washington helps decide what buildings would go in it to washington, washington washington pet project traded his near obsession. washington gets the frenchman l'enfant which was a great selection. l'enfant with classically educated and most importantly he shared washington's vision of a romanesque grand capitol full of public squares filled with monuments. he did not like jefferson's vision of a small federal town. l'enfant does washington's bidding and brilliantly designed the capitol. unfortunately l'enfant would answer to no one but washington and it turns out to be more difficult than it was worth. some accounts suggest he was fired another said he quit. they both have at the same time so the answer is c all of the above. next slide. his image of l'enfant's capital city which you will recognize today. right there running diagonal and horizontal next to the potomac river near the b and potomac is the national mall that we all recognize today but you can see the great squares and grand boulevards that intersect named for the states and so forth and so on per l'enfant partly inspired

george and martha washington. they fled back to mount vernon and the pals and actually they pleaded with the palace to come join them not for it and which i think you told me is there's no other account with them asking anyone else to join them. correct? yes. yes, correct. yeah. so if you want to elaborate a little bit more on here. yeah, yeah, so so as kayla said that yellow fever kind of exploded in philadelphia not not dissimilar to what we are going dealing with today, but the the powells, of course they were affected as many families were samuel powell. actually. he died of the yellow fever and the washingtons did invite the pals with them to flee back to mount vernon. there is a very sad sad letter from elizabeth to george and martha that it's sad when you when you think ahead about what happens two weeks later, it's her turning down their their invitation to come to mount vernon. she says that samuel thought that it would be better to stay although for her own happiness. he wanted her to make her own decisi

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washington. so, our story begins after french union war and the start of the american revolution. so, who wants to give me the standard answer? would cause the american revolution? taxes! tack >> taxation without representation. >> no taxation without representation. or if you're like taxation without representation, perfect! >> from there. from taxes, it's also more than that. it's about rates, it's about being treated as a full subject, a full british subject. and ultimately, it evolves into violence. and this starts after the tea party. there is the boston portman land a number of intolerable acts that are going to shut down local government. it's going to bring in martial law into barr stunned massachusetts and the british actually start thomas gauge, who's met general, he got -- a leading to increased tension. and this is ultimately bill to the potential chance to seize gunpowder at the time. maybe even a rest sons of any revolutionary figures like samuel adams or john hancock. and what resu

now washington is actually the officer in the blue and red at the canon pointing his sword washington became very famous in this battle because while the british general general edward bradig dies here washington is credited with saving what's left of the british and american forces there and getting them back into virginia safely from the forks of the ohio near presenting pittsburgh. what washington learned from his time during the seven years' war was that the british model was the right model that the british model was a successful way to command armies and discipline soldiers. now fast forward to 1775 after april of 1775 boston is surrounded by a new england army all of the soldiers that surround boston during this period of time come from, massachusetts, connecticut, new hampshire, rhode island. it's not until later in the year that soldiers show up from pennsylvania and a few from virginia. and during this period of time they seem to be doing. all right, they kept the british bottled up in boston though this painting here obviously famous painting shows the tragedy of the death

that george washington was born on february 22nd 1732 to augustine and mary, washington. george washington's youth is the stuff of legends. most notably in the folktale popularized by parson mason weems about young george's chopping down of a cherry tree and his subsequent statement. i cannot tell a lie when confronted by his father. george's head apparently matured well before the rest of his body. as a youth he worked as a surveyor for the fairfax family and later was the official surveyor for culpeper county. from 1749 to 1752 washington completed close to 200 surveys on numerous properties totally more than 60,000 acres. during the french and indian war he served as an emissary for the governor of virginia and later in combat during british general edward braddocks ill-fated expedition. washington also ran afoul of the fortunes of war when he was forced to surrender the desperately named fort necessity to the french the only military surrender that washington encountered it is entire career underarms. washington took an active leadership role in the growing conflict b

that is a very different washington, in my mind, and the washington who arrived in washington in july of 1775. >> just to add to that for william, the question about british leadership brings to mind andrew osha on a sees the man who lost america. it explores a similar take on the british military leadership. our good friend chuck downs observed that washington really new details about locations far outside of virginia. what did officers know about the geography of different colonies? what about military operations? >> i think -- had served in the seven years'war. that's the first thing that's important to recognize. that's why the hudson feature features so importantly today our thoughts. they fought up and down that river in the corridor between quebec and new york. they are very focused on, it because that's what they know. he is a private in the early part of the war, a sergeant. he kind of gets cheated out of it. he has been up and down that area. that's why he gets to become the chief engineer, despite what he wants, at the beginning of the war and revolution. there is a lot of

guess that the file was found this is not the washington post being a boy scout, this is the washington post probably somebody of the goods on them and had to come out of head and satan honest mistake don't worry about us. what this shows the two impeachment of donald trump or fraud the first impeachment was a russia investigation in ukraine now we now know that handwritten notes and the testimony and the senior people in the intelligence community and the justice department they made it all up it was a total fraud now with the washington post we know the second impeachment was based in large part of trump pressuring the governor of georgia to swing the election in his favor and we know that was a total fraud too. when donald trump says fake news, fake news, there's increasingly a lot of evidence that it is fake news. elizabeth: we have to stay on the story. let's switch to this hbo real-time host warning washington democrats that you have to pay attention. china is becoming more dominant on themi world stage as democras are locked in culture wars like the political correctness like the

morris is a friend of washington's. there is a story that comes from that summer with morris and alexander hamilton, and basically there is a debt made that hamilton makes with morris. and washington is a very formal guy who doesn't like to shake hands and is the first to bow. he can be a bit on the aloof side, especially kind of public. hamilton says you will never do that. /ñ won't do that. so he does it and washington kind of gives him one of his glaring looks and i'm sure hamilton is in the corner laughing. anyway, morris is the one who will write that we the people of the united states in order to come up with the famous preamble we know. at the end of the day, you have this constitution. by september 15th, 1787, four pages. there is no bill of rights at that time. they kind of talked about alexander hamilton and said the whole thing is kind of a bill of rights. the government will only have the power, so others would say that's well and good, but we would like to see something like that there. there is this i don

a drag queen website in a book called anti-racist baby the washington post is ridiculed for offering parents so-called materials for toddlers. we have to make me instead of being like evil out there that is. producing books for 3 year olds talking about are my work baby each just absolute nonsense. do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stop a major russian energy project makes moscow one of its biggest oil partners. and thousands of migrants are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border that adding to reports of an unprecedented refugee crisis. live from moscow this is r.t. international as we take you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days 1st in the week we reported that there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets shuttered to bensky was one paris health center where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point t

guest: washington -- at washington, infrastructure week has long been seen as a joke. we have a new president. he will try from his perspective. he is going to propose programs to improve highways, bridges, water supply, rural broadband. it is the next big bite of the apple that president biden is taking. it is a genuine effort to improve infrastructure. in his press conference last week, he mentioned that she cited a statistic that the u.s. is 13th in infrastructure spending per capita. he compared us to china. there are many ways of measuring infrastructure spending. anybody who travels in this country and goes to an airport has experienced add water and knows the country needs an upgrade -- bad water and knows the country needs an upgrade. there are two things he will propose. one is the infrastructure, the physical infrastructure, plus broadband. coming up in april, social programs. childcare, health care, paid family leave. home care assistance for older adult. -- adults. all told, these two big programs together are going to cost between $3 trillion and $4 trilli

agree to any kind of demand from washington i don't think that agreeing to demands from washington has nothing to do with how the chinese treat the weavers in their own country or threaten tyrone with force or are flashes with very with the indians on there are on the road a lesson from that if it's go to war with china no of course not ok winnie go ahead jump in i see what it says what you're suggesting is number line that you that america wants trying to achieve just saying here what your rights for i i receive the team who are who are the injustices there are fans we will keep on board with us that he was out for i think that there's a bigger. this posse that we were talking about the fact that you're aligned with the current situation in india the poor fashions the how. they've been having territories she was rejected it's funny i had clashes going on for decades and they have is oh it's so nice for now regular people you know how they want to do it since we were in hock out. there in the fashion south or potentially current 53 who are going sure sure to call out what america is do

washington journal continued. host: with us next is amy walter , national editor of the cook political report. the peace we are talking about is titled "volatility is the new normal." it seems like this is something we all knew but this puts it into focus. it has been a volatile couple of decades, not just years. guest: we tend to think -- i'm of a certain age. i have been in washington now. it hurts a little bit to say how old i am but i have been in washington for almost 30 years. when i came to washington politics had been volatile but there was a certain level of stability. democrats had control of the house of representatives for 40 years, since the 1950's. uninterrupted control of the house. much of that time democrats at uninterrupted control of the senate. republicans would win the white house with a brief interpersonal by democrats. while you could see members come and go, the stability was something we got used two. after 1994, and really since the turn of the 21st century we have known nothing but volat

i spent 20 years at the washington post. i went all over the country for the washington post. it was a wonderful life education going to visit places and learn new things. and as i traveled around the country writing business stories, i began to realize how little i knew about the history of the working people of america. it's something that really isn't taught. in the late 1990s, i wrote a series of articles on sexual harassment. and i heard a lot of chilling stories about places where there had been an imbalance of power, where people were able to use their power to force people to do things they didn't want to do. there were people who were sort of trapped in a cycle of abuse and a lot of time, those stories were really very bad stories. it's really much more akin to criminal activity than most of us have realized. and i've heard all the stories overall of the coldest route, as i get to suffer myself, when my call secondary stress. and i got afraid to fly. i started to feel like authority figures could not be counted on to do the right thing if there were a problem. i suppo

washington at worst now washington is gone. hamilton can understand, once washington is gone, the great beginner of the country, somebody has to take over. at all these people do want to take over purred there pretty smart people, adams and jefferson and all. they need somebody like marshall. if it was not marshall it would have to be somebody else. >> as you said part of what you're doing in your book is explorations of american history. i did love the opening introduction you talk about your father drag you to all those different places when you were a kid. as a graduate of the university of virginia, i have to ask and have another question about humanities here in a second period would you mind telling the story about the time you're father basically browbeat. [inaudible] pull out jefferson's will? >> is a friend of mine it knew my father from, i couldn't believe he would do this. he was a man who was a lawyer and a medical judge for some time. but he was a big history buff. so in 1951, there's a civil war centennial, he det

do as i say not as i do washington tries to force you. your russian energy project to get makes moscow one of its biggest oil partners. and thousands of migrants are filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to the president refusing a crisis. live from moscow thanks for joining us on the weekly here in r.t. international this evening. welcome to the program. first in the weekly rundown we reported that there's been a sharp rise in french students for the turn for free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. he was at one paris help sounds where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to bite did once have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are being distributed to students

between james monroe and george, washington. here i would like to share some things about my life. that you might not know. but for eight and a half years. i was commander in chief. of the continental army and then the army of the united states of america eight and a half years. i was so glad to get back to my my beloved mount vernon and then they came and asked me to be president of the constitutional convention. 1787 for four months in very hot humid, philadelphia i chaired the constitutional convention. and on september the 27th of 1787 it was over. and now they come to mount vernon. and they say general you have been unanimously elected president of the united states all 69 electoral votes. we would like you to come to new york or the inauguration. that was in april 14th 1789 two days later. i left mount vernon. i wrote to henry knox my good friend. and i said i am like a culprit. heading for the place of execution. the last thing i want to do. is to leave my peaceful abode. and go into an ocean of difficulties. believe me i

president washington. president lincoln. president theodore roosevelt, president calvin coolidge, and president roosevelt, i have moments of sitting here is really true, thank you so, so much for being here today. i would like to go first of all welcome, president washington. it's a honor and a privilege to meet you. so the first question that i have for you is as the first president of our nation, i would like to ask you why did you decide to elect a president instead of naming a king? >> i said one king george is enough. and i frankly didn't even want to be president. the last thing that i ever wanted to be was king. it might interest you to know that before i was inaugurated, the senate passed a resolution that my title should be his highness george washington, president of the united states, and defender of its people. i finally put an end to that and said, it's mister president. >> as most of us are aware, the president takes the oath of office during his inauguration. so where did the first inauguration take place? >>

i'm not sure it ever made it to washington. the mammoth cheese that's in washington. the mastodon that was an inspiration for this frenzied use of the word mammoth, it ended up in philadelphia. his sons open up a museum in baltimore and it's there until the 1840s when they move it over to europe. they thought they had a buyer in france and the revolution of 1848 kicks in. it ends up in germany. i have a -- that's the picture i showed you earlier of the full mastodon skeleton there in germany in a museum in germany. now, the neat thing about the subject of my talk and everything else that's going in washington, the mastodon -- i have to swallow my words. the mastodon is here in washington. it was moved from germany for the first time in 170 years to the smithsonian where it was erected in the museum of american art for an exhibit on alexander von humboldt and the united states. and they thought that the skeleton represented the highest aspirations of american science and europe science meeting together. so they actually brought it here. it was supposed to open this mon

another capitol hill brewery was the washington brewery. we had six breweries in the city's history that which by the name of washington brewery. we do not have one right now. go figure. this with another large brewery that set -- shut down in 1917. it is today the site of stuart thompson middle school, a large two block facility. when you go by that school, you will see how big it is. that is how large this brewery was. no one was ever compensated for the fact that they lost their business. all of these business owners had to figure out what else to do with their property. meanwhile, they still had to pay property taxes. the 18th amendment here, for those of you who like to read the call -- the constitution, here is the first portion of it this was ratified january 16, 1919. it went into effect exactly one year later. it is seen as a wartime measure. it would onto the state and was ratified in only 13 months. that is incredible. this is largely because of world war i. everyone was thinking, it is our patriotic duty. we have got to have sob

the drug queen websites and a book called anti racist baby the washington post's ridiculed for offering parents so-called material. we have to make me instead of being naive like. books the 3. talking about. baby it's just absolute nonsense. i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stop a major russian energy project yet makes moscow one of its biggest partners. thousands of migrants a filmed in overcrowded camps on the u.s. southern border adding to reports of an unprecedented refugee crisis. live from moscow this is international taking you through some of the biggest stories we've covered here over the past 7 days 1st then the week that we reported the been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to for subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. as one paris help center where they can buy cheap. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point didn't have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financi

agree to any kind of demand from washington i don't think a degree into demands from washington is not anything to do with how the chinese treat the readers in their own country or threaten tyrone with force flashes with the with the indians on there are on their own a lesson from that if it's go to war with china no of course not ok winnie go ahead jump in i see what it says what you're suggesting is number line that you that america wants trying to achieve just saying here what your rights for i i receive who are who are the injustices there are fans we will keep on board with this that he was out for i think that there's a little bit there. this is hard to see that we were talking about the fact that the line to the current situation in india the poor fashions the how they've been having territories she was rejected it's funny i had clashes on and off for decades and they have is oh it's so nice for now who are the people you know how they want to view the situation where his heart goes out. there in the passions out or potentially contradictory to him who would have been sure sure

agree to any kind of demand from washington i don't think that agreeing to demands from washington is not anything to do with how the chinese treat the readers in their own country or threaten tyrone with force or have flashes with very with the indians are near or are on the road a lesson from that if it's go to war with china no of course not say ok winnie go ahead jump in i see what it says what you're suggesting is number one that you that america wants trying to achieve just saying here what your rights for i i receive who are who are the injustices there are fans we will keep on board with this that he was out for i think that there's a little bit there. this posse that we were talking about the fact that you're aligned with the current situation in india the border fashions the how. do you think having territory she's protected it's for me i had clashes on and off for decades and they have is oh it's so nice for now who are the people you know how they want to do it since we were in hock out. there in the passions out or potentially currency 300 there who are going sure sure to

southern border adding to reports that washington is facing an unprecedented refugee crisis this. do as i say not as i do washington tries to force europe to stop a major russian energy project it makes moscow one of its biggest oil traders. and their good morning live from artie's world news center this sunday morning welcome to the weekly look back at the top stories we brought you over the last 7 days with me kevin 0 in this hour than 1st the head of the french hospital federation warning of a quote unprecedented shock within weeks unless there's decisive action from the government there the country centered a 3rd wave of infections there are now more than 27000 patients in hospitals across the country has the highest figure this month the number in intensive care was approaching 5000 a record for the year the emergency doctors association told us the authorities response in their view had been woeful. hospitals across france are struggling facing a shortage of beds in the i.c.u. there's an influx of patients their numbers are growing at an unprecedented pace the problem result

ties which in a difficult state washington has in fact brought those to the data and in recent years we are interested in preventing they irreversible degrade ation if the americans realize the risks associated with that this will be discussed you're in consultations between the russian foreign ministry and other relevant departments and with the russian ambassador to washington commenting on the situation the u.s. state department said america will continue working with russia but that it will also hold moscow quote accountable my colleagues and your farmer and elliott to try and go talk through the developments. well this isn't a strong this is very serious this doesn't look just like an insult not just like a groundbreaking phrase because in the diplomatic sense really this could potentially be a catastrophe for u.s. russia relations but it's also very important to look at the actual wording to look at how joe biden said this in one context so it wasn't actually his own phrase it was a response to a question from a journalist so you know vladimir putin you think he's a killer. or

smith goes to washington of washington, but would that change things? would it help biden get through if the threshold is 60 in order to cut off debate? sahil: it's an excellent question, peter. there are ways you can structure a talking filibuster that can empower the majority. for instance, if you change the standard instead of 3/5 of those voting in present, if you force 41 senators to be near the chamber ready for a vote at any point, that creates a situation where a very determined majority outlast the majority by keeping enough members in the chamber. maybe if some of them decide to go home at 3:0 a.m. can push things through. the details matter. there are some senator who is wonder if a talking phil buster is realistic. they are in their 70's and 80's. are they going to want to stick it out through night and weekends over things like this? there are many questions that are being considered here and a talking fill buster is the one idea that seems to have support from senator manchin who kind of holds the keys to what democrats do next. he is not

what did washington, washington just want to stay out of all that, right? >> yes, he wanted to stay out of, which this is a famous theme of his farewell address is to say, stay out of intake of much with foreign countries. the famous alliance comes from a jefferson speech enough from the farewell address but that captures well enough what washington wanted to avoid. what he wanted wasn't head in the sand isolationism but rather i called and caged independence. that is to say, commercial ties, diplomatic ties lots of countries but no permanent alliances with other countries like with britain or france. more generally washington there's debates among historians about whether he was, in fact, above party, a president above party as he aspired to be an claim to be or whether he was, in fact, a partisan federalists in all but name. what i end up saying is for the first term at least for the first many years he was reasonably above party. by the end of the second term he drifted into the federalist camp. even he had succumbed to the partisanship he found so probl

southern border adding to reports that washington is facing an unprecedented refugee crisis. a drag queen site and a book called anti racist baby the washington post ridiculed for offering parents so-called woke materials for toddlers. we have to do something neat instead of being naïve like that happens while osmosis producing books for 3 year olds talking about. baby beach just absolute nonsense. and do as i do washington tries to force europe to stop a major russian energy project makes moscow one of its biggest oil traded. life marty's worldview center this sunday welcome to the program our look back at the top stories we brought you over the last 7 days and some more details we pick some out from this 1st there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to turn to free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets a lot of chatter this in the wake of dubinsky went to one paris help center where they can buy cheap meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point

you know, i think washington, what a, what a-- washington was probably helpfully naive about some things because as he was decrying partnership, you also have the architects of the constitution basically understanding human motivation and writing the federalist papers. and the checks and balances, the notion, the hamilton, madison and they understand the human tendencies. there were legitimate differences of opinions and how to be set off against each other to try to diffuse power and not let power grow into an authoritarian model on one side or the other, but washington was above that and maybe again, maybe a little pleasantly naive. i think what -- you know, there are things we can do that are formal in the senate to try to bring about more harmony and, in fact, as you know, the design in the senate does this which recently comes through this very challenging attack on the capitol on january 6th. remember this, in the house, more than a half of the republicans in the house voted to overturn electoral college results from pennsylvania and arizona. in the senate, eight out of 51 republic

-- lock down washington, runaway from washington? the senate is still there. it doesn't make sense. i don't understand it. why would somebody attack washington, when they know what they've got? they've got all of these wires and fences and national guard. why would you attack? it doesn't make sense to me. host: mary in boston, massachusetts. when it comes to information received by the capital police, it was the house appropriations subcommittee, the acting police chief was asked if the capitol police were prepared to respond appropriately. you can see the whole hearing on c-span, but here is a portion from yesterday. [video clip] >> i want to ensure everyone on this call that we are working with all of our law enforcement partners and the d.c. capital region to make sure that all of the intelligence we have and threats to the campus, we are prepared to respond appropriately. we do have some concerning intelligence that is law enforcement sensitive, and it wouldn't be prudent of me to share it in a public format, but i would love to

so george washington. general washington and then president washington spoke often of citizens throughout all of society being fully involved in the democratic process. now, many companies, microsoft included, have played incredibly powerful roles in creating new sectors of the economy, millions of jobs in an extraordinary wealth. brad, what is the national obligation, the kind of responsibility that an organization like microsoft has that comes with that kind of impact and success in society? >> well, first i just have to say that i can't help but think about how we ground ourselves in this topic by thinking back to george washington himself. because i think it was the first american leader to really have to come to terms and then ultimately embrace the rule of people that went beyond the government itself. when you read about the history of his experiences, you know, he started in 1775 with great skepticism about these militia that were raised in different communities, they weren't as disciplined. he did

agree to any kind of demand from washington i don't think that agreeing to demands from washington is not anything to do with how the chinese treat the weavers in their own country or threaten taiwan with force or are flashes with very with the indians on there are on their north a lesson from that if it's you know about go to war with china no of course not ok winnie go ahead jump in i see what it says what you're suggesting is number one that you that america wants trying to achieve just saying here what your rights for i i receive who are who are the injustices there are fans we will keep on board with this that he was out for i think that there's a little bit there. this is hard to see that when we're talking about the fact that you're aligned with the current situation in india the who or conscience the how. even having territory she's protected it's for me i had clashes on and off for decades and they have is oh it's so nice for now regular people you know how they want to do it since we were his cock out. there in the passions that are essentially current 53 who are the insurer

she was in washington quite a while before her husband became president. she had made good contacts there and she didn't mind letting people know that she had opinions and she was going to state them mary lincoln of course was in the white house at a tragic time the civil war she had families fighting on one side her husband presiding over the other side. it was very very difficult for her, but she she came to washington. i'll show them. you know, she spent a lot on clothes. she really thought that she could be a social figure it didn't turn out so well, but we we certainly know about her and of course julia grant also comes from a family area to her husband's family and had a certain confidence even though people. sometimes criticized or looks she didn't care. she it was a confidence and of course the grant had a very attractive family so people latched on to their kids, you know, they wanted to know what they were doing and how they were doing. so those three first ladies do stand out as exceptions. in the 20th century, there was the development of the o

vernon from the washington family. but during the war union troops decided that they wanted that money for themselves. of course, sarah tracy refused and decided that she was going to move this money out of burke and herbert banks into riggs bank in washington, d.c. she had to do this very covertly. she took the money out of the bank and put the money in the bottom of the basket and put eggs on the top of the basket. she went into washington, d.c. she met with mr. riggs where she sold these eggs to riggs and made sure the transaction was legitimate because she received a receipt for the sale of these eggs. thanks to sarah tracy and the movement of this money, we are still able to visit and enjoy mt. vernon today. not only were women nurses and entrepreneurs and having jobs and selling items, but women were also soldiers during the war. however, they had to do this in a disguise. it was entirely frowned upon for women to join the war as soldiers, so that's why they had to dress up in men's uniforms. so, women would dres

are let's take a story out of washington d.c. epidemiologists in health economists eric fi goading joins me now eric it's good to see you again i'd like for us to start by listening to how the german chancellor described the pandemic in germany last night take a listen in that interview with the theft of even the hint fundamentally we face a new virus of the same kind of but with very different characteristics more deadly more infectious and infectious for longer. and this means that we have to deal with an immense that we didn't know about at christmas this via no means with. eric the chancellor calls this a new pandemic now the situation we all agree is serious but new pandemic isn't that term is it bordering on scaremongering i mean is that what we need to be saying to the public right now. i don't think it's scaremongering i think it's a reality that the old old 1.0 most common strain has basically almost disappeared it's almost entirely gone from you came disappearing quickly from mainland europe but now the 117th u.k. varia

bryan fogle whose new bafta nominated film the dissident provides new evidence about the murder of washington post journalist jamal khashoggi joins me now from california brian thanks so much for coming on just tell me why you decided to tackle the subject of the killing of the washington post journalist after your oscar winning filmmaker as you know i think is as much of the world was in the in the couple weeks following the murder show you on october 28th. i was i was shocked i was appalled i was i was horrified i mean the idea that. a journalist a washington post churned almost kovach into the consulate of his own country to be brutally murdered and dismembered. for literally doing nothing more than criticizing his own government. for wanting to speak truth to power. and and having already won into self exile in order to do that. and walking into his consulate where he was seeking marriage papers. to marry the woman that he loved. as i read this story and got deeper into. the undercurrents of it and learned more about who jamal was i became in passion to want to shed light on to this story

as those of you who live in washington know, there's very few washington named after women. i noticed it and i filed it away and wondered who was francis perkins? i had never even heard of her. as we around this day, we got around by the washington monument and the tour bus driver said in his -- along with his regular patter, what american woman had the worst childbirth experience? francis perkins. she spent 12 years in labor. [ laughter ] that's the first time i ever remember hearing francis perkins' name spoken aloud. i laughed by the rest of you, but it also kind of irritated. and after that, i kept her name in my mind and i kept listening for her. i spent 20 years at "the washington post" and over the years i realized how often i heard her name. often like a distant whisper. when we talked about social security, francis perkins, when we talked about age discrimination, francis perkins, when we talked about the fair labor standards act and making revisions to it, we talked about francis perkins. when we talked about the labor movement, we were talking about francis perkin

the washington post ridiculed for parents of so-called. toddlers. we have to do something for me instead of being naive. talking about. baby each just. as i say not as i do trying to force europe to stop a major russian energy project makes moscow one of its biggest partners. and thousands of migrants a film that overcrowded camps on the u.s. . president to refugee crisis. live from moscow with me. today welcome to the program. first up this week we reported there's been a sharp rise in french students forced to tons of free or subsidized food from support groups restaurants and supermarkets. was one paris health center where they can buy cheaper meals. every day this canteen is packed with students all coming in here to pick up a hot meal as the covert crisis continues to point to groups have been hit hard by the pandemic many are now without work and the means to support themselves demand for financial help from a public service the student life which also runs services like this canteen has increased sharply every week around 40000 meals are bein

i need reinforcement in washington, d.c. my opponents and adversaries on the other are brutal and vicious and trying to take away all of our right and they are playing for keeps. my friends, it is time for us to stand up and no longer say we are just going to react with the democrats to and when they tried to do all these major spending bills and spent $1.9 billion, the conservative idea is we will just give you our own version of the liberal ideas that cost a little less. that's not where we are as conservative. i'm not going to come up here and promise you free three -- free things. as conservatives in government, we believe we will offer you some that is immeasurably more valuable and that is your freedom. the freedom to sit down. we have that freedom right now. it is time for us to no longer sit -- whether it's free education are the environment or gun rights, this new generation, we want to run the whole table. because my friend, what we are offering the american people's liberty and choice where you can go out and do w

and she started an orphanage in washington. she was always into charitable work. her husband, there had been a lot of talk about his flirtations and maybe his affairs and there's some evidence of that but it's clear that he loved her dearly. though he was a very, very healthy man, he died two years after ellen died. at the last moments of his life as he was unconscious, his children brought in a catholic priest and had him have the last rites said over him as his mother would have want. the grants, you probably know more about them than any -- of course, he did go on to become president. he gave up his military pension when he became president. he was president two terms. julia loved being the first lady. there's nobody who loved being first lady than julia did. and then after his second term, they went on a two-year tour of europe and in her memoirs, those two years of touring europe take up more space than any other part of her life with all of the things that she bought and all of the things that she ate. she loved it. but t

reported on the washington post story back then ran a retraction a.b.c. and p.p.s. interesting lean up according to other media research center as of last night did not acknowledge any false reporting which they also did because. we reported on that washington post story but the thing here scotty is there were attraction never gets the notice i mean people are going to say oh i look at this i mean all we heard was you know trump could be implicated in it criminally in this but what he's doing he's ordering people to fix the election and of course now they say oh we screwed up but that's not how it happened by and no what is good to know is like when a front page story runs you know somebody did something to somebody and then they run a little box later i know we made a mistake nobody sees it nobody cares the impression stays and this is the same thing as previous stories the whole russia gate nonsense was based on anonymous sources and was wrong the glad extortive that you refer to in the previous segment in september the atlantic quoting an anonymous source said tr

shortly after dawn, on february 23rd, 1861, lincoln's car is pulled into washington. everyone is surprised that he arrived in this unseemly fashion. the mood is so tense. mr. lincoln, mr. lincoln, is that you? >> he belts him in the chest thinking that he poses a threat and lincoln says oh no, this is my friend. >> the next day, mrs. lincoln was told her husband was taken to baltimore. and she was upset. threats to her husband were something that mary lincoln took seriously and to be forced to separate from this family. she flies into a rage and screaming oh, i have to be with him. they finally take her in a room and shut the door and lock it. >> once they calm her down, mary lincoln and the boys all take the scheduled train. >> actually she experienced some turmoil in baltimore because of the mob that was going to h harassing her husband was harassing her and the car they were in were rocked and insults. >> the presidential special arrives in washington on time. mary and the boys reunited with lincoln. >> now that she knew her husband was safe and sound, mary immedia

"washington journal" continues. host: this is henry olson, the senior fellow at the public policy center and washington post columnist. we called you to talk about the future of the republican party post trump. where does it stand? guest: it could be poised for a breakdown. it remains divided over the legacy of president trump and that can turn into something that could break party into if it becomes bitter and acrimonious, but it could be something that strengthens the party if it brings both sides together. it is too early to say. host: we heard the former president talking at cpac in reference to being a uniter. guest: if president trump were willing to say i'm not going to run in 2024 but i am going to dedicate myself to build party around my legacy, that is not what he said. he said he is going to run and called out every person in the senate who called for impeachment and said they should be targeted. the idea that president trump will be a uniter is something that should be confined to fantasyland, although m

in washington d.c., it was the same thing. everyone was arrested and charged with felony rioting and released with no charges and in portland as you just mentioned where police were attacked with molotov cocktails and bricks and federal courthouse was under assault for months, um, rioters there, 90% of them had their charges dropped. and by contrast, you have the people arrested over the capitol riot, most of them are still in jail two months later. they have been transported to a jail in washington d.c. from all over the country far from friends and family. they're i not allowed -- they've been refused bail or bond. they are languishing there under extreme circumstances. even people who just turned up at the trump rally and never went near the capitol are being raided by federal agents at the moment, and, um, that puts the fears of god into them and maks their neighbors suspect them. what we're seeing is really a two-tiered justice system is being created by the democrats to punish their political enemies. >> with the complic