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An alarm box near the front enterance of the whitehouse designed to alert guards to the intruder was muted at the request of the ushers office. A secret Service Working spoke on this. You can read more at Washington Post website. There will be testimony before the live House Committee at 10 a. M. Eastern. And next remarks from steny hoyer at the National Press club and then we will hear from John Huntsman who served as the ambassador to chaina. Our debate coverage continues. Tuesday night at 9 e...

Differences would be because they are not debating. There is no such thing as regular order. The senator has rubber stamped the policy and im sure it is requested by president obama to shut down the senate until after the election. You need to understand the delay in the mandate and amnesty are all issues on the ballot and you have an opportunity to stop it. Moderator do you want to ask the next question . The keystone pipeline. I think that you need to build the keystone pipeline. I voted again...

Obamas decisions on afghanistan, including up to the decision to seek the strategic agreement with the afghans that would keep a residual force there after the end of this year. But there were two aspects of the war in afghanistan that troubled me. One was the president s suspicion of the motives of the senior military, particularly when it came to the recommendations on afghanistan. And the second was what you describe. As i told rahm when i met with him, i dont mind that the president speaks o...

Tonight, thank you. You are watching booktv, television for serious readers. You can watch any program you see your online at booktv. Org. National geographic, mars up close has been written by marc kaufman. What is your background to write about Space Exploration . My background is as a journalist long time and not as a science journalist. I was a Foreign Correspondent for the Philadelphia Inquirer and the washington post. What i learned was being in Foreign Countries is a good way of learning ...

Help up here on the hill and we lose months. We move loose four, five, six months to hire Replacement Program or we dont have time. So shipbuilding gets held up. Projects get held up. People were tired and that loses that trust with the industry. So precluding getting sequestered as helpful and in the continuing resolutions having a similar effect in that we are not doing any new projects and some of these are pretty critical as we move into the years and need to modernize. Senator the first com...

Absolutely. Yes senator. General wasser wants to ask you about comments that have come to my attention that were reported to have been made by Major General james post the Vice Commander of air combat command and he is reported to make these comments when addressing a group of airmen this month. What he is said to have made in comments to the airman was anyone who was passing information to congress about a 10 capabilities is committing treason and is part of those comments he also said if anyon...

For example in wales who was edgar snows wife. There were a lot of them and some of them stayed on. A polish jewish refugee who went to china early in the war to escape the nazis became a member of the Chinese Communist party stayed in china until his death a thing. He was still there. I met him 1980 or 1981 at the American Embassy of all places. Thank you. [applause] their books for sale and you can bring them back here for him to sign. [inaudible conversations] booktv recently visited wheeling...

Something on monument avenue that does not reflect that segregationist past. The result was this arthur ashe statue, which is pretty big. Not as big as jeff davis, but its pretty big. Its pretty large. So moving away from virginia, though, im sort of curious yeah, matt . In doing a paper, i actually came across an article that was in the southern southeastern geographer, and the article explored the symbolic meaning of lee to the city. This is about richmond. It is now mostly africanamerican. An...

He gave a speech which i wont quote at length. But wallaces speech was very, very clear. The country should, quote, look to the south, end quote, as the true defender, quote, of the rights of states and individuals. Wallace also said that the country was on the brink of civil warfare. That also is a quote. And told his colleagues in the senate that if they passed a public accommodations bill, mandating that public accommodations be open, regardless of color, this is wallace, quote, you should ma...

Professor marisa chappell. This is 1 hour 45 minutes. So, today were talking about the war on poverty, and the urban crisis in the late 1960s in the United States. And were looking at the ways in which the black Freedom Movement raised the issues of poverty, and of racial disadvantage. Really to a level of national attention, and National Action that we havent really seen at any time since. So i want to start just by well, first i should lead you through the outline quickly. Well talk about the ...