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[inaudible conversations] host Michael Tanner nice to be with you. To date we will discuss your book going for broke. We will start to talk about what prompted you to write this book . Guest one thing that has frustrated believe these people stopped paying attention to the debt crisis that they think we have beaten it because the deficit is down a lot in the last couple of years than people think that will solve the problem but the reality is we are in a very temper revel and within a year or so...

Wayses, and the exciting thing that ive been a part of is to watch in one single day as we voted on american amendments in one day of this year than we did in all of 2014. Right now if you look at i think the numbers weve passed over 60 bills, most of which were bipartisan. 25 of which have been signed into law. Rose Doris Kearns Goodwin on Lyndon Johnson a new documentary about william f. Buckley jr. And gore vidal and al hunt on the story with colorado senator cory gardner. All of that when we...

President johnson even if we pass this bill, the battle will not be over. What happened in selma is part of a Larger Movement that reaches into every section and state of america. It is the effort of american negroes to secure for themselves the full blessings of American Life. Their cause must be our cause, too. Because its not just negroes but really it is all of us that must overcome the crippling legacy of bigotry and injustice. And we shall overcome. [applause] charlie you must look at that...

Get your hands up high. Absolutely incredible scene. Gunbattle in the middle of broadway. A small army of policeman carrying shotguns, National Guardsmen writing jeeps. Bodies of several negroes who had been shot already stretched out beside the curb. A great sent acres of broken glass. Now, this hunt, like something out of a bad war movie, a western perhaps heard policeman on the rooftops. The streets. They found the men they were after trade\ \. That was part of the civil war fought on the str...

Get back to the heart of who we really are. You had a question in. Yes. Well take some questions. Congressman ryan was talking about there is a microphone there. Congressman ryan was talking about emphasizing what succeeds and what fails. I would argue that the problem with facing the Poverty Program is a failure to reduce poverty. They have an enormous political success. And that the politics of American Cities are based on failure at this point, on failed programs. And so to talk about what we...

George w. Bush. A big difference between terrorists and teenage daughters is that on occasion you can successfully negotiate with terrorists. So i wish my daughters listened to me a little bit more. Congressman John Radcliff from texas, 4th congressional district, we appreciate your time. You bet. Thank you. Tonight on cspan3, American History tv in primetime with archival footage from reel america series. Up next, News Coverage of the 1965 watts riots in los angeles. Then a series of government...

International business machines. Ibm presents cbs reports watts riot or revolt . Bill has covered the watts story from the moment the rioting began. Three months ago on this street in los angeles, california, violence produced all this. A local riot or a revolt . Part of a National Social revolution. A carnival of hoodlums or a professional social illness . Most puzzling of all, if it was a riot, why did it happen here in the community thought to be least caught up in racial tensions . A frenchm...

Behind the rights, commissioned by governor pat brown, which concludes high unemployment, poor schools and Living Conditions and Police Abuses were the main colleges the main causes of community unrest. Get your hands up high. You can list them higher than that. The first one drops their hands is dead. [gunshot] absolutely incredible scene. Gunbattle in the middle of broadway. In the streets of los angeles. [explosion] a small army of policeman , most of them carrying shotguns. National guardsme...

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From most major airports. More information for your vacation planning is available at aruba. Com. And now, bbc world news. This is bbc world news america. Im urging a. A massive setback for the Republican Party. They promised to chart a new half on health care, but they cannot seem to repeal or replace the existing system. I can tell you the republicans are not going to own it. We will let obamacare fail, and democrats are going to come to us saying, how do we fix it yet go fix it . A woman is f...