Concern you . Republicans, 202 7488001. Democrats, 202 7488000. Independent callers, 202 7488002. A number of you are weighing in on our Facebook Page. Thank you for being with us. We want to talk about the tax debate in the house and the senate and what it means for the nations debt which doubled andr president barack obama it is expected to double again over the next eight years. The debt is 20 trillion and growing. Hope republish the i hope Republican Congressman and jim says crickets when obama overspent and screams of outreach with a tax will that adds one . 5 trillion focusing on the democrat. Heres the front page of the New York Times. , the geopreis sprinting to send the tax overhaul to trump. Yesterday before heading to new york, the president said this. We have passed the largest tax cuts in the history of our country and many other things along with it. Tremendous tax reform. The biggest package in terms of tax cut ever passed in our country. And something beautiful will com
Taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. Thanks very much for being with us. Thank you. Its a pleasure to be here. So talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Back in early 1916, in march or so, gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee, created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association, and its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the contributions of negro soldiers and sailors who had fought in every war from the revolutionary war on up until that time. Within a couple years the organization broadened its mission to want to construct what they called a National Memorial building to negro achievement and contributions to america in all fields of endeavor from business to education to the arts, et cetera. Essentially a National Muse
Culture. We look at exhibits and artifacts chronicling the africanamerican story from slavery through the inauguration of the first africanamerican president. And we talk to Museum Specialists. This is American History tv, only on cspan3. You are looking at the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture on the mall in washington, d. C. It is the newest Smithsonian Museum opening back in september. And this week it welcomed its 1 millionth visitor through these doors. Tonight we will take you through the doors of this museum that for artifacts that chronicled the africanamerican experience and also telling a shared american story. Well be live for the next 2. 5 hours. In about 40 minutes well be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts for curators. Were joined inside with Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth. 100 year mission to create the National Museum of africanAmerican History and culture. Thanks
Gives hirs state of the Union Address to congress and the nation. Join cspan for a preview of the evening starting at 8 eastern. And then the state of the union speech live at 9 00 p. M. And following the speech, the democratic response, also hear your reaction and comments from members of congress. President trumps state of the Union Address tuesday night live on cspan. Listen live with the radio app and on demand on your desk phone or tablet at cspan. Org. Education senator betsy devos took part in the rethink School Summit here in washington. Over the next hour 15 minutes, stakeholders from across the country discuss ideas for educating and training americas future workforce. So we are going to go into our third group of presenters. Under the rubric of breaking the mold. We are going to start with blakely pal el owe followed by Michael Roark and wrap up by jeff. If we could have blakely. Thank you. So good morning and thank you for the opportunity to be here. We are going to talk ab
Do in their states to address the Opioid Epidemics. This is just over an hour. Good afternoon, everybody. Those of you whore Still Standing who plan to set, set it and those of you who stand can stand. My name is charlie baker, governor of the commonwealth of massachusetts and im the chair of the nba health and Human Services committee and i want to welcome you all to this conversation about an issue the nga has been engaged in in a big way for the past several years and i think it is fair to say that every governor of every state has made dealing with this particular issue is significant and important priority in their work and thats certainly been true in the commonwealth of massachusetts. I did run for governor to work on this issue, but upon me because wherever i campaigned, i ran into people who talk to me about it in their stories frankly broke my heart. Over the course of the past several years, working on a bipartisan basis with our legislature and others, we have made some pro