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[ applause ] ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the National Constitution center, and happy Constitution Day [ applause ] it is so exciting to welcome you here on the 230th birthday of the u. S. Constitution, and weve had such an exciting morning. Weve heard from ken burns and lynn novak, interviewed by David Rubenstein about their new vietnam documentary. We heard from the plaintiffs in the brown versus board of education korematsu and tinker cases. Their descendants came to talk about their experiences in those crucial cases. And now were going to hear about what every american should know abo...

Cases. Their descendants came to talk about their experiences in those crucial cases. And now were going to hear about what every american should know about the Constitutional Convention and the founding documents from the person in america whos done more to increase Public Awareness of those documents than anyone else. David rubenstein has had an extraordinary career. Early on in washington, he worked as chief counsel for the Senate Judiciary committee under bey, and itor birch bo want to take a moment to honor senator bey, whos about to turn 90. He was the only living american who was centra...

About the National Security apparatus, do they have what they need post9 11 from the federal government . Or are there still things outstanding that they would like to be done . He mentioned that he felt spread were thinly because the threat has morphed into different countries. There talking about how is a priority on whats going on with prices in the philippines, africa, he even mentioned north africa. I got the impression that he feels like the resources were spread thin. Washe big event this week about ambush in niger, are there more questions to be asked . Do we know enough about whats ha...

Watch the new night at 9 00 eastern and pacific here on cspan. Cspan. Orgo go to and find video past Prime Ministers questions and other British Public affairs programs. Monday on the communicators, russias involvement in the 20 16th election with reporter julia. Facebook has said they learn that a bunch of ads placed during the election were placed by russian outfits under anonymous accounts. They were politically divisive ads, not necessarily aimed at one candidate or another, but aimed at selling divisiveness. Watch the communicators monday not at 8 00 eastern on cspan two. Secretary of sta...

As the National Constitution Center Awards the 2017 Liberty Medal to senator john mccain. [applause] throughout his career, senator mccain has put his the devotion to the u. S. Constitution above faction or party. He is the kind of independent citizen statesman James Madison envisioned when he stressed that the u. S. Constitution created not a direct democracy, but a representative republic. Madison and the framers of the constitution believed that direct democracies have led in greece and rome to rule by demagogues and the mob. By contrast, in a representative republic, citizens would delegat...