Its a pleasure to be with you and were honored to have o cspan in the museum. You with are welcome anytime as is anybody watching. We were there for Opening Night of the museum. W but my opening question is how this project came about and why. Well it came about out of a decision that we need to preserve and tell the story of americas founding. S tu and not just as a series of events, but as people who actually achieved it, who fought off these soaring ideals of equality and how that inspired a nation, people in our nation to achieve it. It is the most important event in our nations history. It not only gave birth to our nation but it really gave us the values that make us a people. Everything that we cherish and hold dear. So its more than just e artifacts . Its more more than artifacts. Our museum is founded on artifacts. In fact when you come to the en museum you will see one of the more comprehensive collection of artifacts of the revolution tha has probably ever been assembled. Bu
It was a decade before that shot heard around the world. Museum is inside the its president and ceo, Michael Quinn. Thank you for being with us. Thank you for allowing cspan into the museum. It is a pleasure to be with you. Youre welcome any time, as is anyone watching. Is, howening question did this project come about and why . It came about out of the decision that we needed to reserve and tell the story of americas founding, not just as a series of events, but as people who actually achieved it, who thought up these ideals of equality and liberty and selfgovernment. And then how that spread and inspired a nation to achieve it. It is the most important event in our nations history. It not only gave birth to our nation, but it gave us the values that made us a people. So it is more than just artifacts . It is far more than artifacts. One of the more comprehensive collections of artifacts of the revolution that has probably ever been assembled. How did these people who were citizens of
Quinn. Thanks for being with us and for allowing cspan inside the museum. Its a pleasure to be with you and were honored to have o cspan in the museum. You with are welcome anytime as is anybody watching. We were there for Opening Night of the museum. W but my opening question is how this project came about and why. Well it came about out of a decision that we need to preserve and tell the story of americas founding. S tu and not just as a series of events, but as people who actually achieved it, who fought off these soaring ideals of equality and how that inspired a nation, people in our nation to achieve it. It is the most important event in our nations history. It not only gave birth to our nation but it really gave us the values that make us a people. Everything that we cherish and hold dear. So its more than just e artifacts . Its more more than artifacts. Our museum is founded on artifacts. In fact when you come to the en museum you will see one of the more comprehensive collecti
Biggest Tourist Attractions are safe and properly guarded. On balance, thatis and properly guarded. On balance, that is the message coming across. The story in the times suggesting that museum and Gallery Admissions we re that museum and Gallery Admissions were down in london, people were putting that down to people being worried, just the threat of terrorism, but there has not been an attack in london. But people are aware. People do think about that kind of thing. Lets move on. Lets talk about. What is on the ft . Thank goodness you are here to explain. No pressure. Trump starts drive to cut wall street rules. Alarm as. Frank review is ordered. What is that . Alarm as Dodd Frank Review was ordered. The idea that regulators wanted to protect consumers. They wanted to clamp down on potential conflicts of interest that banks had. Trump has decided it is too owner is. What i found interesting, one of the many things i found interesting about this story, is the rationale he has for rollin
You are looking at the National Museum of African American history and culture on the mall in washington dc. It is the newest smithsonian museum. It welcomed its one millionth visitor this week. We will take you inside the Museum Gallery for a look at the stories at artifacts that chronicle the africanamerican experience and tell a shared american story. We will be live for the next 2. 5 hours. We will be taking your calls, tweets, facebook posts. We are joined with judge Robert Wilkins to talk about how this museum came about. He is the author of the book long road to hard truth, the 100 year mission to create the National Museum of African American history and culture. Talk of this museum began back in 1916. It took a century to be built. Walk us through the process. Judge wilkins in early 1916, a gentleman named ferdinand de soto lee created a nonprofit called the National Memorial association. Its goal was to construct a physical memorial here in the Nations Capital to honor the co