They come to 140 clotters from the port of mario to key west, florida in nearly 2,000 boats. Why do they come . Why are there so many . During the spring through fall of 1980, approximately 125,000 cuban refugees arrived in florida from the port of mariel, cuba. Hear interviews from the new arrivals to america and find out why they left, sunday morning at 10 00 on road to the white house rewind. The 1992 democratic and republican conventions. Bill clinton accepts his partys president ial nomination in new york city. In the name of the hardworking americans who make up our forgotten middle class, i proudly accept your nomination for president of the United States. And incumbent president george h. W. Bush accepts his parties a nomination in houston. And i proud to receive and im honored to accept your nomination for president of the United States. At 4 45, architectural historian barry lewis on the evolution and creation of new york citys greenwich village. When the l opened on sixth av
Watergate the United States senate created a special committee. They had a long official title. The Senate Select committee to sfud di governmental operations with respect to intelligence activities and took on the nickname of the chairman, frank church and it was known as the Church Committee. The committee met for 16 months, reviewed 10,000 documents, called 800 witnesses before the committee and the staff. The legacy includes it creation of the Senate Select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 which we know as fisa. They were held in the Historic Senate caucus room scene of the hearings two years earlier. We go to meet kate scott, who explains how and why the Church Committee came about and sets the stage for september 16, 1975 hearing with cia director, William Colby. The Church Committee was created in january of 1975 by the senate. In response to a series of revelatio
Variety of reasons. So the legislative portion of those reviews never reached fruition. There were a number of internal reviews and internal changes that took place as a result of the Church Committee inquiry and later the and that person has to report to kblg about what it finds about what he or she finds to be the problem internally. Kate scott, thank you. Thank you. Our coverage, 40 years later continues. This is American History tv only on cspan 3. 40 years ago they created a committee to look into the u. S. Intelligence services. They had a long title. The Senate Select committee with respect to intelligence activities. It took on the nickname of its chairman and best known to historys the Church Committee. It called 800 witnesses and the legacy includes the Senate Select Intelligence Committee providing ongoing oversight of the intelligence agencies and the creation of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 which we know as fisa. Two former staffers are with us and wil
Nightclub, that killed 49 people, House Democrats are calling for a vote on the bill that would bar individuals on the nofly list from buying firearms. Democratic leaders discussed the measure in a news briefing at the capitol. This is 20 minutes. Rep. Becerra good morning. Xavier becerra, chairman of the House Democratic caucus, joined by our democratic leadership including congressman steve israel, chair of our communications and policy committee. We just had another discussion in caucus about doing something, taking action as a result of this weekends mass killings, the atrocities that occurred in orlando, florida. To all those who are thinking about the victims and their families, we say, standwithorlando and in spanish, hash tag. [speaking spanish] i just have to note that for the Latino Community, this has hit especially hard because when you see the names, theyre human beings but i dont believe in the Latino Community people would have expected that so many of the names would ha
When you view documents that have been cleaned out, purged out of the training material for the f. B. I. For the state department for the f. B. I. , for the state department, for the defense department, for intelligence, for department of defense, its no wonder f. B. I. Agents cannot discern that tsarnaev had been radicalized even though russia told us twice and still this administration could they had so miseducated d underelingted our and undereducated our agents, they didnt know what to ask. How do you establish somebody had been radicalized. My tear friend, philip haney, one of the original members of Homeland Security, probably was a record the number of people that he put together the information to show their terrorist ties he got a commendation for it. But when he started showing there were ties to people with this administration were having with no with known terrorist they deleted thousands of pages of entries of what he has done. When he filed an i. G. Report, they came afte