wilkie you are a young man. you have much to learn. in so he would because one of the first campaign issues of franklin roosevelt after sane and that we have nothing to fear but fear itself was to say we do have to fear the holding companies was the ishmael of the american economy and he represented the exploitation of the holding company. i think little was paid attention to so the utilities industry. this was campaigned but in fact the first major issuance was the creation of the tennessee value -- valley authority. it would operate in the delta and mississippi were commonwealth and southern existed and had proficiently invited reasonable electricity to tennessee, to georgia. to florida. their story begins because when they were informed that tennessee valley would not observe any jurisdictional limitations it became the reader of the opposition to tva. what's interesting about the story is from 1933 to 1939. there would be this adversarial relationship around the issue of the rights of commonwealth in southern to exist. a combat whi

on hisd levering lewis biography of wendell wilkie. libertarian, al man of a civil rights conviction that would have matched say and obama, perhaps. liberal a man who was a accessiblesame time to the role of government in the economy. , only to a great degree. i know all the things were appealing about him. there is a part in the book where we have roosevelt asking wilkie to consider be his vice president when he is going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants somebody new, typical fdr and wilkie says no. >> sunday night at eight eastern on q&a on c-span. with the midterm elections just days away, watch the competition for the control of congress on c-span. , the candidates and debates from key house and senate races. sourcespan your primary for campaign 2018. with seven days left until the midterm elections, the candidates in indiana's senate race are participating in a debate. next you will hear from democratic senator joe donnelly, republican mike braun and libertarian lucy brenton.

secretary wilkie, i'll refer to robert wilkie real quick. the fact that your wife is here doesn't mean this is a date. [ laughter ] >> i'm sorry i wasn't here for your opening testimony. i'm co-chairing a committee hearing on cyber and personnel. one thing i just wanted to say about the discussion on blue water, i fully expect the past is prolog. when you were in my office you were very much a part of the effort to get us to the right place on the camp lejeune toxic substances. that's an area where we were at odds with the va, an area where we looked to outside expertise to come up with a rational basis for presumption and we made progress there. i hope it is in the same spirit that you are able to address legitimate concerns of vos with the need to once we identify what the need is and once we start expanding presumptions that we also fund it in a way that's not at odds with other promises that we have made that we need to fulfill for your veterans. >> first of all, senator tillis, thank you. i will add there was an addendum to that agenda

and wilkie says no. >> sunday night, on q&a on c-span. >> the candidate for arkansas 7 us house district, republican incumbent french hill, democratic calendar clark tucker and libertarian joe swofford face each other in a debate in conway arkansas.

there is a part in the book where we have roosevelt asking wilkie to consider be his vice president when he is going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants somebody new, typical fdr and wilkie says no. >> sunday night at eight eastern on q&a on c-span. with the midterm elections just days away, watch the competition for the control of congress on c-span. , the candidates and debates from key house and senate races. sourcespan your primary for campaign 2018. with seven days left until the midterm elections, the candidates in indiana's senate race are participating in a debate. next you will hear from democratic senator joe donnelly, republican mike braun and libertarian lucy brenton. ♪ good evening, and welcome to the second of two u.s. senate debates of the independent nonpartisan debate commission. we are coming to live from the toby theater in indianapolis. joining us are the three candidates on the ballot. anddonnelly, mike braun, lucy brenton. the winner of this election on november 6 will present the people of indiana in a six-year term in washington. i am your moderator. correspon

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secretary wilkie, is that your wife behind you? welcome. i don't know if we've ever seen the secretary come with his wife. >> so i visit with veterans groups all the time and with a number of them to hear their concerns. one of the things they said is that communication has gotten better so thank you for that. overall, and i'm not going to overstate this because if it changes we want to bring it up again, but overall the expressed alarm with what they perceived as increasing disengagement with them. i have said many times that often we take our cues from veterans. as these men and women and veterans are going to utilize, they need to be a part of the equation in my opinion. for those who helped frame the bill, tell me what you intend to do. i know there's a number of them but i think they are critically important. >> absolutely and that's go-- that goes back to what the chairman said about customer service. my view of government is that the only way it can be efficient is if it is closest to the people that it serves. i will take a step bac

and wilkie said no.ight at 8:00day eastern on q and a on c-span. >> in the race for wisconsin u.s. senate democratic incumbent and republican we with their face each other for their final debate at marquette university. it is nearly an hour. announcer: tonight, aws and 12 news commitment 2018 election special. the u.s. senate debate. in partnership

they were quite close in their views of the world, roosevelt wrote wilkie about the japanese situation and perhaps the next four five days will decide the matter. we will find out where the japanese fleet is going and where they intend to attack. war seems so likely that the day before roosevelt wrote that letter, walter lipman, the columnist, told the nation the nation was, quote, now really on the verge of actual all out war and met with japan, not germany. that is point number ne. war was extremely close. on november 27th, washington had officially warned both the navy and the army and all cross the pacific in the philippines and panama at the arious military bases across the pacific, had warned the more was imminent. the cables did not say who would be attacked or where because washington was not sure of that but wanted everyone in the pacific to be on their toes. that was ten days before the attack. the second point, the u.s. navy had long thought if there was a war, the japanese might attack pearl harbor the pacific, had warned the without first declaring war. they had done somet

about him were appealing and his honesty, there's a part of the book where we have roosevelt asking wilkie to consider being his vice president when he's going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants somebody new, typical fdr. and wilkie says no. >> sunday night, on q&a on c-span. >> the candidate for arkansas 7 us house district, republican incumbent french hill, democratic calendar clark tucker and libertarian joe swofford face each other in a debate in conway arkansas. the 2nd district is in the central part of the state and includes little rock and the surrounding areas. >>. >> major funding for election 2018 debate is provided by aarp arkansas. [applause] >> hello everyone and thank you for joining us for debate we on the arkansas educational television network. we feature tonight the candidates or congress in the 2nd district. and in alphabetical order, the nominees are representative french hill, the republicanincumbent . joe ryne swafford, the libertarian party candidate. and state representative clark tucker, democratic nominee. our candidates willbe questioned by a panel of arkan

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there is a part in the book where we have roosevelt asking wendell wilkie to consider being his viceresident. he is going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants someone else. typical fdr and wilkie says no. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> during an interview, vice president pence was asked about the idea of ending birthright citizenship as suggested by president trump. other questions had

there is a part in the book where we have roosevelt asking wendell wilkie to consider being his vice president. he is going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants someone else. typical fdr and wilkie says no. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >> during an interview, vice president pence was asked about the idea of ending birthright citizenship as suggested by president trump. other questions had to do with the economy, the midterm elections, and the trump administration's space force proposal. this is 40 minutes. >> thank you to lockheed martin for making this conversation possible. before getting started, we want to remind everybody that i have an ipad, i know how to use it. so tweet me at #playbookinterview. please join us in welcoming to the playbook interview stage vice president mike pence. [applause] >> thank you for taking the time . let's get started. >> i want to get started with the tragic shooting in pittsburgh over the weekend. i wonder what you think is -- and where you see culpability across the spectrum. this pence: thank you for having me here, i want to tha

general jeff sessions ryan, alexries acosta, alec cesar, ben carson, betsy devos, robert wilkie, anden nears -- nielsen. thank you. know how hard you are working on this. thank you also to kellyanne conway for her tremendous efforts. thank you. i appreciate it. we are also honored to be joined by state and local leaders, private sector partners, along with families who have suffered terrible heartache from the opioid epidemic are together, we will end the scorch of drug addiction in america. we're going to end it or at least make an extremely big dent in this terrible, terrible problem. last year, we have mobilized the entire federal government to address this crisis. we secured $6 billion in new funding to combat opioids, the most money ever received in history. thank members of congress in attendance today, terrific people who have been instrumental in the effort. alexander.mar thank you very much. rob portman. thank you, rob. congressman greg walden. also, right to try, all of us. it is having a tremendous impact already. thank you very much. city, maggie, representatives gus and

and wilkie said no. night at 8:00day eastern on q and a on c-span. >> in the race for wisconsin u.s. senate democratic incumbent and republican we with their face each other for their final debate at marquette university. it is nearly an hour. announcer: tonight, aws and 12 news commitment 2018 election special. the u.s. senate debate. in partnership with marquette university law school. democrat tammy baldwin and republican we have up there. meet in their final debate. wisconsin's races one of the most-watched in the country. with control of the u.s. senate at stake. >> the people of wisconsin need someone fighting for them. wisconsin's is seeking her second term. we of the there, a state senator, is making her first run at statewide office. have done inwe wisconsin and how we have turned things around. announcer: now, live from the market university law school. here is tonight's moderator. to legalize and 12 news political analyst and upfront host mike boucher. >> good evening, everyone. welcome to ton

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vice president but he's going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants somebody new, typical fdr and wilkie says no. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a on c-span. ♪ >>> a quarter of a century ago c-span launched our lockest running and most successful community outreach program ever. the c-span bus program has paved the way for our community outreach by engaging citizens in all 50 states. since 1993 the state of the art mobile classroom and production studio has reached into communities promoting our comprehensive television programming. c-span educational resources such as c-span.org and the c-span video library and highlight cable's public offerings. we're grateful to the industry for making it possible and allowing us to open our doors to visitors all across the country. >> we have been very fortunate at john adams to have the bus visit us on multiple occasions and bring a variety of classes down there and they've gotten to experience all of the great things that the bus has to offer. >> the kids, they loved it. they -- i almost couldn't get eighth grade off the bus. it was a really

for the practice of former presidential candidate wilbur wilkie. in secrecy, just as jackson negotiated with the partners an agreement that would have brought him from the court to new york to lead what was then the simpson stature law firm. it would've been renamed jackson simpson stature. but by early 1944, jackson decided not to pull the trigger. so, a scenario that he did pursue, at least privately, with president roosevelt, as the fourth term question was approaching, was again, the vice presidency. or, should fdr not run, perhaps a presidential candidacy. wallace was not desired. by many democrats and it included fdr. in those months, as part of getting ready, robert jackson drafted an autobiography. it is a candidate book. it was never published. it is a book unlike today's candidate book, actually written by the prospective candidate. setting out his rise from nowhere to his life story. jackson also drafted a private constitutional analysis that would have furthered his vice presidential opportunity. the issue was the 12th amendment. it pro

roosevelt is asking will he consider to be the vice president to overthrow henry wallace but fdr and wilkie says no. . >> this is news watch seven commitment to special the debate in the race for congress the republican incumbent don bacon and the democratic challenger t 13 in the district to nebraska here is news watch seven rob mccartney. >> we are pleased to be partnering to bring you this commitment 2018 special we are joined by republican congressman don bacon in the democratic candidate for district care eastman thank you both for taking part in this form before we begin we want to give you the format most - - both get a opening and closing statement we will alternate who gets to respond each will get 90 seconds for a response 30 seconds for a rebuttal at the end of the hour we may eliminate rebuttals for the last question to have time for a closing statement. the questions will come from the panelist there was a coin slope with a campaign determining the order of the opening and closing statements so we began with congressman bacon. bacon: thank you for watching tonight. first to exp

a historian david lewis talking about his first book in ten years which is a biography of wendell wilkie. it turns out to be a timely book as well so i would encourage you to come hear him speak. a few days later thomas will be talking about this highly acclaimed book "amateur," and we will have the novelist sarah. i'm a journalist annabel fernandez and many more. so, please if any of that sounds remotely interesting you are bound to find other things you are going to love. you can find more on the website and follow us on twitter and instead graham @nypl events. you will notice recommended readings from anthony. you can't come in here and not get books recommended to you. sometimes we ask writers to recommend books and some influence over the course of their lives and specifically to the work they are here to speak about if any of it interests you i encourage you to ask about it and after you've purchased all the copies of the book and i've annette gordon-reedbut you can follow up wit with is a recommed book using your library card. who in the audience has a library card? this is my fav

pulitzer prize winner david lewis on his biography of businessmen and presidential candidate wendell wilkie. journal,'s washington live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up monday morning, hamlin university political science professor david on the electoral history and current political dynamics of minnesota. eight military times reporter on the trump administration's clan to send as many as 800 troops in advance of the migrant caravan to the southern border. live washington journal monday morning. join the discussion. --x tomorrow, the have good ,> that heritage foundation watch live monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> the c-span buses traveling across the country on our 50 capital to -- our 50 capital's we asked which party should control congress and wife. >> i would like the house to remain republican because i like the way things are going. the economy is going and if it were to switch to democrat, it would create a lot of gridlock and not a lot would get done. the way things are going now, it has been one of the best runs in recent history. i would l

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pulitzer prize winner david lewis on his biography of businessman and presidential candidate wendell wilkieup next, your calls and comments live on washington journal. we are live from the heritage foundation. howok at human rights and that should be addressed in negotiations with north korea. at noon eastern, a live debate between incumbent senator bernie sanders and republican candidate. the c-span bus is traveling across the country. during our stop in boston, we asked which party should control congress and why. the house toke remain republican because i like the things -- the way things are going right now. i think that if it were to switch to democrat, it would lotte gridlock and not a would get done. i think the way things are going now has been one of the best runs in recent history. >> i would like the house to flip in november. i want to see a democratic majority in the house. washingtonke the way is going with the republican white house. i feel like it should be changed. i want to the house to remain in republican hands because i am tired of gridlock and things not gett

leave the ronny jackson saga in the past so he can focus on future and current va secretary robert wilkied for. matt rosendale is not ready to let it go. he says tester's treatment of ronny jackson gave democrats a road map to disrupt the kavanaugh proceedings a month later. >> jon tester came out several months ago, performed the same type of character assassination on ronny jackson and so he invented thisser. >> tactic that the washington democrats are using and dianne feinstein perfected it when she came out and performed her character assassination on judge kavanaugh. reporter: republicans are counting now on talk about ronny jackson to motivate their midterm base here in a state montana where one out of ever 10 residents is active duty military member or a veteran. melissa? melissa: i love his defense. i didn't do it. it wasn't me. it was perfect. peter, thank you. that is what i always say. it wasn't me. connell: does it work? melissa: well -- connell: that is interesting race. could be a republican pickup, montana. melissa: that will be interesting. connell: see how it plays out. b

there is a part in the book where we have roosevelt asking wilkie to consider being his vice president, and he's going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants a difficult fbi and wilkie said no. >> sunday at 8:00 eastern on q & a on c-span. >>> the c-span bus is traveling across the country on our 50 capitals tour. during our stop in providence, rhode island, we asked which parties should control congress and why? >> on the midterm elections coming up, i am a democrat. but basically i would just like to see everybody get along and everybody work together instead of hit this and them and everybody bickering back and forth. we need to work together and we need to put a lot of respect back into our country, because i think we lost a lot of that and learn how to respect each other again. >> i would like the democrats to be able to host the party because of the fact of i am personally a democrat. i'm a registered voter to vote for most likely all democrats. but i know it hasn't been able to be that way in congress in a long time, whereas we've had both, you know, where one outweighed the ot

wilkie says no. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern. on q and a on c-span.ouncer: washington journal continues. the relationship between the political climate and your stress level is our topic. arthur evans is our guest. ceo of american psychological association. americans say that the political environment today stresses them out and how does that compare to previous years? americans aref stressed by the current political environment. 69% of americans are concerned about the future of the u.s. and are stressed by that. that is up from last year where we had 63%, a high number. 69% this year. one of the things that is striking about that is that it crosses the political lines. a majority of republicans, democrats, and independence stress and terms of the concern of the future of the country. host: at what point did you start to worry as someone who studies stress and its impacts. guest: what our survey is showing is that the current political environment is having an effect on people. and one of the reasons we do this is wanting to understand what are the s

announcer: two-time pulitzer prize-winning author on his biography of presidential candidate wendell wilkie this was an internationalist, a great civil libertarian, here was a man of civil rights convictions that would have perhaps.ay obama, liberal a man who was a and at the same time accessible to the role of government in the only to a great degree. i thought all the things about him were appealing and his honesty. there is a part of the book where we have roosevelt asking wendell will be to consider being his vice president when he's going to overthrow and we wallace -- henry wallace. typical fdr. and then henry says no. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span. an

there was a part of the book where we have roosevelt asking wilkie to consider being his vice president but he's going to overthrow henry wallace. he wanted somebody new. typical fdi. he says no. >> eighty start on q&a on c-span. sunday night. >> republican congresswoman debated democrat ben mcadams. utah's fourth congressional district. the form was held in sandy, utah. hosted by the utah debate commission. >> the utah debate commission welcomes you to the fourth congressional district. candidates debate. the ♪ ♪ ♪ [applause] >> good evening. doug rights and it's my pleasure to moderate this evening's debate. at the invitation of utah's debate commission. this event, held live on october 15, is part of the utah debate commission's work. to educate voters and encourage the civil exchange of ideas. if you are watching or listening life, we encourage your reactions and questions on social media. using the # ut debates. the campus of salt lake community college. broadcasting live from the conference center. we are we are holding debates between the candidates and utah's race for the fourth

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. >> david levering lewis on his biography of presidential candidate, wendell wilkie. >> he was an internationalist, great civil libertarian, a man of civil rights convictions that would've matched and obama, perhaps. here was a man a liberal and at the same time accessible to the role of government in the economy. but only to a great degree. i know all the things about him were appealing and his honesty, there is a part in the book where we have roosevelt asking him to consider being his vice president when he is going to overthrow henry wallace and he wants somebody new, -- apparently not. >>> president donald trump is on the campaign trail tonight before leaving the white house for a rally in florida. he took questions from reporters about the migrant caravan. let's watch. >> fear mongering, not at all. immigration is important, the democrats have let immigration in our country get out of control with their horrible, not allowing us to have

buying wine, you will show a passport or driving licence, this matt hancock think every 13—year—old wilkiervices so he can help those who are adversely affected by social media. a friend of mine uses the expression, that is putting the ambulance at the bottom of a cliff rather than putting offence at the top of it. why not prevent the mental health issues in the first instance? that comes back to having better controls over social media platforms. i do think that. i believe it could be incorporated into curriculum. social media is an everyday pa rt into curriculum. social media is an everyday part of life, it was as when i was in school. when children now, it is there every day. children aged eight to 11 are using facebook and instagram. why aren‘t they told the appropriate responsible use of these platforms? we need to really inform the way children are being taught that technology. i do believe plateau should be held responsible as well. how? what kind of sanction could be levied against the platforms if they don‘t make sure their terms and conditions are adhered to? that it be an issue

secretary wilkie, welcome. i ma i i say appreciate the job you are doing, the changes you have made and the care you have shown for the veterans. with that i want to go over a couple of subjects. basically we are all concerned about the blue water navy. eall have vietnam veterans. west virginia has more unfortunately veterans on the vietnam wall than any state per capita. we have all given. anyway, i want to talk to you about the number of electronic health records, things that we have done over the years that haven't seemed to work that well. and i think you know that. they include the joint program of d.o.d. auld -- the new one now called the integrated ehr to replace the separate ehr systems with a single shared system. on that, the integrated system was abandoned in 2013. and then the seconds of the va and dod announced they would now continue or develop this joint system. once again the va announced its intentions to establish electronic health record system that's interoperable with dod. that's through a