politics is adjourned was woodrow wilson. watchful waiting was very closely associated with woodrow wilson. first in his relationship to the dictatorship in mexico where there was a lot of feeling that we should go in and intervene in mexico where there was a fairly active of ackley dictatorship and wilson said no this is watchful waiting. and once the war started world war i that was attributed back to wilson and using the word watchful waiting. for whatever reason watchful waiting is used in the diagnosis of certain illnesses where rather than treat them immediately you go through period of watching and waiting so that is a more serious one. some of them are -- and mckinley wayne mckinley the spanish-american war starting a mckinley has a telephone in the is the telegraph. he clears out the room and sets up a telegraph and pulls down a map and he says this is my war room. that were did not exist before then. still jumping around its coolidge, calvin coolidge comes down from massachusetts where he has put down a police track

>> i'd like to ask a question about woodrow wilson. i understand that he wanted to get the league of nations past and was not able to do that, with what little i know about the league of nations seems like he would've been a good thing. why wasn't able to get past? wasn't strictly political, or why not? >> his opponents in the party recognized his weakness of demanding that his plan be accepted. and so they selected only one major item. that is the right of the league -- to bring the member nations of war, the battle. and that, the congress, you notice the united nations does not have, does not give the nations that right, particularly because the lessons of the league of nations. and they -- he -- congress said they would gladly redesign the league, in fact all european nations such as ask, we would remove the. he reaches. the public knew he was that rigid in his nature and they just selected that and they just played to their success. spent it's entirely possible that barack obama may win the electoral vote and may even lose the popu

today, a conversation with the director of the brazil institute at the woodrow wilson center, paulo sotero. i'm maria hinojosa. this is one on one. paulo sotero, you are the head of the woodrow wilson center's brazil institute in washington, dc, longtime journalist covering the united states for brazil. and i just have to ask you, you know, so many people think about brazil as being this faraway tropical country, you know, far, deep in the south. but in fact, brazil is a growing superpower. it's gone through an extraordinary transformation in the past 20 years. so the last time that i was there was 1997. if i was to go back to rio or sao paolo now, would i see a difference? what would i see? >> you would see a country whose people is more comfortable with the current... its current situation. there is a sense of hope that has been restored to the country compared to that time. that was the time when we had established democracy, reestablished democracy, but we were entering the period of economictability. democracy and economic stability have been the two pillars upon which two brazilian g

yes. >> a day to ask a question about woodrow wilson. i understand he wanted to get the league of nations past and was not able to do that. what little i know about the league of nations seemed like a good deal. why could make it this past? was a strictly political? or why not? >> his opponents in the party recognizes weakness is demanding his plan be accepted. and so, they selected only one major item. that is the right of the leak to bring the member nations to war, to battle. you notice the united nations did not give the nations that rate, particularly because of the league of nations. the congress said they would quietly redesign of the. the european nations also had removed that. he refused and the republicans knew that he was that rigid in his nature and they just selected that and played it to. yes? air. >> it's entirely possible that barack obama may win the electoral vote and they either lose the popular vote or the popular vote may be very close. what effect is that likely to have on his performance in the second term? >> the

woodrow wilson had potomac fever which was something harry truman love offed to quote. -- loved to quote. watchful waiting was very closely associated with woodrow waiting first in his relationship to the dictatorship in mexico where there was a lot of feeling that we should go in and intervene in mexico where there was a fairly active and ugly dictatorship afoot, and wilson said, no, this this is watchful waiting. we're going to wait and see. and once the world started, world war world war i, that was attributed back to woodrow wilson, that he was using watchful waiting. for whatever reason, watchful waiting is now used in, um, diagnosis of certain illnesses where rather than treat them immediately, you go through a period of watchful waiting. but, so that's one of the more serious ones. some of them are capricious and interesting. you know, mckinley, william mckinley, the spanish-of american war is starting. mckinley's got a telephone, he's got the telegraph, he's got a room full of maps, and he clears out the room, sets up the telephone, sets up the telegraph, pulls down the maps and

politics is adjourned was woodrow wilson, watchful waiting was very appropriate. first with his relationship with dictatorship in mexico, feeling that we should go in and intervene wilson said no, this is watch and wait. once the war started, world war i, that was attributed back to him. for whatever reason, it is now primarily used in the diagnosis of certain illnesses. rather than treat them immediately, you go through a period of watchful waiting. some words like lucretius are interesting. mckinley -- the spanish-american war started. he has a telephone, telegraph, and he clears up the room and says up the telephone and declares this is my war room. that term did not exist until then. still jumping around, you know, it is calvin coolidge who comes down from massachusetts where he's put down a police strike and he goes to the convention and he is the law and order candidate. it was the first time it had ever been used as a political motto. there are a couple of things that are in the book that are not american but came from overseas. on that sort of threw me was

and woodrow wilson, president woodrow wilson was outraged, senate leaders was outraged. how could a small faction allow our ships to go unarmed in a situation where they're being sunk? that's unacceptable. well, that small faction had their reasons. they felt once you put armaments on to a ship, you are probably going to be firing shots. and when you fire shots, you're involved in the war and they wanted to block the u.s. getting involved in the war. but there were only a small group in the senate that believed that that was the right response and that we should just allow germany to continue sinking our ships with -- with no -- no response. and so the senate came together and said, okay, we're going to respond to a small faction objecorinstructing the bill of s body not allowing us to go forward. they've had their say, we've heard them out, they've had their opinions, and we're not going to allow two-thirds to shut down debate and get to a vote. that was 1917. the chamber adopted the first such motion, it's called a cloture motion, as in closing debate. well, that conti

and in 1998, traffic came to a standstill on the woodrow wilson bridge until d.c.police shot the man in the leg with a beanbag. >> i'm not sure there's any way to prevent the aftermath. >> reporter: d-dot practices mock drills. it's important to know that alternative route ahead of time. on the key bridge, surae chinn, 9news. >> we contacted metro police. they say their first priority is to preserve life. non lethal force was not used because the person was above the freeway. police used alerts and twitter to let people know of the situation. >>> according to the wall street journal apple is work on a budget iphone. no comment from apple. >>> this might be a little embarrassing for microsoft. according to guardian, thieves broke into the company's office in silicon valley and the only thing they stole, five ipads worth about three grand. break into microsoft to steal apple products. that is interesting. >> that's more of a statement than anything. >> yeah, it is. they didn't steal any surface tablets, apparently. >>> the weekend we've left untouched temperature-wis

we did a chapter on the '30s and also the philippines, the woodrow wilson period. >> and what happensis the concept of communism comes in as many phases in america, but certainly in labor. that ties to the ideas, some of the ideals of socialism, and we see it in all the union members of the 1870s. we see it in a relationship to the french collectives of the 1870s and 1830s. there's working man's right, the progressive movement. it works through american issue. wilson puts a stop on it. he comes down, eugene debs ghosted jail. all these people disappear. they are thrown out of the country because they resist world war i. so these are the forces that are moving america, this wilson movement towards this place we're going to. i'm curious to know what you think those forces are. where the labor movement is going to end up. i think peter and i would argue there are moments in history, and the point where things can truly change, whether can be a wallace that make the convention moment. weather can be -- [inaudible] >> which could turn and could turn again, and maybe have turned in the past

we, 100 years ago, had a chief justice swear in woodrow wilson.hat chief justice served in the confederate army. we've come a very long way. and it's because of martin luther king as much as anything. so, i think the president will reflect on that. >> and, donna, the president will be putting his hands on martin luther king's bible, as well as abraham lincoln's bible. but the issue of race is not something he put at the front of his presidency. >> president obama has tried to unify the country on the issue of race. he understands that we have not overcome, in terms of race. that dr. king's dream is very much alive. we haven't fulfilled this dream. this is a very historic year. the 50th anniversary of the march on washington for jobs and freedom. this is also an anniversary of megaer evens. and his wife, myrlie evers-williams will speak. >> and he is free to speak out on the second term. >> why not? these are american issues we are talking about. we talk about jobs and the economy. if dr. king were alive today, he would press president obama to end

support for the country's controversial drone program, which brennan defended in a speech at the woodrow wilson center last may. >> targeted strikes conform to the principal of humanity, which requires us to use weapons that will not inflict unnecessary suffering. for all these reasons, i suggest to you that these targeted strikes against al qaeda terrorists are indeed ethical and just. >>> also this week, obama chose his chief of staff jack lew, an orthodox jew, to head the treasury department. >>> plans are being completed for president obama's second inaugural, but controversy has already prompted a change. atlanta evangelical pastor louie giglio was selected to give the benediction, but he bowed out after some activist groups criticized a sermon he gave in the 1990s against homosexuality. giglio said he didn't want the uproar to become a distraction. myrlie evers-williams, widow of slain civil rights leader medgar evers, will deliver the invocation. as he did four years ago, president obama will use abraham lincoln's bible when he takes the oath of office. and this time, he will also use a

this is a live look at the woodrow wilson bridge as traffic seems to be moving along pretty well. we'll check in with julie wright for more in just a second. i'm sarah simmons. >> i'm melanie alnwick. thank you for joining us whether one of our regulars or checking in from out of town. >> glad to have you glad to have tucker as well. >> lots of layers particularly early this morning. temperatures are falling back into the low to mid-30s. we are 35 in town. it will feel cold today. we have sunshine early but we'll cloud up and then eventually things are going to get windy later this afternoon as we have this arctic front that we've been talking about coming in. >> i have my layers ready to go. i know what it is going to feel like. >> not as cold as it was four years ago. >> it will be on the brisk side. >> just north of chicago, there is this arctic front that will be working its way towards us a little later this afternoon. that will set us up for a very cold week. today will be the warmest of this entire week for us with temperatures expected to be in the low to mid-40s. we might

and for women it wasn't until woodrow wilson inaugural they were invited to be part of the parade. her turn of the century stroller as they walked into history. two years later, women would begin to vote. at the second inaugural january 27th but listen to this. he insisted on riding in an open car. >> i harry s. truman do solemnly swear. >> reporter: a tv first for harry truman, january 1949. americans could finally watch the inauguration on television. these were the preps more than 50 years ago for dwight eisenhower giant platforms for the invited guests. lyndon johnson made history, the first president to ride to his inaugural in a bulletproof limo after the assassination of jfk. bill clinton ushering more than a second term. ushering the internet. on monday, president obama with the first lady by his side again since already making history four years ago. our special report on the swearing-in just before noon tomorrow. right here. i'll see you from washington tomorrow night. good night.

and for women it wasn't until woodrow wilson's inaugural they were invited to be part of the parade.g her turn of the century stroller as they walked into history. two years later, women would begin to vote. fdr's second inaugural, the wettest on record. but listen to this. he insisted on riding in an open car. >> i harry s. truman do solemnly swear. >> you will faithfully execute the office of president of the united states. >> reporter: a tv first for harry truman, january 1949. americans could finally watch the inauguration on television. these were the preps more than 50 years ago for dwight eisenhower, giant platforms for a mere 12,000 invited guests. there were four inaugural balls awaiting them. lyndon johnson made history, after one of the darkest days in america, the first president to ride to his inaugural in a bulletproof limo after the assassination of jfk. bill clinton ushering more than just a second term. the first to be carried on that thing called the internet. on monday, president obama with the first lady by his side again, after already making history four years a

it is hard to find photographs of woodrow wilson looking charismatic and acted. part of it was that and we should remember that for his second inaugural, world war i was the context and that was serious and difficult times. host: we're talking with professor barbara parry and professor lucane as we continue to look at live pictures from around washington. about 800,000 is the estimate of people coming down to join the president for his ceremonial inauguration. he was officially and constitutionally inaugurated and sworn into office yesterday. today, it is ceremonial and we will begin at 11:20 a.m. eastern time. massachusetts, democrats line, good morning. caller: hello, i want to say i'm extremely proud to be american today and every day. i am proud still that my father is one of the purple -- police officers who had the opportunity to work in washington for this wonderful event. i am also grateful that my knees thatsalicia, a student at gw is witnessing the first african american president to be sworn in twice for the only thing that would make this date better

honoredant to say havowow we are that you would make a speech at the woodrow wilson center. the fact that the u.s. makes targeted strikes using drones has always been something that i have danced around because i knew and had not been officially acknowledged by the government. i was one of the members of august briefed on this program. i have seen how we do these things. i will not comment on specific operations or areas of the world, but i do think it is important that our government has acknowledged and set out as carefully as possible reasons why we do it. i want to commend you, eric holder, and j johnson for carefully laying out the legal framework and we will continue to debate these issues and see what value we can add on a non- artisan basis to helping articulate even more clearly the reasons why war is hell and why there is no decision more consequential than deciding to use legal force. thank you for making those remarks here. i question is this -- one thing i do not think you have mentioned that is enormously important was the rise of islamist parties. they had bee

woodrow wilson bridge, if over the american region -- american legion bridge, it looks good. virginia, it looks good. indeed georgetown, that is -- checking time out fine as well. please take your time. plenty ofyou have distance between you and the car in front of you. be able to see. here.lume right virginia, 395, travel lanes to were the 14th street bridge back to you. thank you so much. what we to talk about reference at the top of the show. big fight over immigration the the president hitting road today. be a bigs expected to priority in his agenda for this year. in with brianne carter to see what we can expect today. in a matter of hours, president obama is expected to lay out his vision for immigration reform. expected to push for border security, cracking down on employers who hire undocumented workers, and earned pathway to -- citizenship for immigrants. senators unveiled a similar plan recently. obama wouldy that largely endorsed the senators efforts. he was heavily supported by -- supporters in in november's election. we talk to people in our area who could be dire

crossing the woodrow wilson bridge, american legion, no troubles. 270, 95, b-w parkway normal. on 29 leading burtonsville and in the four corners and we t heaton, lanes are open. back to you. >> thank you. 45 degrees, 5:11 on this thursday. >> the year is off to an >> you are watching abc 7 "good morning washington." >> president obama dealing with more cabinet changes. secretary of laborer hilda solis plans to resign. she was the nation's first hispanic labor secretary. the white house released a statement calling derek parr her a tireless champion for working families. president obama is expected to nominate white house chief of staff jack lew as secretary of the treasury. he's known as a tough bargainer. some republicans complained that he has been too unyielding on negotiations. his signature will have to be emblazoned on u.s. dollar bills. but you might not be able to read it because his signature is notoriously illegible. >> virginia governor bob mcdonnell urged lawmakers to implement a long-lasting transportation reforms during his state of the commonwealth address. >> w

today, presidents have been borrowing money to fund the federal government since 1917, woodrow wilsonrvative or republican or democrat or progressive orelon , libertarian has borrowed on his own, overly aftely -- only aftee congress has authorized it. neil: nancy pelosi is willing to take the house out. >> something happens when you get into the minority to suggestion that president could borrow money on his own, who would lend money to just the president, that does not have the full faith and credit of the united states to pay it back. neil: when they talk up a trillion dollar coin that fed compared to a back up -- we're coming up with creative ways around raising the debt without addressing the debt. >> they don'tment to acknowledge that the real problem is spending, they don't want to stop the spending even republicans, who went a long with the so-called, phy fiscal f addressing. neil: this happened almost 50 times, what would a president napolitano do? >> not borrow any more money, and government would live within its means. neil: you would risk a debt ceiling? what do you do with

if you're headed towards the woodrow wilson bridge, a a little extra time.volume on 395 coming off the beltway past edsall road to a landmark is low. northbound route 1 in woodbrige, an earlier crash has been cleared. the beltway looks good through annandale, alexandria, tysons, across the wilson bridge, and here we go at the american legion bridge. no complaints on this stretch. back to you. >> thank you. 6:42, 43 degrees. police searched for an interesting suspect wanted for tampering with evidence. >> bp faces a crucial hearing as it >> in the wake of the connecticut school shootings, a benefit concert. >> ♪ ♪ >> 800 broadway actors, composers, and musicians put on a show that was held in a water bird, connecticut. 1100 members of the sandy hook elementary school community attended the event. all proceeds will go through united way and sandy hook school support fund. president obama is getting input from law-enforcement officials on ways to prevent a tragedy like the one in connecticut. police chiefs and sheriffs from across the country met with him monda

as you head towards the woodrow wilson bridge, getting down to the beltway 95, bw parkway, that was checking out fine. for the early ride on 270, look for a spot on early boulevard. there might be delays. a little bit of an increase for volume. back to you. >> that was a very tight shot. thank you so much. >> 5:41. >> new details on this week's three crash in new york cit >> coming up, knew at 6:00, we will have a lesson in what not to do to win a date with someone. >> also, why the new dreamliner might be a nightmare for boeing. >> we will have the story of the boy who went missing in 1994, found alive and well years later. >> amazing story. looking at news run the nation, relatives of people in the plane crash are suing the company. >> they are saying that he chartered a faulty jet. the unspecified damages -- seven people were killed in the crash in mexico. they included rivera, four of her employees, and to copilots. authorities are trying to figure out what caused the crash. >> the captain of the commuter ferry was blaming mechanical ferries -- mechanical problems for the crash. he tried

i was at the woodrow wilson school and they have resources to offer e caan and stats class's with or without calculus. by the second semester i thought i am ready again. i took it with calculus and gotten beaten up and fortunately this class about calculus was taught by ben bernanke. [laughter] so my hubris is that i did not study courage economics by the current fed chair. that is where i come from. i have come to appreciate the enormous power of these tools but can you tell me why i need to know this? so now i will read a section from chapter five basic probability, do not by the extended warranty on the $99 printer. that you can figure out but this makes me seem a little old but i hope you recall this. >> 1981 the brewing company spent $1.7 million for a shockingly bold and risky marketing campaign for the of brand shall its beer. do you remember? so the campaign did not work. at halftime of the super bowl the company broadcast the alliant taste test schlitz beer against mitt the low. boulder yet, they did not pick a random beer drinker's day picked 100 nickle loeb triggers the cu

. >> today, leslie kaufman talks about president woodrow wilson or ace like to call him, the greatest president in the history of history. that should get me some air time on glen beck. but just to be sure they are a terrible writer. do you hear that, glen? >> why? >> just wanted to -- getting ad time on the blaze is very, very expensive. >> you are a smart paper. >> i am a scoundrel. >> a block. the lede. that's the first story. >> that's new. >> it has been a longtime. >> it has been a long time for both of us. >> we have to catch up later. a couple of drinks at my place? >> what is going on right now? >> he changes your orientation by just staring at you. to the story. little tykes give her fright. the former high school teacher in cinncinati, ohio, is there any other kind, says she has a rare phobia of young children, and she is suing the district for discrimination. she kept her fear in check until 2009. she was transferred to the middle school. she was thrust into a sea of 7th and 8th graders, oh god, causing her blood pressure to spike and forcing her to retire. now the child h

let me take this opportunity to thank the woodrow wilson center the pam pam pan american developmentoundation for host today. it's with good pleasure i accept the invitation to be here today to discuss haiti with such an effort, and to present to you the government strategy to spur economic development. as you are all aware, over 200,000 people die during the earthquake. close to two million people instantly become displaced. over 80 percent of the school in port-au-prince, haiti's happen -- capital was destroyed including many universities. the government of haiti lost a quarter of its work force in port-au-prince alone. over 60% of buildings, government buildings were destroyed including key ministries. three years later, i'm pleased to say that significant progress has been made, significant progress is being made to ensure that haiti moves in the right distribution. .. we're living in tents, and camps, in public places surrounding communities. today, i'm pleased to say with 1.5 million of these people have been relocated. gradually, public places in haiti are being vacated. the g

time line of presidential terms, several other presidents were sworn in on sundays including woodrow wilson, rutherford hayes, james monroe, zachary taylor. tomorrow the pomp and circumstance takes place in front of hundreds of thousands of people on the national mall. and in that ceremony, president obama will take the office for a fourth time cementing his place in presidential trivia as only the second president in history to take the oath four times. back in 2009, chief justice roberts kind of jumbled up the oath a bit during president obama's first inauguration, causing the president to recruit the oath out of order. so they did a do-over the next day. and now because of this year's rare sunday situation, president obama will end up taking it four times total. franklin roosevelt is the only other president to take the oath that many times, first in 1933, the last inauguration to take place in march, again in 1937 for his second term, once more in 1941 for that unprecedented third term and in 1945 at the height of world war ii in a simple ceremony at the white house. vice president bide

. >> dates back 100 years to woodrow wilson when culver's black force troop served as an escort. >> we directly across from the reviewing stand where the president and vice president -- they are still there. although, there are some empty seats there. a lot of folks probably are getting ready for the balls already. there are a few more fans, a few more floats. we'll take a quick break and resume our coverage right after this. so if ydead battery,t tire, need a tow or lock your keys in the car, geico's emergency roadside assistance is there 24/7. oh dear, i got a flat tire. hmmm. uh... yeah, can you find a take where it's a bit more dramatic on that last line, yeah? yeah i got it right here. someone help me!!! i have a flat tire!!! well it's good... good for me. what do you think? geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. see lioutdoors, or in.ight. transitions® lenses automatically filter just the right amount of light. so you see everything the way it's meant to be seen. maybe even a little better. visit your eyecare professional today to ask abou

the first to have women marching was woodrow wilson. the people are thinking through the symbolism of the event and what they want to communicate to the country. >> younger people may think that the inaugural ceremonies always took place on the west front of the capitol and that's only during recent times. >> only 32 years old. ronald reagan shifted it . he wanted to look out toward his native california. but before that it was on the east front and a very different view. so to go back and look at the pictures before 1981, very different pictures from what you have today. >> anything stand out to you we can expect this time around? >> this has been a contentious few years for the president. he's going to articulate not policies but principles. and try and find a way through roderick toitgie them the language, the words to unite people. the most important thing in a really good inaugural is making a phrase memorable. pass the torch to a new generation. it's not what the country can do for you. with malice with charity toward all. you thi

number one, the worst of all time, woodrow wilson. why? >> woodrow wilson.cretary of state that he quit. the only person wilson would listen to was his kind of confidante, colonel edward house, who wasn't really a colonel. avenues kentucky colonel, that kind of reminds you of president obama with valerie jarrett, kind of the only person he really takes advice from. >> eric: you say fdr was a bad listener, too. surprising, no? >> fdr is kind of on the fence. fdr would listen to people, but tended to be the last person in the room whose advice he took. lewis douglas, the budget director would say, we got to balance the budget and roosevelt would say, that's great. let's raise tax. and then someone would say we got to put more people to work and roosevelt would say, that's great. let's raise taxes. >> eric: thank you very much, sir. coming up on the rundown, symbol of american freedom found shocked, burned and unable to fly. but now that bald eagle right there has a new lease on life. meet the person responsible for saving phoenix. first, let's check in with he

let's take a live look out at the woodrow wilson bridge, shall we? we haven't seen that in a while. look, the traffic is picking up out there, meaning everybody is getting back to work on january 2nd here, 2013. it's going to be a cold start to your day as well, but, tucker, we'll have some slight, gi es, peeks of sunshine, right? >> well, more and more sunshine as the day goes on. so maybe even mostly sunny by afternoon. i mean, it should be a nice looking day. >> good. >> it's going to be typical january with highs only in the low 40s here. but with a lot of sunshine and dry conditions the next couple of days, you know, smooth sailing. >> it's going to be cold. i'll take the sun at least. >> right. yesterday was chilly and we didn't have any sun, so today should feel a little better for you. let's kick off by looking at our radar. we've had a few light sprinkles and light snow flurries to our south and east this morning. they are quickly falling off the map there or pushing east. they're not literally falling off the map. there you go, you can kind of see those out towards ocean c

it is not until 1913 that a political scientist named woodrow wilson is elected president and said thereing to prevent me from going up there, and this would be a great way to present my legislative program. so, wilson starts going in person. he is delighted that he thought of something theodore roosevelt did not think of, and he knew it would drive him wild to think that he missed that opportunity. ever since wilson, almost all president of the united states have taken the opportunity to go to congress in hers and. jefferson -- to go to congress in person. jefferson, as i say, was trying to downplay a lot of the ceremony, but he also understood the need for an inauguration. he understood the purpose of it. after a divisive election, the election of 1800 was one of the most divisive, and everybody has to choose sides, the inauguration is the moment that we all come back together again. this is not a presidential candidate. this is the person that was elected. this is the person that is going to lead the country for the next four years. we need to put aside the elections, heal the wounds

i will teach at georgetown university and this year at the woodrow wilson center is a public policy scholar, so occasionally i read books. i talked to lots of veterans and soldiers about going to war and coming home to the suit states. poster with your connection to the naval academy? >> guest: i used to teach at the naval academy for two and half years. as their inaugural distinguished chair in ethics. they had a cheating scandal and there in the limelight being near washington and needed to brainstorm about how to teach ethics, so they called me and. weigh me, that's a good question. i've taught ethics at georgetown for 20 years and some of that before yelena scratcher receipt. and they were surprised there have been people cici affixes part of the curriculum. so we modified the course to talk about character and more and sailors and marines. this absolutely fascinating. poster with your educational background? >> guest: every two bryn mawr college, proud women's college in pennsylvania. and then i had a stint abroad. the second is scotland. then i came back and went to harvard, a phd fro

the first president to take office on a sunday was woodrow wilson in 1917.was sworn in privately in the president's room in the u.s. capitol. the first president to ride to and from his inauguration in an automobile was william harding in 1921. we'll be right back.  . >>> crowds gathered in southwest dc on saturday to honor dr. martin luther king, jr. this was the 35th year of the peace and freedom walk. it began in landsburg park, ending at shepherd park. the group walked across the frederick douglas bridge, recreating dr. king's march from selma to montgomery, alabama. today, a wreath will be laid at the national mall. >>> children's books were gathered yesterday for two local agencies that serve underprivileged families. >>> security, of course, will be enormous for tomorrow's public inauguration. 42 agencies will monitor the districts from a multiagency command center, dubbed the macc. metro is bringing in 150 transit officers from other cities to help move the crowds and park police will patrol the area between 4th and 14th streets, of course

he argued it is the most ethical way to mount the attacks, this from a speech he gave at the woodrow wilsonsmall number of terrorists with ordinance that can be adapted to avoid harming others in the immediate vicinity. it is hard to imagine what would benefit the citizens than the remotely powered aircraft. similarly, they conform to the principles of humanity, which requires us to use weapons that will not inflict unnecessary suffering. for all of these reasons, i suggest that these targeted strikes against al-qaeda terrorists are indeed ethical and just. >> brennan has also argued there has not been a single collateral death from these, which others debate. he also directs the very creepily named matrix, which includes options for capturing them, or killing them. that means calling in the drones. spencer, you once called brennan the most deadly man in the u.s. government. and the obama administration's angel of death. >> well, also because when john brennan decides it is time for you to die you're probably going to die. the disposition matrix you mention is basically a master list on the

should we practice the politics of woodrow wilson, or princeton's class of 1879?or the politics of james madison, of the class of 1771? what, you may be wondering, has this to do with our topic today, the role of something agent, religion, in something very modern, the american policy. the crux of the difference between the madisonian and the wilsonian approach to politics is the concept of natural rights. as a draw for you my picture of the rivalry between these princetonians, i recall the story of the teacher who asked her class at eight year olds to draw a picture of whatever each of them chose it and as they drew, sheesh -- she circulated among the desks pausing at the desk of little sally, she asked, are what are you drawing a picture? sally says i am drawing a picture of god. the teacher said, well, sally, no one knows what god looks like. to which sally replied, they will in a minute. [laughter] in 30 minutes or so you'll have a picture of my theory of the role of religion in american politics. i will begin by noting three perhaps pertinent peculiarities ab

now he is the new director of woodrow wilson center's mexico institute. congratulations on that. he is on the editorial board of foreign affairs, latino america. to get started, let's go ahead and start with you, luis carlos, on the evolution of mexico's political system. what may be the future of mexico's political parties. >> good morning. thank you for this invitation. let me give you a brief overview of what has happened and mexican democracy for the past 20 years or so. i argue in this new book, my guess is that mexico's elections and democracy have had a limited effect on the quality of democracy -- i stayed that mexico's elections and democracy have had a limited effect on the quality of democracy. client ellison got stronger. -- the rule of law is weak, as it was in the 20th century. is not a priority in the minds of most politicians in mexico. in general, mexicans lack of an esteemed for legality. that has been pretty much the same over the past 20 or 30 years. the levels of impunity and mexico continue to be above 90%. impunity has even increased. not only in terms of c

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that's woodrow wilson, that's franklin d. roosevelt. that's president eisenhower.ou know, just before he came home from europe, he said the first thing he wanted to do was see a ball game, and he did. and that's mr. kennedy, bobby. but i know that you knew that. he used to go to the ballpark and eat hotdogs and drink soda pop, and this year president johnson will take his turn from pitching from that mound. >> gee, joe, after all these things, i guess my book at home is right when they say baseball is a national game. >>> up next, president obama said he hoped his re-election would break the republican fever of obstructionism, but even he admits that hasn't happened, and now paul ryan says the president wants to destroy the republican party. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. now back over to "hardball." ♪ >>> i decided to not comment between the election and the inauguration because i wanted to see what kind of president we were looking at here, what kind of path and trajectory he was putting his administration on, and all of the statements and al

the woodrow wilson bridge, the outer loop on the right. light volume. to be seen on the american legion. the outer loop is the headlight. no delays there as well. checking -- the headlights into the screen are people traveling from virginia into d.c. we're seeing no delays on the bridge. aaron? >> thank you, alexis. now to the breaking news on capitol hill this morning. a potential deal to limit the damage caused by going over the fiscal cliff which we did overnight. at the same time, the senate passed a mefmeasure keeping tax check. the bill has strong bipartisan support here. 89 senators voted in favor of it. just eight opposed it. the vote came about two hours after the new year's deadline to get a deal done. now, under this deal, taxes will remain the same for americans who earn less than $400,000 a year. and families that make less than $450,000. it would also extend long-term unemployment benefits. about $24 billion in spending cuts would be delayed for two months so the white house and congress can have more time to debate them. democrats and rep

whatever you think of woodrow wilson's legacy, teddy roosevelt gave the office a lot of domestic definitionreign policy definition. could you talk about those two presidents and how they defined what we now think of as the job of the president. >> lincoln was a strong president who exerted executive power. what you have is the assumption was that congress would govern and every once in a while you'd have a strong president. andrew jackson or abraham lincoln. in the 20th century, teddy roosevelt changes that. at one point roosevelt is pushing through some piece of legislation and people were telling him he can't do it, and he gets out a copy of the constitution and he holds up article ii and he says show me here why i can't do this. i think that become the assumption of presidents in the 20th century. if quur you're not specifically prevented from doing it, you can do it. wilson builds on the power of the president, the precedent that teddy roosevelt established. it's franklin roosevelt and the experience during world war ii that really changes the nature of the office and it's the cold war.

culturally we have thought at least since woodrow wilson that unless we can basically make the rest of the world or critical parts of the world look like us, we can't really be safe or secure. we also think that basically all people deep down really want to live like us, so by trying to engineer these outcomes we are actually doing them, we're doing humanity a favor by doing this. and, you know, when there's ample evidence mounting that this is not working, this is actually not congruent, it's going to mean kind of, you know, ideational change, cultural change in way for us. and that's really, really hard, it's really, really hard to do. and i think that's why, you know, people keep coming back to the same experts who are wrong on iran time after time after time after time after time. but they say the right things. they say the culturally and psychologically comforting things. and so we keep coming back to them. we obviously don't say particularly comforting things in this way. but we're going to keep saying them. yes, ma'am. >> [inaudible] a publisher and have worked with flynt and hi

aaron david miller has advised several secretaries of state and is a distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson center and joins me from washington. the killing of ambassador stephens and the attack on the consulate be the lasting memory of hillary clinton's tenure? >> i don't think so. it's an emotional trauma for a secretary of state whose job and performance, frankly, has been pretty flawless over the course of the last four years. but, look, chris stephens and the others were extraordinary americans and had to preside over the destruction of a consulate and the death of the first city ambassador since 1988 is traumatic. and i think it showed up this previous week in some of her responses to the questions in the hearings. >> yeah. and on that, i mean, the fact that she said, you know, it doesn't matter whether it was just some guys out to kill americans or if it was al qaeda at work or there was a protest. will that come back to haunt err hz things get more political if she does run for office? >> it was a strong emotional response, which is completely understandable, particularly in a very