and john f. kennedy dealt shattering blows. next sunday live at 8:30 a.m. eastern.

then the iconic image of tommie smith and john carlos protesting at the olympics. we will talk about richard nixon and the impact his presidency had on the movement. we are going to be talking about all that this morning in our 1968 america turmoil series. 848-7,000. , those 30-60 years old 748-8001. clover cleaver we introduced you as the former communications secretary for the back paster party. how did you get involved in the black paster party? >> i was in an organization called snix. the only one who managed to get there was the leader of the plaque paster party. he fell in love and persuaded me that i should come out to california, which i did. we got engaged, and we got married and i got involved in the organization. it was very much in line with the thinking and planning of snik. but snik was an organization that had started many years ago and was in chaos. the black panther party was very new. it had been in existence about a year. it was exciting, engaging than filled with positive young men an women. >> professor joe, you talked about the organization of

that was coming smith and john carlos who won the gold and bronze medals respectively. they were part of a larger movement that had been inspired by dr. harry edwards in the late 1960's to try to have a boycott of the olympics, of black athletes boycotting the olympics because of the human rights violations that were happening in the united states against african-americans. brutality from police to racial segregation, to violence against lax. ---- balance against blacks violence against blacks. they decided that if they would not win, they would stage these protests. what smith and carlos do, is they go to the podium without how many -- without any shoes on, with black socks and a black love and they raise they black power symbol it was a very powerful and iconic movement, but they were kicked out of the olympic village, stripped out of their medals and vilified in the mainstream. josee 1990's, in san state, where they were both athletes, had erected statues in their honor. but for quarter of a century, employment,nied access and opportunities that they should have been

october 16th, that iconic image of olympic athletes tommie smith and john carlos. november 5th, the impact. we'll be talking about that on our special series. special phone lines if you want to join the conversation. for those 30 years old to 60 years old, it's 202-748-8001. the phone line for those 61 and older, we want to hear from you, your memories of that year, 202-748-8002. kathleen cleaver, we introduced you as well as your position at emory as the former communications secretary for the black panther party. how did you get involved in the black panther party? >> i was in an organization called student nonviolent coordinating committee. we had a conference, invited quite a few civil rights leader. but the only one who managed to get there was eldridge cleaver, the leader of the black panther party. he fell madly in love with me and persuaded me i should come out to california, which i did. we got engaged, we got married. i got involved in the organization he was a part of, called the black panther party, which was very much in line with the thinking and plan

john in tampa, florida. go ahead please. caller: was a pivotal year in 1968 american history, but however to understand that year, you have to go backwards in time a long distance and then go forward in time up until now. you cannot comprehend the significance being so pivotal without looking at the periods from 1948-1965 when the wealthiest americans paid in income tax rate of over 90%, and yet you had basically the middle class was stronger than ever. host: setting the stage for 1968. your thoughts, robert? guest: i was a senior in college in and campuses were burning up. 1968 demonstrations were everywhere. in the year before we had race riots in urban areas in which tens of people were killed. and in detroit and newark and other places. the country appeared to be many people it was coming apart at the seams. and i think we have to put that context into our discussion here a little bit because that was driving an awful lot of what was happening. and what was happening was a reaction to that. the politician of that year wh

john in tampa, florida. >> 1968 was a pivotal year in american history. to understand that year, you have to go backwards in time a long distance and then go forward in time until now. you can't understand the significance being so pivotal without looking at the periods of 48-65 when the americans pay an income tax rate of over 90%, and yet you had basically the middle class stronger than ever. >> setting the stage for 1968. your thoughts? >> i was in college and campuses were burning up. demonstrations were everywhere. in the year before we had race riots in urban areas in which tens of people were killed. in detroit and you are -- newark. the country appeared to be coming apart at the seams. and i think we have to put that context into our discussion because that was driving an awful lot of what was happening. and what was happening was a reaction to that. nixon was a politician of the year who understood how to thread that needle. how to position himself as a candidate who is not a radical, not extremist, but who can straddle various elements of the re

end, itowns was curious, in what ways were your father's views similar to the his brother john toward richard nixon and in what ways were they different? ms. kennedy-townsend: that's a good question. interestingly enough, when richard nixon and my uncle john kennedy were in the senate together they got along. they had -- they got along as republicans and democrats. but there was not the same animosity we had between parties in the 50s that there is now. i think that's in large part because they had both fought in world war ii. so there was a respect for people who are in the trenches together, who put their life on the line together. you may disagree on some policies, but after all, what you shared is the threat of death and seeing your fellow soldiers die. so i think that there's -- that always creates a kind of bond. my father, you know, then ran the campaign against nixon. i don't think they respected him during the campaign as much, clearly when you run against somebody it can be very tough and difficult the. and so i think that president kennedy changed his views or it changed hi

caller: it is an honor to speak kennedy and i always respect john after he was almost mid servative in legislative. i want to point out liberal politics it feels a sea change we faced war. it was the liberals that brought and eleanor mothers spoke to the of the nation and said you may have to sacrifice your sons but we have to win. it was in 1968 and liberal politics that brought on the wrong there's nothing with them, they are both good family tphaoeutz we are and now we are to the point where we get ready to have to take the have first question is when are we going to bring our boys home. that is normal for the mothers but it is not what we need to win. think that one thing about conservative politics is they there maye to win and be sacrifice. ugly s realistic and the thing of war it is necessary sometimes and a bad thing of politics is the liberals and say we nsider win and yes we want our boys to come home but it shouldn't be and bring them home now before we start. just a comment on liberal politics. host: michael cohen. mr. cohen: i would say a lot of men felt that the war in vi

john joining us out in bakersfield, california. caller: i wanted to just comment on that timeframe also, 1968 where robert kennedy passed away and for the heart -- and for the heart out of the american. david hit on that earlier about what we believe the journalists do, that is to bring the truth .out and that they should have ..out and that they should have more influence and congress should listen to them. that whole era pretty much has caused the concerns and beliefs, i believe that we do not trust the government. i can remember in 1970 with nixon a group of us, 12 sat down with our envelopes from the military, we saluted with a shot, we all opened them all at the same time to see what our draft number was. i grew up in the heart of detroit so i lived through all of that era. there is a definite not trusting the government and we are seeing get today. i am open to your comments. host: the book ends from this period, vietnam war and watergate. >> watergate to now, ou have this relentless attack on the first amendment of the press

john in illinois -- let's go back to your calls. john in illinois. host: steve, we talked before. photographs in '65, chicago. we marched, also on the east side we marched. local newspaper protest on the east side, kings march. that photograph changed my life. was 18 years old. were beating up hippies and protesters, that's what they were telling us to do. i made a conversation with a hippie, changed my outlook on the demonstrators and all that stuff. rry,.by and said "don't wo baloney."ull of three months later, vietnam, we come back with all our fingers, all our toes. a korean war veteran when i was leaving said " when you call for help, you don't care who comes. it doesn't matter." those kinds of things changed my life. i fight every day not to be prejudiced, you guys. i hope america is learning out there not to be president. you guys comment.talk to me. david hume kennerly: i love you. [laughter] host: i want to go back to another piece of film from the democratic convention. before we show that, what was happening on the republican side? how is the gop convention in miami bea

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the second vignette was when i went to camp eric john in september, october of 2014, when the isil situation was beginning to heat up over there. the general was a three star who was essentially running the war from a camp in kuwait. the last person he would look at before he gave an order, literally, there were times when we were looking at a satellite feed of an individual isil soldier somewhere out in iraq, and general terry was going to give the order for a drone to drop a bomb or an f-18 or whatever. the last person he looked at was the jag. if the jag said no, it wasn't going to happen. every level, they were, you know, minding their p's and q's, and it was very impressive. i think that, again, whatever the individuals that may be with us from my lai, i think we have learned a lesson. in many ways. i think let's not forget. >> this sort of brings us to the end of our session. i would like to thank the panel of my learned colleagues for sharing their experiences and knowledge. but also i would like to thank all of you who came out today. this was an ugly day in the history of the u.s. a

white house graciously taking a picture with him and he's grabbing my hand and he said, but for you, john lewis, ct vivian, i would not be in this oval office. so, my brother, where are you? >> okay. on that note, i just have a factoid from roland martin who had lunch with the president for the state of the union. okay, yes. roland said the president told him that he would -- this president, donald j. trump, the day of the state of the union when he mets with all the anchors that he was supposed to be here, right? he said to you he was going to be here. that's from ronald martin. the president did offer a video. it was on twitter today. all right. so moving on. moving on. let's talk about that. the intersectionality, quinten, trying to get people from all races, all cultures, all genders, all walks of life to understand that there is still an issue. i spoke to the former head of the commission of civil rights and she said let's talk about social media and this intersectionality, mary francis berry said social media, twitter is a great vehicle particularly to organize, but it does not repl

thank you all very, very much. >> john, thank you. and i'm happy to report that we've been joined by peter edelman, who you'll be hearing from a little bit later. welcome, peter. and as promised, one of the folks who makes all that we do possible is our founding director. he's kind of our north star. lonni bunch, who you've heard a little bit about probably over the years. he's a veteran of the smithsonian institution and former director of the chicago history museum, but for over 13 years he has done the work to lead with his vision the creation of the national museum of african-american history and culture. and he's traveled the country wide and the world gathering artifacts, making friends, raising a lot of money and getting a wonderful team of colleagues, some of whom are with us today, and we would not be in this situation of having a museum that's been called a gift to america without his leadership. please join me in welcoming the founding director of the smithsonian's 19th and newest museum, lon museum,y bunch. >> good morning

. >> the captain, they get john goodman. they need to get people that are good because she had no acting experience. >> she is a rising comedian and in a pizza hut hut hut hut hut t >> you can get a pizza and salad bar. >> we got along from the start. >> nobody ever considered anybody else. >> he had a working class background. so i knew he was the guy, and as soon as i read with him, i knew we had a hit show. >> and the pulsating fingers. >> let's bowling. >> and the next person they brought in was laurie metcalf to play the sister. >> i had a real heavy theater background. zero tv and i allowed myself two weeks to be in l.a. and i happened to go on the "roseanne" audition. i was literally in the right place at the right time. >> she was like a tow truck driver. >> you steer her v her this way. was -- push there, push there -- >> and the kids, we auditioned a lot of kids. >> i was eating chinese food with my family and i opened a fortune cookie and it said you will be graced with stardom and the phone rang and it was the ca

but john giuca is not the victim but john guica is not the victim in this case. it's mark fisher. >> reporter: it was columbus day weekend, 2003. 19-year old college student mark fisher is taking a long weekend a break from the books and classes. wanting to blow off some steam, he heads to the big apple to explore the hopping bar scene on manhattan's upper east side. >> it had to be tremendously exciting for a guy from suburban new jersey. he's going to big city for the first time, and there are going to be some girls there he knows from school. >> reporter: that school fairfield university where fisher, a sophomore, is an athlete on the dean's list studying to become an accountant. >> mark fisher was every parent's dream. a big strapping, good-looking student-athlete, prom king in his high school, a phenomenal football player. >> reporter: but on that night, mark fisher has no interest in running defensive plays or crunching numbers. he's just looking to have a good time. >> mark runs into a girl that he goes to school with. she brings a lot of her friends with

. >> that moment finally came when she and co-stars john goodman and lawrie metcalf are all nominated for emmys. >> the emmy goes to -- laurie metcalf! >> i had received an emmy. she presented it. and i really quickly in my mind, i thought, is my name really on that card or did she just say it? because i wouldn't have put it past her. i had to make sure it really said it. >> metcalf wins, but the others don't, and soon, art imitates life on the set of "roseanne." >> i was sitting there polishing my emmy, you know, in the living room on the set. and she and john were trying to steal it away from me. >> give me that. >> no. >> come on, i want it. >> no. >> give me it. >> no. >> come on, give it -- give it! give it, come on! >> what's going on? oh! >> roseanne would finally get her statue the following year. >>> next, as the parade of famous faces marches on through -- >> i'm the only one here and the sign says dr. whitman, so, that's me. >> the cast comes to face the end. >> this has been a d.j. conner film. the show ended and i was devastated. >> when roseanne returns, literally. no ma

john kennedy junior's funeral, and it will throw things off the table. we didn't think we were going to have the dinner because so many things were happening. lamonica stuff was heating up and when john kennedy junior came up it was a my gosh and the service was next day. he came to the dinner and we were in shock. we actually got the leader of the free world to sit down and break bread with us, to garlic fried chicken, potato salad, green beans, put it all on one fork. it was the most amazing night. it really was. there were 10 of us or so breaking bread with the president of the united states talking about issues of race, how to heal the racial divide. it was an amazing night. he was so engaged with bill clinton, it is like a monologue. and go on and on, they had to pull him out, 11 something, you have to go. you are engaged in the conversation about so many topics on race but to this day we are where we are. >> i want to advance to pres. george w. bush, you gave them an overall grade of b-. that was an interesting grade because you rated him very high

then i interviewed john and john junior and how funny it was quiet and thinking there is a story among these guys that were such rivals so let me explore that so with bobby starting with my window into him harry reid had this for a while but are paid for really you are paid to work in the office during the day.p i don't think this procedure is around anymore. maybe somebody like me had i gone. [laughter] i just thought that was competent in case you blow the whole thing. to sit around at night in the capital we got to know the building engineer. one of the wonderful streetcorner tenant. the guy who knows everything to talk about the senators and to talk about those centers those fortunate for us all the only girl the craddick that was bobby kennedy in that tells me a lot. he likes cops they are as large as anybody else in the building. now those westside liberals say the exact same thing about bobby even though he is for minorities where the chicano farmworkers and the blacks living in the delta he felt as construction workers were firefighters were his people. but even now now he is k

mistreated employees and stopped giving to charities then sadly he died now we say this group this john for 29 years of his career was a total jerk mistreated his employees cheated vendors didn't give to charity he was a wretched human being but then then he finally paved his way now suddenly he unexpectedly diedso so we ask you separately evaluate the morality of this guys life morality and life. morality and it turns out people use those two characteristics pretty much the same this person 29 years one year age or this guy one your jerk or 29 years a jerk but because it happened at the end he is considered as immoral.e so what happens at the end is enormously significant so you and your teachers do a job in the ending as meaning makers what has this been about? how will i remember this? how does one -- what does this mean? and to be that architect of experience, construct markers that elicit meaning at the end and examples of teachers doing these incredible things so those students code the entire experience as positive. no i know some of you have questions this is a good point to bri

lindsey graham within with amy klobuchar and john mccain to assure our allies because since trump has taken office we have alienates our allies and cozying up to authoritarianism. and we have a defunct state depth. so all these things are happening and it's not as if the republicans are feeling lick they're in the right of things and i they stick with trump it's going to work. they're literally not running, and some of them are leaving early. so, i -- you can hypothesize now and see why later on, but it could very well be that some of these people have taken large amounts of russian money in the past and that's heavily detailed in my book as well. that gets reported and then in the chaos, we forget about it. or the fact that russia also has e-mails of every republican that ran, and they didn't choose to use those and weaponize them the way they did with the democrats. we have to ask a fundamental question this election, this is not but to the issues. this is really about a very important check and balance because our government, our legislative branch, has largely let us down and they

our former national science advisor, john holderman, back when we had a science advisor in the white house, what is it we need to do, how is that we are going to confront this problem? a combination of three things. adaptation, adapting to those changes that are now inevitable, and here in annapolis we will deal with several more feet of sealevel rise over the next century so no matter what we do, we have to adapt to those changes that are inevitable. we have to mitigate, prevent the changes that are still preventable by reducing carbon emissions by putting a price on carbon, incentivizing renewable energy. and adaptation, mitigation and one more option, suffering. we have to decide how much each of those is tolerable. it is my hope we will minimize this suffering, engage in adaptations that are necessary but we will mitigate those changes that we still can and we do that by getting off fossil fuels as fast as we can. >> one more question. >> good afternoon. getting off fossil fuels faster. one of the ways we can do that, we can in our own communities start to change their home. i ha

it from the 1950s but as i read along and realized no, when there was the attempt on reagan's life john hinckley a lot of this continuity of government swung into being and in september 11 the we renovated the stuff and then i get to the point where you say there are planes now at air force base named nightwatch that engines are on and spinning as we speak 247 ready to sweep the president into the air so we can carry out a nuclear war. >> and this is the steel of the totality of the program in these programs would boggle your mind that at the peak across the country there were more than 100 federal government bunkers hidden away for various agencies for various government officials ranging from raven rock, mount leather, the presidents mean bunker in the norad bunker in cheyenne mountain colorado made famous by the movie wargames with matthew broderick. those are freestanding cities built inside hollowed out mountains. capable of supporting thousands of people inside of raven rock in mount whether and norad. there were dozens in scores of smaller bunkers hidden around the rest of the co

then this group of here we give you a biography of john. this john, for 29 years was a total jerk. he mistreated employees, he cheated vendors, he did not get to charity, he was a wretched human being. then in your 30, he actually changed his ways and became a decent fellow. then he suddenly and unexpectedly died. so what we do separately is ask you, where asking this. evaluate the morality of this guys life. and evaluate the morality of his life into big words. morality and life. it turns out that people evaluate those two characters pretty much the same. this person, 29 years a good dude. when you're a jerk. this guy one year a jerk i mean 29 years a jerk and one year a good dude. because the good dude happened at the end, is considered as moral as the one here. so what happens in the end is enormously significant. i think you and your fellow teachers do a brilliant job of this. i read about this. using endings as meaning. we seek meaning at the end of something. what has it been about? what i will remember this by. and people who are architects of experiences, i think teachers w

john kennedy junior's funeral, and it will throw things off the table. we didn't think we were going to have the dinner because so many things were happening. lamonica stuff was heating up and when john kennedy junior came up it was a my gosh and the service was next day. he came to the dinner and we were in shock. we actually got the leader of the free world to sit down and break bread with us, to garlic fried chicken, potato salad, green beans, put it all on one fork. it was the most amazing night. it really was. there were 10 of us or so breaking bread with the president of the united states talking about issues of race, how to heal the racial divide. it was an amazing night. he was so engaged with bill clinton, it is like a monologue. and go on and on, they had to pull him out, 11 something, you have to go. you are engaged in the conversation about so many topics on race but to this day we are where we are. >> i want to advance to pres. george w. bush, you gave them an overall grade of b-. that was an interesting grade because you rated him very high

it from the 1950s but as i read along and realized no, when there was the attempt on reagan's life john hinckley a lot of this continuity of government swung into being and in september 11 the we renovated the stuff and then i get to the point where you say there are planes now at air force base named nightwatch that engines are on and spinning as we speak 247 ready to sweep the president into the air so we can carry out a nuclear war. >> and this is the steel of the totality of the program in these programs would boggle your mind that at the peak across the country there were more than 100 federal government bunkers hidden away for various agencies for various government officials ranging from raven rock, mount leather, the presidents mean bunker in the norad bunker in cheyenne mountain colorado made famous by the movie wargames with matthew broderick. those are freestanding cities built inside hollowed out mountains. capable of supporting thousands of people inside of raven rock in mount whether and norad. there were dozens in scores of smaller bunkers hidden around the rest of the co

colorado governor john hick and uber will be our guest on the bus during washington journal starting at 9:30 a.m. eastern. topping the list is former secretary of state madeleine albright's warning about tactics by world leaders and russian roulette who tried to influence election by journalists michael and david corn. the late true crime journalist michelle mcnamara, the account of her first the engine search for the golden killer. a look at some of the best-selling books according to the new york times. childhood in the idaho mountains and her first introduction to flow education. >> we look at some of the books of than nonfiction list. some of these authors have or will appear on book tv. you can watch our website cb.org. the festival features many authors. for complete schedule visit booktv.org.

and john adams called the freedom of the press essential to the security of the state. well today we had a president who seems to reject the role of the free press in our democracy. although obsessed with his own press coverage, he evaluates it based on whether it provides knowledge or understanding, but solely on whether the daily coverage helps him and hurts his opponents. he has referred to the media as an enemy of the people. he has suggested that broadcast licenses of some news networks should be challenged. he wants to block the sale of cnn to at&t for the same reason. it is repeatedly threatened amazon because jeff bezos also owns the "washington post," a newspaper defined the odds and showing what many thought was a dying business model, can be a success. with good reporting and the innovative use of technology. now, given his track record, is it any surprise that according to the latest round of revelations he joked about throwing reporters in jail to make them talk. and it doesn't stop there. this administration has also tried to get the national endowment for

that includes john farrell talking about new biography on books so that's all coming up but let's go into that and, they can hear the authors on american tv. >>. >> it's great to see you all. we are the first event this morning here at the la times festival of books, it's wonderful and i elizabeth taylor and i'm delighted to be here and to introduce icons. the title of this panel is american cultural icons and i'm thrilled to have four actually wonderful writers with me. >> one book is so big that it obviously needs to people to do it. >> so quick notes, please silence all cell phones. and postal recordings. the session will not be allowed. we want to make this as conversational as possible so we will talk and then in a little while, take questions and you will be prepared to think i take mike's in the aisles. because this will be recorded and you will need to speak up. so let me sort of get to work. these books are strategically placed, as you can see. and there will be an opportunity to buy the books after. real money to buy real books. support these authors. so we have here to my

i'd like to start with john farrell who wrote the richard nixon book and asked him how he came to the subject, something we think we all know everything about and it turns out we know only part of the story. >> thank you. there are some certain rules for biographers and one of them is if your publisher asks you to write a biography of an american president, you say yes. i was asked by doubleday to see if there was a story to tell about nixon and i decided that i would actually make the argument, having done this initial research, that we live in a world richard nixon left us, both in the polarization that we have at home, north versus south, black versus white, the people on the coast versus the good folks in the heartland and in the international order, he was the person who brought china back into the world order and gave us the structure we live in and have lived in if you define peace the way he did which is without a world war for 30 years. he's a caricature for most of us, the only president to resign. we know him for watergate and for vietnam and as sort of a semi-famous story

don ice creek, georgia, hi, john. hi ed -- [laughter] >> yes, sir, how are you? about what i find. i appreciate you having that show and i listen to them. irony is the reason trump won, in five his and despite of the things that you give a course for concern is because of people like that. you know, with what i think they owe america is that if you don't agree with a liberal orthodox entirely, you are deplorable person and you hate, you hate everyone. you're uneducated. you're the problem. and i think they help trump are win and i think they're going help him win again. i'll give you a few very quick examples if you disagree with with the left on global warming policy like and instead of someone saying why do you disagree and you say well look there might be an issue assignment. but what is this really doing? american industry and right off you're a denier like you're a holocaust denier if you disagree with on immigration and i'm a immigrant so is my wife instead of saying look what happens with a flood of migrants from syria we've allowed 100 million people in the country since 19

. >> host: will move on to john. john is in kansas. >> host: i apologize we're not getting calls. i didn't want to ask you about this. this is from zelma saint mission or something like that and it says to analyze trump america we need to have a conversation about material wealth in consumerism and getting ahead of each other. >> guest: that is true and one of the great misconceptions of american life is this zero-sum attitude that a certain demographic group gains the other group loses and you see white americans especially older white americans expressing that belief. as we become a less light country they felt that personally turns them and i wish the people didn't see it that way because i don't think that is accurate and one person success of their ability to make a better life for themselves takes away from others but that is the sentiment that trump and the gop in general has been trying to manipulate well before the selection. >> host: terry is in compton, california at usc. >> caller: sarah, as a generalist i want to know if you found the people in st. louis voted for tru

unfortunately, it's not in the central square where they wanted it staring down the towering monument of john c calhoun, the outspoken proslavery politician from the 19th century is where they wanted it. instead, it's in another part, but nonetheless, it was a real tramp to erect a monument to someone who a lot of the local white population think is-- would have been a mass murderer could he have been. >> thank you for that and that leads to closing out because i think one thing is that there is new knowledge about things we may be didn't know about and often don't, so as an effort to demonstrate that by show of hands, how many people are familiar with mary and carry. look around at notice. you are not alone if your hand is not up and selling chocolate cities we find very and kerry is rotating in these time periods these great offers are talking about. she's the first women to run a major newspaper in north america she was born to a family of abolitionists in delaware which was a slave state in the 1820s and by the time 1850 comes around where zachary taylor signed the new robust fugitive sla

not sit down with russian agents to decide which documents specifically to the dnc to put out about john podesta but we do have the campaign of 2016 with those key members of the trump campaign with don junior meeting with the russian emissary who were told was bringing them dirt by a secret operation to harm hillar hillary. they said we will meet with you. we will take the information presumably to use that so at least they would agree to conspire with russia but throughout the rest of the campaign, trump and his attendance again and again denied the russians were doing anything trump called it a hoax the 400-pound guy sitting in the basement and when they knew the russians were trying to do something when he was briefed by the intelligence committee and was told the intelligence was there that the russians were doing all this so this is how i put it, if you think of somebody standing in front of a bank robbing a bank while being robbed they are told the bank is being robbed but as people walk by they say there is no robbery here. nothing to see a move on. don't pay attention. in the bo

it's not in the central square where they wanted it to be steering down theng towering monument to john c calhoun, the outspoken proslavery politician from the 19th century and that is where they wanted it but instead it's in another part but unless it was a triumph to erect a monument that someone a lot of the local white appellation thanks would have been a mass murderer could he have been. >> thank you for that. thatad leads to how we will cloe up. one thing is there's new knowledge of things that we should know about it as an effort by show of hands how many people are familiar about the woman marianne [inaudible]? want people to look around and notice. you're not alone if your hand is not up. and chocolate cities we find that marianne carried was a rotating in the time. that the great authors talk about and she's the first woman to run a major newspaper in north america and was called the prevention of freemen. born into a family of abolitionists in delaware which was a slave state in 1820s by the time 1850 comes around where zachary taylor signs the robust fugitive law she abscond

as soon as the access hollywood tape was released on october 7 within an hour they are dumping that john podesta e-mails and no thought like they did with the dnc three months earlier. they are putting out two to 3,000 e-mails a day so for four weeks every day there were stories in the news on hillary clinton's e-mails and with the campaign did at the time and all campaigns were taking focus groups to the swing state voters and asking what they were thinking about the headlines. they found out very soon voters were looking at the headlines about the e-mails and thinking they were about hillary clinton's own e-mail service scandal which had been resolved presumably a few months earlier when he said he wouldn't be invited so you have a steady run of headlines, hillary clinton's e-mails which bolstered the idea of some voters that she was shifty and couldn't be trusted and got in n the way of her campaign talking about anything else. you can talk to any political consultant and they will tell you they don't have a clear shot of presenting the message that hurts their campaigns with this hur

at 10:00 tonight on c-span 2, navy secretary richard spencer along with admiral john richardson and general robert neler on navy readiness and the 2019 budget request. they testified before the senate armed services committee. >>> monday on landmark cases, tinker v des moines independent community school district, a case about student free speech. in 1965 five students from des moines, iowa, wore black arm bands to school to protest the vietnam war.

john's as well. mr. long: thank you. mrs. lowey: thank you very much. mr. carter: mr. taylor. mr. taylor: thank you, mr. chairman. mr. brock, appreciate he and your service and please to give your best to everybody under you. i know they have a very challenging environment as so do you. lots of challenges. i'm very happy to hear some of your comments about streamlining the agency and also i do want to touch on puerto rico just briefly. i was down there last week and understanding there are -- as we talked about just a little bit earlier about deferred maintenance and issues that puerto rico had, not prepared, but obviously we have to go down there to help out to make them more resilient and have -- they have a more robust system. so one of the questions that i have -- i was speaking with the mayor down there, and he was -- it's my understanding municipalities will spend their money, of course, to fix infrastructure and then get reimbursed. however, they don't have a lot of money, right? they sort of run out and it's not fixed or finished and we have another upcoming hurricane seas

john's as well. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> mr. taylor. >> thank you, mr. chairman and mr. long, i appreciate you and your service and please give our best to everybody who is under you. i know that they have a challenging environment to work with as do you. lots of challenges i'm very happy to hear some of your comments about stream lining the agency and also i do want to touch on puerto rico just briefly. i was just down there last weekend and understanding that there are -- as we talked about just a little bit earlier about deferred maintenance and some issues with puerto rico themselves have had that were not prepared, if you will, but obviously we still have to go down there and help out to make sure we are doing everything we can to make them more resilient and have -- you know, that they have a more robust system. so one of the questions that i have i was speaking with the mayor down there and he was -- it's my understanding that, you know, the municipalities will spend their money of course to fix infrastructure and then get reimbursed, however, the

don't forget saint john's as well. >> thank you. >> thank you very much. >> mr. taylor. >> thank you, mr. chairman and mr. brock, thank you. give our best to everyone under you. lots of challenges. i'm happy to hear some of your comments about streamlining the agency and also, i want to touch on puerto rico briefly. i was down there last weekend and understanding as we talked about earlier, deferred maintenance and issues with puerto rico themselves, obviously, we have to go down there and help to make sure we do everything we can to make them resilient and they have a robust system. one question i have, i was speaking to the mayor and to my understanding it is the municipalities will spend the money to fix infrastructure and get reimburses but they don't have a lot of money and they run out and it is not fixed or finished and then there's another upcoming hurricane season. what is happening to make things efficient and is there a way to do so to make sure the infrastructure is fixed? >> great question. there is no way to fix the infrastructure before next hurric

texas congressman john carter chaired the hearing. >> good morning. we're going to call this meeting to order. this hearing to order. we are very pleased this morning to welcome the administrator of the federal emergency management agency, brock long, to discuss fema's fiscal year 2019 budget request. administrator, welcome. we're glad to have you here. i want to start by thanking you for your leadership in overseeing not just fema but the entire federal response to the record level of disaster activity this past year. congress has now passed three supplementals providing nearly $50 billion for disaster relief fund. this is for response and recovery from three catastrophic events. i'd like to hear from you today on how recovery efforts are going and what additional resources you think fema will need in the coming months to continue to support the long-term recovery. fy-'19 budget for fema is $11 billion. the request proposes reductions to existing fema grant programs while at the same time requesting $522 million for a new grant program that hasn't be

. >> john thompson, former u.s. bureau census director from 2013 to 2017 joined a panel of academics to discuss the upcoming 2020 census. focusedthe conversation -- the american enterprise institute is the host of this forum. we will show you in the house gavels and at three eastern and return when they gavel out. >> good afternoon. here and ir fellow would like to welcome all of you and our c-span audience to our session on making the 2020 census succeed. found moderatehe today i responded enthusiastically. i know it is virtually impossible for many of my colleagues to do the important work that they do. any opportunity to talk about our prayer statistical agencies the senses did not have the funds to run the test into other areas. there are concerns other panelists will touch on today that i hope will present charges to the center -- the senses and future ones. declining response rates and information explosion and rapidly changing technologies, different language requirements with a diverse population, complex li

john: i will go first. andrew, the paperwork reduction act requires every election be approved by office of regulatory affairs and the budget. so the census eurojohn: i will . will put out the questionnaire for public comment which they will use in 2020. i believe sometime around september and october, the whole package will go to the office of regulatory affairs. they can disprove any questions on there and they will have documentations as to why the questions are important. that is the next step in the process. >> on the process question, i want to answer by mentioning, you know more than a dozen states have sued the government over to the citizenship question. i think those are doomed to fail. the reason is if you look at the constitution and what is given to the federal government and not the states, the federal government has delegated and -- delegatedtutes their specific statute that gives the commerce secretary the power to, quote, determine the inquiries on the census form. so the states don't have

>> john? iright now the census asks two questions. the first question asks about hispanic origin, and the second question -- it has different categories to check. and the second question asks about race. part of the issue that the census bureau had been dressing of the decade was understanding some of the issues associated with an "other race" category and hispanics was sometimes marked that category. they had done some significant research on combining the two questions going they concluded that was the optimum way to ask about racial ethnicity. however they have not been able to implement that combined question technology because you the office of management and budget has not changed the 1997 standards on race andth missionty that requires two questions -- and ethnicity that requires two questions. >> it's self-reported and nobody is looking at last names. they are asking people how you identify -- [inaudible question] >> it's how anybody chooses to answer the question. >> it's self-responding. it's how individuals choose to answer

everyone will know how it went. >> thank you, john. introductory remarks. >> thank you so much for it is a pleasure to be back here. michael and i wrote a paper along with co-authors about a year ago where we try to lay out a framework for why it is so important to have well-functioning census bureau and other statistical agencies. it's important the united states and i know michael and i will talk about that. in terms of the census we know it's accurate and it's crucial to deny dates for number of reasons. it determines the number of seats each state has an house of representatives but it also affects the distribution of billions of dollars in federal funding every year. for infrastructure, vital services like hospitals and schools but of course we are facing increasing challenges to collecting the census. the increasing cultural linguistic and economic city makes it harder to go out and survey everyone enumerate everyone. lay on top of that the increasing distrust of the government. as our we know in the past we have cost overruns an