few years of that war, we mind haiphong harbor. when we mined haiphong harbor, we put sea mines there. so my father who was essentially building defensive weapons, his weapon was being used offensively. he decided at that point in time that in all good conscious, he could not stay at his job. at the age of 55, he retired. that's my agent. i will have to go now. there are big things on my horizon. his retirement had a profound effect on me because i had never seen anybody, and i've seen few people in my life make a choice

out of conscious. i've read about people and my father did it all stop and it was an extraordinary thing to do, to do it at a time in which i am in my last year of school, of college. my brother is in his first year of college, and he's going to walk away and i'm going there's the cash going to come from? he walked away and became an artist and went ahead and did what he wanted to do, probably from the very beginning of his life, which was to do art. but you don't come out of the depression and go i'm going to paint. unless it was a house.

it really affected choices that i made during my life. you choose what is you want to do. he was a much happier person after that. he started in stained glass and that was becoming too much and he said he could not get as much done and he studied acting. at the age of 83, he retired as a painter. at which point i said why are you quitting? and this is the greatest thing i've ever heard any artist say and the most honest -- i've run out of ideas. and my mother would yell and scream about anything she found appalling. apparently there was a lot. between the two of them, i was given a sense of conscience, at

least for myself. one of the most important lessons of my life -- do what it is you want to do. whenever i'm asked by kids what is your best advice to young person, do what you want to do. everything will fall into place. don't worry about money. and you don't worry about money. it's the last thing you worry about. you worry about your satisfaction is a human being. my parents lived on a very frugal budget. it was really irritating to me. i had no really proper vacations as a child. you would not believe some of the places we ended up. even a would arrive there and go holy god it looked better in the magazine. [laughter] as a result, they have survived

and survived well. they are 96 and 95. [applause] my father has the same health insurance as the members of congress do. the same health insurance was given to my dad. as a result, they've been able to live nicely, not over-the-top. one of the things someone said, something i thought was one of the great angst about my youth will stop i had no sense nor did i care i wasn't rich. we lived next to a rich neighborhood in the building for bigger and they had nicer lawns, but i didn't care.

i couldn't imagine they had more than i did, except vacations. i know they had better vacations. between them, just two pieces together in a quilt -- the three things that had an effect on the way i look at life that was outside of me, and the reason i think i ended up feeling the democrats and republicans really didn't work for me and that i did leave, that i did feel socialism was the way i felt about things, part of the reason i believe in socialism is because of you are going to have a christian philosophy, if that is the asis for the country you live in, and it is a christian philosophy and i know this because i'm a jew, that you

might want socialism because what it is is enforced christianity. you put your money where your mouth is and shut up. we're not going to wait on you to help the poor. you're going to help the poor, like it or not. toughski shitski. three things had an effect on the and my folks. one is edward armour wrote's documentary. i had no concept of this. i was 12 years old and lived a really sheltered life in a really nice community. all of the sudden, i'm looking at the people who are the ones picking the food and gathering it and getting it to market and they are living in squalor and they are not getting paid for it. and i'm going there is something wrong with this picture. that makes no sense. then i was born and raised at a

time -- here is another sidebar. when you take a look at this city and they talk about downsizing the federal government, because that's the most important thing that possibly has to happen is to make government smaller. you're going to make government smaller, watch what happens to washington dc. why do you think it's out there? what do you think the motor is behind all of those restaurants? it's the government. it's the federal government. the federal government combined with all the lobbyists coming in -- do you think it is tourists? are you out of your goddamned mind? when i was a kid and was smaller, this did not exist. you had a woodward and lower -- hoo ha.

you had small downtown area and behind the capital were the worst slums in the united states will stop the worst. i know this because the washington post every two years when i was a kid would show a photo of the capital and it would be a big photo and behind it there would just be slum after slum after slum. that had a profound effect on me. then my mother -- i don't know if she did it consciously or didn't want to leave me alone in the house because she knew i might earn it down. we had a housekeeper who would come once a week and she would drive her home into the slums of washington. it did not compute for me why she had to live like that and we could live like this or why the people -- how congressman could sit there and see that and watch that and nothing would change.

so i believe, in part, the great society came into being in part because of lyndon johnson sitting there. anybody with half a whit of sense looking out that window would have to think maybe we should do something. you were looking at one of the last people that worked in an anti-poverty agency. in washington dc. these are words -- i know try to comprehend this -- an anti-poverty agency will stop the mind reels. imagine that all stop an agency of the federal government which would hopefully try to change poverty, not by saying -- and this was the appalachian regional commission -- due to some sort of mistake in my civil service application under the nixon administration, i got through and i got a job there.

they were going to raise up -- they did some good things for appalachia, but the idea that was basically proposed in terms of raising the capital in appalachia and improve the living of the citizens there was to build golf courses. once again.

i expected a better laugh. because it's true. i didn't make it up. golf courses. they were going to build 16 golf courses there and make appalachia a place you would take a vacation. my family wouldn't, but others would go and i was stunned by this. it was amazing to me that attempt was made in some fashion or another as opposed to hoping and praying that an entrepreneur shows up on the scene. if i hear another thing about entrepreneurs and the fact that what we really need are more entrepreneurs, how do you think that happens, asshole? how does an entrepreneur happen? it's some schmuck has a learning disorder that's totally focused

on something you would never obsess about. it's hard to find them. you don't have a school. there's one in chapel hill and i've told the guy who runs it that he's full of it. and entrepreneurship school. you can teach somebody who has an idea what to do with the idea. but to say it all going to be done from the private sector is psychotic. what truly irritates me about this town more than anything else is how simple it is.

it's that simple. you look your the private sector needs, you look at the government should do in terms of facilitating it and you've got two parties, both have a different ideology and if you come to a compromise between those two parties, you actually have a solution. this is nonsense, to watch the fact that jobs are not being created. just the beltway alone was old by idiots and it continues to be just a piece of shit. [applause] and you live with it. you live with it. there are ways to get things done. these people actually have to sit down and do it and the fact that you live here, your job should be, you should quit your jobs and just go and stand around congress and say you're not coming out until some shit gets done. is that 25 minutes? [laughter] [applause] mom, you want to stand up? here are my folks. [applause]

that was actually -- she did that on her own. she's a trained gymnast. >> how is the first doing in our country? >> i'm doing pretty fucking good with it. [laughter] >> do you get more material from republicans or democrats? >> they are equal opportunity. now i get a little more from the republicans than normal. it usually depends -- the interesting thing is when bush

left office, a constant thing wasn't what are you going to do now? i said just because bush left office it doesn't mean stupidity fled the country. so i always look to both sides. the difference between them is the republicans say really kind of stupid wings from time to time. stupid, i'm sorry, is funny. when you hear something stupid, you laugh. democrats are dumb. when you hear something dumb you just go why did you say that? [laughter] >> are you disappointed with president obama either as president or as a source for comic material? >> i'm not as disappointed with president obama because i never bought into hope. [laughter]

i'm at the age where hope just doesn't work for me. hope is a young man's game. i wasn't disappointed because i did not expect anyone who took the presidency after the eight years we had gone through and the war that we went through that the next president was going to be dealing with the country as if -- and i certainly didn't know the shit would hit the fan in terms of the economy. but dealing with the american people would be like dealing with a stroke victim. the best entertained president could hope for was to get the country to raise its right hand. >> which leads me to the next question. who would you like to see as president and why? >> in terms of material? nothing would give me a greater pleasure than ted cruz and sarah palin. it would be a heinous time to live through, but i think i could sell out stadiums. [laughter] [applause] >> what advice would you give to hillary clinton regarding how she could win the presidency? >> i'm sure she will be

listening to this listening to this. when you are looking to political advice, you really want to turn to me. i think one thing that would help as geoeye for a while. get out of the public view and then pop out again and then we go oh, that's right, she's going to run. there just comes that cycle, over and over and over again.

by the time she's going to run, you go she just irritates the shit out of me. it's not that she's irritating, i've just seen her too much. where is deputy dog? >> chris christie wants to be president. what advice would you give him? >> lose 80 pounds. ha ha ha. seriously. or wear spanx. i like that kind of shoot from the hip style. it's nice, but you are going to have to make some tracks because your shoot from the hip style had an effect on what happened in terms of the george washington bridge incident. it may be good for you, but it's like i can have the folks -- i have a number of people who work for me.

who i am, the personality yakking and stuff, i can have people working for me acting like me. [laughter] >> when cbs hired stephen colbert last week to replace david letterman, rush limbaugh said "cbs has just declared war on the heartland of america. no longer is comedy going to be a covert assault on traditional american values will stop now it's just white out in the open." what is your take on what mr. limbaugh said? >> that's the kind of sentence that is stroke inducing. i go through that paragraph and about halfway through, there's a slight twitch of the i and i can feel it blood vessel beginning to pump too much will stop he's

an idiot. he is really just a mean-spirited prick. an assault on america -- let me see that. [laughter] comedy -- here is how big an assault it is going to be on american values. stephen colbert has five children, happily married, has a great family, was still hanging in with the catholic church when people were fleeing en masse. he doesn't know shit. >> what is it like to work with jon stewart. >> you should ask jon what it's like to work with me. he's great. he's smart.

i've known him since we were both breaking into the clubs and he took off really quickly and i've watched his career. we have been friends in the sense of office friends. we don't hang out, but we respect what each other does and i consider it a pleasure to work with them. he is brilliant, which is really irritating. >> what is your thought on colbert replacing letterman? should stewart have been considered? >> i will ask jon. i don't even know if he was considered. i don't know if he would have taken it. jon directed a movie recently and he writes. he's written a book -- i think jon is looking around for things.

i think if the movie went well, he may end up with that. but stephen is kind of born to it. the choice of stephen colbert, i wrote to him every so often they get it right. that's one of the few times i went that's right. >> is your father a better painter than george w. bush? >> my father, if you actually watch, one of the things i neglected to mention, i did two specials and one of them we literally took a painting of his and turned it into a three-dimensional set that i worked on.

the last one, which is on may 2, which i use a lot more profanity for those of you who panicked over those words. we use a full-scale painting of his that we blew up. he's a much better painter. he is a hard edged obstructionist. go home and look that up. i still don't know what the fuck it means. this is how i know he is good -- when he started bringing the stuff home, i started saying my father has lost his mind will stop these squares and rectangles and all different colors. who is your favorite artist, i asked. mondrian. you know who that is? he made squares of colors. what kind of painter is that. nobody new color better than him. it was brilliant. after studying his paintings for 25 years, he's brilliant. >> how do you respond to critics who say you've destroyed their will to live in our society? [laughter]

>> i would like to meet them. if i've destroyed anybody's will to live in our society, maybe life wasn't for you. [laughter] >> do you think we should charge people for health care by the pound? >> oh, boy, a bad question. right now, considering what i way, yes. with what i weigh, it would work out pretty well. i don't think we should do that. no. not by the pound. i only said that because there

were so many sad people in the audience. >> at your passover seder -- [laughter] at your passover seder, are you the wise son, the bad son, or the sun who is unable to inquire? >> i'm the son who didn't make it home. if you know the seder, you know they put out a cup of wine for elijah and there's a seat for elijah and he never shows up. i'm elijah. >> elijah leads people to the messiah. >> i'm out looking. [laughter] he's not at the target.

>> donald trump will be at this dais soon. >> no. >> may 27. >> i've got to see him. >> what would you say to him? >> i would say to donald trump -- i did a thing on donald trump about three years ago on the daily show. seriously, i can or member when it was, but it wasn't nice to stop it was funny. that's what i would say to you is next. about having him here. i got a call from his secretary and says donald trump wants to talk to you after i did this thing, the next day. i was really busy and my parents were coming to town.

i was like -- i got my assistant to call his assistant and say i'm a busy man. and i'm thinking -- then he called the next day. and i say are you shitting me? i'm a comic and have too much to do. you're an entrepreneur, how can you have time? so i say don't call me again. is he coming here -- is he going to speak? no. i don't think -- he has had his time. once he got through -- when he kept with the birther thing, its self advertising. you are allowing self advertising. i did not bring my cds here today. [applause]

>> should the redskins change their name? >> yes. i think they should. [applause] i was born and raised -- how sad applause was that? everybody also still on the fence. i don't know. maybe when we get home we will maybe when we get home we will talk about it. what's interesting is you are born and raised here and have been a redskins fan all my life. it's not got any connotation to me at all. it doesn't mean anything. it really means nothing to me. it's just a name. i see it on the helmet and it's just been there for so long. but in terms of the reality of

things, everybody in the room knows if it was the washington jewie jews, people would say we are going to have to change that. i don't like what dan snyder has done with team on any level whatsoever and he's one of the most irritating years i've watched in sports. year after year after year, let's pay $100 million for somebody who's just going to lie down on the bench for three hours. let's get stephen spurrier -- are you kidding me? i knew stephen spurrier was not going to be a good football coach, what the hell do you have for brains? then daniel snyder said he was going to keep the redskins name and since that's what he wants, i'm dead set against it. [applause] >> should anthony weiner change his name?

>> no. i used to do a joke about anthony weiner -- if you didn't have your own joke, you really need to see a doctor. anthony weiner is one of the few people -- somebody shames himself in public and the something awful and then go away for three or four years and they come back and everybody is like what did he do, i'd are member, he looks better now and seems nicer and much more christian than he was before. but you usually leave for that amount of time. he didn't. i believe anthony weiner could leave forever and it would make no difference. he could leave for 10 years and when he comes back and you see that knows, you just go there he is again. it's not his name. >> how did you rate eric holder's asked age impression of you? >> eric holder did a really great impression of me.

i'm actually thinking of having him do my next two performances. just to see if my audience even notices. >> what really makes you mad? >> kind of what i was talking about earlier, i think. stupidity really makes me mad. like you see the words legitimate rape. that sends me around the bend. i don't even come back for a day, i'm like a barking dog. how do you even -- or that thing when somebody says something like when you are raped, the

woman will reject -- you just know wow, when did they stop teaching science? that stuff really. what really makes me mad is our educational system is 17th in the world and i think in the course of my lifetime, my generation, to its credit took the greatest education system in america and got it to 17th. i think we can get it to the 25th by the time i drop dead. >> did you always set up to be a >> did you always set up to be a comedian or satirist? >> i set out to work in the american theater. my parents would take me to see plays at what was initially the shubert theater, where they would bring in shows, so i got to see all of these -- i saw shows before they would go into new york and then that got me

intrigued. we would go to new york and they would take me to shows and then my father got tired of seeing mainstream stuff so he takes me at the age of 15 emily go down to the washington theater club which was the first initial real step forward. they were doing stuff by beckett and he's taking a 15-year-old down there. it was great stuff, so i got hooked on it. then i wrote plays. that's where i thought i would be. i thought i would be a playwright. then i discovered the fastest way your play could be read as if you actually took your play and put it in a bottle and then if you threw it in the potomac river, eventually someone would find it. i was pretty sure once they got

to play out of the bottle, they would read it. >> what do you do for fun? >> i call my parents and pretend i'm somebody else. to keep them on their toes. for fun, i try to read a bit. when i'm in new york, i try to spend as much time with my friends as i can and if i get a chance to go to a show or watch somebody else work, that's always thrilling. and i play golf, i wouldn't call it fun, but your brain doesn't think about anything but stupid things.

what is that joke going to be and are you going to talk about that today. i've got your member when i swing, i have to river to breathe in through my ass. >> aside from your mother and father, who inspired you as a youth? >> once again, my friends were all interesting. interesting people. they were at the time and they were all really funny. here is one for you -- my

parents were really great. in my youth, they did not really do anything. it's not like they hovered over me. where are you going now? i would come home and my mother would say it's nice to see you, now go away. go play with people. she did not track down who i was playing with and stuff. as a result, i was able to get, unbeknownst to them, and i don't know why they never looked at it. my mother will say i'm lying afterwards, but i got a thing called the realist written by somebody named paul krasner. it came like it was pornography. it was in a brown folder thing and they would not open it. i would grab it and open it up and it had a huge effect on me. i was 14 or 15. i won't repeat what is it all stop i've written about it in my book. one of the things he had is i opened up the second issue i got and there was -- i'm 15 or 16, and there's all the disney characters done by a guy from disney, an artist, and they are all doing the most perverse things you can imagine. mickey is shooting up. at first, you go -- for somebody who is born and raised on davy crockett, this put everything

into perspective. martin luther king, the marx brothers, john kennedy in the sense -- when you are a kid, you look at them and it's like he's great and you actually want to hear what he has to say. that was extraordinary. all of those people, fulbright, wayne morris, i have an endless list. carlin, bruce, all of them, bob newhart.

there are others. you can go to my website. >> that was the penultimate question and thank you for the expansive answer. we are almost out of time, but before i ask you the last question, we have a couple of housekeeping matters to take care of. first of all, i would like to remind everybody that there are some upcoming events that we already mentioned. but first, on april 21, next monday, debra hershman, the outgoing chairman of the national transportation safety board will give her farewell address at a national press club breakfast. on april 23, the u.s. air force chief of staff come in general mark welsch will discuss the future of your forced. on may 27 them as we revealed a

few minutes ago, donald trump, president of the trump organization will speak at a luncheon, just like our guest today. next, i would like to present our guest with the traditional national press club mug. >> i'm going to sell it to my parents. [laughter] >> i'm going to arrange that we give a mug to your parents. so don't leave without it. we will arrange to mugs for your parents. the last question. let's presume that jon stewart is watching here on c-span. please explain to him why he should speak at a national press club luncheon all stop lexi won't do it? >> maybe he will take advice from you. >> jon, lewis here. you are really do want to do this. the pay is unbelievable. to think i've been here an hour

and i'm getting $150,000. i had access to a really nice condo downtown right across from the verizon center. free tickets to the caps and wizard games and every meal was, by the press club. a give you a credit card, just take it. you really want to do it. you should do it because you will get a kick out of this. you really will. if you do do it, i need 10%. [applause] >> thank you so much for coming today. we have three minutes. >> this is going to be really fast. >> this is going to be really fast. i really appreciate this. it's a privilege to speak here.

i didn't know who i would be speaking to. i don't know who you are or why you showed up all stop what i was honored to be here and also i just wanted you to know, the only other thing i want to mention is, and i mean this, i did three uso tour's and there is a big bill coming from the military. we have a lot to pay for for that war in terms of what those folks went through. you are going to have to pony up. no if's, and, or butts about it. a lot of attention has to be paid to these people. i spent a lot of time with them and their sacrifices are unbelievable. if every american had 10% of the sacrifice of those in the military, we have no problems in this country today. thanks. [applause] >> thank you. thank you all for coming today.

thank you for watching on c-span and tuning in. i would also like to thank the national has club staff, including the institute and broadcast center for organizing today's event. if you would like to get a copy of today's program and there will probably be a lot of requests for copies of today's program, or to get more information about the national press club, please check out our website. thank you. we are adjourned. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013]

and 15 marks the one-year anniversary of the boston marathon bombing. tvight an event with former news producer casey sherman and former boston herald investigative reporter david wedge this cussing their book about the attack. here is a look. the day of the bombing the richards family had is as -- had a decision to make, they could either go to the marathon or go hiking. they chose the marathon. when they were in the position when the first bomb went off, bill richard, he knew it was a

bomb. of spectators and first responders thought it could have been a transformer fire, i can and used as part of the of the manhole fire as well. he knew it was obama and new had to get his family away from there as quickly as possible. so bill richard jumped the barricade and got onto boylston street because he thought his family would be much safer on the street from the sidelines. >> they were at the second bombing. they heard the first one and bill reached over the fence and grabbed henry, the oldest boy. >> he was directly in front of will. as he was pulling him to safety, he reaches to his next child, probably martin, when the bomb went off. we have learned the bombing suspect had chosen that family,

targeted that family. there is an fbi surveillance film that shows encasing the family going back and forth behind them before he dropped the back back. out ofyou rip the heart america, you choose an all-american family. that is what he did. was still alive after the bombing for a few seconds. the only words he ever uttered were where is jane? jane is his younger sister. was almost torn apart. she lost her leg. her life was saved by first responders. their mother suffered severe injuries to her i and other body.of her one of the things we found out in the course of writing the book was that the day of the bodyng as martin richard's

remained on boylston street because it was part of the crime scene and the fbi would not remove it, his body was lying under a sheet. the boston police were outraged. off theted the victims street. they wanted the victims reunited with their family wherever they were. one boston police officers that i will not leave this kid. not tonight. i will stay with him, and i want his parents should know he was never left alone. those of the stories we have learned over the past year. they still choke us up. it is incredible. what so many people did in the wake of the unpredictable tragedy. >> you can see casey sherman and dave wedge discuss their book tonight starting at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. while the senate is

in recess, c-span2 features book tv in prime time. tonight a look at books on human intelligence. , ast, elizabeth colbert natural history. james barrett discusses his book . >> edison was a plant scientists , as well as the other sciences. did noty is he knew it freeze in fort myers. a lot of the interests were based on his love of plants.

the 1920's, the united states was relying on foreign rubber. we were headed into war. --that point latest i did they decided the plant material and process should be done in this country. they were traveling all over the world. of thousandsreds of people collecting for lance and sending them back here to fort myers to his laboratory to find a source of plant material that could produce rubber efficiently, effectively, commercially. the laboratory was put here for that reason. they could grow them here and do preliminary research. a really exciting project. at that point in american history there was no patent process for plants, chemical patenting. part of the reason why this lab

was so important is it was caused the u.s. government to come forward with what was called the u.s. patent law. and then said if you invented something with plants and was a process that was worthy, it was issue of cap. >> this weekend, book tv and american history tv look at the history and literary life of fort myers, florida, including a stop at the research library saturday at noon eastern. for over 35 years, c-span brings public affairs event from washington to you. offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house. we are c-span, created by the

cable to the industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service as a cable or satellite provider. like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. month, c-span is pleased to present the winning entries in this year student cam documentary competition. student cam is the annual competition that encourages middle and high school students to think critically about issues. winning documentaries were based on the question, what is the most important issue the u.s. congress should consider in 2014. he believes congress should make education their most important issue. >> i want to be a ballerina teacher. -- grow up.rral up

>> many of us are introduced to the american dream, the idea of hard work and the right education, we can't become anything we want to be. even as the schools have generally been improving, reform efforts have been anything but equal. our students are not keeping up with the wealthier peers. to reverse the trends, america obviously has to deal with broader economic and social questions. >> we cannot use the brutal reality of poverty to avoid responsibility for educating children at risk and helping them beat the odds of thousands and thousands do year after year after year. >> recapturing the american dream truly begins with education. weekday, students at troy high, one of the best schools in the nation, finished the course work and go on to enjoy a

variety of opportunities. >> it is successful because of the culture of the city, the school. a culture of high expectations and excellence. it relies in staffing. we have made a concerted effort over the time i have been in the hiring quality staff. >> our success shows education in america is fundamentally not flawed at all. our success shows the system worked when it is properly supported. >> the current state of education in america is dependent upon where you live. in communities that are traditionally more underserved, the education system is lacking in a lot of capacity. kids in classrooms here are in elementary rooms full of 40-45 kids. their peers and more affluent atmunities are in classrooms

20-25 students typically within aid and other specialized programs. >> this in it total evidence disparitye start between an american schools and indicative of the achievement gap, a term that refers to the lapse in learning. research in data not only support the existence of such a gap but shows the extent to which many of our schools are failing. >> your income level plays a larger role in your academic achievement than your race. what the stanford center for education did is they looked at standardized tests and stall the test scores between affluent and low income students has grown by 40% since the 1960's. >> the gap between poor kits and wealthy kids is now nearly twice what it is between the white kids in black kids. >> 90% of kids from the highest income group complete high school. almost a given.

less than two thirds, only 63% of those that come from the lowest economic quartile do. >> the education department. many poor public schools do not pay as much as wealthier schools just a few miles away. >> there is a huge inequity districts andier high poverty areas that no other advanced nation tolerates. >> thing about what that does. what this means for the lives of those trying to escape poverty. this is not the american dream. should behe family able to elevate itself, lift itself up out of the terrible situation through the public education system. you can go on to do anything you want. education is anybody's ticket to

success in this country. we need to make sure it is always that way. we need to provide the tools for the students to use in our country to always have the opportunity. that is the root of the american dream. >> frustrating to know i can do all of these things, and i can, and people think that people, the children in the schools are stupid. because of what they see on television. that is not true. we want to learn. able to do with the other children are doing and have the same opportunities but they keep taking them away from us. schools that should have been productive schools. schools that have decided to do something. failing system you create dummies. you create kids that do not want

to do anything. >> no matter how you look at it, the idea of educational inequality is the dire truth. what shall he do about it you go >> we need to listen to educators. >> we must somehow have highly qualified teachers everywhere. how do we get there? we have to have all to get there. >> i would really hope they with title ie support. the more we can address all of this of the elementary level we will have less intervention and discipline bob owns unless problem's in middle and high school. >> congress needs to look at and evaluate how they will fund out of school programming. >> programs on the weekend, sundays. >> this is our money.

>> as we have seen, there are countless potential solutions to the education congress -- providing a hike quality education for all children because we, the youth of america are the future. >> our children only have one chance to get a great education. they cannot wait for poverty to disappear. for their parents, education is of poverty.t they do not want to waste a minute. they are chasing the american dream with everything they have. we have to help them get their. we all share that responsibility. >> to watch all of the winning videos and learn more about the competition, go to www.c-span.org and click on student can. tell us about what you think of the issues this student wants congress to consider.

>> today, former treasury secretary henry paulson and president obama's former -- former asia adviser discussed china's economy and the role as the second-largest economy. you can see this event live starting at 9:00 eastern on c-span two. >> there is an old saying that victory has 100 fathers and defeat is not often. inould not be surprised regard to the recent activity. senator goldwater asked questions about the use of the and the carrier essex with the markings painted out. we figured someone over there has told