president woodrow wilson. of years after their world war, most americans thought getting involved in the war was a mistake. and we wanted to forget about it. world war ii, the country achieved -- we were basically a global superpower. the bad guys were really bad. and we kicked their butts. in the country ever afterwards the world war ii generation. whereas world war i has been largely forgotten about. the importance of world war i first off, there were four global empires that fell at the end of this war. you had the modern middle east map later on. in addition, you had bolshevism released upon the world. we experienced our very first read scare in this country. not the 1940's. rather in 1919 we thought the bolsheviks had arrived and our workers were returning communist. it was amazing. there are our parallels to that the to our own time, discussion around immigration. the discussion around nationalism and america first. by the way, woodrow wilson invented that term. he meant it in a completely different cont

the other is that woodrow wilson who is president of the u.s. at that time recognizes the government in mexico as the rightful government. and pancho villa believes this is due to a corrupt government. -- bargain. that he has given woodrow wilson secret claims to mineral rights in northern mexico in exchange for being recognized by the government. this allows carranza to buy arms from the united states. whereas pancho villa cannot. steps up attacks on the border. he attacks a train, then leading to loss of life of americans. and then on march 9, 1916, his forces attacked the town of columbus, new mexico in the middle of the night. one column attacks the town and largely burns down the downtown. and one column attacks an army garrison right outside of town. steve: so we are going to watch the film in just a moment, but in order to better understand the border and what it was like back then -- clearly it is in the headlines with the debate over the wall, but what was it like in 1916? what would we have seen if we traveled to that area? julie: on t

the other is that woodrow wilson mexico is thet rightful government. believes this is due to a corrupt government. that he has given woodrow wilson secret claims to minimal -- mineral rights in northern mexico in exchange for being recognized by the government. arranza to buyara arms from the united states. train, then leading to loss of life of americans. on march 9, 1916, his forces attacked the town of columbus, new mexico in the middle of the night. one column attacks the town and largely burns down the downtown. and one at tax and army garrison right -- attacks and army garrison right outside of town. in order to better understand the border and what it was like back then. it is in the headlines with the debate over the wall, but what was it like in 1916? usig would find a remarkably safe border, considering there was a large war going on on the other side. much of the mexican revolution and battles take place in northern mexico. many of the revolutionary leaders and that being from sonora, which is in the north. the north of mexico is a dangerous

woodrow wilson. they saw some redeeming qualities to keep me around. >> you've always had redeeming qualities. >> well, that was one of them. i don't know that's been lost. we have so many new members. you were around then. we have so many new members who don't understand how well the place can work. how do you see this evolving? >> i don't know. over 60%, 70% of the congress now have been there eight years or less. i don't feel like an old veteran, but, geez. i think there's an educational factor and i think there's an interest certainly in our caucus about returning to earmarks. how we do that to try to indicate that this is on the basis of merit and projects that are necessary. and who knows better, frankly, in many ways than a member of congress as to what the needs of their district are. certainly, tom, you knew about the woodrow wilson bridge, we all know it because we spend some time here in our nation's capital. but the transportation needs of any congressional district, a member of congress,

should see and it was one hundred years ago in one thousand nine hundred nineteen that president woodrow wilson declared it a national park a concerted move to preserve a natural wonder of the world that today attracts some six million visitors every year. i can just imagine myself standing on that rim staring into the sunset scott roxboro my colleague from d.w. culture is here and thanks for joining us scott of such an awesome place for really a unesco world heritage site on top of it all tell us something about the significance of the grand canyon in terms of how americans it makes american feed themselves yeah i think it's interesting because the great and obviously huge amazing natural beauty but it's also it's a symbol of america and i think it's interesting because when the national park service what it was declared a national park under a hundred years ago i think it did mark a shift in americans perception of themselves in regards to nature because before that i think the main image americans have was themselves assemblers as pioneers who were there to exploit nature conquerors to you k

jane harman is the director of the woodrow wilson center in washington. now first word news.w zealand, a man has been charged with murder in what authorities call a well-planned terror attack. 49 people were killed in the shooting in christchurch. part of the attack was live streamed on social media. four people were arrested, by the authorities -- but the authorities say only three of them are believed to have been involved. g theacturers are fuelin headwinds of slower growth. factory output fell through -- for a second straight month. mixed results across market groups. consumer goods and construction supplies fell, business applies increased. and president trump is prepared to issue his first veto. the senate joined the house and blocking his declaration of a national emergency, but there are not enough votes in either house to override a presidential veto, still it is an embarrassing show of disunity among republicans for the president. global news 24 hours a day, on air and @tictoc on twitter, powered by more than 2700 journalists and analysts in more than 120 countries.

he was sent over there by woodrow wilson. was a personal representative on the personal allied supreme war council. he went over in 1918 to conduct reviews of the american army, as well as being a representative in the u.s. government on the supreme war council. classic souvenir that soldiers would fight over is a piece of fabric from a german airplane that was shot down. colorful andy ornate. this is a great example of the types of things that soldiers on the ground with love to pick up and save as souvenirs. relate to how the german plane came down and landed when it was shot down, or it broke down -- however it came down. the plane itself would be stripped, almost entirely by the soldiers on the ground, looking for souvenirs. this is a perfect example. this came from a german albatross airplane. ist we brought out identified to a first lieutenant. with 131st infantry. -- the 131st were assigned and attached to the british fourth army. very first action, unfortunately. he was wounded by either a bullet to the back of his he

woodrow wilson, he had a massive propaganda machine taking place. in roosevelt picked up where wilson left off and turned the propaganda machine, he used the irs against certain publishers that are anti-the new deal. also to shut down oppositionsi groups. and so we have been bradley, who was very, very close to john kennedy and was fed information to john kennedy -- my point is this. this president has been enormously passive when it comes to official actives in the media. the media using him as a target, and attacking him and trying to undermine him, the media have thrown in with the big government types. they threw in with the rogue fbi, they threw in with a broken intelligent service, they threw in with a rogue irs, i guess the tv party. they threw in with a broker attorney general, several of them. now they are throwing in with a rogue congress that t wanted too back to texas, back to the irs, the old game book for the democrats. i'm saying this: freedom of the press is what is in our constitution. it's what we have a right to. freedom of the pri

he is a vice president and the director of the middle east prograat the woodrow wilson nter for scholarse i washington. aaron david miller, welcome back to the program. hat is the practical meaning of what the presides said today? >> i mean, largely, this is an act of willfuand purposeful domestic politics. i think it is in m'sr. tru interest as you alluded to, particularly as he moves toward 2020, to see benjamin netanyahu reelected as prime minister of israel. it's really good politics for mr. trump. i might add, we have intfrceded, personal experience, at least three times in israeli elections. >> woodruff: the united states has? >> under both republican and democratic administrations, yes. this is not a first, but this is the mosta bltant, willful, even brazen, transparent fort to do something important and positivo mr. netanyahu 20-plus days away from a very critical election. >> woodruff: so political impact. what about policy imtact? does it haveaany mning on the ground? >> well, i think it probably will have less of an impact in the middle east. i think mr. kushner's peace plan -

president woodrow wilson stoked the flames claiming the senate of the united states is the only legislative body in the world which cannot act when its majority is ready for action. a little group of willful men representing no opinion but their own have rendered the great government of the united states helpless and contemptible. the senate met in special session in march and was prepared to exceed -- take this rule. thomas walsh of montana was concerned that the same group that had blocked the arms ships bill could filibuster the new rule. he proposed what would become to be called the constitutional option. walsh argued the senate had a constitutional right to adopt rules by majority vote at the start of a new congress. unconstrained by previous congresses. in adopting its rules, the senate would proceed according to general parliamentary procedure, which included mechanisms for preventing filibusters. walsh took aim at the idea that the senate was a continuing body, that because two thirds carried over from congress to congress, so did its existing rules. much's proposal was too for mos

the principal at woodrow wilson high schoo sent a net home to li famies, saying students will need permission from their parentscio partipate in the walkout. 17 people were killed 13 ago in florida. >>> state republicans are expected to break with their partly and give the president a rebuke. the senate is set to vote to block the president's emergency declaration. the declaration allows the president to reject federal funds to pay for a border wall without congressional approval. there is enough republican support in the senate to pass that resolution, but not expected to survive the veto from the president. >>> and the president's former mpaign chairman, was sentenced to 3 1/2 yearsero f prison. last week in virginia, he was sentenced to 47 months in prison for a different conviction. he may serve around seven years total. he could face a bigger problem. a short time after his sentence was handed down, a grand jury in new york indicted him on charges of mortge fraud, conspiracy add falsifying records. the judge sufficient talk for manafort and his legal team. e smacked down what she called

the principal at woodrow wilson high school sent a letter home to parents saying while this is not a school-sponsored event they, quote, encourage and support students exercising their first amendment rights. participating in a walkout is a individual family's decision and we encourage you to discuss your child's plans. that letter goes on to say that while the school expects students remain in class, those students who wish to participate must provide -- provide, rather, written consent from their parents to avoid getting anse un-excused e. >>> people have mixed feelings tonight about the relocation of some students at one prince george's county high school. an hvac installation has to be igdone at central school in capitol heights. that means next school to attend forestville high schoolst district leaders say the $20 million project is too big for students to b in the building. parents worry about their children catching busses several miles away. students just want a comfortable place toearn. >> one day you get in there,re it'sing cold. the next day it's burning up. >> we have is

the principal at woodrow wilson high school sent out a letter to parents. she says that while students ar encoura exercise their first amendment rights, those who wish to participate have to provi written consent fr their parents to avoid getting an un-excused absence. of course we'll be watching to see how many actually show up to hit the hill. >> leon, thank you. >>> president trump's former campaign manager paul manafoma spend 7 1/2 years in prison. a judge sentenced him to 3 1/2 years today, that's on top of a four-year sentence that he got last week. but he may have an even bigger problem. a grld jury in new york indicted him today on state charges related to mortgage fraud, conspiracy and falsifying business records if he's convicted on those charges, the president would not be allowed to pardon him. >>> formerex democratic senate candidate beto o'rourke nearly pulled off a huge upset, narrowly losing to senator ted cruz last fall. well, now he could be close to announcing his run forhi the house at any moment. we saw our biggest hint of that today. t

the principal at woodrow wilson high school sent a letter to parents. she says while thi not a school-sponsored event, they, quote, encourage and support students exercising their first amendment rights. participating in a utwalk is an individual family's decision and we encourage yis toss your child's plan. threater says while the school pects students tomain in class, those students who do wish to participate must provide written consent from their parents to avoid getting an unexcused absence. >>> 4:37 now, a wild night in pittsburgh ended with a disappointment and end to ain streak for the capitals. the caps were u 2-0 halfway through the second period. then it just fell apart when the goals in cored three less than two minutes. that hurt. then the fists started to fly. tom wilson took down a penguin player and kept things going in the penalty box. before the end, alex ovechkin made assist 1200 of his career bu the p's seven game win streak ended. they lost. >> lick your unds. shake it off. >> it always hurts more when you lose to the penguins. >> t

woodrow wilson had his own act, as a way of pushing censorship, and entire censorship operation.e put not only reporters in prison, he put political opponents in prison. franklin roosevelt picked up where wilson left left off. he used the irs against certain publishers who were anti-the new deal and also to shut down opposition groups. so we have been bradley who was very, very close to john kennedy and was fed information to john kennedy. this president has been enormously passive when it comes to official actions and the media. and the media using him as a target and attacking him and trying to undermine him. the media have thrown him with the big government types. they threw in with a rogue intelligence service. they through and with a rogue tea party. now they are throwing in with a rogue congress that want you to go back to taxes and, i'm saying freedom of the press is what is in our constitution. it's what we have a right to. freedom of the press is not what we have, we have on freedom of the press. they all sing alike, they all talk alike, they all push the same agenda. th

i may one of the strangest people on television talking about woodrow wilson, but you go back to his wife, first lady when president wilson was incapacitat incapacitated. that's the only parallel i can draw to this. you had him making these decisions, making decisions of state. making decisions that affect each and every one of us, the people who are watching here today on tv and no accountability whatsoever. no congressional oversight. no president to reign them in. john kelly was the chief of staff, couldn't reign them in. that's fascinating to me that this president has created that kind of environment. it's the kind of campaign he ran. it's the kind of business he's run and the kind of white house he's done. reckless leadership. >> i saw a tweet after this story broke saying by the time we wake up tomorrow it will be a travesty. what does it say to you, we probe this so often how much ma divide has broken down between the legislative branch and the executive branch. there's a bit of outrage from congress but nothing has happened. >> it says to me that we don't have the separation

army film documenting an expedition ordered by president woodrow wilson to police the u.s./mexico border and send troops into mexico to pursue revolutionary leader poncho villa. >> in order to better understand the border and what it was like back then, clearly it is in the headlines today, but what was it like in 1916? what would we have seen if we traveled to that area? >> on the u.s. side, you would find a were markedly safe border considering there is a very large war going on on the other side. much of the mexican revolution battles take place right over the border in northern mexico, in chihuahua and to the north. so the north of mexico is a very dangerous place, and there aren't many refugees coming over the border at that time to escape the fighting in northern mexico, but on the u.s. side there are not many attacks considering the danger and long-standing conflict that happened very close by to american soil. there's the columbus, new mexico raid. 12 soldiers are killed in that raid before the expedition is sent into northern mexico to essentially try to capture an

fort washington, woodrow wilson bridge.hine to get your thursday going. temperatures mostly in the 40s. a little cooler in parts of the shenandoah valley. it will be a milderay today with temperatures getting up to 70 degrees. another day near 70g comp tomorrow, but if you were hoping the warm weather i would lasto the weekend, your hopes will be dashed. >> thank you, chuc you can get your morning weather and news on the n brbc app. >> hi, everybody. good morning. it's 8:30 now. t is thursday, march 14th, 2019. as we say hello to a great crowd out on the plaza, happy to have so many folks here. lots of spring breakers out herg gettin jump on spring, actually s we loveaying hello to all of you. thanyou for being here. al. nice and warm out here >> yes, it is. >> feels good. >> just getting better. >> spring is here. >> where's the class from fleming high school in colorado? where are you guys? this is tio sen class. right here?u, who is the senior class? >> we are, us four. >> the four of you, in the wscle high ol? >> yeah.

but the other view, woodrow wilson and his adviser who eventually went to the supreme court was anti-trust. the best way of guaranteeing that the market worked was to make sure that there was competition, obviously. and so that's the debate we're having today. and we've got to face that those are the two choices. >> just -- and following up on that point, i wonder, senator klobuchar, if you could talk a little bit about the impact of the monopolization. a lot of people focus on consumer prices. as we're seeing monopolization can also drive down wages for people, it can have a range of affects. so essentially why should americans care about anti-trust policy. how is it affecting them, the fact that we have so many mergers happening. >> let's look at a positive. the breakup of at&t. that was a major anti-trust case. it took a lot of work. and what happened there is you saw more innovation, you saw lower prices for consumers in the long distance market. i know a little bit about it because i was in the private sector back then and i represented mci which was the wild west trying to get into t

if you go back to one of our worst presidents, woodrow wilson, even he finally when poncho via killedps down to the border, more into mexico, when they put those numbers on the border people didn't come in the we didn't want coming in and it is that bad. adam smith is very sincere in this, we in congress have given so much money, so little specificity, the obama administration, the trump administration. it is perfectly legal what they are doing and there is no more bigger national emergency, no bigger and better use of the fence money. >> we have a second topic, mueller finished the report. a lot of democrats moving away from impeachment at this point and talking about obamacare, doj says basically the individual mandate is unconstitutional, big blow to democrats. they are trying to save obamacare. >> if we know it is unconstitutional, justice john roberts, making up fiction in order, and it is a ridiculous opinion and the official mandate, the obama administration said repeatedly without the mandate the whole thing falls. finally it has taken years and more intelligent judges looking

the woodrow wilson center hosted this one-hour event. >> it's a great pleasure today to welcome backn carson. he also has the distinction of being a title a ste-- title a scholar. he is just written a new book, "secret wars: covert conflict in international politics." it will be available for purchase after today's talk. carson is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the university of chicago. he has published widely a

taft is now named head of the lincoln memorial commission, as he leaves the presidency to woodrow wilsonthey finally have figured out a way, and it took a republican congress and republican president, taft, to create the legislation needed to raise the enormous sum of like $200,000 to build a lincoln memorial at long last in washington. this is 40 years after lincoln's death. it is coming on lincoln's centennial time, so there was a great hunger to get this done at last in the nation's capital. because controversy, there had to be controversy, is where to build it. the site that we know was not automatically chosen. some of the ideas were pretty loopy. this is union station in its early days, and one of the earliest proposals was the building next to union station. only when people thought, we don't want commuters rushing by the statue, was that idea sh elved. they went back to the u.s. capital, but a plan had been developed to devote that space to ulysses s. grant, and you see that statue today. the is another plan, soldiers home, lincoln's summer cottage outside washington. lincoln cho

and we need to go back to the woodrow wilson administration. wilson asked congress to pass a bill to protect confidential one of the earliest proposals that winston puts itward essentially says that rests all authority in the presidency, who decides what a secret, what's in the national interest, and is able to prosecute people for disclosing that it. >> congress and the press reviews, the kick up a fuss. moving forward, the compromise struck is one which holds true for the rest of the 20th century. the state can keep secrets, the press is free to publish that information. all good and well. the only way such information can reach the press is true government employees, and that is where the legal burden falls on whistleblowers. it is the key tool used to prosecute whistleblowers all the way from the first instance in the 1930's off a guy called herbert yardley all the way to laster -- last year. the espionage act is deeply flawed. situation whereby the disclosure of national security information is criminally informationithout about what infor

i mean, i think since woodrow wilson, he started delivering them in person to the whole joint congressgoing a lot longer, though, than some of our previous presidents. >> stephen: yes, it was clinton-esque. >> he was really kind of stretching it out. >> stephen: kind of the republicans' fault, because they were applauding-- they were giving standing ovations between syllables of words. ( laughter ) >> the bar is low. >> stephen: yes. >> it was an audible reminder of just how locked-in the party is to that president, and that's not an insignificant thing as he faces investigations and faces all of these roiling troubles. >> stephen: because if he goes down, it's going to be very hard for them to abandon ship. >> it would be impossible. they have stood by him-- >> stephen: it would be hard. >> i predict much of what we heard tonight will be forgotten by the end of the week or next week. >> stephen: i don't know what you're talking about. ( laughter ) well, "cbs this morning" airs weekdays at 7:00 a.m. the "cbs this morning" team, everybody! we'll be right back with spike lee. come on! (

his father would let them see "birth of a nation" because of the racist comment even though woodrow wilson was his favorite -- >> laura: i want to read the tweet she responded to you with. if you follow craig, you can see is fact-checking on aoc. she tweeted "okay, great, now talk about reagan, iran contra, the gutting of the mental health system, the explosion of homelessness under his watch, the crack epidemic. maybe insinuating that i've never read a book, be open to the idea that we've read different ones." that's kind of the point. she maybe wasn't -- people's history? what is she reading? >> iran contra was a problem and got to the point of the commission to root out the problem. ronald reagan went before the american people and he took responsibility for it. as far as the homelessness, that was caused by the aclu going to the supreme court and charging for thousands of people held in mental institutions were being held against their will. the court agreed. the mental institutions were opened up. because of the liberal american conservative union, thousands of people were let go on t

the woodrow wilson center hosted this one-hour event. >> it's a great pleasure today to welcome back austin carson. he also has the distinction of being a title a ste-- title a scholar. he is just written a new book, "secret wars: covert conflict in international politics." it will be available for purchase after today's talk. carson is an assistant professor in the department of political science at the university of chicago. already.blished widely is published in the journal of politics and security studies. he has launched on his second book project already. it analyzes the role of sensitive information and secrecy and international organizations. he received his phd from ohio state in 2013. as i previously mentioned, he was a summer research scholar under the title a program here at the institute in 22 -- 2013. with that, i will turn the floor over to austin. dr. carson: thank you. thanks also to all of you for coming. it's great to be back here at the wilson center. i really appreciate the institute to support the cold war international history project. and a shout out to victor

woodrow wilson put people in prison for disagreeing with the first world war but it's interesting that it happened so quickly that the same boomer generation, the same people protesting in berkeley in 1964 for the free speech movement are now telling us hate speech is real and you need to be punished if you disagree. it's amazing. >> laura: president trump was asked about this in the oval office today and he made some comments. let's watch. president trump: i don't really. umthink it's a small group of people that have very serious problems. i guess if you look at what happened in new zealand, perhaps the case. i don't know enough about it yet. >> laura: so donald trump comes out and makes some brief remarks. the lower third at cnn, i think it seemed like it was an hour, maybe it was shorter than that, tucker, was donald trump,, basically, downplays white nationalism or claims that white nationalism isn't on the rise. i'm thinking, yeah, you might as well mock him up in a white hood in a kkk outfit, okay? because that's what -- it wasn't even implying. it was explicit. unbelievable. >>

we need to go back to the woodrow wilson administration. wilson during wartime asked congress to protect confidential government information. one of the earliest proposals that wilson puts forward essentially says that the presidency decides what is secret, what is in the national interest and would be able to prosecute people for disclosing that. congress and the press refuse. they kick up a fuss. moving forward, the conch arise that is strapped -- the compromise that is strapped -- that is struck, the state can keep sacred -- keep secrets. the press is also free to published information. the only way that such information can reach the press is through the government employees. that is where the legal burden falls on the whistleblower. that is why the espionage act is the key tool to prosecute whistleblowers. all the way up until just last year when reality winner was charged with the espionage act. the espionage act is deeply flawed legislation. at the time, you have this situation where by the disclosure of national security information

robin wright is a contributing writer for the "new yorker" and fellow at the woodrow wilson center. >> and matt kerner is deputy director for strategy in the skoe cough center strategy and security and professor at georgetown. richard, the premise of this deal, of this summit, seemed to be everybody else thinks we should do these summits bottom-up, you know, deputies and officials negotiating the minutia and then the formal perhaps ceremonial meeting between the two heads. donald trump said no, we're going to go top-down. what does this tell us, the failure of the summit, what does it say? >> it says bottom-up doesn't work. top-down also doesn't work for different reasons. it doesn't help when the president has too much confidence in his personal relationships and chemistry. foreign policy at the end of the day is not about -- is not about chemistry. there wasn't enough preparation. summits should do the last 10% of the deal so left way too much up. actually needed something more fundamental at work here, fareed. which is simply i'm not sure there is a deal. if the goal is to get nort

marie harf, former democratic congresswoman jane harman, director of the woodrow wilson center, and foxndent jill january turner. congresswoman, there are reports before the two leaders ever got together in vietnam -- and i talked about this with john bolton -- that the north koreans were demanding a lot more in terms of sanctions relief than the white house was ever willing to give. two questions, basically, that i asked ambassador bolton. one, should this summit ever have been held and, two, does its failure, how much does it set back u.s./north korean relations? >> well, should it have been held now? no, it wasn't ready. and bolton is right that over three administrations the efforts to negotiate a good deal with north korea have failed. does it hurt u.s./north korean relations? i don't really think so. i think if you look at it in terms of north korea, they won. i mean, here is kim on his 2,000-mile trek on his train going to a state visit in vietnam after the summit, and now going back and maybe meeting with xi jinping, and he keeps all his nukes, and he's an operator on the world

but he is navigating here a southern town the town where would we woodrow wilson was born. i found these case because of the way he crafts a speech tried to reach white southerners without getting thrown out. in ways that make him sound a lot like booker t washington. you can also find this as well. he anticipates both of them. who invited him there i don't remember. i would have to go look at my own footnotes. and apparently it is in the book. and usually they are pointing out something i might have gotten wrong about it. there is a burden if you have it that's actually been read by people. i think thank you all for being here. please remember to return your surveys.

the principal at woodrow wilson high school here in the district sent letter to parents. she says, while this is not a school sponsored event, they, quote, encourage and support students exercising their first amendmt rights. participating in a walk-out is an individual family's decision yd we encourage to discuss your child's plans. the letter says that wle the school expects students to remain in class, those students who wish to participate must provide written consent from eir parents to avoid getting an unexcused absence. >> it's now 6:37. coming up, big changg comin the skin's roster in just a few hours. what to know about the names coming to andm leaving f the team today. >>> plus, cash from chipotle. the easy way to score a >> announcer: you're watching 4 news today. >>> oh, it was a rough night in caps.urgh for the they were up 2-0 half wayhe through tecond period but then it fell apart when the penguins scored three goals in less than two minutes. ouch. then the fists started to fly. >> get him. >> tom wilson took down a penguin and kept things going in the pena

people like teddy roosevelt, woodrow wilson in a really forthright way. they are called colonies because of course that's what they are. men are forthright defenders of empire and they are very proud and happy to call the overseas possessions of the united states colonies. but that doesn't last very long. so you see10 or government officials becoming veryry nervous aboutut this c-wd and seeking to replace it with euphemisms. territories as a gentler term. legally there is not a distinction. consonant with the fabric of the red states. kansas had been a territory. montana has been a territory. they are states. the practice i in the united states has been since the early overseasy refer to the parts of the united states as territories rather than as colonies. is still as there clear sense from the leaders of the united states that such places don't really fit in the country. trump isn't the first person to enunciate that. after the hurricanes damaged puerto rico and trump had to sort of speak about this come he does this remarkable thing where when he addre