countries to terrorist attack. and to the possibility of catastrophic terrorist attack. who ever carried out these bombings was a very powerful statement to undertake them close to the former kgb building and the institution which has primary responsibility for the protection of the russian people. it is a bit analogous to the symbolic import of taking out the world trade center, the pentagon and the aspiration of the capital. how it is going to play out, it is hard to predict.

on the domestic political front, over the past decade, there is no question that terrorist attacks have played to the favor of mr. putin and as a justification for further centralization of political power. we have seen in response to this attack a considerable difference between the russians. putin has resorted to his playbook of pull them all out of the sioux were -- sewer and that sort of tough talk. what we have seen from the prime minister is that this is a reminder that the core problem

of the terrible social economic conditions in the north caucasus which is the driver for these groups to attack which is not something we hear from putin. >> how could the u.s. administration assist russia at all in the anti-terrorism fight? obama said we stand ready to help. how could he do that? would russia even be open to that? >> can i jump in? it is a very good question because the way i see the conflict in russia is between non-state terrorism which is some of these suicide bombers and state terrorism, and otherwise russian policy in the caucuseus. a wider swath of populations

that you can with no media present do with them what you wish. some of the death. russian human rights activists have reported some of the atrocities by russian servicemen and security forces in the region. it is not surprising that this is a starring a hornet's nest. -- staring a hornet's nest. the black widows, women whose kinfolk or brothers or sons or husbands have been killed by russian forces. how we can help them is maybe to the example of guantanamo, legal process, and so on and so forth. to show that anti-terrorism does not mean the destruction of human rights. i do not know directly that russia would necessarily want us to help.

what i do fear is there is a foreign policy aspect to this. on the foreign-policy side, there are worries in some of the neighboring countries that russia could use this to point fingers at countries like georgia which they have already been hinting at that they support terrorism against some of the separatist movements. they could potentially be whipped up as it is anti- foreigner, anti-neighbor device in places where rusher -- where russia wants to exert greater influence. that is something i fear on that front. >> with that, i would like to thank everybody for coming to see us. this will be found later on our website. thank you for coming and if you have follow-up questions, feel free to contact us.

thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] tomorrow, a preview of the nuclear security summit and key challenges to preventing nuclear terrorism. the working group is hosting this event live at 12:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. the obama family welcomed thousands of children to the white house for the annual easter egg roll.

in the main event, children raced to push eggs with wooden spoon. this is a little over 10 minutes. >> ladies and gentleman, boys and girls, please welcome the president, barack obama and the first lady. how to sing the national anthem, amber riley. [applause] >> oh say can you see, by the dawn's early light,

what so proudly we hail, at the twilight last gleaming, whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the perilous fight, oer the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly streaming, and the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air, gave approved through the night, that our flag was still there,

0 say does that star spangled banner yet wave, oer the land of the free, and if the home of the brave ♪ [applause] please give amber a big hand. is everybody having a good time? [applause] happy easter everybody. we are thrilled that you could all come. i am not going to make a long speech because we have the best

speaker, the smartest, and best looking of the older obamas and that is the first lady of the united states, michelle obama. [applause] >> hello, everybody. is this not the most perfect day for the easter egg roll? let's say thank you to mother nature. we are so excited to have you. welcome to the 2010 easter egg roll. the theme for this year's event is ready, set, go. as you know, this year, i launched a nationwide initiative to try to end the epidemic of childhood obesity. it is called let's move. today, we have transformed the south lawn into a playground. our hope is to in addition to

having fun and doing some traditional activities that you can learn about beginning to live a more healthy life. we have wonderful food stands. we have some of the best chefs in the area. you can learn to cope. there is a farmer's market. you concede the garden. we have some great activities. we have several athletic centers. we have football, basketball, tennis, yoga, and some of the most phenomenal athletes. we have the washington redskins here. we have olympians. we have billie jean king. we are going to have some dancing, hula hooping, we have a dj from the ellen degeneres show. you can have fun with justin

bieber. [applause] >> you have heard of him? he is here. [applause] >> we have one of my favorites, the cast of glee. but we have readers. we have j.k. rowling. we have tons of people that are here to just have fun with you today. the only thing that you need to do is get ready, set and do what? >> go. >> i want to thank all of the volunteers to put this together. they worked all week in setting up this amazing event. i want to thank our staff.

[applause] they have done an amazing job. we are thrilled to have you here. we are going to have 30,000 people in our back yard and we want every single one of you to have fun and to think about leading a healthy life and to get moving. with that, we are going to do an easter egg roll and some reading. have fun and thank you for being here [applause] ♪

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[childrens laughter] [spongebob squarepants theme] >> wednesday, live from the white house, michelle obama will sit down with one of this year's c-span studentcam theres. his documentary was one of many

submitted in this year's competition on the topic of child abuse city. joining in the conversation will be other film makers from around the country. that is live, wednesday, at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> i know what the challenge is and we are in a unique position to go to work. what we need our policy makers to develop a road map so that we can get it done. >> is there something about energy policy that you would like to talk about on your blog? on the new video library, you can search for it and share it. from yesterday or 10 years ago, every c-span program since 1987. the c-span video library, cables latest gift to america. >> let's meet another winner and c-span's studentcam document

airing competition. today, we talked to an eighth grader at independence day school in campeau, florida. >> how is it going today? >> good. >> you told she would do york documentary on hundred in the united states. why did you choose that topic? >> the only thing you really need to survive is food and a lot of people are not getting as much as they should. >> how has hundred affected your community? >> i do not live in a neighborhood, but in the city, there has been a huge impact. >> has the situation changed over the past two years? >> they spend less on food

because they have to choose between food or health care or telephone service. the cannot choose food that is healthy because the food that is not healthy is the cheapest. >> you interviewed a lot of volunteers. what did you learn from them? >> the one volunteer new the owner of a food bank very well and that provided the food and did a personal perspective to it. >> tell me about the people who

rely on those services for food. >> food stamp beneficiaries, about 50% of be people are food stamp beneficiaries that are not getting enough. people should be getting food stamps but a lot of people it is people that have ever struggled with her before. these are people that just got hit by the recession. how can people help or volunteer? >> you see people do that at thanksgiving or christmas time. you could donate to people who need it. some companies allow you to volunteer and have a day off with pay.

>> what did you learn from the documentary? >> what i looked at the numbers, it was staggering how many people relied on these services. i got a lot of knowledge from people that i interviewed on a more professional perspective. >> thank you for talking to us today and congratulations for your win. >> now, let's watch a portion of his documentary. >> they are living a large of the government subsidies. she may get 25 or $30 a month in food stamps. can you survive on $30 over one month's time. >> it would be great if they had

something available for kids. they do not have to be embarrassed. >> you can watch the entire documentary and the other women injuries at studentcam.org. >> the deadline for filing federal income tax returns is april 15. it now, remarks from the irs commissioner on his role in overseeing the collection of over two trillion dollars in tax revenue. this is one hour.

that afternoon and welcome to the national press club. we are the world's leading organization for journalism. our programming offers a free press worldwide. for more information about the press club, please visit our web site at www.press.org. on behalf of our members worldwide, i would like to welcome our speaker and attendees for today's event which include guests about speaker as well as working journalists. i would also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. i would allow my gosh i would now like to introduce our head table guests. from your right, a reporter for tax notes, a senior writer for cnn money dot com. diana gregg from the bnd report.

susan anderson, the wife of the speaker. mullis the, vice chair of the speaker's committee. skipping over our speaker, paul, the bureau chief and jennifer, from the fiscal times and ryan, from bloomberg ms.. -- from bloomberg news. [applause] our guest is in the second year of his five-year term as commissioner of the internal revenue service. he is responsible for collecting 2.4 trillion dollars in tax revenues. but with more than 100,000 employees and a budget of about

$11 billion, he has resources at his disposal as tea, and you, prepare for that april 15 deadline that is just 10 days away. dionne of tax collection, he also faces issues such as the plane crashed into an irs building in texas his agents are on the front lines of revenue collection and sometimes public outrage. he came to the irs from the financial industry regulatory authority. he served in the same role as the security dealers before the consolidation of the new york stock exchange member regulation. early in his career, he was involved in several startup

organizations. he has a master's in public affairs and has been told that his children are at the easter egg roll this morning. please welcome, douglas showman. [applause] >> thank you for that nice and gracious introduction. it is a pleasure to be here. before i start, i want to thank one person and one group of people -- out want to thank my wife. person and one group of people -- out want to thank my wife. being the irs commissioner, i consider one of the best jobs in the world, i'm not sure being the wife of the irs commissioner is. i'm very appreciative of everything the family does. i also want to welcome a number of the senior executives from the irs, my colleagues, the make

the tax system work every day. i've done a number of stints in the private and public sector. right now, i work with as talented a group of executives as you will find in any business, any government, any non-profit anywhere in the world. my hat's off to my colleagues here as well. it is good to be here in the spring to address the national press club. it's good to see the cherry blossoms. those of you live in d.c., it's good not to see snow at this time of year. one of the things when you walk around, probably on your way over here, you noticed lots of tourists going to museums, going to the mall, going to the easter egg roll. you also see police officers attending to the safety of everyone in washington, park rangers showing people where

they should go, landscapers keeping the city beautiful, and a number of school teachers taking classis around, educating students and teaching them about the capital. one of those things those people have in common is that they are all public servants. they serve their fellow citizens, their neighbors, their family and friends every day. there is another group of public servants you will not see milling around the streets of washington. those are the thousands of irs employees to right now, during this time of year, are answering taxpayer questions over the phone, processing tax returns, is issuing $300 billion in refunds out to the american people, and helping taxpayers during these struggling and tough economic times.