century, a pretty long moment, 15 years, 75 years, 100 years were mixed-race people were completely unremarkable. no big deal. there were lots of them around. racial mixing, inter-racial marriage, all those things that became anathema and the early 20th century were possible. so you can hold that out as their hopeful moment. there was violence and there was that things have happened but the racial politics filling that landscape, appreciating what complicated lives these people had. the fact that they were everywhere.

his license and walk me through it as if i had never seen a driver's license before and it was unremarkable event until he pointed out the heart on his drivers license and said i've got the heart. you can see i'm an organ donor and i immediately stopped him in his tracks and said you are an organ donor as if he had committed some kind of sin, and his response was very practical and simple. he said, yeah, i'm not going to need them when i'm dead which you would expect from a 16-year-old, but it was a profound statement. i had no idea how quickly those words were going to come back and be necessary in my family but what he had done right then was advanced planning and he had shared his advanced plan with a family member. all at the age of 16. >> wow. >> and i thank him for that. i thank him for the conversation that we had. it wasn't something that went further although the next time came around to renew my license, i did think about what he said and i changed my designation to be an organ donor as well. >> you made the decision before your brother died? >> i did make the decision before he d

. >> it's remarkable on some levels and totally unremarkable on others. the issues in discussion were -- we think we have this fixed, maybe we don't think we have it fixed but calmed and then you turn around for five minutes and come back and it's not calm again. >> i think the problem is the opposite. especially nowadays, is the sense of jews and arabs are eternal enemies. never be at peace and that kind of thinking is the enemy of peace. and one of the things that i wanted to show in camp david, there was a moment where three very determined and tough men, flawed characters, sat down and overcame that kind of inertia and established a piece, it's not perfect, it's not comprehensive, as carter had hoped it would be, but it created a peace between israel and egypt, two countries that had been in four wars in a generation and there hasn't been a single violation of that treaty in the 35 years since. >> i mentioned the idea of the ever thus nature of this being this positive as expect. tear going to be enemies of peace, but let's go back to that time and co

they are absolutely ordinary and unremarkable. they say they did what any sailor would have done. they will tell you this. what i realized talking to them is that there are two types of greatness. there is revealed greatness and then there is the unrevealed kind. we can call a potential greatness. herosim opens to us that it may lie within each of us, waiting for circumstance. these midshipmen and those who for all them are feeds of us-- feats -- of us have to figure out what we will do it this thing. burden is to wonder what we do with his example for history, as we will soon see later today. history is what you did yesterday. you have become an historic moment, a historic figure, the moment churches can be talked about in the past tense. history is how people tell that are y tomorrow, just as we telling ernest evans' story today. navy finally stands up -- will be left to ponder quietly and alone -- what are two capabilities might be. evans stands as a inspiration. i would rather think that he entertained by those things, along with becoming the navy's greatest fighting captain.

century, a pretty long moment, 15 years, 75 years, 100 years were mixed-race people were completely unremarkable. no big deal. there were lots of them around. racial mixing, inter-racial marriage, all those things that became anathema and the early 20th century were possible. so you can hold that out as their hopeful moment. there was violence and there was that things have happened but the racial politics filling that landscape, appreciating what complicated lives these people had. the fact that they were everywhere. whenever we move into a landscape be interested in who lived there before. what is the really deep history. what can you find out about that because it's always deeper than you might think. >> for more information on booktv's recent visit to colorado springs colorado and other cities visited by her local content vehicles go to c-span.org/local content. >> next peter duffy recounts the life of william sebold the first double agent in fbi history who infiltrated a nazi spy ring in new york city they resulted in 33 arrested in 1941. this program from the international spy museum in wa

determination to keep attention on michael brown's death in a side street in what is otherwise an unremarkabled to the judicial system that to many americans left justice denied. this is rage. the anger, frustration that poured into the streets, giving voice to a community that found itself voiceless in the search for justice. >> in the streets of ferguson, after the grand jury's decision, it was certainly unexpected, perhaps unavoidable rehabilitation. more surprising though how quickly and how far away the fury spread. >> into the street. into the street. >> not just street hoodlums taking advantage of the moment, but raw pent-up emotion. >> it taught me that the black men can get shut down like dogs. it's unbelievable. >> sending thousands, not just into the streets butt out to take them over. >> bystanders who came across the city may find the emotion hard to understand. how did this crisis become more than just ferguson's problem, and why? to a young mother like erica tottam who brought her little ones to a protest blocks from obvious. >> black people are everywhere. michael brown can hap

it should be an unremarkable resource allocation doctrine that basically means you can't prosecute everyingle crime nor would he want to live in a society where it would happen p. you have to apply it to the most serious crime. they don't use prosecutorial discretion for that purpose. he used it in a policy related manner to countermand or contradict the laws congress enacts. he has a constitutional obligation to execute those laws faithfully. it's not a proper use of prosecutorial discretion but it is also one that there is not really much congress can do about it short of impeachment. >> fascinating. because he has said that he has been blocked and blocked and blocked by the recalcitrant and his opinion house gop who we know put 300 bills on his desk that never got this process. >> i was going to say that's a complete perversion of what his job is, though. his job is to execute the laws that congress passes. it is not to stamp his feet and demand the jobs that he wants. he could do that and politically he could pressure them. the job is to execute the laws no the to make them. >> once

november 9th, 1989, the east german minister of propaganda gave a press conference that was rather unremarkable until almost an hour in he shocked the world by saying that east germans could, quote, leave the country through east german border crossing points, unquote, effective immediately. that night the berlin wall began to fall. my next two guests were in the cockpits of power in the white house and 10 downing street and had to manage great power diplomacy through a period of unprecedented change. brent scowcroft was the national security adviser to then president george herbert walker bush and charles powell was his counterpart in britain, foreign policy adviser to then prime minister margaret thatcher. charles, when you were watching this happen, did you realize that the wall meant the end of the soviet empire? >> i didn't think i realized immediately, but i did think they were at a crisis point. i think this was the last of the great cold war crises. you can trace it through the berlin air lift, the soviet invasions of hungary and prague, the deployment of soviet intermedian change nucle

it's unremarkable, right? scientists point out that what you're seeing in the foreground of the photo you see behind me is part of a robot built today beside a piece of nature that existed before the dinosaurs like $ 4.6 billion years before the dinosaurs. there they are side by side. fist pumps and all from european space agency. love this. all of this because the work of the people you see here, this is rosetta mission but nothing everything went as planned. we get more on what went wrong after so much did go right. fred? >> it's some amazing images that the philae lander has beamed back to earth from the comet 67-p. even the scientists here say they were surprised by what they've seen so far. they thought the surface of the comet would be mostly dusty and that the lander when it lands on it might sink in to a point where maybe it wouldn't be able to transmit signals back to earth. that did not happen by any stretch of the imagination. instead, the photos that we're seeing from there appear to show a very ro

prosecutorial discretion is just -- it should be an unremarkable resource allocation doctrine that basically means you can't prosecute every single crime nor would we want to live in a society where that happened. so you have to take your finite resources and apply it to the most serious crimes. the president doesn't use prosecutorial discretion for that purpose. he uses it in a policy-related manner to basically counterman or contradict the laws congress enacts. and he's got a constitutional obligation to execute those laws faithfully. so it's really not a proper prosecutorial discretion but there's also one there's not much congress can do about it short of impeachment. >> it's fascinating. he's said he's been blocked and blocked and blocked by the recalcitrant in his opinion house gop who has put over 300 bills on harry reid's desk that never got moved through this process. go ahead. >> yep. i was going to say that a complete perversion of what his job is. his job is to execute the laws that congress passes. it's not to, you know, stamp his feet and demand until they pass the laws that he

yet there's so many examples throughout history of really ordinary people, powerless ordinary, unremarkable people engaging in simple acts of conscience, whether it's rosa parks refusing to sit at the back of the bus and sparking this unbelievably significant civil tunisian ment and a man against the most tyrants. i think the most critical lesson that i learned working with edward snowden that you've seen from these so many other examples is that any institution built by a human beings, no matter how formidable or powerful it seems can always be attacked and reformed and changed or even destroyed and replaced by even the most ordinary human beings as long as the will and the conviction and the passion is there. to me that is a critical lesson to keep at the forefront of all of our minds all the time. so with that i thank you all very much. [inaudible]t -- > thank you. >> thank you. >> water? >> sure. thank you. >> so we are going to have a conversation for a while, and then we are going to turn it over to some questions for from the crowd. there are microphones. there is a microphone here i

but the other half of this is unremarked upon, is the fact that in the six years have notésentú.)m/Ñjrgle person to guantanamo. we not only have subtracted the number of prisoners, we haven't added any. why is that important? we have nowhere to send people to intear gate them. one of the reasons we are so weak and unable to act over the skies of iraq and syria is we have the worst intelligence. and one of the reasons we do is we no longer are able to capture, keep, intear inmates which was the point of guantanamo in the first place. so, we either kill these people with a drone, or we take them to a court in new york where they require a lawyer and their miranda rights and we can't speak with them. that, i think, is what is overlooked. this is truly hurting us in the long run. six years without a single prisoner that we can intear gate indefinitely. and as you know, in many of these cases, it takes months to get the information you want. >> charles, do you expect any push back from trucks and democrats on this. initially when he said he was going to backyards of fellow democrats. they w

when you have as many tied races as we have, that becomes one of those times when otherwise unremarkableddenly are imbued with the power to change these important elections. joining us is the one and only steve kornacki. steve, thank you very much for being here. can you take us through some of these races where the third party candidate could play a deciding role? >> there are some really interesting situations playing out. let's take you through a couple of them. you mentioned connecticut. let's look at a libertarian named adrian wiley. this is the third candidate in florida. this is charlie crist republiun against rick scott. this is the average of the polls in florida. crist slightly ahead of scott. wiley pulling 6.3%. normally you'd think libertarian, conservative, probably pulling more votes from scott, helping crist. wyllie is pulling more votes from scott. scott and crist both have extremely high negative ratings. what seems to be happening is voters who have turned on rick scott and don't want to re-elect him but also find charlie crist objectionable are using this as their prot

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pretty long while that i'm a 50/50 years, 75 years, 100 years for a mixed-race people work clearly unremarkable. no big deal, lots of them around, racial mixing, interracial marriage, all of those things that became enough of us in the late 19th and early 20th century were possible. so you can hold that out as kind of a hopeful moment. there was violence, bad is happening. but the racial politics are different than we expect. filling that landscape from appreciating what complicated lives these people hide, the fact that they were everywhere. whenever we move into a landscape, been interested in who was there before, what can you find out about that? because it's always deeper than you might think. >> up next, we sit down with historian david and jeanne heidler, who write about history and the importance of teaching it. we visited with the help of our cable partner, comcast. this not be a ♪ >> prismatic graduate school, so we've been writing history since 1978 is when we met in graduate school. so we've been writing history since then for publication not really since graduate school. we started

we have to account for the mistake affected which isolated in the unremarkable data items combine to paint a vivid and specific pitcher. one of the main lessons of technical scholarship on privacy is the power of the mosaic effect. to understand what follows from collecting item, we could think about how it can be merged with other available data and how the data can in turn be used to infer information about people. we have to take into account the avalanche effect emerging on inference. for example, the information the holder a certain loyalty card account number purchase as skin motion on a certain date might turn out to be a key fact the moxie and friends that a particular identify a woman mpeg. the data were collected and analyzed has been shown to enable predictions about social status, affiliation, employment, health and personality. the second implication is the data handling systems have gotten much more complicated, especially in emerging analysis phases after collection. the sheer complexity makes it difficult to understand to predict and to control how they behave. even t

and it's very curious that that event in united states history went curiously unremarked with regard to the 200th anniversary. it found it very curious -- [laughter] why that didn't get much more discussion. but on a more sober note, you might also reflect upon the fact that 1807-1808 you had the 200th anniversary of the official abolition of the african slave trade. it was marked in done done. -- london. tony blair, then-prime minister, and the queen spoke. but here in the united states of america where you have all these people of african descent, you would have thought there would be some sort of official ceremony involving high level authorities marking the official end of the african slave trade. should we infer that people were not happy about the official end of the -- [laughter] i don't know. but in any case, in that second book i tell the story about how in terms of trying to understand how and why slavery was abolished in the united states of america -- and this is part of the takeaway for this evening, i should add -- that in order to understand how slavery was abolished a

affected how i look at pretty much everything is because edward snow den is the most ordinary and unremarkable person you will ever meet. he came from a lower middle class background. his father was in the coast guard for 30 years. he grew up without a sled of position or power or prestige and even when he decided to do what he did, he was just toiling away in obscurity in this maven national security corporation. and a fearless commitment to the political principles he said he believed in, he changed the world. he did. he literally changed the world. he transformed how hundreds of millions of people around the world think about a vast array of issues. he altered the debate about who we are and what kinds of rights we have in the digital age and the relationship of individuals to the state and to states to one another and the role of journalnism society. all kinds of implications. some of this we know. most of which we probably don't. and one of the things that i have encountered from the first moment that i began writing about politics 10 years ago, not just about myself, is the kind of tempt

we have to account for the mosaic effect in which isolated seemingly unremarkable data items combined to paint a dividend-specific picture. indeed, one of the main lessons of recent technical scholarship on privacy is the power of the mosaic effect. to understand what follows from collecting an item, we have to think about how that item can be merged with other available data and how the merged data can in turn be used to infer information about people. we have to take sbrookt the avalanche effects that can occur both in merging and inference. for example, the information that the holder of a certain loyalty card account number purchased skin lotion on a certain date might turn out to be the key fact that unlocks an inference that a particular identifiable woman is pregnant. similarly, phone call metadata, when collected and analyzed in large volume, has been shown to enable predictions about social status, affiliation, employment, health, and personality. the second implication is the data handling systems have gotten much more complicated, especially in the merging and analysis phas

affected how i look at pretty much everything is because edward snow den is the most ordinary and unremarkable person you will ever meet. he came from a lower middle class background. his father was in the coast guard for 30 years. he grew up without a sled of position or power or prestige and even when he decided to do what he did, he was just toiling away in obscureity in this maven national security corporation. and a fearless commitment to the political principles he said he believed in, he changed the world. he did. he literally changed the world. he transformed how hundreds of millions of people around the world think about a vast array of issues. he altered the debate about who we are and what kinds of rights we have in the digital age and the relationship of individuals to the state and to states to one another and the role of journalnism society. all kinds of implications. some of this we know. most of which we probably don't. and one of the things that i have encountered from the first moment that i began writing about politics 10 years ago, not just about myself, is the kind of temp