washington. a former governor of two states. delaware and pennsylvania. from millers run, washington planned to proceed southwest to his largest frontier holdings. nearly 30,000 acres near the confluence of the ohio and the konowa river in what is now west virginia. word had spread of danger ahead however. there you see where the tract is. word had spread of danger ahead, however. washington wrote in his diary, the indians, it is said were in two discontent a move for me to expose myself to their insults. they were provoked by incursions into their land northwest of the ohio river which they claim as their territory and failure of congress to negotiate a peace treaty with them following the revolutionary war. two years earlier, while leading attack on a native village northwest of the ohio, washington washington's then local agent was captured beaten, scalped and slowly roosted to death. washington did not want to suffer a similar fate or risk a kidnapping for ransom. his new local agent later in

george washington's mt. vernon hosted this hour-long event. >> for that introduction, thank you so much. i wish my parents could have heard that. it would have made my father very proud and my mother actually would have believed you. so there you go. well, for me as you suggested, this lecture concludes an amazing year that began just a year ago when the library, the fred w. smith library for the study of george washington opened and i was able to take a seat as one of the inaugural library fellows. during that year, i learned what a treasure all of you have in mt. vernon. led by kurt v. brands and with the library led by doug bradburn, the staff here is simply extraordinary. they're extraordinarily dedicated, they're extraordinarily loyal and they're extraordinarily collegial. for 150 years the mt. vernon ladies association has kept this place special. and with the new library, the orientation and education center, no crop of those women have done a better job than the current one, at least since martha did

washington. then a discussion about russia, cold war spies and the u.s. nuclear program. later, espionage during world war i. >> peterenriques looks at how arnold's's failed plan to deliver west point to the british offers insights. he talks about british and american participants after the plot was uncovered. this was hosted by colonial williamsburg. it's about an hour. >> thanks so much for that warm welcome. i'm really pleased to see as many people in the audience tonight when i was driving down from northern virginia through heavy rain it might be a biblical quote but fortunately that's not the case. you have to keep checking your assumptions. if your assumptions are incorrect it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. i would like to illustrate that by the following story which i hope you will find somewhat humorous, although somewhat ribald as well. here's the story. the smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. on the day the

the female domain remained as competitive space in washington in 1884. and one that,, just like today, is ruled by social media. just like general petreaus, and bipartisan elections have never been taught. you can never underestimate what will happen when gossip, sex, and media mix in washington. [applause] >> if there are any questions, we have about 10 minutes or so until the next session. >> i would love it if you would identify yourself. >> i am norm. from akron, ohio. but originally from lincoln, illinois. i asked this question of jean baker when she was here last. i will ask the same question to you. i will not give you her response until you answer the question. >> you can ask the question, i can give the answer. >> do you think mary was bipolar? >> i have often said, and i will repeat, i am a doctorate in history and not medicine. i would suggest that even if we brought mary out on stage today, and she were examined, they would have very divided views. i do not diagnose. i tried to lay out patterns of behavior. i very much respect my colleagues.

washington. then a discussion about russia, cold war spies and the u.s. nuclear program. later, espionage during world war i. >> peter enrheeenriques looks at how arnold's's failed plan to deliver west point to the british offers insights. he talks about british and american participants after the plot was uncovered. this was hosted by colonial williamsburg. it's about an hour. >> thanks so much for that warm welcome. i'm really pleased to see as many people in the audience tonight when i was driving down from northern virginia through heavy rain it might be a biblical quote but fortunately that's not the case. you have to keep checking your assumptions. if your assumptions are incorrect it can lead you to some very wrong conclusions. i would like to illustrate that by the following story which i hope you will find somewhat humorous although somewhat ribald as well. here's the story. the smiths were unable to conceive children and decided to use a surrogate father to start their family. on the da

a bout of influenza hit washington, d.c., nearly killed george washington, a precarious time for the country. thomas jefferson runs into alexander hamilton, well-dressed, clean shaven. looking none of those things in front of his house. jefferson said, what's wrong. he said my report to the public credit is going to fail. and what thomas jefferson did was brokered a deal over wine and food and alexander hamilton. madison wasn't going to vote for the plan. but he would not be too strenuous in his opposition. speculation that jefferson found the votes hamilton needed to put them over the tom. he badly needed the bill to select the site for the nation's capitol. this is the first great compromise, the first of three before the civil war. this kept the people, the country together. so what would have been different if monroe had been madison. number one aside from the bill of rights, the power of the executive. he'd gone to war and risked his life. he was not about to vote for a new one to come out in a different name. he was concerned about the power of the presidency. he would not have

ironically, george washington had this one before he did, so it should be washington's wonderful whirly gig chair but this seems so ridiculous to smith that he turned this into a symbol of jeffersons silliness. smith described the piece of furniture in swifty and mode with the miraculous quality of allowing a person seated in it to turn his head without moving his tail. ha ha. at any rate, there was quite a bit of talk about the chair in the campaign of 1796. while it is a ridiculous issue it is one that is highly symbolic of a more serious criticism they were making. while smith mind jefferson's writings for humor, he moved in on a more serious issue reminding christian voters about jefferson's liberal religious views and connecting them to the excesses of the french revolution he was such a fan of hearing the french revolution, the french republic, as you know i'm sure most of you know abolished christianity at some point. at best, it was another case of jeffersons muddled irresponsible thinking. alexander hamilton originated the idea and smuggled a dig on jefferson into washington's

women in washington ruled not by proxy but by proximity. they did not win elections no matter how hard they worked to secure their own candidates' victory. instead, they were crowned and indeed shackled by convention rather than being able to take their place on a convention floor. chase did actually challenge the world order and tried to be a part of her father's political strategies, perhaps even marrying like a royal princess in order to advance his future. the female domain remained a fiercely competitive space in washington in 1864, and one which just like today is ruled by social media. just as generals petraeus and politicians remembering representative weiner to make bipartisan selections have been so painfully taught. never underestimate what can happen when gossip, sex, and media mix in washington. thank you. [applause] >> if there are any questions we have 10 minutes before we need to move on to the next session. >> i would love it if you would identify yourself. >> i'm norm, from akron, ohio. i will try to get down to a level. i

at his 7th street studio in washington. the first portraits made of lincoln since gardner's photographs of him in the field after antietam the previous october. brady was almost certainly galled by this, given his own relationship with the president. and on friday, january 8 exactly two months after the latter of lincoln sittings for gardner, lincoln appeared in brady's gallery for a series of photographs credited to brady himself. these are two of them from that sitting. perhaps because it was an election year, lincoln never shy around a camera, was more than usual willing to be photographed. a month later, february 9, 1864, a tuesday afternoon, he went again to brady's pennsylvania avenue gallery where he had an even longer sitting for brady photographer anthony berger. according to the painter francis bicknell carpenter, who had just started work in white house, he himself joined the president and mrs. lincoln that day under the front portico of the executive mansion where a carriage was to take them to the 3:00 appointm

washington or george washington carver, rather than king. by resorting to ugly, unseemly tactics of character assassination and guilt by association, larry mcdonald and john ashbrook played into the hands of supporters of the holiday. their opposition to the holiday was much more colorful, much more photogenic, then the opposition people who complained about the budget and historical perspective. at any rate, both ashbrook and mcdonald died before final action came on the bill in 1983. the bill went to the senate, which had never done in 1979. the bill went to the senate for the first and only time in 1983. jesse helms rose to the occasion by taking up the mantle of anti-communist guilt by association and character association -- assassination that he learned from ashbrook and mcdonald, who failed to make it work in the house. helms had generally stayed out of debates on the king holiday up to that point. only jumping in at the last minute in a showdown that really grabbed headlines with ted kennedy, who led the charge for the other side. wh

it was about george washington at the farm in fredericksburg. about washington's boyhood. people remember the boyhood over time. it's fitting that we're ending the year tonight looking at a sequence of events that are really partly about george washington's last great public moment when he's leaving the presidency. gone from his boyhood to his retirement essentially. it's a nice similarry that we like to see. now, we have an excellent speaker tonight who i am going to tell you a little bit about. jeffrey l. paezley -- passley. this is an old picture. i've known jeff for a while. and an old pick i've had. last month denver brunsman, the valedictorian. in this case we have jeffrey l.pazley who was not the valedictorian of carlton college. the great enemy of st. olaf's. this is nice. denver did graduate. i know he graduated. he did well. got the master's in phd. in harvard university. he talked with the great historian vernon bailen who's one of the giants of early american history and established millions of debates in the field. so tremendous lineage that we would say. he m

people were talking about -- a bout of influenza hit washington, nearly killed george washington. it's a very precarious time for the country. thomas jefferson runs into alexander alexander, hamilton, who is usually very well-dressed, clean shaven looking none of those things. jefferson says, what is wrong? what thomas jefferson is he brokered a deal over wine and food at his house, between james madison, the leader of the opposition to this plan, and alexander hamilton. madison wasn't going to vote for the plan but he will not be too strenuous in his opposition. there's speculation that he and jefferson found the additional votes that hamilton needed to put him over the top. hamilton would then turn around and use his leverage with the northern states who badly needed this bill to select 2 the fight for the nation's capital, the first great compromise. and this kept the peace and this kept the country together. what would have different if monroe had been there instead of madison? number one aside from the bill of rights, monroe's biggest objection to the constitution was the pow

s so now washington had to find a more defenseable argument. and that argument was we don't want white women working so close to black member. and of course that was just an excuse to get rid of them. but what my book is really about -- i was really amazed when this book was in its early stages. this was 40 years before the modern civil rights movement. but it amazed me that tens of thousands of african-americans and others rows up and protested the jim crowe policy being implemented. men, women native americans professionals to laborers. they rows up in protest and launched a protest not seen since the abolitionist momentum and used a lot of messages that anticipated the modern civil rights movement. and i want to try to go over sol of these methods with you because i think some of them were spore rat i can but most were strategic and launched on a collective level. that was pretty amazing this was the second decade of the to the century. a time when most people don't realize such a huge, mass collective movement against discrimination or raci

they had only had enough fuel to get back to washington. we landed and at that point i made the argument to ari fleischer -- the white house press secretary -- and to andy card, the chief of staff that you can't bump the press off the plane. at a time of crisis you need to have that independent voice who can assure not only the american people but the world that our government hasn't been crippled by this. and to their credit ari fleischer and andy card allowed me to stay on as the only broadcast reporter. and then one print reporter was also allowed to stay on. we spent basically ten hours with the president. we were assured wherever he goes that the press -- theg little core group of us would stay with limb. and i was allowed to use my cell phone to call in what the president was doing but there was nobody at the white house i could call. they'd been evacuated. so i had called abc news and they would put me on the air live with peter jennings who was anchoring non-stop. and i knew that every word i spoke and every -- the kind of sense and

replaced the head but it's still george washington's axe. there's at least a hole there that was brady -- a hole that brady made in the side of the building. yes, ma'am. >> speaking of the building on 16th -- on pennsylvania avenue. i've been in that building. my husband's uncle owned it about 50 years ago. and so -- >> my sympathies because he wasn't getting much rental. >> i was able to go up the very stairs lincoln would have gone up and also i was able to go into the room which would have been the studio. >> wow. >> although it had been converted, as you say, into apartments up there. but still you could see the area. the skylight was still there. it is not the skylight -- >> in the ceiling or in the back? >> it's in the ceiling toward pennsylvania avenue. and so that kind of kicks out the fact that the one in the back they put in when they renovated everything is really not what we would think is what -- were the actual sky light was. >> well, there were skylights in the ceiling, but -- >> it's in the ceiling. >> there was one he put on

lawrence washington later died and left george washington [indiscernible] mount vernon was named after a british admiral in the caribbean. admiral vernon introduced a tradition of serving rum in the british navy and therefore, even mount vernon had a caribbean connection. benjamin franklin said his nephew, who is something of a black sheep called benjamin makem, he sent him down to the island of antigua. franklin's own apprentice when he was in philadelphia was active in barbados. they had an active renting presses. perhaps the most famous connection is alexander hamilton, who was born on the island. these are just representatives. there was a tremendous traffic in people and mutual knowledge and it was quite likely that many would know the islands more than they knew many of their neighboring states. the islands shared with the mainland assemblies. people like jack green have argued that the assemblies were really the key to understanding the american revolution. future statesman were trained. the assemblies in the islands were if anything even more bold in terms of their privileges t

george washington's mt. vernon hosted this hour-long event.

then it runs to washington. established town. the national road, when it comes in to wheeling in 1818, you have to remember that ohio was all ready -- already a state. it had been a state for 15 years. illinois and indiana are states by this time. what this road does is it facilitates the movement of people, but it facilitates the movement of goods to the west. ohio, by the time of the civil war, will become the fourth largest state in the union, ok? when people move west, they need a house to live in. if you look at all of the structures from ohio to the mississippi, it is estimated 50% of those houses were put together with nails made in wheeling. you put them on the national road and you send them west. we have records of wagon trains headed west with nails, that might have 20 or 30 wagons in a line going west. from 1830 until about 1890 wheeling itself will reduce about 50 million cakes of nails -- kegs of nails. this is nailed city. the suspension bridge was put up in 1889. it is the largest suspension bridge in the country.

at the washington navy yard and museum, during world war ii, this was known as the washington navy gun factory. this was the largest industrial facility in the nation's capital. they churned out guns and armament sent out to the ships in the fleet that helped bring the war to the japanese and germans. during world war ii, we would be sitting in the middle of a heavy industrial complex, as you can see above and around us. if you have an opportunity in the museum, there is an excellent exhibit about the homefront, which is going to be back at the back end of the museum. take time to go through that. we will be talking about a lot of those themes in our conversation. the second thing jim mentioned is we do have a book coming out which i authored on the history of the navy reserve. it is a neat coincidence because i have two individuals i profile in that book, senator warner, as secretary of the navy, he was the father of the one navy-total force policy that the navy reserve today follows. vice admiral dunn in the early 1980's was the chief of navy reserve and got the funding, a lot of it

washington has failed them on this. they want to know if you make a promise you don't keep they have a chance to hold you responsible. and results-driven because they're tired of the rhetoric that they get out of this town. and they want you to deliver for them. you deserve -- about the most powerful thing you can do as a 3.0 mayor. if you give them an agenda that says you deserve schools that actually teach children, you deserve a police force that keeps the cities safe and keeps us feeling secure, you deserve a cleaner, safer healthier environment, you list five or six points and you do it now in your state of the city speeches you deserve, i promise you that that empowerment, that how you -- the people you represent, how they will take that is that you respect them, you appreciate them, and you want to deliver for them. you deserve is the most empowering way you can communicate your agenda going forward. and now i want a get it done checklist. in fact, i've got one more thing here. of all the things you can do you wa

washington washington washington washington george journal is live every morning. >> as a result of the winter storm that's occurring in the north east region of the country, world e roll call votes were postponed today in the house on a series of bills aimed at limiting human trafficking. the schedule change has also led to a border security bill being pulled from the agenda later this week. >>> instead, members will consider more bills on human trafficking and legislation that would expedite natural gas exports. the senate today went forward. senators will continue debate on the legislation when they return tomorrow at 11:00 a.m.'s tern. the senate you can see live on c-span2. >> here are a few of the comments we recently received on the state of the union address. >> caller: i heard a lot of great things talking about science and nasa. and, as a scientist myself i can really aappreciate the president's decision on expanding nasa's role. i know there's a lot of really good people who do siechx. i'm excited to look at the future instead of the past. >> caller: a couple points i wanted

living in washington. when a minister knocked on the door and wanted to talk with him about his future, his spiritual future, if you know anything about john mosby you know he was not religious. he did not go to church. he probably did not believe in the hereafter. there was this minister talking about his soul. if you know some of the things about mosby you would know he was an irascible old man. more often than not, if he was born with you he would get up and walk out of the room. yet he sat there and listened to this creature talk about his soul. mosby listened. he probably did not respond well. he just sat there. this minister, who must've been terribly frustrated said don't you even believe in hell? he looked back with those eyes and said yes, hell is being a republican in virginia. [laughter] that story was overheard by mosby's grandson. some of you met him. he was a teenager, a young teenager, maybe 14 years old. he was born in 1899. bev coleman overheard the story. he passed the story down through

and i'm told that washington replied it's going be like a saucer under a teacup. the tea is going to slosh out of the cup in the saucer and cool off. in other words, it was sort of going to be the brakes in the american legislative process. the house they anticipated would be a place of great passion and quick reaction. and that's the way it's remained for all these years. the house will do things quickly. typically does things quickly. the majority can run the house. the senate takes a super majority of 60 to do almost everything. so rarely does either party achieve a 60-vote threshold in the senate. which means the minority party has some power. power to insist on changing things. occasionally the power to stop something all together. so things don't move quickly in the senate. it is the cooling off place as washington predicted. >> on the other side of the coin, when is the senate not at its best? >> i think the senate is always at its best. i don't have many complaints about the senate. i think it's important there be a place in the legislative process where t

washington has failed them. they want to know that if you make a promise that you don't keep, they have the chance to hold you responsible. and results driven because they're tired of the rhetoric that they get out of their town and they want you to deliver for them. if you give them an agenda that says you deserve schools that actually teach children, you deserve a police force that keeps the cities safe and keeps us feeling secure, you deserve a cleaner, safer healthier, environment, you list five or six points and you do it now in your state of the city speeches you deserve, i promise you that that impowerment the people that you represent, how they will take that is that you respect them, you appreciate them and you want to deliver for them. you deserve is the most empowering way you can communicate your agenda going forward. now i want to get i done checklist. in fact, i've got one more thing here. of all of the things that you can do you want to prove that you have a record of results. action. solutions. s

congress needs to spend more time in washington. you cannot run a country on a wednesday, which is what we've been doing on the last seven years and mcconnell and mccarthy have both instituted policies that would have them in congress for four weeks and it has allowed fights within the family and then move on the next day. i think pro -- professor bose made point of the challenge of having so much focus on leadership. and all of the power has been take and way from the congressional committees. congressional chitties is -- committees is where you worked things out. the ag committee was partisan but they cared about agriculture. they have a sense of a shared mission. they would be the places where you would take votes and send bills forward and a piece of legislation that out of committee with a significant majority would get to the floor. that was kind of the understanding. not any more. these days it is all controlled by leadership and the leadership imperative is to stay in leadership. so everyone acts on their logical incentive a

you have to do it because they don't trust washington to. and they've seen the schools fail under washington control. they truly are looking to you to make a difference to get into those schools, to demand accountability, to measure them, to ensure that their children are getting the education that they deserve. this is how you define schools, the parents, the curriculum teachers that are inspiring and passionate parents that are involved, public schools that are challenging, motivate, and effective. don't pass it off. take responsibility for it. finally, here's your daily checklist. the things that they expect from you you. they want you to know what they live, which is why you need them speak first. they want to know that you understand their daily concerns that you respect their hard work. and i use that term deliberately. because americans feel like they're working harder than ever before and they have less to show for it. they want to know that you hear their fears and anxieties. another word they use because if you hear it and you know

nobody ever leaves washington. and a whole lot of people didn't bomb become registered but are still and doing a variety of things we would call advocation or lobbying. the k street project. anyone remember this term reading about it? do you know what it is? you know where k street is right? what is the k street project? no. okay. >> isn't is that where they went through and the systematically had the companies hireu4 Ñ republican advocates and push democrats out. >> right. now the republicans were well-organized. they called it something. they called it the k street project and would meet every tuesday morning in the house and senate. and figure who wants to leave. whose leaving as a staff member or member of congress. they would look at the openings at associations and corporations. and tom -- especially in the house of representatives the hammer would call him and say listen we will not allow anybody from your association into the republican offices unless you hire a republican and here are a couple of candidat

"the washington post" did. tell us about how -- i believe there was a meeting that you can maybe describe where at first you said no, don't publish it. but then changed your mind quickly. tell us about how -- about that meeting. >> there was a meeting at the task force in san francisco. the knee jerk reaction was, the national policy against doing business with a terrorist. we have an extortion demand. we should keep that in mind. we will recommend to the director of the fbi that they should not public. it took an hour to turn that decision around. the task force members to say we should look at this from a law enforcement perspective and let washington deal with national issue policies. if it will move the investigation forward and give us the opportunity to make an arrest in this case, doesn't that outweigh a national policy broad national policy? so we changed the task force members -- changed the recommendation to me and terry and i went back to -- came back here to washington and we went across the street

president washington and adams went in person to congress. thomas jefferson, however, didn't enjoy public speaking. in fact he gave only two public speeches while he was president. his first inaugural address and his second inaugural address. other than that, jefferson liked to be known as a writer not as a speaker. and jefferson also thought the idea of the president going to the congress personally to deliver a list of things that he wanted to see done was too much like the british king the monarch going to parliament and he thought this was not appropriate for a republic. and so jefferson sent his message to congress. and each year after that, presidents would send their messages dh would be read by the clerk of the senate and the house rather than bit president. and, of course, most members of the congress could read it in the congressional record or in the newspapers. they didn't necessarily have to go and listen to a clerk reading the message. that became the tradition. again, the constitution is not that specific about what it is. just

that class was really huge because it was a tea party surge sent here to washington to reform washington. and we'll hear later this afternoon from members of the class of 2014, which i think has a lot of similarities to your class of 2010. we'll talk about some lessons they may have learned from this last election. but since coming here in 2010 he's led on many tough policy fights that conservatives have been pushing. he's consistently at the top of the heritage action score card. he's latched onto the energy issue now and has put together what we think is the best most comprehensive energy reform bills out there in the expand act. when we talk about opportunity for all and favoritism to nonnone, we need to understand in the energy field, reform doesn't mean picking winners and losers based on the side of an organization's lobbies budget. the mark of real reform is if it creates an even playing field by removing special interest tax subsidies, breaking down own russ federal regular laces, opening up access to energy exploration across the country and streamlining, permits and licensee pr

it's not washington's responsibility. it's the state responsibility for education within the borders of their state. and they don't want to give up any kind of sovereign control of that. and so standards should be developed by the states independent of washington, d.c., the curriculum should be developed independent of washington, d.c. to address their own unique demographics. and that's some of the pushback you see with i think the common core rebellion or concern that we see in many of the states today. >> how does washington -- how does utah deal with common core? >> well we've gone through to make sure legally we are in control of our education system. we've had our attorney general do a complete legal analysis to ensure us and utah that we are in charge of the education system, that the standards are our standards. we can modify them and improve them. we'll probably have a report coming out here in the next few weeks to give to our state elected school board as recommendation for what the standards should be in modif

and we want to recognize our leaders from washington, d.c. native students from george washington american universities, and we have student parties watching across indian country including the arizona state and yale universities. i specially want to thing a moment to thank senator barrasso. as a new chairman of the senate committee on indian affairs, we look forward to continuing our close, working relationship with the senator and his key team. and now it's time for me to be able to introduce the 21st president of the national congress of american indians, bryan clavisde. he was elected in october 2013 and has served for the indian tribal chairman since 1997. he has spent his career furthering in the interest of native peoples to help create jobs, open new trade opportunities and reinvigorate the fish and seafood industries. he's a respected industry leader in his home state of washington and throughout the northwest and across the nation. please help join, help me welcome president brian cladispe. >> my fellow tribal leaders, members of co

he was a washington, d.c. attorney.good it just -- things don't happen like they appear to have happened.ted h this attorney had a good workingim relationship with an fbi agent gi here in washington, d.c. he was no longer here.c he was in south carolina. he contacted him in south carolina. he in turn said, i'm not there, i will give you an agent in d.c. an to contact. he did. this young lady met with him and got a 20-page or 21-page document to read. it was typed on an antique 1925 typewriter.ter. we had one forensic piece of ?@y evidence that we were always searching for. it was an antique smith corona 1925 to '30 typewriterco.togeth that's the one thing that connected all of the cases together over the years. molly got it, took it to the -- our laboratory.motory. they examined it and said, it's not that typewriter. th they sent it back to molly. molly was a good agent. she knew how massive this case was. this case was not the normal case.vewas n you ask about the unabomb file, it was 59,000 volumes of inform

what should washington, d.c. have to do with all of this? many states and school districts require schools to administer additional tests. now, this is called hearing for a reason. i have come to listen. our working draft includes two options on testing. option one gives flexibility to states to decide what to do about testing. option two maintains current law regarding testing. both options would continue to require annual reporting of student achievement disaggregated by subgroups of children. washington sometimes forgets but governors never do that the federal government has limited involvement in elementary and secondary education contributing 10% of the bill. for 30 years the action has been in the states. i have seen this first-hand. if you forgive me for pointing it out, i was governor in 1983 when president reagan's education secretary issued a nation at risk saying of an unfriendly foreign policy the educational performance we might as well have viewed it as an act of war. the next year tennessee after a long battle with national ed

washington 1856-1915. he lifted the veil of ignorance from his people and pointed the way to progress through education and industry. the late george washington carver, honored in the chemistry of agriculture and the men and women building the monuments of tomorrow, law, elected judge in new york city courts serving his second ten-year term. explorer the only other american with admiral perry when our flag was planted on the north pole. medicine leading new york city surgeon. father of the blues, publisher, contributing to the war bond drive. education. principal of a new york city public school. curator, sham berg, international prize-winning sculptor. singer. nn men and women in every walk of life, all trained and educated in schools likef>[0Ñ -- ♪ tuskegee all around the light opus will shine tonight ♪ ♪ when the sun goes down and the moon comes up ♪ ♪ we will shine ♪ ♪ our boys will shine ♪ >> the olympic games have begun. the best nations are represented here today. the six fasters sp

but take us to the district in eastern washington, what's the state of the internet in eastern washington? when did you get on the family orchard? when did you guys get broadband? how many of your constituents have access to high-speed digital lines right now? >> right. very proud to come from washington state. i represent eastern washington, i border idaho from the canadian border to the oregon border spokane to walla walla, certainly on the west side of the state we're very proud of the microsoft and amazon and other -- and just the number of start-ups. but there's a growing tech sector in spokane a growing number of start-ups, some angel investors that are taking seriously, you know, the potential, the opportunity that it would bring for people in eastern washington in wanting to make it happen. we have a lot to offer. maybe i'll just do the sales pitch a little bit. we have a lower cost of living, we have abundant -- we have more land, a skilled workforce, five universities and colleges between washington state university in eastern washington and whitman. so there's lots of potential

washington, d.c. at basis charter school. basis teaches an elite advanced liberal arts curriculum utilizing latin, algebra and advanced science concepts in the fifth grade. the results of the school are off the charts. they're educating kids from every single zip code in the washington, d.c. area. i participated in a question and answer session after these classes with the students, and they were smart talked a lot about hard work, extra hours after class and the challenges of their curriculum. they were proud of their opportunity. but their number one concern was how we could ensure that their friends, neighbors and relatives had the same kind of opportunity. that's powerful. these kids recognized that the freedom to choose their learning environment has changed the trajectory of their life. and they want those same opportunities to be available for others. thankfully, there are a number of solid pieces of legislation proposed this year that could help us do just that. in addition to the bill i just