. ♪ brian: david david: -- brian: david maraniss, when did you decide to name your book "a good american family." david: it wasn't the first title of the book. for a long time i was calling bottom bottom was where the hearings were conducted in new york. it was early on in the process and i knew i wanted to bring a lot of people in the room, not just my father and my family but the chairman of the committee and the f.b.i. informant and so that was the nexus of the piece. but in the end it really was more -- it's not a home woir in a sense, it's partly that, it's more history but i knew once i came across the quote from charles potter, a congressman from michigan, who expressed surprise that someone from a good american family could be a member of the communist party at any point, i said that's it. because i knew my family was a good american family in every possible way so i wanted to serve that attention and juxtaposition to define the book. >> i want to put up on the screen your mother and father and tell us when this picture was taken. and when you look at them, what do you think abou

david: yes. brian: i want to show you a clip from 1987, where you were in a "nova," pbs program, talking about the panama canal, which he wrote a book about. ♪ david: death and injury were commonplace. caught beneath the wheels of trains or struck by falling rock, dynamite got tender from standing too long. premature explosion killed 23. explosive energy was expended in blasting through panama than all the wars the united states had fought until then. brian: how many years were you in television, and how did you get in it in the first place? was 12 years iit worked in television, but then i came back to do some things with a few people that i like working with. i first got in because when ken burns did his film about my book , the building of the brooklyn bridge, he asked me to never it, and that is what got me started. and eventually, i narrated the civil war series with ken, and then i was invited to be most host of a series called i didonian world, which for maybe three years, and that i did

david: he does. first of all, my older brother is, both my brother and his sister are two of the smartest people i've ever known in my life. and jim has not a photographic memory, but a very sharp memory of certain things. he can recite any poem he has ever read, that kind of stuff. but he was traumatized by this period, much more so than i. he and my sister were in school and so the five years that hey were this event t bouncing from one school to another as my father was trying to find or get his life back together. so jim remembers, he even remembers going to the headquarters of the communist party, the newspaper where my father was also working as an editor, the michigan herald, and the michigan worker. he remembers some of that, much more so than i do. there is one thing where he remembers after -- or immediately after my father was called to testify, there were stories in the newspapers there and one of his friend's mothers said jim's dad is a communist. to back off of that, 1952, and how did h

david: no. there were many people over the course of the years who did not take the fifth amendment. but took the first amendment, cited their first amendment rights, and they were cited for contempt. you can't cite someone for contempt for taking the fifth amendment. that's a constitutional right. covered by that, but if you try to claim the first amendment, you're not covered. so people ranging from arthur miller, who we haven't talked about, the great playright, who coincidentally, went to abraham lincoln high school in brooklyn before my father, then went to the university of michigan before my father, was a friend of my uncle, bob cummings, and a very close friend of ralph -- the other spanish civil war veteran, who was killed during the spanish civil war, years later, wrote arthur miller -- he was called before, because he had a communist pass, and he didn't take the fifth amendment but he refused -- he didn't answer, he was asked the question and the subject turned away from that but he n

house and senate regarding the potential abduction of david abduction of david sneddon. which you heard about from his mother michael, earlier. we will work for the passage of those resolutions. that justice -- we believe that they can also commemorate on the action issue because that can serve as major pressure on kim jong-un. you must leave no stone unturned. led,ime minister ever has best as prime minister abe has died, a deal directly with the leader of north korea, and we hope to cooperate with the u.s. so that we can have is a mix between japan and north korea so that we can resolve the abduction issue. our caucus plans on using any means disposal to make it happen. with that, i would like to conclude my comments. thank you very much. [applause] >> our next speaker, senior democratic staffer on the prestigious foreign relations committee and deputy director of defense for east asia, a position close to my heart. >> thank you very much. it's nice to hear the senate foreign relations committee referred to as prestigious still these days. if i can ask from our friends

david had served in south korea. he was in the capacity of teaching language skills to those who would continue with missionary service in south korea. it just so happened that the congressman's son was serving in south korea and therefore interacted with david in what they call the missionary training center, where he was learning language and skills to be able to interact with the culture and to survive an international experience for someone that had never had that experience. obviously showing that david was a very skilled linguist and also very adept at cultures. that is the first connection with the congressman and why he became engaged aside from, obviously, his responsibility as a member of congress to be asaged on these issues and, was mentioned, an expert in foreign affairs. he took a personal interest in david's case which led to the passage of a house resolution in 2016. there was also one passed in the senate that was expressing concern over the disappearance of david sneddon. the main goal with that is

peter: david, give us a snap of your company. dave: it is a 115-year-old company based in edinburgh over virginia. we operate across seven states in the mid-atlantic region. we have three segments where lines of business -- our wireless business is our largest. it is about two thirds of our revenue and earnings. then we have a cable segment and a wireline segment. we have just over 1000 employees and we do a little over $600 million a year in revenue. peter: you say your wireless business is 2/3. how do you operate that? david: we are a sprint affiliate and have been for a couple of decades. it has been a very mutually beneficial arrangement for both companies. we deploy our own capital and operate roughly 2000 towers of equipment. we are all things sprint in the mid-atlantic region. we operate between pre- and post-paid brands. roughly 350 stores. our employees interact with you as a consumer. if you come into a sprint or boost mobile store, we have engineers that design, construct, and operate the network. peter: i know that th

weld: david drucker. david: governor, as your campaign takes shape, so far it's been basically you. i am trying to figure out if we will see the trappings of a little bit more of a traditional campaign that might suggest you have some resources and support. granted, it is an unorthodox insurgency that you are trying to mount, and i understand that, but are we going to see you outside of new hampshire any time soon? are we going to see any says -- any sense that, even if it is small, and minority of the republican party today, that there is something organized that people can affiliate with if they look at your candidacy and they are intrigued? mr. weld: yeah. i just announced april 15. we are now hiring, staffing up. within the next couple of weeks, i will be in maryland, texas, california, so we will travel more broadly. and i will be spending a lot of time in all six new england states, not just new hampshire. and i think the mid-atlantic states are as fertile ground for me as the six new england states. so that is the beachhead, but it is a pretty big beachhead. then you add the

host: david? david: how you look at the republican party, especially over the last two years, as the president has come to dominate it -- not unlike past years -- but there has been a dividing line in terms of how this president prosecutes politics and how more traditional republicans have done the same. what i amhough, trying to figure out is given how so many of the voters, even previously skeptical voters, have fallen in line and come to appreciate the president, either as a matter of policy or as a matter of how he conducts himself, where do you see your opening in the party, number one, and what exactly do you think is around the corner with the mueller report in a sense behind is that is finally going to put the president in such a precarious position that the nomination could actually be contested? mr. weld: well, i do not think the mueller report is behind us, as i was explaining earlier about the 750 prosecutors. as to why people are lining up behind the president, sure, i will grant you

david? [ applause ] >> thank you so much for this opportunity to share my story, my son's story, and our family's story. >> david, just a moment. there's a jet passing over. >> have to pick up the sledgehammer. >> i first want to thank everyone for being here. this is an issue that is absolutely near and dear to my heart. thank you, senator pelosi, for putting this on, and thank you so much, miss eshoo. speaker, i'm so sorry. i don't do this for a living, like you guys. i'm an advocate, i'm a pediatric nurse, as you said. and i'm a dad. >> and i accept your apology. >> thank you so much. [ applause ] thank you so much. all right. so again, my name is david tate. i'm from bakersfield, california. i went to school to be a registered nurse, because of the journey that my family has been through with pediatric cancer. my son lucas was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia, father's day, 2009. i'm hearing feedback. i think it's this. sorry about that. so, again, my son lucas was diagnosed w

david. today, we remember the service and sacrifice of sergeant david kerr. william robinson evans junior was born in indiana in 1918. he was an eagle scout. after graduating from college in connecticut, he enlisted in the navy's reserve officer pilot program. he earned his wings of gold and was commissioned in may of 1941. in september, he was assigned to a torpedo squadron. and at 23, he was one of the youngest pilots. on the fourth of june of 1932, 15 torpedo planes from the squadron went into battle from -- into battle against overwhelming numbers of enemy fighters. they were all shot down. but their sacrifice in their current that day helped to -- but their sacrifice and kurds courageer rich -- and that day helped to change the course of world history. evans received this posthumously. two months before it was lost, he wrote these words to a friend. many of my friends are now dead. to a man, each died within nonchalance that each would have denied his courage. if anything greater good is born of this work, it should not be valued in the colonies we may w

david: we publicly are supportive of the merger. strongerlieve that a combined company of sprint -t-mobile is better for the industry and better for the consumer long-term than a four-player market with a distant third and fourth player. probably well are aware. the wireless business in particular, telecom in general, but the wireless business is a very capital intensive proposition. so, with 5g emerging technology, in order to support a rapidly growing and evolving subscriber base consuming more and more data, it is becoming more and more difficult for companies like sprint to expand a loan. how many cable subscribers do you have an are you see in cord cutting? david: we have 200,000 households across the state. we have roughly 70,000 customers are so and we do see cord cutting. lost roughly 7%-8% of our video subscriber base. it is becoming more and more difficult for an operator of our size to compete effectively in the video business, given the ever increasing content costs. and the pressure that that is pushing on smaller opera

there were many men, such as david hackett, who did not. and perhaps because of that i have always felt compelled to try to give back in some way. and i have, indeed, been lucky to spend the better part of my professional life in public service and to benefit from the intangible rewards that come from such service. the lessons i learned as a marine have stayed with me for more than 40 years. value of teamwork, sacrifice, discipline, life lessons i could not have learned in quite the same way elsewhere. and when i do look back on my career, i think of having the opportunity to participate in major investigations such as pan am 103. work with homicide detectives shoulder to shoulder in washington, d.c. and to be able to work with one of the finest institutions in the world for the last 11 years, the f.b.i. i will say that these opportunities would have been difficult to replicate in the private sector, and as for me i can say it has been time well spent. since its earliest days the college of william and mary has emphasized service over self.

david. today, we remember the service and second wife of sergeant david. william robinson evans junior 1918.rn in indiana in he was an eagle scout. after graduating from college in connecticut, he enlisted in the navy's reserve officer pilot program. he earned his wings of gold and was commissioned in may of 1941. in september, he was assigned to a torpedoes doctrine. squadron. on the fourth of june of 1932, 15 torpedo planes from the squadron went into battle from members of enemy fires. down.ere all shot but their sacrifice in their current that day helped to change the course of world history. received this posthumously . two months before it was lost, he wrote these words to a friend. many of my friends are now dead. two a man, each died within nonchalance that each would have denied his courage. is borning greater good of this work, it should not be valued in the colonies we may win or the pages historians will attempt to write but rather, in whoyouth of our country, never trained for war, rather almost never believed in work but from some hidden sour

thank you to the capitol police officers who less than two years ago officers david bailey and crystal griner saved many of my colleagues' lives when they took down and armed gunman at that baseball practice that we so famously heard about. i'm very thankful for our officers we have in northern california, many have to work around the clock with some of the disasters we have had in recent years with the dam and fires and who really helped make an orderly situation out of a lot of chaos. nationally, i hate to have to relate these statistics, but 163 police officers died in the line of duty last year, 52 from gunfire. which is a number, any number greater than zero is unacceptable. california we lost 11 officers in 2018 this. year we tragically lost 22-year-old davis police officer natalie, one of the most heartbreaking ones you might seefment she was following in her father's footsteps. indeed, these people know, these men and women, they know it's a higher calling, higher duty that they answer to 24 hour for all of our safety. we appreciate them, we love them, and let's always be sure

trump: thank you david. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, take seats. , the dean gentlemen of faculty. [cheering and applause] >> president trump, before presenting the entire graduating class to you, i would like to single out some individuals for special recognition. attentionall to your 102 this thing with graduate who are listed at the top of your program. , by their overall performance, have placed in the top 10% of their class, and i've demonstrated true excellence in accomplishing the academic, military, and athletic requirements for graduation. if we observe the custom of academic honors, each would be graduating either summa, loud eight, magna cum laude, or can cum lither summa aude, magna cum laude, or cum laude. at this time, with the distinguished graduates of the neil armstrong class please rise and be recognized. [cheering and applause] >> great, thank you. please be seated. those identified in your program with an x beside their name are cadets graduating with the academy scholar distinction

. ♪ brian: david marinus, when did you decide to name your book, "a good american family"? david: 48 long time i was .alling it judgment in room 740 the house un-american activities committee conducted its hearings in 1952 on communism in the detroit area. that was early on he

and then david barker talks about his book, one nation, to realities. it discusses the current political stalemate between congress and the white house. watch live at 75 eastern friday morning. join the discussion. asbenjamin heebner serves cia privacy and civil liberties officer. he will speak at an event hosted by the brookings institution. middle eastthat, experts discuss the trump administration's policy toward iran. that's at the hudson institute, live friday at noon eastern. also on c-span. >> when i see something like that, i can only see it from her perspective. i have had a lot of people rate for me similarly. i believe that christianity has a long tradition of divine healing, so i certainly don't think it is not possible for god to heal people. q&a, the memoir, everything happens for a reason. reflecting on being diagnosed with stage four: cancer at the age of 35. >> it's really gone, right? there is no pain in your stomach, right? then it is real. 's confidence in himself is that vehicle, and in the idea that because she didn't have pain in t

steve: and joining us here in the newsroom for the questioning here in washington is david drucker. he is the senior political correspondent for the "washington examiner." and daniel strauss, who covers politics for politico. governor, why do you want to be president? >> there are a lot of things i would like to do. i would like, first of all, to see an economic conservative in the oval office. i do not think we have what now. i think the $30 trillion in debt and deficit that we are heading towards is a national disgrace that is unfair to the younger generations that are going to reap the whirlwind here. we are not going to see that debt, but it is going to be a huge deadening hand, the prospects of our millennials and our gen-xers going forward. i was rated one of the most fiscally conservative governors, so i think i proved i know how to cut spending as well as cut taxes. there are other issues that i think should be front and center. you know, we are going to have a lot of workers displaced by artificial intelligence, drones, robotics, etc. in the next 10 years, and nobody is thi

david: well, i think they like the -- my father, he was stubborn and his ignorance. i think they like the idea. i think my father in particular and my mother to some extent was shaped what he said was the economic -- that grew you out of the -- that were obvious during the great depression when the whole issue of capitalism was being talked about with the collapse of the system. i think the stubbornness and ignorance was not seeing the paranoia and murderous history of the soviet union until later. >> david maraniss sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a q&a. house intelligence committee chair adam schiff sad down with a conversation this morning with mike allen of axios. most of the conversation focused on the mueller report. later, we'll hear from house minority leader steve scalise.

jeffries: i thank the distinguished chair and i thank my good friend, david cicilline, for his extraordinary leadership on this incredibly important legislation. when the words we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal, they were eloquent in their articulation, but incomplete in their application. as the legendary barbara jordan once observed, those words did not originally apply to african-americans. they did not apply to people of color. they did not apply to native americans. they did not apply to women. hey did not apply to members of the lgbt community. we have come a long way here in the united states of america, but we still have work to do. if you truly believe in liberty and justice for all, support the equality act. if you truly believe in equal protection under the law,

david: to me, it is like a detective case. that is the adventure. i try to look at it with a fresh eye, and i have never not found somebody who had either been ignored or had not known about the discoveries yet. in this book of the pioneers who established the first settlement in the territory is all material that nobody knows much of anything about, because it has never really been talked about. >> david mccullough sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> more road to the white house now. montana governor steve bullock is the 21st democrat to enter the presidential race. on thursday, he met with constituents in iowa, where the state attorney general endorsed him. this is one of three events in iowa. this is just over one hour. [applause] thanks for that wonderful, wonderful introduction, and thank you all for helping me so many times to elected. to be

david. david: mr. president, why are you considering pardoning war criminals, and does that endanger our troops? pres. trump: we are looking a lot of different pardons for a lot of different people. some of these soldiers are people that have fought hard, long. you know, we teach them how to be great fighters, and then when they fight, sometimes they get really treated unfairly, so we are going to take a look at it. i haven't done anything yet. i haven't made any decision. there are two or three of them right now. it is a little bit controversial. it is very possible that i will and makerials go on the decision after the trial. >> -- michael avenatti. pres. trump: i wish him a lot of luck. >> have you talked to theresa may about [inaudible] pres. trump: i may very well talk to her about that, yeah. there is word and rumor that the fbi and others were involved, cia were involved with the u.k. having to do with the russian hoax, and i may very well talk to her about that, yes. >> mr. president, has your

directorspan2, fbi christopher wray and interior secretary david bernhardt appear as separate hearings to testify on the president's 2020 budget request. >> sunday on q&a, journalist and author david meredith and his new book, a good american family, captures the fear and paranoia of the red scare during the

that is important to me, jason, and david. metaphor,sed the "during the disease." i want to ask about your definition of success. solving,s actually resolving this problem, as you suggested? ofsuccess the middle bar getting the two sides to engage on what you proposed? 's success the lower bar of getting a quarter of arab states to say this is serious and worthy of discussion? what, in your view, is a legitimate, reasonable bar of success? being very: you are washington with this question, because -- [laughter] again, i am not thinking about it that way. goal was to go in, we were asked to try and solve the problem. one of the things the president is good at is coming into a situation and being very flexible, from the beginning to the end of it. we have tried to develop a path, we have assessed it, we have tried to tailor make a solution. one thing we have done very differently versus what has been done in the past, i remember my first meeting out, i met with israeli and palestinian negotiators, and asked them, let's take these issues. on this one issue, what is an

and on c-span2, fbi director christopher wray and interior secretary david bernhardt appear as separate hearings to testify on the president's 2020 budget request. >> sunday on "q&a," journalist and author david meredith and his new book, "a good american family," captures the fear and paranoia of the red scare during the 1950's through the story of his family's own ordeal. sunday night at 8:00 eastern, on c-span's "q&a." >> the president and congressional democrats have agreed on $2 trillion in infrastructure programs for ands, bridges, schools, high-speed internet. here's more on some of the ideas. thosetalk about some of funding issues, eugene from the

david. [indiscernible question] president trump: i read that probably fake news. don't know anything about it. [indiscernible question] president trump: it is a tough situation. because my son spent, i guess over 20 hours testifying about something that mueller said was 100% ok. and now they want him to testify again. i don't know why. i have no idea why. but it seems very unfair to me. [indiscernible question] president trump: i think it's fake news, ok? would i do that? absolutely. but we have not planned for that. hopefully not plan for that. and if we do that, we will send a hell of a lot more troops. where was that story? in the "new york times"? the "new york times" is fake news. go ahead. [indiscernible question] president trump: yeah. so, you have no tariffs to pay whatsoever if you are in business. all you have to do is build or make your products in the united states. there is no tariffs. that worked out very well. [indiscernible question] president trump: i think we are winning it. we will be collecting over $100 billion in tariffs. they can buy somepla

and i really appreciate the invitation to speak, david. and i also want to salute a man who i believe is a great american jurist but in my opinion one of the greatest attorney generals to hold the kayzie.nd that's mike [applause] one of my first exercises of my powers as attorney general was walking into the office of his former chief of staff who's now ad of the criminal division, and surrender ki the portrait to inspire me every day and to remind me of his example. my life has obviously changed a lot in the last few months. me who is anaid to ausa who is working in jessie lu eembings office. she said to me, pop, you're the only guy i know who can be sitting in the couch with a remote control yelling at to tell vision and the next day you're all over to tell vision -- television. [laughter] the day before i was announced -- h was december 7th [laughter] she was getting married on december 8th. and we had been planning on doing it the following week because we had been sitting on this for a long time. and on december 7th, i got a call from

david in new york. tell us about your news diet. caller: the majority of americans increasingly are resorting to reading news on the internet. as a university professor, i totally understand the culture. in terms of really receiving news, especially on foreign policy and international affairs, i primarily resort to hearing, watching or reading from sources with a dozen different languages out there. i put that together. here, it is corporatized media. i try to discern among them what the effect happens to be. -- fact happens to be. host: how long does that take you? 1.5-2 hours a day. radio stationsy through the internet. use mys, i tend to scientific background to provide op-ed regarding issues. take the persian gulf fiasco at the moment. laypeople tor most discern what is fact and what is , ulterioriticized getting usen ideas tied up in another war. you have to go to independent sources out there such as c-span, trying to understand what the facts for publication happen to be that provocation happened to be -- f four provocatio --

brian: in our book, "the president's," david stewart has a chapter on andrew johnson. but i want to go to another book he wrote, to use this statistic that i think is fascinating. the summer of 1787, a book about the constitutional convention. he has a tremendous number of numbers in there that may or may not interest you to define our country. to start with, and i'm sure both men --know this, in 1974 the appointed men, 55 rhode up, 39 signed, island didn't participate. what does that say, if anything, of how we started? what would happen today if the same call went out and people were asked to participate? harold: i mean, it is tough to get around in those days. i think those numbers are pretty good considering the transportation, the unpleasantness of hanging out in philadelphia in the summer and all of that. caution in the book, and indeed when we do the survey, judging presidents by the standards of their own time. five 1787 to 1789 standards getting -- by 1787 to 1789 standards getting that kind of quorum is impressive. amity: considering the absence of air condit

we have completed the work that david cameron and josh -- george osborne started. our national debt is falling and we are bringing an end to austerity. my focus has been on ensuring the jobs of the future will be created in community across the whole country. not just in london and the south east. we have helped more people than ever enjoy security of a job. we are building more homes and on the first-time buyers housing ladder so young people can enjoy opportunities. we are protecting the environment, eliminating plastic waste and improving air quality. and was a decent, moderate conservative government on the common ground of british politics. even as we tackle the biggest challenge any government has faced, i know the conservative party can renew itself in the years ahead. that we can deliver brexit and serve the british people with policies inspired by our values. security, freedom and opportunity. those values have guided me through my career. of the unique privilege of this office is to use this platform to give a voice to the voices, to fight the burning inj

david luthe, a farmer, has been kayaking out to view his fields. and fran mierswa had her house under water for almost two months. great community hospital in hamburg, the only rural hospital in the area, had to bring in military-operated water tanks just to keep its doors open for basic services. and now, because they're standing up for their community, they're providing space for small businesses to operate in hopes that those businesses don't leave the area so that community doesn't die. if this motion to recommit passes, it will -- if this tion to recommit passes -- the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. mrs. axne: if this motion to recommit passes, this disaster funding will keep from moving that forward. the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. the house is not in order. the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. axne: if this motion to recommit passes, it will prevent the disaster funding from moving forward. a yes vote is to tell iowans and americans to wait longer. a yes vote is a slap in the face to everybody across this

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