simpson" and "opening arguments, a young lawyer's first case, united states v. oliver north."n in the conversation on c-span 2. then at 7:00 eastern, dinesh d' souza looks at the impact a hillary clinton presidency would have on america in his book "hillary's america, the secret history of the democratic party." go to book tv.org for the complete schedule. >>> c-span is touring cities across the country exploring american history. next, a look at our visit to the blaine house in augusta, maine. you're watching american history tv all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. >>> i want to welcome you to the blaine house. since 1919 the home of maine's governors and their families. the house was actually built in 1833 by a captain james hall from bath, maine. for those of you who know maine, bath is a major shipbuilding and seaport town and captain hall decided in 1830 to retire from the sea. he bought this very strategically located peace of land right across from the statehouse that year, 1830, and in 1833 he finished construction on a very handsome two-story hipped roof federal hou

a young lawyer's first case, united states v. oliver north. then at 7:00 eastern danish looks at hillary clinton president in his book hillary's america, the secret history of the democratic party. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> now, a discussion about the role of the air force and the u.s. nuclear arsenal in national defense, general jack spoke at an event at the capitol hill club in washington, d.c. this is 45 minutes. >> good morning, everybody, i want to welcome you to the last of our seminars on nuclear deterrence and missile defense with a caveat that we have two possible additions, mr. bahiti and tom both have asked to speak and i'm trying to accommodate them and we will work that out, one was general on the ninth of september and on the 22nd colonel are going to talk about the space enterprise ground, general white is going to talk about space enterprise vision, yes, the 22nd are doing an event with the task force 21 here on the 22nd which begins at 11:00 o'clock that morning and we will be doing an event, this

"the run of his life" and "opening arguments: a young lawyer's first case, united states v. oliver north." beginning at noon eastern on c-span 2. then at 7:00 eastern, dinesh d'souza looks at an impact that a hillary clinton presidency would have on america. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> next, column bbia universit history professor eric foner discusses the rise of socialism in america in the early 20th century. in new york city and milwaukee and the socialist party of america presidential campaigns of eugene debs. this class is an hour and ten minutes.

"the run of his life" and "opening arguments: a young lawyer's first case, united states v. oliver north." beginning at noon eastern on c-span 2. then at 7:00 eastern, dinesh d'souza looks at an impact that a hillary clinton presidency would have on america. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> next, column bbia universit history professor eric foner discusses the rise of socialism in america in the early 20th century. in new york city and milwaukee and the socialist party of america presidential campaigns of eugene debs. this class is an hour and ten minutes. >> this is a class at columbia university, a course called "the american radical tradition," and we started with the american revolution and have been going through the abolitionist movement, early femininism feminism. the civil war reconstruction, labor conflict in the gilded age, the populist movement and now we're sort of entering into the 20th century and in the next couple of weeks, we will look at the progressive era, a period of, you know, a lot of labor unrest, the industrial workers of the world, the wom

and opening arguments, a young lawyer arrest first case, united states v. oliver north. join in the conversation with your phone calls and tweets, beginning at noon eastern, on c-span2. at 7:00 eastern, the dinesh d'souza looks at impact a hillary clinton presidency would have on america, in his book, "hillary's america." the secret history of the democratic party. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> congressional news from "the hill" this morning. republican presidential nominee donald trump says he is happy with his refusal not to back speaker paul ryan in his primary race. quoting here, no, i'm not concerned about anything. i think we're going to do really well, trump told west palm beach cbs affiliate, wpec, when asked about his refusal to support ryan and any concerns about republicans not backing the billionaire. i was very forthright when i said, when i made certain statements, and you know, i'm happy with them. we'll he see what happens. i think we're going to do very well, trump said. you can read more at thehill.com. here's more on house spea

and opening arguments, a young lawyer's first case, united states v oliver north. joining the conversation with your phone calls and tweets, beginning at noon eastern on c-span2. then at 7:00 eastern, dinesh d'souza looks at the impact a hillary clinton presidency would have on america. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >>> now the contenders, our 14-week series on key political figures who ran for president and lost. but who, nevertheless, changed political history. we feature former speaker of the house, james g. blaine of maine who also served as secretary of state for three american presidents, and was the republican candidate for president in 1884. this 90-minute program was recorded at the blaine house in augusta, maine. each sunday at this time, through labor day weekend, you can watch the contenders here on american history tv, on c-span3. ♪ ♪ from the length and the breadth of columbia's land ♪ ♪ from north and from south and from east and from west, from the lakes and the oceans and sand ♪ ♪ resounding on high in a rallying cry, for vict

2000 election. , the run of his life and opening arguments, a young lawyer's first case, united states v. oliver northin in the conversation with emails and tweets. at 7:00 eastern danesh looks at impact hillary clinton would have on america. go to booktv.org for the complete weekend schedule. >> shortly with will have more coverage of the urban league conference in baltimore, the group is holding a luncheon. it will start? just a moment. we will have live coverage here on c-span2. also coming live at 2:30 panel on voting, maryland democrat and other speakers will be a part of that. the panels including the one this morning an race and incarceration will be available on our website c-span.org later today. [inaudible conversations] >> so it will be a couple moments before the urban league in baltimore. remarks from maryland governor larry hogan and author and commentator. >> thank you to mark moriel and certainly to all in the national urban league. i'm very happy to be at another conference of the national urban league and certainly my friend and colleague mark moriel, no one has done more and no one

one reason i wrote "opening arguments: a young lawyer's first case--united states v. oliver north understanding that my initial impression was flawed and it is better for prosecutors to have more limited conception of what they should do. >> host: what is the connection between thurgood marshall, the naacp and special prosecutors? you wrote how that led to the creation of the special prosecutor. >> guest: the public interest lawyers filing lawsuits at the naacp legal defense fund to end segregation, that is an explicitly partisan political agenda just has evan wilson and the other lawyers trying to end the ban on same-sex marriage in the united states had an explicit political agenda, that is perfectly appropriate. our system is designed for people to use the legal system in that way. it is not designed in my opinion for prosecutors who have the power of government behind them, not independent actors, government lawyers to try to use that power for political change is a bad idea. >> host: from "the run of his life: the people v. o.j. simpson," the central fact in this case, o.j. s