well, it was woodrow wilson. in that time, he responded to that crisis by sending food aid to armenia. it's one of the first examples of international humanitarian relief. one can think of america's role in international humanitarian relief today and see this as really the precursor to that. the armenian people are very grateful. a group of armenian women touring the united states were here in 1917 just after we declared war, and presented this painting to president wilson. the artist's wife who is among the women, it depicts their niece who is wearing traditional armenian costume and holding the armenian national flower which symbolizes hope and thus the title of the work "hope" in french. it shows the role of america in bringing human relief and being a player, if you will, on the humanitarian stage. another gift we have in the home are three plates here. these i'll point out these gold, handpainted plates are three of 15 plates that were a gift to president wilson from the king and queen of belgium who wilson

the pin is the pin that woodrow wilson used to sign the declaration of war in april 1917. the way this would've worked, wilson earlier this week give a speech before a session of congress, the house brought him the declaration at the residence in the white house and he and his wife were having lunch and it's like, where's the pin this is in an era before ballpoint pens and she said here use mine, it's a pearl handled pin, a gift from president wilson pickett sits on a pin stand . >> over here is a statue that was a gift to the first lady, edith wilson, from the city of rome. mentioned earlier that he was the first american president to going to europe while in office. wilson was the first american first lady to go to europe while in office. she had to answer a bunch of questions about how the first lady conducts herself and all sorts of formalities being the wife of the head of state and going to another country. so when wilson visited italy, he was in rome and was given honorary citizenship by the city of rome but, edith was given this statue. on it are the initials sp qr

edith wilson, so woodrow wilson had a stroke by 1919 he was pretty incapacitated. had remarried his first wife died during his first administration. edith wilson wasn't anti- suffrage woman but she was more or less running the government. it is the closest we have really come to a woman president. and she was so secretive about her power and there were so many layers of covering that up that who knows? she was in public anti- suffrage. who knows if she had anything to do to turn the tide for woodrow. i find her a fascinating character. because she is a bundle of contradiction and i'm not sure we will ever know. i don't think there is a body of documentation that will ever reveal the extent to which woodrow wilson ran the government in 1920. >> [ inaudible question ] >> bankrolling the suffrage movement. velma had an impact on bankrolling the women's suffrage movement. they had an endowment from the widow of frank leslie, frank leslie's illustrated news, you know? when you do research and cvs incredible recreations on frank leslie's news. she endowed her fortune whe

democracy to see a president elected under false pretenses and you can imagine. >> host: had woodrow wilson prior to that election been planning to enter the war? >> guest: one incident in the north atlantic by the germans involved from getting into the war. wilson had been writing wonderful books and journal articles and was an academic for decades saying presidents have to be honest and once he was in power he did almost the opposite. when the war began he moved toward authoritarianism, past the espionage act allowing the president to harass journalists if they criticized him for whatever reason and that is a problem in "presidents of war". .. know, you may have gotten as i did a presidential alert announcement so-called on iphones a couple of weeks ago perfectly benign but if a president is able to send you messages on iphone any able to send you messages on iphones any hour of the day or night during a major war that is beginning that opens the possibility for authoritarianism. >> in your book, "presidents at war" michael beschloss writes that for all his scholarly rhetoric about libera

i would like to ask about woodrow wilson. in 1916, famously vowed to keep our country out of war. in the election of -- >> guest: that was a lie. >> caller: precisely. the election against charles hughes was so close, charles evans hughes famously went to bed thinking was presidenten and then was woken up to find out no, california with a different way. i wonder if you -- >> guest: can i -- that's a great point. >> caller: i wondered what your thoughts were on whether charles evans hughes if he had been president, how the course of world war i would have been different. thank you. >> guest: o hard to speculate. he was very close to the rambunctious theater roosevelt who hated woodrow wilson but the one thing to be aware of combined so glad you brought up 1916. woodrow wilson who i think is vastly overrated, he was a horrible racist, he was not a man of his time. his two predecessors were far more progressive on civil rights. this is someone who gave comfort to racism in this country, showed birth of the nation celebrating the ku klux klan in the white house. the other thing wilson

his own, and woodrow wilson's, and he's not sure which war did more damage. he also chose to stay in europe after the war's end, he survived a speculating on currency for about five years and traveled around europe because he hated white americans so much that he couldn't go home until he purged himself of that hatred. he was released from the pines that held local patriots and pragmatic loyalists. for many of the black exiles who left the u.s., paris came the drop. a place where they could live from american racism before he settled in paris however, logan wandered. he went to france, belgium, liechtenstein as well as germany, poland, portugal and england. he was mistaken for a fellow white man and despite his protest, a polish prince. he described this as being the lives and he did not see the very people in front of him. he asserted his identity and negro was an important term for him. he returned to the u.s. in 1924 having exercised his burning hatred, but he remained a committed propaganda for africa. like christopher columbus wants, logan gave the world

subjugated people, but as a vanguard agitating for a democracy more real than the myopic one woodrow wilson had put forward. as wilson sold to paris to push for his vision of a peace, african-americans loudly decried the limits put on his vision. an episcopal minister warned, the danger of the negro lies that the southern point of view will be put forward at the peace table and not the point of view of the real american. likening the role of jim crow to the revolting abuses of kingly uphold toward the african colonies of belgium, he argued that wilson's united states was as much a culprit in ill treating peoples as any colonial power, and that none of them were qualified to negotiate a truly just peace. similarly, a midwestern naacp member expressed doubt in a letter saying any contribution to democracy can come to this nation from versailles, noting the president's conception of democracy did not extend beyond the seam of government, and that he was piteously clannish. a pan african conference in paris was meant to coincide with the meeting. black activists could take the opportunity to sh

the focus to the political career of president woodrow wilson with historian, patricia o'toole. [applause] >> good the evening. american leader, john who spoke at the library a couple of times in his youth in the 80s. he wrote in the 1974, 50 year joint anniversary of the depths of lenin and wilson. it looked like in the 1970s, it might be the age of the 20th century, the age of lenin. he protected it would be the age of woodrow wilson. i turned out to be but maybe not. wasn't was a great reader in power of rhetoric. persuasion is a tool of democratic leaders. he said in his early essays, arguments are residents and people are the judges, things will work out. we ran for president in 1912. he ran for president on a democratic platform. individual rights competition, in which the people participate. it's referred to two of the three times he spoke in kansas city. in the first time he spoke, politics and therefore our lives, our world by the great bodies of accumulated inherited wealth. it was about getting rid of that. the agenda military preparation for the work that had been go

he protected it would be the age of woodrow wilson. i turned out to be but maybe not. wasn't was a great reader in power of rhetoric. persuasion is a tool of democratic leaders. he said in his early essays, arguments are residents and people are the judges, things will work out. we ran for president in 1912. he ran for president on a democratic platform. individual rights competition, in which the people participate. it's referred to two of the three times he spoke in kansas city. in the first time he spoke, politics and therefore our lives, our world by the great bodies of accumulated inherited wealth. it was about getting rid of that. the agenda military preparation for the work that had been going on in europe. interestingly enough, the reviews were the democratic committee people in his tour of the western united states. during that campaign. interesting to me, my great-grandfather was a democratic national committee reform. it also speaks to what patricia o'toole said about wilson eloquently about how he retreated into himself. he was not a good partner, he was no

his life he had sort of gone back but what he did in that election not only paved the way for woodrow wilson did they divided the republicans against themselves but also barack obama chose kansas to deliver his speech for his second term mandate of the things he wanted to do on the progress of front because that is where roosevelt have done his deal if you go back and read what roosevelt was offering it was very liberal, it was universal healthcare, it was all these things and he was doing as a populist. one of his ideas as you should be allowed to overturn judicial decisions. if we don't like th the judges decision we could have a referendum on the ruling and overturn that. that doesn't sound very republican. >> host: bring us up to today is donald trump a populist? >> guest: 100%, 110%. >> host: walk us through why he's 150% a populist. >> guest: i will tell you about the two donald trumps of the one we meet in 2000 running for the reform party is a populist he said he had to run against pat buchanan because pat buchanan was a nazi who hated blacks and jews and was going to run the state o

as the nation's memorial to president woodrow wilson. next on "the presidency," the center hosts foreign-policy experts to consider how the 28th presidents global relations after world war i has fared over the last century. it is just over an hour. >> good afternoon. i am the senior vice president of the wilson center. i would like to welcome those in attendance here at the center in washington, d.c., also a warm welcome to this watching on c-span. 50 years ago this month, congress passed legislation creating the wilson center as the nation's official memorial to our 28th president. rather than erect a statue on the mall, congress created the wilson center as a living memorial whose mission is to serve as a bridge between academia and public policy. wilson, our only president with a phd, believed the policy maker could learn from a scholar and vice versa. the center fulfills this mission to in-depth research and dialogue. do inform actionable ideas on global issues. in 2013, the centenary of wilson's inauguration as president. next month

>> congress created the wilson center in washington dc as the nation's memorial to president woodrow wilson. next on the presidency, the center host policy students to that policy experts to consider -- policy experts to consider how the 28th presidents global relations after world war i has fared over the last century. it's just over an hour. >> good afternoon. i'm the senior vice president of the wilson center. i would like to welcome those in attendance here at the center in washington, d.c., also a warm welcome to those watching on c-span. 50 years ago t

resident woodrow wilson, for all idealism, wast complicit and an even supportive of the project of white supremacy. world war i offered an opportunity for african-americans to disrupt jim crow's ascendancy and change the nature of the conversation. black activists and segregationists alike's sole high-stakes in the moment. as black soldiers traveled to the -- to europe with expeditionary forces, and others toiled in the u.s. and pacific, this ats tried to make tool for african-american liberation at home. at the same time, white supremacists worked to ensure the hard work program, making sure that jim crow shipped out with the american army. of the 386,000-ish african-americans in the army, 2000 thousand -- 200,000 went abroad. only 40,000 were combat troops. the idea of using african-americans as combat troops were controversial. -- army leadership in many civilians saw them only as suited for labor, and saw black combine -- combat troops as more trouble than they were worth. they were a handful of black officers, mostly graduates of segregated officers training camps, but a handful cam

woodrow wilson. are there any wilson defendants here? just want to know. any members of the wilson anti-defamation league? all right. i guess i can go on. wilson is not high on my hit parade. he lied himself into reelection. 1916 he ran for a second term on a slogan which was he kept us out of war. despite the fact that privately he knew if he got elected there was a chance he would take us into war. what hurts my heart is he was able to grab that second term based on votes in california of women. women could vote in california now and the women of california who voted for wilson voted for him because they loved his slogan, kept us out of war. they idealistically thought they voted for wilson they could pursue peace and their family members would not be enmeshed in a rank racists ever to occupy the office, he was not a man of his time, his predecessors, tr and william howard taft were more progressive, the president who had written as a professor for decades about the importance of civil liberties once in office does not practice what he preachedes and ano

a position he began in 2017 after being at woodrow wilson for scholars. and he's a respected scholar in mexico, and u.s.-mexico, and a quick comment in the media. and he's written books on the u.s.-mexican relationship and latin american politics. thank you for agreeing to be with us here today. >> ambassador wayne, let me start with you, please. any opening statement you'd care to make? >> red button, please. >> the red button, talk. thank you very much, mr. chairman. thank you and ranking member senator durbin for your initial comments. you've made a lot of the most essential observations that i was going to make, so i'll try not to repeat them. but you pointed out how both the u.s. and mexico societies suffer from this cou cross-bord illegal trade going on, the importance of making this a high priority. we've made a lot of progress the last ten years and there's much more today. >> and the mexico's new president, obrador or ablo mandates, and he wants to transform his country. he's made clear a number of times that he wants to find ways to cooperate wi

this is our war and not woodrow wilson's war, bchw.e. dubois wr. african-americans would work or learn. those who stayed would learn the more lucrative trends and cease to be so easily robbed. either way, he felt it would work to the detriment of white supremacy. the legal rights argued that if america truly wanted to light the way, wilson needed to see to it that all shall have liberty within american borders. everyday workers had removed the color line in tennessee and later in texas where he moved by insisting on his manhood, his independence, and his ability to protect and romance any woman that he chose. based on that division of manhood, he attempted to claim citizenship. green's presumption had nearly gotten him killed by a white man in texas who considered him a highbrow, too big for his britches, and when he left the army, he claimed to do so to gain recognition of his manhood and in part just to get out of town and save his neck. i thought of green during the earlier talk, because he tells a story about when he was about to board a ship o

the year was 1915 the president woodrow wilson. now we have a president today who calls the press the enemy of the american people. something that is echoed on all sides have we been there before cracks we have. there are some newspapers published in the city every day the editors of which deserve conviction and execution for treason. the city was new york the year was 1917 and at that time was a special envoy to woodrow wilson former secretary of state and united states senator. both of these quotes come from a period of severe repression of the early 20th century from this bring through early 1920 provoked by american entry into the war and then the russian revolution paradoxically it took place under president wilson best remembered for his internationalist ideas to be a backer of the league of nations and so forth. but that time. which has long fascinated me , is subject of the book lessons from the dark time. so just to go over some of the things that happened during that period with quotations like what i just read, he paved

this was on the order of woodrow wilson carried out by john pershing. number one.t was suggested these soldiers take off their uniforms before they go home because they did not want americans to see black guys coming back with the military. >> and when they go, these incredible race riots. summer.is known as red there were riots in every major city. chicago, new york. josephine baker saw these riots where she was growing up as a child. there were lynchings. the ku klux klan had been re-animated. they were determined that these soldiers were going to be put -- it was really quite a conflict. >> as a native chicagoan, do people remember this period of history? >> world war i? >> no, what happened in chicago. is that something that comes up? >> not to my knowledge. in this day and age, i don't think so. this is news to me. you are absolutely right about "birth of a nation" and the effect that had at the time and still today. for so long, there was a movement to ban the film, not show it. it needs to be shown. it needs to be clearly stated what it is and it is a great

woodrow wilson in the years before the intervention, he thinks the french are using the blockade, notng any real information about what is happening on the western front or any front out to try to tamp down, but that leaves americans with no idea what the war is really like. he thinks the british are manipulating this whole situation so that they can then gather in german colonies, they can expand or empire, the global position after the war. there is a great deal of rivalry right after the war, and i think the british are alarmed. troops can supply over to the western front. remember, in 1918, we are entirely dependent on the british. we do not have the hull. the u.s. merchant marine is the same size it had been in 1812, so we are entirely reliant on british and french ships to get over there. then we start building these modular ships that we can build in a matter of days and then we tart churning out the hulls needed to move this big army, 3 million men, with tanks come with aircraft by 1918. the british are wary after the war. when you talk about the rise of appeasement, they do n

another side -- on the other side of the family, i have a deed signed by woodrow wilson in 1917 to my grandparents after they had worked the land for the required four years, under the homestead act, the government would deed you 160 acres of land. it's the act that pushed the frontier so much further into the hinterlands and we especially think of it westward. that was also southward. that 160 acres of land is today at the north end of the space shuttle runway at the kennedy space center. and i cannot imagine in that four-year period my grandparents swatting mosquitoes and fending off alligators and rattlesnakes, scratching out of the hard earth a land a living that they could survive. and yet that's the hearty stock from which this senator comes. grace and i have been overwhelmed by the outpouring of support. i stand before you today and i don't think anyone could have been more blessed. it's not easy when you take your leave from the people that you love and the work that you love, and it causes a time of intention reflection -- of intense reflection. and so i reflected back to the

i'll mention just a few major figures in this tradition beginning with woodrow wilson himself, since we are here at the wilson center, and who told rabbi stephen s. wise, the american zionist leader, that he as a son of the mass, that is to say, as the son of a presbyterian minister was delighted and honored that he should play a central role in the restoration of the jewish people, according to wise, at least. i'm relying on the accuracy of his account. wilson said this after he determined that he and his administration would affirm and support the british balfour declaration in 2014. i don't think wilson was a christian zionist in any deep religious sense, but i think he was certainly aware of these ideas and of this language. it seems to have played some role in his decision to lend the diplomatic support of the united states to the zionist cause. more centrally, christian zionism in america includes figures like william e. blackstone, who called himself god's errand boy, and in 1891 came to washington and rang the doorbell just down the street on pennsylvania avenue to present a p

he had been woodrow wilson's secretary of state and was known as this great defender of traditional protestantism and a great lawyer joined the defense team as well. he was probably the most famous left-wing lawyer of the time. famously agnostic on the matter of religion, max clarence darrow . he was very known for his bold politics. here he is in his characteristic way flourished making his opening arguments. here is darrell and brian on the upper right here and here is a sample of the street scene. this is a table set up with anti-evolution tracks and books . both sides of the debate see this as an opportunity. the aclu wanted to challenge the law on the grounds of economic freedom. that is the tactic they wanted to take. but clarence darrow beard in a very different direction. he decided to really put traditional religion on trial. he summoned to the stand for cross-examination brian himself. this was very unorthodox. one of the attorneys for the prosecution to be summoned. darrow aimed to make a fool of this great statesman. he really wanted to showcase the conflict between science and religi

and woodrow wilson, threw out, in the years before intervention, he thinks the british are using theockade, the blockade on the high seas but also the blockade of information and not letting any real information about what is really happening on the western front or any front out. to try to sort of tamp down and that leaves the americans with no idea what the war is really like. so he thinks that the british are manipulating this whole situation so that they can gather in german colonies, they can expand their empire, they can expand their global position after the war. so there's a great deal of rivalry up until after the war. and you know i think the british are, most of that tonnage i'm talking about is mainly the kind of ships to transport troops and supplies over the western front. remember 1917 and 18 we are almost entirely reliant on the british. the us merchant marines in 1917 is the same size as it had been in 1812. and so we are entirely reliant on british to get the army over there. but then we get into gear we start building these modular ships so that we can build in a m

began to implement and woodrow wilson after that.we need to take apart the administrative state. it's out of control. even when you're president of the united states, you can't control it. what happened at the end of the obama administration, two kinds of employees in the agencies. political employees and then like a permanent work force and you can change the political employees, but you can't change the work force. they were taking political appointees and making them part of the work force and if you do that and take over department of labor, you've got maybe 10, 15 people working with you and a department that's completely opposed to you. so it becomes very, very difficult. it's unmanageable. it needs to be reduced. it needs to be controlled and i think the supreme court is the best way to do that. the most effective way. love to see the amendment. >> i think the idea of having regulations be curbed is terrific and what i credit trump with the tremendous reversal of regulations, so far. but i think if you had congress however man

journalists went like walter litman who worked in pershing's intelligence section and helped woodrow wilson draft the 14 points. the most sports write ner the world, grantland rice, famous for all kinds of phrases like it's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game. he also served in the aef. famous businessmen went. howard deering johnson went over, fought in world war i, returned to found the restaurant chain with its 28 flavors of ice cream. jay hormel, went over and was, because of his expertise in meat packing, was assigned to the supply service where he innovated in the freezing, packing, boning and shipping of meat to the dough boys on the western front. steven bechtel on the motorcycle fought on the western front. returned to expand the family construction business in san francisco. frederick wier howser did the same with the family lumber business. famous actors went. humphrey bogart was in the u.s. navy bringing soldiers home from the western front at the end of the war. walt disney, very young, joined and drove an ambulance on the western front. the guy with the dog

especially old neo conservative line poured into an america first rhetorical bottle it so it was woodrow wilson masquerading as pat buchanan i think will he or his speechwriter was trying to give the impression this is what mr trump promised in two thousand and sixteen what he's really giving us is what has been destroying america in the world for the last thirty years where we get to be the sovereign over the entire planet and tell everybody else to do but we don't we don't actually look out for our own narrow national interests i mean we can send troops illegally to syria but we can't send them to our own border to defend that good point daniel it's universal is ation of american long because i mean we have this situation with a chinese national that was detained in canada who. we the chinese company here as we're sitting down here i read that a former canadian diplomat has been detained in china so now the the game begins here i don't understand how you know you know a lot or lose them makes america stronger it seems to me the new isolating itself more and more from the world yeah i gotta ag

will name some of the nineteen nineteen nineteen the american president woodrow wilson now. by a stroke was handed a serious defeat by the u.s. senate which refused to ratify that assigned peace treaty those who voted against the treaty believed it would limit the senate's ability to declare war at the same time many americans simply wanted to get on with their lives and to stay out of future european conflicts. was i many young women rejected social norms and sought greater independence they were known as flap us. zelda fitzgerald the wife of author f. scott fitzgerald wrote about them. they walked from their lethargy bobbed their hair put on their best earrings and with a great deal of audacity and rouge went into the battle. a flapper flirted because it was fun and wore a one piece bathing suit because she had a good figure she refused to be bored because she was not boring. and she knew that she was doing things that she had always wanted to do. i i i i i i i i. the senate by failing to ratify that aside treaty shattered wilson's dream of u.s. participation in the league

. >> woodrow wilson high school in northwest toward the higher he said with four stars. >> we see schools earning four ings in every ward of our city. >> but ctics say the number of stars doesn't netly reflect how good a school is. that it doesn't take into effect a socioeconomic fact. doesn't tell you how good the school is. >> it does take into account imovement and even the critics stay informion, like extracurricular activities andt her experience are helpful factors. and they can show what needs to improve. >> i don't want t leave the impression that it will close. >> and saturday they'll be >> to find out more about how individual schools rated this system, just open up the app and search report card. >>> a staff shake-up coming soon to the white house. chief of staff john kelly is expected to resign in thein c days. his departure has long been rumored. thing-year-old nick ayers, the chief to mike pence,id is consed the front-runner to replace kelly and tonight two others on their way in. >> reporter: president trumping his count. dethe pre says he will nominate william barr. a grad

while encouraging trash talk like power outage if your horseshoe was short or woodrow wilson if you'retamales, pork resigne rinds with hot sauce with blue bell ice cream and klondike bars. each night gampy challenged all of the grandkids to the coveted first asleep award. in classic gampy fashion he'd write letters of encouragement to us all, whether one of us had a hard semester at school, whether one of us and for the record not me, drove his fidelity onto the rocks, or one of us definitely not me ended up in ganny's cross hairs. i knew too much. at the close of one summer after he left public service, gampy wrote an e-mail to us all saying the only thing wrong with the last five months is that none of you were here enough. next year promise this old gampster youl spend more time with us here by the sea. as you know i've had to give up fly fishing off the rocks in maine, but there are plenty of wonderful things to do. i just wonder how each of you is doing in school and in life. if you need me, i'm here for you because i love you very much. in the psalms god makes his promise with lo

while encouraging trash talk like power outage, if your horseshoe was short, or woodrow wilson if youtop. his typical spread included a healthy tacos, bars. bluebell klondike he would challenge all the grandkids for the first asleep award. [laughter] in classic fashion, he would write letters of encouragement to us all, whether one of us had a hard semester at school, whether one of us and for the record, not me, drove his fidelity onto the rocks. or one of us, definitely not me, ended up in ganny's crosshairs. i knew too much. at the close of one summer after he left public service, gampy wrote an email to us all saying, the only thing wrong with the last five months, that you were not here enough. promise that you would spend more time with us by the sea. as you know, i had to give up fly-fishing off the rocks in maine but there are plenty of wonderful things to do. i think of you all an awful lot. i just wonder how each of you is doing in school, and in life. if you need me i'm here for you because i love you very much. in the psalms, god makes this promise with long life i will sa

while encouraging trash talk like power outage, if your horseshoe was short, or woodrow wilson if youe long and your shoe hit the backstop. his typical spread included barbecue, tacos, a healthy dose of bluebell ice cream and klondike bars. he would challenge all the grandkids for the first asleep award. [laughter] in classic fashion, he would write letters of encouragement to us all, whether one of us had a hard semester at school, whether one of us and for the record, not me, drove his fidelity onto the rocks. or one of us, definitely not me, ended up in ganny's crosshairs. i knew too much. at the close of one summer after he left public service, gampy wrote an email to us all saying, the only thing wrong with the last five months, that -- is that none of you were here enough. promise that you would spend more time with us by the sea. as you know, i had to give up fly-fishing off the rocks in maine, but there are plenty of wonderful things to do. i think of you all an awful lot. i just wonder how each of you is doing in school, and in life. if you need me i'm here for you because i

they left a bust of woodrow wilson up and he hadn't been alive then but other than that, pretty accurate. when you're an actor, you talk to people like, you play national security adviser, chief of staff. >> that's right. >> and you talk to somebody like mack or other people that play those roles? >> mack was very kind and he let me, it was about an hour of his time. a pretty significant conversation. i was hoping not to be obnoxi s obnoxious. i had all of these questions. it's a pretty big task to, you know, to play a role like this and i am talking about being accurate and getting it right. i just felt, hey, number one, very excited about it. it's a fascinating world. you know? and especially, it's basically carving out our times and we're building future constantly. history constantly. and obviously, fiction doesn't match reality but mack was kind enough to, you know, run just a day, i sort of narrowed it down to a day. what does a day look like? and i don't know if any of you have seen the show, but it's kind of a tragic and kind of a high level situation. the capital has been bombed

vice president and distinguished scholar at the woodrow wilson international center. god see you both. admiral, you first. you know your reaction to the president naming patrick shanahan as the secretary to start january one instead of february 28th when he wanted the last day to be. >> i'm not totally surprised. clearly he was irked by the reaction of mattis's resignation letter and this is a way like a seinfeld episode. you can't quit, i'm firing you. he is familiar with the building and worked well inside all the services that are represented in the pentagon. he has done a commentable job. it makes perfect sense for him to step up and be the acting until such time as a more formal process can take place. i also comment mattis and the letter for giving two months's notice. there was good will in that. i don't think he was trying to pull a fast one or be clever. he was trying to give the president time and space to name a successor. >> even though he was the deputy, he comes from a business background as a boeing executive and even though as a deputy he didn't have a

service and willing heads of state, encouraging trash talk like, power outage, if you are short, or woodrow wilsonalthy complement of ice cream and klondike bars. always the competitor, each night, he challenged the grandkids to the coveted first to sleep award. [laughter] fashion, heampy would write letters of encouragement to us all. whether one of us had a hard or one oft school, us, definitely not me, ended up in grammy's crosshairs. i knew too much. at the close of one summer after he left public service, he wrote an emailed to us. "the only thing wrong with the last five months is that none of you are here enough. ter youar, promise gamps will be with us flyfishing on the sea. i think of you a lot. i wonder how each of you is doing in school and life. if you need me, i'm here for you because i love you very much." today, my gampy did enjoy a long and extraordinary life and he is enjoying the beginning of his next life, rejoining those he had lost but has found again. he was thankful for his country. he was grateful to lead a country where people can go as far and as fast as dreams can take t

actually began in 1915 when woodrow wilson urged america to stay out of the first world war.e campaigned on that slogan. so did harding. he tried to pass a permanent protectionist tariff. that.about in the name of america first. it was invoked to keep us out of the league of nations. from ratifying the treaty of versailles. there was this idea that we would be giving up our sovereignty to european overlords. european this cabal of elites and globalists who would want to take charge of america. that isolationist strain and political protectionist strain of america first is a century old. it was very associated with some other ideas that trumps advisers have thought to bring brack. the idea of economic nationalism. that was a phrase used around the america first debates during the treaty of versailles. that is what steve bannon has said he believes in. that he was promoting with trump. these are very old ideas. they are not new at all. in many ways, trump and the gop are playing right out of the republican playbook of the 1920's. you said the sucker punch for those who thought

here to f-- that was created under woodrow wilson to be an independent body. one of the reasons it's been one of the most effective institutions in america is people like allen green span and ben ber nacki have run it independently and done an extremely good job over time. now jerome powell, the president wants to dismiss him. that causes huge uncertainty in the markets. that's what makes banks tremble because they're not sure what's going to go happen with money. you need a steady hand on the tiller to make the federal reserve work and you need to keep the white house the hell out of it. >> now we have a shutdown over a border wall. the border wall, this ws trump's signature campaign promise, yet he has not been able to deliver it with the gop's majority control of government. why? >> you know, i think that the democrats obviously are against the wall and they see it as a good issue to run on. some of the seats they picked up in the house come with the stance on how we treat mexico and immigrants. so the democrats have gained from that. but it's also true tha

woodrow wilson bridge,he coast is clear.p rivnto washington, no signs of trouble at the 14th street bridge. the memorl bridge wit a new traffic pattern obviously and roosevelt bridge. inside and outside of the beltway. tolls are in owardeffect. 95 an the 14th street bridge. that's the latest. over to you. >> good morning of i'm kate gers at cnbc headquaters. amazon plans to build aan e whole foods stores across the country. the wall street journal reports that p ph would more customers within range of amazon's two hour delivery some stores could be 45,000 square feet. slightly bigger than the average whole s. the change is using that extra space to accommodate amazonry deli and pick up for online orde orders. >> now it's time to brace arurself for the commercials replacing the christmas ads we have been watching. >> you'll need to be ready for changes on t way in how you buy one. here's chris. >> all the car commercials you'll notice this week is just december living up to its billing as one of theiggest months for car buyin

vote of no confidence from mattis, and high breaks are very rare, and you have to go back to woodrow wilsond war i. fast-forward to harry truman and the so-called revolt of the admirals, a rare public outcry over trump's attempts to slash budgets. as the vietnam war raged, mcnamara handed over his resignation to johnson once he understood there was no way to escalate out of the quagmire he created. and operation eagle claw failed, eight service members died, and carter eventually blamed his 1980 election loss on it. that's about it. it's been nearly 40 years since we have seen a resignation by a major cabinet figure over a policy different with the president. mattis didn't simply resign over a tactical plan, his resignation was over a world view calling out trump's alienation of our allies and embrace of ore adversaries. and now mattis joins this long list of trump officials that existed over were pushed out the door. >> he resigned over a world view, and i think that's very important to note, john. thank you very much. >>> it was an emotional night in texas as the team won a championship f