antitrust authorities in europe or in the united states, a security authorities in australia in the united states, looked at the statutes of both or more to see what those individuals do and try to interpret the american law so those laws of federal countries work out in harmony so the object of all of those could be better secured they will tell you there brief was filed in the european union as well as several other countries i'm sorry we have to but it is so complicated but we won't understand it unless they get busy to tell us how to understand it but that is the nature of a very large number of commercial cases. >> it is complicated. although this book is quite technical but you had some assistance with some of the research? >> his question is do you not have a day job? how did you do all this research? and the answer is a whole the 274 text book pages the rest is all footnotes but they have to be accurate even though you don't have to read them. some of it is from when i was still teaching some is responding to cases that we wrote but yale university paid for one of my former former,

the government, not the war in europe. but fdr realized if america were attacked, the current state of military could not possibly get into the united states. the american army was only approximate 174,000 people in 1939. that was really, really small. and so he asked congress to please pass legislation to allow for a draft to congress worked on legislation over the summer and in september 1940, they finally passed the selective training and service act. they also realize it needed to have funding so that the army to build adequate training camps for all of many people that would be coming into the military. so what ended up happening is people were drafted into the services before new training camps were actually built for them. so instead of going to a training area where there were barracks in cafeterias and bathrooms and classrooms and things of that nature for their training, he ended up having villages of tense. i'm assuming most of you are from new york and you for me with what winter feels like. unfortunately, the draft occurred over the winter, at least for the full conscri

german marshall fund and recently became a senior fellow of brookings as a senior adviser for europe. please join me to welcome judith miller. [applause] if so i figured we the audiencet some of the more controversial aspects of your career. i suppose everybody behind every journalist there is a series of mentors or inspirational people. i understand he started in journalism as a progressive publication at the height of the protests against vietnam. larry stern was a close friend and editor. tell me a little bit about that phase of your career. >> well that then i was a graduate student who had decided that i was never going to be an economist because it was too boring even for me and since i hated the sight of blood that couldn't be at doctor and i thought journalism was an interesting way. i had no idea. i started doing freelance at princeton's woodrow wilson school. i was a graduate student studying the middle east for a summer which many universities did back then. i went to start out in israel and then i got really hooked and the arab-israeli conflict. in those days people forge

going on and when europe would go throughout your refugee crisis in light of the book? >> we hear so many awful stories about people risking their lives to get on these crappy little boats and we all know the narrative. we are not really thinking about how people from very wealthy people from the same country, like a very wealthy libyan can within a year be a full e citizen just because of the size of his or her wallet. no one is really talking about that. i think that's important to keep in mind. this real structural inequality in the laws of these individual nations. also in the system and our whole way of organizing how people can move around. >> was wondering what the advantage is for a wealthy person from a golf nation to take up citizenship in a small caribbean island. i understand why the kuwaitis did it but why wall wealthy person would take up citizenship in the u.s. but why a small island? >> one use of travel, it's much easier to travel on a passport than on the syrian one or saudi one. you can go to more countries without a visa. gonna go on vacation or do business, it's

religiously in western europe. you've got the catholics in the south and the catholics never -- hitler is down there but the catholics don't vote for him much. people in the north, the protestants vote for him so you've got that divide and you've been -- and you have mobility versus everybody else is even in a factory you get to the different workmen. people were sick of that and wanted some sort of unified thing which would destroy all these class distinctions but they didn't want to destroy them in a marxist way. this was their way to bring people together and he raced these differences but not in a marxist way but also you get a lot of people who don't like to give eco- democracy. you have a majority of the people at the end of 1932 voting not just for the dictatorship voting for totalitarians. the combined vote is a majority of the people voting to end democracy. then you add in the nationalists >> they have nothing to do with this republic and he is going to end it and a lot of them do a sign-on letter onto. they would say they were like the steak. they were brown on the

around the country and finally throughout europe, if not for those accounts i would not be able to knit together the story so even when the new york times, early in the coverage basically said like why would anybody protest this he was basically subhuman, we could learn a lot from having him in a cage in a zoo. if not for the new york times writing those editorials, i would not would not really have a sense of the times because while that seems shocking to us now that the new york times would hold that view, that was also a reflection of the prevailing attitudes around race in 1906. so i wrestled with the archives but i also needed those accounts to put together the story because they revealed so much about the everyday thoughts of people during that time. so between the newspaper articles and the letters that were in the archives, the letters written by zoo officials and they had gone back and forth with how they were dealing with this man. i was able to contrast the behind the scene letters with the public record. so what they would say on the record was that he was happy there,

tuberculosis. the other thing was there have been a major war in europe, the franco-prussian war which is about 50 years prior to 1914. there had not been a majora major war in america and longer than that. so there is a sense that the world was moving into this knew, enlightened period where there was not going to be war anymore, at least not major war, sicknesses will become occurred bye-bye science and technology. it was a new, rational age and there was the sense that people were changing, the world was progressing and things were improving and certainly in those areas for the better. and then in 1914 you have the worst war anyone could imagine. it was thisit was this war where people just were not prepared for the devastation , the new weapons and technology that could and still. and so you have battles where can offer instance, the british lost 20,000 men, 20,000 dead in the 1st day of battle. you know, you had by the end of the war about 20 million dead. the english i lost the generation, the french had lost a generation. and just when it looked like it could not get any worse you

europe. i mean, europe has had a great track record for the past hundred years. i mean, since archduke ferd demand's car got a flat in sarajevo in 1914, things have just been hunky dory in europe. where do you go to get the nazis and commies and lunatics that it would take to make america more like europe. no thanks. >> host: michael is calling from deerfield beach, florida. michael, go ahead. >> caller: yes, hello. first off, i wanted to say thank you very much, mr. o'rourke. satire and comedy are it when it comes to communicating something. >> guest: you're welcome. >> caller: and by that i mean to the populace at large. both the center for disease control this past week, i don't know if you're aware of this, and the health and human services have come out and said that we're all crazy in a lawsuit in compton, california, that has been won. it was based on something they called complex traumatic justice, ptsd in our schools. and it's basically behaviorally-transmitted bad behavior that whole communities and schools can suffer and that, clearly, if it's not caricatured and pu

conversations] please silence europe still funds are indeed other devices that may disrupt. c-span is here to fill the lecture so please be aware of your last question he will be filled please wait until the microphone comes to you before asking. the library offers events like the one you will hear tonight with the electronic resources sant but we just kicked off our aid will appeal and you already said to date to be issued. there is still tied. but it is my pleasure to welcome tonight's speaker coming from australia where he is a professor of history at the university of african-american history and history of the york city. gambling in harlem to discovery african american in history and his most recent book the first black millionaire. is puzzling and disappearance and death and excellent job to job of the supplemental details of other african american and of the era. braddish shareholder of the new york society library received his share in the team 56 please join me to welcome shade white to the podium. [applause] >> the queue for turning up. i stated imperfect accent less a engli

, superpower. and all the actions in eastern and central europe and integrating. they are also making, regional power. i think mr. putin wants to intervene in syria and claiming russia is once again a global power just to draw attention to his homeland as the original player. of course, actions in syria are not the global actions and superpower. but nevertheless, it's some kind of claim four a new regional state. so it is just calling for -- once again. the next point of course is that using the possibility that western countries are definitely challenged by terrorist threat, mr. putin wants to find some common ground with both united states and europe of the anti-terror, counterterror agenda and find out some ground to restore the relationship between russia and the united states and in the west in general which are in very -- are in very bad shape after conflict in ukraine. these are three drivers. there's more concrete issues. five of them domestic, three international. domestic first of all it's of course mr. putin wants to do a small war outside russian border and even outside th

in through the refugee flow coming from eastern europe and the mideast. and obama just said yesterday that we should not, quote, somehow start equating the issue of refugees with the issue of terrorism. and i just wanted to get your take on that given that according to the president we should be obligated to take tens of thousands of such refugees. >> it's always that reflex that he relies upon when something like this happens. however, that reflex is missing when it comes to gun crime. when there is an act of gun violation, it's not like he says, whoa, let's not go after all people with guns. he does the precise opposite. [laughter] he becomes this strident superhero about gun control. but he has, he doesn't have that same emotion and strength when it comes to terror control. terror control, to me, is more important than gun control, because gun control generally targets people who are law-abiding citizens. and we are about targeting violent people who want to end our life. look, i am, i am for an open society and a strong border. the metaphor that i always use is, you know, when --

theory of why the ugly american image developed in europe because most of the europeans, most the people you meet from foreign countries will fly across an ocean to come to america. everybody used to travel to europe. not now, they're all worried about paying rent. holding onto your job and paying for all of those special english translators at the school, paying to support your hospital from going bankrupt. this is just so crushing to the middle class, but it's good for mark zuckerberg. it's good for the rich. it's good for the rich farmers. >> here we are california which is the bottom of the hill as you mention. what are they supposed to do? you get this question a lot because we just, for the first time, past -- we are a minority white state and i believe my kids can now apply for affirmative action for the first time. >> i don't pick it's going work that way. >> it's unfortunate. , so aside from using this as a warning from others what should we do?? >> that's a good question. wow. >> this is not an encouraging pause. >> i'm thinking. yeah i think you're just a warning for ot

when something like paris happens, when the regular folks of europe on the street, regular folks on the street in the united states look at this particular incident, i believe they are sort of starting to say to themselves the headline here is this isn't going to stop. violent radical extremist jihad is some isn't going to stop, it will happen in more places, we have to deal with it, let's concentrate and focus on fat. i believe that is how people are thinking now. i agree it is how i am thinking. when people like thinking there are immediate things that are a frightening threat and their leaders come forward and speak after paris of climate change has the big issue, is that leader who does that will sound like he is rattling around in his own world, not aware of how other people are experiencing the world and not aware of how other people a feeling including what they are fearing. so it just seems to me there are immediate issues we ought to be dealing with. climate change as a debate will continue for a long time but what to do about isis seems to me quite pressing. >> host: tongu

park, a big mansion, farmland, workers, servants, nice dogs, a home in canada, vacations in europe so why is he unlikely, harvard educated etc., etc. and the cousin of a president theodore roosevelt but it's because people are not sure whether he has the right stuff that i'm not just talking about republicans touting franklin roosevelt. people are wondering whether he's a lightweight, whether he has the intellectual capacity or the will to be president to lead america in this time of great crisis, the great depression going on in 1932. walter lippman regards him as a fellow who with no particular publications to be presented with an amiable fellow and no great reason to be president in a financier and philosophers of the democratic party calls him an illegal boy scout. just someone who's maybe a thurston howell the third rising to the top in 1932. and he has also you're not sure where he stands on the issues. is he the question of his political honesty and i don't mean whether he has his hands in the till because he never has to do that and he never will do that and his administrat

act like it. isis, isis is a threat. we need a strategy to defeat it. offerings in europe and asia and in the middle east our embattled. we need to give them our support. we need to strengthen both our economy and our military to show the world that freedom works. and when we do, the world will see a confident america once again. this is how i see the choice. now the country needs to see it. today, what i have done here is to lay out our principles. now we, together, collaboratively, we need to turn them into policies. we are not going to solve all the country's problems next year. we need a new president. it's just that simple. but even if we cannot move mountains, we can make moves in the right direction. the cautious they wait for the opportunity, but the prudent will make their opportunity. we can make progress on issues where there's bipartisan agreement, like rebuilding a roads and bridges are bring some certainty to the tax code. we don't have to compromise our principles to work with the other side. even a blind court to find a nut every now and then. as hard as it might be

weight that way. in europe some countries countries have until recently forbidden the public lakes -- publication of dissents. there were dissent from the beginning but few and far between. in the 19th century, the only important ones were the two dissents by mclean and curtis in the dred scott decision and they didn't have a great impact in some ways beyond a few years because the civil war settled and. steven field in the slaughterhouse case had an enormous impact and got us to look at corporations as if they were persons and then there was john marshall harlan to first in the civil rights case which continues unto this day. even if the justice did not agree with the majority opinion well into the 1920s he and they were all men at this time might often note disagreement without a separate opinion. one reason was up until the 1920s they court heard almost every kind of case, cases that they would be decided in a magistrates court the local township may be a low state court. they were bankruptcy cases. you remember a thing in "fiddler on the roof". you sold me a horse, it was a mul

. germany has not agreed to the airstrikes in syria. many of the countries in europe see the threat as long as they don't think there one of the primary targets i don't think there likely to jump in and a controversiala controversial campaign, especially when no one really thinks that these marginal increases in military activity will make a big difference on the ground without a political deal. so the things that in my mind would show an actual turning point would be european countries committing to send ground troops in this area a special operations forces. some of the gulf countries, some of the rebel groups that are fighting on the ground that we just haven't seen it. so that, i just got back yesterday from san bernardino. another human tragedy but a very different story. we don't really have a complete picture of who these attackers were or why they chose this target. it is a little bit confusing because it looked like a workplace attacked the shooter working with many county health inspectors, he and his wife going down but they appear to have been motivated in large part by radicali

brookings and serves as a senior adviser for europe. ladies and gentlemen please join me in welcoming judy miller and bill joseph. [applause] >> thank you very much brad for that kind introduction. the pleasure to be in the company of good friends and on the occasion of judy's latest book. i thought we would start out with just some softball questions about how you got into journalism because i'm sure we will have plenty of time to go to the audience and talk about some of the more controversial aspects of your career. i suppose everybody behind every journalist there is a series of mentors or inspirational people. i understand he started in journalism as a progressive publication at the height of the protests against vietnam. larry stern was a close friend and editor. tell me a little bit about that phase of your career. >> well that then i was a graduate student who had decided that i was never going to be an economist because it was too boring even for me and since i hated the sight of blood that couldn't be at doctor and i thought journalism was an interesting way. i had no idea. i sta

europe it is only to try to restrain inflation, not to fight. i would complement you, and some of these questions may not sound like it, but he seemed to take the employment side of the dual mandate as seriously as he took the inflation side, again something past ventures may not have done. i credit this fed chair of taking that equally seriously and perhaps your time south of the border made you understand. let me talk about the 1st time you and i with a cast of about ten others have really serious, sobering conversation. it was september 19, 2008. you referred because he needed to make that day, i guess the people like me. ii was an industrial town east of columbus, small city. we are call from the majority leader saying we need you on the phone at 2:00 o'clock which i remember nikki and secretary paulson. september before the 2008 election and bear stearns had already been saved. lehman and fannie and freddie, all those things have happened over about to happen. i remember how sobering the call was. you spoke to us outline the problem. secretary paulson linger on the phone and say we

avengers, that it does not have, and farmland and workers, vacations in europe, and the cousin of the president, the roosevelt, not sure whether he has the right stuff and not just republicans batting franklin roosevelt, whether he is white rate, whether he has intellectual capacity or billed to the president, lead america in this time of great crisis. walter lipman regarded him as a fellow with no particular qualification to be president, an amiable fellow at no great reason to be president. and bernard borough, finance year and philosopher, costing an amiable boy scout. someone who is assistant howell iii rising to the top in 1932 he is also you are not sure where he stands on the issue. the question of his political honesty, with the administration, remarkably free of that, but where does he stand? where does he stand on that issue is? one of the big issues of 1932 is prohibition. it is startling to read the accounts of the 1932 republican and democratic convention and see in the midst of this financial and world crisis, great depression, how much time is devoted to prohibition and

advancing allies. protests against the invasion of europe to not only students but university presidents, not only scraggly leftist but wall street lawyers. not merely a handful of staffers but hundreds of state department officers protested. you post his conduct to the war. national day of protest in a week, nixon and he had to mobilize political support from his political allies. enter charles. the 38-year-old lawyer has signed out as a white house counsel eight months before as a liaison with labor unions and other special interests. quote, the strength for the jugular made him a lightning rod in my own frustrations. when i complained i felt confident something would be done, i was really disappointed. colson's job is himself put it was to attack and counterattack. in that role, nixon set, nixon set a tape, he will do anything. i mean anything. colson now achieved his point of her warfare, he joined a meeting convened by the and in the white house and taking action in the spirit of kissinger's encouragement to really clobber them for the presidents political enemies he tele

destabilizing impacts have now reached europe. the international community and his security council must accept a share of the blame. the devastation in syria demonstrates beyond any doubt the need for effective conflict prevention and for council unity in achieving this. the fact that we could today come together at last at about this landmark resolution in a short time reflects the determination of international community to end this conflict. we welcome the particular the continued close engagement with when the security council and the international superior -- international syria support group. as we move forward in must be a time for acceptance. all involved in the syrian tragedy must accept that no side can win militarily. the assad government and oppositiotheopposition fighterst that however much more death and destruction -- destruction to conflict on the country, there will be no victory. they and those external actors have serious political stakes and now the syrian conflict is resolved must accept that political solutions mean political compromise. any who insist on political red li

the l.a.,-- new york, increasingly in europe, you are starting to see some of that second generation experience. if you are in tuscaloosa, you are going to have a tough time finding that locally. more importantly, a tough time attracting someone who has that experience to move there. if you're in a global city where people are willing to move, and i think l.a. and new york counts. austin i think is on the edge. it has some livability that makes it attractive to people. it doesn't have the same ecosystem for what people do next. that is something people care about. that is the key question. if you can't attract people who are willing to move to your city, you have to consider moving your headquarters to a place where those people already are. network --ou have a i would argue l.a. might have the most talented people in the media business out of anywhere in the world. dynamics ofand the that market better than anywhere. if you are starting a digital media company in san francisco, you will be creating -- you would be recruiting executives from l.a. it depends on the network you bring.

collections in several different ways. we have the book collections and we have some books printed in europe, but we have mostly books printed in america. including the very first book printed in america, which was printed in 1640. we also have books like the elite indian bible, the first bible printed in america. and it is printed in the language of the outcome quinn indians because it was used to christianize the indians. said john elliott arranged working with a native speaker to translate the bible into the algonquin language. we have newspapers of every sort. is what happens to also be in an indian language. it's called the "cherokee phoenix," and half of the characters in the stories are in roman type, in english, and half are in the syllabary of the cherokee people. so we have newspapers, books, manuscripts. this manuscript is the oldest manuscript that relates to the founding of new england. this was a minute the of the council for new england that was, back in england had the rights to settle new england and this is their minute but that they kept from 1622. but some of things that

god knows how many refugees surging from north africa, middle east to europe, putting aside the u.s. or elsewhere. i think the question about that, whether it's immigrants from the south is that this is massive, big business. not just a question and one mind state of helping people have a better life. that's maybe to you and i would see it. how can we help people be treated better? but it's a huge business opportunity, and one of the things that so few journalists are writing about the reasons, who knows why that is apart from journalist not being good at the job come is understanding why this has become such a big business in which companies are involved. and greece is one of those countries, italy as well and ultimate with the refugee crisis says that have european union based on -- out of undemocratic brussels, for years many on the left, not so much the right but the left side europe in the eu as of the ultimate unify dream. that's over. i'm not saying the eu will collapse tomorrow. they won't there is profound disquiet in much of europe on the left and right for different reaso

campaign in europe forced a recognition for anyone not yet convinced that we're confront ago challenge that many had assumed was resigned to the history books. the strong militarily capable russian government that is hostile to our interests and values and seeks to challenge the international order that american leaders of both parties have sought to maintain since the end of world war ii. that's why the congress imposed tough sanctions against russia, especially against putin's cronies and their enormous -- and enormously corrupt business empires. as part of that effort, congress passepassed the fiscal year 2015 national defense authorization act which restricted the air force from using russian-made rd-180 rocket engines for national security space launches, engines that are manufactured by a russian company controlled by some of putin's top cronies. we did so not only because our nation should not rely on russia to access space but because it's simply immoral to help subsidize russia's intervention in ukraine and line the pockets of putin's gang of thugs who profit from th

putin had supplied them with. putin's imperialist campaign in europe forced a recognition for anyone not yet convinced that we're confront ago challenge that many had assumed was resigned to the history books. the strong militarily capable russian government that is hostile to our interests and values and seeks to challenge the international order that american leaders of both parties have sought to maintain since the end of world war ii. that's why the congress imposed tough sanctions against russia, especially against putin's cronies and their enormous -- and enormously corrupt business empires. as part of that effort, congress passepassed the fiscal year 2015 national defense authorization act which restricted the air force from using russian-made rd-180 rocket engines for national security space launches, engines that are manufactured by a russian company controlled by some of putin's top cronies. we did so not only because our nation should not rely on russia to access space but because it's simply immoral to help subsidize russia's intervention in ukraine and line the pockets of pu

are going to put them back in so you can defend yourself and defend europe. look at a country like egypt, this a ministration, hillary, hillary and obama embrace the muslim brotherhood that immediately starts taking aggressive action against israel. then, when they lead a counter revolution that creates a stable pro-western egypt, they are ignored and cut off by this administration. that is wrong, he is fighting isis in the sinai, we we should embrace him, support his military efforts, and his efforts to reform islam. stand with our allies. by the by the way i will get to israel. which is naturally the strongest allies as countries had. the third thing is we have to destroy radical islam. it is that simple. you heard earl talk about the fact that i was governor on september eleventh. will i tell tell you, i learned a lesson that day, i thought all americans had learned and no one would ever forget. think back, al qaeda was isolated, they were in afghanistan, they do not have territory they control. they did not have mass media, social media capability. they do not have hundreds of

to be sold following his departure to europe congress purchased wonderful items with pulling the mirrors and other costly items for the reception room and washington himself bought a 309 peace dining service. is on display the first dinner was to senators and it was used there after he eventually brought it back here. he had less compunction about displays of grandeur. the senator described as a feast to which they sat down to fish and meats and fall with mouthwatering desserts and watermelon and apples and peaches and let's newt -- nuts her wrote given the state of their entertaining in new york it is unfortunate that washington accepted the salary of $25,000 per year. in 1790 the security of the fledgling united states hung in the balance influence was raging in new york and the president laid low. he battled to breathe as his long or inflamed doctors came from philadelphia from the new york medics. his condition worsened on the 15th they found a household interiors the president's life despaired of. it was an extraordinary moment adams to had no glorious war record gave the ve

europe and ordered him to infiltrate oss agents in the third like. -- third reich. that was a daunting mission. nazi germany was still one of the world's most tightly run police state. the average german citizen had up to 18 different basic identity documents, an oss unit had to forge so casey, who eventually had 3430 -- 330 people working for him, had to scramble. the last five months of the war he managerred to parachute more than 150 agents in germany to radio back intelligence for the advancing allied armsies. his spies had to improvise on the fly. a two-man team code nailed show sure enlisted the help of two french women working in -- forced to work in a bavarian brothel. the women would bees entice military secrets, one one of the oss agents hid in the closet with a flashlight taking notes. bill colby. our next subject. bornin' 1920, he was an army brat. his father, who rows to the rank of colonel, was something of a curmudgeon. colby spend his early years moving from run duty station to another. he wanted to follow in his father's footsteps and be an army officer but he

from his departure from europe. what went she but a the during service when when when when but has the information says ended is used thereafter. washington had less compunction and the senator described the feast to which they sat down. one. with apples are peaches are nuts. and now given the scale was entertaining in new york it is fortunate washington accepted the salary of $5,000 a year. so in may 1790 the house on broadway with the security of the fledgling united states and the balance it was raging in new york. but on may 10th his lungs were served -- severely inflamed as doctors came from philadelphia and new york medics. it became more acute and on the 15th they found a household in tears. was an extraordinary moment with the cabinet colleagues and to feel as a president the listening to the expectation when the same time his life was despaired of and within days he was declared safe a proper recovery would take time but tranquillity was restored to the state. to was later it was washington to accommodate the national capital that one day would be named washington ended distri

? >> there's a massive flow of migrants and refugees into europe and in other areas, in asia and elsewhere, have surfaced more than the regional issues. it has become global issues. i appreciate the european union, particularly leaders for having engaging, to find out some more structured framework to address this issue. but it has gone beyond european union, and there is some division, very serious divisions among the countries of concern. that is why i believe that it has become a global issue, and that's why united nations should address this issue in close consultation with the member states. this year in september, september 30, i convened a high level meeting here, but i had the proposed to the member state of the u.n. that will i'm going to contain a seven meeting came just one day before the general debates. that will be september 19. there's consensus to support my proposal. they are i would like to discuss with the world leaders and try to sort of global compact for responsibility sharing. of course, for detailed matters we have to prepare in close consultation. may have visual c

, 1948 by keeping it just to america and here we switch between europe and america. you see what is going on to find out how different things are. so if you see them as a straight line ideologically from the horizon all the way back to creation city think they have a certain position on the divinations door prohibition you are quite often wrong to see how things go. and to complain about the two-party system in america but when you have 51 parties getting votes and nobody is cooperating with anybody county your blessings america. >> duties to end up colliding in your book? >> not so much in the book 1932 but there are connections that know it will come to a collision in 1941 and other careers parallel some crucial elections and of course, their death in early 45 within weeks of each other but i found out after words they found a copy of frank the roosevelt addition published for american readers published 1933. did he read it? yes. he put notes in the margin. they left out some stuff this is not the real stuff they are peddling which is interesting it indicates he is not the light w

isil is expanded in libya and established a new base close to europe where it can generate oil revenues and plot terror attacks. madam president, i ask unanimous consent the "wall street journal" islamic state tightens grip on libyans stronghold of cert, the hometown, by the way, of moammar qadhafi. step up pressures and the -- established a new base close to europe where it can generate oil revenue and plot terror attacks. libya is an oil-rich country, a very oil-rich country. you let isil get control -- isis get control of libya, my friends, and they will have unlimited sources of revenue. it says that according to "the wall street journal," its presence there has grown over the past year from 200 eager fighters to approximately 5,000 strong contingent which includes administrators and financiers, according to estimates by libyan intelligence officials, residents and activists in the area. and by the way, i want to -- during these debates, i will comment a little bit on it. those who are against any intervention cite libya as the case for not going in. facts are stubborn thin

his book "dead wake." with world war one being fought in europe, the lusitania liners sailed to liverpool, england with 2,000 passengers and crew on board. >> cspan: erik larson, your new book, "dead wake," you start off first sentence, "on the night of may 6, 1915, as his ship approach the coast of ireland, ccaptain william thomas turner left the bridge and made his way to the first class lounge." what are you talking about? >> this is the night before the lusitania was torpedoed. the ship was that day, on friday- the next day on friday, may 7th was going to enter the so-called the "zone of war" declared by the german navy. the water surrounding the u.k. had become this- they had designated this a zone of war. so the night before, captain turner was going into the lounge to actually talk to passengers during the intermission in the talent show, the nightly talent show, one of the features of transatlantic voyages. and he had some sobering news but also some comforting news to convey. >> cspan: and this is 1915. >> guest: 1915. >> cspan: may 6, 1915? >> guest: may 6 is the night

. this was 1996. i was a kid, to be honest with you i was clicking for a chief judge in europe and we had what was a very big deal case at the time which was essential whether gave people could adopt in new york. it was controversial and it was high-stakes and actually the case was first voted out we were in the dissent. we were not going to win the case and then the judge held the case over the summer and we held -- we won in the fall. it was intense. a lot of work being done, a lot of lobbying being done by to get the other boat. you need for vote on the court of appeals. i have to tell you, back that i did think there was every chance i would ever have a kid frankly. i don't think i ever thought there was any chance, shortly no chance i would get married. that was a pipe dream. but i cared a lot about the case i wanted a lesbian couple who wanted to adopt, i think it was a boy, to be able to adopt their son. so i thought it very hard and had this discussion with this other woman who worked for the judge about whether i was making it to personal. i don't know. i didn't talk about my

cloudier and indeed thoroughly confused. even among educated people few have much idea why europe exploded, though they may know that a big way with an extravagant mustache got shot in sarajevo. the most widely held belief i is that the conflict was simply ghastly mistake whichpo all the european powers sure blame, folly compounded by the british incompetence ofof military commanders. this is what i would characterize the 1st articulated by the likes of robert graves amid the modern blood they felt no cause to be worth the paughter. some british people and americans feel almost embarrassed that we finished up on the winning side. get my own opinion is somewhat different. while the war was assuredly a a colossal strip -- tragedy certainly britain could not possibly have remained neutral while germany secured hegemony over the continent.on imperfect seriousness a few years ago that a german victory in world war i would simply have created something like the european union half a century earlier. the british not to mention the united states could have remained rich and him bloodied bystanders

powerful place that women held before patriarchy arrived from europe and efforts now to restore the place. as we drive toward the badlands we see an acre of motorcycles around each isolated diner and motel. this solves the mystery of the leather in the chain but it creates another. only stop for coffee our waitress can't believe that we don't know. every august since 1938 bikers from all over the world have come here for a rally named after sturgis, a town that is just a lie place in the road. they are .-dot -- drawn by the sparsely populated forest, mountains, and the grid of highway so straight that it is recognizable from outer space. right now about 250,000 bikers are filling every motel and campground within 500 miles. our band of six strong women take note. the truth is comeau we are a little afraid of so many bikers in one place. how could we not be? we have learned from movies that the bikers travel in packs, treat women like possessions and see other women as sexual fair game. but we don't run into the bikers because we spend our days traveling down unmarked roads past the last b

person in the united states or europe is attracted to this, that they're -- we have to deal with that and turn them away, divert them into are rehabilitation and the like. i think you're starting to see much more attention being paid to that area. and regrettably, it's the scene of a lot of these terror attacks, these sad stories of young people being recruited to go to syria to fight. many of them dying, and their families devastated. and terror attacks that have been recently in paris, lebanon and the like where we're starting to see the footprint of other locals that are radicalized or foreigners who come in and are radicalized and then commit home grown terror attacks in western countries. so i think it's incredibly important, and and now you're seeing, i think, a growing group trying to deal with the weaponization, if you will, of the internet. >> host: ambassador fernandez. >> guest: yeah, sure. those are all good steps, but they're all kind of, you know, basic steps. their use of media, the use of isis propaganda, the way they get it out, is revolutionary in the way they d