washington is much the same. he did not wear multiple masks that he so carefully cultivated the firm face of republican virtue that he once famously cautioned the great partridges hilbert stewart who drew the painting that is on your one dollar bill quote, my countenance never yet betrayed my feelings. this aspect of washington's personality can make it difficult to see behind his public image. as it is to look beyond franklin's multiple guises. the pennsylvania printer and the virginia painter appeared to december the summer to making a lasting friendship, especially since the former pose as a man above the people and the latter as one above them. yet focusing on their distinct public images, obscures their fundamental similarities. hard-working and entrepreneurial, franklin and washington had successful business careers outside government and never viewed themselves primarily as politicians. both prospered as colonists and supported royal rule until realizing that britain would never extend basic english rights

he was an aide to george washington. aidse washington had 20 through the war. he was an important aid and washington recognized his genius. hamilton had his close group of friends. but he wasn't indispensable to george washington by any stretch of the imagination. he is responsible for winning the american revolution, which is what you might think watching the play. george washington's relationship with hamilton was interesting, and it was testy. washington lost his temper with hamilton and hamilton, being a prideful man, basically resigns. washington tried to apologize. hamilton refused the apology and huff and in a half -- left the army. hamilton had to beg washington to let him back to be a part of the yorktown campaign. there was no sense of like, i've got to have my right hand man. that's ridiculous. george washington was going to win yorktown whether hamilton was on the dark side of the moon. that said, hamilton clearly has to be recognized as a man of great valor and as a hero of the war. the fact that he did leave that -- lead that assault in the yorkto

that really frustrated washington. he got really angry and sort of urban legend is that he swore on the way out that it would never again return. and i'm not sure if that is actually true that he said that but he never went back to the senate for advice. regardless of what he said, he certainly meant it. so that was what option that he sort of experiment with, and then really pretty quickly dismissed. the other option, the requesting of written advice, with something a washington get from the very beginning, but if we think about today when we're sending e-mails back and forth, we often forget to ask something or something isn't clear and we need to have a follow-up because someone's tone isn't necessarily conveyed well. now imagine trying to do that with parchment and quilted it was incredibly complicated and it took a really long time and it was cumbersome and judge wait for it to dry and then wait for the letter to be delivered and then wait for the response. and so washington really quickly realize that he needed t

washington was a military man. his prior leadership experience had come in the context of military and it was how he thought, how he approached issues. the councils of war had been incredibly helpful to him because it was an opportunity to bring together the officers or to ask for their opinions and to allow them to debate all these issues and duke it out and it was a way for him to stress test the different positions and see where the weaknesses were and arguments and to consider all the facts at one time. then he would often ask for written opinions "after words" that he could go home and read them and consider them in his own time and then make a final decision. he concluded that this process was really helpful because it allowed him to get expertise and advice and perspective that were different from his own and that was very important to him, both as a general and as a president and allowed him to try to build unity among his officers and even to get additional support if he was making a controversial decision

washington hardly spoke. franklin famously said at the end, i always wondered if the chair was a rising or setting sun, now i think it is rising. franklin had a greater role behind the scenes, especially helping broker the connecticut compromise between the large states and small states that led to the balance in the house and senate. but focusing on washington in particular, because he is our simple hero here, what were his constitutional contributions to the convention? edward: i agree very much with how lindsay set it up. he believed in a strong executive. a democratically elected executive. one who would serve with terms that would be limited. didn't believe in the need for a strong executive. one of the two places where franklin disagreed with him, franklin had written the constitutional -- the constitution of pennsylvania, which has a weak executive and a strong legislature. but when franklin was governor, he made it work because everybody listened to him. that was the situation we have going into the c

washington. he traces the president's military career while also taking questions from viewers. originallym livestreamed on facebook and youtube and is part of a series toonline events intended keep visitors connected with mount vernon during its closure to the public because of the coronavirus pandemic. here we are again. welcome back. my name is doug bradburn. has my delight -- my delight to have these opportunities to talk about george washington. last wednesday, we were in our museum. --s is our education here education center here at mount vernon. it focuses on the life of george washington. it gives a grand sense and -- sense of why he matters. last time, we were looking at his youth, a youth that is often times and wrapped in romance -- apped ined -- enwr romance and the myth. tocourse, he is most known americans and perhaps the folks around the world as the great military commander, the general who led the americans through the american war for independence, through eight long years of wa

you don't often think of george washington -- when you think of george washington to think of jell-o, some of very decisive. you don't think of him as a talented administrator. can you talk about that and also explain why that was so important when he became president of the united states? >> sure. washington as you point at washington really didn't get enough credit for being politically savvy for having good leadership skills, for being very actively involved in the presidential process. as i mentioned with the council of war leadership, he was with some really big personalities. they were allowed, sometimes arrogant, they had their own ambitions. they had own ideas about how to do things including charles lee who famously like to bring in his pack of hounds to council of wars, which i as a dog lover personally think is great and anyone who knows hounds knows that they can be quite loud and perhaps not conducive to good meeting environment. so he was cheating with a really colorful, boisterous environment and had to manage all those personalities. when washington was president he ha

and so washington asked him for add advice on everything from diplomacy to how washington should host social events, to legal issues. and jay had really no problem sharing that advice and sharing those issues with washington. he ran into a little bit of trouble when washington would ask the entire supreme court for advice and then they had to sort of shut that down and said, no, we can't really advise you on this issue because that would be a problem with separation of powers. but jay continued to be a very important adviser to washington until the end of his presidency, he just didn't attend cabinet meetings. >> the next question is from steven on facebook again. this is a good one. who was your favorite cabinet member and why? >> oh, just having to choose one, oh, my goodness. i would say either -- i'm going to take a copout. i'm going to the say two. i would say either knox or randolph. i think they were two most underappreciated cabinet members. i hate when people say, oh, knox didn't do anything. he was just following along with hamilton which directly comes from jefferson's writ

in washington it was the same thing. it needled me and it is an surprising assertion to make because you look at washington and there's quite a few. one book on allison freda, but i thought i had to do something to that bookshelf. it needed something. >> host: you talk about how it is not just that there's a lot of them but they have a similar cash written by some the kind of person, but at the beginning, washington grew up going to historical sites, believed in virginia, sounds like me but talk about what you were kind of responding to in the extent washington biographies. >> guest: i found i joked that when these men got a book contract, they had to take a solemn oath and say i will proceed the same manner, say the same things, have the same goals and do it the same way. i didn't take the oath. at first i thought it was funny, he is too marvelous to be real and they will break him out and they talk about things i joke about you. they are into spies. it is funny, they are nice, i have seen nicer. hamiltons are also nice

if you are in washington state, (202)-748-8002. governor, i would like to go it iso your point about compared to "game of thrones," where one state competes with another for testing or ventilators. why was that system in place to begin with? was anslee: well, there universal cry for help from republican and democratic governors to try and come up with a more national procurement strategy. the reason for that is that we were just bidding against each wherever in the world we could find supplies. why didn't that start out of the gate? this is not a partisan statement but an accurate one. the president decided, what he described it, he thought it was the meaning to them to be thought of as a shipping clerk. we thought that was the most exalted position in america and to really come up with a national plan for procurement. he refused to do that for weeks. that was disappointing to the public in and democratic governors, and particularly a problem with testing supplies. we have now had some help in the ppe. the federal government has he

we have aligned in washington state at 202-748-8002. governor, your point about what someone compared to a game of thrones, one state competing with another for testing, ventilators. why was that system in place? , there was a fromrsal cry for help governors to come up with a national procurement strategy. that,ason is that absent we were bidding against each other for where in the world we could find supplies. why didn't that start out of the gate? this is not a partisan statement. it is an accurate one. the president said he did not he was a shipping clerk. we thought that was one of the most exalted positions in america, to come up with the national plan for procurement. he refused to do that for weeks. that was disappointing to republican and democratic governors, and particularly a problem with testing supplies. ppe,w have some help with the federal government getting some ppe, but the first time we got help from the federal government on the swabs was a couple of days ago when we were told we had some coming to washington state. g

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. >> good morning national political reporter at the "washington post" we are continuing our "washington post" live series confronting challenges across the state and cities economic carnage and testing and all those issues confronting them as leaders with different parts of the nation one is a governor the other is a big city mayor first i will speak with nebraska governor then be will turn to mayor suarez from miami florida. welcome to "washington post" live. >> thank you for having me on. >> we appreciate you being here. one is the biggest issues in your state? meatpacking and what are the health challenges right now in that industry? >> in general it's very difficult to do social distancing because of the concentration of people so what we have done working with university of nebraska medical center the covidien team play book which is best practices focusing on what they should do to keep workers healthy and safe from plexiglas barriers plastic in the lunchrooms to keep people from being close to each other the air handling units and how they put on ppe. and for all those food proce

ok let's get going let's introduce our panel in washington d.c. we have joel reuben president of the washington strategy group here in doha we have . the director of gulf studies center at cattle university and tehran we have mohammad marandi head of the american studies department at tehran university welcome to you all joel rubin in maryland is this just a rotation or something more significant than that. oh it's certainly not a rotation in in terms of a normal routine operation this is a demonstration that right now the threat from iran from an american assessment is diminishing threat towards saudi arabia and towards the saudi oil facilities and in addition to that there can clearly supposed to be recognition in the truck ministration that saudi arabia may have taken american support who are granted the bits you much certainly from donald trump because the the oil price. deflation that was caused by mohamed bin salma really impacted the united states on oil economy and many of donald trump's core constituents so a president truck maker will be

we think it's a good thing that is now bringing the debate washington, d.c. washington, d.c. i think that the american public, consumers, customers can even tech companies will be well served if there's a good privacy law, a strong privacy law in the united states. i think for the next decade what we really need is more of a global privacy compact. data moves around the world. you don't actually want the protection of peoples privacy to constantly change every time data crosses the border and we will only get that would bring governments together. >> host: what do you think of the european gdpr? >> guest: on balance we're pretty enthusiastic about it. we have long been more enthusiastic about it than most companies in the tech sector. >> host: is that because you do different things? >> guest: i think to some degree you could say maybe do some different things. we are not as focus on monetizing data through behavioral advertising and the like, but i think it reflects her own experience with laws, regulation, the antitrust cases that we learn from when unfolded in the 1990s an

they were on opposite sides of every major issue during their time in washington. yet that they would regularly call to offer encouragement to president obama and pray for him and his family. the two of them could be spotted hugging and laughing together at the state of the union address. at the time when the focus too often is on what separates rather than unites us these or relationship goals we should aspire to achieve with one another our hearts and prayers are with doctor coburn's wife caroline and his daughters and, grandchildren as they grieve his never bewhile he can coreplaced we can take comfort knowing he has made this world a better place and that the legacy he left behind in the words roland foster who is now on my staff and the legacy he left behind and doers and the crusade he championed continues. and with that, mr. president, i will yield the floor to my colleagues from indiana. >> the senator from indiana. >> thank you for that beautiful testimony. while i was running for the senate was asked who my heroes were in the senate doctor coburn was a fo

what did washington and new york have in common? in 2016 election president trump did not get 10% of the vote in manhattan in about 10.1% actually and in washington he barely got 4% of the vote. what does that do if you are a journalist who maybe went in somewhat objective into those environments and by the time you are there for a little bit and in those newsrooms you tend to adopt a certain way of thinking and conforming just for survival because if you go against the grain, as we see in this business, you will be ostracized. that is what seems to be happening. it's an echo chamber based on the fact that this is the environment and these two places exist in terms of the way that we cover things. i always love the weight rupert murdoch put forth his thought process on liberal media. he says, abc and i'm paraphrasing, washington post, new york times, all these media companies based in new york and washington they are pretty liberal, right, the old saying was around fox news and why that was created was it found its niche audience, h

but in washington, he was called dr. no because of his fierce opposition to adding more red ink to the national debt. having served just 10 years in the senate before retiring in 2014, the year i was elected, i never had the honor to serve alongside dr. coburn. nonetheless, his leadership and his efforts to eliminate government waste and overreach continues to be an inspiration to me and to many others. if you cannot find waste in any part of the federal budget, he once commented, it can only be for one reason, you haven't looked. many of the outlandish examples he exposed are now what i like to call legendary. take, for example, the shrimp on a treadmill, and of course, there was the bridge to nowhere. every federal agency in washington feared the notoriety of being called out in dr. coburn's annual report of government excess known as waste book. he led the fight that ended congressional earmarks better known as pork projects. and while others sought credit for creating new government programs, dr. coburn took on the t

ece write about it in your pi in the washington post. write "1 in 5 patients requiring hospitalization in the u.s. are between the ages of 20 44 according to the ddc -- 20 to 44 according to the cdc." people are dying from strokes, even if they are not likely to become severely ill, they could become asymptomatic carriers. growing evidence is suggesting children with mild or no symptoms could be highly contagious carriers. there is new reporting about the side effects that younger children, including infants are facing as a result of covid-19. can you explain? dr. wen: this underscores that there is a lot about covid-19 we just don't know. anyone saying there is a particular group that is immune or will not experience the effects of covid-19 is simply not true, because we simply don't know. virus,9 is a respiratory but it does not just affect the respiratory system. it is also causing kidney failure, strokes in young people, and now we are finding in young children it is causing inflammation of blood vessels and even toxic shock syndrome

and washington after this. i want to read very short section from the book to create a mood. this is washington in early 1861. then i will take off from that and talk to you more generally about the book. a pole hung over washington that january. rain turned pennsylvania avenue into a muddy trust. even in the best neighborhoods yards steak from privies, the rooming houses where most members of congress lived in the halls of the capital itself smelled of wet wool and clothing, cigars, and charcoal that struggled to warm the under heated chambers of congress. slavery pervaded the city like the stink of horse manure that everywhere but domes the streets. although free blacks now outnumbered slaves in the capital investors in human flesh had merely to cross the potomac river to the markets of alexandria to shop the 3100 enslaved men women and children who were still inextricably woven into the fabric of washington life holding doors driving carriages cleaning the mud from boots hawking oysters tending tables, suckl

russia is to blame for forcing washington i'd claim that's no well with moscow. i think we have a very good relationship with russia but. russia didn't adhere to the treaty so until they are here we will pull out but there's a very good chairs will make a new agreement or do something to put that agreement back together when it comes of can support the americans the current administration and conceptually fundamentally have an aversion to any kind of control over american military activity especially when that control is exercised on or over a us territory solution with other countries follow the americans i doubt it mr european seem to me to understand that the agreement has added value as an instrument of trust and instrument of predictability transparency and that is how we see it what we see in this time and time again from the top administration the president has never been shy in carrying up longstanding international treaties whether that's the paris climate agreement or the iran new kit deal and very often the pretext given is that the conditions have bee

another major arms control treaty open skies set up primarily to avoid conflict between washington and moscow with this week's announcement sending shock waves around the world amid concerns of rising global instability. ending search agreements without heat the to replace them could result in destabilizing activities such as a dangerous new arms race leading to a possible miscalculation. the prospect of a new cold war scenario looms on the horizon as washington accuses beijing of seeking a confrontation in giving you policy paper also moves to cut off chinese companies from the u.s. stock market also ahead. a pledge by the p.c. to school. algebra. to get them into british waters. the u.k. party leader nigel for raj accuses the french navy of illegal migrants directly into british waters amid a sharp spike in numbers trying to cross the english channel. or midday in vienna 8 pm in sydney on one in the afternoon here in moscow this friday may the 22nd welcome to r.t. international. the u.s. has announced it's repping up another major arms control agreement called open skellies raising f

peter: your book world tour begins in quincy, washington. washington? brad: it's one of the data center capitals of the world. it's near the columbia river. data centers are built there because it's close to bothelectric power that's cheap and clean the we take the reader on a tour of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century, these mammoth more than 20 of them, filled with electrical generators, hundreds, thousands batteries, but, of course, mostly server computers. everything we do almost every day is actually accessing or storing our data in the cloud of theselly means one data centers. peter: and you have 100 of these in 20 countries, is that correct? brad: more than 20 countries. more than 100 data centers. largestt is one of the but companies like google, amazon, facebook, apple, we're more and more of these data centers. it's where we're all storing our data. they become, among other things, the largest consumer of the world. in peter: so if i send an email from microsoft outlook here at theoffice to somebody at office, does it have

how much can you guarantee washington providing?> i don't know how much washington will be providing, but i know we have to compensate for the big expenses that the state and city government has incurred in providing the to those who are in need. i know the city needs $7 billion at least, and the state $14 billion. those a matter to make all areas that have been impacted whole. the federal government is to provide the resources and the leadership. this is an unprecedented crisis. it acquires an unprecedented moral commitment. that means leadership and resources. host: host: as part of your plan you want to make sure unemployment benefits are not taxed. but when you hear congressional republicans saying this is a blue state bailout, what is your reaction? >> there are no borders when it comes to this virus. the only thing we know about this virus is that we do not know anything about it, much about it. with this virus on day eight i was feeling well, but then i had to lay down because the pain in my body was excruciating. individual

he helps bring it to washington dc. he wroites a series of letters, but he is the driving force behind what is the largest slave escape attempt in american history on the pearl. a ship, a vessel, that he helps set in motion to bring from philadelphia to washington dc. and in april 77 enslaved people get on the pearl on a dark night and it sails out of washington dc. and by that time, a steamer had caught up with the paroearl. the vessel is boarded and captured and all of the 77 people and the white crew from philadelphia are taken back to washington dc. the crew is, and the captain, are put on trial for leading a slave insurrection and mary and the children along with many others on board are sold, essentially. here is the list of the pearl. you see mary here, mrs. arminstear armstead. mary with two children. harriett, and this little scriple is navy yard right here. the slave holders whose -- the people who attempted to us caes right? the slaveholders of those people really effectively want today send a message to the

the man washington d.c. was saying we do not want our city to be destroyed let's bring in our white house correspondent. who is in washington what do you make of company. well i noticed the tone was different what a difference 24 hours makes when we had the d.c. mayor and the u.s. president exchanging barbs on twitter really arguing over the response the u.s. president had for his part criticized mayor mariel bowzer sensually denying that her metropolitan police department had supported the u.s. secret service on those 1st night of clashes that took place outside the white house that was firmly denied by mayor muriel bowzer and in fact that was followed by a statement by the secret service in fact the and i saw it with my own eyes the metro police department have in fact supported and that is something standard that we see this sort of tandem partnership that occurs with the u.s. secret service and even the most routine of protests or even a transport of a dignitary so this is a mayor this is not known for h

why quincy, washington? >> guest: my co-author and i chose quincy, washington because it's one of the data center capitals of the world, if you will. it's near the columbia river and data centers are being built there because it's close to hydroelectric power in both cheap and clean. we take the reader on a tour of if you will, of what is becoming the infrastructure of the 21st century and these mammoth buildings more than 20 of them filled with electrical generators and hundreds or thousands of batteries but of course, mostly server computers and everything we do in almost every day is accessing or storing our data in the cloud and it means one of those data centers. >> host: you have 100 of these in 20 countries, is that correct? >> guest: more than 20 countries, more than a hundred data centers and microsoft is one of the largest but companies like google and amazon, facebook and apple were all building more and more of these data centers and it is where we are storing our data and they become, among othe

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i am muriel bowser, mayor of washington, d.c.. i am joined by members of my administration, the chief of police and the city administrator. we are here today to provide an district response to protests in the district overnight and yesterday. i want to start by saying we certainly recognize and outragee with the people feel following the killing in minneapolis last week. thate certainly empathize the killing of george floyd was not the first and people were expressing outrage and demanding action. we also recognize that we are proud of our city and we do not destroyed.ty to be so, police and firefighters and members of the public safety team for washington, d.c., along with our federal partners have been working to make sure people can exercise their first amendment rights while not destroying washington, d.c. i would just be chief of police mpd'svide an update on actions and then we will take your questions. thank you, mayor bowser. i have to say, i have been proud of my mayor a lot of times in my career as a chief of police and

very few who fought with washington merged with washington in 1776. they felt that that was part of the role and the leader. to look like the leader. and look like the general. the men in the ranks were wearing everything imaginable and they were not supplied with replacements for what they wore so as the year wore on their clothing became tattered mended dirty eventually in rags or worse than ranks. in the times themselves the era in which they lived was so much harder than we understand but life or someone in the 18 century even in peacetime was very difficult by our standards. very uncomfortable and filled with danger and threats of disease. filled with the possible accidents and physical destruction that could come from work people were beat up by life more than we are in our time. there was no orthodontist or dennis or cosmetic surgeons to say the least. so someone with a severe childhood injury would walk for the rest of his life with a limp coming from an accident in our time. the signing of the declaration of independence. the magnificent pain

very happy to see you here at "washington post live."n: happy to join you, i look forward to the conversation. bob: you have been an official at the d.e.a. and homeland security, now governor of arkansas. you did not issue a stay-at-home order. how is that going in arkansas? governor hutchinson: it is going very well. i think we made the right decision. every governor has to make a decision based upon the unique circumstances of their state, but, yes, i had enormous pressure from the national media , that everybody had to shelter in place. i talked to our public health professionals and i soon realized that we would be adding to the unemployment roll hundreds of thousands of people, and we still wouldn't be making a significant difference in the number of cases and the spread. so we targeted -- we closed bars and restaurants, in-service dining. we closed some of the person-to-person businesses. we closed our schools. but we didn't close every establishment. we did put guidelines. we really emphasized social distancing. i set the example,

review marched with washington in 1776 war uniforms, even the officers rarely had full uniforms, washington himself had a magnificent uniform because he felt that was part of his role as a leader to look like a leader, look like the general. they are wearing everything imaginable. and they were not supplied by replacements for what they wore. their clothing became tattered, amended, dirty and in rags or worse than rags and the times themselves, the era in which he lived was so much harder than we understand. -the 18th-century even in peacetime was very difficult by our standards, very uncomfortable, filled with danger, threats of disease, the possible accidents and physical destruction that could take from work, people were beaten up by life more than we are in our time. there were no orthodontists, no dentists, no cosmetic surgeons to say the least. so that someone with a severe childhood injury like nathanael greene would walk the rest of his life with a limp coming from the next that in our time would be readily corrected. john trumbull, the great painter whose work hang in the capital,

i think for people who live in washington, d.c., distinct from washington state, you know, protests barelyake it into the news they're so common. for us, we have a job to do. one thing i say to our own employees is every contract is important. and some are even more important than others. it's hard to imagine a contract that is more important than this. because now we really have a high responsibility to help the military protect this country. so there is a protest. there will be more work for lawyers. but we need to focus on is doing our job and building the infrastructure that the pentagon is purchasing. peter: brad smith is the president of microsoft and he along with carol ann brown have written this book "tools and weapons, the promise and peril of the digital age." tch communicators and all others are available as odcasts. >> >> television has changed since c-span began 41 years ago but our mission continues. to provide an unfiltered view of government. already this year, we brought you primary election coverage. the presidential impeachment process. and now the federal response to t

the city of washington, d.c.s still under stay-at-home orders, i think that is a concern, as well. there is news that came out about the availability of testing for members and senators. i think there are multiple factors that made them come to those decisions. i think there is ultimately the feeling they have been out for several weeks now, and they have to do their job. when we saw before, when they came back, they came back in a staggered way, where the senate was in, and then the house went in, and then they came out again. this was partially because they were able to do it in a way when they did not have everybody in the capital at the same time. the capital from the outside looks like a large building, but it was built in the early 1800s, in the house chamber and the senate chamber wings were added in the 1850's and it is not as big on the inside as you get the feeling on the outside that it is. they do work in close quarters in committee. when they come into a chamber like the senate chamber or the house c

very few who fought with washington and marched with washington in seven 1776 wore uniforms. even the officers rarelyhave full uniforms . washington himself at a magnificent uniform as he felt it was part of his role as a leader to look like a leader, to look like a general. but the men in their ranks were wearing everything imaginable. and they were not supplied with replacements for what they wore so as the year wore on, their clothing became tattered, amended. dirty, eventually in rags or worse than rags. the times themselves, the era in which they lived was so much harder than we understand. like for someone in the 18th century even in peacetime was very difficult by our standards area very uncomfortable. filled with danger, threats of disease. filled with the possible accidents and physical that come from work. people were beat up by life more than we are in our time. there were no dentists, no cosmetic surgeons to say the least. so that someone with a severe childhood injury like nathaniel greene would walk the rest of hislife and accident that was readily corrected in

just after washington, d.c. ' emancipation is affected. she dies seeing her children and grandchildren free. the struggle goes back to the 1830s. think about this. a 30-year, three generation -- more than 30-year, three generation struggle for freedom. using the courts where possible, negotiating, navigating, accumulating legal knowledge, passing it on. in 1862 her children ann bell, daniel bell and caroline bell bought a head stone for her and she's buried at congressional cemetery with a head stone dedicated to their mother. william h. williams was one of the most notorious slave traders in the washington, d.c. he owned the yellow house. it was a slave jail and in the day was sometimes called a slave pen. we've already looked at one case, ann williams'case, the film we checked out the other day. that one was similar in that george miller's tavern was a slave pen. william h. williams is by the 1830s the single largest slave jail in the city of washington and it's called the yellow house. james ash was taken there and held there. we'll see

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the mysteries on hold in washington. shannon: when we get those transcripts, back to this samantha power interview, when congressman gaudi pushes her she has unmasked 200 times are made the request so there's more to that story, we will keep digging. tonight california congressional district former representative katie hill blue in 2018 is read again and the gop's win in the special election partially credited to the state's stay home order. trace gallagher is on the case tonight. >> reporter: democratic candidate kristin smith wants to make sure every vote is counted but doesn't think it will make a difference so she is conceding this around to republican mike garcia. i say this round because while garcia and the gop have flipped california's 20 fifth congressional district it is only for twee 7 months, these two candidates will go head to head again in november for the full 2-year term but garcia's victories significant because it shows republicans can compete in northeast los angeles county were donald trump lost hill

washington was a man of few words. adams joked that his fellow virginians adored him because the mom delete, the geese and are swans. image matters more than genius. adams knew this. we knew it to be true as well. voters take manufactured qualities as signs of an eight character. adams of course suffered by comparison to washington. he acquired the nasty nickname of his rotundity and was used in the election of 1800. political gamesmanship became more circus like by the time the second and third the presidential contest. in 1824, when then secretary of state john quincy adams was seeking the presidency, a cartoon captured the foot race, so-called, and morphed into this today the presidential horse race. and this is relevant because tonight is the kentucky derby. [laughter] in the cartoon, john quincy adams is ahead of william crawford, and andrew jackson, dressed in his military uniform, is on their tail and coming up fast. john adams stands at the front of the crowd cheering on his son. while the spectators place wage

there were originally 114 of us candidates brought to washington, and during that week we were in washington, in addition to meeting all the other candidates and all these people who were interviewing us and the national -- the nasa officials and astronauts, we also got to meet one another and we became a very close group of friends. originally from the 112 of us in washington, they selected 10 finalists. those finalists were brought down to houston, texas, for two weeks of intense physical evaluation and testing. they measured everything you could imagine and they actually took them up in the infamous vomit comet. where they went up and threw down these parabolic dives to experience weightlessness. from those final 10 in washington, christa along with bob morgan, was selected as the two candidates to represent teachers. >> and the winner, the teacher that will be going into space, christa mcauliffe. she plans to keep a journal of her experiences in space. she said, and this is a quote, "just as the pioneer travelers of the wagon days kept personal journals, i as a safe traveler would do the

watch c-span "washington journal" life at seven eastern wednesday morning.n the discussion. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> wednesday the supreme court continues hearing oral arguments via teleconference. at 10:00 a.m. eastern hereto cases on the electoral college and electors casting their vote for another presidential candidate despite the popular vote outcome. the supreme court live wednesday on c-span. on demand, on c-span.org or listed on the free c-span radio app. immediately following the live supreme court session, joined jeffrey rosen of the national constitution center leading a live discussion with scholars. >> today the house revealed its plan, the covid for bill. it's big and bold, just what america needs. our problems are large, they are enormous. they are on the health from the economic front and it will take big, bold, action to help the american people. and so i am supportive of the plan that speaker pelosi has put together. the bottom line is very, very simple. what is it going to take for mitch mcconnell to wake up and see that the american people need help and

c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern tuesday morning.oin the discussion. ♪ ♪ the battleship missouri -- 50 -- 53,000 tons flagship, marking the complete and formal surrender of japan. in the bay of tokyo, the united states destroyer comes alongside, bringing representatives of the allied powers. general of the army douglas macarthur, supreme commander for the occupation of japan, an admiral escorts general macarthur to the deck, where the ceremonies to take place. it is sunday, september 2, 1945. ♪ >> we are on the 01 level of the battleship missouri, also known as the veranda deck. thanks to the events of september 2, 1945, we call this the surrender deck. the japanese signed the unconditional surrender ending world war ii. the plaque just behind me is where the table sat that day. the ship looks different. a nice shady canopy overhead was not installed. the turret behind me was rotated 30 degrees to starboard to make room for the officials that would be on board. you would have seen thousands of the members of the misery troop hanging

and then the situation in washington is terrible. the republicans are unpopular there is a nether president, a democrat, james buchanan who is sullen and uncooperative with lincoln and it's coming very close to recognizing the new confederate government which does not even really have a name yet. the states have seceded away from the u.s. they just have not quite formed in their new government. foreign powers are on the verge phrase i use a lot on the verge of recognizing this new slave -based country without a clear name yet. what i was shocked to discover was how close the south came to sending a pretty small set of militia soldiers, it would not have been organized troops but a couple hundred men with guns from virginia and maryland into the city of washington d.c. which was barely defended at all and just taking over the u.s. government, taking over the u.s. capitol that included the library of congress and the senate and supreme court in the house. they would have had all of the treaties of american history they would've had the