harlem, or you live in williamsburg, brooklyn, prospect heights, brooklyn heights, park slope, may be out in staten hampstead,g island, great neck, little neck. i am asking you to stick your neck out for live tv. oregon, montana, if you live in the nebraskas, make the call. illinois is in the house. susan call from syracuse, new york. how about white plains, anyone in rocklin county? houston is in the house. can we hear from austin? please call in and let us know that you are there. michael called in from chicago. i was there on sunday. beach,rom long california. how about long branch, new jersey? marjorie calls in from los angeles. caring from -- karen from california. the folks from new mexico should start to go competitive. represent your state. i hosted a couple from new mexico and we had a fantastic dinner. you can watch the broadcast and meet the guests on set, and then i host you for dinner. we get these calls and every day from all over the country. last night we had a great time. it is a $2,000 charitable contribution that goes directly to the tv. we give you a tour of the greene

goes back again to vietnam and the minister in williamsburg who asked lyndon johnson, tell me, what are we there? is it not there for a requirement to not only get the support of the local people, we have to explain to the american people better the job of why we are there in order not to give them a deadline to get out. but the deadline to get out, seems to me, has been one of our biggest mistakes. >> so the deadline and also speaking to two audiences. >> i don't comment on a couple of those things. compared to vietnam, at least in a moral way, the american people are not connected to these wars. they were during the vietnam war because there was a draft. personally, i don't think the draft is the answer. i think a less more ambitious foreign-policy and a foreign policy that is premised on the notion of limits to what american military power can accomplish, i think that is the answer. i don't think over these last 10 years of war the american people have been morally connected to these two wars like a war with regard to vietnam. the other point about time and how long these kinds o

we hear from the williamsburg in brooklyn? or port jefferson out in long the endor anywhere on of long island. maybe you hear it -- you live in southampton or east hampton. anywhere along the atlantic ocean. we ask your support. the riverlive along in the new york area, the hudson river, the great south bay, the connecticut river. we urge you to call in and let us know you're there. if you live and as -- minnesota or missouri or montana, go to the phone. maryland is in the house. arizona? wyoming, the dakotas, we ask you to call. carolinas, we ask for your support. can we get a few from georgia? portland oregon is in the house. a call from richmond, mississippi. and jonah's called in from st. louis, missouri. and how about moab, which i just visited. the amazing read city. we urge you to call. william kolding from forde city. dennis from philadelphia. can we hear from pittsburgh, which we also just visited? wayne called in from bremerton, washington. pedro,alling from san california. california is so at of everyone else, but you can't come back -- you can come back by making a cal

family moved here to williamsburg. it was here that letitia tyler suffered a stroke. john tyler learned he was elected as vice president of william perry region william henry harrison. it is here that he became 10th president of the united states, so she learned she became the first lady. >> she had another terrible stroke, and her husband goes into morning, and then he meets another young lovely in her 20's. >> i think of her as the madonna of first ladies. she posed as a model at a time that was frowned upon, by all accounts was bewitching. >> there were 90 slaves, and they were her supervision. julia lobbied for her husband, and she supported him tremendously in everything she did. >> untimely death, a secret marriage, and outsize personality are stories of the women we examined tonight. good evening, and welcome to the season series of first ladies. william henry harrison was in office, and a month later, he dies. to learn about time, we have the chair of the history department, and she has been working with us many times on this series. nice to see you again. school childre

williamsburg, valley forge, and philadelphia. the part of the conversation with your phone calls, tweets, and facebook posts, live monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> think it is pretty accurate that they do not play by the rules in most cases. i think they bend the rules to fit their circumstance. i think americans and westerners tend to be more legalistic. we want things on a contract. once we see things written down, that is the be all, and all, whereas the chinese will sign any contract or agree to any trade agreement, and the minute the ink is dry, they will figure out a way to interpret it to get around requirements. >> where does that come from? >> it is a relentless drive to try to get ahead. it has built the place over the last 30 years. the want to get better, to improve. they see some of the constraint -- some of the constructions we have put on them as trade. they see that as we are holding chinatown. we basically operate in a role -- in a world without rules. now that we have gone to the top, we're try to hamstring them or tie them up with a lot of rules and regulations to

here and landed at cape henry. the history of williamsburg, which is right up the river, and jamestown, it is really the founding location of our country is right here in virginia beach and this immediate area. if you are history buff, it's a fascinating place to be and a fascinating place to explore. the population of virginia beach is 450,000. we have crossed that this past year. tourism,industries are military, agriculture. most of the growth in this whole region has been through the department of defense, the military, defense contractors, shipbuilding, hundreds of years of history here building ships. we're the only place in the world that builds nuclear aircraft carriers and submarines and those kinds of vessels. the full range of maritime business. the report. hampton roads is probably the largest physical port. -- on the east coast of the u.s. the challenge is running a city like virginia beach are probably not a lot different than most every city in the country right now. that's all all changing relationships of federalism, the relationship between the state and fede

influenced her life, including colonial williamsburg, mount vernon, valley forge, and philadelphia. be part of the conversation about martha washington with your phone calls, tweets, and facebook posts. monday night at 9:00 eastern. >> i think it is accurate they do not play by the rules. i think they bend the rules to fit their circumstance. think westerners tend to be a lot more legalistic, we want things on a contract. we think that is the be all and end all. the chinese will sign any contract or agree to any trade agreement and then they will try to figure out a way to interpret it to go out and get its requirements. it is just a relentless drive to try to get ahead. they see some of the coup scriptures that we put on them in terms of trade, in terms of these agreements. they see that as we are trying to hold chinatown. we basically operate in a role -- in a world without rules and now that we have gotten to the top we try to hamstring them are tied them up in a knot of rules and regulations the whole china down. >> former pop -- former washington post correspondent keith richburg on 40

to this that in january, the house toublicans met, retreated williamsburg, virginia, and came up with a strategy. the first element of that strategy was a kind of legislative strike. all decided to boycott direct negotiations with president obama. subsequently extended that boycott to negotiations with the democratic senate, which only goes to prove why despite having passed a budget six months ago, each of the eight team times that senator murray has asked to go to a conference, which is a meeting of the house of representatives and the senate to work out their differences, there has been objections. when i read this article saying the house republicans decided to boycott all direct negotiations with president obama and with thethat boycott democratic senate, we are seeing the consequences of that strategy. today. this kind of refusal to even enter negotiations is highly unusual. the way to make sense of it is republicans have plan since january to force obama to exceed two large chunks of the republican agenda without republicans having to offer any policy concessions of their

that influenced her life, including colonial williamsburg -- colonial williamsburg, philadelphia, and be part of a conversation with your phone calls, tweets, and facebook posts. live at monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> a group of african-american activists argued against stricter gun laws. we will hear from a father whose son was killed in a gang shooting, a former football player, and the former head of the national black chamber of commerce. >> good morning everyone. welcome members of the media. our distinguished guests and panelists here assembled this morning. in support of the second amendment. today, this morning, we have our speakers lined up and are going to be commenting on this important issue as it relates to their communities, as relates to our country, as relates to the policies and procedures in our nation. this morning, i'm going to speak for our chairman of the board for the center for urban renewal and education, kent blackwell who couldn't be here and i'll read his statement for you now, with a little help of technology. the second amendment is a fun

williamsburg, mt. vernon, valley forge, philadelphia. and be part of a conversation with phone calls, tweeds, and face but posts. -- tweets and facebook posts. >> at today's white house briefing, the transportation secretary warns that sequestration could result 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. in airport delays and the reduction of air traffic control staff. the press secretary also talked about the automatic budget cuts. this is close to an hour. >> i remember all of you from roll call. [laughter] they would ask me all these dumb questions. >> i just want to say that it is my pleasure, and clearly yours, to have with me today the secretary of transportation who is here to speak with you about the impacts of the sequester as a comes to pass on the american travel industry. as we have talked about a lot of the sequestration cuts. secretary lahood is here discuss what aspect of that with you. afterwards, i will be able to take questions on other issues. we are on a slightly constrained time schedule. the democratic governors and the prime minister of japan, i turn it over to secret

here to williamsburg to establish the law practice. he constructed his law office, and the foundry. the house they live in is no longer here, but here in williamsburg, it was perfectly to traded at the center of the legal part of the town. the courthouse was right across the street. this is sort of the beating heart of williamsburg, even in the 1830's. all of the political activity, the social activity, they are really living at the center of it. and this fantastic 18th-century house that they were living in, as john tyler was resurrecting his political year -- career. latisha was operating out of the house and running the various plantations all over the place. it is right here that she suffered a stroke in 1839 that partly paralyzed her, although she was still able to retain control on the family accounts, of all of the family business, while john tyler was actually getting involved again in the business. it was here that he learned he was elected vice president and also in the spring of night -- of 1841, it was here that he became the next president of the united states. and it

williamsburg, philadelphia. at is monday night at nine o'clock eastern, on c-span, c- span radio and c-span.org. next, a discussion with ruth bader ginsburg, a speaker at the 13th annual women and the law conference in san diego. justice ginsburg's talks about her experiences in law, including those coming of this year. >> i'd like to begin. can we all be seated, please? excuse me. can we all be seated? we have an interesting question and answer session with three of our thomas jefferson school of law professors and students and justice ruth bader ginsburg of the united states supreme court. to maximize the question and answer time, i am going to minimize the introductions. if we do not know who ginsburg is now, i think we should not be in law school. ruth and i are very old friends. i have known her for 20 years. we met through a law program, which she attended four times. i had the honor of getting to know her every time she came a little bit better. it is not only an honor and privilege but a pleasure to be with such a wonderful, warm, intelligent, caring, and sensitive woman. it is

program, taylor sturmer, a historian for colonial williamsburg. welcome to the conversation. the election.ut anybody who thinks there is hard knuckle politics today, look at the election of 1884 that brought grover cleveland into the white house. pretty rough stuff. what was it like? guest: politics is brutal. we do think about earlier elections in american history in which they are taking swings at each other like jefferson and , but in 1800 election politics in 1880s, with the growth of the newspapers, is personal, visceral, and because of the way political parties developed, they are able to take these swipes at each other that we would find surprising today. in 1884, all of these things are coming out in 1884 election because you have two candidates who could not be more different. you have grover cleveland on the -- he hasho had been very little political experience of this sort. he was mayor of buffalo in 1881, elected governor of new york in two years later, he is the democratic nominee for president. that is all the major political experience he has. he has developed a re

. all that as a backdrop, house leaders last week went to williamsburg to figure out the task force on the debt ceiling on the across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester, coming up. also, at the end of march, we have the continuing resolution, because the senate has not passed a full budget and the two chamber is not agree to a budget, but they have been working off a continuing resolution which funds the government for certain amount of time. it will end on march 27. house leaders tried to put forward or sketched out a game plan for how they would handle things going forward. the first step in all this is the vote today on a short-term debt limit extension. host: seth, you mentioned the republican retreat last week and on conversations with conservatives, an event on capitol hill yesterday. what kind of dissent did you hear from conservative republicans on the debt ceiling vote? guest: they want to make sure that they get some sort of deficit reduction out of this. i think it makes them a little nervous. this is what many will referred to as a clean vote on the debt ceiling

the republican retreat. the congressional republicans held it in williamsburg recently. and i was asked to go to the republican retreat, i said, i thought we did that on november 6. we kind of already did that. i am trying to fill the shoes of speaker boehner, who was here previously. talking to major garrett before this event, he told me that when the speaker was asked to participate he just lit up. i said, how could you tell? [laughter] i am here to share the platform. i am pleased to be here with the north dakota senator. i appreciate your comments. i am here from utah -- i will not tell the story, this is awful. i am going right to the next one. i was supposed to say god's chosen people came from north dakota -- god's frozen people. i will skip that one, too. to those of you who actually cover congress, i have to say it is tougher for the reporters on the obama white house beat than it is for you. you do not have to show up an hour early for a president to give you a list of questions you'll ask ask. i should have skipped that one. [laughter] i had a hunch the president was no

did williamsburg. it was modeled for the time. the well-known separatist the architecture was a friend of the kennedys and both of the kennedys were upset about the white house losing its residential scale and its neighborhood. between mrs. kennedy and the president himself, they stirred the fine arts commission to resend -- to rescind permission to build this building. it happened right at the end of the kennedy administration. mrs. kennedy personally appear at the fine arts building and stirred everybody up for it. that is what happened. that is why we have lafayette square. >> jacqueline kennedy certainly was -- that was one of her causes, historic preservation. we see that through saving pennsylvania avenue as well as the white house. when she moved to new york she credited activities that save grand central station and a number of historic sites. that is one of her causes. >> and to think she was 32 when she came to washington and immediately set the white house to be a more appropriate setting. it looked like a sheraton hotel. [laughter] mrs. kennedy wanted antiques and th

is out for the rest of the week. republicans are on their legislative retreat. williamsburg, virginia, and house democrats holding this briefing, this meeting, to hear from people like michael nutter, the mayor of philadelphia. also dr. janet robinson who is the superintendent at schools in newtown, connecticut. it should be gaveling in shortly. democratic leader nancy pelosi will lead. you'll also hear from congresswoman rosa delauro of connecticut who is one of the co-chairs of the steering and policy committee. you're watching live coverage here on c-span. also, following the meeting here of the policy committee, we're going to show you president obama's comments from earlier today and his proposals on gun violence that he announced at the white house. there's leader pelosi about to get under way here on c-span. >> on the screen, michael nutter, mayor of philipp delve yarks and one of several folks who will testify this afternoon before the democratic is steering and policy committee about gun violence. also you'll hear from the superintendent of schools in newtown, conne

. negotiating the either. i think what we need to do as republicans, we're going to williamsburg, as you know. if what we need to do is put forth what we stand for and to pass what we believe in and bring that to the american people. and it needs to be credible, it needs to be logical, it needs to substantively address spending. host: in your opinion, what should happen? where do you picked a fight, over the debt ceiling or later on over the continuing resolution to? finance to? -- or the continuing resolution to finance the government? guest: i've only been here two years. i truly believe that when i ran and even more so now, we are a nation at risk. every american, regardless of political affiliation. so we have to reduce federal spending. this is the time right now. some of my colleagues were saying let's get through the fiscal cliff and the real fight is the continuing resolution or the real fight is the debt limit. i hear that and it goes on. host: where do you insist on spending cuts? is that the debt ceiling or the continuing resolution? guest: it is that every point. host: all of the

with the sequester levels. that as i understand were agreed at williamsburg to be offered, but they haven't worked. my own view that, mr. speaker, what is being discussed in the budget conference some of the things i have heard strike me as being unbalanced, unfair, irresponsible, and unacceptable. unless we have a balanced agreement, which in my view should replace the sequester because, as the majority leader indicates, it is not the rational way to go. as mr. rogers indicates, not the rational way to go. and as every chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on the republican side, mr. speaker, have said it is not the way to go and ought to be replaced. so i'm hopeful that any agreement will, in fact, replace the sequester. i am hopeful, mr. majority leader, as you well know, that we will get a big deal, not a little deal, not nibbling around the edges so that what occurs is we do this every six months and we never get to a stability that i know the majority leader believes and i believe would give competence to our economy, to the business community, and to our people if we go