john ross is talking about washington. washington is no longer president. andrew jackson is president. a very different set of propositions. john ross calls one of his sons george washington. the things that has intrigued me in getting at this story is not that it could be a simple story in which george washington was everybody's hero. merely just a bad guy, and instrument of white imperial aggression. which perhaps he is. there is a lot more going on there. what it gets us to is wrestling with this dilemma. this dilemma that the brits had. and that the united states had. 1790, congress passes the indian trade and intercourse act. it says, you can't trade with an indian country without a license from congress. it is the proclamation of 1763 over again. washington railed against homeroclamation and now that held the south indian people as a new era of government will protect your interest in secure your future. the challenge of american history has been the government in washington by trying and wanting to do in indian country played out very differently. th

george washington. and so, i started working on it. and now, i remember one time when i was working on this, i told a friend of mine what i was doing. they said -- what is a literary life? if you are writing a biography of an author, that is, of course a literary life, but if you are writing a literary life of a statesman or a scientist or someone in any other field, then a literary life is looking at how that person interacted with literature, how they read, what they wrote, and all of the things about their life that concerned books and writing. that's what i have tried to do with george washington. my book is subtitled -- "a life in books." i am looking at george washington not only as a reader, but also as a writer. i think it is something that has not been fully understood or appreciated, was that george washington really was a good writer. not just a letter writer, but some of his pamphlets are really of very fine literary quality. what i thought i would do today is give you a general overview of

washington tried. the horse stayed in the sling for about two days but then it wrestled itself out on -- washington had no choice but to put the horse down. and it broke his heart. but i got all of that from one entry in his diary and then evidence of the checklist of books that he added to his library and suddenly, i was able to put together this whole story of george washington after the accident and the horse breaking its leg and george looking through his most recent book about treating horse diseases. not finding anything in the new book and then going back to the old library and following that recipe -- or that prescription as closely as he could only to be disappointed in the results. the biggest addition to his library after his marriage was when he acquired the books of martha's husband's library. daniel custis. the custis family had generations of book lovers and daniel's father was don custis who was a friend and brother-in-law of william burke. greatest library in the south. after the death

but will washington lawmakers get the message? last week congress enacted some new school safety measures and made modest changes to the background check system for gun purchases. is this all they can get done in an election year? it was another head turning week at the white house. on friday president trump first tweeted out a threat to veto a massive spending package then changed course and signed it just four hours later. saying he wanted to protect military spending increases. >> i say to congress i will never sign another bill like this again. i'm not going to do it again. >> brennan: the disagreements with national security advisor h.r. mcmaster led to his ouster he'll be replaced by ambassador john bolton. presidential attorney john dowd is also out mr. trump said he'd like to be interviewed by special counsel robert mueller but dowd reportedly didn't want him to. worst week in two years as concerns about a trade war intensified after the president's steel and aluminum tariffs went into affect. $60 billion worth of tariffs

washington had been beaten out of new york city. he had lost a battle in white plains in upstate new york. he had retreated across the state of new jersey and across the delaware river. the british had reconquered southern new york and new jersey, and they expected in the spring they would cross the delaware, take philadelphia and wrap this revolution up. but at the end of the year, washington and his troops turned, recrossed the delaware and attacked the hessian these were hired soldiers from germany who were fighting on the british side. they attacked the hessian outpost in the city of trenton, captured 900 soldiers and went on to win the battle of princeton. this wasn't the beginning of the end of the revolutionary war but it was the end of the beginning. it meant the cause would not be itsled in his cradle -- in cradle, that meant the americans could fight and fight back and win and the struggle could go on. speech to the's new jersey legislature, he mentions the crossing of the river, the hessians and the cold and suffering of

she also spoke at today's march in washington. they both marched in washington today. from parkland, florida is another of their fellow students, junior adam bookwall who spoke in parkland, florida. edna, you were up on that stage today. >> i was really nervous. who wouldn't be? >> can i say something about that? you did not appear to be nervous. fl none of these high school speakers up there in washington today appeared to be flefrs. i've got to tell you, we were all standing out there when you would be introduced with your ages and grades. when we were juniors in high school, we couldn't do this. >> i was very nervous. i asked for god to give me the strength and make sure my voice is loud. now i'm here sitting with you. >> some of the people stayed in parkland. how did you make the decision about whether to come here or stay there? >> well, i made a discussion or had a discussion with my advisor. we made the decision that it was best for me to use my skills as a journalist and my passion as an activist and someone that wants to create change to come here where the ac

burg in retaliation for a similar move b washington. so far more than 20 countries have kicked out more than 00 russian intelligence officers in solidarity with the.k. the back story, the kremlin is believed to be behind a chemical poison attack on a former russian spy and his daughte who are living in england. both are now recovering. yet tensions flare on friday when rusha tested its new missile. p presidenin claims the new mitchell is capable of reaching any point on the match. and remarks we've been studying the president and reportsing on him i russi for over a year now. and now this new chip. what toof makt? andrea: the president is sendsing mixed messages. first of all, it's been more than three weeks since that attack and he's not said o word about it. he didn't say a word about to it vlad near putin on the phone and much of the -- to the surprise of his own advisors, he congratulated putin on his own sham ee ctions. weld that he's actually been tougher on the t phonen has been let out. saying if you wa to have an arms race, i'm

he wanted to make it clear that george washington had profited from slavery. in the mural in which he depicted the march of the white race from the atlantic to the pacific, that's a quote of his, he put those gray pioneers literally walking over the dead body of an indian to demonstrate that the settlement of the west was an act of conquest that involved the slaughter of native americans. that was a very bold effort on his part to counter the kind of textbooks that students were seeing and we hope -- i hope he won't be penalized for that in the future. >> thank you. thank you for the public comment. commissioners, no comments? okay. commissioner walton. >> so the things that we're being asked to separate here tonight, one of the very -- one -- thank you to the planning staff for your report this evening and for coming out and explaining the details. one of the -- there are a few major issues i have with the landmark designations. one as a district, regardless of whether or not state rules apply to -- city rules apply to us as state entities, we all know their

washington was part of that washington was part of that expedition. there have been lots of accounts and pictures of washington, and much of the myth and mythology -- many soldiers were killed and wounded, but not washington. there were accounts from people there, which said, we try to kill him, but we couldn't. shots and arrows missed their mark. this was seen as an indication of future greatness, which is what biographers described. if indian people did think that, it is probably not that much different than how washington described it. he attributed it to providence. the british colony is destroyed by a multi-tribal indian army. it is not french troops, the forts they built in the west. those sports are only viable -- viable if the indians who live around them defend them. the frenchdefeating in ohio country is not so much to engage them in battle. away fromin indians french alliances, to neutralize them. washington is involved in the next expedition, which succeeds in capturing the force in the ohio. this is assisted by the scottish expedition of

but washington county, they are scanning. they are counting those ballots are flying through the machines. i hope they're trying through the machines. and any minute now we are going to find out those 1,195 absentee ballots, how did they go? does saccone still have a chance? or is it over? stay with us. you've made it this far. be right back. >>> all right, folks. here is the deal. we are coming up against the top of the hour. we are running out of people here who can even put tv on the air. a couple things i want to say right now. number one, i am not going anywhere. if you have made it this far to try to find out where these absentee ballots land in washington you can stay up and i promise you i will stay up. and the second we find out i will come on and tell you. what's going to happen in a few minutes is i think they're going to go to taped programming. stuff that ran earlier in the evening. please know, stay tuned if you're interested in getting these numbers, because we will break in as soon as we get them. i will do it

washington, to a white house dinner. a generation earlier lincoln, less famously, created a similar outcry when he received african-americans at the executive mansion. the best known episode of the color line enforcement at lincoln's white house is the experience that frederick douglass had on march 4th, 1865, later douglass memorably described how the entrance was guarded, and how the president overruled the guards and how he heartily welcomed the famed black orator. well, douglass, i saw you out there in the audience as i delivered my address. what did you think of it? i have this fantasy, that douglass was thinking, actually, mr. president, the syntax was garbled there toward the end, but otherwise a sacred effort. actually, he said, mr. president, it was a sacred effort. though douglass did not mention in his account of that event the presence of other blacks at the 1865 post inauguration levy was noted in the press, indicating that some other black people were admitted to that reception. the new york herald, for exa

he has spoken at george washington's mt. vernon, valley forming, yorktown and historic sites in boston, new york, philadelphia, and washington, dc. mr. unger is a graduate of the yale university and was a editor at the new york her herald times beforecoming an author. you can find books on his web. he'll discuss "furniture founding father." >> thank you, ladies and gentlemen. nice of you to come out in this rain and it's always an honor for me to stand in the footsteps of george washington here at fraunces tavern museum. as the lady said, my views may not reflect those of the museum, and nor do they reflect the views of the president or the members of congress. actually he don't know whose views they reflect other than own. >> america hat many founding fathers but unknown, william withel, joseph hughes, 56 who signed the declaration of independence, each of them of enormous importance to their community and state in the 1770s, '80s and '90s. most of them are forgotten today along with the 39 founders who signed the constitut

>> no, that was washington county. washington county we knew came in,al ganl allegheny we knew ca we were waiting on two in westmoreland. i say the other possibility here, and i'm trying to get word as fast as i can. the other possibility here is that westmoreland and allegheny are going to be counting their absentee vote. there is the possibility we just got something from the absentees but i think this might have been the last two precincts we were talking about. that might be the election day vote. if that's the election day vote, then what we were just talking about goes doubly because the lion's share doing well in allegheny, the democrats doing especially well in the absentee ballots. >> i have to ask you graphically over your other shoulder the viewers can see, it says 98% in. is that us? will that automatically update, and is 98% kind of the dead top of election day? are the others absentee? >> yes, we're looking at a total here, just some quick math, 53, 55 -- we're looking at about 6,700 absentee ballots here

once again, fr washington, moderateor robert costa. robert: good evening. the friction between russia and the west is escalating.af r the trump administration and a number of u.s. allies moved to expell russians over a nerve agent attack on a former rushingen satisfy inside the kunitedgdom. russia announced it would expel 60 u.s. dip lo malts and close the u.s. consulate in st. pierce. burg in retaliation for a similarhiove by wton. so far more than 20 countries have kicked out more than 00 russian intelligence officers in solidarity with the u.k. the back story, the kremlin is believed to be behind a chemica poison attack on a former russian spy and his daughter who are living in england. a bo now recovering. yet tensions flared on friday new rusha tested its missile. president putin claims the new mitche o is capablef reaching any point on the match. studying s we've been the president and reportsing on him in russia for over ar now. and now this new chip. what to make of it? andrea: the president is sendsing mixed messages. i first of alls been more than

they're on the stage in washington. and you wonder, as you watch this, everyone seems to be angry and united against gun violence and agreed, it's difficult to find anyone who is for more gun violence, everybody typically agrees that that's something that needs to end. the debate how to end it is a lot more complicated. noteworthy part of the manifesto that "march for our lives" put out, talking about demands. one is ban accessories that simulate automatic weapons, aka bump p stocks. that's something that the white house has already done in terms of fixing background checks and trying to close loopholes. the white house will tell you that that's something that they've already done as well, with the latest omnibus funding bill, trying to begin to close the crack that things have fallen through. speaking of the white house, president trump is not in washington right now, he's down in palm beach spending the weekend at mar-a-lago and then at one of his clubs nearby. that's where we find our kevin cork travelling with the p

we see thousands of kids coming to washington, joining our kids from washington, d.c., demanding we get federal action on guns, we couldn't be happier to support them. >> mayor this is not just, we talk about guns in schools, but there are kids here from cities around the country like chicago, we've been talking about, who say, let's just get smart about guns in general. it's not just in the classroom. it's outside the classroom where a lot of kids in this country die from gun violence as well. >> absolutely. we're here. not only to support safety in schools, but safety in cities across america we had a young man in our city killed, zahir kelly, whose brother is going to be here to remember him. we want to have common-sense gun laws, there's no reason to have assault-style weapons in our city, or bump stocks, high-capacity magazines. no reason why we can't have universal background checks, so from state to state, we have some unanimity. right across the bridge is virginia, we can control our laws here. we need to have a federal law that protects everybody. >> we look at this aerial view

this march is going to take place in a few weeks in washington. but what do you want to achieve by helping the students go down? >> so first let me say thank you for the invite and it's good to be here this evening with you. our goal is to allow young people's voices to be heard. we didn't even know the young people were marching down to city hall, but when we did hear that they were coming i thought it important to receive them because when you have these many young people who are afraid and frightened to be in our classrooms, or asking you to help them go out and want to have you hear their voices, they did not necessarily even know about the margin washington, some of them, but many of them wanted their voices to be heard in terms of the violence that's happening in our city, in our country and throughout this nation. they want their voices to be heard and we thought it was important to address them, to welcome them and at the same time we reached out as a city close to washington asking if we would be interested in helping young people to get

olympia, washington. joining us now is fifth-generation washingtonian governor jay in sleep -- governor jay inslee. >> good morning. ofnow that you are the head a state, before that you were in the house of representatives. how does policy made in d.c. affect things happening in washington state? >> we have decided to be masters of our own destiny. we are not waiting for the d.c.s happening in washington fake washington. we are the real washington state and we are seizing control of our own destiny and not paying that much attention in some sense. we are passing net neutrality. we are passing an opioid crisis intervention. a better way to finance college education. we have an infrastructure plan that is improving our transportation sector and we are andg all of these things not waiting for the other washington. our view is the real washington is here. the most beautiful washington is in washington state and we are moving the needle and i am very excited about the progress we have made. i just finished a l

a big number out of washington county. i think he's got to do probably better than he did in the election day vote there. he's got to probably improve on that 53%. you could get a big number, multiply it into the 1,200 outstanding ballots. maybe he could start to eat into it. it is a massive stack against him but you can understand why he's not questioning up yet, it's an exciting hour, it's early morning, you're awake with me. we've got an election coming down to absentee and we get to watch it together. don't go to sleep, what would be the point of staying up this late and going to sleep now? i know you're supposed to work in the morning, so am i, who cares, we're going to be talking about this 50 years from now. joining us now, kaitlin huey burns, national political reporter for "real clear politics." jason johnson, politics editor at the root.com and nbc contributor. jason, let's go bigger context to start with. whatever happens tonight, we've seen a 20-point swing in this district from the 2016 result won by trump, it

tonight on "washington week." president trump: i say to congrs i wil never sign another bill like this again. robert: a defiant president trump pushes back against signing a budget bill. the threat of a government shutdown capped off a wild week of staff shakeups and surprise resignidions. the prent continues to reshuffle his foreign policy be , n john bolton t his third national security advisor. does the appointmentfolton, a hardliner who supports a preemptive strike agait nor korea and iran, signal a cad -- radical shift in foreign policy? and theepture of john dowd, the president's lead attorney in the russia probe and t addition of the hard-charging federal prosecutor joseph digeno. we discuss it allith geoff bennett of nbc news. nancy youssef of "the wall street journal" journal. jackie calmes of the los angeles times and dan balz of the ton post." >> this is "washington week." rporate funding is provided by -- >> their leadership is instinctive. they understand the challenges of today and research the techn

said well washington's no no you guys have to sit down and work this out here i mean earl isn't it remarkable how many borders around the world the united states protects and it doesn't protect its own border go ahead earl finish up. you know it's. interesting. we have more concern over other. countries security than we do our own sometimes but. you know there's other political regions in that because there's both lobbying groups on the military side lobbying groups for for other countries that have a significant influence on what's going on and it's not necessarily for america first unfortunately i think would be better handled maybe facilitating regional discussions and actual talking to people would be much more beneficial i think for global peace but i don't necessarily think global peace is is the major objective i think it's almost a disruption you know what is the objective well it's a gemini is the goal ok i mean that's that's the goal in washington you know dan you know if i could just go astray just a little bit here you know i'm sure you've been following the ups and downs in the s

for george washington, we were strangers mustered around your flag. we supported the cause of american freedom from the very start and we shed our blood to help make it a reality. the united way, states helped build modern ireland, one that is prosperous and at peace, self-confidence in our place in the world, no longer an island on the edge of europe, but an island at the center of the world. in my own office i keep and i treasure a small collection of speeches and letters by one of your greatest presidents, president lincoln. there is a crisis or controversy and there is no obvious solution to it, i find wisdom in the words of that first great republican president. resident lincoln believed as he said, when we talk we are only repeating what we are already knowing. but if we listen we may learn something new. president trump and i had a good meeting earlier today and by talking and listening we both learned things that will help our countries move forward together. president lincoln was memorialized in verse for all time by the poet walt whitman. wr

finally, it's tough to be in washington as we've already heard. and i'm not talking about those shrinking budgets. the president has called journalists the opposition party. there's confusion caused by fake news, reporting mistakes, social media bots, social media vitreeal. we don't really understand all the complexities and psychologies of communicating in the digital world. and we're a little bit stuck. the country's broken into tribes. there's no clear path forward towards a unified front. and in these times the country needs good and reliable journalism more than ever. today i'm more of a news consumer than a journalist, but i've come to deeply appreciate how wise the founding fathers were to give the press the protection they need to fulfill the absolutely necessary and essential role in our democracy. [ applause ] i remain a very optimistic american. there are so many good people who are determined that we will find that way forward in this chaotic time in our national life, whether it's the ladies marching in their pink hats or the sheer nu

in washington d.c. level off that interference and effectively buy influence or what it should be bribing people close to the president for interestingly this is a different catalyst for it the middle east absolutely government eyes kind of the possible rule or russia. and the recent american election i think does a scandal or at least issue what initially can be way more significant and way more serious for for american politics and also makes you realize what we seeing happening here in this region it's just not going to end anytime soon there is a lack of trust of this administration or the thing so there are they know they are you know the they are. the believe on the american is sincere on the finding solutions the different dynamic in the administration the changing of politicians this actually makes things more complicated i don't think so this lack of trust will increase up at the of the mr nation i think this will make most of the crisis actually on hold for for for maybe a long time. unfortuna

i can tell you that washington, d.c. police, they say that they are preparing for some 500,000 people. again, the march starts in about another four hours from now. we're expecting speakers to take to that stage. and we're also expecting celebrity performances, audraey hudson, all taking the stage with the same message which is that they are pushing for the stricter gun laws. organizers are very clear to say that the march that is happening here today is only the beginning. this is not by any means the punctuation at the end of the sentence. this is just the beginning of their movement. you remember yesterday the trump administration announced that they were proposing a rule to ban bump stocks which is essentially that gun accessory that allows for an individual to use a gun in an automatic manner. but the people coming out here today say that by no means is enough. they want to see the purchasing age raised, they also want to see a ban on assault type weapons. so we do know that lawmakers, some will be here, many have l

and to talk about the tone in washington. one of the things i have pointed a lot about since my return in september is a fact that even though we have real divisions in our politics, there are true, genuine friendships. whatever you might see a. -- whatever you might see up here, we do build relationships with our colleagues on both sides of the aisle. if you look at the friends we have had that have come out in support, even nancy pelosi war and al issued hat when all members went to second base and said a prayer before the start of the congressional baseball game. [applause] thank you for that. think mike doyle -- i want to thank the two coaches for the teams, republican and democrat, 50 the game raises about $500,000 which is pretty impressive. for local charities. it generates support for a lot of people. you get about 10,000 people to come out. maybe that is a lot for a few teams that are having trouble out there. maybe the padres might enjoy 10,000 people. for us, 10,000 people, that's a big deal. after the shooting, th

i mean, this is what i don't understand about washington. again, you know, i'm not from this place, but the places i come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense. and then there was the public undermining of the secretary of state by the president, sending family to do work that would normally be done by america's chief diplomat, and public shaming on twitter, like this. "i told rex tillerson, our wonderful secretary of state, that he's wasting his time trying to negotiate with little rocket man." there's not much love lost between donald trump and rex tillerson, they disagreed on policy and didn't much like each other personally. mike pompeo will be much more to donald trump's taste and it's vital they do get on, given the importance of subjects like north korea. but will he be the man who says to the president "i think you're wrong" as rex tillerson did? tillerson was isolated, traipsing around the world with little support in washington. in his previous life, the former ceo of exxon was a corporate titan, but he's now politic

to tell us of all naaman in washington cost and then now we know who he is what can we expect from my secretary of state pub pio. well i think my poem play a would be much closer aligned with donald trump than his predecessor so the put it positively we might see a more coherent approach in this administration when it comes to foreign policy because the problem with rex tillerson was for all allowances stretches of his tenure that the people who met him foreign leaders were never quite sure whether what they heard from rex tillerson and what his views were really played along with want on the trump thought and said and so this might change a little bit i think. my compare you and don and trump i'm much more on the same page and also within the state department there is some hope we hear that because my campaign has the ear of the president at the state department and its expertise might be more in demand here many civil servants in the state department that day was left out because their boss the chief diplomats was left out of the on the trumps in a circle so there are some of them i

washington, to a white house dinner. lincoln,ion earlier, less famously, created a similar outcry when he received african-americans at the executive mansion. the best-known episode of the caller line enforcement -- color line enforcement at lincoln's white house is the experience that frederick douglass had on march 4, 1865. famouslyuglass recounted how guards denied him the entrance to lincoln's second inauguration, and how the president had once overruled the guards, and how he heartily welcomed the famed black orator. i saw you inass, the audience as i delivered my address. what did you think of it? i have a fantasy that douglas was thinking actually, mr. president, the biblical allusion you misapplied -- you used you misapplied and your syntax was garbled toward the end, but it was actually a sacred effort. he really said mr. president, it was a sacred effort. so douglass did not mention his account of that event the presence of other blacks of the 1865 post-inauguration levy. but it was indicated in the press, indi

we talked to somebody in washington county. they said there are 14 military ballots in that entire county. they're going to have a week to get those in and count those, but there's a total of 14 at the most. you can expect low numbers. i think the rest of the district might be an area where saccone could cut into the lead, but again, not going to be many ballots there. provisional, let's see, the expectation, the provisional, a couple hundred by the way, low hundreds total. the expectation is maybe the allegheny portion of those are more favorable toward lamb. others more republican, maybe issues that would help saccone. that's it. you're going to have scores, dozens or scores of military votes. low hunches dreds of provisiona. saccone needs a big number out of washington county. i think he's got to do better than he did in the election day vote. he's got to improve on that 53%. you can get a big number, multiply it into that 1200 of outstanding ballots. maybe he could start to eat into it. the math is stacked against him, but

like it in washington. tell us about what happened in parkland today. >> the turnout was so unbelievable. we had about 30 thousand are rr people come today. it was so unbelievable. we had people all around town, other towns. it was so great. we had several students come canning up today. >> president and michelle obama tweeted today "michelle and i are so inspired by all the young people who made today's marches happen. keep that. nothing can can stand in the way of millions of voices calling for change." what does it mean to you when the former president and first lady send that message to you? >> it means a lot. it really means a lot. even people who didn't know my name until now, it meant a lot. it it showed me that my words do matter and my voice especially does matter and people like even got emotional about the words i was speaking, the truth i was speaking. it's something magical, empowering and something that makes me feel more resilient than i already am. >> there's a lot of talk on the stage about

senior here in washington, d.c. i'm here to represent the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of students who live in every day in constant paranoia and fear on their way to and from school. at this moment, please raise your hand if you have been affected by gun violence to honor the ones you have lost. today i raise my hand in honor kelly.win brother zair was shot on september 20, 2017 on his way home from a competitive college afterschool program called college-bound. would a personality that light up a room. he was energetic and full of dreams and aspirations. he was our team captain on the track team. he was running for student governor president. he was a youth councilmember. he aspired to be a reference excited and attend florida a&m university for undergrad. best dressero the i knew with the best style. [cheers] he was a person, a leader, and aspirer, not just another statistic. i was in contact with zaire while he was home, contacting him through the night was that about 20 to 30 minutes went by and i became

washington's mission, washington's first foray into the ohio country, comes with a command of militia to defeat the french, which is a disaster, and resulted in the murder of a french ensign. it is described as if washington is orchestrating these events and is given credit for the skirmish that started the war that made america. i and other scholars believe the person who really orchestrated that event was the half-king. he had boasted to the french he would drive them off the land. he had to the indian peoples of the ohio country behind him -- had the indian peoples of the ohio country behind him. this didn't happen. i assumed this was primarily to bolster his declining influence. in the course of the skirmish, in which virginians squared wtih the french, george washington, who is usually pretty meticulous about military engagements, describes this. but according to other accounts we have, french officers were wounded, and there are documents of the one -- is similar to the one washington had carried, asking the english to withdraw. he woke up to him and spoke to him in french sayin

i can tell you, though, when i went to washington to work for bobby kennedy, washington was a cd place. it wasn't filled with money. there were no beautiful restaurants and rich places that were watering holes with heavy silverware and napkins. washington was, it had cockroaches, a lot of them, and when we went back in the 1970s to work at the federal trade commission, it was already changing. washington was already getting richer and richer. in the 1980s, something happened to the american corporation and american politics. i don't know that they were directly related, but they are important in terms of understanding this precedents to donald trump because the american corporation we had the phenomenon of the corporate raiders, people who took out big loans, we call that junk loans, junk debt and used it to purchase companies and made companies forget they had responsibilities to their employees as well as their shareholders. in fact, i don't know how many of you recall the raiders, i used to argue with them on television and i said no, you don't want to do this pretty can't just take

it did not run in the "washington post." the post pulled the curtain because it was a pro eisenhower paper. mr. block was pro stephenson. they felt that mr. block's opinion of eisenhower failing to control mccarthy and nixon went too far. might perhaps persuade voters not to vote for him. it didn't run. it did run in the areas where mr. block was syndicated in the other newspapers. what you need to know about this cartoon, "washington post" readers missed it. they knew a cartoon had appeared elsewhere. it hadn't appeared their home town paper. they are angry. "washington post" ran every single cartoon that mr. block chose to draw after that. he had a lot of power at the post as a cartoonist. web see that mr. block's art style evolved from that midwestern pen and ink drawn to very loose drawing style. he used whiteout both as a way to control his mistakes and enhance his i believe. on this canoe being guided by president kennedy, he's got budget written in whiteout on top of the ink and pencil so that it stand out in his cart

doug joins us from washington, d.c. where that inner circle term oil could be on full display today. doug. >> reporter: good morning. well, ivanka trump and her husband came to washington with the big splash and members of the president's immediate family, the closest of the advisers now the roles are in question at a critical time. president trump's inner circle is growing tighter by the day. and what once seemed to be unbreakable white house bonds between the president and first daughter ivanka and son-in-law jared kushner are weakening. >> questions about with jared cur kushner have unsettled that dynamic of family and trust that is so important for any president to have. >> reporter: kushner whose portfolio includes spotting a new way forward for mideast peace should be front and center with benjamin netanyahu visiting the white house. but he faces new questions about his family's business interests and security clearance was recently downgraded. some who have been close to trump saw the potential for these kinds of

as if all that mattered in education was a sign-off from washington. or, perhaps worse yet, fear of what would happen if an aptly-described "brutalist" building in southwest washington, d.c., didn't like your ideas. my predecessors, from both parties, often fell into the trap of a top-down approach, too often ignoring those who walk side-by-side with students every day. that's not to say i question their motives. education is a unique issue in public life. everyone agrees with the desired outcome. everyone wants students to be prepared for successful careers and fulfilling lives. and the truth is -- we need that to be the case. except too many folks believe they should pursue that good end by centralizing federal power and wielding it aggressively. as a result, you were threatened with inquiries, audits, and even fines if you didn't comply with the politics of the day in this town. i'm committed to a different approach. we won't weaponize waivers to compel you to adopt this administration's politics. if we wanted to dictate from d.c., i'd claim the man

that's a report in the "the washington post" tonight. the white house has just released this tweet from the press secretary saying just spoke to potu and general h.r. mcmaster contrary to reports they have a good working relationship and there are no changes at the nsc. we will discuss that later in this hour and balance it with what we have learned from "the washington post" tonight. that is simply a tweet from the white house press secretary, so its credibility is whatever you want to assign to it. here is what the president told the "new york times" last july about the special prosecutor investigating his finances. >> if mueller is looking at your finances and your family's finances unrelated to russia, is that a red line? >> would that be a breech of what his actual charge is? >> i would say yes. >> when asked if crossing that red line would lead to firing robert mueller, donald trump said, quote, i can't answer that question because i don't think it's going to happen. well, now it has happened, so what is the president going to do?

if that holds in washington right now, rick saccone is winning 53% in washington county. if lamb improves 11 points there as he did in westmoreland, and lamb is winning absentee, maybe by substantial margin. opportunity if this pattern holds to build on the 579. between 1:00 and 3:00 a.m. expecting to get the absentee ballots from washington. they're up late and promised to get us the numbers. are greene, 2% of the district down here. 200 absentee ballots there. we'll see but on paper hard for saccone to make up the 579. only thing after that, provision provisional ballots, went to the tend to favor drats, maybe a big margin. historically, military ballots, maybe dozens, maybe 100, 150. tent to favor republicans. but looking at probably military ballots canceled out by provisional. to get that 579, hard to see saccone come up with it. see why he's waiting, we all will. maybe wants recount and that law come into play. but lamb is holding to the lead. if you're democrat got to be feeling good, if you're republican, up against it at this hour. speaking of -- sorry, going to

people are still mad at washington. even though trump is in the white house, there's a lot of dysfunction. >> one of the things that happens in these is you're worried -- there was a lot of concern in the party, can a conor lamb take advantage of the energized democrats while still reaching over and appealing to republicans? would there be sort of a -- you know, less energy on the democratic side? that's clearly not happening either. it didn't happen in alabama either. in fact, we had massive turnout on the democratic side. it's actually possible to have all this energy on the democratic side at the same time with the right messenger pull in enough republicans or at least scare the -- >> 65% of the vote in. conor lamb ahead. still too close to call. the race is tightening. we're going to take a look at exactly where the votes have already come in and where they have yet to come in. obviously that's crucial. we'll continue our special coverage right after this. there's little rest for a single dad. and back pain made it

the age of micromanagement from washington for sacramento is over as far as i'm concerned. governor brown is right because the imperative to do something shouldn't have to come from washington. it shouldn't have to come from your state capitol. the imperative to do better comes from the students. we are accountable to them. better to try something new than to just hope for a better result because hope alone is not a strategy. students don't have time to waste while adults hope the plan will work. that's why our plans aren't set a ceiling. there is no ceiling on what students can achieve. these plans merely established the floor. let me put it this way. we don't evaluating foot tall team solely on who has the better game plan on paper. we evaluate them by what happens on the field. the real work lies ahead because there is much more to be done. we must all do better to prepare our students for success in the 21st century and beyond. students need learning environments that are agile, relevant and exciting. every student deserves a customized and challenging lifelong learning

i'm chris matthews in washington. it's the latest sign that the party of trump should hit the panic button. democrat conquer lamb pulled off a stunning upset in last night's special electioning in pennsylvania. deep in the heart of trump country. nbc news declared lamb the an apparent winner early this morning. an ominous sib for republicans in november. trump carried that same district by 20 points in 2016. overall democratsage overperformed in the eight special elections since 2016 by an average of more than 12 points compared to the presidential race in '16. last night's contest became a litmus test of sorts for the president and his party. today some republicans expressed a sense of dread. >> if you're a republican in a safe seat, you'd better be ready. >> i don't think you need to be alarmed but certainly need to be reflective on what happened. >> every race is a wake-up call. see what we did right and what we did wrong. >> the president who travelled to the district twice dispatched two of his children there, hi

toward washington, etc. but what about lucy stenson from vicksburg or the private riley from frozen hours, the korean war.are those people or are they made up? >> they are composites generally. it's very rare to find a single example of a g.i. . to find a g.i. was everywhere i need him to be to tell the story. that's not saying that i make it all off but typically i will start with a real figure and then as i'm doing the research, i find out more information, more events and i felt pomposity the events into this one character so that the character can still tell you the whole story. everything happened, it's all accurate, just maybe not to this one guy or lucy spence is an excellent example. i love the character. this is in the siege of vicksburg with the union army. >> host: chain of thunder when the union army is seeking vicksburg. >> guest: the people in vicksburg, they are trapped along with the confederate army . that's really the first time i had a significant civilian character you are seeing a point

let's go to gary o'donoghue in washington. they are expecting hundreds of thousands of people, that's what the organisers say here in washington as well as those other rallies right around the country, and indeed, around the country, and indeed, around the country, and indeed, around the world, too. there's one in london. we expect them in other places as well. they are asking for something sippel, they are asking to go to school and safe when they go to school. it doesn't sound like much but it is a controversial area, gun control in america, it is incredibly hard to do. what florida stu d e nts incredibly hard to do. what florida students have managed to do since the shooting on valentine's day is keep their school, their tragedy and the wider issue of safety in school right at the top of the agenda. here is my colleague chris buckler. parkland students have travelled hundreds of miles from florida from the school where their classmates and teachers were killed, a shooting that many of them survived. in washington, they've a

visit directvnow dot com washington, d.c. >>> my name is yolanda renee king. i'm the granddaughter of martin lieu ther king. my grandfather had a dream that people would not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. i have a dream that enough is enough. that this should be a gun-free world, period. will you please repeat these words after me. spread the word. have you heard. all across the nation. we are going to be, a great generation. >> i mean, ladies and gentlemen, she is 9 years of age. that was yolanda king, dr. king's granddaughter makeing tht surprise appearance here on the stage in washington, and the message harkens back 55 years ago to the march on washington for jobs and freedom and more than 200,000 people of all races, ethnicities and ages marched here to demand a civil rights bill. and so now, joining us is the host of urban view on gshgs sirius xm, and it is so nice to see you. >> i knew that child when she was born. and i have seen her at different event, and martin have been close for a long time. >> and to