it was built before that by the washington family. it was expanded by george washington. of course, the association has maintained this property so that everyone can learn about the life and lessons of george washington. they are a privately funded institution and it is part of the mission to help people everywhere learn about the principles of the founding. the topic tonight is perfect for what we do. we are really excited to have this special presentation for you. please welcome adrienne harrison. she is a graduate of west point who later went on to earn her phd degrees from rutgers university. she has been an assistant professor at west point. she served as 12 years as a commissioned officer in the u.s. army including three combat tour is in iraq. she brings a certain amount of experience to this project. she will talk to you a little bit about how personal it is for her to explore the life of george washington in this way. she is here tonight to talk about her great new book. she is doing exactly what we would like to do in mount vernon. not the person that is just a

washington's boyhood. gor george washington's father died when he was 11. one sentence referring to his father. hamilton's one-third of his life is played out in the caribbean where there's scarsly any paper trail at all. had a tremendous impact on him so there's a temptation to do less about those places because as you found with hemmings, the paper trail so thin. that becomes especially incumbent on you to do whatever you can with whatever sources you can to at least build the context from the circumstances for what happened so it's a little bit mirrors because you're doing a particular period in the life without the person being in the foreground of it, but otherwise you get this situation where particularly -- and this is a big problem with presidential, all of us when we hit the presidency, we hit the mother load of all times in terms of paper wowork. mark was telling me, i was asking how many documents there are in the library. he said 45 million. even going back with george washington, in the most recent -- give you some sense of just how abundantly

remembering the george washington parke custis wanted this house to be a memorial to george washington, he had the house design to be like a gallery. to be very monumental. to impress what he thought would be some of the most important people in the country. over the years presidents, congressmen and senators would visit arlington house to learn more about george washington. the regional architect -- original architect was named george hadfield, to george washington personally invited to america from england to do design work on the nation's capital building. george hadfield was one of the most prominent architects. of the day this house has a architecture and in the history of this country as well. it is not just because of the people who live here in the events that took place here, of the structure itself a great meaning. it is one of those places, sometimes a house or structure take on a meeting because of the events that happened there and the people who lived there. this house was built to be consequential. it has that history to it as well. thatt e. lee married into in this parl

nobody tells washington. washington goes to the senate and says, "excuse me, fellas," you know, "mr. fishbourne is my appointee." it turns out that one of george's senators has a pretty trivial grudge against mr. fishbourne and decides to basically nail him to the wall. sorry, mr. fishbourne. and washington is furious at this, but the precedent it set is a senatorial courtesy up to -- a senatorial courtesy. up to the present day a senator , has the right to bar the appointment of a federal appointee in his own state. washington was very unhappy, and apparently, he smoldered in a way that was quite terrifying when he was angry. but he bowed to congress, because he believed in republican government. and in another instance, having to do with the first treaty signed by the united states, -- there had been treaties under federation government. southern, thethe creek indians, most significantly, who then lived mainly in the state of georgia -- and by the way, one of the most colorful, wonderful episodes of the fir

>> washington has changed. [laughter] no stories like that anymore cspan: one last clip what macarthur's says after the republican convention. >> our people are desperate that we will revive pope as we have the oppressive burden sec astronomically rising public debt and the well-being of the community of our children and our children's children. and there is no desire no prospects to return to that wicked idealism and tranquillity of our fathers. cspan: only 64 years ago. they have been here and gone per coburn in many ways a precious and speech with debt and public spending and how that has become a way you mortgaged the country's future is an issue hanging over us the last couple of decades if not longer. people laugh me of macarthur had won the election what he would be like as president. i think what lies in how world lot of the policies appealed to macarthur. he believed the federal government had a strong will to play like it for structure covenanters highways. but also that you could control as a runaway

i grew up in washington area so at my house growing up we have the "washington post" and the washington star. when the star died in the "washington post" came along i remember riding seven miles on my bike to get the first day of the "washington post." washington newspapers mattered to me and still matter to me and my dream was always to work for the "washington post." c-span: what was the problem at the post? >> guest: that's a good question. there are lots of different answers. i would say i learned a lot. i was a national editor of the post at the time and these papers were not where they are today in terms of figuring out the very uncomfortable transitions. our friends and colleagues had just left to found "politico" and we were reinventing political coverage. we had a big large staff. it was a personal challenge for me to manage such a large staff of many varied compilation veterans, all of them extremely anxious about what this new air of transformation was going to be like and coincidently i would say longtime editor of the post was replaced right after that. the paper went throu

he was george washington's aide-de-camp during the war. he had a feud with washington. he had to justify this decision to quit washington's staff. he had to justify this decision to his father-in-law, philip schuyler. he was a very close friend of washington. he sat down and wrote a letter to his father-in-law and said the great man and i have come to an open rupture. he shall for once repent of his ill humor. that line kept reverberating in my mind. i had this image of a saintly george washington and hamilton is giving me the sense of that volatile powder keg of a boss. he tended to hand that very perceptive word portraits of people. even working with george washington for several years. washington is seemingly the ost familiar person in our history but in some ways he was the most unfamiliar. that was my opening wedge. i could pry open a whole world of emotions that were very intense and volatile. he was seen as a man of marble. he wasn't that at all. mark: you said great figures in history can carry the weight of their flaws. how do you ensure that you are presenting

memorial to george washington. he designed it to be like a gallery, to be monumental, to impress what he thought would be some of the most important people in the country who would visit. over the years, presidents, congressman, and senators would visit him here to learn more about george washington. , georgeinal architect washington personally invited him to america from england to do design work on the capital. he was one of the most prominent architects of his day. this house has a great history and architecture and the history of this country as well. it is not just because of the people who lived here, but the structure itself had meaning. whereone of those places sometimes a historical house takes on a meeting because of there,nts that happened but this house was built to be consequential. it has that history as well. that. e lee married into and his parlor, june 30, 1831, under the archway where you can the uniform and dress on display. married anna randolph custis, the only surviving child of the owner, the

film,t, the original titled "march on washington -- the march in washington." [chanting] >> the giant step toward full participation in affairs. taken by the american negro in the capital of the united states on the day of august 28, 1963. >> ♪ we are not afraid ♪ we are not afraid >> the step was taken solemnly. and in union with many of their white countrymen. heartdeep in my i do believe overcome someday we shall overcome someday overcome deep in my heart i do believe someday ♪all overcome >> the footsteps of the march in washington were firm. dissenters aen in larger awareness of the rights of negroes as americans, who shared equally not only in the sun and air so clear and free on the day of their march, but their rights as americans share opportunity and privilege as well. america has known this intellectually for a long time. years, my history's calendar. learned it8, america is. every kind and class, every generation in america participated. if not in the city of washington, across the land by television america felt the feeling of the march and l

in the years that the city of washington, d.c. is being built, philadelphia serves as our temporary u.s. capitol. this room serves for the house of representatives, the second floor of the building that we will see in a moment was the united states senate. the house of representatives, each representative at that point in our history represented 30,000 people. we had a population at our first census of about three and three-quarters million. we had 106 members of the house would sit in this room. and eventually, from 16 states. the story of philadelphia as the u.s. capital is the story where we take a new constitution and actually operating it, doing things like adding new states to the original 13. also the bill of rights would become a part of our constitution while philadelphia was the capitol. in fact, the setting of state thomas jefferson would announce the amendments to the constitution by basically coming to congress here in this building and officially announcing that we have changed our constitution. which, of course, the

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mitt romney lost washington state by 15 points. john mccain lost washington state by 17 points. and, yeah, i guess anything is possible, in politics and who knows, maybe this year will be different. but the latest polling shows donald trump losing by even more than those guys did. the latest polling has donald trump trailing in that state by 19 points. so why is he there tonight? doing a fund-raiser or something in a state that you can't compete in. that might make sense. spending your donors' money to rent a giant arena in a state you won't compete in, that honestly makes no sense. and it's not like the trump campaign has all the battleground states covered, so they can afford to take random side trips like this, to set their donors' mono fire. pbs did great reporting today on the ground level state of the race. they literally counted granular evidence of what the campaigns are doing in 15 states. they compiled office data for 15 states, they spoke with state and national campaign officials. they cross referenced with s.e.c. spending reports, checked local news coverage, they d

washington." our discussion of the importance of solar to the state of nevada. we have been visiting with miss jill lagan, president and ceo of the boulder city chamber of commerce. we've mentioned the jobs associated with just the boulder city facility but the good news is nothing compared to the solar employment over all in the state of nevada. according to a report released last year by the solar foundation, nevada solar industry employment grew 146% in 2014. that big increase, 3500 jobs over the previous year, caused the state to rise to number 7 for solar jobs by state and to jobs. meanwhile sure you might feel warm and fuzzy about your role in carbon dioxide reduction and helping to create a cleaner environment but let's cut to the chase, how much money do you reportedly save when you go solar, that's what you really want to know. well, solar nation says installing a solar panel would help you save as much as $36.44 a month plus you would get a 30% federal solar tax credit that allows you to

but washington pardons them. it was important for him to use his powers as president to pardon, to show mercy, to get people to believe in the legitimacy and credibility and faith in the presidency and the federal government. again, the genius of washington. >> with patience and foresight, president washington guides the united states through a tumultuous time. he maintains peace at home and abroad and sets the standard for every president since. but at the end of his second term, washington is ready to gracefully step aside and let others continue the grand experiment in democracy. >> every day, the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome. so let me warn you against the spirit of party, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people. and now, i anticipate the sweet enjoyment of good laws under a free government and the happy reward of our mutual cares, labors, and dangers

the washington journal. guest: thanks for having me. pleasure to be here. host: let me begin with the disrepair in america's national parks. what needs to be done that isn't? guest: as you heard, there's a $12 billion backlog with the national parks. there's a whole host of projects all across the country that need to be done. it's an astonishing task they have to accomplish. the park service in addition to the normal monuments you would think of also has more than 5,000 miles of roads under its care, 1,000 bridges. it's got pipelines bringing water into the parks that are often failing. so they have a lot of infrastructure that they need and it's easier to get donations to repair the washington monument or lincoln memorial and the well known parks and harder to get money for the basic things like keeping the water flowing into parks or keeping their roads paved. host: the washington monument having its own problems with the elevator which is now shut dunn because of disrepair and was recently renovated but

the only thing that message is saying, both parties in washington have messed up. you do not say hillary clinton said the democratic party is messed up. >> eyeing going back to the reagan democrats and i just do not see this happening. mark: we will see. i think it is his best hope. >> it is. i plotted but i do not think it will work. mark: up next, more on trump campaign changes. ♪ ♪ >> here to talk about the latest lineup for the trump campaign is president of american values gary bauer. big moves today in the campaign. tell us why. >> i think it is a home run. i know kellyanne conway and steve bannon very well. schieffer more years than him. i think these are two individuals that are bright. they show that they operate very well in american politics and they both share the vision that donald trump has about mainstream america being left behind and building a new coalition of working-class people that have a bigger role in the republican party so i think these announcements, the personnel announcements, come after a week that was pretty darn good, three major

so i think we see the human washington. we see washington with nerves. we don't think of washington being nervous about anything. right. he's there. he's in command of himself. and that's all there is to it. he's steely eyed and he's ready to take on whatever comes at him. but he was a real person with real anxieties, just as we all are when we take on new positions, whether it is, you know, in whatever it is we choose to do in our public or private lives. he was just like us. he was real. he had flaws. he had vulnerabilities. but he had strengths and he knew how to play to them. and this reading program that he had helped play to those strengths. it shored up, gave him the security, gave him the knowledge he needed to be able to do what he did, which was improbable. everything about what he accomplished in his life, nothing said father of the country. nothing. but somehow he did it. i think that's that we learned from it. had here is a look at the real person. this thing that had been overlooked for all these years, the library right here under everybod

owned by washington's grandson, george washington park custis. in many ways this has to be looked at as our nation's first washington monument, the first memorial built to honor any president. the first structure of any kind built to honor a man like that. this house had a fame to itself apart from robert e. lee. but then lee married into the family, became part of the washington family. and so when the coming of the civil war happened and lee was put in a very painful and difficult place in which he had to choose sides, president lincoln wanted him to command federal troops. it was offered to him. but he could not fight a war against virginia, his native state. his home and family, as he characterized it. he was caught in this terrible dilemma. ultimately his choice would have a massive impact on the course of the civil war in american history that would follow. it would also lead to the u.s. government taking this home, this plantation away from his family to punish him and creating arlington national cemetery as both a place to honor the dead,

even washington's leadership may not be enough. >> washington was a master of cycle. the fact that washington presided over the constitutional convention but did not engage in the debate, really helped. he was above it all. >> philadelphia is suffering through the hottest summer in 40 years, yet the keep the proceedings secrete, they are locked inside with the windows shut. outside angry protestors are demanding answers hearing of the new king. >> does anyone have an idea as to how we can govern the damn country? >> one of the myths is the intent of the constitutional. there was no original in tenlt. 55 guys show up and they had like 55 different opinions on what should happen. some were going there to reform the existing particles of the confederation. some are going in there to tear the whole thing up. our nation is on the verge of collapse because we are not truly one nation. we must replace the articles of confederation with a unified national government. >> urchd madison's plan and unpopulated state, they will have government and the representatives like new jers

good morning washington. i'm autria godfrey. and i'm larry smith today is also the first day of school for frederick and faquier counties in virignia - as well as washington county schools in maryland. retention policy: 2 year delete (2 years) expires: 8/17/2018 - day 8 of our heat wave (no heat advisories today) - pm storms likely - less humid by next tuesday today: hot and humid. pm thunderstorms likely. highs: 89-95 feels: 98-101 tonight: thunderstorms early. then warm and muggy. patchy fog. lows: 71-76 thursday: partly cloudy. a tad less humid. highs: 88-91 feels: 93-96 we are following 2 stories-- breaking overnight. overnight. the first-- in gaithersburg maryland. while many people were sleeping, emergency crews were evacuating a hotel. our cameras were rolling just after 2 a-m, as police investigated in the 98-hundred block of washington boulevard. according to tractor trailer was backing up when it struck a gas meter, triggering a leak. the gas was briefly turned off as crews inspected the damage. but about an hour later

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but a lot of the things that went to washington, d.c. are burned when washington is burned in the war of 1812. we lose a lot of those early things. so that's one of the challenges with a building like this is you don't necessarily have all the things but you try to make do the best you can to give people that sense when they come in to see them what it looked like when men like james madison or young andrew jackson were sitting in this room as members of the house of representatives. >>> we're in. senate chamber here at congress hall in philadelphia. the room as you can see is quite a bit more grand than the house of representatives would have been. and there is a couple of reasons for that. our roots as a nation go back to when we were british, of course. the british have a parliament with two houses -- an upper house, the house of lords, a lower house, the house of commons. there's definitely parallels with our congress today. the house of representatives is very similarly set up to the house of commons. and then the senate with their

tonight on "washington week." the presidential race gets personal as donald trump and hillary clinton exchange insults and accusations of racism and bigotry. >> from the start, donald trump has built his campaign on prejudice and paranoia. >> she lies. and she smears. and she paints decent americans -- you -- as racists. >> he says he wants to make america great again. his real message seements to be -- seems to be, make america hate again. >> hillary clinton is a bigot only es people of color as votes. >> we will get analysis on trump's decision to dial back his hard line stance on immigration and support for mass deportation. and the new questions about a possible connection between the democratic candidates and donors to the clinton foundation when she was secretary of state. joining us, robert costa, national political reporter for "the washington post." jeanne cummings, political editor for "the wall street journal." and jeff zeleny, your washington correspondent for cnn. >> award winning reporting and analys

i really don't miss much about washington. but i will tell you that the intellectual stimulation from dealing with a vibrant free press was a very important part of the job. thank you for coming and i hope you enjoy the evening. [applause] >> in a moment i will ask all of the pulitzer prize winners with us tonight to stand and be recognized for their great work. i would like to recognize one winner in particular. his work has special relevance. think back to 1963. a remarkably composed photograph that crystallized a historic moment. actually, there were two remarkable photos. the one by bob jackson was snapped a fraction of a second and later than the one by the dallas morning news photographer and as a result they captured the grimace on lee harvey on his world's face as the bullet from jack ruby's gun penetrated his gut. to quote the denver post, jackson's photo has maintained the command that photojournalism always had and still does. it can tell a full story by freezing time. please welcome bob jackson who flew in from his

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. >> washington journal continues. next hour, a conversation with the co-authors of the washington post book titled "trump revealed: an american journey of ambition, ego, money, and power," an and joining us now the table is marc fisher and michael kranish. what kind of reaction did you get from donald trump? guest: for this book, donald trump was gracious with this time. he spent 20 hours with a team of reporters doing interviews. the day before the book came out he tweeted, don't buy the book, it is boring. he cannot have read it because he did not receive a copy. people will see this is a thorough biography. let me beginsher, where you begin, his life story. he knew how to be famous, he knew how to win numbers, to get ratings. he made a lifelong study of how to create buzz. let's was one level up from flash. can you explain? guest: he has a hierarchy of reaction he can get from the media and he has made a lifelong study of manipulating the media and using the media. he learned at a early age that all publicity is go

did not find it george washington during the revolutionary war with washington crossed the delaware or when general cornwallis surrendered washington was there together. to make sure washington had weather was a horse or telescope basically there is one story that is in the book were a group of southerners than northerners and day got into an argument that the revolutionary war and that is about to break out and washington grabs the right there behind him even with all the major battles are going on. if something happens to washington's force and then the best he could but when washington woke up in the morning and went to bed at night it was his job to take off of big and take off his clothes a major washington had the food he needed his bible. basically he was washington's number two that everything around him that washington did not have to think about it. it's not like it was easy. we find people of a grandson but he ends up saying that lee was the second best horsemen in the country but when you start talking about body servants the men that were entrusted with the day-to-day c

martha washington. so in that regard, george washington part custess as a representative of the first first family of the country, who spent 55 years of his life promoting and celebrating that, was, in essence, also representative of another aspect of the history of this country, and the simple truth of it is, the first family of this country was biracial. so we recently re-enacted that wedding with family representing both charles and mariah. also enslaved, selena norris in the house and gray who worked in the mansion, as well. that was averarranged and the wedding took place in this parlor and serena gray would live in one of the two historic slave quarters that we maintain, that still exist and are going to be restored as part of this big project, as well. now, you can see this room is somewhat empty of furnishings and that's representative of the fact that right now we are in the process of removing furnishings and artifacts from display so by the end of the year we will begin this restoration proje

of 1829, he is coming from washington going back to boston, writes george washington and says please come to washington and help me move. george washington is terrified a father will find that his life is a mess and yes an illegitimate kid. on the boat to washington, he committed suicide. he jumped off the boat. you can't say that his father killed him off. that would be crude. what you can said there was a tremendous amount of stress in that relationship. issue orhas a mental other it factors involved. what is so moving is that john quincy has an amazing comeback. after his presidency, he goes to the house of representatives and becomes this fire abolitionist or cause abolitionist and i think that -- quasi-ocean is and i think that death -- plaza -- quasi abolitionist and i think that death changed his life. >> you talk to doctors, why? >> my interest is in personality. i think we have to try to psychology.he university,shington psychological profiles of political leaders from bill clinton to saddam hussein. this notion of trying. i'm interested in understanding what mix people take

and washington says, "no, he will be executed. >> washington knows that to win the espionage war, he must send a message to british spies. [ horse neighs ] >> whatever you have to do, make sure benedict arnold is hanged. >> it's one of the moments in his command where he is the most criticized by those who are closest to him because it's something that's not a military necessity. this is personal. >> there is no doubt that at first benedict arnold is ready to die in battle for the american cause. >> yeah! >> charge! >> but unlike true patriots, his loyalty not only has a limit, it has a price. instead of a hero, arnold is remembered as america's biggest traitor. as a british general, he goes on to lead attacks against american forces, but on his deathbed, some historians believe that arnold finally shows remorse. they report that with his last words, he asks to die in his continental army uniform. >> on christmas? >> precisely. >> follow me, men. >> we're americans. we will not serve you against our duty. >> now let us convict king george himself! >>> tonight on "justice," a clinton

part of the problem in washington. died after being hit. parker collins it at the scene gathering more details. state authorities in florida are now trying to figure out how live ammunition made its way into a gun that was being used in a police an elderly woman. the victim, 73 year old mary knowlton was a retired librarian. her family says they are devastated.. but they know it was an accident, and they forgive the officer. steve knowlton, son she really supported the police here and that's why they went there last night just to show their support. the police chief says the the community outreach workshops. what do you do.. when you're security cameras children... actually put them in danger. i feel like i've failed. because i'm not protecting them they're in my house! the new warning about the dangers of web cameras.. that's next. plus... a service monkey on a plane causes some chaos at mccarran.. but now we're learning why the people on the flight thought the animal had been smuggled in. and chopper breaking news... we know one person ha

traffic in washington d.c. or new york city does not compare to what you see over there, and it was just one of those experiences that you are drained afterwards. it hit me how did washington do this? right? how did he experience combat, armed conflict for the first time? i realized to you that may seem strange, right? here i am in iraq in 2003 and my mind randomly goes back to george washington? you have to understand in an experience like that, everybody needs a bit of a mental escape. you need something that's going to at the end of each day, which is very long. the days and nights all started to blend together. you need something that is going to get you through, that's going to help you reset normally so you can face the next day. for me it was reading. you know, thanks to my generous family and friends and the extremely slow but usually reliable postal service, i had a steady stream of books sent to me that i would read every day. it's how i would decompress. my old thesis advisor, professor rob mcdonald,

good morning washington. toss to veronica breaking news from italy.. earthquake hits the city of amatrice. the quake struck around 6:30 this morning local time. the u-s geological service measured it with a maginuted of it's one of a more than a thousand aftershocks that have been rattling the city since wednesday's six point two magnintude quake. right now - rescue crews are still desperately trying to find survivors. the death toll - going up overnight, and now stands at 267. the first funerals for some of the victims will be held today. this morning prince george's county leaders are assuring parents that head start will begin as scheduled on monday. this after the county lost millions of dollars in federal funding because of allegations of abuse and neglect by teachers. john gonzalez is live at langley park-mccormick elementary school in hyattsville with more.. a 6th victim has been identified- identified- in that deadly explosion at a silver spring apartment building. 34-year-old aseged mekonen was found

she was martha washington's personal maid. she had been with the washingtons her entire life. she was actually born into slavery with the washingtons and she had been with them her entire life. at the president's second term was winding down she saw that if she ever set foot back at mt. vernon she would never escape so while the washingtons were packing up to get ready to go back to mt. vernon, otey was packing her own things and one day as they were eating dinner she just walked out the back door and walked to the wharf and got on the ship and sail away. took a couple of days for washington to realize she had been packing to escape but she actually made it all the way up to the northeast where she would live out the rest of her life without ever having to go back to virginia. now it's not that the washingtons didn't want her back. george washington actually put advertising in the newspaper trying to get people to find ony judge. he sent a couple of his relatives to the area where he thought his ony judge had escaped to deceive the could find her and one of them actually found

good morning washington i'm autria godfrey. and i'm larry smith. breaking overnight - the death toll spikes in that breaking overnight - the death toll spikes in that earthquake in spikes in that powerful earthquake in central italy. right now - 247 people confirmed dead. three-quarters of the dead were discovered in and around two of the three towns now reduced to rubble this morning rescuers are racing search through that debris to find any other survivors. the 6-point-2 magnitude quake has already unleashed more than 200-aftershocks - some felt all the way to rome, 100 miles away. new this morning - a scary discovery in a woodbridge neighborhood. bottle bombs were found at a home on arum place, just off route one. neighbors called police when they saw something suspicious. tuesday afternoon - investigators swarmed the house. inside, they found several plastic bottles with an unknown chemical inside. all the devices were cleared without any injuries. so far, no word on who could be facing charges. happening now.. increased security on a popular t

funding for "washington week" is provided by -- once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. since no one at this table has ever seen an election quite like this, i thought we'd try to divide tonight's analysis into two categories. the conventional and the unconventional. the conventional includes the latest polls. an nbc news/marist poll out this afternoon shows donald trump struggling in states he needs to win. down by five points in florida. down by nine points in north carolina. down by 13 in virginia. down by 14 points in colorado. trump campaigned in three of the four states just this week. any number of polls now show clinton expanding her national lead. the results among many republicans have been panic which leads us to the unconventional. i asked senator susan collins this week why she decided to announce now she won't support him. >> regrettably, i have concluded that there is not going to be a new donald trump. that he's incapable of saying he's sorry, of changing ks of learning, of growing. gwen: there's more. 50 foreign policy experts signed

john gonzalez, "good morning washington." larry: 7 is on your side, helping your family fight against crime. --ck jeb you jail a.com check wjla.com. autria: in prince george's county is under investigation. a car slammed into a house on crown street in capitol heights. the people inside the house were not hurt, but they are having to stay somewhere else because the home sustained damage, structural damage. he driver was taken to the hospital with nonlife threatening injuries. larry: beach drive in rock creek -- iss open to track of open to traffic after this happened last night. a massive treat came down and crushed a passing car, trapping a man inside. it turned out to be a good thing because according to police, more than 30 people left the cars to help, lifting the tree up and sliding the car out. the driver was taken to the hospital with life-threatening injuries. could be coming to school schedules in maryland for next year. comptrollerand the say they will make a major announcement on school after labor day later today.

i'm marilee joyce and this is "eye on washington," the only produced in washington, d.c. every week "eye on washington" takes you straight to capitol hill for a discussion with nevada's delegation and other leaders about the federal matters that matter to you. today's topic, inclusion. the growing focus on diversification in the workforce in nevada and nationally. my very special guest today is mr. fred keeton. he is the principal of keeton iconoclast, llc. thanks so much for being here today. >> thank you for having me. >> appreciate you coming. go against the grain. think about things in a markedly different way. that's what diversity is all about. well, that's what my guest said about diversification and inclusion in a recent magazine profile. today on "eye on washington," we're going to learn why he believes a diversified culture can make or break a company's bottom line. we're going to find out the reasons one global ceo says diversity benefits business. and we will look at congressional delegation work. well, can embracing diversity and inclusion benefit a company f

they march toward washington, d.c. or washington city as they called it at the time, figuring if they could capture our capital, that could bolster their position at the negotiation table. the americans, though, weren't entirely caught off guard, the americans called up the militia from around washington, including georgetown. so francis scott key were there. a few thousand soldiers marched south and hundreds of virginians came up as well as units from the army, united states marine corps and the united states navy. and americans were able to put around 5,000 men on the field at bladensburg. on the 24th of august, a confused battle erupts. the british attack with a few thousand men and the americans are almost instantly thrown into disarray. the president of the united states himself james madison gallops away from the battlefield. some of the american positions are quickly overrun and whole american units break and run away. american militia units receive some training, but not as much training as professional soldier

coming up next on good morning washington.. donald trump hitting the re-set button on his campaign--again! we'll tell you about his new mission and how he plans to gain ground on hillary clinton. and we are in store for a beautiful day ahead.. veronica johnson with all the details you wont want to miss straight ahead. ♪ hey, is this our turn? honey...our turn? yeah, we go left right here. (woman vo) great adventures are still out there. we'll find them in our subaru outback. (avo) love. it's what makes a subaru, a subaru. get zero percent on select subaru models during the subaru a lot to love event, now through august thirty-first. good morning, back to good morning, back to with what you need to know. dc public schools are back in session. you'll only see buses for special education. in prince georges county and anne arundel county, there are some grades going back so you will see buses, too. in frederick county, everyone back to school. on the ros a few issues but they are minor and nothing that will cause any big delays.

robert lions is an actor who looks like a younger washington. we wanted to break away from the old man sitting as president at the end of his career because money. >> that's right. we wanted to take him off the currency and give you the younger, aggressive, the best horseman in the colonies, a man of enormous physical strength, a wilderness character who in his early 20s was starting a world war in the west. who has four bullet holes in his coat and two horses shot from under him. this is an action hero. and so the first amerin is our effort to recenter washington at the center of the american experience and through the gingrich foundation, we hope to get it in every high school in the country and make it available for people who want to buy a copy and we're currently shopping it to several networks. we'll probably try to bring it up every single birthday for the next 20 years for people to see this is what america was built on. this kind of courage and work ethic and patriotism. >> yes. they saw this as something different. they knew that when

even washington's boyhood. george washington's father dies when he is 11. there's exactly one sentence in all of his papers, you know, referring to his father. hamilton, the entire first one-third of his life is played out in the caribbean where there is scarcely any paper trail at all. obviously, had a tremendous impact on him and so, you know, there's a temptation to do less about those places just because the paper trail is so thin. i think that it comes especially incumbent on you to do whatever you can, whatever sources you can to at least build the context and the circumstances for what happens. it's a little smoke and mirrors because you are doing a particular period in the person's life without the person, you know, being always in the foreground of it. otherwise, you get this situation where particularly -- this is a big problem with presidential -- all of us when we hit the presidency, we suddenly hit, you know, like the mother load of all time in terms of paperwork. martha was telling me before this -- i asked how many documents there were in the

that partly motivated washington. but as he puts it in his farewell address in several attempts to call for founding a national university, he was also deeply aware that republican government would really need to cultivate a certain kind of knowledge and you would have to speak in not just a leadership class that self-consciously thought about this knowledge but a symmetry that carried forward these ideas. education for him became a way of speaking to the nation he helped create and seeing that it would carry forward the american experiment. looking back, we tend to presume its success to some degree and those of the founding generation they were really vividly aware that forming governments often failed. certainly they were aware that they decayed. washington thought of it as a way to help nurture and sustain the political environment he had created. >> how were they at that time? >> mixed at some time for new. when you look at the curriculum they were in the business of creating the clergy and that theology really c

with 100 35,000 with washington, i feel like i am swimming in washington but i really do not know what i would do if i had the resources of a modern presidential library. bob.friends with when he was working as a newspaper reporter in the early , and editor told him to turn the next page. he has been turning the next page for 40 years and it is never ending. i think that is a real problem. we have done such an extraordinary job of preserving these presidencies that we threaten to overwhelm rather futurespire all biographers. it becomes more difficult to make sense of it. i think what has happened, because in the earlier years, when you had gigantic editions of papers that could be anywhere to 90 volumes -- and then with the modern biographies, you get millions or tens of millions of documents. i think what has happened is that it has had a reverse affect. the biographers become less ambitious. to do an old-fashioned cradle-to-grave biography, he will look at the already 70 volumes of george washington. authoritative review of washington. it is a problem that we have not resolved. may i