the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c., and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. here on c-span, "the communicators" is next with a look at telecommunication and health care innovation in the state of alaska. that's followed by former president barack obama speaking in africa about the life and legacy of nelson mandela. later, the national governors association meeting in santa fe, new mexico, to discuss race equity in the workplace. seter: as part of c-span' alaska we can, we thought we would look at some of the tech and communication issues faced by our 49th state. pidgeon,s is tina senior counsel of a company called gci. what is gci? is aidgeon: telecommunications and technology company that serves statewide in alaska. -- wen serving the state have been serving the state since the late 1970's and we focus on delivering services as broadly and deeply as possible. started,w did they get and what was the vision when they got started? ms. pidgeon: ron duncan, who is ceo, and bobent wolf are the founders

unfiltered coverage of congress, the white house, the supreme court, and public policy events in washington, d.c., and around the country. c-span is brought to you by your cable or satellite provider. >> as part of alaska's vast c-span's alaska weekend, we look at communication issues faced i our 49th state your .-- 49th state ron duncan is one of the founders of the company. they had a vision they do toiver better services alaska by investing in technology. 1970's,time, the late there are long-distance services that customers experienced, especially in rural alaska that were very expensive and not of particularly high quality. they felt they could improve the service and deliver a better experience that eventually serves statewide. the original entrepreneurs, two greatn a garage with a idea, making a difference for the people that invested and deserve. >> now it is a largest communication company in alaska. waxed that is correct. ,e serve the most locations very many people, and we do it using pretty much all the technology tools in the toolbox. any telecom company could possibly use. ask what

and there are people in washington, d.c. that just don't want to see that back over to the american people because it scares them. that is what the whole tea party movement was about. it was not a party movement. it was a philosophical movement that talked about the relationship of the individual to the government, and it was really about fiscal issues and that's kind of like how this country got started. you know, the tyranny of taxation and the other things we saw from the british. so i think that the republican party has kind of tried to, you know, walk an incredible balancing act, but they tend to teeter more so to washington, d.c. and the power that's inside this beltway. mark: so you run for congress the first time and you lose. >> yep. mark: in a very tough district. >> yep. mark: you run the second time and you win, you're a tea party favorite. your principles you espouse them now and back then, same beliefs, same values. you run for re-election and you lose by 2100 votes or something in what was, in my view, very su

it's in washington, d.c. but that kind of innovation isn't being driven by the white house -- >> no -- >> because we -- connect your work to the white house. >> oh, well -- well, first of all, walter washington reported to bud krogh. whatever was going on in washington was on bud krogh's agenda, absolutely from the beginning. i can't impress that to you enough how what we were doing was front page news in washington, d.c. day after day after day. there was incredible focus on the crime issue and the methadone program. by september of 1970, we had an expose on the cbs television station, an hour long talking about how methadone was poisoning the city. it was an amazing -- young guy just started this thing. and now all of a sudden, i've got an hour long prime time documentary against me. >> enemy of the people. >> and racial issues were involved in this. it was very difficult. what happened at that point was very striking and that is "the washington post" and "the evening star" put their top people on this quest

whether in washington d.c. or moscow the next putin summit will be the second official encounter between the two presidents the first. weeks ago led to a lot of criticism in the u.s. media over the way trump handled that meeting was accused of not defending his country's interests during the summit. if national security advisor john bolton later announced that a washington meeting would not happen until two thousand and nineteen when quote the russia witchhunt is over james encounter with putin in helsinki also became the subject of a heated senate hearing where the u.s. to state my pump clashed with senators has the president told you what he and president putin discuss in their two hour closed door meeting in helsinki did you did he tell you did the president at this meeting call upon president putin to withdraw from crimea and eastern you where did the president say we're going to change our force structure in syria good to what took place you speak to the translator that the president discussed relaxed rela

washington, d.c.orning rush hour. you have already had there in d.c. about six inches of rain, half a foot in the last three days. that's why we have 34 million people in flood watches. southern tier of new york through central pennsylvania, eastern pennsylvania including philadelphia, baltimore, washington, d.c., all the way through raleigh to charlotte and eastern north carolina. here are the rainfall totals. another two to five inches of rain in eastern north carolina. washington, d.c. could get another four inches in the next 48 hours including areas of the poconos and the catskills and that's where the greatest flo flooding concerns continue throughout the day today. we will look at the excessive heat. >> i was going to say between the heat and the rain, you can feel how muggy it is here in the city. >> it is gross in the east, yeah. it is as humid as it gets and it is not going away until the weekend. >> thank you for that. >>> one mlb pitcher's marv less return to the mound after over a year af

washington d.c. . us trade rules romney agenda ten ton of bricks summit russian president vladimir putin's delivered his speech at the annual gathering of the world's top emerging economies comprising brazil russia india china and south africa you don't have sent this report from johannesburg. this year's gathering will be quite unlike compared to anything that we've seen previously and that's mainly because you have to look basically out the goals that the brics countries are pursuing when the world's leading developing economies were of bonding together and they defined their goals as celebrating their own economic growth and the past few years have shown that the countries are very much committed to that also they formed a new global bank under the name of the new development bank one of the main goals is of course being serving as sort of a counterbalance to the more traditional economic powerhouses and mainly the united states since twenty sixteen in fact you have trump in charge in the white hous

buster will not play in next tuesday's all-star game in washington, d.c.nstead, he will rest his sore hip. and the a's still waiting on wourd word of jed lowrie. it will be a shame if he doesn't get named. frankie montez pitching. and they are tied 0-0 in the sixth inning. >>> 49ers can look forward to new swanky editions. they released renderings of the hospital space located underneath the south end zone grandstand. the so-called green room is an exclusive club that serves as the hospital room for beyonce and others. box seats feature reclining leather seats. nobody's reclining during a football game by the way. they're all standing up and cheering. >> go from fancy to fancier at levi stadium. >>> tonight at 11:00, where is angela hernandez. her family says she had been driving from oregon to southern california but vanished without a trace. why investigators think she may be in the bay area or near us. the search is under way this iepg. that's coming up at our 11:00 newscast. >> we are being looking at 90s coming back. morning fog on wednesday bringing

washington d.c. are manning their battle stations all prepared to face an on coming on slot but what are they worried about well it could be the twenty sixteen presidential elections let's not forget that james clapper the former director of national intelligence said that in the twenty sixteen supposed intervention none of the vote tallies were in any way affected they did not change any tallies or anything of that sort we had no we have no way of gauging. the impact that sort of the intelligence community can't gauge the impact on. choices the electorate made furthermore it's not exactly clear who russia is supposedly going to be supporting now the democrats say that russia is going to be supporting donald trump but tom says that the pending kremlin subversion will be in support of the democrats why would he say that well because it makes just as about sense as what the democrats it was true everybody wants to blame another country for the probably another reason why thirty million americans don't

liz: a big thunderstorm clearing up in washington, d.c. washington, d.c.ving us in your home. charles payne is next. charles: the day after the helsinki summit, the economy continues to soar. first president trump responding to critics insisting his controversial meeting with vladimir putin and nato, that they weren't a success. moreover, trump says he fully supports american intelligence agencies and he clarified comments made about meddling. president trump: i accept our intelligence community's conclusion that russia's meddling in the 2016 elect t

it was one of a dozen lawsuits that went from rural texas to kansas to washington d.c. and virginia in the late 40s. most of these cases never went to the supreme court but these were the cases that first got the attention of thurgood marshall and lay the groundwork for brown v board of education. as they approached the white schools the hostile white principles would turn around and have a meeting with lawyers if you have you know how long and boring they can be so my apologies to any lawyers in the room. and they talked about their cases with conviction to both the black and the white press they wanted to know from all of the school plaintiffs do you want to go to school with white students? do you think you'll become friends friends with white students will that be difficult and explosive questions to ask and the girls did well. so the essential question at the heart of the book is why did girls ask for desegregation first? there are two primary reasons. first girls disproportionately believed the idea of school desegregation and believed that segregated schools was

that is something that had been opposed in washington, d.c. for years, and it had been sought by the state. there has been for years, resentment by state officials that the efforts to develop state resources have been stymied. anytime you have more than half of your state owned by the federal government you are going to have a complicated relationship which speaks to the significance of the alaskan delegation because of the role the government plays. host: how has it changed under the trump administration? guest: the president will sign the bills that the congress passes. the obama administration, consistent with democratic environmental positions, the arctic national wildlife refuge drilling had been opposed. and the president would have the don't provisions. president trump was not particularly aware of the details, but it was something important to senator murkowski and others and he signed this is part of the tax bill. which is the centerpiece of his legislative agenda. has, you mightka say, a friend in the white house. and it is seen in t

i'm just going to read quickly to you one case in 1947 in washington d.c.. on the morning of april 13, 1947, the 14-year-old went with her father to elliott junior high school, the white school closest to her home in washington d.c. and attempted to enroll. the principal tipped off that she was on her way, met her on the steps. as she stood facing him, the white students pressed up against the windows to see what would happen. across the street, teachers, students, genders, pta and the principal of her junior high, brown junior high school, stood on the sidewalk. to their minds, it was something made up. something fantastic. but here, this child is just coming on. engaging a situation, she recalled what her parents had taught her about how to act in polite company. and so she says, i smiled nicely. and when the principal told her, you don't want to come here, she responded, respectfully, but firmly, i do want to come to the school. the response carried within it, the contradictory attributes that were required in these kinds of confrontations. she smiled. a

joins us now live from washington d.c. no doubt those kinds of remarks should be raising some concern in washington what are you hearing kimberly. well it is a holiday here in the united states so we don't expect that there will be immediate reaction to those specific remarks but certainly this is something that the administration has been talking about in recent days most recently the u.s. secretary of state mike pump a on monday backing off sensually what the sort of assertion was by the united states when it first withdrew from the iran nuclear agreement sort of softening and recognizing the turmoil in the oil markets and so when it comes to certain allies like south korea india among others including turkey there is a recognition that there is an enormous amount of oil imported by those nations from iran and so that deadline that was put in place semi of november fourth for that to be cut off maybe i'm realistic what we've seen as well in recent days is a call between the u.s. president and the kingdom of saudi arabia

somebody that's a living, breathing person in washington, d.c. istinction say to you, that that was hatchippe in washington? >> this is a full spectrum effort by russia, it is not just manipulating twitter and facebook, this is actual human beings. we have a whole range of things, this is hacking into e-mails, this is influencing people on social media, it is spreading money around, what we see with paul manafort, attempts at money laundering, see a full spectrum across a range of things. this is why investigations are important. we need to figure out exactly what russia was doing to try and manipulate the americans so that russia's choice would wind up in the white house instead of who the american people might naturally choose. >> great to speak with you. thank you very much. with the think tank third way in washington, d.c. >>> from the classroom to the capital, i will be joined by the national teacher of the year that's now running for congress. alright guys let's go! let's do this directions to the greek theater (beep) ♪can i get a connection

the national archives in washington, d.c. hosted this one hour talk. today is the lost indictment of robert e. lee, the forgotten case against a american icon by john reeves. john has been a teacher, editor, and writer for over 25 years. the civil war has been a passion the americant read picture history as an elementary school student in the 1960's. recently his articles on robert e. lee have been each are gone and theington post history news network. earlier in his career, he taught european and american history at

the clerk: the speaker's room, washington, d.c., july 16, 2018. i hereby appoint the honorable mike bost to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, paul d. ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 8, 2018, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties. all time shall be equally allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 1:50 p.m. each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from arkansas, mr. ill, for five minutes. mr. hill: i thank the speaker for the time today. i rise in honor of mr. howard marshall, former deputy assistant director at the federal bureau of investigation. mr. marshall recently concluded a 21-year career with the f.b.i. this, after growing up in a household where his father, brian

she taught history at two largely african-american public high schools in washington, d.c., mckinley tech and hd woodson. her example taught me the example of equality for all americans. my mom was a trailblazer. when i was 10, she went to law school and became a prosecutor. my introduction to law came at the dinner table, when she practiced her closing arguments. was, "useark line your common sense. what rings true, what rings false?" that's good advice for a juror and for a son. one of the few women prosecutors at that time, she overcame barriers and became a trial judge. the president introduced me tonight as judge kavanaugh, but to me, that title always belonged to my mom. my dad went to law school at night while working full-time. he has an unparalleled work ethic and has passed down to me his passion for playing and watching sports. i love him dearly. the model of my jesuit high brothers.""men i have tried to live that treat. i spent my career in public service from the executive branch in the white house, to the u.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit. i have served with 17

. >>> and tonight on the cbs evening news from washington d.c. part two of our interview with the president. what he says about his relationship with vladimir putin, the u.s. intelligence community and russia's meddling in the u.s. election. that and a lot more coming up on the cbs evening news from washington d.c. >>> we'll look for that. thank you for watching at 5:00. >> alan and i are back in 30 minutes. see you then. ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> glor: on the "cbs evening news" this wednesday, from washington, d.c., our interview with the president. you say you agree with u.s. intelligence that russia meddled in the election in 2016. >> i would say that that is true, yeah. >> glor: what he told putin one- on-one. what did you say to him? >> very strong on the fact that we can't have meddling, we can't have any of that. >> glor: but you haven't condemned putin specifically. do you hold him personally responsible? >> certainly, as the leader of a country, you would have to hold him responsible, yes. >> glor: and how he responds to the cas

and public policy events in washington, d.c. and around the country. c span is brought to you by your cable and satellite provider. >>> you're watching american artifacts. joining us in our studios is michael alexander kahn. thank you for being with us. what was puck? >> puck was the most important weekly political cartoon magazine of its time. it was the innovator of political cartoon magazines and was widely read and very influential. >> we'll talk about the publication. let me talk about you and your involvement in the book. why did you do it? >> i came to washington for ucla. and my professor had on a cartoon. he said, this cartoon decided the election of 1884. it was a beautiful cartoon and i was hooked. and since then, i collected the magazines, literally, for over 40 years. >> we're going to talk about the magazine. first, let's talk about the media. for a century, late 1900s. early 20th century, what was it like? >> there was no tv. there was no internet. the newspapers, a lot of newspapers, but they weren't very colorful, they weren't very fun

washington d.c. well the meddling story continues to be hugely divisive i gone at the. media around this line and political consultant which it did state liberal politicians frequently blame russia for various things as well if you believe that's the real cause of the problems in the us how there are other divisions what do you think rich and. look i don't think people are blaming russia for anything that happens in the united states other than what our intelligence community concluded unanimously which with which of the russians attacked the united states to mock or see in the way that they. meddled frankly makes it look kind of pity. kind of really kind of piddly. it's meddling in the way that osama bin laden meddled with the world trade center that was an attack dick cheney. fan of generally ira had said that what our actions did was an act leak was of war against united states so so again but i think we should segment that out i think i think what happened i'd say it's whether it's racial bias or you know in inequality in terms of incomes that's not because of anybo

. >> if you are looking for integrity in washington, d.c., it will be a long search. this is the daily fare in this city. lou: i know i may appear otherwise, but i am not a babe in the woods. i have seen a thing or two. there has to be some repository of integrity and the national and public interest in washington, d.c., because it doesn't exist with the special counsel, that's clear. and it's clear that mcconnell and ryan are part of the problem and have no interest in solving anything. >> they are not part of the problem. they are the problem. they have a constitutional duty to engage in oversight in all these matters, and you seat most of anemic, what threat i can leadership from them. they have an affirmative obligation under the constitution to engage in oversight and they are awol, they are asleep at the switch. lou: on the part of the congress and the republican conference. they are tolerating a lame duck speaker who is defying the president of the united states. who is rolling him on many of his agenda items and fighting him more effectively than the left and

. -- declassification conference in washington, d.c. it helps to set the record straight in regards to my father's performance and the u-2 incident. my father followed all of his orders. my father was never ordered to commit suicide. the pen that he took with him, a little pen concealed in a hollow out silver dollar, dollar opens up, this was not an actual replica of the one that my father kerry, but it gives you an example of what you can hide that my father carried, but it gives you an example of what you can hide in a silver dollar. he took it out, he thought about using it, he decides to throw away the dollar, thinking it would be the first souvenir a russian would want. he puts the pin in this -- and in this strip shirts -- strip search it was found. he is already in enough trouble. he did not want to have a murder conviction on top of an espionage conviction. he is already in enough trouble. the soviets test the device on a dog. the dog dies in 20 seconds from a fix the nation. -- from expectation. asphyxiation. the poison on the

and if you look at the vistas, you see washington, d.c., there. you see the lincoln memorial and the capitol building or the white house, right? well, back then, think about people that were coming into the cemetery to pay their suspects. maybe they don't understand what this was. so, unfortunately, about 1925, the veteran of the war comes around the corner to pay his respects to the unknown soldier, and what does he find? somebody having a picnic on that big white marble flat piece. if there's veterans in the room, i know what your response would have been. it would have been the same as mine. probably just as colorful. to let them know that what you're doing is inappropriate. however, this person went down to the white house, knocked on the door, walked in and told the man, this is wrong, you got to do something it, something we all probably wish we could do today going down to the white house and talking to the president. the president said you're absolutely right, that is wrong. we need to fix it. congress had originally intended to put someth

the osce me to take the model from yugoslavia serbia i have experts university professors in washington d.c. montreal canada hired by the americans in order to advise me on the strategy to change the leader this that was the leader of km bodi as national rescue party runners up and twenty third thing talking once about us backed regime change and so on charges of treason come so it was thrown behind bars last year the government then went after the whole party for what it called conspiring with america so right now there is no such name of c.n. r.p. on that list uncle sam has been trying many tools to scheme and can both like n.g.o.s or foreign media so say local officials that's how they've just defied cracking down on a handful of american funded outlets and groups which include radio free asia or the national democratic institute you team up with the opposition to overthrow the man in charge you leave cambodia that's to just never stop theo's want to continue demolition to topple the government has to be a young boy and you are big boy how can you you're pushed out of the old boy and you

least sure when in the russian capital and alexander for north america burch is standing by in washington d.c. alex i want to go to you first if i mean we often describe events as historic but what did we just witness to seventy two hours after the american department of justice accused russia of cruelly acting against its very democratic process the president standing next to russia and calling for closer cooperation. well i think what we have just witnessed to something that has not served the u.s. interest and that is being disquietude by many of us many analysts. and to start being just let's take one main issue here russian meddling in the you asked presidential election the russian president president was able to stand next to donald trump and once again to deny any involvement and the russian interference in the electoral process although all the you asked intelligence agencies say that they are convinced that that was the case and the you as president did nothing to contradict the russian president instead he thought of trashed his own intelligence agencies saying and suggesting that

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joining us from washington, d.c., executive vice president of axios making his first.g this morning? >> jared and ivanka are in it for the long haul. after speculation they might move back to new york, we have sources that tell us they'll, indeed, stay here as long as the president is here. we saw that this week with ivanka shutting down her business and her message to really committing on policy on washington. >> how has the rise of jared and ivanka impacted the dynamics inside the white house? >> what we've heard from sources is that you've seen jared and ii ivanka outside the oval office and in the residence and these meetings have happened without white house chief of staff john kelly. as you see john kelly's power in the white house waning you see jared and ivanka rising. it's not a great surprise that someone who comes from a family business and relies on family in his business would also rely on his family here in washington and in the white house, especially when pressure rises. >> what will be the impact of jared and ivanka stepping out from behind the scenes

washington d.c. . so when president bashar assad said members of the activist group who want helmets who refuse an amnesty will go to him be one of the terrorists. the fate of the white helmets will be the same is that any terrorist they have to pass on to lay down their arms and take advantage of the amnesty will be wiped out like other terrorists well the syrian president bashar al assad has reiterated his position on the white house being a controversial group now in the past he's regarded the white house mrs agents of western powers that have links to jihad this great finn he said that the world has been warned of the groups dangerous this comes as the syrian government has condemned the evacuation of the white house minutes from the south of the country and damascus has described the move as a criminal operation by israel and its tools but these routes defense fulfill said that they were acting on a request by the u.s. u.k. and other european nations as well but the evacuees were taken to jordan b

nbc's blayne alexander joins us from washington, d.c. with the closer look at judge kavanaugh and his political roots. >> reporter: judge brett kavanaugh, a one-time clerk for justice anthony kennedy, tonight picked to fill his supreme court seat by president trump. >> there is no one in america more qualified for this position, and no one more deserving. >> reporter: a d.c. appeals court judge, kavanaugh once served under president george w. bush and also under kenneth starr, the special prosecutor in the clinton lewinsky scandal. though conservative, the he did not pick based on ideology. >> i did not ask about personal op judge's political views, but whether they can set aside those views tothe law and the constitution require. >> reporter: kavanaugh vowing to be fair. >> i will keep an open mind in every case, and i will always strive to preserve the constitution of the united states and the american rule of law. >> reporter: now the focus shifts to the senate and what promises to be a fiery confirmation battle. >> hey hey, hoho, kav