but washington got his letter to the editor published in the washington star. he said all you have to go is talk to black people in washington, and you will find out that elizabeth did exist. it turns out that these papers are at the library of congress. i was able to go and find out her side of the story. she found this out. it seemed like she was a bit abashed about this. she went and interviewed washington, and he sent her to interview other people. she published this follow-up story, and it is good. it says, it turns out a lot of people knew elizabeth after all. and also she says something i quoted in the introduction. she went to the zones and found that in the homes of african-americans in washington was so much history. there were so many stories and photos and objects. and she was taken with that. and i was interested in the fact that in her little journal, like a daily diary, she said, wrote correction. she knew it was a correction. it appeared to be just a follow-up story, but in her personal diary she said i correct. anyway, that is what spurred wash

that is the model washington set. critical for every president that follows washington. further, worldview implication. ideas matter. the founding era created certain ideas of republican government. we need to know those ideas even if we disagree with them or want to change them. our world view must take them squarely on and engage them carefully. ideas matter. this is what washington was doing with his christian understanding. integrating christian conceptions of reality with his perspective on government and constitutional republic thinking. a role model for subsequent generations. all of us can find what it looks like to be a leader in the face of danger. and living like a christian. we all need heroes. washington is not a perfect man but let me tell you he is a giant sized hero for us to look at. i may make this a little dramatic. i fought this one a few times. get your religion out of my government. the retort if you understand this is that washington said, religion belongs in government as well as irreligion. we all belong here. this is the freedom of conscience wh

she is from the ann washington line. george washington was from the lawrence washington line. we have been living here five years and we had run out of space in the house. so my wife and i made a decision to do an analysis. so we went to the city and asked the board of architectural review and looked into the requirements, and we could not build up. the only way we could build was down. so we hired an architect and engineer. the engineer broke through the wall right below us and we dug feet, andfeet, in six then we went down into the basement to look around, there was a crawlspace about 11 inches. i looked around with a flashlight. and when we looked to the left, we saw a depression in the corner where the new addition had been put. i crawled back to it and i moved all of the dirt away and we found a brick well. i called the archaeologist for the city of alexandria and my wife and i are both historians. my wife is an art history major and we wanted to get the city involved right away. i think it is important. we had friends that did the same thing, the same process of digging

washington and adams. benjamin rush. ,ne of the greatest patriots father of psychiatric medicine, abolitionist society, a great leader, and a signer of the declaration. this is what he wrote. i lament that we waste so much time and money in punishing crimes and take so little pains to prevent them. we profess to be republicans and yet we neglect the only means of establishing and perpetuating our republican form of government. that is the universal education of our youth and the principles of christianity by means of the bible. for this divine book, above all others, favors equality among mankind, respect for just laws and all of those sober and frugal virtues that constitute the sole of republicanism. that is founding ideology. the values of the scriptures will support the republic. time,rap up, i am over that i am a presbyterian minister. we disregard the clock for you turn it in. forgive us. as i wrap up, i am moving towards the goal line. give me a couple extra minutes. washington sat down and wrote an

was --h washington spoke washington spoke was successful, it was largely forgotten. we found it in a cottage and it remains an important resource in our staff library. the stories are far too important to be on so few shelves. hasunately, dr. masur reintroduced this to a larger audience. please join me in welcoming dr. catekate masur. almost 10 years ago, before the lincoln bicentennial, it felt like new books were coming out on lincoln almost weekly. it was not uncommon for people to say, what more could possibly be written about lincoln. so i chuckled when i read in the book that after the lincoln centennial in 1909, people were saying the same thing. how did john washington prove them wrong? kate: it is funny, and i like that line two. this slate of lincoln related stuff came out during the centennial, what more could possibly be written? john washington proved them wrong. it is so obvious and simple and yet it had not happened. despite all of that attention on lincoln, very few people, really anyone who had access to publications, had asked the question, what did

henry clay came to washington in 1808. and along with henry clay came barrels of kentucky straight sour mash whiskey, otherwise known as bourbon. in fact, the barrels he brought from bourbon county where stamped with bourbon county for tax reasons, that is how the name evolved for bourbon. and he discovered that those in washington, washingtonians, were drinking mint juleps with rum or brandy. he was appalled and decided to show people the proper way to make a southern style mint julep. he used to relish in showing people how to make them. southern style, with kentucky straight bourbon whiskey. and we continue to practice that legacy here, using henry clay's original recipe. in fact, henry clay traditionally, in the beginning of every new session of congress, would bring a barrel of bourbon and he would invite on a bipartisan basis members of congress from both sides of the aisle to join him in toasting the new legislative session. that tradition continues to this day. fact, just recently we had a group of distillers from

washington nationals. in that year in the summer, the washington senators were ahead of the american league for most of the time but around the same time the new york yankees were trying to creep in and take the lead for the american league. and you see in the cartoon washington driving the car with the yankee trying to come in and say i like this front seat and washington says, no, i'm not through with driving yet. and that year, which was a rarity for washington sports fans, the senators went on to win the world series over the new york giants. this next cartoon has to deal with another common theme in berryman's cartoon with government workers. while most of the federal government employees aren't in the washington, d.c. area, when he was drawing this, he was really thinking about washington workers and federal workers in particular and every year when congress goes to do the appropriations, they decide if they're going to give a cost of living adjustment to the government workers. and he shows the gove

he loved to draw washington weather. he loved to talk about washington weather. we're talking about it right now. this cartoon was done on march 21st, 1920, and it has to do with the coming of spring. and you see old man winter. he's sitting in front of a pot bellied stove. he has his bag seemingly ready packed to go. and you have spring, the young spring with her beautiful flowery hat on admonishing him saying, you know, you were supposed to be gone by midnight. well, this year it was particularly cold spring and so winter stayed a few extra days and berryman and the washington public were very unhappy with that occurrence. >>> and finally, if you've ever spent any time in washington, d.c. in the summer, you know it is oppressively hot and humid. and that was the case when -- in 1899 when this cartoon was published and this is the oldest cartoon we have we're showing you today. it has to do with mefisto who is a devil sitting on a park bench in washington, d.c. you see the washington monument behind him sweating. and he's fanning himself saying, what have i done

washington, george martha washington, george washington's secretary, his anderson, hisohn manager. ezra was the lease or of the property. by two gentlemen and john anderson again. that is a document signed by key players at mount vernon. you're the first on camera to see this document. these are original pictures of george and marcia -- george and martha washington. the document itself is a document put together by an onorney and put together august 8, 1799. the lease or signed it. washington wrote this, him and march the -- and martha and john anderson signed it. these are done in a dark pen and these are done a lighter pen. it also has the exact same seal on his will. he only wrote to nine letters from the time this was written until he died three months later. two of those letters were written to his secretary of war and one written to a personal friend of his. this is a document that has never been seen that is in this home. it will stay in this house even if we sell the house. i had nine homes here in the city of alexandria i have renovated over the last 20 years. i married a

it stayed in the washington family coupon washington's death. when she died it went back to washington estate. he original auction was held in 1749. george bought two lots. lamotte was 118, 1 was 112. george was a good businessman. if you are a farmer you have to know business inside and out. he purchased the slot because it meant something to him. there were two springs in the city of alexandria. george washington knew the mportance of surveying, he knew the importance of ocation. he had to build on the lot within two years. his brother had lost that lot because he didn't build on it. he knew he had to build a house on the slot within two years. that is the townhouse that was built in to him team 57 to 769. george washington asked a friend if he would help subdivide the lot. it ended up being eight parcels. this portion of the lot stayed in the washington estate until robert washington relinquished control of it. it is signed by george washington three months before his death. it's a lease, washington, wife. that's all in his handwriting three

the same thing with washington. the story of our revolution is often told just through to washs eyes, and deservedly so, but it ignores the fact how did he closed his men, , how did he fed them? it was richard henry lee who did that. yes, ma'am. >> did have the nickname of lightfoot? >> no, no, no. that is lightfoot. harry lee was his nephew. he was a hero in the revolutionary war. he was a great commander and later became governor of virginia, and he was the father of robert e. lee. >> is there a a definitive boon the family history? the history on the family. >> yes. there are loads of books called the lees of virginia. >> which one would you recommend? >> i wouldn't. [laughing] i'd recommend my book. [laughing] yes, sir. >> you talk about how the french ships provided supplies at least one of the ships provided supplies that were used at battle of saratoga. i'm interested in what the kind of real-time communication at the time were when they were dispatching the ship. was it for the purpose of providing supplies

, dc after the capital moved to washington, dc. and so there was criticism that it was an expense that the government should not have gone. then also an effort to keep themake down here in mount vernon and they sprayed ddt all over the area to kill off the bugs and then there was concern that the food might not be good, but a they tasted the food and said, let's go for it. that's a from a memoir from a sect of jackie kennedy. >> how did the weather hold up. >> it was good weather and people were smoking which would not be allowed today. >> the state dinner expected tuesday next week, private dinner on monday. what do you hope the takes from the experience of being here at mount vernon. >> one is this is an answer by the first lady to the experience they had at the eiffel tower. just the four of them eating at the eiffel tower in paris and i think it's extraordinary for us that she selected mount vernon as the answer to the eiffel daughter there's an opportunity to be -- it's a very different view. obviously an urban situation but a

how is washington different? peter: it is dangerous to ask hypotheticals about factual things you have not examined, so i have not done this with all the presidents. i will not address that question, but those that i have looked at, there are the varying levels of christian witness that do show up. some are very unwilling to put a lot of christian language into what they write, and others will clearly do it for political expediency. so, we need to recognize that their private correspondence is the most important, because it is not for show. it is what they communicate. if i were to do the kind of task you gave me, i would want to save their public statements, but in a generally christian america to the extent that was favored, they would speak in that language. but maybe their personal life would have little interest in spiritual things. so, i could give you a method it, but iould pursue will not predict. there are some who have had great christian witness that is part of their life and can demonstrate. washingto

in a church in washington, d.c. on the night of december 31, 1862, the day of the issuing of the emancipation proclamation. she describes -- there were a lot of -- during the civil war in washington, especially with some ame churches with prominent pastors, white dignitaries liked to go to these churches and see what was going on there. she described how in advanced going to be were white important people there, and the black minister would be there, and she wanted to be part of it all. there was singing and preaching all day and into the morning, and celebration. so that is a really good story. >> there is a lot of effort that people make to portray lincoln as a racist. is there anything in his work that would reflect either way? kate: yes. this book is very admiring of lincoln. and i want to be clear on this when i am talking about the book, this is not the only view of lincoln. it is not the only view among african-americans of lincoln. even in the early 1920's, w.e.b debois published some snippets on lincoln tha

the other washington. inside the ballroom at the washington hilton. members of the press, celebrities, journalists, partaking -- politicians, rather, partaking in dinner at this point. the meal is under way after a toast from the president of that association to the first amendment. president trump talking about taking back the house, taking back the senate, talking about keeping the house, keeping the senate, talking about electoral politics in washington township, michigan. he talked about the russia investigation moments ago. let's take a listen to what he had to say. >> i want to thank, by the way, the house intelligence committee. okay? they do it with us too. russian collusion. you know, i guarantee you, i'm tougher on russia, nobody ever thought -- in fact, have you heard about the lawyer? for a year a woman lawyer, she was like, oh, i know nothing, know nothing. now all of a sudden she supposedly is involved with government. you know why? if she did that, because putin and the group said, you know, this trump is killing us. why don't you say t

that was washington by day. >> this is how washington looked from the air tonight. at one point early in the evening, more than 100 fires were burning, some of them in an area just 20 blocks from the white house. as the evening wore on, officials say the incidents of fires seemed to be lessening somewhat, that assessment based on a helicopter trip over the city. three deaths have been reported in the washington rioting so far. there are no details yet on the circumstances surrounding them. more than 350 persons have been treated for injuries, among them several policemen and firemen. fire fighting was hampered if for no other reason, the sheer volume of the alarms. sent into the city from suburban areas. looting spread to the downtown shopping section of the city and as darkness fell arrests increased. to this hour, more than 700 people have been arrested. some of them picked up in spot checks by police enforcing the curfew. more than 4,000 national guard and regular army troops moved into the city to re-enforce the some 1,200 policemen on duty. they were disbursed

he sends it to george washington. and that key, the george washington displayed in philadelphia, he brought it back here to mount vernon. that's an important connection between our friendship. visit why the first state and the president is so crucial to come to a place like this. the stories about our long connection and relationships are important to think about when thinking about the future. aunt vernon has always been place that spoke about the past, the present, and the future. that's why it's relevant for the million visitors we get per year. >> thank you for your time. >> thank you very much. >> tuesday, president donald trump welcomes french president emmanuel macron to the white house for an official state visit. live coverage begins tuesday with the arrival of the french president at the white house. and welcoming remarks by the two heads of state. then live coverage of president trump's first state dinner with guest arrivals and dinner toasts. the official state visit of french president emmanuel macron liv

the failing "washington post," the fake news "washington post," the amazon "washington post." i think it's retaliation. obviously he's a counter puncher, we know that. but the value of president trump's tweets and how that impacts the markets. he wants to defend himself against what he feels is unfair news coverage. when you go after amazon it has a direct impact on the market showing president trump's tweets have no impact. howie: as the owner of the "washington post" he's able to influence editorial policy. but he says he never edited or modified an editorial. sarah: i think you can look at the neglect tef stories they are tide to in the "washington post." why are you going after amazon. amazon isn't doing anything different at the moment. howie: he believes it's hurting brick and mortar stores. he's wrong that the post office gains by shipping their packages. barack obama attacked a casino company. mollie: barack obama did attack companies, fox news and the casino company. it seems unseemly for a president to do that. amazon does a lot of business in china. the editorial pa

george washington.nd every week i picked up president by president, and the math works out perfectly so that by the time i got to president obama, we were a week before the 2016 election. the very final episode went out the day after the election in 2016. over the course of almost a year, i learned more about presidential history than i can honestly say i ever thought i could have learned in 44 weeks. brian: i know, because i have done it myself, you can get on the "post" and listen to these podcasts. what is the best and easiest way for somebody who has never done this before to get to your podcasts? lillian: the easiest way is to go to washingtonpost.com/presidential, or www.washingtonpost.com\constitut www.washingtonpost.com\constitut www.washingtonpost.com\constitut www.washingtonpost.com\constitut and that will take anyone directly to a page where all of the episodes live, and all you have to do is click "play." you can start with george washington or skip ahead to whichever president is most inter

and over the washington, d.c., to the washington hilton to my colleague is a is vanna sellers.ith now? >> i am here with team white house, and of course, kc/dc of capitol hill. you are looking fabulous. >> you are looking great. >> and it is so nice to see our folks, and michael avenatti and kellyanne conway, and i am so happy to be talking to our capitol hill team, and celebrating the correspondents and what you do. and what is this night like for you? >> well, one of the things that we talk about is the scholar isships that come out of this white house scholarship, and kristen had a chance to meet with students. it is great, because it is the next generation who is look ain at this and saying, wow, i would love the cover politics. >> and don't do it, kids. kidding. and seriously, kristen and i have talked about it a lot. and it is -- we didn't, and we underestimated for many of us the opportunity that it would be. it is a huge challenge to cover washington in the age of trump, but it is also something that clearly matters to a lot of people in america, and it is really a lot

but lee is no washington.akes war against the very government washington fought to establish. as confidence in his military abilities grows, lee risks becoming arrogant, underestimating the determination of union troops, and unaware of abraham lincoln's plan to break the back of the south with a bold new war measure. [ counter clicking ] >> you need to get this to somebody. >>> breaking tonight the trump administration is planning the next move as the world reacts in horror in the latest chemical attack. this is the home of positive populism. we'll go live to washington for more details. president trump promises there is a big price to pay to the syrian leader he. we'll also debate the latest on immigration with antonio sabato. you can't miss tonights swamp

he is in another washington. washington, michigan. about to hold a big rally.'s go to kate ben it e. she is on the red carpet with look at him looking dapper an kate looking gorgeous. don lemon. hi, friends. >> hello. we have got a non nerd here break iing the rules. so what's it like being here this year in this era, the second trump white house correspondents' dinner. >> it's interesting, last year, there weren't many represe representatives here last year. all weekend, i've been running into people from the white house. i ran into kellyanne conway four times. she was just around there. i ran into spicy. sean spicer a couple of times today. it's weird just seeing them out and about with the media. what they say about cnn, supposedly, we're fake news. >> only got turned on a couple of times on the coverage. got turned down a couple of times. won't say by whom. this is a very pop culture time though. people are talking about kanye west, the president. what's happening do you think out there in the world? >> i've gotten a will the of questions about it here on t

but he met george washington once. he paid one visit to mount vernon, he had one exchange of letters with him, and this was the basis of his connection on which he claimed authority to write. he also did a lot of interviewing. he did look up people who had known washington as a boy, and some of the stories he tells about washington may even have been true. weems is one of those writers like james fenemore cooper or h.b. lovecraft. their sentences are terrible by their stories are terrific. the proof of that is that we all know one of weems' story. this is the story of the cherry tree. of course you know it. washington's father imports a special cherry tree. he also gives his young son a hatchet, and then shortly thereafter he notices that the bark of the cherry tree has been cut and he suspects what has happened but he asks his son anyway, george, do you know who damaged my cherry tree. and young george says, i cannot tell a lie, pa, i cannot tell a lie, i did it with my hatchet. weems goes on to say that washington's

this is how washington looked from the air tonight. at one point more than 100 fires were burning, some of them in an area just 20 blocks from the white house. as the evening wore on, officials said the incidents of fair seemed to be lessens somewhat. that assessment based on a helicopter trip. three deaths were reported so far. there are no details yet on the circumstances surrounding them. more than 300 patients have been treated for injury. among them, firefighters. some fire fighting units were sent into the city from suburban areas. looting spread to the downtown shopping area of the city and as darkness fell, arrests increased. more than 700 people were arrested and picked up by spot-checks enforcing the curfew. 7,000 army troops moved in to reinforce some of the police men on duty, placed at strategic points in some areas. some others came in from virginia and maryland. he was joined by walter washington in directing operations. the first night of disorder put the capital city on personal knowledge. tonight has been far worse an

that was washington by day. this is how washington looked from the air tonight. at one point early in the evening more than 100 fires were burning. some of them in the white house. as a evening wore on, officials said the incidence of fires seem to be lessening. that assessment based on a helicopter trip over the city. three deaths have been reported in the washington writing. there are no details. more than 350 persons have been treated for injuries. firefighting was hampered by the sheer volume of the loss. some firefighting units were in the suburban areas. [sirens. steve: as darkness fell, arrests increase. people have been arrested. some of them picked up in spotchecks by police enforcing the curfew. more than 4000 national guard and regular army troops moved into the city to reinforce the some 1200 policeman on duty. they were dispersed of strategic points in the most troubled areas. some of the regulars came in from nearby bases in virginia and maryland. ,ormer deputy defense secretary johnson's troubleshooter and last year's detroit riot, and joined with

the french president will be speaking this afternoon at george washington university. we'll show that later today. tonight on c-span2 at 9:00 eastern. president trump yesterday held his first state dinner in honor of the french president and his wife. we'll show you some of the highlights, including here the guest arrivals. formal pictures and the dinner toast. we will see you as much as we can until the house returns for legislative work. inaudible] r. mccarthy: no. reporter: [inaudible] mr. mccarthy: thank you, all. reporter: will you sit next to the president or first lady? mr. mccarthy: i hope i get to sit next to my wife. thank you. reporter: who are you wearing? >> [inaudible] i'm most looking forward to spending time with the president and first lady. inaudible] [laughter] > you are. > james mattis, secretary of defense. > how are you doing? >> [inaudible] inaudible] >> mr. and mrs. mcdaniels. reporter: who are you wearing tonight? who are you wearing? >> [inaudible] >> i'm going to thank the people of france, the president for selling louisiana to the united st

it is the rescue of george washington's portrait when the british were invading washington in 1814. as dolly told the story to her sister lucy, she remained at the white house waiting for james to return from the battle of women start where the militia are not successful at keeping the british out of d.c.. she is busy directing servants to fill a wagon with valuables of the white house. we focus so much on the washington portrait. blood she saved the cabinet papers and medicines papers -- but she saved the cabinet papers and madison's papers. we know some much about the founding period because the papers were not burned in the white house. dolly does order that general washington's torture be saved and not be left to be -- washington's portrait be saved and not be left to be vandalized. was taken and rolled up and she puts in safekeeping. then and only then do she agree to evacuate. and partly didologized at the time then and now earned the gratitude and admiration of a country. in the months that followed the burning of the white house in d.c., dolly shared her loss with someone wh

washington wanted nominating for the supreme court.he refused to go to the supreme court at the time, so they had a close relationship and it was really washington who probably persuaded john adams that marshall was the guy that patients into france ensured a point to higher office. yes, gail. >> wonderful presentation. >> thank you. >> what was your inspiration to write the book on marshall, and how long did it take you to do the due diligence and to pull the whole thing together? >> right, good question. i worked on this book for seven years. fortunately i have a day job, and as was mentioned i teach constitutional law and international law. it's impossible to teach constitutional and international law in the u.s. without running across john marshall made all over. he just dominates the field so much, and i was really interested in finding out how the sort of plot these principles out of the air, which were significant in shaping our national character and the character of our government. many of the cases that marshall faced, cases,

a quarter of a million people have come to washington to hear him speak. he will share his training a dream of an america without racism. martin luther king is the undisputed leader of the civil rights movement and as far as against racial discrimination has told his followers to be unafraid to exhaust only means at their disposal and above all to never use violence. for african-americans in the southern states the situation is dire. in mississippi alabama and georgia white racists are terrorizing blacks. as bombing homes lynching innocent people and murdering schoolchildren all because of that a leaf in as a period of the white race. on his way to the hotel came stops at the lincoln memorial where he will deliver his speech the following day. one hundred years before president abraham lincoln freed the slaves but the abolition of slavery did not bring about equal rights for african-americans. gabriel. king will deliver his message with the majestic statue of lincoln seated behind him . lincoln wanted to light the beacon of freedom for millions but in the

some of that art has come to washington for a groundbreaking exhibition at washington's renwick gallery a look. out of the desert dust, something strange s arrived in washington. these pieces are the tangible product of burning man, a week long gathering thatra prizs cal self-expression, community participation, spiritual freedom, and the sheer fun of making things. >> this is how this piece would be experienced in the desert, in group hug formation. they are part of the collective that made this. what is this? >> these are origami magic mushrooms. wrap people around them with movement and color change. jane: this is not art purely for entertainment, the art of burning man can trace its intellectual roots to the 19th century industrial revolution when the fear of mechanization gave birth to the maker movement. >> the idea that as we became more mechanized, we might lose that part of the human spirit. here we are in the digital revolution and we see this maker movement coming up again. jane: there is an inscription in inre, there is an art to f or rather a knack. the knack lies in throwi

, and back then you could smoke in bars in washington. so they redid wit the wing backed chairs and the dark burgundy walls, and somebody had the brainstorm they wanted to do cartoons for art. the original genesis was on the walls with some artwork. we made an arrangement with the hotel to loan them a bunch of classic caricatures of the collection. since then, i got involved in 2008, thanks to my buddy richard thompson, when they wanted to update the caricatures to stuff that was more current. the collection mostly went back to the '60s, '70s, and '80s. the thing that happened in the bar, people would come in and the newer clients didn't recognize the people from the nixon and reagan administrations. so they wanted people from the clinton and obama administrations. so that's when richard thompson who unfortunately passed away a couple of years ago was brought in. and richard was just an astounding caricature. he was one of the top cake chu s -- caricaturists at the time. so e came in with some drawist and i got some of those. so i came in

[applause] good evening from washington. tonight at the white house president trump and melania trump are hosting their first state dinner. the guest of honor, french president emmanuel macron and his wife, bridget macron. 120 people received an invitation for the festivity and

washington, face the nation. a spontaneous and unrehearsed news interview with george wallace, former governor of alabama and former candidate of the american party. you will be questioned by cbs news correspondent, a syndicated columnist of publishers hall and cbs news correspondent. we will resume the interview in a moment. governor, despite your own optimism about your chances, every poll, every indicator of a national opinion shows you yourself of no hope to win the presidency. your critics contend you are deliberately adopting the role of spoiler trying to throw the election into the house of representatives. how would you answer that? mr. wallace: at least we have critics and they are paying attention to our movement. members of both parties have said we must join together to headed bymovement george well is. of course, george wallace is one individual but i'm speaking for many millions of people in our country. i might say there are many polls that i have one. a radio and television pullout way from new be

it is a blessing that washington could use. but go out this year and make sure we are the party that is not just for ourselves, but the party for everybody. we already have one of those parties, that is called the republican. democrats are for everybody. let's campaign with policies that leave no one behind and campaign with campaigns that leave no one behind. don't paint any town red, don't pay any county read comments don't count a state read, don't write off a millennial, independent, senior, evangelical, immigrant veteran, he or colleagues, they are waiting for you to talk to them. they are waiting for you to engage. meanwhile, washington is not talking and not listening. ting discrimination and division and trying to pull us apart. i believe the time is now. americans are ready for the .olitics that bring us together that multiplication and addition. to bring health care to all, not just our great members of congress. to make sure that our children rise up in this economy and see their place in it. to make sure that there

trump comes to washington in july for a victory lap. he goes to the rnc members of congress and has lunch with members of the senate. most are arm's-length from them. sixteen of the best and brightest have been fighting with him across the primary season. one particular senator, jeff flake is singled out and trump looks him in the eye and said you're the guy from arizona. you said bad things about me. flake said yes, i'm the guy who wasn't captured referring to the moment when he said nasty things about senator john mccain and whether he was a hero because he had been captured in vietnam and held prisoner there. that began a struggle that would last for the whole year. and other senators who step back and watch it. i see one decisions had to be made. from the beginning they did not expect him to win. >> host: how does it play out after he wins and as he tries to get an agenda and need republicans to make it happen. >> there's two mines. mitch mcconnell of the senate and paul ryan, that those closest who said they were willing to work wi

when i come to washington, d.c. and i see all of these folks who talk one way and moving virginia and maryland, when i see all these bridges over the potomac river to expedite the rush away from this city of the liberals -- host: what bridges? gov. wallace: they have all of these big bridges. i'm being facetious about that, but you sure have a lot of bridges because you have to expedite the rush away from the nation's capital. only six members of congress got their children in the public schools in washington. and all these pseudo-liberals and intellectuals here, who are hypocrites, have moved away from washington. host: governor, let's address this question to yourself, what do you mean when you say segregation in the context of public schools. that is racist -- gov. wallace: i mean in the public school system. no sir, you see, segregation, you don't understand. there has been more mingling, mixing, and association and togetherness in alabama the net -- then there has been in new york or in washington, d.c.. but we

money really runs washington.preservation is about getting campaign contributions and about big donations. so that's one. and two, a lot of people go down to washington to do good and then they ultimately end up getting trapped in the system and they're all of a sudden all these favors they're getting and all of a sudden they're living a lifestyle they're not used to. and then preserving that, holding on to that power becomes more important than why they were sent there. >> and now you -- you used the title, "the hellfire club," comes from a british -- >> you know this. >> 200-year-old society. what i'm struck by, there was a great deal of personal immorality involved. that was part of the old -- >> it was obscene. >> do you think that washington actually has a lot of that or is it actually quite stayed and tame, certainly compared to the rumors of the old hellfire club? >> it is hard to imagine that people can get away with the kind of bakkenel that the members of the 1700s hellfire club experienced. i mean, thos

many ladies of washington, including mrs. madison went to the galleries of congress and went to listen to the supreme court. dolley always remained above the political fray. she often quoted her formula for the nonpartisan sentiment saying "i do not admire the contentions of parties political or civil. i would rather fight with my hand than my tongue." the white house is not the only place for dolley practicing politics. she and her sister would host sometimes at the white house when president jefferson had women in the company. dolley's entertaining even more at the madison home and it is the new power hub. margaret byrd smith records about the situation. --er the presidents house dent's house, the house of the secretary of state was the resort of most company, even party spirit, maryland by her gentleness was disarmed by the asperity. individuals who never visited the president or met any other ministerial houses could not resist the softening influence of her disposition. dolley's hospitality had a couple of purposes. she

her last visit here to washington. was was terrible presidential trump would not even shake her hand and i think she went back to the european union and tried to make the case how the european union could go it alone if they could be a single power on the world stage to compete with the united states they didn't have to go along with the united states but i think her dismay in some ways her colleagues in europe especially in france with the election of president mccrone he said well you know i'm not so interested for france to go along with the european union france may get a better job going it alone with the united states and so we've seen the french really out in front working hand in hand with the united states they were the first to come to the president from side to retaliate in syria after the chemical weapons attack there a couple of weeks ago president mccrone has had weekly conversations with trump not just these these visits for all their pomp and circumstance but weekly conversations with president trump so

i want to go now to washington our washington bureau chief alexander phenomena is on the story for us tonight good evening to you alexandra let's talk about this meeting between mr dr and mr macro and the u.s. president today heaping watts of praise on his french counterpart a lot of people even writing that this is a budding new bromance so why are we seeing such a charm offensive. well what we can say is that both leaders seem to have established a good personal connection a good trip for at that is what is top priority for president trump dealing with foreign leaders that's why he has been repeatedly very positive about china as the president and she he has traced three pieces to the prime minister japan and in this case you have to say that it was a president small call who has been very positioned in trying to forge presidents tromp he has taken a much softer line on president trump than european the there is both leader as the french president and the you ask president show their love for pomp and circumstance for countries are on the same page when it comes to fighting against