and the humiliation that s come with that here in front of the whole nation. tonight we begin with how we got here, because everyone s been absorbing the days of chaos, headlines about the failure of the republican majority to get its work start in the its new congress. a story that really goes beyond politics and it s reaching people who don t always follow the swearing in or the speaker s race. if you approach this with fresh eyes as many americans have, saying what s going on over there? you may wonder why the big chaotic fight continues with rolling losses for republicans. why is it happening at the finish line of a win for the gop in the midterms? and why is the big fight in washington within one party, not between one of the typically warring factions between parties? there are many factors but three reasons loom large. first a crop of republicans who are more focused on hijacking than running. second, this trump internet industrial complex that puts the content, the tr
seek help and advise from his china loving wife coco chao. the wall street journal s editorial board condemning trump, saying it s all too easy to see trump taking trump literally and attempting to kill mr. mcconnell. mcconnell himself has not publicly responded but watch gop leader rick scott repeatedly dodge when pressed about donald trump. you re a member of the senate gop leadership. are you okay with this? well, look, i can never talk about respond to why anybody else says what they say. the language is what i m talking about. isn t that dangerous? i think we all have to figure out how do we start bringing people together? and you would agree that that language doesn t bring people together? i believe that what the i believe what president trump was talking about is the fact that we can t keep spending money. okay, that s not what the former president said. and coco chao was the phrase he used to refer to a former cabinet secretary, elaine chao. loo
this weekend on the c-span networks, friday night on c-span, native american history. then on saturday, live all-day coverage from the national book festival science pavilion. saturday evening, from bbc scotland, a debate on scotland s upcoming decision on whether to end its political union. sunday, q & a with judge robert catsman, chief justice of the second circuit court of appeals. he shares his approach to interpreting laws passed by congress. on c-span 2, friday at 8:00 p.m., in depth with former congressman, ron paul. then on saturday, all day live coverage of the national book festival from the history and biograp biography pavelions. and sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern, afterwards with william burrows, talking about his book the asteroid threat. on american history tv on c-span3 friday, a nasa documentary about the 1969 apollo 11 moon landing. saturday, on the civil war, general william tecumseh sherman s atlanta campaign. sunday night, a look at election laws and supre
and environmental and health considerations were always secondary. primary was, you know, the russians are coming. i m sorry. we ve got to build more bombs. we built bombs like crazy. i think about schi66,000 of the over the course of 1945 to 1992. constantly recycling. they were the things to have for the military. the military wanted them in every variety. we had two competing laboratories who supplied whatever they wanted. sometimes gave them things they didn t even know about. so this was the dynamic of part of the arms race. the russians were coming. competing service rivalry between the army, airforce, navy wanting them up. laboratories. good jobs in all of these places so it was in congresses interest to have good budgets to support it. this was the engine of the arms race. you know, we re going to live with the legacy of what happened for decades to come. we ve already spent countless billions of dollars cleaning up the mess that was made at rocky flats at hanford, oa
maintain a moral purity u while a vast slaughter occurred at the rate of over 200,000 deaths a month. isn t there a tragic dilemma here, namely which innocent lives to save. could truman have rested at peace by prolong iing the japane domination of asia? as future anniversaries of the dropping of the bombs occur, i hope for less condemnation of truman s decision at least until the critics can specify a moral and still feasible course of action to end the war. perhaps there might even be some empathy for the man required to make the decision and who carried the burden of his harry truman of independence, missouri, was some moral mons r monster. those who criticize his decision would do well i think to place themselves in his shoes and ask what they might have done in his circumstance. honest observers who refrain from analysis and criticisms will acknowledge that they were used primarily for a military purpose so as to force japan s surrender and that they prove defective in i