Lake erie after a 100mile twisting and turning journey from its headwaters, is an exhaustive stream. Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the spreading megalopolis of clevelandakron would not exist. The river was the reason for settling in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio so man came and nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply and as a sewer. Mans mark is everywhere. Is this mark an epitaph for the cuyahoga . Joining us from the cleveland area is David Stradling, a professor of history at the university of cincinnati and the coauthor of where the river burned carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me begin, though, by asking, physically, where are you located and explain what happened 50 years ago this mo
Explore our nations past on American History tv, every weekend on cspan3. The Cuyahoga River as most think of it. The brown stream that meets lake erie. An industrial waterway, its banks populated by steel mills and factories. Its channel filled with ships and tugs. The Cuyahoga River as it reaches lake erie after a 100 mile at which timing and turning journey from its head waters is an exhausted stream. Abused and misused by man and his machines. Without the cuyahoga, the sprawling megalopolis of clevelandakron would not exist. The river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the western reserve in the 1780s. The river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio. And so man came and continued coming. Until today nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex, man has used the river as men have always used rivers. The flow has been put to work as a navigable stream, a water supply and as a
Eastern. Washington journal continues. Host and now, a roundtable discussion on the Robert Mueller hearings taking center stage on capitol hill tomorrow. Joining us for this discussion this morning is Morgan Chalfant on national our National Security for the held news paper, Andrew Desiderio from politico. This gets underway at 8 30 a. M. Tomorrow and the House Judiciary Committee explain what they will be covering. Guest they will focus on volume two of the report, exclusively on the idea the president was seeking to obstruct the mother investigation. A lot of democrats, even the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, said the evidence is clear the president at least sought to obstruct the investigation. The decision was made not to charge the president with a crime in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about that states you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold a sitting president accountable would be outside of the crimi
But the decision was made not to charge the president with a crime, in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold that isting president accountable outside the criminal justice system. Those are the issues the committee will look into. The big issue on everyone mine will be impeachment and whether the House Judiciary Committee will move through that after the hearing. That remains to be seen. But that will be top of mind. Host take us through the format of the hearing. Guest 2 it will be a regular order hearing, but it will be three hours. The hearing was supposed to be last weekend and be shorter than that, two hours. The committee was able to negotiate with special Counsel Robert Mueller for more times more time, which would allow all Committee Members to have questions. If it were two hours, the bottom runs of the committee would not be able to question Robert Mueller and public, whi
Available wherever books are cspan. O t thepresident. Joining us for a discussion his morning is the National Security reporter for the hill newspaper, Congress National politico it all gets under way at 8 30 a. M. Tomorrow in the house Judiciary Committee. Tomorrow and the housy committee explain what they will be covering. Guest they will focus on volume two of the report, exclusively on the idea the president was seeking to obstruct the mother investigation. A lot of democrats, even the chairman of the committee, jerry nadler, said the evidence is clear the president at least sought to obstruct the investigation. The decision was made not to charge the president with a crime in part because of the office of Legal Counsel opinion that we have been talking about that states you cannot indict a sitting president. The only way to hold a sitting president accountable would be outside of the criminal justice system. Those are the Judiciary Committee issues. The big issue that will be on e