Gavin new issuing the acting security of home secretary of homeland security, all the people, state and local leaders join us today. Were having a separate News Conference a little later on other subjects. I just want to thank everybody. Its been pretty amazing. In august i approved a major disaster declaration for california. I approved, i think, gavin, about 40 stafford act declarations. Very quickly because we want to get this thing taken care of including fire management, assisting fwrans to help multiple states stop the fires. More than 28,000 firefighters and First Responders are combating fires in california, oregon, and washington. Over 230 soldiers are fighting the august complex fire. An thats the largest fire in california. Thats the big one. Thats the biggest. And we want to thank all of the brave fighters, we want to thank these incredible people, the First Responders, Service Members who are racing to the extreme peril, really, putting their lives in extreme danger. Soon
Follow the house live here on cspan when members return at 30 eastern. Cspans washington journal. Every day were taking your calls live on the air with the news of the day. And we discuss policy issues that impact you. Coming up tuesday morning, biographer and president ial historian craig cher lee shirley will join us to discuss campaign 2020. And writer jalani cobb talks about his work, policing the police. And join the discussion with your phone call, facebook comments, texts and tweets. On tuesday, former republican president ial candidate senator marco rubio of florida, talks with the Washington Post about the november elections. Watch live at 15 a. M. Eastern on c span 2. Online at cspan. Org. Or listen live with the free cspan radio app. President donald trump and former Vice President joe biden are set to debate tuesday, september 29. Biden supports Cutting Police funding and he has pledged to end cash bail. Just last week, he accepted the endorsement of the procriminal, antipo
The Committee Welcomes order. Witnesses. Me the we are here to have testimony from a range of industries that tell us about the importance of the United States, mexico, Canada Agreement and we prefer that to usmca. Fromok forward to hearing witnesses about the significance of the agreement to American Business both small and large, the workers and farmers we all represent. Thank you for being here. Canada, and mexico, our countrys most important trading partners. Americasone third of merchandising went to mexico and canada. Nearly half 1 trillion in American Goods the year. The foundation of our strong praise relationship with mexico and canada has been thus far nafta. The United States negotiated and agreement between 1990 1993 and at the time it was a Gold Standard of trade agreements. It enabled American Businesses, workers, farmers and ranchers is andanges without tariffs nontariff barriers and for decades, burdened our ability to compete in those two countries. Andourse, the u. S.
And people still of associate omaha with the. You still want to get an omaha steak when you visit and things like that. Find out where the cspan cities tour is going next online at www. Cspan. Org cities tour. You are watching American History tv all weekend, every weekend on cspan three. Each week on American History tvs american artifacts take you to museums and historic places. Up next in the second of the museum of the American Revolution, we visit the highland collection. I am scott stevenson. Im in charge of the team developing exhibitions and programs that will be in the new museum in philadelphia. This is about a century or fish a century old print we have been working on the project since five years. We expect to open in 2017. We want a place to show up these wonderful and amazing original object from the revolutionary era. For a general view where looking at firearms, they tend to look alike that this is a significant fees, one that really speaks to the power of the ideas tha
Us on facebook. Each week, American History tvs american artifacts takes you to museums and historic places. In the second of the museum of the American Revolution, we visit the artifact collection. I am scott stevenson. I am the director of interpretations for the museum. Im in charge of the team developing exhibitions and programs that will be in the new museum in philadelphia. This is about a century old startup. We have been working on the project in philadelphia, the final stages, for about five years. We expect to open early in 2017 and have a place to show off all of these wonderful and amazing original objects from the revolutionary era. For a general view looking at 18thcentury firearms, they tend to look alike after a while. This is a significant piece that speaks to the power of the idea that we are animating the men and women who made the country and particularly the men who served under arms during the revolution. If you look at these pieces of continental currency, you wi