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This morning, president obama nominated former Defense Department official Ashton Carter to be his fourth defense secretary. He would replace chuck hagel. Mr. Carter has served in a number of roles within the department as defense secretary from 2011 to 2013. Watch the president s announcement of his nomination at cspan. Org. The cspan cities tour takes book tv and American History tv on the road traveling to u. S. Cities to learn about their history. This weekend we visit waco, texas. As we beg...

So we specialize in only north korea. We do it daytoday, which is in the slow summer days of august can be very, very difficult. You know, we are really struggling sometimes to find leads for stories to do something original and its those times when personally it does get to you and you just wish this could be a bit more of a normal country and access and get in and interview various people and find leads for content. Thats something that troubles me a lot. And its something in the long term if ...

General steve lenic. That starts at 10 00 a. M. Eastern live on c span 3. Here a few of the comments weve recently received from our viewers. Im in my 80s and im a big fan on c span, i want to complement them on being able to bring together two different ie deologies like they did this morning from the Kato Institute and the immigration policy center. I think you need more programming that way among people that can conduct themselves with a very civil tone. I applaud you for that. Thank you very...

Country. There was a women in the Law Conference i attended at i think the first one was at yale. And we were getting out materials to i rode with my friends, herman cain and kenneth davidson, one of the published cases on sex discrimination and the law. But we came to see by the way, i should say who the we were. A brilliant lawyer, marvin kilpack, he was one of the general counsel. He spotted in law week what he said is going to be the turning point gender discrimination case. The year is 1970...

West africa countries, we want to ask you this morning about your opinion of the level of confidence that you have in the federal government to handle ebolaouts breaks in the u. S. If youre confident of the government ability to do so. Somewhat confidence, and not too confident if you want to put on our social media pages, a poll on our facebook page, you can email us too at journal at cspan. Org. Polling put out a poll asking a question similar to this one and using the same categories about pe...

The flagship collection we have here in corpus. He made it his life to help local and beyond mexican americans learn to be more civically active and to get the benefits they had coming to them as veterans which were sometimes very difficult for them to obtain. This represents a case of private longoria which was an incident that occurred early in the g. I. Forum. Private longoria served the United States during world war ii and was killed by a japanese sniper toward the end of the war. His widow...

Bart Officials Say they did not ask facebook to remove the page. More than 450 people have posted they will be attending the event. Investigators believe a person may have deliberately started a fire in vallejo that break out between abandoned commercial building and an old victorian on georgia street last night. The flames spread into the home and firefighters called for backup and received help from as far away as fairfield. The red cross is helping the family who lives in the home. The theft ...

Protesters around the country demanding justice for the shootings of unarmed black men. They marched down the walk of fame in the heart of hollywood protesting what they believe is Excessive Force by police. Christy smith is in berkley with more protests that are planned tonight. Whats the latest . Reporter that demonstration just Getting Started here on the edge of the uc berkley campus. You can see the group there across the street. We just heard some of the chanting going on. Kind of a wide n...

Of businesses had boards over their windows. We spoke with two demonstrators, one who said he had not been to a protest before, but he felt compelled to come out. That group walked down telegraph avenue. We have seen some of them circle back around into the neighborhood. This does follow three straight nights of demonstrations in oakland. Some of them going over the west oakland bart station. That had to be shut down. This follows again several nights over the past two weeks were demonstrators h...

Traffic. Is it friday light . So far. We have one accident in Mountain View but our eyes are kept open for the possible bart protests. If you normally take bart have a contingency plan in place and southbound direction on 101 is moving well. At the Golden Gate Bridge it is empty. Speaking of the protests this morning it could delay your commute on bart. Protesters are pushing to get charges dropped against 14 colleagues arrested in a demonstration in november. They have other demands, as well an...