Democracy the United States and japan. The Wilson Center and National History center cohosted this discussion. Its about 90 minutes. All right. I think well get started. Its 4 00 on a monday afternoon, which means its time for the washington history seminar. Welcome, everyone, to the Wilson Center. Welcome to this installment of the washington history seminar. Im christian oserman. I have the privilege of cochairing the seminar with professor eric arnesen from George Washington university. Im dlielighted to see so many you here on this beautiful afternoon. We will have cspan taping the event today, so for those welcome to all of those who are viewing us at home. And i suggest you visit our website to learn more about the seminar and upcoming speakers. Both the National History center and the Wilson Center websites have information on this series. The washington history seminar, of course, is, as those of you who are regulars know, a collaborative effort of two organizations, the Wilson
[cheering] [crowd talking] pres. Trump we are doing well with china. We are not ready to make a deal. We will see what happens. We have been hurt by china for 25, 30 years. Nobody has done anything about it. We have no choice but to do what we are doing. It is working out very well. Manipulationm on and they have brought their numbers back. They brought them back rapidly. They were able to do that because they manipulate. It is called monetary manipulation. Not good. We have an open dialogue. We will see if we keep meeting in september. If we do, that is fine. If we dont, that is fine. I said the american taxpayer is not paying for it. We had a big day in the stock market yesterday, but the meghan taxpayer is not paying for it. What china is doing is depressing their currency by pouring tremendous amounts of money into their system. They are paying for it. The prices have not gone up. In some cases they have gone down because the devaluation plus the money supply, the amount of money t
This is 40 minutes. It is great to be with you at the iowa state fair. Thank you to rachel and everybody at the Des Moines Register and those that helped organize this. Iowa is proud of the state fair. You have a lot of reason to be. Im here with my family. My wife, erica and our daughter and sun son. Treat for mel because i dont often get to travel with my family. I think they are looking forward to the bumper cars and maybe the sky rides and that bacon that yall sell on a stick. [laughter] mr. Castro i want to talk to you this morning about what were going to become as a nation. I think of we went if we went around this fair and listen to the stories of your family, we would hear a lot of stories that reflect the best of our nation, of the American Dream coming true. That is true in my case, too. I grew up with my brother joaquin and my grandmother and mom on the west side of san antonio. My grandmother had come to san antonio when she was seven years old with her younger sister beca
Past. Every weekend on cspan3. Hundreds are waiting their turn to enter the United States to the court system. Some have been waiting for 20 years. They opened up the gates and we feel like theyve been in our country. I think the immigration policy is try to get rid of as many people as they can. It has to stop now. They are coming now, coming for money. You name it, they have it here. Let them come in. The to be in a better place. Hopefully its their discrimination. They were letting many cubans in i one time. Was a different . Theyre the same people. They are on a thin level. Everybody had to learn english. They couldnt have no jewish. I say we are americans. America is the best country. I came here. The whole Economic System is changing. Bear the basics. You have movie forward. I really think they came to United States to have the freedom of religion or speech. Without anyone telling them what to do. They are not restricting what they are letting in. They are too lenient. The thing
His machine. Without the Cuyahoga River, the metropolis would not exist, the river was the reason for originally settling this portion of the reserves in the 1780s the river called crooked by the delaware indians provided a waterway to the interior of ohio and, so, man came and continues coming, until today, nearly 2 Million People live and work in the river basin. In creating this urban complex command has used the river as men have always use rivers. The flow has been put to work as 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 and the coauthor of where the river burned the carl stokes and the struggle to save cleveland. Let me be been by asking physically where youre located and explained what happened 50 years ago this month. Thank you for having me. We are sitting near the mouth of the Cuyahoga River, where the cuyahoga reaches lake erie so you can see over my shoulder one of