mitchell: they were excited about having the american troops and hoping that the american go immediately get in line, but that wasn't so, and we required several months of training. french troops were hoping american troops would amalgamate right into french command. which, for the most part, did not happen, but pershing allowed some american troops to fight with the french including the african-american division, the 93rd. guillaume: here are troops already. this looks like the chans elysee. they parade on the main avenue of paris. now we are at the lafayette grave, east of paris. mitchell: this was a famous scene and the immortal words , "lafayette we are here" has been repeated over and over. it is part of the lore of the americans saying we are repaying you,less i at, -- repaying lafayette for your help during our american revolution. guillaume: you see colonel stanton. mitchell: although it is often attributed to pershing, he did not say it. guillaume: nowadays, it looks quite similar. it is a private cemetery. few people go there. killed during the french revolution by the guilloti

so under nixon, american is expanded. 65, americanized, starting in de-americanized. known as aware of their existence. henry kissinger, and henry kissinger'most trusted advisors. own secretary of state, and his secretary of defense do not know about these secret talks. imagine you're the guy in charge and your own president doesn't tell you. really interesting stuff. jesse? student: is there a reason why he did not tell the secretary state? prof. asselin: nixon doesn't trust anyone anything's this is too sensitive. only those he trusts most will be trusted with this. trust anyone anything's this is as he is undertaking the secret diplomacy, nixon also very boldly decides to go after communist sanctuaries and supply lines in laos and cambodia. 1970, the u.s. and south vietnamese army invade cambodia. a year later, the south vietnamese army with american air support invades laos. to nixon, it makes sense. i will go after the supply lines that feed the communist war effort in the south. the thing is, nixon is supposed to be the war, and now he is invading two other coun

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our american revolution. guillaume: you see colonel stanton. mitchell: although it is often attributed to pershing, he did not say it. guillaume: lafayette's grave is in a private cemetery. people from lafayette were killed by the guillotine and put there. mitchell: can you translate this for us? they are on their way to the front, is that what it says? guillaume: yes, it's as american troops on their way to the front. we see soldiers leaving the main towns and heading to the northeast of france. mitchell: this would have been probably early autumn 1917? guillaume: probably. they arrived to the barracks and the kitchen. this is looking like east of france already. at the beginning, american soldiers are closed by the frontline. we don't speak about true big offensive in 1917. they were training to get more and more experience because then they would face germans that have three years of experience. [indiscernible] sammies was the nicknames that the french gave to the americans because of uncle sam. this is a

mihiel was a major success for the americans. they overtook all of their objectives on the first today. they had the germans on the run. as you pointed out, the better continued for another four days as more of a cleanup. guillaume: it was around 15,000 prisoners captured. the germans were surrounded in their own pocket. that is the landscape. barbed wire. the germans had heavy trenches. still very visible now. very deep ones. mitchell: where did the germans fall back to? guillaume: they had to fortify the line called the mihiel line. that was like 13 miles away from the front line. that is where they retreated, finally. almost until the end of the war, because the frontline stabilized september 16. the major movement for the americans would be to move there. mitchell: by the 13th, the second day of the battle, it was mostly in american hands. guillaume: you can see how the germans are surrounded. it is great to see the landscape 100 years ago. mitchell: right, it does not look much different today. guillaume: exactly. the enemy

american trade. it has been many decades that american presidents have not been a deal with all sourcing and globalization and the loss of american manufacturing jobs. i do hear that argument quite a bit, including from farmers in the midwest who are also being .it by these tariffs but a lot of farmers have said we are willing to give the president some leeway. we think that this is a negotiating tactic, and if he is able to fix trade with china and some of these big foreign markets, it will be worth it. i think the question is how long does this take to resolve? is there a resolution at the end , and what are the goals of the trump administration? how quickly can they wrap this up and get the pain over with for ordinary manufacturers and farmers? host: one group may be not giving president leeway on this, some republican senators. a symbolic vote yesterday on the president's trade practices. one of the people who spoke was pat toomey of pennsylvania, republican. here is some of the argument leading

american exports are on the rise. this is a strong economy and leadership on improving our trade relations for american jobs andworkers. >> when do you expect them to announce another solid trade deal. will you be able to announce them before the midterm elections. >> we are encouraged about the free trade agreement. the u.s. trade representative continues to believe there is a possibility before we get to labor day we might have a reformed nafta agreement. those details are still being worked out. look, the president came into this administration with the belief that for too long americans, our economy, our workers are being taken advantage of by trade deals. whether it's renegotiating with south korea or renegotiating nafta or resetting the balance in our relationship with the european union or resetting the imbalance lancimbalance with che that strong leadership is contributing the moment -- momentum. >> will you have a relationship with mexico? >> i hope to reach an agreement. president trump will stay focused on

hashtag proud american. we will show them throughout the morning and we are honored to have those so send them in. donald trump reminding all of us what it means to be an american this independence day by paying tribute to our nation's heroes but those on the left are marking the day with resistance and protest. garrett 10 he lives in washington dc, another reason to be a proud american because you have the right to protest. >> reporter: one of the many things that makes our country wonderful. donald trump has a lot to say, a salute to serviceman in west virginia, he talked about the west virginia senate pick and democrats criticizing ice but on the eve of independence day he spent most of the time praising our country's heroes and freedoms, pluto and women who defend them and make it possible. >> we reminded how blessed we are to be american and to live in this land of our great heroes, you. >> reporter: on his way to the dinner he tweeted tomorrow families across the nation will gather to celebrate 4 july.

certainly, the american plan was implemented in u.s. territors and really anywhere the -- territories and anywhere the u.s. had power. >> [inaudible] >> thank you. >> did everyone hear that? >> imposing decency. it's a really great book, really important book. >> and we're going to end over here. >> hi, thanks. it's been wonderful hearing you. very interesting story. i just wanted to comment because i worked in public health for 30 years, but i also was so intrigued by what you talked about, because i didn't become an academic, but i did my dissertation on the history of a boston hospital, and it reminded me -- i got to look at all this great stuff, and i looked at the early records of the outdoor department. >> 1910. >> outpatient department. and the biggest diagnosis was stds, which isn't surprising. you know, i think a lot of this is sort of a complex interplay of forces. waves of southern eastern european influences and people of other backgrounds. eleanor roosevelt because she and many upper class women, you know, they started nurs

americans saved and budgeted. there was a tremendous interest in household budgeting during the 1920s. they traded and bartered. they traded eggs for a homemade dress, they bartered and traded services amongst each other, sometimes they resorted to stealing. and they went to secondhand stores. they purchased things on the black market. so these are a few of the ways that americans tried to stretch their dollars. it didn't work entirely. there's only so far you could stretch something. americans begin to look for ways to increase their purchasing power, they moved away from trying to:troll -- control price . they took care of the other set up equation which was purchasing power. we tried to get paid more, ford paid five dollars a day which was twice the wages of all other automobile factories, in the 1920s ford changed the wage to six dollars. after the stock market crashed in the economy was in decline, for -- ford raised his wages to seven dollars per day. they laid off workers but those who -- those who are luck

army film documents the american operation. announcer: on september 12, 1918, under the command of general john j pershing, that u.s. army launched the first independent offense of of world war i. >> this was formed in september of 1914. -- mitchell: it is september 1918. the americans are about to undertake the first independent action against the enemies there because that was formed in september of 1914. is that correct? guillaume: that is correct. the germans had a big offensive and surrounded the town. mitchell: there is pershing at his headquarters. this would have been in leenee. this was a surprise attack against the germans who were vacating the area. guillaume: we see a bulge around this town of st mihiel which is west of that map. you see the landscape. part of the offense of his starting from the big plain and had to reach plateaus that you can see in the distance. this was for five heavy days. mitchell: i think that was a naval railway gun. guillaume: exactly, that is. that is probably samyiel already. mitchell: th

means to support american industries, american jobs, and american companies, but the waters are far more money than they were for many years in the automobile industry, and this car is a great example of that. it was built by american workers working in the united states, so is this car any less american than a chrysler built in canada or a ford built in mexico? there is no easy answer to that question. it's something we continue to struggle with. it is important to realize the definition of what an american car is. it evolves over time just as vehicles have evolved over time. that's something that we try to talk about here at the henry ford museum of american innovation. yes, this is about cars, but it's not just about the cars themselves and the technology, it's more about cars and social forces. the story we tell you is how the car has evolved over the last 120 years and changed to meet our needs. cars have gotten larger, faster, more colorful, more luxurious, you name it. but we are also trying to tell the story of how we have changed to meet the cars needs. because we have changed w

includes the 1950's, working-class americans, and black americans, all tied into sears roebuck. show less text -- what is the premise of the book and what has research been like? >> the premise of the book looks set the immigration of the department stores by employees and workers. they have touted consumption as a means of realizing democracy. unlike >> you are allowed to -- you are not allowed to eat the lunch counter. or eat at a restaurant or a --ter -- a beauty it shows up in the department sure and allows them to workplace and consumer discrimination in the 20th fact -- 20 century. >> shopping today is so .ifferent in amazon explain the importance of the sears company. the 1950's were right after world war ii, so we are in this postwar economic boom. there is a heightened amount of consumption. americans are buying homes, furnishing, clothing, cars, at unprecedented levels. the department stores are still in their age of, they are in a golden age, i would say, meaning that these are lavish palaces of consumption of tremendous size. they are places to be and to be seen. for

so african-americans are the first group of people in american history to have entire states create anti-immigration laws against them, to create brian laws against them -- boundary laws again them. illinois the first and then came indiana. it's important to remember today. this is a difficult book for know read -- to write and still read but to write because every single one of these communities deserves a book. every single one of these families deserves a book. this is basically an entire field so it was hard to write because i felt like i was skimming. he wrestled with the yesterday stores because wanted to have lots of families and he said that would be confusing and he was probably right. so whittled it down to five families so i'll read you a little excerpt about charles and which -- isiah greer who became later in life extremely successful underground railroad agents, risking their firm and they're family to -- their farm and their family to do that work and also immensely wealthy farmers. but they had to start somewhere. and first they had to clear their land. so i'll start with that little

but for americans to see american kids dead, american kids wounded, it really had an impact. willhe american people kind of except the loss of the war from 1965, 1960 six and 1967. in 1968 we witness a much more vocal movement opposing the war. these images, which were relatively well-received initially, in time they started to affect the american position of the war in vietnam. these are the big three on the american side. you recognize johnson in the , mcnamara, the secretary of defense, then the secretary of state. of there the architects war in vietnam. those are the individuals who will effectively be blamed, we should say, forgetting the u.s. involved in the vietnam war. again, as we talked about on tuesday, it is unfair to pin all of this on johnson. his predecessors, kennedy, eisenhower, before him, it really made consequential decisions. made itwould argue almost impossible for johnson to just avoid an increased american commitment in vietnam. technically, american combat troops enter vietnam under johnson's watch. but in a way, that is the logical culmination to a p

we on the american side are determined to try. you see, we have a vision of a world safe from the threat of nuclear war and indeed all war. such a world would have far fewer missiles and other weapons. today both america and the soviet union have an opportunity to develop a defensive shield against ballistic missiles, a defensive shield that will threaten no one for the sake of a safer peace, i am commit today pursuing the possibility that technology offers. the general secretary and i also anticipate continuing our talks about other issues of deep concern to our peoples. for example, the expansion of contact between our peoples and more information flowing across our borders. expanding contacts and information where required decisions about life at home that will have an impact on relations abroad. this is also true in the area of human rights. as you know, we americans are concerned about human rights, including freedoms of speech, press, worship and travel. we will never forget that a wise man has said that violence does not li

we americans will choose a next president. every adult citizen has a role to play in the making of this decision. we will listen to what the candidates say, we will debate their views and our own and in november we will vote. i will still be president next january, but soon after that, the man or woman leading our country will be the one the american people pick as of this coming november. as i've said, we americans will also be thinking about the future of the world this year. the same reasons you will be thinking of it, as well. in a few months, general secretary gorbachev and i hope to meet once again, this time in moscow. last month in washington we signed the intermediate nuclear forces treaty in which we agreed to eliminate an entire class of u.s. and soviet nuclear weapons. it was a history-making step towards reducing the nuclear arms of both sides. it was just a beginning. now in geneva, the soviet and american representatives are discussing a 50% reduction in strategic nuclear weapons. perhaps we can have a treaty re

you are working on a book that includes the 1950's, working-class americans and black americans. all tied into sears roebuck and company. what is -- what is the research been like? traci: it looks at department stores. i focused on department stores because they have touted consumption as a means of realizing democracy. places, department stores allow anyone, black, white, regardless of age or gender to enter and buy.

every american citizen, all equal regardless of economic power, every american citizen can have their voice heard to determine the direction of the country and the makeup of their government. we saw a hundred 43 million eligible -- we saw 143 million eligible americans not voting in the 2014 midterm elections. we need everyone voting this year. joanne joins us from california on the democrats lined for liz kennedy. caller: good morning. , c-span,ing and thanks for taking my call. i've a question. if i vote, regardless of which system i use, my daughter asked me, how do i know that my vote went in for that candidate. i will hang up and listen to response on the other end? guest: thank you for calling in with that question. it is important that americans understand that our local and state election officials are -- lots excellent job of people have tough jobs, running our election is a another tough job. we should not shake our fundamental confidence in the integrity of our elections which is that we have free, fair, and accessible elections in which every american can have their voice

these incredible american heroes will soon lay at rest on sacred american soil. even during the campaign, people would come up to me -- it's a long time ago -- many decades ago. oftentimes they were older. in some cases, they were younger. great-grandfathers. my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father -- they asked if i could do something about it. i'd look at them, i'd say, "we don't get along too well with that country." they said, "whatever you can do." and it's something that was very important to me. many people have asked that. i've asked the vice president and others to just pay a special tribute -- and they will do that. so we honor the sacred memory of every incredible american patriot who fought and died in that war. in everything we do, in every action we take, we are fighting for loyal, hardworking, patriotic citizens of our blessed nation. we're making our country great again. we're respected again all over the world. our military will soon be stronger than it's ever been, by far. that in itself will produce thousands and thousands of jobs. nobo

today was a terrible day for the american brand, for the american people people and our allies. we did not negotiate from a position of strength. we acted from a position of weakness. as a result, one of the world's worst despots walked away today from helsinki with a win. vladimir putin is leaving helsinki with an undeserved legitimacy. the united states took a loss today when we backed away from our long-standing commitment to principled american leadership and, frankly, we walked away from basic reality. today the press asked the president of the united states who he believed on the subject of russian information operations in the u.s. in 2016. did he believe in the men and women in the is u.s. intelligence community or did he believe in vladimir putin, a member of the russian intelligence community? a thug turned russian despot. the choice here was between people who are risking their lives on behalf of our freedom and people who go around the world taking people's lives to limit freedom. the president of the united states, how did he answer? he answered, quote, that he didn

jobs for american workers. president trump will sign an executive order to establish the national council for the american worker and a separate advisory board. the counselor will work to develop a national strategy and bring together cabinet level leadership to build on the work already been died. the secretary has been working hard over the last 17 months to ensure that the skills align with those. secretary acosta is looking at increasing access to vocational education. secretaries mattis has shown tremendous leadership in the transition of military service members of the time the service comes to the close. director mulvaney has put forward an exciting and ambitious plan to merge the department of education and labor so we can holistically think about the role of education. and administrator mcmahon has been traveling around the country and listening. now for the first time in a long time now that these regulations have occurred there looking at skilled labor. in addition to the u.s. government counsel, and

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he was african-american, right? so by referring to him in this way, we want to give you some context. the sense was that his promotion might be kind of cheapened as somehow tokenism or might seem political. he's pointing out in the letter we've seen that in fact this man wouldn't be alive without this leader, va didson. he's been -- davidson. he's been with him a long time. he's afraid of how it will be seen. that tells us about the time, doesn't it? in the 1960s, how it was for an african-american to get a promotion. here's someone in vietnam, i don't know about his education, but i'm guessing he didn't necessarily have an undergrad degree or an advanced degree, never mind. yet he's attuned to political realities at home and what they mean. and it's back in vietnam that he understands this very clearly. so i thought that was really another piece of the war that the domestic side of it and how the people over there understand. they have to understand, right? what it looks like domestically. what the optics are of wh

are american heroes. you are doing an important, dangerous job. you are doing it for them. i want to promise you we will continue to work to make sure this agency has both the support, the respect, and the resources that you deserve to do the job that you have been called to do. the american people support you. because they know how important your mission is. but, as we all have seen in the press lately, the heroes of ice are being attacked and demonized for the work that you do at an unprecedented rate in recent weeks. ice has been targeted with protests across the country not only on the job but in the public square and on social media, and for many of you even your homes. hashtag "abolish ice" has taken its place. those in leadership have had their personal information familiesnd threats to have been made. clear, theery american people have every right to engage in peaceful protest, but these threats against ice officers and families must stop and they must stop now. the sad fact is it is not just the

these incredible american heroes will soon lay at rest on sacred american soil. even during the campaign, people would come up to me, a long time ago, many decades ago, oftentimes they were older, some cases they were younger, great-grandfather, my great-grandfather, my grandfather, my father, they asked if i could do something about it. i would look at them and say we don't get looping too well with that and they said whatever you can do. and it was something important to me. i've asked the vice president and others to just pay a special tribute. they will do that. we honor the sacred memory of every incredible american patriot who fought and died in that war. in everything we do, in every action we take, we are fighting for loyal, hard-working patriotic citizens of our blessed nation. we're making our country great again. we're respected again all over the world. our military will soon be stronger than it's ever been by far. that in itself will produce thousands and thousands of jobs. nobody makes equipment like we do. nobody. whether it's planes or missiles or

time and again, judge kavanaugh has sided with the wealthy instead of the ordinary americans. he has sided with electric power utilities and chemical companies over protecting clean-air and fighting climate change. he argued that the consumer financial financial protection bureau which has save consumers billions of dollars from the greed and illegal behavior of wall street and financial institutions, he argued that bureau was unconstitutional. because it structured not giving up power to the president. he has argued against net neutrality, he dissented in an osha case, arguing that see world should not be fined for the deaths of one of the whale trainers because the trainer should have accepted the risk of death as a routine part of the job. mr. president, well nobody can predict the future, we can take a hard look at judge kavanaugh's record and extrapolate from his decisions what kind of supreme court justice he will be. i think the evidence is overwhelming, he will be part of the 5 - for majority which has had decision after decision against the needs of working people, ag

eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, we take you to 1988. when president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gloorbach delivered new year's day missiles. president reagan addressed the soviet people from the white house, and general secretary gorbachev addressed the american people from the kremlin. this is about ten minutes. >> good evening. this is ronald reagan, president of the united states. i'm speaking to you, the peoples of the soviet union, on the occasion of the new year. i know that in the soviet union, as it is all around the world, this is a season of hope and expectation, a time for family to gather, a time for prayer, a time to think about peace. that's true in america, too. at this time of year, americans travel across the country in their cars, by train or by airplane, to be together with their families. many americans, of course, came to the united states from other countries, and at this time of year, they look forward to hosting friends and family from their homelands. most of us celebrate christmas or hanukah, and as

the american people cannot afford either. every american cares about women's health, about protections for people with pre-existing conditions, about civil rights, labor rights, lgbtq rates, environmental rights. now is the time to fight. now is the time for american people to make their voices heard loudly, clearly from one end of this country to the othe other. now is the time to demand a justice who are protect our healthcare, not strike it down. : : >> to fight for the freedoms and rights that all americans deserve. that is what is at stake with this supreme court nomination. we knew that a president trump picked his nominee from the list of 25 that was written by special interest federal society and heritage foundation, the nominee would be prepared to overturn roe into strike down the healthcare law. those two organizations are dedicated to getting rid of row and the affordable care act. leonard leo who runs the federalist society, his goal in life is to get of supreme court to repeal role. does anyone think any of thes

talk to theg to american people. doetimes people say, what the american people care about who is on the court? thes the court that makes decisions and has made the decisions in the last few decades about how you can marry, where you can work, if you can and about if his workplace was saved. i would not be here without those rulings. that is what this is about. when you look at this nominee, who has notone upheld those rights. so many times. you look at his rulings on health care my colleagues have discussed. you look at his rulings on reproductive rights. you look at his rulings on consumer issues. those people that thought it was wrong when wall street ran out -- ran over all of us, this if the consumer financial protection bureau was set up to protect you, that was unconstitutional. for people out there that want to have net neutrality, they think regular people should have the same access to the internet is wealthy people or big corporations coming he said the opposite. he dissented. he said that is not true. they

is what american democracy is supposed to be about. what most people think is majority should rule. sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. but everybody gets a vote, not a situation in which billionaires can spend unlimited sums of money to support candidates who represent their interests. but that is in fact what goes on right now. and many americans may think, well, that was a decision made by congress, made by the president. not so. that disastrous decision, which is undermining american democracy, came about by a 5-4 vote of the united states supreme court in the citizens united case. that is what a supreme court decision can do. it can undermine american democracy and create a situation where the very wealthiest people in this country can buy politicians and influence legislation. mr. president, several years ago the supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the affordable care act, but the court also ruled that the medicaid expansion, as part of the affordable care act, had to be optional for states. i'm on the health, educat

today was aer f terrible day for the american brand, the american people and all of our allies. we do not negotiate from a position of strength. we acted from apo position of weakness. as a result vladimir putin walked away with a win.y he's walking away with an undeserved legitimacy. we tookd a loss today when we backed away from our standing commitment to principles, american leadership and basic reality. today the press asked the president of the united states who he believed on the subject of russian information operation in the u.s. in 2016. the men andvehe in women of the u.s. intelligence agency or vladimir putin, a member of theur russian intelligence community. a thug, turned russian desperate.ho the choice was between peopled who are risking their lives on behalf of our freedom and people who go around the world. taking people's lives to limit freedom. the president of the united states, how did he answer? he answered he didn't see any reason why element would have interfered in the election. makele no mistake he has a reason. the reason is clearch g to all those who h

mihiel was a major success for the americans. they overtook all of their objectives on the first today. it had the germans on the run. as you pointed out, the battle continued for another four days as more of a cleanup. guillaume: it was around 15,000 prisoners captured. the germans were surrounded in their own pocket of the landscape. they were heavy trenches. there are still very deep ones that were there that were made. mitchell: where did the germans fall back to? guillaume: they had to fortify the line called the mihiel line. it was 45 miles away from the frontline. it was all most until the end of the war because the frontline stabilized september 16, and the major movement for the americans would be to move there. mitchell: by the 13th, the second day of the battle, it was mostly in american hands. guillaume: you can see how the germans are surrounded. it is great to see the landscape 100 years ago. mitchell: right, it does not look much different today. guillaume: exactly. the enemy can see you from the distance here. mit

too many americans are still struggling. in 2016, 12.3% of american households were food insecure. the supplemental nutrition assistance program or snap provides crucial assistance to tens of millions of americans. almost half of whom are children. and over 80% of snap households are living at or below the poverty line. further more, it's important to acknowledge that the snap program is responsible for many long-term benefits. studies have shown that access to snap by pregnant women leads to healthier babies and girls who had access to snap as children were 18% more likely to graduate from high school. that's why i'm continually frustrated that majority blames our budget deficit on low income families, seniors and victims of hunger. especially when the cbo has estimated that the republican tax bill will explode the deficit by 1.9 trillion dollars over ten years. that's why i'm offering an amendment that rejects this resolution's deep cuts to snap. 157 billion dollars over ten years. whether it's the trump administration's budget, the farm bill, or this committee's budget, it's obv

is what american democracy is supposed to be about. what most people think is majority should rule, sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, but everybody getss a vote, not a situation in which billionaires can spend unlimited sums of money to support candidates who represent their interest. but that is, in fact, what goes on right now. and many americans may think, well, that was a decision made by congress, made by the president. not so. that disastrous decision, which is undermining american democracy, came about by a 5-4 vote of the united states supreme court in the citizens united case. that is what a supreme court decision can do. it can undermine american democracy and create a situation where the very wealthiest people in this country can buy politicians and influence legislation. mr. president, several years ago the supreme court upheld the constitutionality of the affordable care act, but the court also ruled that the medicaid expansion, as part of the affordable carear act, had o be optional or safe. i'm on the health educati

officials from the american prosecution with regard to that charge do you think the american side is like. to take up on that all for a because i'm sure try to trump actually said that it was a good idea but do you think the bureaucracy is likely to welcome something like that well i'm sure the bureaucracy won't welcome it and i think from an american point of view the temptation is to say well we'll go investigate your. folks but you cannot come here and investigate ours so i suspect it'll bogged down over reciprocity with whether in fact. such an investigation would likely produce anything i'm i'm not so sure i think that from what i can gather i've seen the indictment but i haven't seen it in the material that underpins it but i have talked to some of the people who are involved in the process and i think they have evidence that's pretty conclusive you know so if you had a tape of a phone conversation between a and b. who say we have got that the e-mails from the d.n.c. headquarters and we are proposing to release them on this schedule and then somebody else says no don't use that

misinforming the american people. guest: one of the wonderful things about the internet is you can look up documents. i mentioned thomas jefferson wrote the letter to in relief. he wrote it may 1825. saying this was the object of the declaration of independence. not to really say things which had never been said before but to place the common sense of the subjects so plain and firm as a commander of sense. it was intended to be an expression of the american mind. all itsthat expression authority rests on the sentiments of the day, whether expressed in conversations or the elementary books of public rights. thomas jefferson talked about cicero being the person who inspired the declaration. argued cicero is perhaps the most influential classical fingal on the founders. they read it in latin. back -- multiple gods. he was assassinated. he was murdered before the birth of christ. christ had not been born. he was a roman senator. if you've read his writings were they are available online, the treatise on the commonwealth t

americans need certainty. this is an industry that needs certainty if we're going to be able to invest in new innovations, new inventions to keep patients at the forefront of life-saving and life-improving technology to making sure health care is the model of the rest of the world. with that, mr. speaker, i want to yield three minutes to the gentlelady from utah, mrs. love, who has been a strong voice for innovation, not only in her state, but within our conference here in the house of representatives in repealing the device tax. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from utah is recognized for three minutes. mrs. love: thank you, mr. speaker. this is about medical tech noling industry and a manufacturing -- technology industry and a manufacturing success story. one of the last manufacturing enterprises in the united states. while the u.s. is the current worldwide leader in medical technology inowe -- innovation, that leadership is being threatened. i'm speaking to you today about medical device tax. this in

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what makes your proud american, send us your picture using hashtag proud american and show them throughout that. >> what it means to be an american this independence day by paying tribute our nation's heroes. rob: marking the day with resistance and protests. garrett tenney has more. >> reporter: we are so blessed to live in the greatest nation on earth and last night in west virginia the president emphasized we are able to celebrate our freedom because of the sacrifice, who fought for and continue to defend us. a salute to service in the president offered the sweat, blood and sacrifice, and immigration and customs enforcement agency slammed democrats calling for the limitation of ice. he called on the country to come together as one. >> let us pledge to expand the blessings of liberty, prosperity and justice to all of our citizens and remember we are one people and one nation saluting one great american flag. >> reporter: after that and the president tweeted tomorrow families across the nation will focus on 4 july. we will think of the people and women serving overseas at this very moment

it's too important to get the full story out in front of the american senate and the american people. where are the notes from that meeting, the contemporary notes? what did the president agree to? was secretary pompeo briefed afterwards? did he write anything down? -- contemporary contemporaneous notes should be turned over to congress immediately. i'm calling on leader mcconnell and his leadership team to immediately request a hearing with the people i mentioned -- pompeo, coats, huntsman, and the rest of the national security team. and i'm calling on leader mcconnell to join us in demanding the contemporaneous notes that were taken. friendsr republican must and the attacks on the department of justice, . do we want to pass legislation? , the most important legislation that we can pass is the bipartisan bill to protect the special counsel that senator cowans, tillis, and graham author along with senators lighthouse and blumenthal and that passed the judiciary committee. put it on the floor immediately -- immediately. if you mean what you say, leader mcconnell, if you are going to wa

prominent lawyers with ties to the american cause who had successfully represented an american in the months leading up to alan's rival in habeas proceedings, they had taking on his case. the administration knew this. they knew the lawyers would invoke the english habeas corpus act. because allen as an american was considered a traitor and subject of the crown, he could claim the protection of the english habeas corpus act and demand his release if he wasn't tried. trying him would raise a number of complicated issues. because there were people in england to sympathetic to the american cause. rather than have to deal with that legal framework, there's a solution to put him back on the ship and send him back to the americas where the english habeas corpus act didn't apply. they can be held as the equivalent as prisoner of war. as the war unfolded, more and more american prisoners are brought to english shores and that solution can't be the way that they handle it going forward any longer. what does parliament do? they take a history lesson and they pass the suspension. lord north goes

american history tv in primetime starts at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> this august, on american history tv on c-span3, watch our nine-part series "1968: america in turmoil" where we'll look back to that tumultuous war. starting monday, august 6th, we'll discuss the vietnam war. on tuesday, august 7th, a look at the presidential campaign of that year. wednesday, august 8th, civil rights and race relations. on thursday, august 9th, a discussion about liberal politics. and friday, august 10th, conservative politics. on saturday, august 11th, women's rights. sunday, august 12th, we'll look at the media's role. on monday, august 13th, a discussion about the vietnam war at home. and on tuesday, august 14th, we'll close out the series, focusing on the cold war. watch "1968: america in turmoil" august 6th through august 14th at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >>> up next on american history tv, we take you to 1988 when president ronald reagan and soviet leader mikhail gorbachev delivered new year's day messages. the two had signed a treaty. president

when american media say agent they think secret agent. espionage agent you know something nefarious something involving behind the scenes something illegal something that is other than an agent this particular person was charged with basically being a lobbyist and asons without having registered with the department of justice could more indictments happen absolutely will the media american media clarify what that means absolutely not. hundreds of thousands of people packed on to the seans it is a in paris to give a hero's welcome to the victorious world cup squad the winners were taken to the presidential residence where they were greeted by emanuel mccrum. of the were of the total. they seized the moment i was thinking. of the way i can see guys who hate seeing descending on anything street right right i saw was a lease a car i was going to see who are real was fake rephrase that in jets flying over when the car lies on the french try to check the our lives these winners of the world cup he has an a.t.m. come down the street people been

only the president calls the reporters the enemy of the american people as an american citizen that i just personally think spaciousness incredibly depressing moment in our time in our history and also this hour the strong squad gets a hair rose welcome in paris after their four two triumph over croatia and the football world cup by. a very warm welcome you're watching r t international with me. now our top story this hour the meeting all of the year as some are already calling the first trump putin summit is now over both leaders have said they made a positive steps and real progress well we can now cross live to try and r.t. america's. your company the russian president tell us about your experience. hello there once again well right now i'm standing just outside the. a modest looking presidential palace in helsinki it's right there that's where everything happened more than two hours of head to head discussions between donald trump and vladimir putin where nobody except for the translators were president then that was followed by lunch where the leaders were also accompanied by som

i think american officials would say that. it's one thing to gather information, it's another to deploy it and weaponi izize it was done here. rod rosenstein said it's a matter of speculation in terms of what the russians wanted to do with the election. i take issue with that, the u.s. intelligence community has said definitively their intent was to hurt hillary clinton and help donald trump. >> pete williams, our colleague reporting again from the news conference. pete, there are no americans named in this. that's the other piece of it. we've all been waiting to see whether robert mueller can connect the russian hacking to any american operatives helping them to weaponize it. the russian e-mails, the hacks from the dnc, are really targeted. i can this of a number of instances where i would be traveling with the campaign, covering hillary clinton, and a particular e-mail by one of the millions that were taken from ten years, for instance, of john podesta's e-mails, would be put out there at a particular moment in the campaign

americans should not be complacent. the vast majority of americans want to see it r in place. but there is ans act gave now personified by judge kavanaugh's elevation from a potential elevation, hope it doesn't happen to the bench. we have to be vigilant. vice president and remarks that he wants low overturned with a reminder that the president and vice president have explicitly promised to appoint curt constitutionalists to the supreme court who would quote, confine roe v. wade to history. those are the words of the vice president. justice kavanaugh -- judge kavanaugh has written about about environmental protection, consumer protections, common sense gun safety laws, all of which should be carefully examined by the senate and the people before we had any hearings. his history as a republican partisan lawyer during the clinton and bush eras, documents, e-mails, writings need to be thoroughly examined, particularly his more recent writings about his decade of authority. judge kavanaugh argued a president should not be subject to an investigation while in office. that a preside