Declaration of rights, was a delegate to the federal convention in philadelphia, but refused to sign the constitution because it did not include a bill of rights. Gunston hall. I am the education manager here. I am very excited to give you a tour today. We are standing in front of the house right now. And 1759ilt in 1755 and was the home of george mason and his first wife. If you look at the house, the carving and decoration outside, tells us that george mason belonged to the strata of society he thought he did. Man. S a wealthy the house tells us that in the details. The driveway you come up was lined, in his lifetime, with cherry trees. Ever addon to the house. The house you see now is what mason built in 1769. Its kind of interesting because most other Founding Fathers did add third floors or wings, like mount vernon and monticello. Saw people like jefferson and others of the founding generation going into deep debt doing things like this. Today we would think of it as keeping up wi
2027488002. You can send an email at cspan. Org. Front page of the wall street times and New York Times obama begins a 60 day campaign to win over skeptics at home and abroad. And Washington Post, obama says nuclear deal scathes off war. President there are two alternatives. Either the issue of Nuclear Weapons are resolved diplomatically through negotiations or its resolved through force through war. Those are the options. Now, youll hear some critics say, we could have negotiated a better deal. What does that mean . I think the suggestion among a lot of the critics that a better deal and acceptable deal would be one in which iran has no Nuclear Capacity peaceful or otherwise. The problem with that position is that there is nobody who thinks that iran would or could ever accept that and the International Community does not take the view that iran cant have a Peaceful Nuclear program. They agree with us that iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon. Host the New York Times says the president u
Hear what the Federal Reserve says about Interest Rates after wrapping up its today policy meeting. Its twoday policy meeting. A survey by bloomberg put the odds of a september increase at about 50 . In china, a late rally in stocks. The composite the shanghai composite index rose 3. 4 halting a fallen a fallen one at 11 . The government reports Oil Inventory figures a few hours from now. The congressional review of the Iran Nuclear Deal is entering a new phase today. Managers will hear from defense secretary ash carter and joint chief martin dempsey. House panel quiz secretary of state john kerry yesterday. The more jack dorsey kept talking, the more twitter stocks fell. Down as much as 14 premarket the stock went up yesterday when twitter posted secondquarter revenue that beat estimates. Jack dorsey have not yet had meaningful impact on growing our audience or participation. This is unacceptable and we are not happy about it. Over the past few weeks i have had a deeper understanding
Al qaeda leaders as they plotted the 9 11 attacks. An afghan official says omar died two to three years ago across the border in pakistan. The taliban says the group will release a statement shortly. Congress will question pentagon officials today about that iran nuclear deal. A Senate Committee want to know how the agreement could affect the military balance in the middle east. Yesterday, secretary of state john kerry test of ride before a house committee. All makers from both parties sounded skeptical about irans promise not to build atomic weapons. Matt microsofts new operating system windows 10 was released at midnight. It sparked a surge of computer buying but that is unlikely this time. Still, microsoft Vice President told bloomberg that this launch is very important. This is a pretty significant launch for anybody who uses pcs and wants to get things done with technology. We have had big window launches that have brought in things like enabling the internet to happen. I think wi
President ial nominees were on him. He already hedging his bets because hes used to buying politicians. If you missed the beginning it started with some fireworks. Evening im julie haener. And im frank somerville. The top 10 candidates for republican president faced each other. Jana katsuyama has the story. Reporter there were hike stakes to see who could trump donald trump. Reporter the first question was squarely aimed at trump. Raise your hand no if you wont make that pledge tonight. Mr. Trump. Reporter only donald trump raised his hand drawing immediate fire from kentucky senator rand paul. Hes already hedging his bets. Reporter the big differences came on immigration. Jeb bush taking a moderate line. There should be earned legal status for those who are here. We need jeb, to build a wall. We need to keep illegals out. Reporter trump the fire line front runner. Because our leaders are stupid. Our politicians are stupid. The Mexican Government send the criminals out here. Reporter c