In full swing. Our contractor has finished pouring the foundations for the building, and will start putting up steel in another month. We are right on schedule to open the museum in early 2017. And that was the first of a twopart look at the collections of the museum of the american revolution. In part two, we will see a part of George Washingtons tent from the revolutionary war. Up next on American History tv, a Panel Discusses the textual tradition of the declaration of independence. Including how it reflects the times in which it was written and the newer reproductions that followed the original. Panelists include a historic document dealer and the editor of the papers of Thomas Jefferson. Among the questions they examine is how punctuation influences how the declaration is read and interpreted. The National Archives hosted this event. It is about 90 minutes. And how later generations interpreted the declaration. This is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Good morpning, everybody. Its a pleasu
Declaration of independence. How the document was written, revised and edited, and how later generations interpreted the declaration. This is 2 hours and 45 minutes. Good morpning, everybody. Its a pleasure to be here. Thank you so much for joining us. I want to start by thanking our hosts, the archives. Its been extraordinary, the way theyve jumped into supporting my effort to bring more attention to the question of how we read the declaration of independence and how we think about the diversity of the declarations textual tradition. We are punctuating happyinesshappiness. Were focused on the second sentence intently of the declaration of independence. Im going to reintroduce the second sentence to you and invite my panelists to expand. Well each speak for 12 minutes, leaving time for questions from all of you. I understand we may also have some questions coming in over email or twitter, possibly. Im not sure exactly how that works. I imagine somebody will. Thatll become magically cle
Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands in a
No more. Bin laden is long gone, and today the head of the f. B. I. Said that when it comes to threats to america, al qaeda has been surpassed by another terror group, isis. Heres chip reid. Isil is not your parents al qaeda. Reporter f. B. I. Director james comey told the Aspen Security Forum that the reason isis, also called isil, has surpassed al qaeda as a danger to the u. S. , is because it has mastered twitter and other social media. With al qaeda if you wanted to consume their propaganda, you had to go find it somewhere on the web. Reporter but with isis. If you want to talk the a terrorist, theyre right there on twitter direct messaging to communicate with. Reporter elliot zweig is with the middle east Media Research institute. The way that isis does it is it puts out a message among several accounts, but that message is then picked up and distributed and redistributed and reredistributed. In the way of crowd source, it sees thousands and tens of thousands and hundreds of thous
Amer is a palestinian, born and raised in kuwait. His family fled the country in the leadup to the persian gulf war. We lost everything overnight, banks were shut down everything gone. And thats when we discovered that my mom has been saving money for many years. You know, thats when i found out my mothers a gangster. The family then settled in houston, texas where he picked up another language. Which is really great because im brown and i speak spanish, so if anything breaks out i can camouflage at any moment in time. I mean every arab needs an exit strategy nowadays. Hes toured the world traveling for a long time without a u. S. Passport. Amer performed for u. S. Troops, pre and post 9 11, but it took him 20 years to become an american citizen. 20 years is a mighty long time his biography is the basis for many of his jokes. Can i have your passport please . Of course i give him my travel document. Hes like, thats good, yeah. He opens it up, hes like oh no, says here its not a passpor