people come to washington. they ran against washington as this swamp. they say i'm going to drain the swamp. then they settle into the place like a warm bath. it's a very moneyed and very easy and very comfortable place. frankly i mean i tried to illustrate this carnival it has always become >> reporter: the idea that there was a pay-off to public service is cancerous in terms of government. >> you would think. i mean this is supposedly a city built on public service. i mean, yes, it's hollywood for ugly people it is said. that's the cliche. but in fact hollywood is fantasy, right? i mean there's big money there and egos there. washington is for keeps. i mean washington is paid for by the american people. washington is supposedly, you know, a land of a higher or a city of a higher calling. that's just been totally tipped on its head >> john: this idea that you mentioned in here of it's fine for politicians to leave washington and fine for people to run for president and say washington needs changing. washington will not hold that against you because the

it relates to george washington. in may of 1775, george washington puts on his military uniform and decides to go to the second continental congress. he's the only one that is going to be wearing a military uniform making a statement. he thinks the war has already begun. and it has we know in retrospect lexington and concord have happened in april. bunker is keen to happen in june which is one of the bloodiest battles on the war. but notice this. i know that chronology is the last refuge of the people minded. but it is the only refuge for historic. notice this, it is under reported, it is under discussed in history texts. the war starts 15 months before independence is declared. it's going to cause -- it's going to shape things in this explanation i'm going to offer you. anyway, washington is getting ready to leave mount vernon, and he says to his -- what is that? [inaudible] flood warning. okay, great. [laughter] biblical here. [laughter] somebody gave me that line. yes, thank you, sir. washington said to his manage

is in washington until american policy toward russia changes things will not get better they will not and american policy toward russia has not changed on one fundamental issue washington believes in what it calls selective cooperation and that means russia should make concessions and that washington does not have to make concessions in return into that policy changes nothing else will change about that i am absolutely sure but does it mean that they don't want better relationship with russia they don't simply care and enough to a million rate their relationship with russia things are good as they are we i don't mean way because it's not me but the american political policy media establishment. wants a good relationship with russia of course but it once that on america's own terms and it's very clear what that means because it's meant the same thing since the in the soviet union russia should be a junior and subservient partner to american interests what ever is in american interest russia should help promote it so if america decides to expand nato to russia's borders russia should ac

washington. >> thank you to the chamber of commerce, the team at "the atlantic, grover norquist, mayor rahm emanuel, thank you very much. good to see you. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> next our first lady series the role of the first lady. and they'd are look at the conservative movement with the ns foundation president. >> next, a discussion on the changes in the role of first lady from martha washington to michelle obama. with an introduction by sally mcdonough. this is under two hours. x hi, everyone. it is so good to be back at mount vernon. i have such fond memories of being here and most importantly learning here and it is so great to see the teachers. i cannot imagine coming from a position that i had of being mrs. bush's press secretary. thank you for all you do from someone who went across this country visiting also to schools and all kinds of conditions. when i was preparing for today's lect

in washington. charlene lamb is on duty at the state department. >> he also alerted the quick reaction security team stationed nearby. the libyan's 17th brigade, the embassy in tripoli and the diplomatic security command center in washington. >> the armed attackers enter the main gate. without warning or resistance from the february 17th martyrs brigade. in tripoli, a diplomatic security officer runs into hicks' villa yelling. >> greg, greg, the consulate is under attack. >> he calls stevens who is hiding with shawn smith in the safe haven. >> we said greg, we're under attack and the line cut. >> the attackers set the main residence ablaze and the safe haven fills with thick, dark smoke. more than a mile away, at the cia annex, the former navy s.e.a.l. tyrone woods get their weapon ready. >> they were mobilizing a response team there to go to our facility and provide reinforcements to repel the attacks. >> 9:59 p.m. as an unarmed surveillance drone heads toward the compound, hicks places a call to w

a little george washington. first today's trivia question, who is the only sitting member of congress born in the united kingdom? first person to tweet the answer gets a shout out today. answer coming up on "the daily rundown." look at this. i see the wheels turning over here. . >>> you want to feel a little patriotic, here we go. appropriate enough with baby news, today we're taking a deep dive into america's first president, george washington who decidedly avoided creating a monarchy in the newly form united states. guess what, he's finally getting his own presidential library. relatively speaking presidential libraries are a fairly recent development created by an act of congress during franklin roosevelt's teen you're, the 13 official libraries administered under national archive system and funded by a mix of public and private donations. the first opened in 1940 for president roosevelt, still president at the time. the newest opened this summer for president bush, in texas. all the presidential library syst

i see them in washington. i say, "it's time for you to come home." >> you have written several books. the latest is across that bridge: life lessons and a vision for change. your book begins with a chapter on faith. many of the great civil rights leaders, including yourself, were men and women of faith, but today religion is very politicized. can you talk about that? >> faith is this belief, this sense that somehow and someway we will overcome. it's belief that, in spite of all the odds, setbacks, delays, interruption, that we will make it, that we will arrive at a place where we recognize and respect the dignity and the worth of every human being. it's in keeping with the philosophy and the discipline of nonviolence to believe that we will and we shall overcome, that we will not get lost in a sea of despair, that we will not become bitter or hostile, but with our faith, we know that victory is there. it may take longer. it may be difficult. but you come to that point where there's no turning back. without tha

then run by washington as a nephew. -- washington's nephew. and then it is run by his niece. i think that tells you about the closeness of the family relationship. it is clear that what they are at mount vernon with martha washington, she does take charge. her interaction with the slaves, she is interacting with the cooks in the kitchen, the maids serving in the house. there are also slave women who are spinning on a continual basis to produce yarn. she supervises what the gardners are doing. martha was a great lover of gardens and having flowers. she liked having a kitchen where she could go out and bring in vegetables for what they were going to serve at mount vernon. she was the one planning the menus. there were a lot of levels that she is working with. her wholeg operation life. we refer to and show off in the mansion as the theington's bedchamber is room in the south wing of the mansion that was started in 1775 right before george washington left to participate in the continental congress and the revolutionary war. george washington always referred to it as open quote m

in washington i'm going to check out. let's take a quick look at some other international news this hour egypt's military has given the muslim brotherhood until saturday to join the interim government's reconciliation plan and to stop inciting violence the proposal is for fresh elections in the new year and a written constitution meanwhile egypt's pricing for mass rallies of the supporters of be amnestied president morsi and those backing the temporary army leadership military chiefs have to immediately suppress any violence. one of the drivers of the spanish train which hurtled off the tracks at high speed has been taken into custody. horrifying footage shows the train entering what's thought to be at one hundred ninety kilometers an hour more than twice as fast as it should have been traveling at least eighty people died in what is spain's worst rail disaster for more than forty years. closing arguments in the bradley manning trial prosecutors accuse the army privates of vaccine with evil intent and self interest mannin

similarly, washington had no money. congress passed a budget, but had not appropriated any money, and no funds were due to come in until springtime. meanwhile, the president had to run the office, show sent hamilton, the secretary of treasury, to the local banks to borrow money, and he spent it without the authorization of congress. as a result of that, they created the bank of the united states which was the predecessor of the federal reserve, which now has a money from which the president can draw when congress is not there. congress still has to appropriate the funds and deposit them to see that they are deposited in the federal reserve. the president now has the right because of the precedent set by washington to spend money when he feels like it, and he does. >> so was there political discussion among the public about these actions, and what was the reaction? >> well, yes and no. remember at that time there was a dozen or two newspapers so there was no radio or tv. by the time news reached the public, it was often

in washington i'm going to. have plenty more stories online for you including slick moves come back so you hold the burthen the concert for us can go on merit admits destroying evidence related to one of the world's worst oil spills the gulf of mexico disaster in twenty ten online we tell you what's now at stake for the company and the biggest high is the start of the internet log on to r.t. dot com to find out high for russians and the ukrainians managed to trick giant corporations and supply more than one hundred sixty million credit card numbers from the. right to see. first strike. and i think that you're. on our reporters i i. i'm now for a quick look at other stories happening around the world this hour gyptian prosecutors have ordered the detention of the ousted president morsi implicating him in the deaths of prisoners and offices and alleged contact with a mass meanwhile the army has given the muslim brotherhood until saturday to join the interim government reconciliation plan and stop inciting violence

did washington change us or did we change washington? the question was raised rhetorically. >> charlie: do you believe what some people have said, whether it's the carter administration, the clinton administration, the obama administration or the bush administration either that in the end the town always wins. >> i mean, this is the story about the permanent feudal class which is a term from the republican senator from oklahoma. he uses this to describe this collosus. >> he speaks with a certain candor. it's interesting that he and obama are such close friends. my cynical bone does ache a little bit. i do wonder is this expedient? it does seem rather genuine. >> reporter: that's the interesting question. how can you be as a reporter, you know, what if in fact your intelligent bone is overruled by your cynical bone? >> i think it happens every day. reporter: cynicism always wins. >> no it doesn't always win. look, i'm susceptible to authenticity. i think people can be very authentic. there's a line in here from henry allen who is my forme

when everybody got to washington, certainly in new york and philadelphia too, washington is this primitive miserable swampy splice. they all get there and say, where are we. there's no separation between political life and social life. everybody is in each other's houses and dolly madison, when jefferson became president, really set up a whole separate base. everybody had to go there. you did not have any political information if you didn't go to that house. she brought everybody in, made them behave together because it happened very fast that by washington second term, we had the kind of partnership that we have today that the country was way too young and fragile to withstand without some influences. those influences were called women. they would make the men set down together and have some wine together and talk to each other. >> jefferson did not do that. jefferson had the republicans one night. >> your point is so important. if you tie it to what everybody says is wrong with washington today. it was almost much more direct. dolly madison was a politician. everyone understood that. whe

washington are set to deliver for fighter jets to the egyptian military as president obama refuses to call the overthrow of the muslim brotherhood it could prompt to criticize u.s. involvement in the country's affairs. pretty short make his woman toppling the assad regime in syria could have disastrous consequences in a report highlighting the threat of radical militants getting a hold of chemical weapons. the high profile corruption case draws to a close here in moscow a court handed down a guilty verdict against late russian lawyers have gave it used of helping a company to evade seventeen billion dollars in tax. thursday night is kevin irwin here at r.t. thanks for your company top story the government efforts to convince the public that intelligence leaker edward snowden is a spy and a criminal of fear appear to be failing a recent poll found that most americans approve of the whistleblowers actions while only about a third viewed negatively snowed in transit limbo in moscow airport faces espionage charges in the united states for exposing the extent of his government's secret sur

in bloomingdale and other parts of northwest washington. within the past hour, there were 2000 outages. residents said that they heard an explosion coming from an underground system. they tell us that they expect to have all customers restored by :00 a.m. you're headed to ocean city, health officials are warning -- rabidup being raccoons. people who live between 80 and 130th street should be aware. anyone who was approached by an animal appears to be rapid should animal control as soon as possible. palace has revealed the title the soon to arrive baby. we do not know it is going to be girl. girl -- a boy or a his title will be prince or princess of cambridge. is beaming from the washington monument after a disaster there. crews are working to make repairs and the national park service lit up the monument early with 500 lights. autria godfrey is live to tell us all about it. the fourthfor all of of july well-wishers who went home disappointed that they did not see the monument lit. the lights are coming from behind the blue scrim that wraps

kind of gray day in washington. ronald reagan's motorcade has just arrived for his speech at the washington hotel which is behind us. this is the special entrance back here, the v.i.p. entrance, that reagan walked in at 2:00 p.m. when he aefshed. >> the government's first deed doout is to protect the people, not run their lives. >> the event is covered by all the major networks. for abc news photographer hank brown it's a routine job. >> it's a privilege to travel with the president wherever he goes. we wanted to get the picture of the president walking out of the holtz and getting in the limo. >> 15 feet from that door was a rope line. all that the cameramen, everybody is laughing. it was unsecured. no id checks. people thought it was a press line. it wasn't. anyone could be behind that line. you see hinckley's face about three rows back. totally passive. no reaction at all. >> i got my camera up, aimed it at the door. the president was coming out. i could see it through the viewfinder, even now. >> reagan is walki

here in washington, d.c. we have cnn contributor ron brownstein, a columnist and editorial director for national journal. ron, the president surprised reporters when he came into the briefing room on friday. why did he address the trial and why did he do it at that time? >> you know, it was an extraordinary moment and an extraordinarily personal moment. i think the media coverage is fully reflected the unique and historical nature of this statement. my colleague at the atlantic in a piece last fall noted the university of pennsylvania study that showed during president obama's first two years, he talked less about race than any president since john f. kennedy. so for him to come out and address this in these intensely personal terms i think was very much an historic moment and reflected, i think, his kind of personal investment, you know, the predicate for this was his remarks earlier that if i had a son, it would look like trayvon martin. he took it one step further when he came out on friday and basically s

washington is set to deliver for a fighter jets to the egyptian military as president obama refuses to call the overthrow of the muslim brotherhood a coup prompting egyptians to criticize u.s. involvement in their country's affairs. british lawmakers mourn that toppling the acid regime in syria could have disastrous consequences in a report highlighting the threat of radical militants getting hold of chemical weapons. and high profile corruption case draws to a close in moscow as a court hands down a guilty verdict against late russian lawyer sergei magnitsky accused of helping a company to evade seventeen million dollars in taxes. is r.t. coming to you live from the russian capital i'm marina josh welcome to the program . u.s. government adverts to convince the public that intelligence leaker edward snowden is a spy and a criminal appear to be failing a recent poll found that most americans approve of the whistleblowers actions while only about a third view him negatively snowden who is still in transit limbo at a moscow airport faces espionage charges in the u.s. for exposing the ext

if you can has more on washington's crackdown on lead. by relentlessly going after whistleblowers here we picked some of the most notable ones the u.s. government is sending a message this is what's going to happen to you if you speak out even if you think you're doing it. for the public good even if the public things you did the right thing in edward snowden's case fifty five percent of americans consider him a whistleblower not a traitor and yet even as many americans are thinking to snowden for greater awareness about the government's blatant snooping on millions of absolutely innocent people snowden still had to flee the country so was not to share the fate of his fellow whistleblowers had he stayed he would have been in jail facing life in prison or maybe even the death penalty the example of bradley manning is right there the twenty five year old u.s. army private bradley manning has been in custody for three years now and is facing more than one hundred fifty years in jail many leaked documents and videos that exposed war crimes co

including for example sources in washington hinting at what could have been israel's fourth air raid over syrian territory in six months we investigate online and reveal how russian weaponry may have been the actual key targets. also an order of old fashioned typewriters by the russian federal guard service causes a huge stir in the media assumptions security chiefs have turned to old school low tech equipment because of the recent leaks online surrounding the n.s.a. survey. twenty pm here in moscow and egypt is seeing more rallies with tens of thousands joining marches demanding the ousted president mohamed morsy be reinstated and the protests come amid a crackdown on the country's islamist movement which led to bloodshed and more arrests of the muslim brotherhood says morsy supporters will stay in the streets until their demands are met on his opponents more demonstrations of their own the country's military which removed the president from power is hardly preparing for fresh parliamentary and presidential elections the u.s. meantime has joined the german foreign ministry and calli

as to the irony of a book sourced from washington power players about washington power players, the "l.a. times" notes several eagerly cooperated flaunting their connections in hopes of winning prominent mention in a book about how people in washington flaunt their connections. washington may be experiencing historically low approval ratings, but city densons are living in a gilded age. if you're one of the lucky members of the club, it is all good. as leibovich writes -- while so much of the nation has despised washington, a gold rush has enthralled the place. it has in recent years become a crucible of easy wealth, fame, forgiveness and next acts. i feel like i should reintroduce you as best selling author, "mark leibovich, "this town," right here. mark, talk about the book. first of all, my question was as i read the book -- i did read almost all of the book. >> god bless you. thank you for your service. >> you're so welcome. at what point did you decide you were going to be writing this book? were you going to the parties and all this stuff was happening -- >> no. this was not a b

hello again from fox news in washington. one week after the acquittal in the george zimmerman case, thousands of protesters took to the streets in more than 100 cities saturday to demand justice for trayvon. there were no reports of violence or arrests. trayvon's father appeared at a rally in miami. his mother at one in new york. >> of course we're hurting. of course we're shocked and disappointed. but that just means that we have to roll up our sleeves and continue to fight. >> all this after president obama tried to explain friday why this case has been so painful to blacks. in his most extended discussion of race since entering the white house. joining us to continue that conversation, a rising conservative voice, noted pediatric surgeon dr. ben carson from sun valley, idaho. and democratic congresswoman donna edwards of maryland. let's start with the president's remarks, in which he talked about how he was profiled as a young black man, and then he said this -- >> if a white male teen was involved in the same kind of sen

of the values that washington had. he could learn from his experience. >> exactly. so when he's defeated he doesn't say "oh, woe is me." but "what can i learn from this?" experience had been his teacher all through life. his father died when he was quite young. he was on his own from about the age of 16. as always. but the jabez fitch story is different because he's keeping a diary and he kept a diary no matter what was happening, including after he was captured and taken prisoner. they put one of those vile british prison ships in the harbor here in new york. i think he must have hid -- the you shouldn't picture a beautiful leather diary. they're writing on scraps of paper. i think he was hiding in the his shoe because it was against the rules. you weren't supposed to do that. but the fact that they wrote the letters, the fact that they kept the diarys is part of their great contribution to their country. because now we know what it was like. we can be in their shoes, in their skins, and feel what they went through. t

george washington and the host: this is "washington july 4, for independence day, and the united states. even though the flag is flying over the capital, the federal government is closed today. celebrations nationwide, itol,ding here in the cap to celebrate independence day. you turn to egypt and celebrations there as well. ,n the left side of your screen those who are glad that the previous president, mohamed morsi, is on. -- gone. those on the right, people who have supported president morsi. the military is ushered in any sense of leadership within interim government this morning and promises of new leadership and new structure going forward. we will have information about that as well as we go on a first 45 minutes this morning. president obama is encouraging the establishment of a democratically elected civilian government. several stories in the paper are looking at egypt when it comes to the $1.2 billion we offer in foreign aid. we will take a look at egypt's military with the ouster of the previous president, mahmoud morsi, and we welcome your thoughts. here are the phone lines

he has then in washington ever since. my mother was the most recent member of congress. >> talk about whether the women in the first generation really did dabble in politics. did they have a role? were they really founders? >> going to camp that summer was huge. it was not just valley forge. it was every winter, and she hated it. she was a prime object of hostage taking. she was key. she had organized the other officers wives. they would cook for the soldiers. george could be indiscreet. there was one day when he danced for three hours straight, so it was good martha was on hand. washington's genius was keeping the army together. he begged her to come to camp every year. she had a great sense of humor. she named a tomcat hamilton. washington was a miserable, swampy place, so there is no separation between political life and social life. dolly madison set up a separate place, and everyone had to go there. it happened fast that by his second term we had partisanship we had today. they would make the men sit down together an

good afternoon welcome to prime interest i'm bob english here in washington d.c. here's the stories we're telling today to taper or not to taper that is a question being asked at the federal reserve so do we stop printing eighty five billion dollars per month or not and guess what today we learned that half the voting members want to end not even taper by year end we'll talk with jim rickards about this and the big trouble in china in a bit. and the first non-bank institutions to be named too big to fail was announced today actually the term is syfy guess who they are a i g. and b. who both required massive bailouts during the financial crisis will do about this with our two producer rachel later in the show finally seems the new living wage law here in d.c. has wal-mart threatening to tear down their wal mart plans boring will break down minimum wage later in the show so without further ado here's what's in your prime interest. there are twelve members on the federal open market committee and they vote on monetary policy eight times per year the last meeting was

the big respect to washington, d.c. judy is whether or not walmart will even move into washington as a result of this. they have six stores that are planned and they have basically said we may not, three of those stores which are under construction yet, may not happen. if they don't move in we're talking about the loss of hundreds of jobs maybe thousands. >>woodruff: david madland what do you say? >> it's hard to know exactly what walmart will do. but when cities and states raise their own wages, the best studies compare one adjacent county to another or adjacent state to another. they show that raising minimum wage have no effect on unemployment. studies also, when walmart comes to down, no effect on employment. they destroy some jobs of smaller competitors so there's no net impact on jobs here. the question really is whether walmart is going to pay a living wage so thattists employees and -- make a living wage not only walmart but other large retailers can pay a living wage. >>woodruff: stephen moore he is saying the

"washington journal" is next. host: more more young people are turned off by the idea of going into politics or working for an elected official. as we take you through theew

questions about either the real washington or the phony washington. the living wage. anything else we've got on our plates this morning at 1-866-55-press. we'll be right back. >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." current tv is the place for true stories. with award winning documentaries that take you inside the headlines. real, gripping, current. documentaries... on current tv. this show is about analyzing criticizing, and holding policy to the fire. are you encouraged by what you heard the president say the other night? is this personal or is it political? a lot of my work happens by doing the things that i am given to doing anyway. staying in tough with everything that is going on politically and putting my own nuance on it. not only does senator rubio just care about rich people but somehow he thinks raising the minimum wage is a bad idea for the middle class. but we do care about them, right? vo: the war room tonight at 6 eastern >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." >> bill: 13 minutes before the top of the hour. covering the waterfront here in was

you are in washington and you're the second person we have had in washington and i think we had mr. shulman was the only other one. so we are just beginning this investigation. we are just starting this. it's not going to be closed down. >> with the gentleman wrap-up? >> finally mr. hall you sought counsel and advice from above and you never got it down below and finally what happened? did you step aside or seek another assignment? >> the gentleman may answer briefly. his time has expired. >> were you asking me? >> i'm trying to get back -- not getting answers the frustrations the experience. >> do you understand the question? >> we are out of time. >> yes i do get transferred out of there. >> at your request. >> yes i did. >> we now go to the gentleman from massachusetts. >> thank you mr. chairman and i think the ranking member and no witnesses were coming before the committee and trying to help us with our work. i would like to try to reset this if i could. it seems we are getting into a debate about whether or not there was a failure by the irs to enhance scrutiny for tea party g

that moscow has received for more from washington since the end of the soviet union just one and when i asked this question at all gust meeting places of the american establishment i get one answer where we gave them financial loans in the one nine hundred ninety s. yeah they were onerous loans which only putin because of high oil prices could finally pay back unlike with poland where washington for gave its communist era debt washington never forgave any of moscow's debt we have never given russia anything and by the way putin says that over and over and over again and washington says why is he so any american he's not any american he's just making a simple point that any major leader would make that a relationship is a two way relationship we give something to you you give something to us and we go forward and solve problems we don't have that relationship and we haven't had it since the soviet union ended by the way oddly we had it with the soviet union but that's another story really quickly because we're running out of time so the reset idea is it all forgotten and dad now. well

contractor is prompted by washington's heavy handed manhunt artes and he said no it has more i think snowden's longer spice is out with a latin american twist a glimmer of hope after living in limbo for weeks then as well nicaragua and bolivia offered the n.s.a. leaker asylum after european countries rejected his official request for most of the week if snowden himself didn't know where his future would be taking him then we certainly did and this really it was thought ecuador might be a possibility but president caray is sentiment toward snowden shifted suddenly saying their help with initial transport documents was a mistake then as well as more durable made his country stand clear this weekend saying snowden can come and live in the land of chavez quote away from the persecution of american imperialism but only after bolivia's ever morale us was detained and denied airspace over europe for some fourteen hours while his presidential plane was searched for snowden in an exclusive interview with our team around reacted to what bolivia called a kidnapping. and they think they can humi

washington d.c. is an interesting place with a large black community with african-american culture and to board in 1855 and with the largest black middle class and the douglas want to be a part of that. by 1868 charles was working for the freedom year-old. this is the 80 and 68 city directory you can see charles douglas back then invade decoded the ethnicity. you don't see that anymore but that used to show the of the city. you can see charles douglas said the clerk for the bureau of refugee and to abandon the land he lives in potomac city can frederick douglass, jr. does anybody know where potomac city is now? it this is actually a mapping 8094 i will move here and hopefully you can still pick up the audio? this is a elisabeth starting in 1852 the first patient 1855. anime 80 in $6,732,000 to acquire this property james was the other land holder in the city and if you are familiar today this was where the public housing authority but this is still whole swath of the form. bridge read franklin come a

cross-talk terrorism versus interventionism i'm joined by john glaser in washington he is a contributor to antiwar dot com and a columnist with the washington times community section and in new york we cross to max abrams he is a terrorism expert and fellow at the johns hopkins university all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it john in washington you first give me a cost benefit analysis of the twelve last twelve years what's the balance what's the ledger say. it's almost all costs the defense budgets and every other kind of budget in washington has ballooned to you know unprecedented degrees the costs of the war and wars in afghanistan and iraq some estimates weren't all that pays or do it it might end up being something like four or five trillion dollars and it hasn't benefited us in terms of security. you know the reasons that we were attacked on nine eleven remain and actually have been exacerbated we still pepper the entire middle east with military installations and bases we still prop up autocratic dic

on your side. >> good morning washington. get ready this monday is is going to be hot and we have hot temperatures across the board for the work week with the temperatures climbing into the 90's. today a high uv inczechs of index of nine. if you are walking around going to and from work make sure you have the sun screen on. maybe heading to the pool to get a relief from the heat and humidity. a beautiful shot from ocean city maryland things are looking nice. be careful as it will feel like the upper the 12kr09 descrot of 90's. >> the corpse flower is about to bloom. when it does it will wreak of rotting flesh. they have extended their hours so visitors can check out the plant. >> the police are investigating a home invasion in a bethesda neighborhood. saturday night two men opened the unlocked door of a home. the men woke up the homeowners and left with some of their valuables. police are trying to find out if this crime is linked to two recent burglaries nearby. >> you think of this as a tranquil neighborhood so those things

he was always wanting to have a march on washington. so he convinced us it was time for us to march. and a few days later after meeting the president, we met in new york city at old roosevelt hotel on -- >> 42nd. >> right, 42nd. i walked by their sometimes there sometimes. and we invited four white religious leaders to join us, and we issued the call to the march 3 we thought we would get 50 to 75 people. to the march. we thought we would get 50 to 75 people. we hear of a hot young lady -- of a young lady who worked in the office in new york. we called her up and we said, ruschel, how many people come in from new york? how many people are coming from philadelphia, boston? how many will be on the train coming from the south? how many people coming from the west coast. -- from the west coast? and i remember so well that morning in 1963, the 10 of us, the six plus the four, came up on capitol hill. we met with the leadership of the house, both democrat and republican. we had been on the senate side, constitution ave. and we met with republ

kilmer of washington. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 312, the gentleman from washington, mr. kilmer, and a member opposed each will control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington for five minutes. mr. kilmer: thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment seeks to protect the continued employment of needed and trusted department of defense civilian employees. d.o.d. civilian employees who are critical to our national security mission may be endanger -- may be in danger of losing their security clearances and their jobs if financial hardships from being furloughed result in financial delinquencies. right now the d.o.d. has issued vegas guidance that there -- vague guidance that they will take into account the impact sequestration is having on service members' financial situations. while i appreciate those efforts, i believe that congress should strengthen our commitment to our service members by ensuring no funds are used to deny the renewal of security clearance to workers who a

are indeed washington media players with washington media weaknesses. in the piece msnbc is thrown in with everyone else who got the story wrong. in order to do that, salon had to ignore all three of msnbc's primetime shows, the shows which happen to have the biggest audiences on msnbc, with rachel of course having the largest audience of all. to accuse msnbc of getting it wrong, salon had to ignore the very existence of this program, which has the second largest msnbc audience. in fact, more people heard this program, getting the irs fake scandal right, every night than heard anyone else on the network getting it not so right. but salon, just like the rest of the washington media, didn't hear a word of what was said on this program. absolutely no one in washington took their guidance. no one in the washington media anyway took their guidance on the irs story from this program. and i never, ever expected them to. >> once the political media has latched on to the paradigm of a scandal, once they've collectively fixed its frame around what they think are

washington. the president who wanted to pivot away from the middle east was now explaining why he was intervening in a civil war in labia. to stop a bloodbath, in a port city that most americans had never heard of. a place called benghazi. >> if we waited one more day, benghazi would suffer a massacre that would have reverberated across the region and stained the conscious of the world. i refused to let that happen. >> reporter: but saving benghazi from gadhafi was not the end of that story. at that moment, in a jail cell in southern california, a check kiting former meth cooker, named nakula basili nakula was working on a loopy scheme. it employed a low budget, comically inept movie that nakula called "desert warrior." federal authorities would only allow an interview over the phone. >> what was your intent? >> just to send a message to the world, detail evil coming from the east. >> reporter: what was the nature of that evil? >>ith that terrorism culture. >> reporter: at the peak peak of obama'

as washington seek sanctions against any nation offering edward snowden asylum r.t. talks exclusively to the leader of nicaragua one of the country's ready to take in the fugitive whistleblower. the syrian opposition presses the us to hurry up in sending arms to the rebels ahead of talks between the u.n. security council and the anti assad leadership. and more returns to the birthplace of the arab spring since the protesters clashed with police forces into newsies capital and rage by the assassination of a prominent opposition party leader. so i welcome you watching r.t. with me andrew. weeks after edward snowden's revelations of the united states mass snooping operation against infuriated citizens germany is taking steps to address threats to previous see it wants to update u.n. data protection regulations with some top officials also calling for a suspension of the data exchange treaty between washington and the e.u. skeptics though suspect it's little more than general election campaigning as peter all of the reports from berlin. so two of germany's most senior ca

during her nearly 50 years in washington. she broke many barriers among the way, among them becoming the first woman bureau chief for u.p.i. and the first female of the white house correspondents association. helen thomas was 92. that's it for tonight. this reminder -- gwen will be online next thursday for her monthly web chat and she'll be joined by a special guest, dan balls, the author of that new chronicle "the collision." thursday at 1:00 p.m. eastern. go to our website, pbs.org/washingtonweek if you'd like to submit a question. our webcast extra is streamed live 8:30 p.m. eastern, where we'll hear a firsthand account of mar martha raddatz to her refugee camp visit. gwen is back at the table next week on "washington week." good night. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- prudential. additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewe

and we told him we were going to march on washington. you know, president kennedy didn't like the idea of hundreds and thousands of people coming to washington. and he said to mr. randolph, who was our spokesperson, "if you bring these -- all these people to washington, won't there be violence and chaos and disorder? and we will never get a civil rights bill through the congress." mr. randolph responded and said, in his baritone voice, "mr. president, this will be an orderly, peaceful, nonviolent protest." we left that meeting, came out on the lawn of the white house, and said we had a meaningful and productive meeting with the president of the united states. and we told him we were going to march on washington. >> can you sum up what was going on in america at that time that led to the march that had people like john kennedy worried and people like you adamant about what had to be done? >> well, the years leading up to the march on washington had been an unbelievable amount of action on the part of the movement. people had been sitting

. >>> right now temperatures are climbing in washington. feels like 85 degrees in the district at this hour. that's the heat index. we are in the middle of a big-time heat wave, my friends. storm team 4 meteorologist tom kierein here to show us just how high temperatures will go. tom? >> that plane just took off. somebody wants to get out of town. we've got that heat building. live view from the nbc 4 hd city camera. right now reagan national at 80 and near 80 near the chesapeake bay. eastern shore around 80 as well. but the rural areas north and west of washington in northern virginia and maryland, many locations in the low 70s. farther west in the shenandoah valley and mountains, many locations there in the 60s. right now reston town center, there's a live view from the camera. partly cloudy sky. there's the reston parkway in the foreground crossing the dulles toll road. we'll have a partly cloudy morning hour by hour through the morning, near 80 by 8:00. by noontime, should be into the low 90s. by midafternoon, should be hitting the uppe