so,nd inner loop outer loop crossing the woodrow wilson bridge. at is a big tractor-trailer fire, all lanes blocked because ofhat fir we will keep you updated aut toda look at that smoke coming towards the sky here this morning. bottom of the beltway, wdgdrow wilsone, inner loop and outer loop shut down bece.se of this f >>> time new to take a look at the weather. samara is standing by. >> good morning, folks at home. we've got some changes that are going to be impacting your day. right now, though, things a pretty quiet out there. still a lot of clouds moving in but oefverall, it's a dry start. 81 degrees in washington, d.c., n manassas. leesburg, how you doing, 79 degrees. sore we'reing towards the 80s at this point. as we head throu out the afternoon, we'll make it to the upper 80s. there's a few things we are going to be talking about in detail coming up in just a the storms that are moving in ois evening, they will have an impact, especiall that rush hour time frame but i'll detail that a little bit in just a moment l also, we arking at a nic

brian: why woodrow wilson? icia: i did a book about theodore roosevelt after he was president, there is a lot of world war i in it and i got fascinated about world war i. to write about wilson in world war i was a natural sequel. brian: ter bks you read about woodrow wilson for research, what were they? patricia: i started with a major one, written by a person who knew him, a famous journalist of his time. he admires woodrow wilson almost unflaggingly. he's not entirely uncritical, but it is full of anecdotes of people around at the time. i have read just about all of the books of john milton cooper. his wilson biography came out a w ars into my n thwork o book. 2009. i started back in 20 i think his judgment is very sound on just about everything. he is a wonderful biographer, a wonderful historian, a wonderful political historian and diplomatic historian. i would do my take and then i would look and see what john cooper said about it. we are not always on the same page but i admire his scholarship. brian: what

patricia o'toole discusses her book "the moralist: woodrow wilson and the world he made." ♪ brian: patricia'toole, your book about woodrow wilson, the review in the new york times leads with a paragraph, "instead of the moralist, woodrow wilson and the world he made, patricia could have titled her book "the hypocrite." what was your reaction? patricia: i thought it was a bit harsh. my book is critical of wilson, i really tried to say everything i sign and thought and connect all the dots, but to me it ends with a lot of admiration for m.

beyond might be known as the age of lenin and he predict that it would be known as the age of woodrow wilson. that turns out to be a beer-- a bit more pressing into, but maybe not. wilson was a believer in power, persuasion as a tool of noble democratic leaders. he said at one point in his when he early essays quoted by patricia o'toole if arguments are weapons and people are the judges then things will work out when he ran for president in 1912 he ran for president on a jeffersonian democratic conservative democratic platform government in which the people participate. he spoke in kansas city, interestingly left. is referred to that two of the three times i know he spoke in kansas city-- kansas city is in patricia o'toole's book. the first time he said control of our politics and therefore our life, power-- are ruled by the great bodies accumulated and inherited wealth. he was about cutting rid of them kind of populist agenda familiar to us today, perhaps. in 1914 he campaigned here to get his legislative agenda passed including his agenda military preparation for the war that was then goin

he protected that it would be known as the age of woodrow wilson. and that turned out to be a little more pressing but maybe not in the ways he thought. wilson was a great believer in the power of rhetoric, of persuasion as a rule of noble democratic leaders and he said at 1.1 of his early essays quoted by patricia o'toole if arguments are weapons and people are the judges then things will work out. when he iran for presidentn 1912 he iran for president on a jeffersonian democratic conservative, democratic platform with individual rights, competition, government which the people participated. he spoke in kansas city, interestingly enough, and refer to two of the three times he spoke in kansas city are referred to in patricia's book in the first time he spoke he said the controls of politics control her life and they are ruled by the great bodies of what is accumulated and inherited wealth. he was about getting rid of that. kind of a populist agenda, familiar to us today, perps. in 1914 he campaigned here to get his legislative agenda passed including

there were many people in 1960 about that california on the boat for woodrow wilson -- vote for woodrow wilson. there are two schools of thought about the suffragist movement when the war comes, there were cats like chapman cap -- who believe that well, the best answer to the war is to drop the demand for suffrage at the moment. they believe that by working , they prove their citizenship and a look at the amendment that they wanted. on the other hand, they are picketing the white house and comparing wilson to the kaiser. you can say that one was more effective than the other but much like the civil rights movement in the 50's and 60's, woodrow wilson became the first person to promote woodrow -- women to vote. this hard pressure of the harshest critique of the national woman's party. with that in mind, women are critical to stabilization. it is not that you had one million women entering the workforce. you just had millions of women entering the industry in large numbers for the first time. in many wayswar ii built on the expense of world war i. women, did not have the control over the

woodrow wilson just to give an example. here are the three things that during legislative, sequential. the federal trade can mission act. and the federal reserve act. that's what he did in his first term in his second term they were all one. i have not met anyone that wants to undo those things. the federal trade commission acts was demanded what i find is that it is something long in coming. you could even trace it back to hamilton. the first in ministry to demonstrator of the regulations. i find woodrow wilson if you try to understand him he actually had extremely flattering things to say. and what he was trying to do is restore what he thought was their vision. he may have been wrong about that. he thought he was not a critic of the separation of powers. as practice in the 1880s. and was the it was the type of astonishing congressional dominance. who can name a president between and mckinley. this is a time where you know that. this was a time when the speaker of the house was more powerful than the president. it was con

with patricia" o'toole talking about her latest book on woodrow wilson. then, former attorney general eric holder on redistricting. then, an interview with white house affairs director mark jude .- marc short ♪ "q&a," week on biographer patricia o'toole discusses her book "the moralist: woodrow wilson and the world he made." brian: patricia o'toole, your , theabout woodrow wilson review in the new york times leads with a paragraph, "instead of the moralist, woodrow wilson and the world he made, pata 'could

this son the woodrow wilson bridge. the driver of that tractor trailer was killed and three workers had to be rescued. investigators say the driver lost control and crashed into a group of work trucks. the horrific traffic continued for 12 hours. >> news4 transpoation reporter adam tuss was one of those stuck in that traffic last night. aaron was stuck in it too, adam. e joins us near the wilson bridge. it seemed like everyone had a problem getting home last night, adam. >> reporter: let me tell you, eun, we're going to remembe that commute for a long time now. listen, i'm happily to report that things here on the wilson bridge are running smoothly this morning. a lot of people probably wondering about that. you can take alook. everything is fine here. but look at the video of just how badhings got backed up all throughout the rest of the day yeumerday. it wasr to bumper everywhere. my personal story, i had to go pickomeone up at reagan national airport, and you of the airportt loop itself. i finally had to ditch the ca

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whoe were many people believe 1916 swung the vote for woodrow wilson. women voting in california were what put him over the top. there are two schools of thought about the sugiffra movement when the war comes. chapmanke carrie ,att, in her letter to wilson says the best answer to the war is to drop the demand for suffrage at the moment and work tordthe cause. .nna shaw is another example they believed by demonstrating or working towards the war and demonstrating their dedicated -- their dedication to it, they prove their citizenship and they would they -- they would get the amendment they wanted. the national women's party, on the other hand, are picketing the white house and comparing wilson to the kaiser. you can say that one was more effective than the other but much like the civil rights movement in the 50's and 60's, when you have the more radical factions and the more moderate southern christian leadership er working from two different sides, wilson will become the first president to promote the amendment for women vote largely because he is gettin

live look at the woodrow wilson bridge, into town, out oftown, you are good.blocked by disable vehicle. another problem, annandale, little river, left lane blocked by a crash this morning. in maryland, tvel times looking good here on 270. tom of the beltway, outer loop, no major delay. 66 inbound, very typical as well. remember to listen to wtop10 fm when you hop in the car. >>> most of th us will be dry for most of the day today. that ielme news. skies still with clouds but not producing much in way of rain. yesterday's rain chance pressed farther do the south. this weather front hanging south of us but there could be a quick nothing hower, but major. we'll be able to spend more than nudge time outdoor today for outdoor plansbe not t interrupted too much. you can see no rain. a dry start to the day. here's future weather, a highor resolutionast model. nothing more than a five or t minute shower between now and 5:00 this evening. quiet b steadier rain starts to move through central parts of e shenandoah valley earlier this evening. probably able to get that na

you have on the right a nobel peace prize awarded to woodrow wilson.mally, there were conversations of what would this be worth. , one of theside people in our rare books collection used to work at an institution where they oversaw nobel prizes in physics and things like that. and of skier noble prize in physics sold for a couple million. an of skewer -- obscure nobel aize in physics sold for couple million. you can imagine what the nobel peace prize given to woodrow wilson in 1919 might be worth. whether he deserved it is another matter. to your left, the governor of woodrow wilson .he order of the people as you know, presidents cannot accept gifts from foreign entities while in office -- i believe. he had to wait until he was out of office to accept it. behind that, you have the italian government awarding at thefor his service versailles treaty and the paris peace conference. of these of a visual changes. you see things like the undesirable limits of turkey. you're not sure who wrote on this. also see a reference to modern-day israel that promises t

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we're all clear on the woodrow wilson bridge after lanes reopened overnight.oween shut d following a deadly crash. it happe yesterday morning. one mle was kil and eight others injured afterac a tor-trailer driver lost control crashing into severalcod trapping three men working under the bridge. >> happening today, the d sentenay for a maryland man convicted of killing his two-year-old daughter and her rryl boswell-johnson faces murder charges. he cfessed to the murders. he told police he was upset about being ordered to pay child supportfter a paternity test determined he was chloe's father.ur >> 5:33 is time right now. and an about-face from president trump onra immigon policy after repeatedl saying only congress can fix the t problem at border, a solution comes from the oval office. npresident trump signed a executive order that would end the pol parents and children who cross the border illegally. >> but the order doesn't end the so-called zero tolerance policy. after the signing, the president went to a make america great againally inot mia. >> we're going

finally, you have on the right a nobel peace prize awarded to woodrow wilson.y, there were conversations of what would this be worth. just as an aside, one of the curators who helped us in our rare books collection used to work at another institution where they oversaw nobel prizes in physics and things like that. an obscure nobel prize in physics sold for a couple million. you can imagine what the nobel peace prize given to woodrow wilson in 1919 might be worth. whether he deserved it is another debate. whether or not it is actually worth tens of millions of dollars, it is not up to me. it is up to capitalism. it is one of those things. i would say to your left, the governor of poland awarding woodrow wilson he order of the white eagle. he had to wait until after he was president to accept this because as you know, presidents cannot accept gifts from foreign entities while in office -- i believe. he had to wait until he was out of office to accept it. behind that, you have the italian government awarding wilson for his service at the versailles treaty and the

we have a crash o the inner loop at the woodrow wilson bridge. it is mover to do shoulder.you're crossing over om the maryland side just us caution. doesn't look like any delays are buildg and for that matter on either side ofod the wow wilson bridge. 39 free and clear. six minutes from the beltway to the 11th street bridge right there on 295.e and if ycoming from virginia, 66 etbound looks smooth, 21 minutes from manassas to the beltway. noroblems on any of our accidents except for the one on the inner aoop. that's a look weather and traffic. holly and oaureenver to you. >> thanks caitlin. > coming up, former first view of the country's current immigration situation. w >> andarner brothers studios cracking down on harry potter feoivals. >> let's g break now. as we do, live look there at37 . 270 up near clopper road, up in montgomeryer county, evhing is moving pretty oothly so f at least in that area. fox5 morning back right aftert this. go anywhere. >> ♪ >> ♪ >> ♪ >> welcome back to fox5 morning. today is n monday. time right is 4:39. this is a live lookt route 50 just wes

we're joined now from our washington studio by a denmark be director of the asia program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars and we thank you so much for joining us here on the program i'd like to begin but by first asking you because we have this joint statement that's light on the details the experts say do you see it as a first step toward peace or did trump get taken for a ride by the north koreans here. all that really remains to be seen there is as you said the agreement was lacking in detail in fact it included very little. in terms of new pledges from north korea in terms of denuclearization what it did was commit the two sides to a diplomatic process and it will be the fruits of that process to determine whether or not this was successful whether or not this was truly a historic meeting or whether it was just a handshake and a photo op or really does not. alter the resolve the issue about north korea's status in the world and north korea's longstanding embrace of nuclear weapons now if you know the critics of this agreement that was over this joint declaration that

once you get onto the woodrow wilson bridge we had an earlier crash that lookso have cleared.s on the westbound side. 50 westbound, beltway to 295 just fivu'e minutes. re looking good there. no other reported accidents or delays on the majors. that's a look at traffic. holly and maureen. >> aou right, tha, caitlin. >>> coming up on foxni5 mor, an all night arts festival en in gunfire in new jersey. >> and historic round of the u.s. open helps one golfer jump more than aozen spots to just one roke away from thed. >> incredible. heading to break right now 5:07, you're looking live at southbound 270 in hyattstown. it's 5:08 and it is 75 degrees. back after this. >> ♪ after this. ♪ to three genations montgoof elrich's.is home we love it here. h but wee to work to keep it great, like fixing trant and traffic w' shorten my son-in-lacommute. in geasing open space whererandg and reducilassroom sizes for all our kids. that's why our next county executive has to require developers to solve the problems their developments create. as county executive,llthat' for generation. >> all right.

it would be until woodrow wilson that the president believes the u.s. during his presidency. you have teddy roosevelt who traveled all around the world prior to his presidency. and afterwards. it is significant that he is the that american president any of these people around the world have met with. >> why did you take on this project? interested in the legacy of his presidency. i focused on his presidency and presented the united states to the world. i really thought it was an indistinct thing that a lot of people did not know much about. for the thought it was just a leisurely trip. it is actually something much more than that. the papers of ulysses s. grant, were in southern illinois university, after that, they were run by a man named john. he passed away in 2008. they looked for a new executive editor of the project. the project came to mississippi state through the work of john. our university president. project topapers mississippi state where we can continue the legacy and we have publishing the first scholarly edition of grants personal memoirs. which he wrote in hi

the british ambassador in this crisis where everybody is needed went to woodrow wilson and said we need more than anything else american soldiers to come over to france. it is lodging numbers possible. wilson replied "i will do my damnedest. america is committed and will send its young men over to france to stem this german offensive. it is amazing how many troops, how quickly they go over to france. november 11,day 1918, there were over 2 million americans in france. the american army in france is bigger than the french army. this is the commitment that america makes to winning the great war, going over there, the yanks are coming. by the way, go to youtube. listen to and rico caruso. the yanks are coming. again, this quite captures the passion that the germans have to be defeated and america will play that role by going over there. i would sing it for you, but -- [laughter] i can't compete with caruso. american forces do go across the atlantic, again, a danger zone. german submarines, american destroyers, navy, helps an oil -- the royal navy. is building large numbers of ships along w

finally, the last thing to note is twofold, you have on the right a nobel peace prize awarded to woodrow wilsonally, there were conversations of what would this be worth. this is just kind of an aside, one of the curators, michael north, used to work at another institution where they oversaw the above prices in physics and things like that. and made the comment that this obscure nobel prize in physics have sold for a couple million. you can only imagine what the nobel peace prize given to is worth 100n years later. but whether he deserved it or not is another debate. and whether it is worth tens of millions of dollars in actuality, it is not up to me, it is up to capitalism. one of those things. to your left, the governor of poland awarding woodrow wilson the order of the white eagle for the establishment of poland. he had to wait until after he was president to accept it. giftsents cannot accept from foreign entities while in office -- i believe. behind that, you basically have the italian government awarding wilson, this presidential award for his service at the versailles treaty, creating th

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it eventually -- eventually woodrow wilson, who had opposed congress having the power to regulate child labor. he said it was blatantly unconstitutional. it was clearly a right of the state and the day before he -- he signs the child labor law the day before he seeks reelection for the presidency and he rides on that to his second term in power. by the midpoint of the second decade of the 20th century, there is a strong political consensus from republicans, progressives and democrats that congress should have this power. it becomes the cause that is seen as being above politics, and a good way to show your moral concern for children. susan: did the woman's right to vote change the political aspect of this question? julia: in a sense, there is a big backlash to the passage of women's suffrage and a backlash to prohibition. it resulted in the repeal of prohibition. those factors, as well as the beginning of the red scare, which linked the cause of child labor with socialism and there are certainly a number of known socialists involved with the national child labor committee. those were in

tonight, patricia discusses her book about woodrow wilson and the world that he made. >> there is psychologicalliterature about wilson and i have a sense that it reduces him to tangles and things i don't feel that i can deal with on a desk with the strength of this theory that it was his father. some have said that this is about his father's strictness. they point to a story where his father made him revise a story multiple times. whenever you read a mention in , heers about his father never writes the unkind word. >> a presbyterian minister. >> tonight. >> tonight, jonah goldberg with thatook, which argues populism and nationalism threaten democracy. johnerg is interviewed by podhoretz. thatu posited contemporary american western democratic civilization is not natural. what do you mean? oft if you cleared humans education and put them in natural environments, we would not have conversations about books and podcast. defending ourselves against other troops because this is what our nature is and it is sort of the point of lord of the flies. you have these kids who are from a british boarding sch

woodrow wilson is a good example. he had this great vision, terrible political skills and it wasn't just that the country wanted to be isolationist, he was so arrogant that he couldn't deal with anybody, i think his partners, george clemens or the french from your said that he thought that he was a christlike figure. so you need the political skills and you need a vision. that's the why. you need to give people a sense of what's wrong with the president, where you want to take them and then grounded in values that they feel comfortable with so ultimately this was because failing at home. we all loved him around the world and he made major changes but his downfall became because he didn't ground that in values that made people, change is scary. if people a sense of confidence that would work out. itzhak robbie who i think i was most personally involved in, ultimately did not, there are two scholars of leadership at harvard. and i draw some of their work and they talk about keeping the opposition close and controlling t

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the other is woodrow wilson could woodrow wilson's handling of race politics in the early 20th century has now come under scrutiny and i don't tell this audience what that means. fair or not it has happened in historians have done a great deal about work in shining a bright light on the negative aspects of wilson's legacy. i would say wilson despite his enormous accomplishment, goodness gracious a hugely significant consequential figure has begun to be seen as he's embraced both enthusiastically by the historical profession. >> right here. right there and we'll move to the front. >> of a journalist now semiretired. i started as a copy boy at the end of the eisenhower era just down the street when they were still just down the street. i'm always impressed in books like yours, really emphasize how little daily journalists know about what is really going on in the presidency. but a couple of specific questions as you talk about the canadian eisenhower meeting. a lot of that was just too big country was the linchpin of all of asia and i could never figure out why eisenhower was so obsessed

q & a, we discuss woodrow wilson and the world he made." psychologicaluge issue. i read it. it just reduced him to tangles that i didn'te feel like i could deal with on my own knowledge of the theory. it was his father, you know? his people have said that stubbornness in later life was kind of the reaction to his father's strictness and they can point to one story where his father made him revise a little times.e wrote a bunch of when you read the letters about father, they are worshipful. he never had an unkind word to say. pries tearian minister. on tuesday they hosted a forum. this is 90 minutes.

explosions, fire and thick smoke on the woodrow wilson bridge as a tractor-trailer slammed into highway maintenance trucks. a tanker and three other vehicles engulfed in flames. underneath the bridge, three highway workers were left hanging over the river. they were stranded in a bucket at the end of a boom. police boats had to come to their rescue. >>> recreational weed will soon be legal to the north of us. canada's senate cleared the way making canada the first advanced industrialized nation to legalize marijuana nationwide. it goes into effect on october 17th. >>> it's a first for the u.s. postal service which rolled out a collection of scratch and sniff stamps. just in time for summer, the theme is froze entreats. there are ten different stamp designs. they were created by an artist in santa monica, california, giving ordinary postage something extra. >>> when we come back, those who serve. the doctor who found a way to continue his mission despite the biggest challenge of his life. chaos. video shows an officer repeatedly punching a man. why the police department is defending this

this was apparently caused by the crash that happened on the woodrow wilson bridge 11:00 this morning. a tractor-trailer crashed into some construction trucks killing that driver and several construction workers had to be rescued. now, we are being told that all of the lanes of the wilson bridge haveeen opened. i think that just happened probably within the last half o hour, you can imagine just the frustration. and i've been seeing tractor trailers parked along the dwshoulders of the r here. you can imagine that the truckers are having to get some rest and j pullovet from sitting here for so many hours. to give you ane idea of impact, gw parkway, 295, route 1, all of those here in northern virginia affected at this hour we can only hope all this will be cleared up in time for the mo guys, we'll send it back to you. >> all right, you guys be careful out there. looking live at the bridge right isw, folks, thihat darcy was talking about. these roads are still slick as you saw. some flashing lights still, but traffic is starting to move. and again, all outer loop lanes look like they're

note, inmore important 1918, woodrow wilson ventured to capitol hill. we were in the midst of world war i. a quest to make the world safe for democracy. wilson's mission on this particular trip to congress was to ask them to ratify the women's suffrage amendment. he said it was vital to the winning of the war and essential to the spread of democracy. didin a year, congress ratify it and they sent it to the states. suffrage was important because it really changed the landscape of the first lady's role. this is a picture of suffragettes picketing president wilson outside of the white house. controversial, to picket a wartime president. 60 years later, betty ford would become the first lady we know of to have been picketed outside of the white house. we will get to that later. book, first section of my which spans lou hoover to jacqueline kennedy, i look at how first ladies responded to women's increasing involvement in politics following the women's suffrage amendment and also how theyved to solidify and stabilize families during the years of the great de

also his treatment of women is now really starting to tell but the other is woodrow wilson terry sayed at the wilson cente center's handling of race politics early 20th century has come under great scrutiny and i don't have to tell this audience what that means. fair or not it has happened and historians have done a great deal to shine bright light on the negative aspects of his legacy. despite his enormous accomplish men's with you please one -- usually significant consequential he is embraced less the ethnically about his position. >> i am a journalist in my retired starting as a coffee boy at the end of the eisenhower era when they were just down the street i am always impressed i'm impressed how the journalists know what's really going on in the presidency but specifically talk about the kennedy eisenhower first meeting a lot of that was devoted to eisenhower having this little too big country to be the linchpin of all of asia and i could never quite figure out why a great strategist like eisenhower was so obsessed with laos. and also the book about you to eisenhower kept resisting

at ten, historian patricia o'toole chronicles the political career of president woodrow wilson.and we wrap up our prime time programming at 11:15 with historian jacqueline jones on the life of writer and advocate lucy parsons from slavery through the great depression. that all happens tonight on booktv on c-span2, television for serious readers. >> welcomeo centr synagogue. wow, that's loud. feel incredibly privileged to have two incredible thought leaders, soulful spiritual jews. when we originally talked about this conversation, we actually said let's make in this a conversation can about jewish identity and faith and god and where israel fits in. and it was not primarily are going to be a political conversation, but i think given

and thanks for woodrow wilson center and its mexico institute for co-sponsoring today's event. duncan you'll hear from in a moment and great pleasure to work with in a moment and i was at the wilson center as well so a great partnership that carries on. this is a book that we're here to talk about vanishing frontiers, forces driving the mexico and united states together. this came out early this morning, but also to talk more broadly about the u.s.-mexico relationship and the idea today is really going beyond the book and talking about the relationship itself, and you're going to hear from really distinguished panelists in a moment, both mexicans and americans and even someone from the uk talking about this relationship and how deep it is. when i started to write this book, and depending on whether you ask my family whether i started ten years ago or two years on this, it started being an idea ten years ago when -- there were various drachts floating around, most of which didn't survive, but it was intensely written in the past two, two and a half years. the idea was trying to t

woodrow wilson had two wives. the first one died while he was president. he was grieving and pretty quickly after she died, he met his second wife. she was a great support to him during the war, and really sustained his spirit. he was obviously very depressed and grieving after his first wife died. i haven't really researched her in my book, but many people do call her the first female president because she would take over the reins of government while her husband was incapacitated. that is true. she is interesting. she also, during the war, did a war garden, and she put her hoover stickers, displayed in the white house trying to be a good role model. i think that dates back even before mrs. hoover. thank you for the question. that's a great question. >> i think it is extremely interesting that you brought up mrs. gorbachev, because she is an aberration when it comes to the wives of the soviet premiers. i would like for it, maybe if you could comment on the role of the first lady in relation to other countries, the difference between the american first lad

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no major complaints on the woodrow wilson bridge, and major delays were through late last night, the inner loop and outer liloop there r along just fine now. >> we will take a quick break. your forecast is up next. >>> cloudy skies for now with the overnight rains coming to a quick end. it will be a mix of clouds and sunshine today. warmndhumid, a high of 85 degrees. it's the longest day of the year, 14 hours and tpwhr daylight today and tomorrow as well. rain likely for much of e day morrow, and you can always use our nbc washington app to staye away of weather and look at the weekend forecast. >> another local update in 25 minutes. >> for now back to the "today" show after this short break. ♪ i'm gonna soak up the sun >>> 7:30. thursday morning, 21st of june, 2018. that's the first day of summer. the longest day of the ar. that's how they did it at stonehenge earlier this morning. >>> thousands celebrati the summer solstice. >> it's little rainy outside. >> the top stor is,luding the president's reversal in the border battle. immigration crackdown backdown. >> we are going to keep

inner loop as you're crossing the woodrow wilson bridge. into the american legion bridge, no problems inner loop or outer loop there this morning. p of the beltway, no issues between 95 and 270. going 23 miles per hour. a bit slow this morning. 66 in bound, 95 northbound i virginia about typical for this time of the morning. remember to listen t 103.5. >>> get rid jie to p-- ready to pay more for ube and lyft. the tax hike will raise 23 to $25 million a year to go towards metro rail improvements. it begins october 1st and is based on where your ride begins. if you get i your car in dc but ride to maryland or virginia, you still have to pay that tax. >>> ht6:55 rig now. here are 4 things to know this morning.e a federal judg california has ordered families separated at the u.s./mexico border must be reunited within 30 ys. later today house republicans will vote on a compromised bill.ation more on that show coming up today. >> john bolt continue is preparing to meet with russia's president, vladimir putin today. there is the possibility of a

in the international institutions there's a chapter on woodrow wilson and roosevelt. his failure to create the league of nations and success in the united nations. then, a chapter on -- in the 1950s who is most effective attorney general in the history. there's also a chapter nelson mandela and for the end of the part tied and reconciliation. we sometimes forget that if you have gone to las vegas and put odds in the mid- 1980s on south africa with nelson mandela being successful one day a president, we would all be rich people. there is a chapter on -- called soldiers, peacemaker on where he succeeded and where he did not. there is an assassination a 95 then they formed a union for peace in the 1970s. a time in northern ireland where they called it the troubles. i was in graduate school during this time in london there is a time where a number of killings went from less than 100 - 500. these were everyday people and we can come back to the story later it was on their mind of losing family members to the violence. it's like enough, it had to stop. it had a huge effect

the woodrow wilson center hosted a panel, including two political science professors at mexican universities and a mexico-based bolster. topics include political trends affecting the three major parties and the issues motivating mexican voters. this runs 90 minutes.

live coverage from the woodrow wilson center begins at 1 p.m. 2.stern on c-span this week, the c-span bus traveled to juneau, alaska as part of our 50 capitals to work with the help of our partners. the bus continued across alaska ahead of our stop in fairbanks. be sure to join us july 21 and 22nd when we feature our visit to alaska. watch, alaska weekend on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the c-span radio app. now, a discussion on the relatiip