it goes right into washington. up the river, we have the older national pike goes astray to baltimore. we have the railroad line which comes straight down here from baltimore and the spur the go straight to frederick. you have it easet-west, south-north. there was panic in the streets in baltimore and washington when they heard. rumors started flying. early at about 14,000 troops and the rumors were he had 35,000 troops. washington, the command structure was fragmented. there were a lot of generals. general halleck who the army chief of staff at one point said we need privates here to get to the barricades. that was the situation in washington. back down in richmond, grant, when he learned what was happening here, he did not want to send troops to richmond. telegramsad the between washington and his headquarters at city point outside of richmond. you can read the memoirs of the people who were on a staff. grant would not send troops -- finally, he gave in at the last minute and sent two regiments of the sixth corps

the last team to move was washington to texas. so washington is in that part of the transition twice, losing a team and getting a team. >> remind people who glory years looked like in washington baseball going back to years ago. >> it's a very short period, unfortunately. 1924 to 1933, the team won three pennants and its only world championship in 1924. that 1924 season, as you allude to, the entire country was behind the senators. it's also called the nationals, which is confusing, but people were very excited about an up and coming team who had never won anything before. they were sick of the yankees and the giants winning all the time. a guy named walter johnson, one of the greatest pitchers of all time, it never played in the world series and people wanted him to get a chance to play in the world series. they rooted for him all season long. >> was there a political establishment behind the team, or was it a different dynamic? >> obviously, it was a smaller town and it wasn't as dominant as it is now. president coolidge was hon

by 1864, washington is much more than that. it is the fortress of washington. a fortified city. 60 odd, or more, forts, 93 batteries, entrenchments, infrastructure for logistics, hospitals, as well as the political capital of the nation, the united states. had it not been for 1814, there would not have been the attention paid by 1864 in part to protecting the city. through the intervening years, there had been constructed in the area of the most possible threat, the river, fort washington. by 1861, it was neglect did and of no use whatsoever in the war of the civil war especially where in fact, maryland was five miles away from us, surrounding the capital of the union. or the old the united states. by 1864, there is a ring the fortifications around the city, which happily are parklands. they are preserved. there is something we can point to from the civil war and suggest it is still it is being employed usefully for the city and the population today. nationally, locally, and the residents of the district of columbia. these were earthen fortifications. fort wash

washington, green. are allover -- they learning as they go along. >> that was one of the values washington had. he could learn from experience. >> when he is defeated, he does not say, pity me. 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 age 16. these other people were, too. fitch is keeping a diary. he kept a diary no matter what was happening, including after he was captured and taken prisoner, and put in one of those vile british prison ships in the harbor here in new york. -- ank he must have hid beautiful leather diary. they are writing on beautiful scraps -- they are writing on scraps of paper, and i think he was hiding it on the ship, because it was against the rules. the fact that they wrote the letters, cap the diaries, is part of their great contributions to the country, because we know what it is like. he can be in their shoes and their skin, and feel what they went through, these human beings. a

that's the key to washington. he isn't an intellectual like john adams or jefferson, he isn't a great orator like patrick henry, he isn't a brilliant napoleonic figure, he's a leader and people will follow him and he has absolute integrity and he will not give up and he never forgets what it's about, what the war is for. again and again, you have people saying that they're not going to quit because i will not leave this good man, you know. we have to remember, at one point, it was down to 3,000 troops, that's all he had left. hundreds, thousands had either quit, gone home when their enlistments expired, deserted, went to the enemy. >> charlie: because they were given pardons. >> absolutely. and people in new jersey, when washington and the army were retreating across new jersey, when the general and the british commanders offered pardons for anybody who would sign the loyalty oath, people in new jersey came by the thousands to sign as quickly as they could. if there had been polls taken, daily polls taken and run

located across from mount vernon, george washington's home. at the beginning of the war it was manned by marines. was not actually part of the civil war defenses of washington. the circle of forts. but if there would have been ships trying to come up, it would've had an effect, also. if you look at the plan, it will give you an idea of the way the fort was located on the river. you have some of the buildings associated with it behind. it's main focus was the river itself, even though it anchored the other civil war. defenses of washington this is the way he would've looked to someone who would have come here during the civil war. this is a national park. at times, and has been quite overgrown. right now, you can see if you look around, it needs some manicuring, but it is better than i have seen it in the past. you saw at fort ward how well taken care of it is. it is a city park. the city does a very good job of taking care of fort ward. other forts depending on who maintains them and how good a job they do, you can see some places it is comple

hastings of washington. the chair: pursuant to house resolution 693, the gentleman from washington, mr. hastings, and a member opposed, will each control five minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from washington. mr. hastings: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he wishes to use. mr. hastings: i offer this manager's amendment which would clarify two important items in section 2 of the disclosure of the e.s.a. day tafment it would provide an important clarify dation that the intent of the bill is for any federal public diskilo schauer on the internet under the bill to be completely consistent with data privacy laws in states including those that protect personal, identifiable information from disclosure. a significant amount of the best scientific and commercial data currently used by the u.s. fish and wildlife and the national marine fishery service for e.s.a. listing decisions is derived from states which have a diverse -- which have d

after washington and the french allies secured victory at yorktown in october 1781, washington came back and passed through annapolis. him,ity fathers greeted and of course, had a lavish affair for him. -- a committee published words of a presentation to him, and it really put everything in perspective. 1781, ands in october this was quite a few years after the battle of trenton. , they emphasized the successes at trenton and princeton that laid the cornerstone to our freedom and independence. i think those words really put it in perspective, the importance of what washington accomplished. i think what we forget an often overlookeddddddddddddddddd -- , of course, we celebrate every fourth of july, the declaration of independence for good reason, but we also fail to understand the declaration of independence meant nothing if you couldn't back it up with battlefield victories. the words were just hollow. that was the importance of trenton. basically, by the victory he ,ecured, saving the revolution and in essence, saving the declaration of independence. again, the words meant nothing if am

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and newsweek who now edits the online news site consortium news dot com also in washington we have jim lobe he is the washington bureau chief for intra press service and director of a blog on us middle east policy called low blog dot com and in champaign we cross to francis boyle he is a professor of international law at the university of illinois college of law are gentlemen cross-talk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it robert to go to you first in washington you wrote an article recently obama's true foreign policy weakness what is that weakness. well president obama has been willing to fall into the control under the control pretty much of the neo conservatives and some of their liberal interventionists friends he has instead of asserting more as a real break from the george w. bush policies he has he has adopted them he has avoided perhaps some of the more extreme problems but in many ways he has not challenge them in any fundamental way so why is that why. well it's a good question and he he i think he basically is trying to av

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he came to washington and washington declined. before you can see from the beginning, iranians have been seeking for a type of regional cooperation, and -- was the foreign minister in 1991, 1992, 1995. he paid visit to all gcc countries. that time i was in foreign ministry, and he raised iranian willingness to establish such a cooperation with the neighbors but gcc was not in position to agree because of u.s. opposition. so i really don't believe iran is going to have a dominant role in the region what is the conventional understanding here. iran is preferring more regional cooperation with the neighbors, even including saudi arabia. jeff, when i said about the u.s. departure from the region, i never mean it's immediate. gradually within ten year, 15 years to my understanding the u.s. is going to have a gradually decreasing its role investment in the region, which would take five, ten, 15 years. it's not going to happen in one year. >> i've got time for three more questions. one from a colleague in the front, and the woman in the

we defer to washington also judgment. it seems to me this tendency to defer may in the end pose the greatest obstacle to restoring good sense to u.s. policy. with that introductory statement i will stop. i refer to any questions you may have. thank you. [applause] >> thank you so much for your work not only in this book but the prior book. >> i'm going to make a request of you all. please don't refer to me as colonel. [laughter] i've been out of the army for 18 years. i was only in the army for 23 years and it makes me feel like i'm flying under false can colors. >> that is how they referred to you on military credential but i will take that advice i prefer it myself. i wanted to call attention to one of the brief exceptions to washington rules that occurred during the kennedy administration. in ted sorenson's book that came out two years ago. he pointed out that even though kennedy's inaugural address that we can bear any burden for liberty that his experience with relying upon what we might call the hawkish wing of the

prosecuting attorney in washington. they hauled him to the not the old courthouse where it's two blocks from where we're standing right now. apparent to key very readily that the house painter mentally ill. he started to say he was the ing of england and ordered to do it by god or whatever. jackson was andrew jackson. he immediately saw a conspiracy. he told the u.s. attorney prosecute this guy to the full law.t of the there were hearings on capitol hill. it became so evident that there as no conspiracy, there was a deranged man that key basically rosecuted him giving the jury the complete option and ncouraging them to go for a plea of insanity. he represented the famous sam case that another made a lot of headlines in washington. of houston had been a member congress. he wasn't at the time. e came back to washington and he was working for indians, some named standbury made a speech -- he wrote a letter -- houston saying he was stealing money, government money that was supposed to go to the indians. he went out looking

would slaves get in courts in washington? a slave would be brought here from a slave state to washington, d.c., which had maryland laws, by the way, back then, and maryland had a law that if a slave was brought here they couldor a year, be free, and who did they go to? they went to frank t -- frank key, and he represented. he had a mixed record. the other thing is his brother-in-law was roger b. tawn y, who later issued the infamous dred scott decision, which said that african-americans had no rights whatsoever. you cannot get away from this, but you also cannot get away from the fact that is one night, when the bombs were bursting in , this challenged poet came up with the words that have become etched into the fabric of date, 2014.o this so thank you very much. [applause] >> we do have some time for questions, and we would like you to go to the microphones on that we can be recorded. we are at the national archives. we are being archived here for posterity. no pressure. >> my question was -- is there any evidence he wrote a

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you don't get smarter flying an hour to washington. we should let you figure it out, and give you the tools. >> governor herbert. >> senator, it's great to have you here. i do recall when you were in utah, running for president, and you were very well received. part of your appeal was your proficiency on the piano. [laughter] and seeere in tennessee the great talent here in nashville, i see where you fit in so good. pn o playing,ur and we want to hear -- piano pla ying, and we want to hear bill sing. >> the most musical states are utah and iowa, because people learn to sing in their churches and in their communities in both states. >> we appreciate your being here today to talk about an important issue affecting us all. we had a discussion earlier today about this very thing. congress has not reauthorized the elementary and secondary education act. for seven years. ist of the challenge we have that states are frustrated at no child left behind, and have by default embraced this waiver you are talking about. i guess there is a question,

anybody know how washington died? >> contacted a chill and treated by the best physicians of the day, and they, i believe, blood let him four times, and i believe that probably -- what's the thinking now? >> so washington contracted probably some form of strep throat, and it swelled up, and so he called in -- his wife called in several of the local physicians, and, as you said, they bled him, so he -- first of all, he suffocated basically because his throat swelled up, but more so, he was bled three or four times, and his body went into shock, so something that we would consider easily treatable today, and even in extreme cases, physicians would do track yatmy if a throat swelled to that extent, really ended his life. he was forward thinking on medicine in so many ways, he felt bleeding was positive and encouraged them to continue bleeding him, so i've found it ironic that some of the people most forward thinking clung to blood letting, probably had some kind of a psych logical impact. they thought they were going to

i've been writing it on the bus going back and forth to washington. i was able to finish that and publish it. that is the kind of surprised that i think you can introduce into life after crisis like this, just take advantage of. it's not all pain. it's also the energy and the opportunity of something new. >> was their depression and? >> you know, i think there's always bashed that i don't know if those depression as much as morning. they be that's depression. i don't know how to go about it but i still mourn that loss of the job. i always will. it was such an opportunity and i was raised -- i had an opportunity to change government and we launched a number of things and i just felt as if i hadn't finished my work. so that i will continue to mourn. it's a little bit of sadness but it's not what dominates who i am. i have of the ways i can contribute and i believe in work, so i'm finding other work to do. >> were you first on on the nonprofit with some of your former circles in washington when you've resigned? >> well, my experience was that i had a rat

look at washington now. i laid the foundation. >> you can take the credit for that because as a visionary -- what a lot of people didn't realize when you came to washington, d.c., you were a civil rights fighter, you know, foot soldier, and it was being part of the, you know, snik that brought you to washington. but you didn't really set out to be a politician, but politics became part of your life once washington opened something up for you. what was that? >> i have no role models about politics. in memphis where i grew up from age 8 until i finished college, there were no black commissioners, no black mayors, no black anything. it was run by all white people. i had no role models, but i got in the civil rights movement, i started seeing the world on a much broader scale. i saw human rights much differently. when i came to d.c., i came here to raise money and lobby the congress. i couldn't wait on that because too many problems here. as i said, all of downtown, our neighborhoods have been transformed becaus

to cross-talk washington spinning of containment i'm joined by my guest stephen cohen in new york he is a professor emeritus of russian studies and politics at new york university and princeton university and author of the recent book soviet fates in last alternatives and in chicago we cross to john mearsheimer he is a professor in the political science department at the university of chicago who has written extensively on international security his latest book is the tragedy of great power politics all right gentlemen cross talk rules and that means you can jump in anytime on steven cohen if i go to you first i read your article in the nation the cold war again whose responsibility subtitle in the name of democracy the west has unrelentingly moved its military political in economic power ever closer to a post soviet russia i will not ask a very broad ended question here what a future historians are going to think about this time period right now what if there are any future historians left because this could easily lead to nuclear war but we can go to that later i think that they wi

in washington d.c. of being told to come up with more than eight hundred thousand dollars each get out . also the mysteries of the brain. commission a pretty penny many researchers are not too happy about it we'll explain why. but for now on the program the u.n. security council has again called for an immediate cease fire. fighting is eased over the weekend but the i.d.f. says one rocket was launched from gaza monday. fighting ahead of celebrations to mark the end of ramadan a twenty four hour ceasefire extension to hold on sunday the palestinian militant group rejected the deal firing rockets from gaza into israel and saying it could not agree to a truce until israel pulled out of gaza well of course that prompted israel to shell the area in return hamas relented and called for the truce to be reinstated but according to israeli officials failed to comply with its own proposal. during the day but there is still no official truce in place reporting from gaza is harry fear. this is meant to be a day of

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that's our washington and new york. imagine the situation where you would hear a iran go off in new york -- i'm sitting here in washington, you're in new york, and in washington, and everyone would have to run into bomb shelters. that's what happened today in israel. the objective of this mission is very simple. we need to restore deterrents, we need to end the rocket fire and restore security to israel's population who have suffered under rocket attacks from hamas. >> so, so when you say that, given what's been happening and how the situation's been escalating, some might say, well, in a sense what you're saying is it is going to be all-out war because how are you going to be able to do that, given what's been happening, without greater involvement, without ground troops? >> i don't think the situation has been escalating. i think hamas has been escalating the situation. my prime minister, netanyahu, said that quiet would be met with quiet. if hamas ended rocket attacks against israel, we would not take operations. tha

congressional a bus a while and fire as a says washington is downplaying the crisis. it is a very serious development regardless of how you know weaponized this material could be now of course in washington going to be a debate about is this really propaganda from the iraqi government or is this real no matter what if this material has really been taken by crisis over any others you have it's actually it's not just about the material it's about what can this organization use this material through or it is not necessarily nuclear material but it dirty bomb could be the outcome so i think that the next few days the united states government those executive and the congress are going to focus on this issue but at the same and they're going to try to downplay it because of the seriousness of it and they don't want to create a political crisis before they make sure of what this material is a u.s. congressional and to terrorism adviser walid phares that they stay with r.t. for the latest on this developing story. and later is a u.s. spy scandal in german name has prompted ou

she is a regular panelist on ebs washington week. pbs washington week. she earned her law degree at georgetown law school and specializes in presenting the supreme court through the lens of judicial biography. she has written sandra day o'connor, and more recently, american original, the life and constitution of supreme court justice anthony scalia. joan is within weeks of finishing a new book called, "breaking in, the rise of sonia sotomayor" which has a publication date of the first tuesday in october. robert barnes joined the washington post in 1987 covering maryland politics. since then, he has served as deputy national editor in charge of domestic issues during the clinton administration. he returned to reporting in 2005 and began covering the supreme court in 2006. bob had been planning to go to law school but changed his mind after taking a journalism course. his biography on the washington post website says, it did not occur to him that he could do both. perhaps a better explanation is that he realized he didn't need three years of law school to

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resolution what washington calls for more violence. to cross out the crisis in ukraine i'm joined by my guest marita chef ski in london she is a columnist for the independent and the guardian in washington we have ray mcgovern he is a former cia analyst and here in moscow we cross to marc sloboda he's an international affairs and security analyst crosstalk rules in fact that means you can jump in anytime you want and i very much encourage it ray if i can go to you first here it looks like the president of ukraine. put a shank oh is he going to dispense with diplomacy after the flurry of the of last week with a variety of capitals including moscow he looks like he's got the green light from the state department to go all the way through and to really use heavy force against the east in ukraine. you're quite right peter it looks like he wants to sort of ethnically cleanse the net skin and other key population centers in the ukraine before he will rejoin the ceasefire talks i've never quite seen it quite this bad actually least since righ

today it stands close to the waterfront in southwest washington. in the past, education was limited to the opportunity down the street at the local school. bu particular for high school students, they are learningt now, -- they are learning a of digital services. some that are formal and paid for by the state, and some that are in formal. the resources that students and parents find online. becoming important at stake to make sure that every family have access to a friday iety of an -- a vareit full and part-time learning. >> digital learning and the future of the education system with tom vander ark monday night on "the communicators," on c-span 3. week, america artifex takes viewers into archives and historic sites around the country. at the outbreak of the civil war in the spring, 18 61, washington, dc was a lightly defended city and vulnerable with only one for located 12 miles south of the city and the confederate state of virginia just across the potomac. by 1865 the nation's capital had become the most fortified city in the world, with a rin

there is some cause for concern in washington for two reasons. one this is an international city where travelers come in and go out to all places in the world, and secondly next week washington, d.c. is hosting a high level africa summit where there will be hundreds of travelers coming in from the impacted continent. >> florida resident kevin johnson grew up in the washington area and is here today to visit family. he says the lethal ebola outbreak does give him some concern about air travel. >> especially on the planes, you can't control that. so hopefully they get it under wraps fast. >> but most travelers today told us while they're aware of the virus, they're not concerned. >> i'm just not seeing the statistical numbers that's really showing that it's an issue, that i'd have to be concerned with at this point. >> the transmission is actually fluid to fluid contact and more bodily. so it's a little less contagious or easily spread than whatnot, so i don't have personal fears about it. >> the company sent out e-mails to let us know and inform u

apparently doing at home what washington has been accused of doing to the american people. we're guessing someone will say that on television before long. >> all right, then. well, president obama might help one comedian win an emmy. the episode of "between two ferns" with zach galifianakis has been nominated. it was published back in march and has more than 22 million views. and be sure to tune in to msnbc this monday at 10:00 a.m. to see the debut of a new show hosted by jose diaz-balart live from miami. that is your morning dish of scrambled politics. >>> in washington, i'm joined now by the reporter for "the hill." good friday morning, kevin. >> happy friday, betty, how are you? >> i'm doing great. well, president obama is firing back at the republican lawsuit saying you're going to sue he for doing my job and you're not doing yours? does he have a point? or is this lawsuit gaining some momentum? >> well, yesterday, he said, quote, unquote, for what? why are you going to sue me? for doing my job? you know, i'm not sure it's gaining momentum except among republicans, i t

it's wednesday july second eight pm in washington d.c. i'm a military man you're watching r t america. brand new quinnipiac university poll says president obama is the worst president since world war two according to quinnipiac thirty three percent of respondents thought obama has been the worst president in modern times followed by a close twenty eight percent naming president george w. bush and surprisingly only thirteen percent of respondents said that richard nixon was the worst but this next poll comes as no surprise congress's approval ratings are continually low at present there at the lowest they've ever been on record take a look at these poll numbers year over year since two thousand and twelve congress has continued to lose three percentage points in their approval numbers twenty twelve thirteen percent twenty thirteen ten percent twenty fourteen seven percent now we've mentioned this before but not since the advent of these congressional ratings in the early one nine hundred seventy s. when gallup began tracking congress have

washington, d.c.. he also talks about the scandals that almost ruined him from his time in prison for cocaine possession in dc politics following the release. this is just over an hour. >> good evening everybody. welcome to the national press club for this special events. i am eleanor herman and i'm a member of the club book and author committee. we are very glad you've come to this event and we hope you enjoy it. the club has 15 or 20 of these every year on a variety of books fiction and nonfiction. so if you are not already on the e-mail list and would like to learn the future events please see me after the events an eveni will put you on our e-mail list. it's usually about one month that yoin amonth that you will . speaking of the future events i want to just tell you of some coming up in july all of which begin at 6:30 p.m. unless otherwise noted. tuesday july 8 tom will discuss his new book an idea whose time has come, two presidents, parties and the battle for the civil rights act of 1964. on we

love does not make washington go round. it does not bring home the bacon, the tax subsidies shs the loopholes, the special privileges. to get those things, people need money and use money. so many of the people listening to us right now are going to be scratching their heads and say how can arthur brooks be comfortable in an environment where money is the prime it f not sole of the power of the rich and privileged corporations in washington today. does that create any tension in him? >> money always creates tension. the fact of the matter is, it shouldn't create tension. we should have an uneasy relationship with material prosperity. we can also use it at the government level to alleviate poverty. this is one of the recommends i declare peace for the poor. but not for others. >> what does that mean? >> basically we have a concept of a safety net that's either in comic book form or against it because it creates dependency or it's a good thing we should expand to include everybody. upper middle class people, corporations, peo

once you get to washington d.c. it gets harder and harder to have a voice in the system but i still think as much as we can keep out of government is a better way to go. >> host: your sixth ruiz fight the power which sounds a lot like a 1960s liberal. i think my parents used to say that with flowers in their hair so how is that a libertarian idea not a liberal idea? >> guest: when we organized a march on washington in 2009 week expropriated the system some people were upset by that but i think going back to america's founding it was very clear, you read george washington's farewell address, he made it clear that you and i have a responsibility to keep government in check that it was on the shoulders of the american people to protect liberty and somewhere along the way particularly conservatives and libertarians started reading all the right books and we have this very naÏve theory that good ideas would write to -- rise to the top in politics just like markets. it's not true and if you and i don't take that responsi

every weekday, listen to a recap of the day's events on "washington today." you can also hear audio of the public affairs programming beginning noon eastern. long-distance or phone charges may apply. next, ag up commemorative ceremony marking the 150th anniversary of the june 17, 1864, washington arsenal explosion that killed 21 women. many of the victims were young, impoverished irish immigrants. the youngest to die was 12 years old. this ceremony takes place at the congressional cemetery next to a monument for the victims dedicated less than a year after the accident. the event runs about 30 minutes. >> hello, everybody. my name is paul williams. i am the president of the association for the preservation of historic congressional cemetery. i want to welcome you to the cemetery. i am happy our weather has held off so far. tolso want to welcome you the sesquicentennial commemoration of the funeral for the one-to-one women killed in the june 17, 1864, explosion at the washington arsenal. will post honor guard the colors creat. gentlemen? >> forward, march. det

in less than a week forty seven african heads of state will depart for washington d.c. for the first ever continent wide u.s. african leaders summit but many believe the historic event is designed not just to strengthen ties but also the counter china's ever growing economic influence in the region but i'll bet you me as a kiwi from the pan-african news wire things china is already well ahead in the battle for hearts and minds on the continent many african opinion makers and analysts have said that the relationship between china and africa and the poles the relationship between africa and the united states has many advantages for the african people the chinese interventions have resulted in infrastructural developments where there is a extensive history of exploitation of relations between the united states and other western european countries visa v the african continent i believe that the obama administration is late taking this initiative but i think it's very important for him to be somehow in the hands the image of the united states on the after continent. to some

fromr next speaker washington state. i got to know him eight years ago when he was really doing some groundbreaking work with the king county bar association. as a young aspiring attorney, i noticed you were pretty not position a year -- putting out papers saying the war on drugs was a failure. i got the bar association -- is my great pleasure to turn things over to roger. >> let me stand up so i can see you guys better. it is a pleasure to be back here in denver. working with brian. the time has flown by. i kind of have to pinch myself. you don't see a lot of tie-dye people.tailed reggae i used to be the oldest person in the audience and i am not anymore. i think what i want to do is give you an update on some of the details of what is going on in washington state. i becamereform work, notorious in my area. a seat became open in the state legislature. iran and they hit me hard. they use the keywords. roger goodman is a lawyer crusading to legalize drugs. my poll numbers shot up afterwards. cultural find. i was fighting