washington helps decide what buildings would go in it to washington, washington washington pet project traded his near obsession. washington gets the frenchman l'enfant which was a great selection. l'enfant with classically educated and most importantly he shared washington's vision of a romanesque grand capitol full of public squares filled with monuments. he did not like jefferson's vision of a small federal town. l'enfant does washington's bidding and brilliantly designed the capitol. unfortunately l'enfant would answer to no one but washington and it turns out to be more difficult than it was worth. some accounts suggest he was fired another said he quit. they both have at the same time so the answer is c all of the above. next slide. his image of l'enfant's capital city which you will recognize today. right there running diagonal and horizontal next to the potomac river near the b and potomac is the national mall that we all recognize today but you can see the great squares and grand boulevards that intersect named for the states and so forth and so on per l'enfant partly inspired

washington helps to decide what buildings would go in so washington , washington. it is his pet project area it is his near obsession so washington pics brilliant frenchman who was a great selection. l'enfant was classically educated, most importantly for washington he shared washington's vision of a romanesque grand capital with large boulevards, public squares filled with monuments and memorials. he did not like jefferson's vision of a small federal town so l'enfant does washington's bidding and brilliantly designed the capital but unfortunately he will answer to no one but washington turns out to be more difficult than he was worth . some accounts suggest he was fired, others said he quitand they both happened aboutthe same time so the answer is all of the above . next slide . you're the image of his capital city which youall recognize today . running diagonal, horizontal to the potomac river. it's the national mall, we all recognize today you can see the great squares and grand boulevards that intersect, named for the states and so forth and so on. one fonts de

george and martha washington. they fled back to mount vernon and the pals and actually they pleaded with the palace to come join them not for it and which i think you told me is there's no other account with them asking anyone else to join them. correct? yes. yes, correct. yeah. so if you want to elaborate a little bit more on here. yeah, yeah, so so as kayla said that yellow fever kind of exploded in philadelphia not not dissimilar to what we are going dealing with today, but the the powells, of course they were affected as many families were samuel powell. actually. he died of the yellow fever and the washingtons did invite the pals with them to flee back to mount vernon. there is a very sad sad letter from elizabeth to george and martha that it's sad when you when you think ahead about what happens two weeks later, it's her turning down their their invitation to come to mount vernon. she says that samuel thought that it would be better to stay although for her own happiness. he wanted her to make her own decisi

that george washington was born on february 22nd 1732 to augustine and mary, washington. george washington's youth is the stuff of legends. most notably in the folktale popularized by parson mason weems about young george's chopping down of a cherry tree and his subsequent statement. i cannot tell a lie when confronted by his father. george's head apparently matured well before the rest of his body. as a youth he worked as a surveyor for the fairfax family and later was the official surveyor for culpeper county. from 1749 to 1752 washington completed close to 200 surveys on numerous properties totally more than 60,000 acres. during the french and indian war he served as an emissary for the governor of virginia and later in combat during british general edward braddocks ill-fated expedition. washington also ran afoul of the fortunes of war when he was forced to surrender the desperately named fort necessity to the french the only military surrender that washington encountered it is entire career underarms. washington took an active leadership role in the growing conflict b

washington. so, our story begins after french union war and the start of the american revolution. so, who wants to give me the standard answer? would cause the american revolution? taxes! tack >> taxation without representation. >> no taxation without representation. or if you're like taxation without representation, perfect! >> from there. from taxes, it's also more than that. it's about rates, it's about being treated as a full subject, a full british subject. and ultimately, it evolves into violence. and this starts after the tea party. there is the boston portman land a number of intolerable acts that are going to shut down local government. it's going to bring in martial law into barr stunned massachusetts and the british actually start thomas gauge, who's met general, he got -- a leading to increased tension. and this is ultimately bill to the potential chance to seize gunpowder at the time. maybe even a rest sons of any revolutionary figures like samuel adams or john hancock. and what resu

now washington is actually the officer in the blue and red at the canon pointing his sword washington became very famous in this battle because while the british general general edward bradig dies here washington is credited with saving what's left of the british and american forces there and getting them back into virginia safely from the forks of the ohio near presenting pittsburgh. what washington learned from his time during the seven years' war was that the british model was the right model that the british model was a successful way to command armies and discipline soldiers. now fast forward to 1775 after april of 1775 boston is surrounded by a new england army all of the soldiers that surround boston during this period of time come from, massachusetts, connecticut, new hampshire, rhode island. it's not until later in the year that soldiers show up from pennsylvania and a few from virginia. and during this period of time they seem to be doing. all right, they kept the british bottled up in boston though this painting here obviously famous painting shows the tragedy of the death

i'm not sure it ever made it to washington. the mammoth cheese that's in washington. the mastodon that was an inspiration for this frenzied use of the word mammoth, it ended up in philadelphia. his sons open up a museum in baltimore and it's there until the 1840s when they move it over to europe. they thought they had a buyer in france and the revolution of 1848 kicks in. it ends up in germany. i have a -- that's the picture i showed you earlier of the full mastodon skeleton there in germany in a museum in germany. now, the neat thing about the subject of my talk and everything else that's going in washington, the mastodon -- i have to swallow my words. the mastodon is here in washington. it was moved from germany for the first time in 170 years to the smithsonian where it was erected in the museum of american art for an exhibit on alexander von humboldt and the united states. and they thought that the skeleton represented the highest aspirations of american science and europe science meeting together. so they actually brought it here. it was supposed to open this mon

that is a very different washington, in my mind, and the washington who arrived in washington in july of 1775. >> just to add to that for william, the question about british leadership brings to mind andrew osha on a sees the man who lost america. it explores a similar take on the british military leadership. our good friend chuck downs observed that washington really new details about locations far outside of virginia. what did officers know about the geography of different colonies? what about military operations? >> i think -- had served in the seven years'war. that's the first thing that's important to recognize. that's why the hudson feature features so importantly today our thoughts. they fought up and down that river in the corridor between quebec and new york. they are very focused on, it because that's what they know. he is a private in the early part of the war, a sergeant. he kind of gets cheated out of it. he has been up and down that area. that's why he gets to become the chief engineer, despite what he wants, at the beginning of the war and revolution. there is a lot of

washington dc admissions act. in particular we thank you for shepherding this measure to passage during the 116 congress and we respectfully ask you to do it again. i especially want to thank our congresswoman elinor those championed equality for washington dc throughout her tenure while skillfully delivering jobs opportunity and determination. i am muriel bowser and i am mayor of washington dc and i'm honored to come before this committee to ask this congress to right the wrongs that have avenue 2120 years ago when the residence from the district of columbia were stripped of full congressional representation. two years ago in the 116th came before this committee under the leadership of the late elijah cummings, finis felt erroneous arguments against dc statehood. these about it arguments and i'm sure we will him and time and time again this morning. they said washington dc statehood as unconstitutional even though constitutional experts and refuted this claim. article one of the constitution is not an obstacle. i

she would play an important role in several states including washington in 1910. >> washington's importance in the national suffrage effort comes by the fact that we were the first state in the 20th century and followed almost a 20-year lag between states adopting their own suffrage amendment, and it takes a certain number of states to pass a national amendment to the constitution and we were the fifth state, and all of the first states, the first of about six were located here in the west, and washington became a pivotal state making that leap into the 20th century, and after we passed it in 1910, there was a domino effect across the country. immediately oregon passed it in 1911 followed by california and then moved to the dakotas, nebraska, montana, and then progressed across to new york in 1919 and then of course the national amendment passes in 1920. so you could call us a big turning point in the effort to gain suffrage for women in the united states. in 1848, the big event that began the suffrage movement, however, did happen in new york. that was the women's convention in seneca fall

washington at worst now washington is gone. hamilton can understand, once washington is gone, the great beginner of the country, somebody has to take over. at all these people do want to take over purred there pretty smart people, adams and jefferson and all. they need somebody like marshall. if it was not marshall it would have to be somebody else. >> as you said part of what you're doing in your book is explorations of american history. i did love the opening introduction you talk about your father drag you to all those different places when you were a kid. as a graduate of the university of virginia, i have to ask and have another question about humanities here in a second period would you mind telling the story about the time you're father basically browbeat. [inaudible] pull out jefferson's will? >> is a friend of mine it knew my father from, i couldn't believe he would do this. he was a man who was a lawyer and a medical judge for some time. but he was a big history buff. so in 1951, there's a civil war centennial, he det

you know, i think washington, what a, what a-- washington was probably helpfully naive about some thingsas he was decrying partnership, you also have the architects of the constitution basically understanding human motivation and writing the federalist papers. and the checks and balances, the notion, the hamilton, madison and they understand the human tendencies. there were legitimate differences of opinions and how to be set off against each other to try to diffuse power and not let power grow into an authoritarian model on one side or the other, but washington was above that and maybe again, maybe a little pleasantly naive. i think what -- you know, there are things we can do that are formal in the senate to try to bring about more harmony and, in fact, as you know, the design in the senate does this which recently comes through this very challenging attack on the capitol on january 6th. remember this, in the house, more than a half of the republicans in the house voted to overturn electoral college results from pennsylvania and arizona. in the senate, eight out of 51 republicans, so 1

what did washington, washington just want to stay out of all that, right? >> yes, he wanted to stay out of, which this is a famous theme of his farewell address is to say, stay out of intake of much with foreign countries. the famous alliance comes from a jefferson speech enough from the farewell address but that captures well enough what washington wanted to avoid. what he wanted wasn't head in the sand isolationism but rather i called and caged independence. that is to say, commercial ties, diplomatic ties lots of countries but no permanent alliances with other countries like with britain or france. more generally washington there's debates among historians about whether he was, in fact, above party, a president above party as he aspired to be an claim to be or whether he was, in fact, a partisan federalists in all but name. what i end up saying is for the first term at least for the first many years he was reasonably above party. by the end of the second term he drifted into the federalist camp. even he had succumbed to the partisanship he found so probl

vernon from the washington family. but during the war union troops decided that they wanted that money for themselves. of course, sarah tracy refused and decided that she was going to move this money out of burke and herbert banks into riggs bank in washington, d.c. she had to do this very covertly. she took the money out of the bank and put the money in the bottom of the basket and put eggs on the top of the basket. she went into washington, d.c. she met with mr. riggs where she sold these eggs to riggs and made sure the transaction was legitimate because she received a receipt for the sale of these eggs. thanks to sarah tracy and the movement of this money, we are still able to visit and enjoy mt. vernon today. not only were women nurses and entrepreneurs and having jobs and selling items, but women were also soldiers during the war. however, they had to do this in a disguise. it was entirely frowned upon for women to join the war as soldiers, so that's why they had to dress up in men's uniforms. so, women would dres

washington journal continued. host: with us next is amy walter , national editor of the cook political report. the peace we are talking about is titled "volatility is the new normal." it seems like this is something we all knew but this puts it into focus. it has been a volatile couple of decades, not just years. guest: we tend to think -- i'm of a certain age. i have been in washington now. it hurts a little bit to say how old i am but i have been in washington for almost 30 years. when i came to washington politics had been volatile but there was a certain level of stability. democrats had control of the house of representatives for 40 years, since the 1950's. uninterrupted control of the house. much of that time democrats at uninterrupted control of the senate. republicans would win the white house with a brief interpersonal by democrats. while you could see members come and go, the stability was something we got used two. after 1994, and really since the turn of the 21st century we have known nothing but volat

guess that the file was found this is not the washington post being a boy scout, this is the washingtonnd had to come out of head and satan honest mistake don't worry about us. what this shows the two impeachment of donald trump or fraud the first impeachment was a russia investigation in ukraine now we now know that handwritten notes and the testimony and the senior people in the intelligence community and the justice department they made it all up it was a total fraud now with the washington post we know the second impeachment was based in large part of trump pressuring the governor of georgia to swing the election in his favor and we know that was a total fraud too. when donald trump says fake news, fake news, there's increasingly a lot of evidence that it is fake news. elizabeth: we have to stay on the story. let's switch to this hbo real-time host warning washington democrats that you have to pay attention. china is becoming more dominant on themi world stage as democras are locked in culture wars like the political correctness like the dr. seuss books and more. let's listen to bom

morris is a friend of washington's. there is a story that comes from that summer with morris and alexander hamilton, and basically there is a debt made that hamilton makes with morris. and washington is a very formal guy who doesn't like to shake hands and is the first to bow. he can be a bit on the aloof side, especially kind of public. hamilton says you will never do that. /ñ won't do that. so he does it and washington kind of gives him one of his glaring looks and i'm sure hamilton is in the corner laughing. anyway, morris is the one who will write that we the people of the united states in order to come up with the famous preamble we know. at the end of the day, you have this constitution. by september 15th, 1787, four pages. there is no bill of rights at that time. they kind of talked about alexander hamilton and said the whole thing is kind of a bill of rights. the government will only have the power, so others would say that's well and good, but we would like to see something like that there. there is this i don'

a drag queen website in a book called anti-racist baby the washington post is ridiculed for offering parents so-called materials for toddlers. we have to make me instead of being like evil out there that is. producing books for 3 year olds talking about are my work baby each just absolute nonsense. do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stop a major russian energy project makes moscow one of its biggest oil partners. and thousands of migrants are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border that adding to reports of an unprecedented refugee crisis. live from moscow this is r.t. international as we take you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days 1st in the week we reported that there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets shuttered to bensky was one paris health center where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point t

agree to any kind of demand from washington i don't think that agreeing to demands from washington has nothing to do with how the chinese treat the weavers in their own country or threaten tyrone with force or are flashes with very with the indians on there are on the road a lesson from that if it's go to war with china no of course not ok winnie go ahead jump in i see what it says what you're suggesting is number line that you that america wants trying to achieve just saying here what your rights for i i receive the team who are who are the injustices there are fans we will keep on board with us that he was out for i think that there's a bigger. this posse that we were talking about the fact that you're aligned with the current situation in india the poor fashions the how. they've been having territories she was rejected it's funny i had clashes going on for decades and they have is oh it's so nice for now regular people you know how they want to do it since we were in hock out. there in the fashion south or potentially current 53 who are going sure sure to call out what america is do

do as i say not as i do washington tries to force you. your russian energy project to get makes moscow one of its biggest oil partners. and thousands of migrants are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to the president refusing a crisis. live from moscow thanks for joining us on the weekly here in r.t. international this evening. welcome to the program. first in the weekly rundown we reported that there's been a sharp rise in french students for the turn for free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. he was at one paris help sounds where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to bite did once have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are being distributed to students

between james monroe and george, washington. here i would like to share some things about my life. that you might not know. but for eight and a half years. i was commander in chief. of the continental army and then the army of the united states of america eight and a half years. i was so glad to get back to my my beloved mount vernon and then they came and asked me to be president of the constitutional convention. 1787 for four months in very hot humid, philadelphia i chaired the constitutional convention. and on september the 27th of 1787 it was over. and now they come to mount vernon. and they say general you have been unanimously elected president of the united states all 69 electoral votes. we would like you to come to new york or the inauguration. that was in april 14th 1789 two days later. i left mount vernon. i wrote to henry knox my good friend. and i said i am like a culprit. heading for the place of execution. the last thing i want to do. is to leave my peaceful abode. and go into an ocean of difficulties. believe me i

i spent 20 years at the washington post. i went all over the country for the washington post. it was a wonderful life education going to visit places and learn new things. and as i traveled around the country writing business stories, i began to realize how little i knew about the history of the working people of america. it's something that really isn't taught. in the late 1990s, i wrote a series of articles on sexual harassment. and i heard a lot of chilling stories about places where there had been an imbalance of power, where people were able to use their power to force people to do things they didn't want to do. there were people who were sort of trapped in a cycle of abuse and a lot of time, those stories were really very bad stories. it's really much more akin to criminal activity than most of us have realized. and i've heard all the stories overall of the coldest route, as i get to suffer myself, when my call secondary stress. and i got afraid to fly. i started to feel like authority figures could not be counted on to do the right thing if there were a problem. i suppo

guest: washington -- at washington, infrastructure week has long been seen as a joke. we have a new president. he will try from his perspective. he is going to propose programs to improve highways, bridges, water supply, rural broadband. it is the next big bite of the apple that president biden is taking. it is a genuine effort to improve infrastructure. in his press conference last week, he mentioned that she cited a statistic that the u.s. is 13th in infrastructure spending per capita. he compared us to china. there are many ways of measuring infrastructure spending. anybody who travels in this country and goes to an airport has experienced add water and knows the country needs an upgrade -- bad water and knows the country needs an upgrade. there are two things he will propose. one is the infrastructure, the physical infrastructure, plus broadband. coming up in april, social programs. childcare, health care, paid family leave. home care assistance for older adult. -- adults. all told, these two big programs together are going to cost between $3 trillion and $4 trilli

washington post. books. project. live from moscow. take you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past 7 days. we reported the. french students forced to free all subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point to groups have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also week are around 40000 meals are being distributed to students in paris by this organization meals they can take home and heat up later or meals that they can take out now and eat because they're horton ready all at the price of one euro now that's been in place since january as a system to help those students who are really in need we have 0 of many students turn into words different types of aid wonderfully social services deliveries for example for buy

principles overtrained washington tells e.u.r. is the most dense russia's north rim to any pipeline to europe yet figures show when it comes to america itself importing from a designated enemy is far less the siding with the u.s. now importing record amounts of russian crude art is convincing the rushkoff report . well well well look who's shopping on the russian oil market the u.s. purchased record breaking volumes of russian crude in 2020 make in moscow its 3rd largest oil supplier even saudi arabia a longstanding american ally and one of the world's largest oil exporters is left behind while this can be true you would say the u.s. is increasingly buying a valuable commodity filling the coffers of a country it deems to be one of the most formidable foes i mean where is the logic maybe it's a mistake you know a one time thing well not really according to the u.s. energy information administration america has been renting up its oil imports from russia for the last 5 years until they finally broke a decade old record and that's de

president washington. president lincoln. president theodore roosevelt, president calvin coolidge, and president roosevelt, i have moments of sitting here is really true, thank you so, so much for being here today. i would like to go first of all welcome, president washington. it's a honor and a privilege to meet you. so the first question that i have for you is as the first president of our nation, i would like to ask you why did you decide to elect a president instead of naming a king? >> i said one king george is enough. and i frankly didn't even want to be president. the last thing that i ever wanted to be was king. it might interest you to know that before i was inaugurated, the senate passed a resolution that my title should be his highness george washington, president of the united states, and defender of its people. i finally put an end to that and said, it's mister president. >> as most of us are aware, the president takes the oath of office during his inauguration. so where did the first inauguration take place? >>

as those of you who live in washington know, there's very few washington named after women. i noticed it and i filed it away and wondered who was francis perkins? i had never even heard of her. as we around this day, we got around by the washington monument and the tour bus driver said in his -- along with his regular patter, what american woman had the worst childbirth experience? francis perkins. she spent 12 years in labor. [ laughter ] that's the first time i ever remember hearing francis perkins' name spoken aloud. i laughed by the rest of you, but it also kind of irritated. and after that, i kept her name in my mind and i kept listening for her. i spent 20 years at "the washington post" and over the years i realized how often i heard her name. often like a distant whisper. when we talked about social security, francis perkins, when we talked about age discrimination, francis perkins, when we talked about the fair labor standards act and making revisions to it, we talked about francis perkins. when we talked about the labor movement, we were talking about francis perkin

the washington post ridiculed for parents of so-called. toddlers. we have to do something for me instead of being naive. talking about. baby each just. as i say not as i do trying to force europe to stop a major russian energy project makes moscow one of its biggest partners. and thousands of migrants a film that overcrowded camps on the u.s. . president to refugee crisis. live from moscow with me. today welcome to the program. first up this week we reported there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to tons of free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. was one paris health center where they can buy cheaper meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point to groups have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are bein

"the washington post," have you seen this? ran a major correction. former president trump did not tell a georgia state election official to quote, go find the voter fraud in the vote count. that allegation, factored in impeachment. a georgia investigation. the fallout what will happen next? this is hbo's bill maher washington is trapped in time-consuming culture wars as china eats our lunch. we've got that debate. i'm elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts right now. ♪ elizabeth: welcome to the show. you're watching the fox business network. we begin tonight with house republicans at the border today saying biden, the democrats you broke it, you own it. bring in retired i.c.e. acting director ronald vitello. good to see you. democrats say there is no crisis but fema is headed there? fema is in charge of crises. what is going on. >> right. they were emergency managers. they were put the whole government response in 2014 when president obama and biden was the vice president. that problem is much smaller in 2014 than it is today. i saw some repo

washington more than the others, he mentions washington a lot. he mentions him in the farewell address in springfield and then over and over again and so. i think he had a growing consciousness that he had to continue to be the captain of a ship, he talks about the ship of state also. and i wondered a few times if the train he's on has become literally the ship of state. but he's the captain of a vessel, much as george washington had been both as revolutionary commander and then as a first president. so seeing those hundreds of thousands and really millions by the time the trip is done, i think filled him up with a job just as they were comforted by seeing him. >> right. we have so many great questions but we only have about three minutes. so i think we can only ask about one more. jay s writes this. in brad melters fictional account of the conspiracy to harm lincoln in baltimore, he writes that she wrote in the train car with lincoln and that he was this is not a disguised as her brother. is there any truth in that and then dave uyghurs asks abo

washington and her successors have defined their unique position. and she makes an interesting observation that many presidents actually married up perhaps explaining why so many of their well-educated and socially connected wives embrace their white house duties with confidence. ms. caroli is the author of first ladies the ever-changing role from martha, washington to melania trump. the white house historical association provided the video now, it's my pleasure to welcome betty caroli to history happy hour. a graduate of oberlin college betty holds a master's degree in mass communication from the annenberg school at the university of pennsylvania and a phd in american civilization from nyu a fulbright scholar in italy. she has received fellowships and grants from the national endowment for the humanities the franklin and eleanor roosevelt institute, the hoover presidential library and the lbj foundation. before joining the faculty at the city university of new york. she taught in palermo and rome. betty is the author of a number of books including

southern border adding to reports that washington is facing an unprecedented refugee crisis. a drag queen site and a book called anti racist baby the washington post ridiculed for offering parents so-called woke materials for toddlers. we have to do something neat instead of being naïve like that happens while osmosis producing books for 3 year olds talking about. baby beach just absolute nonsense. and do as i do washington tries to force europe to stop a major russian energy project makes moscow one of its biggest oil traded. life marty's worldview center this sunday welcome to the program our look back at the top stories we brought you over the last 7 days and some more details we pick some out from this 1st there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets a lot of chatter this in the wake of dubinsky went to one paris help center where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point

a drag queen web site and a book called anti-racists baby washington post ridiculed for offering parents so-called work which aerials for toddlers. left. instead of the naive lots of patents well put you should books the 3 you're all talking about on the world. it's just. a case of do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stop immediate russian energy projects makes moscow one of its biggest oil partners. and thousands of moderates are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to reports of an unprecedented crisis. washing weekly here on our 2 international recap of the biggest stories from the past 7 days thanks for joining us this hour. first and the week we reported that there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets are the charlotte did once he was at one paris help center where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point out 2 groups have been hit

southern border adding to reports that washington is facing an unprecedented refugee crisis this. do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stop a major russian energy project it makes moscow one of its biggest oil traders. and their good morning live from artie's world news center this sunday morning welcome to the weekly look back at the top stories we brought you over the last 7 days with me kevin 0 in this hour than 1st the head of the french hospital federation warning of a quote unprecedented shock within weeks unless there's decisive action from the government there the country centered a 3rd wave of infections there are now more than 27000 patients in hospitals across the country has the highest figure this month the number in intensive care was approaching 5000 a record for the year the emergency doctors association told us the authorities response in their view had been woeful. hospitals across france are struggling facing a shortage of beds in the i.c.u. there's an influx of patients their numbers are growing at an unprecedented pace the problem result

you the new host for washington week? i i understand this is a softbal question but we want you all the time. we've been through a lot of different folks in you were fantastic. >> guest: that's so kind of you, thank you. yes, i have behind me, that is a postage stamp that was put out last year in her honor for black history month, and that is blown up, that postage stamp, and a friend gave it to me. it's always sitting behind as ao reminder she still sits on my shoulder. she was my mentor and my friend, and i still continue to think of her every day, every moment, and tried to how should be processing this era we're in. january 6, i was in something of the same boat. i had c-span on and backup you when is the big day in terms of quantity listen to the speeches. one to hear how republicans were sort of processing, again this is before the attack on the capital but how republicans were making the argument about overturning the electoral college votes. i wanted to see him and republicans are going to be supported by that. i