departments for spending their beautiful saturday morning in this dark but great auditorium of the washington eagles. and i wanted to say that i hope you have a great weekend and a beautiful saturday and sunday and earth day as well on monday. and thanks so much to victor lim, [speaker not understood] and peter from my staff and supervisor tang's staff as well. but also our mayor's office of neighborhood service staff and our office of civic engaged immigrant and civic engagement and the mayor's budget office for making this first of our series of budget hearings a great one. so, now i'll let mayor ed lee wrap us up. (applause) >> thank you, supervisors. again, and department heads. this is the first of many town halls. i've given up pretty much my saturday rounds of golf to make sure that we listen, even though my doctor says i need more exercise. but anyway, i'm glad to do it. so, some of you who may have just participated here but didn't really know what question you wanted to ask but you got an issue, you're definitely invited to the other town halls. we have a full schedule. just because we hol

departments for spending their beautiful saturday morning in this dark but great auditorium of the washington eagles. and i wanted to say that i hope you have a great weekend and a beautiful saturday and sunday and earth day as well on monday. and thanks so much to victor lim, [speaker not understood] and peter from my staff and supervisor tang's staff as well. but also our mayor's office of neighborhood service staff and our office of civic engaged immigrant and civic engagement and the mayor's budget office for making this first of our series of budget hearings a great one. so, now i'll let mayor ed lee wrap us up. (applause) >> thank you, supervisors.

here, but most importantly, thank all of you for coming out on this beautiful saturday at the washington eagles' site, a site where we're doing community clean ups. (applause) >> i want to thank the ambassadors for being here. they're one of our newer programs. we hire people from the community to be eyes and ear in the areas where we feel unsafe, but where we may not need necessarily the attention of a police officer, but they work together. they actually train our ambassadors to become additional extensions with our community. but we won't forget that the community is the most important thing. if we build strong communities, then i believe very well that our whole community policing will work just as it does with so many of our other departments that rely on the community to get their projects or their work done. so, again, thank you for coming out this morning and i look forward to hearing your comments this morning. thank you. (applause) >> thank you. i'm also so happy that we have many people, the new leaders of our neighborhood from young people to the elders and seniors with so much expe

might i mean my i mean he took this to the washington post first and it's not like he this is the oh yeah i don't watch the eagles or that they're trying to slam him why should a republican who gave money to the ram ron paul campaign easy the. but the washington post said that of the powerpoint slides he gave us we only use like three or four of them because the stuff he gave us should remain secret and so we don't know what it is yet but there are you sure that the post said it should remain secret my guess is that article was that the post said that it's a bunch of boring stuff and that it was more of a pitch than informational that this was stuff that the company put together as a sales pitch to the n.s.a. for more of their services why and you know i'll just dial it back to say remains to be seen but it's my understanding that reporters were given things and their reporters on the record who said we felt that these should remain secret but i mean to sort of bring it up to to another notch though the idea that this guy was in hong kong at the same time that the president was having a summit with the president

. >> host: well, conrad black, early in "flight of the eagle," you talk about the seven years war and also detail, i would say, george washington's failures as a military leader and his aggressiveness; correct? >> guest: well, i -- he had -- he made a few mistakes, but he did win after all, and he was, you know, we don't know what he would be like commanding large units like later american military figures like general lee or grant or sheman or eisenhower or mcarthur, we don't know how he would have done with that, but with what he had, he did well, but he was not intolerable or napolean and almost never made a mistake. >> host: why did you open the book with -- >> guest: well, because it was essential to remove france from canada from the united states as it came to have the opportunity to achieve independence, and a few people led by franklin recognized the possibilities for america to become a great country, but let me put it in different words from a moment ago. the american the achievement of the two and a half million free people and half a million slaves for them, in effect, to get the british to evict the french from the

. >> conrad black earlier in "flight of the eagle," a hundred page book, you talk about the seven year war and you also detail i would say george washington's failures as a military leader and his aggressiveness, connect? >> welcome he made few mistakes that he did win after all. we don't know what he would be like commanding a large units like a grand, sherman, eisenhower, macarthur we don't know how he would have done with that but if he had come he certainly was not infallible. he wasn't napoleon. they almost never made a mistake. >> why do you open the book with a -- >> he made some -- well, because it was essential to remove france from canada for the united states as it came to have the opportunity to achieve its independence. and a few people led by franklin recognized the possibility for america to become a great country. let me put it in different words from what i said a moment ago. the american achievement of people to and a half million free people and half a million slaves come for them to get the british to eject the french from the borders and then to help manipulate the greatest powers in the world was an astonishing achieve

eagle on 10 for mickelson. he was jockeying with other guys for first place, rose picks up the final birdie of the day on 13 and that was enough for him to win. the washington nationals welcome back stephen strasburg, pitching his first game since may 31st. they lost to cleveland 2-0. >>> baltimore orioles stepping up chris davis coming up big again. the slugger hit his 23rd homerun. >>> we have women's basketball kids enjoying the fever. playing some of the best ball in a long time. game tonight at halftime our former intern crystal language horn, has 16 points in the second half. throwing four it free throws. they are now 4-1 off to the best start in franchise history. that will do it, have a great monday. >>> they were scheduled to discuss the economy, but another issue is expected to dominate the g8 summit and we'll have that story, coming up. >>> plus the district kicks off a summer of activities for young people and other city residents. coming up on 5:25, here's monika. >> reporter: on the northbound side of i 395 here south of edsel road, work continues on an accident involving two overturned cars in the lanes. main lines remain open the entire time

washington's favorite fighting general. don't forget, benedict arnold is known as the hero. if you've been to the saratoga battlefield you know that's a section of it also known as the eagle ofaratoga. he is revered by his men. he is incredibly brave and does things other sections of the army can't. he also supported and paid for ammunition and closed his men for all of all of the battles that i just mentioned in congress, guess what? they haven't paid them back so he has lost a lot of money and a lot of his fortune. his health is roomed and he doesn't think washington stood up for him because when he is finally made a major general as long after younger men with not as much distinguished service and he was not publicly announced. he is pretty upset with washington and upset with congress. he is not sure that things are so good with this revolutionary idea. by the time he gets to valley forge he brings lucy in on a stagecoach and there's a wonderful comment from matt green who looks at the reunion of lucy and henry and says this is the ur freak a wonderful married couple. well, in philadelphia meanwhile the british have occupy than andre has been long since set free and he i