ok, thank you. santa boss, for joining us there for washington into or now security forces and me and mar, of killed at least $25.00 people, including anti cru, rebels and civilians. it's happened in the town of pain in sagging reach and about 300 kilometers north of the capitol state. long media said security forces were ambushed by what it called on terrorists. meanwhile, has been plunged into chaos since of who in february, which ousted civilian leader, unsung st. she iraqi forces are saying they've disabled 3 bombs intended to block electricity towers outside to city of low. so they've been several attacks on power plants across the rock in recent days. at least 7 people have been killed, mangled under wired reports on this. now from back that attacks on tricity facilities in many areas of iraq has increased recently, dozens of public operations have been reported in the beginning of this year. and especially recently with the heat wave hitting in many areas, especially in central and southern provinces of iraq. the problem is accepted bated and no group has claimed responsibility

this warm in washington. merkel back into the white house for she will of us many times. she's been a great friend. consider personal friends as well as my great friend, the united states. after the 10 diplomatic relationship with the former president, trump, president joe biden, and chancellor angler. michael stressed, the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights. when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open society as we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russia, aggression. but germany and the us do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plant gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatens the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long champion, the project played down the differences. now what we talk about russia and ukraine and in this context also abou

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the plan gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long championed the project but played down the differences that looked like we talked about russia and ukraine and in this context also about nord stream to we've come to different assessments as to what this project can tail. but let me say clearly, our idea is and remains that ukraine remains a transit country for natural gas. ukraine, like any other country, has a right to territorial sovereignty. the chancellor farewell tour of washington began with a breakfast with vice president carmella harris. and later the johns hopkins university bestowed an honorary degree on the former physicist the other medical's time. as german chancellor may be drawing to a close, but she has left a lasting impression on the us precedent. if they meet on a personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you in our summits. i would truly will with the bite and

quickly i think the best opportunity to win the war was to go to philadelphia laura washington into thisisive battle because i think by that time by early 1777 especially after that he realized that washington and washington's army was at the center in feca distorter washington and washington's army that would end the rebellion. he obviously wasn't able to accomplish that. in philadelphia he's not ablee o get a decisive victory. he beat washington a couple of times but he couldn't get back that final decisive victory. after that i really think the war goes into different phase where it ultimately goes down to the south and then he really has much more but counterinsurgency like conflict and i think by that point again i think only the americans could this beaten him at that point or that's my first thought in my first assessment of that and when you look at how the saratoga campaign played out one of the options that does prevent, which he prevents in an afterthought manner is well one thing we can do would be to use the navy, load up the troops who are in canada sailed them back around

this warm in washington fashion, merkel back into the white house of us. many times. she's been a great friend. i consider personal friends as well as my great friend, the united states. up to the tense diplomatic relationship with the former president, trump, president joe biden, and chancellor angler mac whole stress, the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open societies, we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russia, aggression. but germany and the us do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plant gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long championed the project, but played down the differences. now my looks and we talked about russia and ukraine and in th

george washington's final battle the epic struggle to build a capital city and nation by robert p watson dives into washington the moment in the establishment of the capital city and describes how the process really for our young and vulnerable countryes apart. robert p watson is a professor, historian and author with over 40 published books and hundreds of scholarly articles. he served as a visiting scholar in many historic sites including presidential libraries, museums and universities. and was an analyst for nbc and pbs for many years. several of his books have won awards including the knotty titanic, the ghost ship of brooklyn and untold story of the america revolution and america's first crisis. welcome david and robert. >> the story i tried to tell was intriguing to me and i became aware of something a lot of people know which iser washington's key election and he was elected commander-in-chief in the army and elected the constitutional convention and elected of course but the kicker is he was elected unanimously and you don't get that with box tops, that was a big deal in the 18th century a

think the best opportunity to win the war was howe's plan, which was to go to philadelphia, lure washington intohis decisive battle because i think by that time, by early 1777, especially after trenton and princeton, i think he realized that washington and washington's army was the american center of gravity, that if he could destroy washington and washington's army, that that would end the rebellion. he obviously wasn't able to accomplish that. in philadelphia he's not able to get his decisive victory. he beats washington a couple times, but can't get that final big decisive victory. after that, i really think the war goes into that different stage, where ultimately it goes down to the south, and then you have a much more of a counterinsurgency like conflict, and i think by that point, again, i think only the americans could have beaten themselves at that point. that's my personal assessment of that, and when you look at -- when you look at how the saratoga campaign played out, one of the options that burgoyne actually does present, which he presents in sort of a throw-away, after-thought manne

general washington came into the north end. we marched down into the town to the corner where it crosses the street and turned up the street. general washington was at the head of the street coming towards us. there we had the fight. after about half an hour, the firing ceased. general sterling rode up and we were ordered to follow him and crossed to the north side where we formed in line. they marched down to the old ferry where they were ferried to the pennsylvania side of the delaware. private francis ended his army career. the remainder of his deposition recounts his militia career. too long to recount here, he did state, i went out when it tame my turn until the end of the war. some of the wonderful material you can come across. jacob francis struck a small blow for freedom. at the time, they all lived with and were the slaves of nathaniel jacob bought mary from her master. they lived together as man and wife. here we turn from the northern campaign down to a bit on the southern campaign. of all of black black virginia con

it will throw washington into chaos.lot getting done with the filibuster. what would choiange? is he right? >> i think he was frank in the moment, just in explaining sort of what his theory of the case is. because there are -- as you point out, there are so many people on the left, so many progressives that want him to get rid of the filibuster. he believes as a senate institutionalist that getting rid of that check on -- that keeps people in line in the senate, that that would throw things into chaos. i think on both that point and the infrastructure bill, it's hard to see what beyond infrastructure president biden is going to be able to get through. and so i think that issue will just continue to heat up as the progressive left is looking at issues like voting rights and police reform and all of these other bills that potentially are not going to go anywhere unless there are some changes to the filibuster. i think a lot of progressive were not happy with the answer where he talked at just going back to a talking filibu

send me to washington and i'll be kamala's worst nightmare. send the liberal agenda intope you see a video like that, most of it you could have a little fun with that. except in the end you heard there, and at the beginning and also some grainy footage of our african american vice president woman of color at the beginning. it's just a blatant play of the race card. >> well, it's also factually wrong. if you watch the full ad, she uses some of the footage from a protest in huntsville, alabama nature that was from being biden and harris were in office. she was saying this is their america, look at this. this is what i'm going to run to change. they weren't even in office. donald trump was in office. mike pence was in office when that happened. but i think this is what you're seeing, especially with this alabama senate race, of course, because moe brooks who was at the day of the insurrection speaking at the rally beforehand was one of the people telling people to go and kick some ass. this is who they're running against. it's how trumpy can you be in this race? >> that's an

this warm, in washington. merkel back into the white house. she's available of us many times. she's been a great friend. i consider a personal friend, as well as my great friends united states and off to the tense diplomatic relationship with the former president, trump for president joe biden, and chancellor angler mac whole stress, the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights. when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open societies, we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russian aggression. but germany and the u. s. do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plant gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long championed the project, but played down the differences. looked like we talked about russia and ukraine and i

this warm in washington merkel back into the white house. she is available of us many times. she had a great friend or a personal friend, as well as great friends united states after the 10 diplomatic relationship with the former president, trump, president joe biden, and chancellor angler mackerel stressed the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open society as we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russia, aggression. but germany and the us do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plan gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian that full gaps into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine, merkel has long championed the project, but play down the differences. now what's and we talk about russia and ukraine and in this context also about nod

senators should be prepared for the possibility of working long nights, weekends, and remaining in washington into the previously-scheduled august state work period. now the senate is scheduled to be out for about five weeks starting august 9th. there is a lot to be done before then obviously. as of now there are 11 republican senators seemingly onboard for the bipartisan framework but that text still needs to be written. we also don't yet have a stamp of approval or actual endorsement for this from minority leader mitch mcconnell. a lot is still in play. we also need to make sure all democratic senators would be yop be board coup -- onboard coupled with the republican senators to move this through. on the house side house democrats are saying led by speaker pelosi they don't want to move one without the other. she said earlier this week to reporters that unless they see actual substantive movement around the reconciliation democrats only project they are not going to see the same level of support for the bipartisan package as well. once it comes through the senate to the house, and all eyes now d

this warm in washington merkel back into the white house if she's available of us many times. she's been a great friend. consider a personal friend, as well as a great friend the united states. after the 10 diplomatic relationship with the former president, trump, president joe biden, and chancellor angler mac o stressed the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open societies, we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russian aggression. but germany and the us do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plan gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatens the security of it's small. a neighbors, like ukraine merkel has long champion, the project played down the differences. now and we also want, we talked about russia and ukraine and in this context al

senator should be prepared for the possibility of working long nights, weekends, and remaining in washington into currently scheduled to head out for about five weeks starting august 9th. this all comes as that bipartisan infrastructure package currently does have at least 11 republican senators on board. that could pass it if all democrats in the senate are also on board. that's a big if. we know there has been a lot of back and forth over what that package should address, and whether they can stay in line. here we also haven't heard from senate minority leader mitch mcconnell if he feels that this framework is worthwhile. we haven't got that official endorsement. so, is still a life ball. here but house democrats and house speaker nancy pelosi have been pretty intent that they are not going to address one without the other. she's not willing to bring this for a vote from the senate, once it passes unless you see both of that bipartisan deal and the reconciliation package intended. reconciliation p>> all right, t. much amanda goldman. a lot to look forward to this week. we know you'll stay on to

this warm, in washington, merkel back into the white house if she's available of us. many times she'd been a great friend to consider a personal friend, as well as my great friend, the united states, up to the 10 diplomatic relationship with the former president, trump, president joe biden, and chancellor angler. michael stressed the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open societies. we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russia, aggression, but germany and the us do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plant joy can take north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long championed the project, but play down the differences. lots and we talk about russia and ukraine and in

so still some extremely hot temperatures they extend not only into washington but all the way up into canada. one should get one of these what's called an omega block building in overhead. it takes a long time from the breakdown. so the hot weather the record. he continue not only here but in the candidate, 2 guys. thanks. alerts still to come, thinking about giving your home and upgrade. well, we have some. >> smart devices that might help you out. that's in tonight's tech. smart. we'll be right back. >> a major smart home company is changing its name and introducing some new product. rich demuro shows us how we can upgrade our home in today's tech, smart. >> for years c by ge was known as a value leader in the smart home space. but now they're changing their name to sink. they've got a brand new app and some new products to go along with it. in the past, setting up a smart home could have been complicated stuff that wasn't necessarily easy install. it took the time it was was you run into problems and you would know how to get them solved. paul williams is with sink. the new name fo

meantime, here in the northeast another stormy day with flooding downpours from new york and washington up into new england and we could see some locally severe storms in there as well. meantime, out west they need the rain. it's been dry. it's been windy. it's been hot. there's fires burning in many of you are western states. high temps near 100 wednesday in spokane. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin coskren. >>> coming up, a big change in venice, italy. >>> also ahead, the unfriendly skies are getting even more unfriendly. the dramatic spike in air rage in recent weeks and how flight crews are now responding. >>> but first a big day in court for britney spears. a decision that could come today. >>> we're back with a random attack in new york city leaving a man with second degree burns. he was walking down the street when a shirtless man snuck up from behind and threw a scalding liquid on his back. the attacker laughed as he fled. >>> a terrifying road rage confrontation caught on camera in houston. a driver tried to change lanes to exit the highway. another driver was so aggravated, he pull

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the plant joy can take north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatens the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine merkel has long champion, the project played down the differences. now what's and we talked about russia and ukraine and in this context also about nord stream to we've come to different assessments as to what this project entail. but let me say clearly our idea is and remains that ukraine remains a transit country from natural gas. i'm not ukraine like any other country has a right to territorial sovereignty. the chancellor farewell tour of washington began with a breakfast with vice president carmella harris and later the johns hopkins university bestowed an honorary degree on the former physicist. the other medical time of german chancellor may be drawing to a close, but she has left the lasting impression on the us precedent. if they are on a personal note, i must tell you, i'll miss seeing you at our summits. i were truly will with the bite and presid

and why had to call him al jazeera washington entered into don, have urged the un security council the acts against the controversial mega them. but if you is building on the nile river, they say the ground if you can, renee on them limits their access to fresh water. that is the un shouldn't be involved in that dispute. diplomatic editor james base report from the united nation the outside un headquarters, e. c o, p, and protest has gathered. they didn't want this meeting to take place to demonstrate that point. unlike egypt and sudan, ethiopia didn't send its foreign ministers in this meeting. instead, it was represented by water and irrigation minister. the con union is seized of the matter. and is emily facilitating our negotiation? that is why, if you could get a table that are she steadily countries of the to bring the matter to the security council. it was sudan and egypt that had demanded this meeting saying the fact that 80 peer is again filling the damn amounts to a threat to international peace and security. ready does not an overstatement to affirm that for egypt the girl i

meantime, here in the northeast another stormy day with flooding downpours from new york and washington up into new england and we could see some locally severe storms in there as well. meantime, out west they need the rain. it's been dry. it's been windy. it's been hot. there's fires burning in many of you are western states. high temps near 100 wednesday in spokane. i'm accuweather meteorologist kevin coskren. >>> coming up, a big change in venice, italy. >>> also ahead, the unfriendly skies are getting even more unfriendly. the dramatic spike in air rage in recent weeks and how flight crews are now responding. >>> but first a big day in court for britney spears. a decision that could come today. truthfully, it's frustrating to see how fast dust reappears. but dusting with a cloth is a pain. and dealing with a bulky vacuum.. . is such a hassle. uchhh!!! so now we use our swiffer sweeper and dusters. the fluffy fibers? they pick up dust easily. grabbing it in all those hard-to-reach places. gotcha!!! and for our floors, sweeper's textured cloths lock all kinds of dirt, dust and pet hair. unlik

job washington came into the north end of the town. we marched down the street from the river road into the town where across the street running out towards the scott road and turned up that street, general washington was at the head of the street coming down towards us and there we had the fight and the principal firing was. after half an hour the firing ceased. general lord sterling rode up to sergeant and we followed him down through town and to the creek and crossed to the north side of it where we formed in line. in view of those who were parade on the south side. they surrendered and left their arms and went down to the low ferry where they were ferried to the pennsylvania side of the delaware river. he ended his continental army career being discharged in trenton soon after the battle. remainder of francis' lengthy deposition recounts -- while it's too long to recount here he did state i always when it came my turn to the end of the war. i went out once as a substitute for a person who could not give me $45 continental money to

conspiracy theories and obstructionism that poisoned america's political culture and plunged washington intomanent dysfunction. >> i reject that. add animosity for eons. when they really literally went to war to each other 600,000 men died as a result so it had to come to that and newt gingrich is not to blame for that. he is a tough fighter but he was a firefighter. he knew corruption when he saw and defended people who needed defending his motives were mostly if not all. i talked to many people and i acknowledged him. and i came to the conclusion of a good man with criticism. and then to be a critic and because is envious and is opposed to the philosophies. host: new jersey please go ahead with your question or comment. >>caller: it is customary for former presidents to give speeches. what do youaf look at now 30 years after the fact of ronald reagan taking one or $2 million for a couple of speeches in japan? was that an presidential or unseemly? host: do you think it was? >>caller: i really don't want to think about it seeing how other former presidents like the clintons have cashed in on

this warm in washington merkel back into the white house. she's available of us many times. she's been a great friend. i consider personal friends as well as my great friend, the united states, and up to the tense diplomatic relationship with former president trump, the president joe biden, and chancellor angler. michael stressed the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open societies. we stand together and will continue to stand together to offend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russia, aggression. but germany and the u. s. do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plan gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long championed the project, but play down the differences. now what we talk about russia and ukraine and in this cont

this warm in washington merkel back into the white house for she's available of us. many times. she had a great friend consider a personal friend, as well as my great friends united states. and after the 10 diplomatic relationship with the former president trump, for president joe biden and chancellor angler, michael stressed, the friendship between that 2 countries we will stand up for democratic principles and universal rights when we see china or any other country working to undermine free and open societies, we stand together and will continue to stand together to defend our eastern flight allies at nato, against russian aggression. but germany and the u. s. do not agree on how to deal with either russia or china. the plan gigantic north stream to pipeline will bring russian natural gas into europe. washington says the project makes the continent more dependent on russia and threatened the security of it's small and neighbors, like ukraine. merkel has long championed the project but played down the differences. now, looks like we talked about russia and ukraine and in this c

as each new state, vermont, kentucky, tennessee will come into the union, you will add two new senators. up to 32. when they leave for washington, 32 senators would go. the room would turn into a courtroom, eventually it was united states federal district court room. in the 19th century. they don't necessarily need the stuff that's here. desks kind of go away. we don't know what happens, these are our best guess. chairs? you always need. when the mid 1800s, when people start actually thinking about american history like we do so much of today, they started saying we need to collect things for independence hall. somebody says we've got a bunch of these chairs, a couple dozen chairs. at some point, somebody starts to think maybe they were the chairs for the continental congress, so they stuck them in the room. of course there is a chance from the federal congress. either way, these chairs were displayed in independence hall for a long time, and fortunately when we add to the restoring congress all the old u.s. capital to look at some photos, we had 29 original chairs, some the majority were in the house based on simple proportion

washington, d.c. than covid is. joe biden is not sending the national guard into washington's poorest neighborhood to protect people be murdered. -- being murdered. he is mandating people get injections of an experiment vaccine. here's the amazing thing. you can't express that out loud. one man sent us a message on social media noting that americans have the right to choose which drugs are injected into their own bodies. he said facebook immediately censored it. this is false facebook wrote. this information has no basis in fact. so it's not factually correct that you can control what the government injects in your body. there are 4 physicians in the u.s. senate and all are republicans. one is asking questions. senator rand paul of kentucky joins us. so many questions. first, why would people who have recovered from covid and have active antibodies, they have natural immunity, why are they forced to take an experimental vaccine? >> natural immunity is as least as good from a vaccine. vaccines are based on what we learned from natural immunity, how the body responds to a foreign parl. a virus or a bacteria and we si

we entered the west end of the town to washington came into the north end of the town. we marched down the street from the river road into the town to the corner whereas across the street running out towards the scotch road and turned up that street general washington was at the head of that street coming down towards us in some of the hessians were between us and there we had the fight and the principal firing was after about half an hour the firing ceased general lord sterling wrote up the colonel sergeant and we were ordered to follow him down through the town toward the assassin fund assassin plane creek and crossed to the north side of it. reformed in line in view of the hessians who were paraded on the south side being hemmed in the hessians surrendered grounded their arms and left them there and marked down to the old fiery below the aspen pink. were they furry where they were referring to the pennsylvania side to the river of the, delaware? private francis soon ended his continental army career being discharged at trentonia after shooting after the battle. the r

americans have the intuition that something would be constitutionally remiss about making washington, d.c. into a state. that intuition, which people do on a good-faith basis, is based on our knowledge that the founding generation did not intend washington, d.c. to be a state. which is true, they didn't -- but that generation also did not intend to create a situation in which 700,000 americans would not have representation in congress. the founders, no principal was more central to the constitution then representative government. at their time, there was no conflict between that principal and -- because virtually nobody lived in washington dc. today, there is a conflict. the number of registered voters in d.c. today is larger than the entire number of voters who participated in the elections and conventions that ratified the constitution in all 13 original states put together. any constitutional vision that takes representative government seriously, that is a serious problem. given the importance of the founders attached to representative government, it would be strange to conclude that their v

they got rove up into washington into the oval office to try to, to try to convince the president thatwas a super secret meeting. and then rove walked in and there were 15 people in the oval office because there are always -- the oval office under trump was always filled with this kind of, well, there are people in the trump -- in the trump administration who always called the oval office the "star wars" bar scene. >> the "star wars" bar scene. i think it's islis, if i'm pronouncing it correctly. as in your first book, you previewed at the beginning of the trump term what we all ended up seeing throughout four years, and if past is prologue, donald trump has a reaction to your third book about him. and i want to put up the statement from liz harrington on behalf of donald trump where, in the statement it's a tweet. all these stories from the michael wolff book are not true. wolff never asked president trump about them. if he had, he would have refuted them. fake news, exclamation point. michael wolff, did you or did you not talk to donald trump for this book? >> i spoke to him for seve

he wants to be a g-man he has his application into washington for that and he's riding letters and toward the end of 1941 trying to figure out where what the status of this application is. so as he's in grand rapids in 1941, he finds himself along with america caught up in world affairs that happens in december. 41 when the japanese bomb pearl harbor very quickly thereafter. he shifts his attention to the united states navy. he wants to become a naval officer. he sends in his application to be commissioned as an officer in the navy by april 1942. he's joined the navy he's commissioned an ensign he sent down to annapolis where he goes through an officer training program for 30 days then he's in north carolina as an athletic officer training pilots in physical activity. and grows bored with that very quickly almost as quickly as he's down there. he's riding letters to people he knows in washington dc trying to get a sea billet. he's fortunate to find a person who can help him to that end and he gets him assigned to an aircraft carrier that's being built the uss monterey holds about 1500 sai

into the kremlin. when she is gone, who will washington have to see into the mind of vladimir putin?>> some former chancellors in germany should. he is discredited to a great degree in terms of relations with russia. certainly, there are others in the social democratic party in germany that would be putting forth the view that we must work with russia and that we can't simply dig in and declare a new cold war with russia or with china. there will be enough interlocutors on that going forward but we have heard the green party chancellor candidate. they are not leading in the polls at the moment but they are very likely to be part of the next government. they said they need to see germany get much tougher on russia and china. brent: the image angela merkel has in the unit states, she is seen as a product of the end of the cold war. she had grown up in east germany and became the chancellor of the united germany. with her leading power, does that mark an inflection point in history in any way do you think? >> certainly it will changed transatlantic relations. she is someone who has seen

and cutoff who says washington miscalculated when it into that gun s dot lots up on. unfortunately, the situation in the country is getting worse. if not for the occupation, the situation would not have worse. and to that extent, they should have thought about that before invading and islamic country like af canister. and now the american president has announced that foreign american troops will finally leave our country. there is no need to lay foreign troops in the country. we want to solve problems through negotiation, and we have a maintaining such a position from the very beginning. but we will negotiate with james not as a representative of the people, but us with just one of the guns sides. we cannot recognize the regime which has appear along with the occupants, which is completely corrupted. every now protests and outrageous julian assange marks, yet another birthday behind by hundreds of his supporters gathered in new york and in london to celebrate his 50th birthday. over the weekend and mind his release. and washington is still taking his expedition to the

washington into the events of the 6th ofjanuary— 6th of january.icer turning left instead of turning right. butjust l instead of turning right. butjust describing that attack does not come close to capturing what actually took place that day. we are going to see some of what eyewitnesses saw on the 6th of january and lets see the video please, but please be advised that it contains graphic... that video please, but please be advised that it contains graphic. . .— that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of — that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of the _ that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of the committee - that it contains graphic... that was a flavour of the committee going i that it contains graphic... that was| a flavour of the committee going on right now. it is a process which some have said is a shambles because the house republican leadership have effectively boycotted this select committee, pulling theirfive committee, pulling their five appointments committee, pulling theirfive appointments last week. but they w

i am always amazed at the battle when washington was riding on horseback, writing right into british soldiers who were firing at him. they were no further away from him than a picture is from a batter on a baseball diamond. that is pretty close to not flinch. as i said clinton had earned a reputation before this and again during the revolution as somebody who was courageous under fire. both of them i think faced similar problems during the war and that both had problems with supplies. oath had a lack money, lack of troops, and whatever. both clinton and washington endured considerable criticism during the war. not sure how may people remember today there's a great deal after he had made several mistakes and eight new york campaign and 76, and then after the campaign of 77 even more and more open criticism of washington. at one point the president of congress around 1778 said that when washington communicated with congress, it was laughter. but congress cut off -- congress could have ditched washington and some of his critics wanted. but congress fortunately did not take that step. th

the washington post trying to dig into as much detail as we know at this point. the budget package would pave the way for hundreds of billions of dollars in areas including eldercare, homecare, childcare, prekindergarten, medical and family leave. it would open the door for millions of seniors who are paying vision, dental, and hearing coverage on medicare and allow more lower income american families to lower into medicaid. it would also aid parents by extending the recently expanded -- >> the committee will come to water. today, we are considering two important nominations. robert santos to be director of the census bureau within the department of

intuition that something would be constitutionally amiss about making most of what we know as washington, d.c., into a state. and that intuition, which i think many people hold on a good-faith basis, is based on our knowledge that the founding generation didn't intend washington, d.c., to be a state. and it's true, the founding federation didn't intend washington, d.c., to be a state. but the founding generation also didn't intend to create a situation in which 700,000 americans would have no voting representation in congress. for the founders, no principle was more central to the constitution than representative government. in their time there was no conflict between that principle and the non-state status of washington, d.c., because virtually nobody lived in washington, d.c. but today there is a conflict. the number of registered voters in d.c. today is larger than the entire number of voters who participated in all of the elections for all of the conventions that ratified the constitution in all 13 original states together. on any constitutional -- that takes representative government seriously,

news from around the country coming here into washington, d.c., democrats in texas, members of the texas legislature, here are the headlines from "usa today," a rebellion against republican plans for sweeping changes, democrats and the texas house left to the state yesterday to derail a special session of the legislator -- legislature that the governor had called. the democrats said they hoped to pressure congress that federal legislation to protect texans and all-americans, they said, from the trump republicans nationwide or on democracy, the members of the texas house of representatives spoke to the media. here's a bit from the democratic caucus chair, chris turner. [video clip] >> today more than 50 members of the texas house left austin, left texas. not because we want to, it breaks our heart that we have to do it. but we do it because we are in a fight to save our democracy. nationwide, the republican vote suppression efforts, anti-voter efforts, is coming to a crisis point in the state of texas right now. we have, we are at the beginning of a s >> the necessity of passing before th

they are lured into a plot to assassinate washington. i'm not on relatively unknown story is told as well for they uncover the plot luckily in the guard actually protects washington and they take out their own. the first americans toer be executed as a member of the guard. that is a fascinating story. as the book moves forward it's the indispensable that our washington's elite force and many of the battles in new yorkbr. the british once again land up in the northern part of manhattan at a place called point. it's here the marble headers along with assortment of other units, basically repel an amphibious invasion from the greatest navy in the world at the time, the royal navy which is an extraordinary feat in and of itself. they land a little further up the coast at pelham bay or pelham's points. it's here the brigade which includes the regiment was once again save the army. they fight initially close to the landing appointment. they fell back at it as a collapsible defense. it's an emerging part of the american way of war. it is unique