he landed, where did his troops first come in they came to virginia and then moved into maryland and then northwestward toward fort duquesne. accompanying him were virginia militia men. and george washington was at the head of those virginia militia assisting general braddock. so here we have colonials, british colonials from virginia working with the british commander general braddock. braddock didn t find everything easy. he found that the colonists weren t necessarily simply cooperative with the british war effort, especially farmers, and it took benjamin franklin s intervention to help procure wag dons and horses for the british army. and franklin acted as an agent for general braddock and advertised in pap s rur pennsylvania s rural counties and basically his message to the farmers was cooperate with the king. he is here to defend us. his troops that is. and if you cooperate, the kinging will pay well for your horses and carts. do not be afraid. as the men who would man
we enjoyed your calls and enjoy the rest of your saturday and we will see back here tomorrow, every day at 7:00 for washington journal. our guest tomorrow will be peter baker of the new york times. we will look back on what president obama and his aides were thinking about two years ago and we will get a new study on state pension plans and see what kind of conditions the states are in and the cities. eileen norcross of george mason university will handle that. we will look at campaign 2010 and two separate editorial page writers will join us. that is tomorrows washington journal. we will see you back here tomorrow. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] coming up, a look at the deepwater horizon joint investigation. also, a discussion on terrorism and u.s. foreign policy. after that, the sec chairman talks about high cell phone charges. sunday, the kentucky senate debate between democrat jeff
recalibrate and start over. they finally got the parties to the table. i think pessimism is war ented. he also made a point about timetable. this administration does seem to have a pen chant for meeting time tables. i m afraid that s not the way the world works and it s very unlikely that events on the ground or in the middle east or in iraq will go the way the administration thinks it will. one debate was the discussion over the new star treaty. you mentioned there s very little support now but the senator seems to think that will change over tifplte he does. and resumeably he is privy to conversations in the republican caucus that we re not but it s no secret that some members, some republicans in the senate are using this as a political hammer to kind of go after democratic administration. senator lugar said he thought it would be unfortunate if that continued, but i think that s just the way things are in this world, poll rised political world that we live in washingt
it came out on a lease by lease basis. we were involved in this. it provided a subsidy of 10 civilians and dollars for deepwater development. it is not clear how much it amounts to. they are not paying warrantees. it is worth tens of billions of dollars. we do have some more questions of we live like to pose. and think we will lead to explore with the yeaou question. thank you very much of thing with this. we are going to break up until 2:55. then will be starting the next panel. there is more about the gulf of alaska oil spill as our special web page where you will find all of our video related to the spill and links to news articles of the. it is all that c- span.org/oilspill. up next, the u.s. coast guard and other investigators question an executive about the gulf of mexico oil spill. it is followed by the commission on the oil spill. later, a discussion about the role of the private sector in homeland security from the heritage foundation nevada foundation. [ca
it is also a place that does not have those wonderful microbes that began to consume oil in the gulf. today you can go to the you can pull up oil that is still there 20 years some later. for the commission s kidder consideration , there are a few rocks with the wheels still present. the impact from that region is still being felt. the workout population is on its way to extinction. the orca population is on its way to extinction. this hearing is about making changes that the public demands in how we approach the oceans, for all the wives in the ocean. we want to ensure all the ocean life. the right information so we can guide gas development and protect resources that are fundamental to our economy. you have a wonderful opportunity to bring the way we approach the ocean into the 21st century. thank you very much. thank you. this commission has used its practice of having lead questioners who are responsible for developing questions the commission feels will bring ou