn't make that much money. the irs is warning that could mean you are missing out. there are $1.4 billion in unclaimed refunds all the way back to 20u5. ve three years to claim your cash. ther that the money becomes property of the government forever. >> i think people are hesitant in general to deal with the wes. ound over time that a lot of times ple are hisesitant to file because of some event that takes ple. there' a divorce, they're ill ill or ily member is they lost a job, that type of situation. they miss one year and then it rolls on and they miss several years. >> reporter: f 2015, the median unclaimed refunding is $879. the amount due backo taxpayers also varies widely by state. the irs estimates about 129,000 ople in texas have unclaimed refunds worth roughly $158 llion, more than any other state in the country. oney ornia has a

he placed himself on a very garish uncle sam outfit. appealing to your duty as an to join theizen u.s. army. more than just having a poster saying join the u.s. army, it is uncle sam wants you and he is pointing at you. you better sign up because the country is counting upon it. this is all part of the howaganda to affect american see the war and their willingness to support the war effort. controversially, right as the nation is discussing going to war in 1917, the militant wing of the suffragists led by alice paul start protesting in front of the white house. languageell from the used on these posters, they are using president wilson's words against him. very clever. they met with him in january 1917, and asked for his support for suffrage. like many presidents do when they want to punt on an issue, he says, this is a states rights issue. that is when a president says that word, it means he does not want to get involved. or she. -- ratheriser controversial. they kept up this picket in front of the white house. even after the war decla

situation today should be so much wasse now we can no longer say that russia remains a partner but uncle sam knows best russia also apparently invaded ukraine to pillage its energy stock and we all know the story in russia that invaded ukraine to gain access to oil and gas reserves so let me get this straight russia world's number one in proven gas reserves with over fifty thousand billion cubic meters to show for it wanted some of ukraine's three hundred billion and when it comes to the black gold the might. energy empires of denmark and it's really more oil rich than ukraine could it be that someone spends so much time in iraq that now sees the fingerprints of its own plays everywhere now of syrian leader bashar assad also goes on to impose naughty list well this time the syrian president is guilty of wanting to explore some of syrian oil reserves which are well in syria and it is cuba of course taking advantage of venezuela by enjoying its oil not the us that outright seized all assets over venezuelan petroleum company and wired them to an account inaccessible to president maduro and reme

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ality is the cousin of every day video games michael uncle sam suffers caricature is like good enough for government work and they're still running windows ninety five but having been on the inside is not the pentagon just always hungry for cutting edge technology sure it's it actually has been trying to work and develop a bridge with silicon valley for years. and it has its own little skunks works through darpa and they in turn contract out to companies such as united technologies and the others to do special exotic type of technologies but there has been an effort in recent years to because of the advancement of technologies and it's happening so rapidly particularly in the digital age and biotechnologies there . we cannot hire people fast enough internally to bring them on in internally so they were reaching out to folks outside and there seems to be a generational issue here that has emerged and this microsoft case is not the first and it's probably not going to be the last former defense secretary carter was very mindful of this in the in the obama administration he saw that that

situation today should be so much more us now we can no longer say that russia remains a partner but uncle sam knows best russia also apparently invaded ukraine to pillage its energy stock and we all know the story in russia that invaded ukraine to gain access to all and gas reserves so let me get this straight russia world's number one in proven gas reserves with over fifty thousand billion cubic meters to show for it wanted some of ukraine's three hundred billion and when it comes to the black gold the mighty energy empires of denmark and it's really more oil rich than ukraine could it be that someone spends so much time in iraq that now sees the fingerprints of its own plays everywhere now of syrian leader bashar assad also goes on to impose nor to list well this time the syrian president is guilty of wanting to explore some of syrian oil reserves which are well in syria and it is cuba of course taking advantage of venezuela by enjoying its oil not the us that outright seized all assets over venezuelan petroleum company and wired them to an account inaccessible to president maduro and remem

uncle sam keeps an eye on you. here sharon keeps an eye on you with an m-16. >> i lived in the united states since 1975. and every time i've returned home to jerusalem things have gotten worse and worse. 40 years ago i met david michaelis at link tv and he comes with west jerusalem and i come from west jerusalem, so we come from the same seat. but in reality, two different worlds. >> i was born in jerusalem and i've been living there all my life, since 1945. five years ago i came to the united states to launch a tv channel. and that's how i met jamal dajani. he challenged me to think about solutions that hadn't been discussed until now. and one day we said, well, we should test it on the ground. >> the reality therere is very harsh. but why don't we go over there and do i it. >> we are herere in a bubblble. after sometitime of working together withth jamal i said let's do thisis in california. you only have to choosose in th neighbhborhood what kikind of l yoyou want i in the mornining. >> w when i go thehere i'm a

we will look at a silent film that was produced in 1916 titled "uncle sam watching the mexican border." here joining us is julie prieto. she is the author of the mexican expedition: 1916-1917. put together by the u.s. army center of military. put this into context of what was happening and it's importance today. julie: the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of this mexican revolution. that begins in 1910 with the dictator of mexico. he is ousted by a man named francisco. after he is killed, several revolutionary factors emerge from that. one of the faction that emerges is called the constitutionalist. one of the people aligned with it is french a scope -- francisco. 1914, if they had become successful. they managed to control a large part of the country. at this point of success, he breaks with the constitutionalist. him, successful against but during 1915 he has a series of military reverses against the currency or government. he goes from having an army that is 30-50,000 people operating in mexico to having about 500 to 1000 troops under his comm

others were forced to labor on their former plantations with their new master being uncle sam. many face deprivation and insufficient medical care suffering a mortality rate higher than the accompanying white soldiers by 5% to 10%. three people with valued works girls like blacksmiths tended to receive the highest pay and enjoyed somewhat better conditions. others made some wages laboring as pioneers, cooks, or launderers. whatever the compensation, black civilian labor was below army logistics. just as in slave labor did in the confederacy. each refugee who fled to union lines the pride the confederacy of vital support of work with 80% of the white male military aged southern population mobilized in the army's. the u.s. armies for better and for worse became the site of transformative social processes. as white soldiers representing every northern region economic class and ideological stands interacted with african- americans often for the first time. the number of black americans living in the free states was a mere 1% to 2% of the overall population in the best of circumstan

(grant) millions of americans who owe uncle sam this year could receive a smaller tax bill from the i treasury department said today that it's allowing more people who underpaid taxes in 20-18 to avoid paying a penalty. (catherine) it's doing that by lowering the penalty threshold. taxpayers will now be able to avoid a penalty as long as they pay 80-percent of what they owe for 20-18 through withholding. the threshold is usually 90- percent. the change comes amid concerns about the 20-17 tax law. it's estimated that nearly 30- million taxpayers with-held too little on taxes last year. far more than usual.. (grant) áanheuser-buschá faces a legal fight over corn syrup. ámillercoorsá sued áanheuser-buschá -- accusing the company of ly ing about not using corn syrup in its beer.. ámillercoorsá is requesting a federal court to force anheuser-busch to stop those commercials. they also want a new campaign started that would "correct the false and misleading impressions" that were made by the original effort. (catherine) the papa johns pizza chain lost its spokesman last year -- but it's abou

jared: perhaps to si circumvent uncle sam. contract opposed to 13.3% in the golden state, all in all, $779,000 a year versus $3.38 million. lauren: woul wow. jared: russell westbrook sees a fan, he's in portland, there's a fan wearing a westbrook, oklahoma city jersey. here you go, kid. take my smelly shoe. ashley: and a good catch, by the way. lauren: he gave him his shoe? jared: westbrook has done that before. what a cool parting gift. you go to a game, you might catch a ball. ashley: i can tell you this, it's not going to fit him. jared: one day it will. lauren: it's going to smell like a shoe. jared: what a cool gift. you put that on your wall, you're the coolest kid in school. ashley: catch jared's sports reports on fox news headlines, 24/7, smelly shoes and all, on sirius xm channel 115. lauren: maybe we can agree on this, pabst blue ribbon giving shot and a beer a whole new meaning with this potential new venture. and one woman's yo hill hilarios response to a retailer whose clothing wasn't her size. tracee carrasco is

some of these systems, inflating the cost of college, colleges and universities are saying well if uncle samth more free dollars, let's raise the cost, jack up the cost. the point is federal intervention, government intervention has already contributed to the problem. why would we turn to that same leviathan for new solutions by handing them more power? melissa: guy benson, fantastic. have a good time. see you soon. >> see you soon. connell: like you were prepping guy benson for a debate. melissa: he is always ready. that is why i wanted him on. connell: spacex is getting ready for a major rocket launch. we're live in cape canaveral with the details next. ... connell: let's get to spacex preparing for this launch tom and phil keating is at the kennedy space center in cape canaveral. hi, phil. >> good afternoon, spacex's 17 year long goal to get a space capsule up into space is just about 10 hours from happening, this is a first of its kind test mission for human exploration, and that is launch pad 38 a behind me, historic launch pad 39 a from which the apollo capsules as well as most of the

it turns out that even the hardest partisans of uncle sam's misguided children can have their hearts turned by a story told that they had not heard before. so this is my purpose in writing neptune's inferno, to tell the navy's side of the story, to turn the story of guadalcanal from a feeling of grievance to the navy to one of gratitude. the tools that are available to a writer have their limitations. , i thinkonce wrote somewhat famously, of the difficulty of using words to capture reality on a page. i wrote "if i could do it, would do no writing here at all. it would be photographs. the rest would be fragments of cloth, bits of cotton, lumps of earth, records of speech, and files of voters, plates of food and excrement." morris was safe of the similar when he called wattle canal and -- called wattle canal -- guadalcanal more of an emotion. i will submit to you the isbol of guadalcanal numbers. one that crystallizes the story to me -- the number of sailors that died at guadalcanal, about 5000. the 5000 number is three times the number of men who died in ground fighting on the island

we will look at a silent film that was produced in 1916 titled "uncle sam watching the mexican bordere joining us in our studio for some context and analysis is julie prieto. she is the historian and author of the mexican expedition: 1916 to 1917, put together by the u.s. army center of military. put this time into context. what was happening during these two years and it's importance today? julie: the mexican expedition and the border needs to be understood in the context of the mexican revolution. the conflict begins in 1910 with the ouster of a dictator of mexico. he is ousted by a man named francisco madero. he himself is soon killed and after he is killed several , revolutionary factors emerge from that. one of the faction that emerges is a fraction under a man that is called the constitutionalist. one of the people who is aligned with the constitutionalists is four via, francisco pancho villa. by 1914, they had become successful. they managed to control a large part of the country. and at this point of success, he breaks with the constitutionalists. he is successful militarily a

they cite ad variety of reasons i tell you a big one, uncle sam. >>> "medicare for all" becoming a defining issue for 2020, not just democrats and republicans don't really have a health care message of their own. will simply saying democrats are wrong be enough. >> will strong burt in main street wages continue? we'll have the big jobs announcement tomorrow. all that and more on "making money." ♪ . charles: futures were lower this morning right before the start of trading. right before start of trading mario draghi head of ecb had a big change of heart. they announced new plans to spark europe's economy. that news sparked a reversal. like every rally this week, every rally attempt this week, it was short-lived. banks love money printing but economists think this has gone too far reviving a old age chicken and egg debate. banks say weak economies need stimulus. experts saying the stimulus is making the economies weak. who is right? michael block, keith fitz-gerald, chief strategist for money map press, and jack ablin with us, cofounder and cio of crescent wealth advisors. jack, you've seen t

we have a very rich uncle sam. now free to throw off the shackles to dole out whatever he wants whenever we wanted. free college, why stop there! let's offer had transplants from geniuses so we can all take a toke of the collective wisdom. this limited government gambit has been so limiting! and i'm finally understanding why commies have all the fun! and what it is like to be beloved as bernie and aoc. they should be copresidents! it is not about haggling over dumb details like cost. it is about being morally right. and the roi. nancy pelosi, most powerful democrat next to amy klobuchar 's temperature is lukewarm now on medicare fraud and the green new deal because she is bogged down in stinky old facts! she says all the great ideas go beyond the scope of government. it makes me think she is high. so why stop there! free drugs for everyone! so we can all be out of our minds. that is the memo.♪ ♪ [music] ♪ [music] kennedy: house speaker nancy pelosi is not the only one trying to keep the progressive wing of her part

. >> uncle sam certainly doesn't. >> all right. so wait a minute. can we go back to last week?do so. if you'll remember, when the jackpot was ballooning, reggie said, there was no way anyone here is going to win. >> i said that? did i actually say that? >> in case you forgot, we've got the clip. >> tonight's powerball jackpot drawing is now worth $550 million. good luck if you are playing. >> uh-huh. >> you're going to need it. >> right. because you're not going to win. i'm sorry to say. >> all right. let's hear that apology, reggie. >> i apologize to two people in the bay area who won last night. you obviously won. you know what's funny, this is the second time i've done this. there was some other really big jackpot, i was like don't play, you're not going to win. sure enough, people win. >> i need you to start saying, jessica, you will not win. >> there's no way you're going to win. you're not going to win. big time loser not going to win. >> i'll take that. >> we know who is not getting a share from the two winners, the one who doubted them. >> i will no longer doubt that th

we can chuckle about this idea of uncle sam ending a thousand bucks to every single one of us but isat far off from some of the things that are being more seriously discussed by democrats at enormous cost to american taxpayers? they have no real answers, at least he mentioned a tax increase and how you would pay for it. a lot of people like kamala harris come out and say 32, $33 trillion single-payer health care, she says return on investment like that's an answe answer. >> you have alexandria ocasio-cortez talk about this issue, she's talked about the green new deal and how ambitions it's going to become a what's impatient about saying you're going to get a free check every month? >> i am a registered independent but what i will say is that i don't believe universal base income is the way out of poverty. i don't think it puts people on a path to prosperity, it actually gives someone a path of consistent poverty and low income. the value-added tax that he talks about is an added tax for the american people. it may seem like we are getting free money, getting a thousand dollars, were

the continuing recession threatens the support base especially in big cities like a stumble and uncle sam is local elections will real the president's standing among fifty seven million turks eligible to vote. else's era stumble live now to a child who's also in istanbul for his jamal the polls have started to close in some areas all eyes of course on what happens in istanbul and ankara. indeed i mean istanbul is probably more in foursomes in the sense that it is the most cosmopolitan city in key usually whoever holds on or maintains power and if somebody has a good reflection as to their ability to hold on to their country that really the rates in istanbul may be a little bit closer than what's the act part you would have liked however there are two concerns in sums of being able to maintain their grip over here what's more interesting is the capital ankara even though it is the capital usually more important than other countries here it's more ceremonial in the sense that it is an administrative capital so even if they where it's your news anchor it's important to know that the ak party

here you see uncle sam is being crucified by -- if you can't read, on the top it says "this is the u.s. in the hands of the jews." the klan extended its charges against the jews not only be on -- not only beyond the fact that they were predators, the on the -- and beyond the fact that they were christ killers, to their control of hollywood. you probably know that in the early days, hollywood had a disproportionate number of production companies owned by jews. but in klan talk, the reason the jews did this was not because of they wanted to make money. it was because they were deliberately using hollywood to undermine the chastity of american women by featuring women in scanty clothing, by having plots in which people kissed each other and did other illicit things on the screen. these stories also worked. this is a picture of the klan in portland, oregon, in a church service. these stories worked because they were rich in symbolic and emotional meanings that were very important to the discourse of evangelical protestants. i think there was one overarching principle here, it is the princi