SHORT SERIES: SATCHEL PAIGE, NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL, AND CIVIL RIGHTS
Professor donald spivey talked about the legacy of pitcher satchel paige and negro leagues baseball. satchel paige was the first negro leagues player to be inducted into the national baseball hall of fame. professor spivey also explained the ways that paige and other negro leagues players and owners ..SHORT SERIES: BASEBALL IN THE GILDED AGE
Professor joan waugh talked about the rise of baseball as a national activity, spectator event, and business. she described the efforts of baseball club owners to codify the rules of the games, establish a national league, and attract a broad middle class audience. learn more about your ad cho ..SHORT SERIES: BASEBALL DURING THE DEPRESSION
Pepperdine university professor loretta hunnicutt taught a class about baseball during the great depression. she looked at the role of baseball in american culture and the origins of sports journalism. learn more about your ad choices. visit megaphone.fm/adchoices (https://megaphone.fm/adchoic ..U.S. SENATE PASSES GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL
U.s. senate passes government funding bill, 85-11. goes now to the president. https://www.c-span.org/event/us-senate/us-senate/429745?540769 download the free c-span now app. https://www.c-span.org/c-spannow/ discover the c-span video library at https://www.c-span.org/quickguide/ explore c-span ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-20-24): HOUSE PASSES TEMP GOV'T FUNDING EXTENSION MINU ..
The house passes a bill to extend temporary government funding and avoid a shutdown that has supplemental aid for farmers and victims of natural disasters, but not raising the nation's debt ceiling, which president-elect donald trump has been calling for. president joe biden & first lady jill biden ..HOUSE MINORITY LEADER HAKEEM JEFFRIES (D-NY): "THIS IS A VICTORY FOR THE AM ..
House minority leader hakeem jeffries (d-ny): "house democrats have successfully funded the government at levels requested by president biden in order to meet the needs of the american people...this is a victory for the american people." https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/democratic-lead ..SPEAKER JOHNSON: "WE ARE EXCITED ABOUT THIS OUTCOME TONIGHT."
Speaker johnson: "we are excited about this outcome tonight. we're grateful that everyone stood together to do the right thing...we are setup for a big and important new start in january...we encourage a swift passage in the senate now. they need to do their job." https://www.c-span.org/program/ne ..U.S. HOUSE PASSES GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL
U.s. house passes government funding bill, 366-34. goes now to the u.s. senate. https://www.c-span.org/event/us-house-of-representatives/us-house-of-representatives/429757 download the free c-span now app. https://www.c-span.org/c-spannow/ discover the c-span video library at https://www.c-span. ..SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY) FINAL REMARKS ON SENATE FLOOR AS REPUBLICAN LEA ..
Sen. mitch mcconnell (r-ky) final remarks on the floor as republican leader: "folks come to washington to do one of two things: either to make a point or to make a difference…it’s usually not that hard to tell who's doing which, especially in situations like the one we're in right now." https:// ..SPEAKER JOHNSON: "WE WILL NOT HAVE A GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN."
House speaker mike johnson: "we have a unified republican conference. there's a unanimous agreement in the room that we need to move forward. i will not telegraph to you the specific details of that yet...i expect that we will be proceeding forward. we will not have a government shutdown." download ..PRESIDENT BIDEN INTERACTS WITH A CHILD AT CHILDREN'S NATIONAL HOSPITAL
President biden interacts with a child at children's national hospital. full video here: https://www.c-span.org/program/white-house-event/president-biden-visits-childrens-national-hospital/653620 download the free c-span now app. https://www.c-span.org/c-spannow/ discover the c-span video library ..SPEAKER JOHNSON AFTER FAILED CR VOTE: "WE WILL REGROUP AND WILL COME UP WIT ..
Speaker johnson after failed cr vote: "it's very disappointing to us that all but two democrats voted against...all these bipartisan measures that had already been negotiated and decided upon...it is i think really irresponsible for us to risk a shutdown over these issues on things that they have al ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-19-24): HOUSE DEFEATS NEW TEMP GOV'T FUNDING EXTENSION ..
House votes down a new house republican proposal, supported by president-elect donald trump, to extend government funding for three months and avoid a shutdown friday at midnight. the new bill includes his request for an increase in the nation's debt ceiling. president joe biden announces new clima .."THE BILL IS NOT PASSED."
"the bill is not passed." u.s. house blocks new government funding bill, 174-235. house now in recess subject to the call of the chair. full video here: https://www.c-span.org/program/us-house-of-representatives/house-session-part-2/653582 download the free c-span now app. https://www.c-span.org ..SPEAKER JOHNSON ON CR TO FUND GOVERNMENT
Speaker johnson on cr: "this is washington. this is how lawmaking is done...the only change in this legislation is that we are going to push the debt limit to january 30, 2027." https://www.c-span.org/program/news-conference/speaker-johnson-holds-news-conference-on-revised-cr-deal/653603 download t ..REP. JEFFRIES (D-NY): "THIS RECKLESS REPUBLICAN DRIVEN SHUTDOWN CAN BE AVOI ..
House minority leader hakeem jeffries (d-ny): "we reached a bipartisan agreement...that bipartisan agreement has now been detonated because house republicans have been ordered to shut down the government and hurt the very working class americans that many of them pretend to want to help." he conclud ..THE WEEKLY PODCAST: GEORGE WILL: FIVE DECADES AT THE WASHINGTON POST, FOUR ..
The washington post recently published a 10-page special section called, "a half-century of george f. will: the iron man of america's op-ed pages."… george will’s first syndicated column for the washington post was january 4, 1974…. inspired by the washington post marking five decades of rea .."HOUSE REPUBLICANS HAVE BEEN ORDERED TO SHUT DOWN THE GOVERNMENT."
House minority leader hakeem jeffries: "house republicans have been ordered to shut down the government and hurt everyday americans all across this country. house republicans will now own any harm that is visited upon the american people that results from a government shutdown or worse. an agreemen ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-18-24): FED CUTS INTEREST RATES 0.25%, SIGNALS SLOWER ..
Federal reserve cuts interest rates 0.25%, the third cut of the year, but suggests that the pace of rate cuts next year may slow down because inflation is still above their target 2%. on wall street, dow jones industrial average falls 1,100 points. we hear from federal reserve chair jerome powell, w ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-17-24): SEVERAL HOUSE GOP CRITICIZE SPKR JOHNSON'S CR ..
Several house republicans are publicly voicing displeasure with how speaker mike johnson (r-la) has handled putting together a federal government funding extension that needs to pass by friday night to avoid a shutdown. the pentagon, homeland security department, faa and fbi issue a joint statement ..EXCHANGE BETWEEN SEN. JOSH HAWLEY & NCAA PRESIDENT ON TITLE IX
Sen. josh hawley (r-mo): "no federal court has ordered the ncaa to include biological men in women's sports, right? there's not a single case that has ordered the ncaa to do so, correct?" ncaa president charlie baker: "that's pretty much what they decided." hawley: "don't say pretty much. we're ta ..BOOKNOTES+ PODCAST: EDWARD ALDRICH, "THE PARTNERSHIP"
In an earlier conversation in this series, evan thomas discussed his 1986 book, "the wise men." there were 6 of them: messrs. acheson, bohlen, harriman, mccloy, lovett, and kennan. in this episode, we asked edward "ted" aldrich to discuss his book titled "the partnership: george marshall, henry st ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-16-24): PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP AT NEWS CONF. TALKS ABOU ..
President-elect donald trump announces that softbank group will invest $100 billion in u.s. job creating projects over the next four years. president-elect trump also holds his first full-scale news conference since the election, getting questions on a variety of issues. about the wave of drone s ..SOFTBANK $100 BILLION INVESTMENT IN THE U.S.
President-elect trump is joined by softbank ceo masayoshi son in announcing the japanese bank's $100 billion investment in the u.s. over four years. full video here: https://www.c-span.org/event/news-conference/president-elect-trump-speaks-to-reporters/429598 download the free c-span now app. http ..PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP ON DRONES: "THE GOVERNMENT KNOWS WHAT IS HAPPENING."
President-elect trump on drones: "the government knows what is happening. look, our military knows where they took off from. if it's a garage they can go right into that garage. they know where it came from and where it went. for some reason they don't want to comment. i think they'd be better off s ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-13-24): REP. MALLIOTAKIS ON MYSTERY DRONES: 'JUST TELL ..
Rep. nicole malliotakis (r-ny) says she believes the u.s. government knows what the mysterious drones spotted over new jersey, new york and elsewhere are, and she is calling on the government to "be straight with us and just tell us what is going on." white house national security communications ad ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-12-24): PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP IS NAMED TIME MAGAZINE P ..
President-elect donald trump is named time magazine person of the year, "for marshaling a comeback of historic proportions, for driving a once-in-a-generation political realignment, for reshaping the american presidency and altering america's role in the world." president joe biden announces pardo ..WHITE HOUSE ON DROVE ACTIVITY AROUND NEW JERSEY
National security communications advisor john kirby on drone activity in and around new jersey: "we have no evidence at this time that the reported drone sightings pose a national security or a public safety threat or have a foreign nexus... we have not been able to...corroborate any of the reported ..REP. PATRICK MCHENRY: "I WANTED NOTHING OUT OF SERVING AS SPEAKER PRO TEMPO ..
From c-span retirement interview with rep. patrick mchenry: "i wanted nothing out of serving as speaker pro tempore. not a bill, not a job, not something in the future. nothing. once i made that decision, everything else was easy." c-span interviews with retiring members of congress will air the we ..PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP RINGS OPENING BELL AT THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE
President-elect donald trump rings opening bell at the new york stock exchange. https://www.c-span.org/event/public-affairs-event/pres-elect-trump-rings-nyse-bell/429537 download the free c-span now app. https://www.c-span.org/c-spannow/ discover the c-span video library at https://www.c-span.org/ ..PRESIDENT-ELECT DONALD TRUMP -- TIME MAGAZINE PERSON OF THE YEAR
President-elect trump on being time magazine person of the year: "time magazine, getting this honor for the second time, i think i like it better this time." https://www.c-span.org/program/public-affairs-event/president-elect-trump-remarks-on-time-person-of-the-year-cover/653164 download the free ..THE WEEKLY PODCAST: FAREWELL CHARLIE PALMER: FAREWELL TO ALL THE STEAK, FAR ..
January 6, 2006. on the c-span morning call-in program, the topic is lobbying and money and politics. the guest is from the american league of lobbyists… here’s one of the calls. good morning, so, you are either stupid or naive, or whatever. if you are a low-level aid, you know good and wel ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-11-24): SEC. BLINKEN TESTIFIES ON AFGHAN WITHDRAWAL; F ..
Secretary of state antony blinken gives long awaited testimony before the house foreign affairs committee on the u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan in 2021, saying, "even as we work to address the places where we fell short, i firmly believe president biden decision to withdraw from afghanistan was th ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-10-24): PRESIDENT BIDEN TOUTS HIS ECONOMIC LEGACY, CRI ..
President joe biden defends his record on the economy, saying of his approach to "grow the economy from the middle out and the bottom up," "four years later, we have proof the playbook is, at least now, working." president biden also compares what he has done with what president-elect donald trump ..POSTMASTER GENERAL COVERS EARS DURING OVERSIGHT HEARING
Rep. rich mccormick(r-ga) on postmaster general louis dejoy: "i hope you got that on camera. this is the response that the postmaster just gave congress when he doesn't like what he hears. literally covered his ears and gives himself the grade of a." full video here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?5 ..BOOKNOTES+ PODCAST: JAMES BRADLEY, "MARTIN VAN BUREN"
James m. bradley's biography of martin van buren is the first full-scale portrait of the 8th president in 4 decades. mr. bradley is co-editor of the martin van buren papers and teaches in the public history program at the state university of new york at albany. in his introduction, he writes: "as th ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12/9/2024): FORMER SYRIAN LEADER BASHAR AL-ASSAD FLEES TO ..
Secretary of state antony blinken said today the us is determined to prevent the islamic state terrorist group from reestablishing safe haves in syria. congress returns to work, including final versions in the house on two bills and the senate continued work on judicial nominations. plus, republica ..PRESIDENT BIDEN ON SITUATION IN SYRIA: "AT LONG LAST THE ASSAD REGIME HAS F ..
President biden: "after 13 years of civil war in syria, more than half a century of brutal authoritarian rule by bashar al-assad and his father before him, rebel forces have forced assad to resign his office, flee the country. we're not sure where he is, but there's word that he's in moscow. at long ..FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON AND HIS WIFE, BRIGITTE, GREET FIRST LADY JILL BIDEN ..
First lady jill biden and her and president biden's daughter, ashley, were greeted saturday by french president emmanuel macron and his wife, brigitte, upon their arrival for the reopening ceremony of notre dame cathedral.FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON GREETS PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP AT ÉLYSéE P ..
President-elect trump arrived saturday morning at Élysée palace, the residence of french president emmanuel macron in paris, ahead of the reopening ceremony of notre dame cathedral.CLIP: NOTRE DAME CATHEDRAL RE-OPENING IN PARIS, FRANCE
Clip: notre dame cathedral re-opening in paris, france full video here: https://www.c-span.org/video/?540450-1/opening-ceremony-notre-dame-paris&live download the free c-span now app. https://www.c-span.org/c-spannow/ discover the c-span video library at https://www.c-span.org/quickguide/ explor ..FRENCH PRESIDENT MACRON MEETS WITH PRESIDENT-ELECT TRUMP
French president emmanuel macron meets with president-elect trump at the Élysée palace in paris. the meeting came ahead of a re-opening ceremony of the notre dame cathedral. president macron: "it's a great honor for french people to welcome you five years later...welcome back again." president- ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-6-24): TIKTOK FACES POSSIBLE BAN IN U.S. AFTER FEDERAL ..
U.s. court of appeals for the d.c. circuit uphold a law banning tiktok in the u.s. unless the video app is sold off by its china-based parent company, bytedance. the court sided with the argument that china's control is a threat to u.s. national security and rejected the claim that the law violates ..WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY ON HUNTER BIDEN PARDON: "CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE CHA ..
White house press secretary karine jean-pierre on president biden's pardon of hunter biden: "he wrestled with this. he wrestled with this...the fact is, when you think about how the president got to this decision, circumstances have changed." https://www.c-span.org/video/?540430-1/white-house-daily ..WASHINGTON TODAY (12-5-24): HOUSE TASK FORCE ON TRUMP ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT ..
Secret service acting director ronald rowe promises reform and accountability in testimony at the final meeting of the house task force on the attempted assassination of donald trump. he also at one point gets in to a very heated exchange with rep pat fallon (r-tx), with rowe accusing the congressma ..DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE PETE HEGSETH: "I'M GOING TO BE STANDING RIGHT HER ..
Defense secretary nominee pete hegseth speaks to media on capitol hill: "we're going to earn those votes...this will not be a process tried in media...as long as donald trump wants me in this fight i'm going to be standing right here in this fight." download the free c-span now app. https://www.c- .."WE NEED TO MAKE GOVERNMENT MORE EFFICIENT."
House speaker mike johnson to media before elon musk & vivek ramaswamy meet with lawmakers on government efficiency: "we need to make government more efficient." https://www.c-span.org/video/?540397-1/elon-musk-vivek-ramaswamy-meet-lawmakers-govt-efficiency download the free c-span now app. https:/ ..HEATED EXCHANGE OVER 9/11 REMEMBRANCE CEREMONY PHOTO
Heated exchange between rep. pat fallon (r-tx) and u.s. secret service acting director rowe over photo from 9/11 remembrance ceremony in new york city. rowe: "do not invoke 9/11 for political purposes!" fallon: "i'm not. i'm invoking -" rowe: "you are, sir. you are way out of line!" fallon: "i a ..U.S. SECRET SERVICE ACTING DIRECTOR: "JULY 13TH WAS A FAILURE OF THE SECRET ..
U.s. secret service acting director rowe: "july 13th was a failure of the secret service to adequately secure the buter farm show site and protect president-elect trump...we did not meet the expectations of the american public, congress and our protectees...the quality of the advance work and prepar ..THE WEEKLY PODCAST: MEET THE NEW SENATORS: PERSONAL STORIES FROM VICTORY SP ..
The 119th congress will have 12 new senators. and if you heard election night victory speeches on c-span, you might have learned something new about many of them. dlike the new democratic senator from new jersey, the first korean american in the senate -- andy kim: "as i prepare to take on this j ..