and over through washington and through arlington cemetery, let's watch for just a minute. [background sounds]. [background sounds]. >> so that is where today you see this larger area over that of which is not constructed at this moment. >> there's the final shots of arlington national cemetery much as we see it today with many light headstones marking the graves of the fallen. >> the capitol tonight,. >> i think it's important to pause for a moment about the meaning of the tomb of the unknown soldier at this time, it was also thought to be a memorial that could connect all of the americans and stretch beyond world war one and honor all of those who serve in our nation's armed forces and very strongly through to today. >> you are watching american history tv, exploring our nation's past. >> c-span's new video app and stay up-to-date with live video coverage of today's biggest events, lifestream house and senate floor and keep congressional hearings alike as he and supreme court oral arguments and even our live programs washington journal everyday cspan now has you covered a

1920 silent film on the journey of the remains of unknown american world war soldier from france to arlington national cemetery. >> ellison, how did this whole concept of the unknown soldier being honored come about? >> well, it really goes back to the beginning of the machinization of warfare and you get unidentifiable remains. you had a lot in the civil war but people were struggling with the fact that they could not figure out who many of the casualties were so great britain and france in 1920 buried an unknown soldier in each of their countries and gate britain it was in westminster abbey and in france, the u.s. decide today do something similar to that. the idea was started by representative hamilton fisch of new york. >> here the cask et is being carried down to the united states capitol, scene that modern americans will see on our time and make its way to the streets of washington and over to arlington cemetery. let's watch for just a minute. >> and so that is where today you see the larger over that which was not yet constructed at this moment. >> and there the shot of arlington cemet

silent film on the journey of the remains of an unknown american world war i soldier from france to arlington national cemetery. >> allison, how did this whole concept of the unknown soldier being honored come about? >> it really goes back to the beginning of the mechanicization of warfare you see expand during world war i. you get a lot more unidentifiable remains. of course you had a lot in the civil war, but people really were struggling with the fact that they could not figure out who many of these casualties were. so great big and france in 1920 buried an unknown soldier in each of their countries. in great big it was in westminster abbey and in france it was under the arc de triomphe. hamilton fish of new york submitted legislation to before an unknown soldier from the u.s. >> here the casket is being carried down the steps of the capitol, a scene modern americans are familiar with similar ceremonies in our time and put on the horse-drawn that will make it through the streets of washington and over to arlington cemetery. let's watch for just a minute. >> so that is where today you see t

arlington, texas on lockdown. active shooter. we are working feverishly to try to get more information. >>> meanwhile, teachers, social workers, military memberings, other public servants listen up. the biden administration says it is making a major change to a program that could wipe out your student loan debt. you have to meet some requirements but they hope the changes will make it easier to navigate the program. kelly o'donnell is following this story from the white house. so kelly, how does it work? and to whom does it apply? >> well, this is an opportunity that the department of education is taking to look at a program they have that they felt was being underutilized and to try to make changes and to try to eliminate some of the bureaucracy and some of the things they've learned have been impediments to people getting this benefit. and it is the public service loan forgiveness program. and so if you work in public service for a period of ten years, so those job descriptions you just described, you could be eligible to have

infantry regiment has arlington ready. planting flags at the 228,000 grave sites. david martin visited them this weekend. >> reporter: it was raw and raining at section 60 in arlington national cemetery where the fallen from iraq and afghanistan are buried. sarah's brother, special forces captain andrew ross was killed in afghanistan in 2018. he was 29, newly married and planning to start a family. instead, he came home to section 60. >> most of the people who rest here chose to do this post 9/11. most of these kids were kids when this happened. they chose to go in this very long war and give their lives for you, for me. >> reporter: corporal honeycut was 19 when he stepped on a land idealism is etched on his head stone. >> next week, he he would be 30 years old. >> reporter: his mother comes here just to be close. >> it just makes me feel better to sit and talk to him. >> reporter: nor the past year, covid has kept arlington closed to all but family. >> i have never seen arlington be more empty. >> reporter: does it make

the designer for the city of washington laid in state when at arlington national cemetery. on his way, they paused so that he could receive state honors to the capitol building. they felt it was that important as they were paying tribute to a figure who had, for a brief time, fallen into obscurity and was buried in a pauper's grave. and then relevant to world war i, the admiral of the navy george doey was laid in state in 1917 before we get to the world war i unknown in 1921. congress also played a role in supporting the memory and the preservation of and the tribute to those who have made the ultimate sacrifice, the last full measure of devotion to our country. in 1862, the omnibus act, which included a provision here. you can see from the national archives, an image of it and a transcription, and it provided the president with the authority to acquire land and create national cemeteries for those who gave that last full measure of devotion, those who died in service of the country. and ever since, the congress has been involved in preserving the memory and supporting thos

i should mention before we get into that, there are a significant number of unknowns buried at arlington from the civil war, more than 2000 remain in a large memorial, we could get into that a little later but you get to the spanish-american war fought farther from location than the civil war, mexican american and revolutionary war of 1812 and you have a policy and acted, repatriation bringing back the remains of deceased service members who died fighting barry closer to home. that conflict did not last quite as long had significantly fewer casualties than the first world war which placed decision-making how to deal with repatriation and the importance of a tomb of the unknown soldier. before we get to that, i will mention in 1913, congress approved and authorized spending for the government to create a new memorial amphitheater at arlington national cemetery. the cemetery had been civil war and they recognize the need for a larger more somber space to accommodate the visitors who were there to pay tribute to their deceased loved ones so they appropriated funds and authorized spending to

he offered the legislation to create the tomb of the unknown soldier and place it at arlington national cemetery just across the river from our capitol city as a monument for the nation to mourn those lost, whether they came home or not. so, as i mentioned, there were a great number of unknown soldiers who had perished by the end of the first world war. and the selection process was actually really rather fascinating. i should mention that they gathered from several different major battlefields, different unknown soldiers who had fallen in battle, and they brought them to a small town in the champagne region of france where one of the highest decorated enlisted soldiers, enlisted veterans of the war made the final selection of the anonymous flag-draped coffin to be the unknown soldier to rest at arlington in eternal memory and glory as a symbol, as a tangible representation of all of those other unknowns and all of those others who were intered across an ocean from their families and loved ones. this image you see here is a soldier being brought ashore. and he's brought to shore from th

the elected officials in arlington should in no way deflect this issue or shift blame. they have a responsibility to do the will of the community and i think this is really important in terms of voice and community voice. this is an issue of st free speech and clear communication from individuals to their elected officials. i think political a candidate thing political accountability begins when people take the responsibility to speak up and say, this is what we want. this is what we don't want and we will hold you to being our representatives are not opposed to fracking and not close to to energy expansion. but, but i think this is where the community gets to decide if the economics of drilling there makes sense. and if people are going to be happy with it well, and i think it if you've been to arlington, texas, it's definitely a very thriving community. it's not like it's a very poor community in this case. so they're picking more of the poor section of town. it will be interesting to see, like you pointed out, it's about economic development. people move there becaus

and then to be part of that system and even more so in arlington with the main testis property at arlington and those others at the monkey river. and all told there is 190 slaves who are a part of those properties. robert lee benefits from that. and benefits from their work and their labor and is one of the custis slaves, his wife has slaves. and they will assist with the children and go on vacation in the slaves go with them. so lee certainly benefits from the slave system even if he doesn't himself have personal title to large numbers of slaves which he doesn't. he says nothing c for years and years not until the 18 fifties when slavery is becoming a crisis issue in american politics but it's interesting that he talks about it at all. because we had learned in his military career not to talk about politics. soldiers who talk about politics are got mixed up in politics usually suffered. and happened in the first of the mentor and with winfield scott. and yet slavery by the 18 fifties and then to start writing about it in a letter to his wife and he comes out to say slavery is a moral evil

. >> thursday morning, president biden speaks at arlington national cemetery in a veteran days ceremony to honor those who served our nation. watch full coverage on c-span now our new video app or on c-span. on thursday the nasa spacex dragon crew arrived at the international space station. cooking is expected at 7:10 eastern. our live coverage starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. online at c-span.org. or watch full coverage on c-span now our new video app. >> president biden gives a speech at the port of baltimore on the recently passed infrastructure bill. he jut lines how the bill will impact manufacturing including the global supply chain. president biden plans to sign the legislation monday. these comments run about 25 minutes. our president of the united states, joe biden. [applause] pres. biden: thank you. we used to have an expression when i serve in the senate. when i wanted to make some statement that was personal, i said, a point of personal privilege. when you are talking about working on the water, my family is originally from baltimore, came in the early 1800s. the entir

he went that navy with the uss in new york, uss arlington, what does that mean for you? why does the navy seals feel compelled to have these vessels? >> we name our ships after great battles, great leaders, great location significant locations and events in our nations history. to have something tangible to inspire us. if you are part of the crew something remind you of the greatness of our nation and the greatness of our people and our ability to respond to challenges and overcome. i am very proud of all of our ships in all of our sailors. i'm especially proud to have that uss new york and that uss arlington as part of the ships i work with every day. >> when you went to bed early in the morning on september the 12th, first of all did you or to bed? did you get some sleep? >> no, i could not get to sleep there's too much to think about. too many people to think about and try to member to call or write a note too. my mom, lisa, my kids, there was lots to do. i took a shower and got to it. >> host: what was racing thier head? >> guest: uncertainty about my friend but cert

arlington itself benefited from the enslaved labor. and at the same time, he's a voracious public private correspondence. write thousands of letters. she also ties that disapproval because it's bad for white people really this crazy rationalization happening there and despite his expression of disapproval , his family was supported in large part by enslaved labor so can you talk a little bit about lee's thinking around slavery and how he drove to those rationalizations and conclusions ? >> lee grows up so to speak with slavery. his parents owned slaves. his mother owned slaves when they were living in alexandria even though there were reduced circumstances. there were at least six slaves in the lee household in alexandria. when and carter dies in 29, part of her estate is the disposition of the slavesin that estate . some slaves are appointed towards her two daughters. in this case and marshall lee . i'm sorry, and kim lally. she becomes an lee marshall and her sistermildred lee . but one slave family is willed to robert, or at least i

he went that navy with the uss in new york, uss arlington, what does that mean for you? why does the navy seals feel compelled to have these vessels? >> we name our ships after great battles, great leaders, great location significant locations and events in our nations history. to have something tangible to inspire us. if you are part of the crew something remind you of the greatness of our nation and the greatness of our people and our ability to respond to challenges and overcome. i am very proud of all of our ships in all of our sailors. i'm especially proud to have that uss new york and that uss arlington as part of the ships i work with every day. >> when you went to bed early in the morning on september the 12th, first of all did you or to bed? did you get some sleep? >> no, i could not get to sleep there's too much to think about. too many people to think about and try to member to call or write a note too. my mom, lisa, my kids, there was lots to do. i took a shower and got to it. >> host: what was racing thier head? >> guest: uncertainty about my friend but cert

and though lee married into one of the foremost families of virginia, the costas of arlington, arlington overlooked the potomac, facing the national capital, not virginia. and his if-laws were wigs who had the nation first and state loyalties afterwards. but lee could not ignore however in 1861 were two factors. first, light horse harry lee, for all of his revolutionary fame, had been a hard luck husband and father. and left his family for the west indies when robert was only 6 years old. the shadow that light horse harry cast over the lee name was one that robert struggled to redeem. hence that broad streak of perfectionism in his behavior. robert also yearned to breathe free of his father's reputation in other ways. one in independent and his own man and his marriage to mary custas was a way to stake out realm for himself. but he also yearned for security. the security his father had denied him. so while most of lee's contemporaries at west point left the army as soon as they had received their taxpayer provided college degree and could go into private engineering practice or some othe

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. >> ben: tell us a little bit about what you are doing today at arlington. >> so i was at arlington with the project i founded with the [indiscernible] foundation called the honor project which brought in 300 volunteers to arlington cemetery to visit graves of the fallen where our volunteers would take names in advance, we'd find their grave, we would place a plaque and then we'd take a photograph and share it on social media and it's a really incredible way not just for an american who doesn't serve in the military to really honor them for in the name a fallen service member, but it's also an opportunity for us to share the names of the pollen with the rest of the world. >> ben: i though that this is something that you came upon by accident. tell us a little bit about what happened last year that really started this whole thing. >> so last year i went into the cemetery to visit our grandfather, who as you know is a veteran of three wars, world war ii, vietnam, and korea, and i knew it would be different because covid restrictions kept everyone except for direct family members from

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give griff the sculptor, buried in arlington? >> he is buried in arlington as the flag raisers. griff: the front of the monument, tell me about it. >> there's a famous quote uncommon valor was a common virtue not just for marines that fought in hiroshima but just the like the rest of the memorial. it's dedicated to all of the maence over the country even though marines dates back to when our country was founded. so this is reflective of all the marines that have ever served and those who have made the ultimate sacrifice to our country. normally this place has over a million visitors a year, about a million and a half people come to the u.s. marine corps, war memorial annually. most of those people are on a patriotic pilgrimage to washington, d.c. so you see a lot of tour buses that come to the u.s. marine corps war memorial. griff: they come because they know it's an iconic monument but those who haven't visited, why do you believe it's iconic? >> all you have to do take one minute to look at the place and have the background of the the national mall, the backdrop of the nationa

in arlington. it is a captivating poem brought to you by gary sinise." [video clip] >> it has been over 100 years since the first unknown soldier was back and. in arlington. it has stood as a symbol to the world of the honor america bestows on people who serve in all branches of the military. our love for those servicemen and servicewomen have been captured in the words of a poem written by bob martin entitled "in arlington" which recognizes their service and our love and honor for our fallen heroes. ♪ >> in arlington, white roses grow. headstones mock them, row on row. the honored dead, and in the sky, the mourning doves in seven sly to grieve the known who lie below. we are the dead, the ones you know. we lived, felt dawn, the sunsetted go -- in the sunset go. loved and were loved and now we lie in arlington. while in the tomb of marble below arrests the unknown. fresh soil below, in honored lori there he lies. do not break faith with those who died, our roses bloom as falling snow in arlington

county which is why i live in arlington. we don't have a whole lot of exciting things that happen in arlington during the four years of the war because we're basically a giant parade ground and they're busy building the perimeter forts like cf smith and fort runyan. so here you've got the soldiers. it's like sing around the campfire. they're having a really good time and gifford likes focusing on moments of quiet camaraderie and what you get in even in the ruins of bombed out forth sumpter here is conrad wise chapman painting exactly the same scene. it's just that instead of it being kind of a life-affirming moment. you've got all these little clusters of men trying to keep warm and there is that same confederate flag that he detailed over there stubbornly flying in the wake of the navy waiting to get shot down another day they're interested in the same things. they're looking at the world the same way and as an art historical note, this is a guy who grew up looking at teopolo and canaletto and gouty and nobody paints skies

y sale bajo fianza joven que abrió fuego en una preparatoria en arlington y dejó cuatro personas heridas su familia dice que actuó en defensa propia ya que sufre de bullyng >> pfizer solicita la aprobación de emergencia a la fda para niños de cinco a 11 años. >> nos gusta ganarnos el pan de con otro profesor >> esta es una historia que se hizo viral en las redes, pero antes vamos con el terrible dolor de una madre que busca desesperadamente a su hijo de sólo tres años >>aún no se tiene rastro del paradero del pequeño christopher ramírez desaparecido en houston. las autoridades continúan con la búsqueda, cuál es el avance? >>la búsqueda ha sido amplia y exhaustiva es la segunda noche en que rescatistas buscan al niño christopher por ahí tierra y prometen no remover hasta la última piedra para hallarlo. >>les pido a todos por favor que me devuelvan a mi niño >>son la súplica de esta madre desconsolada que a la pérdida de su pequeño hijo christopher de tres años que se extravió la tarde de ayer. según una vecina el menor salió de la casa corriendo tras su perro, la m

even more so at arlington, when he marries into the customs property at arlington. but there's also two other properties along the river. all told there is something like 190 slaves who are part of those properties. and robert lee benefits from that. when he marry so that he benefits from their work, their labor. he has a family who is one of the custis slaves. hurries wife has slaves who will wait on her. and they will assist with the children. they go on vacation. so, lee certainly benefits from the slave system even if he doesn't himself have personal title to large numbers of slaves. he doesn't. the curious thing is he really says nothing about slavery for years and years and years. not until the 18 fifties when slavery is becoming a crisis issue in american politics. and it's issuing to interesting that he talks about it at all because li had learned very early in his political career, military career, not to talk about politics. soldiers who talked about politics or who got mixed up in politics usually suffered for it. he saw that happen in the case of his fir

the federal forces had occupied arlington and the dye had been caste. we curiously enough lee is a surprisingly reluctant confederate and a in her diary or she reports on people who come to her and say we can't trust robert e. lee. robert e. lee is not with us. robert e. lee will be tried as a traderer -- traitor. wynne lee is imposing the emancipation of in the confederate army the charleston mercury and the other firebreathing of all firebreathing newspapers charleston mercury says we knew that properties lee was never with us. we knew that he was always a federalist at heart and we can't trust robert e. lee. this is an 1865 in the charleston mercury. they had a particular profile and many people were not entirely sure about robert e. lee. they love the fact that he won battles that they scratched their heads about him politically speaking. >> robert e. lee himself often as you know embodied many contradictions. throughout the book you cite where he will say one thing and then turn around and do something as seemingly contradicts a it so i does havea

we just heard president biden marking this somber day at arlington national cemetery. the president speaking after the traditional laying of a wretch, saying a prayer at the time of the unknown soldier. this is part of what we just heard from president biden. >> here on these gentle rolling green hills and across america and around the globe lie buried the heroes of the greatest experiment the world has ever known, ever seen. the experiment bears the noble name the united states of america. >> nbc's senior white house reporter shannon pettypiece is at white house for us. nbc's pentagon correspondent courtney qube is with us. what stood out about what the president said, the reverence of this event? >> reporter: craig, it wasn't just what he said but it was the way in which he said it. it was an impassioned speech. he started out in a very personal way. he spoke about the death of his son who was a delaware national guard soldier. he died of cancer six years ago this past weekend. he spoke directly to the gold star parents who may be listening today. those are mothers a

visited arlington national cemetery. she realized that because of covid restrictions, there was not a lot of opportunity for friends and family to get to the cemetery. she went out asking people if they wanted her typical and visit with their loved ones. she got a lot of response to that. and together, we are part of the honor project. we will be visiting 4,000 braves and we have had volunteers all weekend who have joint us throughout memorial day weekend and visited these graves to honor the sacrifice and also find a tangible way to pay tribute to our nation's fallen. >> how do people get in touch with you? is there a website? >> today could you can help be a part of the honor project. but you can do is you can go online and search a fallen servicemember. it is easy. you will find thousands of stories. each one of those stories, share it yourself. share it with twitter or facebook, instagram, any of your platforms. and share those stories. as a gold star sister, i can tell you that the most important thing for us is to

even more so at arlington, when he marries into -- there is the main property at arlington, but there are also other properties along the river. all told, there is something around 190 sleeves who are part of those properties. robert lee benefits from that. when he marries into that, he benefits from their, work their labor, he has a bully who is one of the slaves, he a's wife has slaves, and they will assist with the children. they go on vacation, the slaves go with them. we certainly benefits from the slave system, even if he doesn't himself have personal titled to a large number of slaves. the curious thing is he really says nothing about slavery for years, and years, and years. not until the 1850s won slavery is becoming a crisis issue in american politics. and, it's interesting that he talks about it at all, because he had learned early on in his political career, not to talk about politics. soldiers who talked about politics, or who got mixed up in politics usually suffered for it. he saw it happen in the case of his first mentor, he saw what happened to winfield scott as a conc

at arlington national semitism terry. according to the cemetery records there has been a 24 hour watch on the tomb of the unknown soldier,, a solemn place consecutively since june or since april 6, 1948 after being closed, lawrence, to the public for the majority of the pandemic the famed resting place of thousands of heros, the cemetery is open again, the president will join the vice president today, the second gentleman and first lady, he'll give a cuts o mariah carey speech after he visits the tomb of the unknown soldier. yesterday, the president delivered remarks in wilmington, delaware at a memorial day cemetery encouraging americans from all stripes to come together and remember those who fought for this country. >> i hope that the nation comes together. we're not democrats and republicans today. we're americans. we're americans who have given their lives. >> [applause] reporter: this weekend also marked the sixth anniversary of the death of the president's son , bow biden, the former delaware attorney general and p

though married into one of the foremost families of virginia, the cost of arlington, arlington overlooked facing the national capitol, not virginia. his in-laws allies the nation first of state loyalty "afterwards". we could not more in 18612 factors. first, harry lee for all of his revolutionary fame had been our clock husband and father and left family when robert was only six years old. the shadow harry cast over the lee name was one of robert struggles to redeem the broad street of perfectionism in his behavior. robert also yearned to briefly of his father's reputation and otherwise. he wanted independence and wanted to be his own man and one sense his marriage was an attempt to stake out a room for himself but he also yearned for security. the security his father denied him so while most of lee's contemporaries left the army as soon as i received their taxpayer provided college degree decently resigned and go into private engineering practice other professions, stays with him as the one certain profession could count on. a huge factor in this pursuit of independence, security and per

that's zoe, the 15-year-old lab was trapped in arlington inside a storm drain. making the rescue more difficult, zoe is deaf. crews worked for 11 hours to dig up the road and get her free. apart from some dehydration, we've got good news here, zoe is okay. >>> in colorado, a high school volleyball coach said he was pressured to resign because he is gay. and this morning, his former employer is responding. the controversy all started with a facebook post. >> they said i had two options. the first option was to -- sorry, was to denounce that i was gay. >> reporter: he's a christian, a volleyball coach and a gay man. >> i said, you know, basically my dreams of marrying another man would have to just stop. >> reporter: it's his sexuality that's caused him to lose his job at valor christian high school in highland, colorado. he said he was told by the leadership at valor to stop being gay or abandon his role as coach. >> i feel like it's a repeat of the 27 years of life where i hated myself. >> reporter: he says he's not angry. >> anger, i've learned, and especially

we see the first flyover at arlington national cemetery. there will be many more of those coming up and coming moments here. you have a piece out at foxnews.com with senator graham, lindsey graham, who was with us less to mike yesterday. here's a headline. biden's terrorism complacency, the u.s. must act now to counter threats. the war against islamic terrorism has not blessed us" you, radical islam is again on the march. in what way? >> i had a note that said the entire region has received the word that jihad has one and the west has lost. recruitment is through the roof and the u.n. is reporting 8000-10000 foreign fighters pouring into afghanistan and we are in a row. when the obama administration -- similar to when the obama administration pulled out of iraq in 2011 and we saw the rise of isis over the next few years. the set of them at different of what senator graham and i get to is that we have a lot more tools. we had bases in local allies in the curds and access from the ocean. there was much more when we had to send our soldiers ba

his wife's family in particular, arlington, owned many enslaved people, or arlington itself being benefitted from that enslaved labor, and at the same time, lee, is a gracious public correspondent, makes reference to see his disapproval of the institution of slavery but ties that to disapproval because it's bad for white people which is a really just crazy rationalization happening there. and despite his expression of disapproval, his family was supported, in large part, by enslaved labor. so can you talk through a little about lee's thinking around slavery and how he drew some of those rationalizations and conclusions? >> lee grows up, so to speak, with slavery. his parents own slaves. his mother owns slaves when they were living in alexandr, ia, at least six slaves in the household, when ann carter dies in '89, part of her estate is the disposition of the slaves, some are parted towards her two daughters, in this case, ann kenlock lee, said marshal because she married a marshal, becomes ann lee marshal and her sister mildred lee, but one slave family is willed to robert, or at least in ter

bret. >> bret: lucas tomlinson in arlington, thank you. as we honor veterans here at home, two retired u.s. marines remain in captivity in russia. they remained no closer to freedom now than the day they were arrested. correspondent benjamin hall shows us. >> trevor is a great young man. he has so much going for him. he had such drive and he was achieving his goals. >> trevor rita, texas special force marina is still behind bars in russia. he is now on hunger strike to protest poor prison conditions, held in solitary confinement, and his mother thinks he knows why. >> he was a marine and they will leverage for him to get people back that they want from the united states. >> also a former marine was detained in moscow in 2018 and sentenced to 16 years for espionage charge he says was entrapment. >> he spends most of his days making button holes in the labor camp, it's a cold part of russia right now. >> president biden raised both cases in june, pledging to do everything he could. >> the families of the detained, we are going to follow thro