american farmer, american farmer. the people of america. housewife, businessman, weaver, blacksmith, americans. a german doctor, a swedish mailman, a polish fireman, and irish cop. americans. we are the people of america. a mixture of the people of the world. america was discovered by the people of the world. explorers of many nations charted the land and opened it to their people. columbus of italy, balboa, and ponce de leon of spain. sir walter raleigh of england. henry hudson, and other brave exploring men, who sailed there ships into unknown waters, and found a land of america -- the land of america. and the land was settled by the people of the world, from spain, from france, from holland, from england. from england, many settled on the east coast, where they grew in numbers and came to consider america their home. but styles changed in 100 years, in 100 years and ideas change. , the children of the settlers became dissatisfied. they began to talk of freedom, to talk of winning freedom peacefully, or fighting for it. people of the worl

american civil war. abraham lincoln becomes president in march of 1861. there's a garrison of united states military personnel in fort sumter in charleston, harbor. we talked about how had fort sumter is built to repel attacks from the sea but notes it's going to be attacked from the very areas it's supposed to defend. lincoln is told that garrison has six weeks of food and supplies and it needs to be resupplied or it will be forced to surrender that the point. what should lincoln have done? and why? >> you've got a rebellion on your hands. these people contesting your authority. they're doing something which you have claimed is unconstitutional secession. >> i'm going to be continue to support the president in that. i think he should have sent the reinforcements to sumpter even under the guise of being just food. obviously it was more than that, but it was supposed to be he said it was just food being sent to fort sumter so they wouldn't starve. >> they had other vessels with military personnel in case

so, in his view, the american people are the good guys. they are the heroes of our american story. who are the bad guys? in part, they are corrupt legislators. who make laws that favor big business. instead of the general public. but, perhaps, more important, they are judges. judges who use their understanding of the constitution to strike down laws that the people support. the people want something. they want, perhaps, to make working conditions favor for the war. or they want to set a minimum wage. or a maximum number of hours per week. and they get the legislature the , the representatives to do this. the legislature and ask the law. in fact, as in your status and women, you are roosevelt did just as in his early career. then, the judges say, that lies unconstitutional. they invalidated and this is actually exactly what happened. roosevelt that sponsored. and that is perhaps why this issue is so dear to his heart. legislator,ime as a extending through his presidency and even afterwards, courts were using the due process clause of the constitution to strike down these economic re

many white americans like all americans were feeling the pinch. they were feeling and economic pinch. wages were falling in the 1970's and job opportunities were drying up. times were not as good as they have been. rather than look at their declining economic status and blaming these complex global and economic factors. what many white americans did was they blame to people of color. it was almost as if people thought about race as a scale. as white status seem to be going down they noticed that black americans were going up because of the civil rights movement. so it must be their fault. in the 1970's grace became seen race became seen as a zero sum calculus. any gains by blacks were seen as losses by whites and vice versa. we could just as easily bring gender into it. make it a white man's story. the status of american male workers was falling. the status of american women was rising. and othernother legislati legislation. many white american men were on the defensive. this is a great example. affirmative action. it begins in the united states i

the american dream is not an accident. the american dream did not happen on its own. it is a result of the fact that for over two centuries, the americans before us always did what needed to be done. ours is a nation where for over 200 years, generation has left the next generation better off. for over 200 years, each generation has confronted its challenges. they did not leave them for their children. now the time has come for this generation to do its part. now the moment has arrived for us to do our part. when i'm president, this generation will do its part to not just save the american dream, but expanded. [applause] -- expand it. [applause] tough.times are i know many of you are working harder than you ever have and you feel like you are running in lace. i know many of you went to school, got a degree and borrowed money to pay for it and now you have a loan but you can't find a job with the degree you have. have startedf you small businesses and are struggling to succeed because of taxes and regulations and a stagnant economy. news tells you the world is getting

we work for the american people. the american people elect senators, representatives and presidents. through elections, the people shape the direction of our country. while republicans may want to forget it, in 2012, the people elected president obama to a full four-year term. that term doesn't end for nearly a year. his responsibilities as president don't stop because a republican senate says so. the constitution requires a president to nominate someone to fill a vacancy on the supreme court. the constitution requires the senate to provide advise and consent on the president's nominee. that is our job as senators. the president hasn't nominated anyone to fill the current supreme court vacancy. when he does, no senator is required to vote for that nominee, but what is required is for the senate to fulfill its constitutional duties. the president's nominee deserves a hearing and a vote. no excuses. let's do our jobs. turning to another subject, mr. president, 74 years ago, president roosevelt signed executive order 90

no american, no american, should work a 40-hour workweek and live in poverty. so how do we do that? well, let's start with the third rail of politics. america's most successful anti-poverty program, social security and medicare. i make no apologies for working to protect and preserve social security and medicare. these programs are vital to keeping middle and lower-income class americans out of poverty. if these programs collapse, the social construct of the last 50 clears wi years will collapse with it. we can't let that happen. fixing these programs with i s heavy lift, but fracnkly, the american people are far ahead of their leaders on this topic. entitlement reform is really just the beginning. washington has a long way to go to recognize today's economic angst and reconnect with the american people. in the spirit of paul ryan's culture of policy entrepreneursh entrepreneurship, i offer five modest ideas that would help make that happen. first, school choice. i serve on the house education and workforce committee and recently helped lead an all-too-rare committee hearing on scho

and the american people are pretty sensible. and i think they'll make a sensible choice this the end. >> michael what i saw at the beginning there he's talking about the launch skills. i was blown away. i've never heard the president talk about it quite like that. is that the best argument that can be made against donald trump and it's only an argument that maybe barack obama can make? argument. i don't remember it either. we have always heard it implicitly, who do you want to answer the phone at 3:00 a.m., that famous phone ad? it's curious to me why the president is employing this now, as it goes on this is the argument that the democrats are going to make against donald trump in the fall should he be the nominee. as you said at the top of the show, it does seem a little bit like this is headed that way right now. i mean there's nothing -- as you look at the map you don't see a place where donald trump stops being the nominee. and that is the kind of thing that you would expect the democrats to save in their literally in their

knew americans, american muslims, gay and lesbian, transgender americans, all americans. . we are one our cause is one. we must help each other if we are going to succeed. god bless you guys have got bless the united states of america. and thank you for allowing me to make this offering out of love. thank you. [applause] >> now that iowa has held their presidential caucuses, the focus of campaign 2016 moves to new hampshire, which holds its presidential primary next tuesday. we have live road to the white house coverage today from new hampshire of three republican campaign events. s 12:30, ted cruz visitors windham. 6:00 p.m., marco rubio in exeter. 7:00, donald trump in milford. visit the coverage online by visiting c-span.org/campaign2016. >> if you're interested in the process, it all has to begin in iowa and new hampshire. we don't set the rules and terms of which state's first or second. we certainly have to cover the candidates where they are. there are a lot of people interested in this election. every four years, the american people make a decision to say who should

[boos] the people in jail are disproportionately african-american, latino, and native american. so together we are going to take on and fight institutional racism and a broken criminal justice system. [cheers] [applause] we spend $80 billion a year of taxpayer money locking up fellow americans. there are a lot better ways to spend money than locking up fellow americans. [applause] this campaign is listening to our brothers and sisters in the latino community. [cheers] and they are telling me that they are tired of being exploited, tired of living in the shadows, tired of seeing a family member being deported and families being separated and , what they want and what i want is comprehensive immigration reform and a path towards citizenship. together, are you ready for a radical idea? together we are going to create an economy that works for working families, not just the 1%. when we talk about the economy, please understand that every month you see on the front pages of the paper, statistics about unemployment, official unemployment nationally is 5%, anyone believe that? >> no. b

but put the much all by themselves, them talking about what american leaders did, american businessmen, european businessmen and leaders did, that was the ultimate hypocrisy, if you will. a true victors justice. and that sent me off to write a book. because i thought you could really implicate every single american president from dwight eisenhower to today, to george bush, every american president in that time did something to iraq, the cia did something to iraq, in some way trying to intervene in that country is affairs causing a total of maybe 2.5 million iraqis dying in that. period because of these interventions. that is basically 10% of the country. it would be the equivalent of 30 million americans being killed or dying, because of the effects of what other countries did in the united states. now, i will not try talking to go through bit by bit what each american president did. i will leave that to my book. but it did not just start with the americans, it started with the british after world war i. this is when the british were mesopotamiaate over , that part of the turkish empir

that's un-american valley. the time may not be too far off when america's will also agree with my spanish friends that efforts to exclude our muslim neighbors on the american family are simply loco. those are my comments. thank you very much. we have time for questions appear at the fancy microphone. rider to my left. thank you. [applause] >> an issue that conservatives are quite anxious about right now is climate change, and it does threaten, it threatens i guess to such an extent that some conservatives just don't talk about it or deny it and i'm wondering you can just extend that to where we are now with liberals and president in 190 nations? like what they see that, how do you see that playing out? >> thank you. i know in the international summit on climate change came up, the main argument that republicans, republican presidential hopefuls gave was that was a waste of time to why i'm going to talk about this non-issue when we have more important things i care at home to deal with? it seems to me that was m

and all americans of every race. then of course many thought that we perhaps had reached a post racial america in the aftermath of the election of president barack obama, but we know, of course that that is not the case, sadly. i am hopeful, however that many of my colleagues, republicans and democrats, conservatives and progressives, who have come together, folks like raul labrador, trey gowdy, jason chaffetz, good friends of mine on the other side of the aisle, recognize the importance of dealing with mass incarceration for america. but here are a few statistics i think we need to be concerned about. as it relates to your question. african-americans serve virtually as much time in prison for nonviolent drug offense, approximately 58 months, as white americans do for a violent criminal offense. 62 months. whilets in america statistically use drugs five times as aufpble as african-americans, yet african-americans are sent to prison for drug offenses as 10 times the rate of white americans. lastly, african-americans r

i think a 6% approval rating. 6% of the american people are saying, right on. 6% of the american people want us to discuss exactly where it says how many calories your hamburger has at your fast food restaurant. maybe those 6% checked the wrong box. on that congressional approval poll. but at least 94% of the american people think we ought to be doing something else. so do i. i think we should be working to balance the budget. i think that we should fix our broken immigration system and restore our borders. i think we should grow the american economy. find a sustainable way to invest in infrastructure. find a way to provide a boost to the renewable energies economy. boost american exports in manufacturing. raise the minimum wage. make health care more affordable and build upon the improvements of the affordable care act. but no. no. the republican majority has decided we're going to spend the rest of the day today and tomorrow debating where and how on menus, not even all restaurants, just some restaurants, with restaurants on all sides of this issue, by the way, that it says how manyca

the american people have spoken, millions of americans, an overwhelming majority of vermont citizens of voted in record numbers in 2008 and 2012 to elect president obama. in doing so they grant him constitutional authorities for all eight years. you do not elect a president for one year or two years or three years, you elect a president for four years at a time. and just saying that president obama is a lame-duck president does not make it true. in fact this election is not until november. the american people expect those elected to do their jobs for the entire term. that means both in the senate and the white house. they don't expect senators to say we can't vote on anything this year because it's an election year. we collect our full salary but were not going to vote on anything. the american people don't like that. it's rare of vacancy on the supreme court arises during an election year, but it is false that justices don't get confirmed in election years. more than half have been confirmed in a presidential election year. one i voted on, democrats held the senate during reagan's f

american farmer, american farmer. that people of america. businessman, weaver, blacksmith, american. doctor, a swedish mailman, a polish firemen, and irish cop, american. we are the people of america, a mixture of the people of the world. america was discovered by the people of the world, explorers of many nations charted the land and open it to their people. balboa, anditaly, ponce de leon of spain. sir walter raleigh of england, henry hudson and other brave exploring men who sailed their ships into unknown waters and found the land of america. settled and the spain,of the world from holland, fromrom england. england, many settled on the east coast, where they grew in numbers and came to consider america their home. but styles change in a hundred years and ideas change. the children of the settlers became dissatisfied and came to talk of freedom and to talk of winning freedom peacefully. people of the world fought with them. polaski, lafayette, frenchman, washington, american. a battle one, a nation one. to join the other nations of the wor

, latinos, asian americans. we are trying to bring america together around an agenda that works for working families and the middle class. i am very proud, if my memory is not correct, i think i am, that i have a lifetime -- i have been in congress a few years. a lifetime 100% pro-choice voting record. i am very proud that over the years we have had the support in my state of vermont from very significant majorities of women. i am very proud that i support legislation that is currently in the congress, got support of almost all progressive democrats in the house and senate which says we will end the absurdity of women today making 79 cents on the dollar compared to men. and we will join the rest of the industrialized world in saying that paid family and medical leave should be a right of all working families. >> senator, do you worry at all that you will be the instrument of thwarting history, as senator clinton keeps claiming, that she might be the first woman president? >> well, you know, i think from an histo

you are watching american history tv on c-span3. [applause] every election cycle we are reminded how important it is for citizens to be informed. a home fors political junkies and a way to track the government as it happens. >> is a great way for us to stay informed. >> there are a lot of c-span fans on the hill. my colleagues will say i saw you want c-span. >> there is so much more that c-span does to make sure that people outside the beltway know what is going on inside it. this weekend on american hearings., vietnam from february 1966, the senate foreign relations committee turned by senator j william fulbright gives equal time to critics of the war and numbers of the johnson administration in hearings televised live to the nation. here is a preview. >> general taylor has been very much involved in american vietnam policy from the beginning. president kennedy sent him to vietnam in 1961 to look at the situation. taylor said it was a dire situation. we do not believe the south vietnamese government could defend itself and american

this changed american society. people were connected to extended families, the suburbs separated people from the workplace, leaving them isolated. this became a white enclave, leaving inner cities increasingly black and poor. two saw all of this going on and they recognize that this was changing everything. mauricemes, dates and mcdonald, they had failed almost everything they had done. look at them. they were among the first to understand that the fundamental changes taking place in society that affected americans, would also affect what they put in their mouth, how they ate. mcdonald's opened a small drive in in 1940. after the war, mcdonald's understood that people were living further from work, commuting longer distances and had less time to do everything. they wanted to capitalize on the phenomenon of american life accelerating, the nature of life accelerating, and the change in dinner. it opened in restaurant -- they opened a restaurant in order to focus on speed, lower prices and volume. hops, theited car la

a muslim americans will be welcome did to the american family but of course, this path to newt acceptance has partisanship with hateful language. it to see not only how americans have been divided bed how they agreed and for mormons to be solid citizens. for the efforts to exclude the neighbors so those are my comments we have time for questions at the microphone. [applause] >> one of the issue and it threatens to such an extent some just don't talk about it or deny it but could you extend that where we are now with the president than 180 nations. how does that play out? that made argument of the presidential hopefuls came why are we going to talk about this non-issue? when we have more important days to deal with. so as represented as they are ignoring the issue there are an end to be talking about. the web understand that question as a matter of politics that political polarization as a result of the culture wars and it used to me we would agree with matters of science and truth to debate politically but the culture wars have pushed back to our conversations that it is legitimate of the

i'm an american born mexican. my father and mother came from , and guest butre come i ended up being an orphan. i want your stand exactly. why is it we have to have illegals take to dent over illegal immigrants? -- take accident over illegal - dent over illegal aliens? why is it we cannot come together as a nation with mexico improving the mexican economy. come on, please. . want my culture back i want to know how the mexican people in mexico. i could care less about how the united states has handled it. i want my culture back. all, what's of is toant to emphasize illegal immigration to the united states but we want to ensure our legal immigration system works properly. that's an important concern. days, we allowed as many immigrants to come to the shores as possible. they would be citizens immediately. environment, there is drastic restrictions on the amount of legal immigrants allowed. if you are a mexican american today in you don't have a family relative or sponsor you, it's impossible to come to the united st

he is as american you can get. he doesn't remember being 2 and living in canada. >> there is a rule. it is a good line. it says what it says. i think that we need to make sure that people who are governing their citizens understand how it is, what it is to live as an american, have love for the country and are true patriots. people who are naturalized and become citizens >>> you need some new americans and they are the one with american flag. >> my parents are immigrants. they came to the u.s. in the 1960s. they love this country. they are patriotic. i do not doubt senator ted cruz's allegiance to the u.s. is he going to use his philosophical beliefs in terms of how we interpret the constitution in the way when they benefit him and another way when they don't benefit him. the senator wants to propose an amendment that would eliminate the term natural born citizen from the constitution >>> what do you make of that? >> i don't agree with you. i don't believe the term clearly means somebody who is born on the soil of

the issues that impact my life personally may be the same as a white american or a hispanic american. >> do we do ourselves a disservice when we talk about it in terms of african-american vote versus the rest of the vote? >> we do. many of us have the same challenges. i think of society and the media puts that -- the separation. many of us, we're facing the same things. we have the same concerns. >> there remain issues that resonate more forcefully in black communities. >> for example, education. the incarceration. >> they are the issues clinton and sanders are largely in agreement on how to tackle. can they convince voters that they mean what they say? >> it feels good to finally be acknowledged and recognized to know we have a voice and that now you need our voice. you have to listen. we're going to make some noise and hold you accountable. >> as we pointed out, clinton and sanders face more contests in the south where the african-american vote could prove key during this coming week's super tuesday primaries. >>> for the republicans, donald trump is being fed some of his own medici

--and native senator sanders: and native americans. [applause] senator sanders: let me tell you briefly a story, the kind of encapsulates everything we talk about in this campaign. what a rigged economy and corrupt campaign finance system and a broken criminal justice system is about. some may have read in the last few weeks large wall street financial institutions like goldman sachs have reached a settlement with united states government. in the case of goldman sachs, it was for $5 billion. other banks have reached larger settlements with the government. obviously the reason they are , reaching these settlements is because they were selling subprime mortgage packages to investors and the american people that were worthless. they reached a $5 billion agreement with the u.s. government. to a significant degree the business model of wall street happens to be fraud. point number two -- when we talk about political power in america, where the average american says, why should i vote? i have one vote. koch brothers are going to spend wall s

african-americans just wanted an african-american president. we did not really look at his politics. and you see what he said. plain and simple. he is not some lefty, not someone -- he is not on the left. he is a central democrat. and so part of what i wanted was a progressive agenda. do what you have to do to stop the economy, but was reorient, change the frame so that everyday ordinary working people could have a chance to not only dream dreams but to make those dreams reality. that would mean we would have to change the phenomenon that we have seen to change the economic philosophy and so many ways so that we could begin to emphasize. how do we get home ownership to be such were folks are not subject to predatory lending? how do we checked the financial position of the economy? what is interesting is that president obama understands what it means, the level of inequality. so on his watch my wealth is 13 times that of blacks. on his watch child poverty is increased. the 1st time in history was keeping data. >> the black unemployment. >> let's

tom: the part of the american conversation.-- be part of the american conversation. farhana: i would go a step further. don't be ashamed to be a muslim in america. that touches on a critical fear that i hear from concerned ,uslims and fathers and mothers particularly within the last two months of urgency-- few months of urgency. charlie: people are identifying it. farhana: bullying children in schools. administrators. people who should know better. the idea that everybody should have a place in our country and equal access to opportunity. charlie: this is the first time the president has visited the mosque in america, but he has visited moscow for. he went to cairo, but did not go to jerusalem, and people are wondering if it would've been better if he had reached out? farhana: surly throughout his administration -- certainly, throughout his administration, he has been visiting muslim communities around the world, from egypt to malaysia to india. he has now come home in his last year. [laughter] shadi,: speak to that, and the idea that the president is having pushed b

this is our american story. this is america tonight. >> tonight we're talking about america's middle class and who exactly should be considered part of a group that every politician seems to want to impress. democratic candidate hillary clinton says the middle class including any family that earns $250,000 or less in the year even though the median income was about 54,000 a year, median means half earn more, half earn less. new york times clinton's definition is quote out of touch with reality. hiss piece spark sparked allison shager, the definition of milt class is not about the haves or the have nots, it is more nuanced than one year's income. they both join me, thank you to both of you. you are not in opposition to each other but you are representative of a struggle that we have had on this show for a couple of years. we started out thinking allison it could be a pretty easy project to figure out who the middle class was, but it depends who you are and what your circumstances are. >> a lot of different ways t

the deeper the color, the higher percentage of african-americans. not many african-americans. we had the vote up in new hampshire, not many african-americans. then they come to south carolina. a much higher african-american population means the democrats are courting their traditional base. 43% of the vote was white. and then senator obama was third, but 55% of the vote was african-american, senator obama getting most of those rest. >> that is why you heard so much tonight from these candidates even though they were standing in wisconsin they were talking to voters in nevada, on the civil rights issues this is the population they were courting. one of the reasons they think this is their con sit wentsy. bill clinton won 43%. bill clinton cleaned up 77% of it. so they're hope in the clinton campaign is they get that vote this time, but you could see senator sanders tonight trying to intensify his pitch. he's late to this game. he's from vermont but he's been trying hard to increase his support among the african-americans. >> do we have nevada or this south carolina. >> the lati

, american muslims, gay and legislation beean, transgendered americans, all americans, we are one, our cause is one and we must help each other if we are to succeed. god bless you, guys, and god bless the united states of america, and thank you for allowing me to make this offering out of love! thank you. [cheers and applause] ♪ so, share, the candidates are all there, they are on the ground. we will be getting here pretty soon. host: yes. iowa had in the past on the front runners as they go into new hampshire? absolutely, usually, somebody has an unexpected victory in iowa. by that i mean maybe they have a good show, that can really impact how new hampshire voters vote in their primary. it can either give somebody a lot of momentum that they do not have before. sometimes, it puts them in a good standing in the new hampshire primary, or sometimes somebody in the iowa caucus does well, new hampshire voters will operate as a check on the vote, will say wait, we need to look at this more closely, they might vote for someone else completely, host: let's start with democrats, bernie sande

>> i'm someone who loves american history and so i would say looking at recent american political history that mass movements can make a tremendous difference and it's, i think that the elite donors who had very far right views took that course because they couldn't convince the public of their point of view and wanted to impose minority views on the majority and couldn't just convince them in the usual way but i think the public outpouring for obama, for instance was not something that was driven necessarily by elite donors and i think there have been many mass movements that in my lifetime i've seen, the antiwar movement and many things that had tremendous effect on the country. the environmental movement, that were not necessarily funded by a few elite big donors or anything like that. so i'm relatively optimistic about the ability of the public to change politics. i think it takes activism and engagement though and one of the things that's most worrisome is just that the public is getting so cynical about it and participation in voting for instance in the last election in 2014, i gues

american dream. and if we ever lose it, we will country.g a special the american dream was not an accident. the american dream did not own.n on its the american dream is the result of the fact that for over two centuries the americans before bealways did what needed to done. ours is a nation where for over generation has left the next generation better off because for over 200 years has confront its challenges. each generation solved their problems. them for theirve children. my friends, now the time has come for this generation to do its part. the moment has arrived for us in this time to do our part and i'm asking you for your vote because when i'm president of the united states, this generation will do its part not to save the american dream but to expand it. know that times are tough. i know that many of you are working harder than you ever like you're feel running in place. i know that many of you went to school and got a degree and you border money to pay for it and now you have a loan but can'

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that troubled many democrats, particularly irish americans and german americans, lead iing to some intense political vurnerability. in 1916, wilson won on the first ballot as did his running mate thomas marshall in indiana. a world association of nations maintained peace after the war in europe ended. the delegates chaer cheered most vigorously with the campaign slogan, he kept us out of war. far more of a hope than a promise. wilson understood this all too well. he added a fourth which is prosperity. loans led to a shift back from a recession that had begun to occur early in the war. the outspoken roosevelt failed to understand the depth of the divide in the party from one election before. they nominated hughes, a fascinating character. we may get into him a little more. roosevelt famously termed a bearded iceberg. the former vice president under teddy roosevelt, charles fairbanks, also in indiana, so wrapping up the course of this, observers were confident hughes would win in november. even wilson seemed to have doubts about his path to re-election. ever the fighter, he relished the stru

part of the american conversation. >> exactly right. i would go one step further. it was a plea to not just be a part of the conversation but to not be acclaimed to be a muslim in america and that touches on a critical fear that i hear of concern of muslim fathers and mothsers across the country and particularly in the last few months of increasing urgency is a concern because of the political dialogue of hate crime -- >> rose: identifying it as -- bullying in school, sometimes conduct by administrators and teachers, people who should know better. it's that idea that everyone should have a place in our country and equal access to opportunity. >> rose: i should make the point the president visited a mosque before. this is the first time in america. >> that's correct. >> rose: some argue and some israelis were concerned and jews, at the time he went to cairo, that he didn't come to jerusalem, you know, that that would have made things much better if he had reached out, because this was early in his presidency. >> he certainly, throughout

and whites and latinos and native american, asian americans, gay and straight, men and women, young and old -- unless we revitalize american democracy, so that we have one of the highest voter turnouts in the world, not one of the lowest. [applause] senator sanders: when millions of people get involved in the political process and a look at washington and say, you know what? our government belongs to all of us, not just a handful of wealthy campaign contributors. when that happens, we transform america. [applause] senator sanders: our job, the easy part will be beating republicans, and that is easy, because when you look at what republicans stand for, it is a marginal position. very few americans believe in the republican program. how many people do you know think that it makes sense to give hundreds of billions of dollars in tax breaks to the top 2/10 of 1%, and then cut social security, medicaid and medicare? it is not that it is not right, very few people believe that. republicans win elections when people become demoralized, when they give up on the political process, when they

significant african-american population. in the 2008 democratic primary, 55%, a majority of the votes of the democrats are likely to be african-american. in 2008, president obama won nearly 8 in 10 of those. it was game over. an african-american candidate winning a huge slice. hillary clinton ran second to john edward and obama third there. now hillary clinton versus bernie sanders. can bernie sanders make inroads in time? that vote coming up in the next two weeks. can he make inroads to narrow her lead. this is what headquarter hopes for. in 1992 when bill clinton was running, came in second place. came down to south carolina looking to get on track and he did because it was then 43% of the vote in the democratic primary. so the clintons have a history with the african-american community in south carolina. it's not all good. 1992 was a plus. in 2008 tensions. hillary clinton believes that's her greatest advantage now. and the question is can senator sanders who has not had to do this as a senator from vermont, can he build

. >> american history tv on c-span 3 features programs that tell the american story. some of the highlights for this weekend include saturday night at 8:00 eastern on lectures in history. cornell university professor maria garcia on the united states refugee policy since world war ii. who qualifies as a refugee? and how that's changed over the years. at 10:00, on real america, our final program in our three-part series on senator jay william fullbright's hearings, investigating the united states policies in vietnam. secretary of state dean rusk testifies on behalf of the johnson administration's actions in vietnam. his opening statement is followed by committee members' questions. sunday morning at 10:00 on road to the white house rewind, the 1960 west virginia democratic primary debate between senators john f. kennedy and massachusetts and hubert humphrey of minnesota. this is only the second televised presidential primary debate in history. >> the next president must take the country to when roaric deeds. search for a lasting piece of justice and freedom and underst

it will save americans money. it will unleash clean energy innovation and jobs throughout the nation. mr. president, i urge all of my colleagues to vote "yes" on this amendment and to bet on our future. this is a sputnik moment. when we responded to sputnik, we did amazing things. this is a piece of this. and i urge my colleagues to support my amendment. thank you, mr. president. and i would suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. quorum call: a senator: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senator from louisiana. mr. cassidy: mr. president, i speak on amendment 3192. the presiding officer: the senate is currently in a quorum call. mr. cassidy: i'm sorry. i ask that the quorum call be vitiated. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. cassidy: i speak to amendment 3192 which is revenue sharing, mr. president. and i will at some point yield to my colleague from louisiana, senator vitter, to further discuss. mr. president, the amendment to file today is a by-pr

american. in the 30 years, you've designed over 20 character dolls but only three of them had been black. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: why is that? >> when we launched addie, the universal feeling was that we needed to address the very difficult topic of slavery before we addressed any other experience in black history. >> then the orange one. >> reporter: this summer, american girl is addressing with the release of melody ellison. >> so here she is. >> reporter: she is a 9-year-old girl growing up in detroit during the 1960s several times era who loves to sing and uses her voice to make a difference. why did it take until 2016 to see a doll that is representative of arguably one of the most important period for african-americans today? >> well, we do approach every character very thoughtfully so into. we are not looking to address critical demand. we are looking to tell stories in the most authentic and genuine way that we possibly can. >> reporter: clinical psychologist dr. charlene jackson suppor

they killed americans for what? it was pointless and the more you get into the why at a certain point you hit a brick wall because at the end of the day they are inexplicit. >> host: james clapper talking about isis and the threat the homeland. i want to get your reaction. >> at least 38,200 foreign fighters including 6900 from western countries have traveled to syria from at least 120 countries since the beginning of the conflict in 2012. as we saw in the november paris attacks, returning foreign fighters with first hand battlefield experience pose a threat. iisis demonstrated attacks. isis including eight established and several more emerging branches has become the p preeminent threat. isis' estimated strength exceeds that of al-qaeda. they are inspired to attack the homeland. although the u.s. is a harder target than europe isis external operations are a critical factor in the threat assessment for 2016. >> host: peter bergen? >> guest: those are sobering figures. the last time we heard there were 4500 westerner

it's among slice of older white americans, younger might white americans feel betrayed about the money on college and being in bad place that the anger is. i'm not sure how trump general electorate where you have lot of americans, black, latino, asian american, who do not fundamentally feel the anger. there are white americans who are with them on that. how this plays to me -- >> i will say this, people say there's enthusiasm gap. you see it in the turn out. that is true. i think the antidote to the enthusiasm gap for hillary clinton should she be the nominee is donald trump perhaps the debate. not be enthused about her as they were about barack obama. >> dickerson: we saw her trying to turn that page last night. >> you saw her trying to do two things at once last night which i thought she did just fine. which is to still be attentive to the standard vote and arguments that they want to hear from her and so there was that about big banks. she turned her attention to her vision of making america great again which is making america whole again. i want to say one thing about donald trump

it's also notable two of the closest friends on the show are chinese-american and african-american. needless to say, this shows a far cry from leave it to beaver. the stark contrast between the way things are and the way things were as my precious notice of inquiry. there are now more outlets through which creators of video content and distribute programming than ever before. over the top video in particular has been a game changer. it's given diverse voices a new way to be heard an american novel content they previously might never have seen. consider the youtube sensation and her hit series, the method then much of awkward black growth when asked why she created the series, she said i felt like my voice was missing in voices of other people i really respect and admire and want to see in the mainstream are missing. the first part of her series, which he found with friends quickly got attention on youtube thanks to a successful kick starter campaign, reagan was able to raise $65,000 for almost 2000 donations and could complete the rest of the first season. today, ray has over 208,00

i want to send terrorists who have killed americans into american soil, and it's in writing. and that's really the only difference today from what he's been talking about. and from what we've seen on the armed services committee as well. >> i don't think it's a surprise that maybe what the president said today isn't going to be changing any opinions on capitol hill. but i do want to talk about one part of the plan that is getting a lot of the focus. it would likely bring detainees to prisons here in the united states. you have fought very hard against just that. but there are already terror suspects in prisons here in the united states. are you concerned that the prisons here -- are you concerned that they can keep them secure? what are your concerns? >> number one, let's talk about who we're looking at. these are not your run of the my criminals or prisoners. these are mastermind terrorists who still have a desire to kill americans. these are the folks that killed our fellow americans in iraq and the middle east and places like that. let's not forget some of these terrorists

government institutions work better if they listen to the american people, first because the american people will then accept the decision and second because we get better decisions. yesterday and a small state that is doing better than most of the country, two thirds of the people went out in a very record-setting turnout with inclement weather to say that they are mad as hell, particularly at the financial institutions that this committee deals with. two thirds of them voted for the most angry candidate they could find. too big to fail should be too big to exist. madame chairman, in response to the lady from wisconsin you said that it was basically the apartment of justice failure to have a single criminal prosecution of those who had wrap the banks and more importantly wrapped the american people. i wonder whether you can really just put that at the feet of the department of justice. we have learned that institutions can get so big that they are too big to fail. your predecessor was in this room demanding that we bail them out and god forbid you will be again if you allow these two

it was obama who one big among african-american voters w --wo n big among african-american voters. most likely against any of the republicans. you have to remember, bernie it is ann some ways, approximation of what obama has done. when you consider president obama's biggest thing was the health care reform. bernie sanders is very clear about how he wants to replace that with a single-payer system. that is a difference hillary clinton has highlighted. she does not want to pave over some of obama's legacy. she wants to protect his legacy. for african-american voters, the first african-american president, that is seemingly the message resonating and winning over right now. host: pointing out that hillary clinton has just left her hotel in columbia's, succulent -- columbia, succulent. been gathering since this evening. of cheers at 7:00 when networks officially declared her the winner. what do you think she will speak about tonight? guest: i would not be surprised if there is a small -- in the general election. certainly that is what her campaign wants democratic voters to think about.

jobs, restore american prestige, and restore the faith and confidence of the american people again. mark: we are going to break down the extraordinary trompe-christie tech team. why did chris christie do this endorsement? and how does it change the race? john: i'm going to start with the first part of that, which is why. chris christie has made it clear that he thought the freshman senators, in this case the remaining ones, ted cruz and marco rubio, are not ready to be president and can't beat hillary clinton. that rules them out of the endorsement. that left him with two choices, his fellow governor john kasich and donald trump. i think christie quite reasonably looked at the race and said i'm going to back the winner, the most likely republican nominee and the prohibitive favorite, donald trump. in some ways he is similar to john kasich in terms of executive experience and some issues. i think temperamentally, christie looks at trump as that guy, he is a brawler and a political beast. he stands the best chance and that is the guy christie wanted to be paired up with. >> i was in t