C-SPAN 2 TV Schedule
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Free Speech, Sexual Harassment and the Military
1 hour, 10 minutesThe George Washington University Law School and the American Bar Association co-hosted a discussion about the military's enforcement of rules and laws as they apply to free speech and sexual harassment cases involving service members.
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Malala Yousafzai Addresses the Canadian Parliament
1 hour, 5 minutesHuman rights advocate Malala Yousafzai addressed a joint session of the Canadian Parliament in the capital of Ottawa, talking about her work as an advocate for girls' education. She praised Canada's refugee policies, and its Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for his support for incoming immigrants. Before her address to lawmakers, Ms. Yousafzai was bestowed with honorary Canadian citizenship, only the sixth such person to ever receive that recognition.
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Rep. Lloyd Smucker Interview
15 minutesRep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA) sat down with C-SPAN for a profile interview. He's serving his first term representing the 16th Congressional District of Pennsylvania. He was born into an Amish family and is the tenth child out of twelve. Rep. Smucker talked about how he convinced his parents to let him leave the Amish community to go to high school eventually starting his own construction company and now a new member of the 115th Congress.
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Former U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara
1 hour, 13 minutesIn his first speech since being fired, Preet Bharara, the former U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, talked about his accomplishments, criminal justice, his future plans and his take on Pres. Trump. Bharara was part of a group of prosecutors asked to resign by the Justice Department in March. He was fired after he refused to resign. Here's his lecture at the Cooper Union Great Hall in New York City.
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Package for 'Ethics Ctr Forum - Part 2- Immigration & Refugees
1 hour, 5 minutesNow it's a look at immigration policy and refugees in the United States. Speakers include a former CIA Analyst, a Syrian activist who was imprisoned during the Arab Spring, a Muslim adviser to the Trump Presidential campaign and the American Civil Liberties Union's Human Rights Director. The panel was part of a series of public policy conversations at the New York Public Library on April 1.
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Review of British Parliament
1 hour, 2 minutesBBC Parliament reviewed the major events that occurred in the House of Commons and the U.K. since the beginning of the year. Topics included the London terrorist attack, the official start of Brexit negotiations, and U.S.-U.K. relations under the Trump administration. BBC Political Correspondent Iain Watson also provided context and analysis of the U.K.'s response to Donald Trump's anticipated state visit.
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HILL CTR POLICING BLACK AMERICA
1 hour, 33 minutesA panel looked at the Thirteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that abolished slavery and examined its relationship to issues of today's criminal justice system . They discussed policing, incarceration, the fight against drugs and the role of prosecutors and grand juries. Speakers included an attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund and the chair of Howard University's Afro-American Studies Department. The forum was part of the annual Benjamin Drummond Emancipation Day Celebration hosted by the Hill Center in Washington, DC.
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Package for Council on Foreign Relations Discussion on Anti-Corruption Efforts - Ben Cardin
1 hour, 9 minutesSenator Ben Cardin (D-MD), the Foreign Relations Committee's ranking member, talked about his work on legislation targeting global anti-corruption efforts at a discussion hosted by the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, DC. After a discussion with one of the council's experts, audience members asked the senator about an array of anti-corruption topics, and about his views on President Trump's business holdings and their potential conflicts of interest with the nation's foreign policy agenda.
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County of Los Angeles v, Mendez
1 hour, 6 minutesThe U.S. Supreme Court sided with the police overturning a lower court ruling awarding $4 million in damages to a homeless couple who sued after being shot 15 times in a backyard shack by Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies. The Supreme Court unanimously decided that the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals' "provocation rule" is not consistent with the Court's excessive force decisions. The rule held that police who use force that's not deemed excessive can still be held liable if they provoked the victims to respond in a way that makes the officers reasonable fear for their safety. In 2010 Angel Mendez and Jennifer Lynn Garcia were a homeless couple living in a shack in a friend's backyard. Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies looking for a wanted parolee, searched the friend's house and the small shack behind it. They entered the shack, without a warrant and without knocking. The deputies then fired 15 shots in the shack wounding both Garcia and Mendez. Mendez, whose leg had to be
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Race & American Dream
1 hour, 21 minutesWall Street Journal Editorial Board Member Jason Riley debated New York Times Magazine Writer Nikole Hannah-Jones on Race and the American Dream in the post-Obama era. Grand Valley State University's Hausenstein Center on the Presidency hosted this event in mid-January.
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David Goldfein on Air Force Readiness
50 minutesU.S. Air Force Chief of Staff General David Goldfein said he is not considering the option of stop loss, an involuntary extension of service, to retain trained pilots in the Air Force. General Goldfein said the option of stop loss is a tool that the Defense Secretary could use when it is a state of emergency. General Goldfein made these remarks while speaking on military readiness and modernization at the Heritage Foundation.
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Covering Trump White House
1 hour, 10 minutesWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized saying he let the president down when during the White House daily briefing he wrongly compared Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler saying even someone as despicable as Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on people. Mr. Spicer called his comments inexcusable and reprehensible. His apology came during an event at the Newseum that focused on the press and the presidency. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway also participated in this discussion. Others taking part included White House correspondents for many of the major television networks and former officials with the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations.
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Future of Press
1 hour, 1 minuteWhite House Press Secretary Sean Spicer apologized saying he let the president down when during the White House daily briefing he wrongly compared Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Adolf Hitler saying even someone as despicable as Hitler didn't use chemical weapons on people. Mr. Spicer called his comments inexcusable and reprehensible. His apology came during an event at the Newseum that focused on the press and the presidency. White House Counselor Kellyanne Conway also participated in this discussion. Others taking part included White House correspondents for many of the major television networks and former officials with the Barack Obama and George W. Bush administrations.
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Panel on Slavery in America KEYED
59 minutesA panel on slavery in American from the 9th annual Tucson Festival of Books, featuring Ibram Kendi, "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America;" Andres Resendez, "The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America;" and Jonathan Bryant, "Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope."
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Call-in with Ibram Kendi, "Stamped from the Beginning" KEYED
33 minutesNational Book Award-winner Ibram Kendi, author of "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," takes viewer phone calls and tweets on race in America from the 9th annual Tucson Festival of Books.
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Daina Ramey Berry, "The Price for Their Pound of Flesh"
1 hour, 10 minutesDaina Ramey Berry, associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin, examines the economic value that was assigned to slaves throughout their life; from infancy to death. She speaks at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Texas.
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History Bookshelf: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught"
1 hour, 25 minutesErica Armstrong Dunbar, history professor at the University of Delaware, recounted the life of Ona Judge, a slave owned by George and Martha Washington, whose escape initiated a manhunt ordered by the first President.
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Panel on Slavery in America KEYED
58 minutesA panel on slavery in American from the 9th annual Tucson Festival of Books, featuring Ibram Kendi, "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America;" Andres Resendez, "The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America;" and Jonathan Bryant, "Dark Places of the Earth: The Voyage of the Slave Ship Antelope."
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Call-in with Ibram Kendi, "Stamped from the Beginning" KEYED
33 minutesNational Book Award-winner Ibram Kendi, author of "Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America," takes viewer phone calls and tweets on race in America from the 9th annual Tucson Festival of Books.
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Daina Ramey Berry, "The Price for Their Pound of Flesh"
1 hour, 11 minutesDaina Ramey Berry, associate professor of history and African and African diaspora studies at the University of Texas at Austin, examines the economic value that was assigned to slaves throughout their life; from infancy to death. She speaks at BookPeople Bookstore in Austin, Texas.
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History Bookshelf: Erica Armstrong Dunbar, "Never Caught"
1 hour, 23 minutesErica Armstrong Dunbar, history professor at the University of Delaware, recounted the life of Ona Judge, a slave owned by George and Martha Washington, whose escape initiated a manhunt ordered by the first President.
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Former Virginia Education Secretary Anne Holton
1 hour, 38 minutesAnne Holton - the Wife of Democratic Senator Tim Kaine and daughter of the 1st Republican Governor of Virginia since Reconstruction-- was Virginia's Education Secretary from 2014-2016. She stepped down when her husband, Senator TIm Kaine, ran for Vice President. She recently spoke about access to and the quality of public education from the 1950s through today, at an event organized by Harvard University's Graduate School of Education in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Prescription Drug Addiction
1 hour, 16 minutesThe University of Southern California hosted a panel discussion looking at the changing form, market and the rise of prescription drug addiction in the United States. Panelists include a doctor, a health economist who advises the Congressional Budget Office, and the makers of 2 documentary films that examine the relationships between the FDA, political leaders, pharmaceutical companies, doctors and the media.