Briefing with ms. Huckabee sanders and incoming director Anthony Scaramucci. Its 50 minutes. Ms. Huckabee sanders good afternoon. Mark the last day of made in america week this afternoon the president will welcome several living survivors of the attack on u. S. S. Arizona at pearl harbor and their families. Other events this week have focused mainly on products and goods bearing the highly esteemed made in america label. Truly the most prized thing to have come out of our country have been the brave men and women who have risked their lives protecting the freedom of americans and our allies around the globe. Just a few minutes ago at 2 00 the president signed an executive order that will ensure the men and women of the greatest military in the world have the ships, aircraft, vehicles, and other supplies they will need to keep us safe in the years ahead. This order commissions the first ever whole government assessment of Americas Industrial base, marking the First Time Since president
Huckabee. See that conversation tonight at 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Xxx join us on cspan3 sunday for an American History tv live special. The 19 ch 67 detroit riots. 50th anniversary. At noon eastern, Pulitzer Prize winning historian Heather Ann Thompson of the university of michigan and Detroit Free Press Editorial Page Editor steven henderson. At 1 15 p. M. Eastern former Detroit Police chief isaiah, ike mckinnon and former Detroit Free Press journalist tim kiska. An American History tv special. The 1967 detroit riots. 50th anniversary, live, sunday t noon eastern on cspan3. For the next hour, an American History tv exclusive. Our cities tour visits hyde park, new york, to learn more about its unique history. For six years now, weve traveled the cities across the u. S. To explore their literary and historic sites. You can watch more of our visits at cspan. Org cities tour. This was home. This was where his heart always was. He once said to his friends and neighbors, my heart has
Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened
Spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions and issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by heather and thompson and detroit page editorial editor. We will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets, and facebook posts. Can we start with definitions in the sense that the event is described as a riot. Would you describe it as such or is there a better way to define what happened . That term connotes chaos and it is suggested everyone showed up and destroyed city for no reason. It also suggests how we should understand what happened and the impact it had. We prefer to think about it like a rebellion because all of the energy and anger at that went into that moment had long been predicted. The economic discrimination, that frustration cannot be understood as chaotic and incoherent. It was a rebellion. The word i have come to over some time is uprising which captures what happened
Earlier today, American History tv was live from detroit to look back 50 years. Our guests joined us at a Detroit Free Press room to talk about what happened and why and to answer viewer questions. This is about two hours. You are watching American History tv on cspan3. 50 years ago today, riots erupted in the city of detroit, michigan, sparked by a police raid on an illegal bar known locally as a blind pig. Five days later, 43 people are dead and 7000 have been arrested. President lyndon b. Johnson sent 5000 federal troops. Property damage was estimated at more than 30 million. The affected areas still bear the scars of the riots today. Green spaces mark where a thriving commercial district once stood. There are lingering questions about how far detroit has come addressing the issues that led to the rioting. We are here with the Detroit Free Press. And we are joined by professor Heather Ann Thompson a detroit editor. Ss we will be live for the next two hours taking your calls, tweets,