Would be governor, senator or president , a lot of people would have said ed prichard of kentucky. He was one of those people who worked in the white house when he was in his early 20s. He seemed destined for great things and then came back to kentucky and in the 1940s was indicted for stuffing a ballot box. Went to prison. And so that incredible promise just falmed out. We also visit ashland, the former home of speaker of the house, senator and secretary of state henry clay. The mansion at ashland is a unique situation. Calys original clays original home had to be torn down. It fell into disrepair. His son built on the original foundation. What we have is a home that is a fivepart federal style home as henry clay had with details in architecture and elements and an added layer of aesthetic details added by henry clays granddaughter and so on. See all of our programs will lexington saturday evening at 6 30 eastern and sunday afternoon at 2 00 eastern on American History tv on cspan 3.
Its good to be in iowa. I am a college wrestler, and i have long admired the many hawkeye champions. [applause] as you may know, i am the only president ial candidate who has been a mayor, u. S. Senator, and a governor. Throughout these experiences, i have tried to earn a reputation for courage and honesty. I also have shown strong convictions, sometimes under enormous political pressure. I am proud of my lone support for beneficial social programs that help build the middle class. My lone support for tax structure that requires the wealthy to pay their fair share. [applause] my lone support for raising the minimum wage. My lone support for protecting the environment and addressing Climate Change. My lone support for Quality Health care for all. My lone support for the womans right to choose. My lone support for lgbt rights. My long support for immigration reform. My long support for investing in public education. My long support investing in all public infrastructure. And my record wi
Striking miners in bolivia demand a Better Future for their children saying their government has forgotten them. Well turkeys government says its Just Launched air strikes against the Islamic State of iraq, four isil positions across the border in syria have been hit. Thats news that has just come in. For the latest on the story, we are joined on the phone on the turkey syria border. Bring us up to speed with whats on. Reporter the air strikes turkish f16 jets. The air strikes were made after a decision was made to carry out the attacks after the securitying at was called by turkish Prime Minister. Theres been a lot of talk the last few days that turkey would increase their measures to fight isil. After these attacks by isil on turkish soldiers yesterday in which one soldiers was killed, you saw tanks go to the area, go after the isil fighters. And we heard if the last couple of hours the air strikes were carried out. Turkish media has been trumpet can how significant this is. The firs
Happened . Reporter they are still trying to figure that out. But me give you a lay of the land. It sits at the triangle of land where the potomac and the shenandoah rivers meet. The National Park is just down the road. That is with the rivers are. Let me show you where this fire was. In the heart of the historic district. You can see for buildings, all of them terribly burned up. We do not know the cause yet. It is under investigation but one of the pieces of evidence we know that they will be looking at is an extraordinary piece of videotape that was given to us by the man who took it early this morning. Take a look at this video. It shows at about 3 00 a. M. The first moments of this fire. It is crackling loud. You can hear the trauma and the voices of the people. They are wondering where the Fire Department is. They caution each other to get away. A woman is worried about getting her dog away from the fire. The good news, no injuries to people. Two cats were killed. This is a bad f
Buses running on schedule as well. The inner loop of the beltway this is it van dorn street and springfield interchange where we have an accident thats blocking the left lane. Sky 9 will be making its way there shortly. We should be able to give you a live update in about ten minutes. Meantime if youre going to be traveling along 50, the bw parkway or 95, youre good to go, i will traveling along 50 from crofton, bowie, mitchellville. Youll have no major issues this morning. Coming up in ten minutes, well look at how things are shaping up on metro and take you out to other parts of virginia and show you how the commute is shaping up in that area as well. Well send it over you to. Reporter right now d. C. Police are working overtime trying to get a handle on all this violence thats happening acots city from across the city from shaw to southeast washington where two people were killed just yesterday. Lets take a look at some video of one scene right outside of a churn on east capitol str