washington. i tell the story of how washington was human embodiment of document that guarantees our liberty that will end here at mount vernon, but it begins on another virginia plantation not far away. >> washington was born in 1732 when british coloniesonis were still out boasts. outpost.g >>us mew world held promise, many colonists became healthy from tobacco farming, includes georgeck father, augustestine. they overlooked the river across from fredericks berg, across from fredericks berg, virginia. their comfortable life would not last. >> his father died when heex wapes 11. washington had no formal education. in those days, well-to-do families sent their children to england for classical education. but once his father died, he was unable to go to england. he had reading, writing, arithmetic, usually from private tutors. but he didn't receive the same education that his older siblings did. washington got from his childhood a strong sense of the need to be self-reliant. george washington's mot

george washington's mother, mary washington, had a very important impact on him. was quite strong. and i think george washington had that reputation as well. young and full of determination. he knew that if he was going to make anything of his life, it was up to him. he wasn't going inherit some massive estate or a lot of money. and so one thing he could do to earn money and also get opportunities was to become a surveyor. the job was in high demand in the developing colonies because of the unmapped frontier. and washington, it turned out, was really good at math. laurence washington was the older brother and he had become george washington's mentor. lawrence is the one who really helped establish washington as a surveyor. with his adventurous spirit, it was the perfect fit. so george washington, at the age of 17, was made a surveyor of culpeper county, virginia, and that put him out west in the shenandoah valley, which at the time was the west. while washington never traveled far beyond the colonies, he did go to barbados. lawrence had tuberculosis. and the idea

washington.. >> my god did holy hell break loose after that dinner. the south went haywire, they thought it was too much of a civil rights advance because of the president can invite but critique, that means white southerners are supposed to be invited back into their home for dinner and for arch segregationists, that was a nonstarter. >> cartoonist lampoon the dinner as barbaric. leaders from across the political aisle thought washington as a negro leader acted out of place and elected president acted with disregard towards his fellow race. there was an assassin are to travel to tuskegee to silence the school's beloved visionary. both men paid a political price. >> it did set both of them back and begs the question as to what the value of those symbolic gestures is what the price. >> they had a commencement at harvard, booker t. washington brought an honorary degree in the president stated talking to a lot of people think that's because of what happened earlier at the white house. >> roosevelt d

george washington is out as a surveyor.knows the frontier country and with the house of burgesses says we want to have somebody to go out and follow the command of king george ii and tell the french not to advance their forces from the great lakes to the forks of the ohio or the allegheny and the 90 rivers, where pittsburgh is today, who are we going to send? and they said we will send this young washington, who knows this frontier. we will send him over there. and he is sent over there at age 21, 22, ultimately with general braddock's troops who suffer braddock's defeat near pittsburgh. he brings the troops back on the retreat. but this gives washington the military experience, the frontier experience and the actual military command experience that few colonists had. the british army had that experience, they didn't want to have colonists in their ranks. washington himself was reject -- projected from the royal navy. so when the second continental congress meeting was 1775 and they are choosing a commander of the continent

washington's commission. washington's resignation document. but obviously most importantly, the declaration of independence. that he took wagons across the river, around bridge after thinking about it, he concluded because there was foundry too close at hand that the british might think would be useful and providing munitions. he continued on a journey and where he took those wagons all way to leesburg, virginia and them stored in a secure place there. and he went to bed exhausted that night the citizens leesburg virginia saw all of washington in flames and told pleasanton about that when he woke up the next morning. and pleasant recalled an exchange he had had. he was taking the documents out of, the state department to safe keeping. he into the secret wart the time who saw what was doing and said, but wait a minute, why are you doing this? i think you're being extremely alarmist. there's no point. washington is not going to be invaded by the british. and pleasanton said, i think it's a point of prudence to do it. i work for the secretary of

the department of washington. he is not going to do what had always been done by the federals when stewart went on a raid before. they would send their cavalry after him and chase him from behind. they would never catch him. they would wear out their horses and embarrassed themselves and go home with nothing to hold onto. he does not have enough calvary to attempt that. he is going to deploy his infantry to protect all of his assets and give stewart a corridor by which he has no other way to go except through that toward her. through which he can create something. stewart will go to burke station. this is on the orange and alexandria railroad that comes out of washington alexandria and goes westward. he will stop there. the federals know this. they will begin listening to all of the union telegrams, all of the traffic. they will begin sending their own sarcastic messages back to the audience. they will asked them to send better horses, better mules. that kind of thing. the federals know where he is and when he is

key to this story tonight is washington, d.c. as the capital of the north, you may have not really given thought to the fact that washington throughout the war, and the sentiment of its populace, is a southern city. it is not a northern city, they are not necessarily off in the north, it is a southern city surrounded by the state of maryland and the state of virginia, southern state there. and it is also surrounded by high ground. so, one of the first things that they did, the north had to do, was fortified the city to try to protect it, and although this map is partly cut off for our purposes tonight, we will see it a couple times, hopefully it gives you a sense of those fortifications as they link the city with those circles there. we will come back to it a couple times. so, [ indescernible ] i want to spend more time on something probably most of you have never heard of. but december 23rd, lee calls stuart to his headquarters, he wants to hit the federal army one more time before the winter, heaviest part of winter shuts down

or the department of washington. is this gentleman, samuel heintzelman. he is not going to do what had always been done private federals when stewart went out a raid before they would send their cavalry him, they would chase them from behind. never capture catch them, wear out their horses, embarrass themselves and go home with no nothing to hold on to. huntsmen doesn't have enough cavalry to even attempt. so going to, in other words, his infantry to protect all of his assets and give stewart a corridor by which he has no other way to go except through that corridor and through which he can create numerous. mr. go to burke station on the orange and now andrew railroad that comes out of washington. alexander westward you will stop. they know the federals know this because he's got a telegrapher with them to tell it. recitation of bird station. they will begin listening to all the union telegrams, all the traffic, and they will begin sending their own kind of sarcastic messages back to the feds. ask them to send better

washington is the same way. you never come away from a session with washington without any about what the commander's intent is. so there is the clarity of their thinking, the clarity of their expression and their physical durability. washington never seems to catch cold over the course of 18 years. it's not, you know, physically accurate. he's very durable and. and eisenhower, despite smoking packs of cigarets a day in 1944, is the same and it projects robust. this in the captain on the ship their ability to roll with the vicissitudes of the things are very very dark for washington in particular and their dark for eisenhower at certain points to to have a sense that okay tomorrow we're going to get at him again neither rhythm neither washington nor eisenhower particularly good tactical. they don't see the battlefield spatially and temporarily the way a great captain does the way our three generals here would they? they're not napoleon. and they're they have moments of strategic insight and and great confidence.

does the rabbit antiwar sentiment justified by a couple hundred wolves in washington? hundreds of thousands of head of cattle, most on public lands and if there cattle gets compensated by the government, are wolves really taking a huge toll that justifies the rabbit antiwar sentiment? >> if you look at the numbers, the best answer, two parts basically, confirmed wolf killings are small, having wolves around, leads to more miscarriages and lower weight which overall weight on the cattle impact sales. that is part of the argument but a broader point is these ranchers like generally family owned ranchers have been on the defensive for years, consolidated meatpacking, and everything else. they are watching a way of life they are invested in get harder to do. the ranchers i've talked to said one more thing, one more addition to this, the wolves are not the cause but they are an easy scapegoat. >> question in the back. >> can't wait to read your book. you mentioned wolves can help control how they impact ranchers, animals, how have they impacted, haven't read your book yet,

know why to defend washington.o you is this, the character of this man he has the key rolls in the revolution pretty has the key roles in the constitutional convention. the first president of the united states. what is it about this man that drew the attention of all of these different personalities? different parts of the country by different attitudes, what was it? lexi was a unifying figure he was somber, humble, it was never about him it was always about the greater good for the citizens of the country. he was the living embodiment of the new government to be. there was no blueprint to say how it was going to be. there was no someone before leaving a note in the desk telling him what's going to happen. there was no torch passing. he was the torch and in that he understood the gravity of the situation. he was not a great or a chore. he was not fiery. he wasn't a guy slopping everyone on the back like ben franklin. he wasn't the young hamilton who is giving speeches. he was the embodiment of steady sober coming t

washington, our country supports ukraine. we give $1 billion every month.o with war. we pay them. so, we have ukraine, i call it the 5th state, because washington loves ukraine very much, they they just love zelsky’s ukraine, but when it started, i thought, why are we doing this? this doesn't make any sense, we have so many problems at home, people in my constituency are suffering, people have lost their businesses, they can't pay rent, pensioners are choosing. which badges, i am for ukraine , i knew, by the way, i barely knew, they began to wear flags of ukraine in their small, you know, front pockets, they had to wear it everywhere, it was as if i was in a foreign country, for me it didn’t matter makes no sense, but the irony is simply amazing, our the borders are open, we have an invasion, but we pay. tens of billions of dollars for the security of ukraine’s borders. and if there is any group that should understand this, it is the republicans, they should protect america's borders, but i don't think they are doing that, let's talk about the congress as a

george washington is out as a surveyor. he knows the frontier country and with the house of burgesses says we want to have somebody to go out and follow the command of king george ii and tell the french not to advance their forces from the great lakes to the forks of the ohio or the allegheny and the 90 rivers, where pittsburgh is today, who are we going to send? and they said we will send this young washington, who knows this frontier. we will send him over there. and he is sent over there at age 21, 22, ultimately with general braddock's troops who suffer braddock's defeat near pittsburgh. he brings the troops back on the retreat. but this gives washington the military experience, the frontier experience and the actual military command experience that few colonists had. the british army had that experience, they didn't want to have colonists in their ranks. washington himself was reject -- projected from the royal navy. so when the second continental congress meeting was 1775 and they are choosing a commander of the conti

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it is great to be out of washington dc. know if any of you have challenges with your coworkers sometimes, but i've had a few lately. i've got one that wants to throw hamas pep rallies in the capitol building. another when he does not want to turn in his homework he pulls the fire alarm. i saw the senate judiciary midi room was trending today on social media, and don't click on it if you have not already. it is not what you think, something far worse. it seems crazy stuff is always going on in that crazy town. it is great to be in america's heartland. usually this time of year it is mostly folks from iowa going to florida, not the other way around. we call you all snowbirds when you come down to florida with your big tent sweatshirts on. you go walk on the beach in like 50 degree weather and you get in the water, which is just amazing to us. we assume you are all part polar bear. i shared that story earlier at a meeting with some of our volunteers at the cedar rapids headquarters, and afterwards a guy that served in vietnam

washington, our country supports ukraine.lion dollars every month, has nothing to do with the war, we pay them to the government, we pay them salaries and pensions, we finance all their governments. so, we have ukraine, i call it the 5th. why are we doing this? this doesn't make any sense, we have so many problems at home , people in my constituency are suffering, people have lost their businesses, they can't pay rent, pensioners are choosing between food and medicine, our borders are open and people are dying every single day, but suddenly everything republicans that i knew, barely knew by the way, started wearing... ukrainian flags in their little, you know, front pockets, they had to wear badges, i'm for ukraine, and it's everywhere, i as if i was in a foreign country, it didn’t make any sense to me, but the irony is simply amazing, our borders are open, we have an invasion, but we pay tens of billions of dollars for the security of ukraine’s borders, and if there is some group that should understand that it is the republi

so we tried to shift the focus when asked about the goal of washington's a to key. as we all know why rush recalls repeated meetings on this topic. $655.00 days since the start of its illegal full scale and vision of ukraine. russia has failed to accomplish its war and it is failed to break the spirit and resistance of the ukrainian people. we expect russia to spout any justification that can no matter how absurd to mask its failures on the battlefield . it can with dried forces and start meeting is responsibilities as a permanent member of this council. instead, where she spends its time in this council criticizing legitimate assistance provided to defend ukraine from russia's illegal actions. meanwhile, when it comes to the fate of us 8 for ukraine and is currently facing a deadline in washington, the vitamin ministration is bringing and zelinski on tuesday to try to convince lawmakers to pass around 60000000000 dollars and funding for the next year with the white house warning that ukraine's war chest is set to run out at the end of this month. okay, something di

the same washington profile -- washington post profile looks at other americans, particularly those whoave done well in the last few years. including business owners. this highlights the one business owner in titans corner, virginia, saying he open a sprawling salon and spa at tyson's corner center in late 2018. he had 21 employees, hundreds of clients. he made $80,000 a month. that dried up in the past three years. yusef has depleted his savings but is prepared to close down. "i don't know what's going to happen or what i'm going to do. i have a family, mortgage, two car payments, insurance, taxes but my business is gone." those are just two profiles. you may fit somewhere in the categories. you a have a category on your own -- you may have a category on you own. if you think you are better off than you were three years ago, give us a call and tell us why. (202) 748-8000. if you think you are worse off, (202) 748-8001. if you think y a about the same, (202) 748-8002. you n ways text us your thoughts at (202) 748-8003. onhe line for worse off from michigan, let's arrom karen. your first

washington yeah, absolutely. so obviously there's so much that we can say about george washington and and and some that's become all too relevant in the last several years. i mean, the the type of restraint that he showed, the the republican values giving up power not once but twice are enormous. but also, we don't always think of him in terms of of civil. but his support for religious freedom, his message to the members of the the terrorists synagogue in newport, rhode island, the oldest synagogue in the united states, that the united states is going to be a country that's going to give to bigotry, no sanction to persecute and no assistance. that's a george washington that i think a lot of americans don't know. and we are rightly frustrated by his record on race and slavery. as with most of the founding generation. but there is another side to it. there's enlightenment side in terms of, you know, things that you know, he leaves wanting. you know, i think in terms of the slavery issue, i think what's hard for my

the columbia at the border between present day washington state and oregon. so the british were willing, in other words, to conceal read to the united states. all lands south and of the columbia. but they wanted to maintain access to the river itself, which of course, was the main transportation for the company. remember, the hudson's bay company had a number of trading posts, not just the columbia, the willamette and the snake and other rivers in the territory and so the british hoping that the border would follow the columbia river would enable them to keep access to the columbia river. and hold on to the trading forts that they had established along river. they wanted control over puget sound, which they rightly regarded as a superior harbor on the northwest coast. now americans, for their part, did not expect to acquire any territory north of. the 49th parallel, but they also coveted puget sound and access to strait of juan de fuca fuca. keep in mind that during the 1820s and the 1830s, the united states no good harbor on the pacific, san diego and san fr

his one place would bespokane washington . despite his workload he has saved some of his writing energy to write a book about a phenomenon he was seeing something larger happening while he was reporting that her return of the wolf and has he covered for the paper i found the public's passionate response revealed a more complex story he followed to create this book. he's joined by erica barry, the author of wolfish, a book that tries to understand our myths about wolves tracks rtone through the mountains of oregon. if you think of a good question during the conversation keep it, all on to it because hopefully we will have time for a question and answer and as you have noticed c-span is here ontonight so if you have questions wait for audio to put the microphone therefore you. finally, afterwards eli will be up here to sign books for you so you're going to wind up here and be able to leave that way. reminder we do close at 8:55 so let's welcome eli. [applause] >> thank you for coming, appreciate it n, great to be here and host t

the same washington profile -- washington post profile looks at other americans, particularly those whoay not have done well in the last few years. including business owners. this highlights the one business owner in titans corner, virginia, saying he open a sprawling salon and spa at tyson's corner center in late 2018. he had 21 employees, hundreds of clients. he made $80,000 a month. that dried up in the past three years. yusef has depleted his savings but is prepared to close down. "i don't know what's going to happen or what i'm going to do. i have a family, mortgage, two car payments, insurance, taxes but my business is gone." those are just two profiles. you may fit somewhere in those cagories. you a have a category on your own -- you may have a category on your o. if you think you are better off than you were three years ago, give us a call and tell us why. (202) 7480. if you think you are worse off, (202) 748-8001. if you think you are about the sa, (202) 748-8002. you can always text us your thoughts at (202) 748-8003. on the line for wors off from michigan, let's hear from kar

that is been take advantage of politically in washington. i'm not surprised responsible risk averse actors are not looking to as click the conflict. the u.s. is not looking to escalate the conflict. israel and a short-term has rather limited aims, the destruction of the terrorr group that tried to kill a double come with political baggage and that's what islamic republic will try to flesh out this term is their historical comparison to this proxy network iran has built? >> guest: i don't see what. somewhat to say any alliance network is by default proxy network, but even the way this proxy network works, sometimes -- >> host: a network with a religious component. >> guest: broadleaf islamic republic is ecumenical. you have sunni and shiite in this. the front lines of the conflict in gaza and the vast majority if not the entire population are sunni, not shiite. when i went has his ecumenical, when islamic would pop up and an economical message, its angle of entries that are you there are you persian, are you muslim or not muslim? the first an

um, i believe a washington post. it was set to true. it's at washington course, and many western media outlets were supporting israel at the beginning of the caustic and october 7th. but now we can see the change off. uh, i'll be in uh in uh see that cnn, bbc and many other uh, media international, the western media outlet. this is because of the simple winning all the other part that i send you in, are we need the media or is that at this time i, this is what i can say. although they have a week tools, but they are winning because of social media. i, i believe a, they are going to of the like the heroes of the see, at the end of the day the you an estimate to more than 85 percent of the us population has been displaced. but us presidential candidate nikki haley says it's not israel, it's problem. they should go to her mos loving countries, a rec, cut or turkey. those 3 countries they can go to that. why should anybody else take them if that's the case? and so it is not israel's problem. it's not. america's problem is those countries li

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the washington post claims not quite as comments came during the official trip to germany. there should be no russian who goes to sleep without wondering if they're going to get the throat slit in the middle of the night. you've got to get back there and create a campaign behind the lines full a us marine corps intelligence officer dot scott rich says, the statement of deals a lot to about current ministry thinking in washington. the problem here is that this is an american general speaking to ukrainian forces, and it just makes clear that there is no distinction between the to the united states. i think you're going to be seen in the weeks and months to come. we'll try to distance itself from this conflict. this conflict which did helped create which it promoted, which it sustained in which it is responsible for when it comes to casualties on both sides. in general, miley statement just makes it clear just, you know, how much blood is on the hands of him and other american generals who, you know, we're just observing this conflict, but actively participating passively enco

what is happening in the world, what is happening in washington.we simply do not have time to react to extremely different and sometimes contradictory signals. on the other hand, we feel that the kremlin is celebrating. yes, they are preparing. to prolong the war, and they feel a certain weakness in decisions on the part of the so-called collective action, and we in ukraine are extremely worried, in particular, it is not only about the supply of weapons, but also about money, the ukrainian budget depends on american aid too much. the situation in washington is something completely unexpected for me, and based on our you previous conversations, which i really always love and appreciate, it's ... something completely unexpected even for the washington political elite, because the support, the continuation of military and financial aid to ukraine is very strong in the congress, so what happened is that a small group of extreme republicans , trump's supporters, the so-called maga group, were able to politically blackmail president biden, saying: "okay,

host: welcome "washington journal "washington journal back to."s open forum and the phone lines are republicans, (202) 748-8001 democrats, (202) 748-8000 an independents (202) 748-8002. it is open forum before we get here calls i wanted to show you this portion -- we will get that for you with president zelenskyy's visit to washington as soon as it's ready. david and berkeley county, south carolina, republican. caller: good morning. follow-up from the last segment and the lady from the washington examiner. the callers talked about the trump family and their income from foreign sources and i want to point of the difference between the trump family affairs is that these were businesses conducted openly and legitimately for which taxes were paid and there was no attempt to hide them whereas the biden business, if you can call it business, was done in secret and it required investigation to discover some of the facts. there is a big difference there. it's also true that the trumps are republicans and the bidens were democrats so there's a vastly diffe

loyd austin also stressed washington support for tel aviv is unshakable.

but washington i didn't want to hear it. she cannot win this war, and washington simply does not knowhouse they are trying to find some kind of formula in which he will not admit that he made a mistake, but i don’t care whether he admits or not, what matters is that before until now, official washington does not pay any attention to the central issue of nato expansion and security, there is no realistic view of things: washington does not know that their policy has failed, they simply do not know what to do about it, i think, if biden will say that it was a mistake, he will look, first of all, because of the presidential elections that will be next year, but this is a dangerous policy in this situation, when so many people are dying in ukraine every day. i think washington is well aware that all their efforts have failed. will not put up with the further expansion of nato, ukraine will not defeat russia, and some other way must be found, and every day i propose, they will accept it, and better, faster, because the current war in the middle east is driving the external us policy into a