cover there. thank you. >> thank you for having me. for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. programs are also available as c-span podcasts. >> we found that public officials, the people who really govern this country, it is not congress. it is not the president. it is bureaucrats. they write thousands of rules and regulations that have the force of law. and we found out that they don't think much of ordinary

americans. >> sunday night on q&a, benjamin ginsburg, professor of political science and chair of governmental studies at johns hopkins university, talks about his book, what washington gets wrong, the unelected officials who run the government and their misconceptions about the american people. >> what do we learn? we learn we elect a congress, that makes the law, the president executes the law, the courts review the laws. but that isn't exactly how the system works. much of what we think of as the law consists of rules and regulations written by bureaucratic agencies. by bureaucrats not elected by anyone and who often serve for decades. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span's q&a. >> the u.s. senate will be meeting today to begin voting on president trump's nominees for his cabinet. the first votes are likely to be retired general james mattis for

defense secretary, and retired general john kelly for homeland security secretary. senate whip john cornyn says that senators could be in through the night with votes. watch live coverage of that senate session on c-span2, beginning at 4:00 eastern. and women from across the country will be here in the nation's capital city tomorrow for the women's march on washington. scheduled speakers include gloria steinem, harry belafonte and cecelia richards. c-span will have live coverage at 10:00 eastern tomorrow. and while that's taking place, c-span2 will be live with the 58th presidential inaugural prayer service. president donald trump and vice president mike pence will attend that service at the national cathedral here in washington, d.c., taking place after their inauguration. it begins saturday morning at 10:00 eastern. this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday night at 9:00 eastern, santa clara university professor nancy unger looks at the role of gay bars in american history.

>> many closeted gays go to their first gay bar. for example, san francisco's black cat. and in these bars they find out that they're not the only ones, there are lots of people who are atypical sexually. and when the war is over, they don't want to return to their small towns and their small town closets. many settle instead in the cities where they first experienced some self-acceptance. >> and then at 10:30, government policymakers and officials talk about the 1991 nonluger act, establishing the formal process of storing, dismantling and soviet nuclear and chemical weapons. >> what we found is that to the russians, the nuclear complex was not an inheritance from hell. to them, it gets the means for the revival of a great russia. >> sunday evening at 6:00, on

american artifacts, fdr presidential library archivist matthew hansen and christina kovac on their efforts to preserve ten of president franklin d. roosevelt's most important speeches. >> we selected the films based on historical significance, frequency of how often they're requested, and quality of the footage as well. >> i see one third of the nation ill housed, ill clad, ill nourished. >> and at 8:00 on the presidency, the gill university history professor looks at u.s. israeli relations from harry truman to barack obama. >> i told the house of representatives i would commit political suicide if i didn't support the state of israel. is the audience participation part of the program, who said it? jimmy carter in 1977. fooled you. >> for our complete american

history tv schedule, go to c-span.org. in astrophysicist who goes by the name gangster nerd spoke to students at westminster college in fulton, missouri. hakeem oluseyi is a professor at the florida institute of technology. he appears on eight tv series on the science channel, discovery channel, and on national geographic. this is about an hour. i'll begin. i'll introduce myself. i'm chris halsey, an analytical chemical industry professor. it is in fact my great pleasure to introduce our next speaker, dr. hakeem oluseyi. growing up in the tougher parts of new orleans, houston, l.a., and mississippi, he and his mother moved around often in the southern united states. he cites early introduction and influence from the sciences from reading specifically the world book encyclopedias, and if you're not familiar with that, i