inky for being with us on c-span. -- thank you for being with us on c-span. heather: thank you. >> a conversation with c-span's 2021 survey of presidential leadership giving insight on the new rankings. we will discuss who is up and who is down. where do most recent presidents rank and more. join in on the conversation. watch washington journal live, sunday, july 4. before the program, go to the website to see the full results of the 2021 survey. ♪ >> >> house republicans on a subcommittee heard from scientist on the origins of covid-19. one of them served under president trump as the assistant secretary for health, leading the testing efforts. several lawmakers not on the special subcommittee also took part in this republican only event. >> good afternoon everybody. thank you for coming. i want to thank our witnesses. this is something we have wanted to do and that is to have a hearing on the origins of covid-19. with the select subcommittee, republicans as well as our ranking member on the oversight commte

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the creator says he plans to make the code open source, which means it could some day be used on c span here in the us. yes, that means with just as your teacher tells you to get off your phone in class, your favorite or least favorite members of congress could be called out on twitter because they won't stop scrolling, won't they're supposed to be paying attention on the house floor. all right, rachel, i think this is fantastic. it's fun. i love calling out congressional members on what they're doing here. i do have one problem with it. ok, and i usually don't go slippery slope here on the show night, but i do have to say what happens if a business starts putting cameras up in their office isn't going. if we do, you look at your phone, you're going to get dr. we're going to write you up. i mean, this could be concerning situation, and that's true. i mean, it could lead to a whole new world of surveillance that only started in congress. well, let's, let's hope at least we can get it on c span here in the united states. there are a few of them. so you see doing that and in the middle of

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inky for being with us on c-span. -- thank you for being with us on c-span. heather: thank you. >> a conversation with c-span's 2021 survey of presidential leadership giving insight on the new rankings. we will discuss who is up and who is down. where do most recent presidents rank and more. join in on the conversation. watch washington journal live, sunday, july 4. before the program, go to the website to see the full results of the 2021 survey. ♪ >> >> house republicans on a subcommittee heard from scientist on the origins of covid-19. one of them served under president trump as the assistant secretary for health, leading the testing efforts. several lawmakers not on the special subcommittee also took part in this republican only event. >> good afternoon everybody. thank you for coming. i want to thank our witnesses. this is something we have wanted to do and that is to have a hearing on the origins of covid-19. with the select subcommittee, republicans as well as our ranking member on the oversight committee are going to give opening statements. we have two

follow us on social media at c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. recently on american history tvs oral history series michael schlitz recounted his time in the us army during the iraq war. here's a portion of that interview. anytime we're looking for the ieds. you're only going about two miles per hour. so it's it's a creed crawling. obviously why you need that that heavy armored vehicles because you're moving so slow. it's an easy target. and we got down to the end of the road. it's very rural area. there's a lot of canals and farmland and not the open desert that people think of when when they think of iraq and different. areas over there and once we started coming back up we picked up the pace a little bit. i want to say we were probably going about between five and ten miles an hour. so it's not like we're speeding up the road, but we weren't creep crawling along either. and then i heard the blast. i can remember hearing the boom. and before i could even get like a choice for a letter word. i'm out. i was i was hitting the ground and i can remem

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. >> follow us on social media @ c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. oric alexandria, in partnership with the emerging revolutionary war, hosted a symposium on the war. next, four symposium presenters take part in a discussion and answer audience questions about misconceptions about the american revolution. the office of historic alexandria provided the video. >> since this is about misconceptions, or the hindsight of 2020 and 2021, i will throw this to the panel. what is one misconception, either that was not

follow us on social media at c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. here next on american history tv university of maryland history professor richard bell talks about the declaration of independence its origins purpose and global significance during and after the american revolution. the smithsonian associates hosted this event dr. bell has presented many outstanding programs for us on topics relating to early american history in the american revolutionary period over the course of the past several years dr. bell received his phd from harvard university and his ba from the university of cambridge in england. he is associate professor of history at the university of maryland in college park where he specializes in early american history and cultural history, and he has been honored with more than half a dozen teaching awards at harvard and at the university of maryland. the american society of 18th century studies bestowed its innovative course design award on his undergraduate course on the topic of ordinaryiv

eastern on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. >> will david stewart used to practice law in washington, d.c. he gave it up over 15 years ago to write history. his first book was all about the constitutional convention in philadelphia called the summer of 1787. that was in 2008. a year later he wrote about the trial of andrew johnson. any focus on aaron burr. next james madison. now in 2021 he takes a look at george washington. and in his words, his mastery of poets. >> david stewart on this episode of booknotes+. listen at c-span.org/podcast or whatever you get your podcasts. >> the senate commerce subcommittee on space insights held a hearing on how to manage space traffic and debris. witnesses were asked about space junk collisions and the role of private industry in space travel. this is an hour and a half. >> [inaudible conversations]

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on c-span2. -- 8:00 eastern on c-span2. go e c-span radio app. joining us now is carol leonnig, washington post investigative reporter as well as philip rucker, a washington post correspondent. they are the co-authors of this new book "i alone can fix it: donald date -- donald j. trump's catastrophic final year." the title from the book comes from a line in donald trump's acceptance speech. [video clip] >> i have joined the political arena so the powerful can no longer beat up on people who can no longer defend themselves. nobody knows the system better than me. which is why i alone can fix it. [applause] host: carol, what about him saying that led you to title the book this way? guest: it was an interesting challenge to summarize 20/20, what a painful and lethal year. when we looked back over the many ways, trump -- the many ways donald trump governor that year, he professed that he was such a great governor, that he would be such a leader and defender and he could fix everything because he knew best. philip and i in our reporting tried to put former presi

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c-span video library and -- c-span.org. here is what the general had to say. [video clip] >> on the issue of critical race theory a lot of usave to get smarter on what the theory is. but, i think it is important, actually for those of us in uniform to be open-minded and be widely read. the united states military academy is a university and it is important that we train and understand -- and i want to understand white rage and i am white. i want to understand it. what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the constitution of the united states of america. what caused that? i want to maintain an open mind and i want to analyze it. it is important to understand it because our soldiers come from the american people so it is important that the leaders now and in the future understand it. i have read mao zedong, karl marx, lenin, that does not make me a communist. what is wrong with understanding ? having situational understanding about the country that we are here to defend? i find it offensive that we are accusing the military and general officers and commissioned and noncommissioned

watch on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> sunday night on "q&a," historian donald ritchie tells usut drew pearson, a man who derailed the political careers of several members of congress and attracted the attention and anger of every president from fdr to mexican. >> he had a column called "the washington merry-go-round" every single day, even holidays and weekends, and he did that from 1932 until he died in 1969. the column continued under jack anderson. he also had a very popular radio show on sunday night, and he tried to make it into television in the 1950's. he was a best-selling author. he was a man who told the truth. he told what politicians really would prefer not to see in the newspapers, and he tried to get behind the news and tell people what was really going on in washington. he ruffled a lot of feathers, especially presidents of the united states, united states senators, and assorted other politicians. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." you can also listen to "q&a" as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. >> president biden spoke at the nation

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. >>> follow us on social media on c-span history for more this day in history clips and posts. >>> ricout his book, arrival of the first africans in virginia, which profiles the 20 and odd african who is arrived in jamestown colony in 1619. this group included mr. murphy's own ancestors, the virginia museum of history and culture hosted this event and provided the video. >> today's lecture takes place about 200 years prior to that event in creole n. 1619, a group of 32 african men, women, and children arrived on the shores of virginia. they had been kidnapped in angola and forced aboard the spanish slave slip san juan bautista. the ship was attacked by privateers, and the captives were taken by the english to their new world colony. but this group has been shrouded in controversy

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on c-span 3. we're focusing on the may day 1971. anti-vietnam war protests joining us. this morning is lawrence roberts. he's the author of a book on those events. mr. roberts, thank you very much for being with us. we appreciate it. thank you for having me greta. i'm looking forward to it. let's begin with what is going on with the vietnam war. let me let me paint a picture of what happened exactly 50 years ago this morning. it was also a sunday morning may 2nd and richard president richard nixon and his aids had ordered hundreds of dc. police riot squad to clear out a park down by the potomac river in which tens of thousands of mostly young people have been camping and preparation for what was going to be the most audacious protest in all of the anti-war movement against the vietnam war. the people had come from all over the country to camp in west potomac park in order to get ready for this traffic blockade of washington dc which was sort of a last-ditch effort after six years of the movement to force the government to pull all of the us troops out of out of vietnam.

on the free c-span radio app. on tuesday, a conversation about the budget reconciliation process. watch the brookings institution live, online, or on the free c-span radio app. joining us from massachusetts is chris matthews, his newest book my life in politics. guest: happy father's day. big day for all of us. host: what did you learn about chris matthews in writing this? guest: life as a way of going around, what goes around, comes around. in my generation week rub under world war ii hiding under our desks because the russians were coming. i found myself at the end of the cold war in budapest and berlin watching the fall of the iron curtain. i was in africa in the peace corps on the border of south africa during the apartheid and i was there for the election where nelson mandela was elected president. a lot of the things you think that will not change, will. many times for the better, i am optimistic about this. look at gay-rights, marriage, that will never change, but it did. i think we made progress, not enough. changes the story. host: let's dig in. guest: -- host: let's dig in. the battle between right and left will not fade, we needed, we must battle for the max

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our guest is going to be with us for the next 75 minutes here on c-span's washington journal and on c-span 3's american history tv. our phone lines are divided for those who are current and former residents of tulsa, oklahoma, 204-748-8000, and 204-748-8001. nancy is on the phone from new jersey, go ahead, please. >> caller: yes, i just feel that white people and their attitudes will never change and their duty is to promote white supremacy no matter what they say to our face. and i think that black people need to use the road map that white people used on us, and treat them the same way. and if they're going to forget our history when we get in the majority and people of color get in the majority, we're going to rewrite their history. okay? if they can do the same thing, and then look in our face and go, no, we didn't do that on purpose, and all of this stuff, we have to show proof that they had intention to do this. and, of course, we know that white people did the whole time, and they're now trying to write out that there wasn't intention to do a lot of things. but also, reparations. wh

watch landmark cases sunday night at 9:45 on c-span, online at c-span.org, or listen on the c-span radio app. host: joining us from boston's former congresswoman jane harman , the author of a new book called "insanity defense: why our failure to confront hard national security problems makes us less safe." thank you for being with us. guest: thank you and good luck at the bipartisan policy center. i'm getting this is your second to last broadcast you will be missed. host: what is your overall message? guest: i was in congress for nine terms and i headed the wilson center for nine years and that spans more or less three decades since the cold war and ted, my premise is after the cold war ended we had no strategy for what the world would look like. we won, russia lost, everyone wanted to be us, and we missed china's rise in the 90's p i was in congress than. --90's. i was in congress than. then came 9/11. we were surprised, which we should not have been, then we over militarized our response, which is going on to this day. so, "insanity defense" means doing the same thing and expecting a different result. my po

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eastern on c-span, www.c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. >> "washington journal" continues. host: ali noorani joins usow to talk about the biden administration's immigration policies. let's begin with what is happening on the southern border and those attempting to cross or those who want to get apprehended to get into the system of the country in hopes of staying. are they tested for covid-19? guest: i was just down there a couple of weeks ago. as individuals are coming to the northern mexico side of the order, many of them are going into shelter facilities that are read wiring covid tests before they actually are able to stay the night. i've visited a facility run by the international organization iom, where if someone is presented with a positive test, they were quarantined in the facility up to 10 days. what we are seeing along the northern mexico boarding -- border is the ability to test people so when folks are entering the united states, they are able to get tested by cdp but then we move them through a process that's orderly and safe and secure and people seek to apply for asylum, they can beg

on social media. follow us at c-span history. monday on real america, fresh colors, a 1970 u.s. information agency film about the american flag. here is a preview. >> the first flag in the american british colonies was the english flag of st. george. it arrived with john cabot in 1497. objections began almost immediately. the first flag protester didn't appear until 1637, it was that year that john endicott cut off part of the cross saying as it was a gift from the pope, it was a relic of the anti christ. for his action endicott was barred from public office for one year. by and large the colonies remained loyal to the british flag even after armed conflict broke out. but as the american revolution grew more heated, new banners of independence began to appear. the rattle snake and the pine tree were the most common symbols. as late as 1775 no one had given much thought to devising colors by which colonial warships could recognize each other. two floating batteries were marked with green tree flag, but the making of flags for 40s and ships and camps generally was left to army con

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on c-span. >> joining us now to give us more in light of the president announcements, laura from politico. she serves as their defense reporter. thank you for joining us. >> thank you for having me. yours takes a look at the efforts going out of afghanistan. you make the case that this was pre-much already completed even before yesterday's announcement. can you give us context? guest: scheuer, one of the news items from the president's speech was that he moved up the deadline. previously it was september 11. now it's august 31. but my sources are telling me that the drawdown is effectively done. we currently have just 600 troops in afghanistan. just about all of them were always expected to stay past the official withdrawal date to provide security at the u.s. embassy in kabul and at the kabul international airport. the only personnel left to withdrawal is general scott miller, and a handful of his staff. there is a handful more of security and logistics forces that the pentagon sent in temporarily to aid in the withdrawal. they will also depart. but out of the 2500 or so that president bi

one of the strangest historical moments in the history of this country. host: we appreciate you spending the hour with us. michael >> live now here on c-span we are back at the white house where press second jen sake will hold a daily jen psaki will hold a daily briefing. we'll hear more about president biden's infrastructure from earlier. we are expecting the briefing to start shortly. jen: good afternoon. happy monday. ok. one item for all of you at the top. the united states continues its tremendous efforts to donate covid-19 vaccines from the u.s. global sy.

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us president's daughter by terrorists. watch american history tv every saturday and book tv every sunday on c-span 2. to commemorate its 60th anniversary and the publication of james hoban designer and builder of the white house the white house historical association paid tribute to the irish immigrant at hobin's washington dc grave site. next on the presidency we hear from among others the irish ambassador to the united states who spoke about his countrymen the white house historical association hosted this event and provided the video. well, good afternoon again, and thank you all for coming on this. thankfully overcast but not rainy day. we appreciate you being here with us. ambassador archbishop president general van buren the grand master of the grand lodge of the district of columbia our dear friends from the royal hibernians or the ancient hibernians hi, my name is stewart mclaurin and i'm the president of the white house historical association. and it's my privilege to welcome you here for this special occasion today. this is going to be a brief ceremony commemorating james hoban. whose work

what to hearing by tuesday beginning at 930 eastern on c-span three oh minus he spent .org. for usand for the free c-span radio app. >> sunday on q&a, washington post indicated on its colonists michelle singletary annable, what to do with your money when crisis hits pretty. >> it is not a mentor if if there's to be another economic crisis but when. so we want to set you up actually the next crisis, it is not actually all about covid-19 but what recession is going to come down the road. it may be long or short. but life is going to happen and need you to prepare now. i do a lot of financial seminars in my community. and it is so hard to get people to save and prepare into his mouth pretty because they are doing well and they don't think that tomorrow will have an issue pretty and so i say you need to save and you need to do this and they say yeah yeah, i will get to it and then when the crisis hit, everybody is like trouble mounted ready to do it but that is too late. the time to do that is when you have the resources and when you have the ability. it's easy to cut when you can't pa

on c-span two. >> coming up today on c-span, a house judiciary subcommittee hearing on the use of facial recognition technology by police. then at 2:30 in the afternoon a senate judiciary subcommittee examines anti-competitive practices and the prescription drug market. on c-span2 the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. eastern. to consider nominations for deputy labor secretary. >> washington journal continues. host: headlines last week about a study out of the university of southern california found that medicare could have saved $2.6 billion if they bought generic drugs at cosco. erin trish joins us to talk about this. how did you come up with that study and how did you make the comparison to purchasing the generic drug at cosco? guest: good morning at thank you for having me. my colleagues and i were having a conversation with an executive from a generic manufacturing firm. they provided some kind of provocative anecdotes for us. they make these generic drugs. they knew how much they were selling those pills for when they made them. those same generic drugs at the pharmacy, what were they charging them

us at (202)-748-8003. and we are always reading on social ed a on facebook -- social media on facebook .com/c-span and twitter, @cspanwj. you can follow us on instagram also at, @cspanwj. when states and localities change to rank vote choice voting, our people catching on to it quickly? guest: when you see a range of the way districts do it, they have different resources and priorities. what we believe is the most important educational tool is the ballot itself. a good design, simple, clear instruction, voters are showing the ability to rank candidates. the important tool is to really make sure you feel comfortable, like why am i ranking candidates? is it a point system? mi given 10 points for my first choice and nine for the second? it is not that, it is all in for your first and then if your first choice loses, you go to your backup. you want to make people comfortable with expressing their preferences. new york city has had this big primary and 41 contests needed for the instant outcome. you get invested in outcome and you want to know if it makes sense, and that kind of education is important. new york in

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