i have been leaving messages. mayor nagin: well, give it to me now. >> if you can come out there and approve it, i will do that. mayor nagin: i will make sure that gets done. >> i will hold you to that. mayor nagin: i know you will. >> leave it here? mayor nagin: yes or. -- yes, sir. >> good evening. i have the utmost respect for you. i am here for a different reason. first of all, i am renting during the time of the flood and i was out of town. when i returned, a lot of things in my house was missing. spent thanksgiving alone, without my family.

i don't want to go through christmas like that. that is my problem. you could say i am here to ask for some help. mayor nagin: what do you need? you have a home you are living in?

my house was flooded when it was not flooded. but my stuff was taken out of the house. >> i don't know if that qualifies for fema assistance. >> they sent me a letter they do not. i cannot get help on that. >> i will teddy what. we will get you your information. the only thing i can think of is there is a fund president clinton has raised some money for. maybe we can help you apply. the money they raised is designed to fill in gaps for helping people. that fema, the city or state or feds cannot help with. maybe. will allow you to get

some assistance. -- maybe that will allow you to get some assistance. if you can give her your information, we will see if we can get you some help. that concludes our town hall meeting. we will see you next time. i have to go to another meeting. you can make that announcement. i'm going to be moving away from the mic. [applause] >> thursday, c-span's coverage of the 10th anniversary of the hurricane katrina continues with highlight of a symposium from earlier this week. the administrator joins residents, officials,, and others as they evaluate recovery in the region. read bring you to -- we bring

that to you at noon eastern. later, president obama meets with residents. live coverage against here on c-span. -- begins here on c-span. coming up, hillary clinton's news briefing from iowa. and then the 2016 presidential campaign. followed by programming marking the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. we will show you the tour of hurricane damage in st. bernard parish and a 2005 town hall meeting in new portland's -- new orleans. >> thursday, a look at the economic publications of lifting sanctions against iran. the panelists consider a new world bank report on the subject.

we have it live starting at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. this sunday night on q and a, brookings institution senior fellow talks about the u.s. counterinsurgency and state building efforts in afghanistan. >> the u.s. did achieve improvements in security. here is where i hesitate and increasingly interrogate myself and question myself. we don't know how it will end. there is a -- it is possible that five years down the road, we will be back in a new civil war in afghanistan. isis is emerging and in the country, a terrifying prospect. much worse than the taliban. the taliban is deeply entrenched. if we end up five years down the

road with a new civil war in afghanistan and safe havens for the taliban and isis, i would say it was not worth the price. >>'s new 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span's q&a. >> i am so thrilled and excited to be here and i want to thank c-span for covering the national book festival. i'm so excited about that. >> one thing to remember about exceptional presidents cannot be said to often. they are the exception. [laughter] >> thank you all for coming today. this is a wonderful event. we are in heaven at this national book festival. >> i am i am a am a youth leaden

sports today, let me see what i can do. >> there was an article from the atlantic showing we had a red blue map. but we do interviewed people, there was not a chasm. it was a little divide. the idea that the country itself is as polarized as washington is just wrong. >> i hope all people will realize whatever they have done in life is something that ought to be recorded and passed on to the next generation. that is the way we learn. we learn for the future by trying to understand the past. all of us have a past. >> when you talked about -- you only focused on saipan. you didn't talk about guam and

tinian. why did you do that? brooks this is a great western that goes to the heart of all the questions. we realized there was no way we could tell the whole story. no way we could be short of an encyclopedia or have a story read like the telephone book. of course the telephone book is not a story. to list and do justiceo everything. >> i think opportunities are open for women now. when i was in law school, there were 13 women. today, the law schools are 50-50. >> the key to understanding what he did is he never liked people who put profit above the public good. his view was that these park and wilderness areas belong to the american people. generations on born. they had to be handed off as places to awaken the spirit.

>> i made a career out of my love for books. to help spread that love, i hope to founder the texas book festival in the national book festival. well i love reading, i never thought i would write a book. certainly not want about myself. >> the goal was in some ways a sense of urgency, to go to the oldest people in our families and find them and get the stories before it is too late. i have had a father and a daughter in los angeles who both came together and after hearing the talk, hearing about the book, the daughter said to the father, i am taking you to the coffee shop now and you are going to tell me the story. >> 30 plus million people added to the health insurance roles. that is going to be quite a change. martin luther king said, the arc

of the universe bends slowly. i think that was a bending towards justice. there are things wrong with the health care bill. but you know what johnson would have said? he said it about the civil rights bill. the important thing is to pass it. once you pass it, it is easier to go back and ask it. >> the narrative is to bring back the dead. it is not just outsized figures like eisenhower's and patents, but others who are less for meyer -- and pattons, but others you are less familiar with. >> there is no big person to go back to. iron bringing -- i am bringing all my guys together and i'm going to write about leadership. that is what i care about under it all. oh, thank you [applause] >> c-span is going to have

questions called in. >> a news conference wednesday in iowa, hillary clinton took questions about her personal e-mails, the possibility of joe biden getting in the race, and the shooting deaths of journalists in virginia. she is joined by a former iowa governor who endorsed her candidacy. this is 15 minutes. >> i have been asked to open this up. i'm happy to do that. we appreciate hillary coming to iowa to this venue to underscore

the importance of rural communities. what she outlined is a bold and comprehensive effort to revitalize and renew the economy important to this country. her e renewable fuel standard as well as the bio-based economy which has enormous potential for job creation is going to play well throughout the rule parts of the country. mrs. clinton: i want to reiterate my appreciation to tom for his endorsement and being here today, but for his leadership on many of the issues i spoke about. i remember coming here when you were governor and talking to you. you were talking to me about wind power and showing me the first windmills going up and how you had focused on the state government, and the businesses

of iowa to see the economic opportunities as well as the clean renewable energy. leadership matters. leadership that produces results and that has a vision, and the follow through to realize the vision. it is a great personal pleasure to be here with tom but it is a professional one because the leadership he provided on the issues i was talking about in my agenda. thank you very much. i think we are to take some questions. hello kathy. reporter: [inaudible] mrs. clinton: you are right. trade is essential for american agriculture. no place knows that better than iowa.

in the overview that i gave, my proposal, i said that we need trade. we need trade that meets the three criteria i have laid out. protects american jobs, it grows the economy, and it advances our national security. that is why i'm focused on looking for how we make trade work for all aspects of our economy. i am well aware of how critical trade is for american agriculture. i will do everything i can to make sure regardless of what trade agreements we have, american farmers get a good shot at new markets and new opportunities. i think we will have some ways of doing that. in my longer description of these policies you can see more about what i mean.

how are you, joe? i have not seen you for a while. reporter: [inaudible] mrs. clinton: let me start by saying vice president biden is a friend of mine. we were colleagues in the senate. i worked with him as first lady. i worked with him in president obama's first term. i have a great deal of admiration and affection for him. i think he has to make what is a very difficult decision for himself and his family.

he should have the space and the opportunity to decide what he wants to do. i'm going to be running for president regardless, and continuing to put forth my policies. i was proud to be a member of president obama's cabinet. i also have ideas where i want to go not just build on what was done but go beyond. i will be laying that out. i always thought this would be a competitive campaign. i don't think anybody should have thought otherwise. i'm going to run as hard as i can to convince as many people as possible to support me and earn all the votes i can in the caucuses and primaries. i have seen no evidence of that but we would have to wait and see what happens if you decided to do it. i'm going to keep running my campaign and doing what i believe is necessary to make the case to the american people.

reporter: [inaudible] mrs. clinton: i know people have raised questions about my e-mail use as secretary of state and i understand why. i get it. here is what i want the american people to know. my use of personal e-mail was allowed by the state department. it clearly wasn't the best choice. i should have used two e-mails, one personal, one for work. i take responsibility for that decision. i want to be as transparent as possible, which is why i turned over 55,000 pages, why i turned over my server. why i have agreed to -- and been

asking to -- to testify in october. i'm confident this process will prove i never sent nor received any e-mail that was marked classified. i'm going to keep talking about what the american people talk to me about. and to lay out my plans for what i would do as president to make the economy work, to make college affordable, to get the cost of drugs down, and get equal pay for women, and the issues that are at the core of the presidential campaign. reporter: have there been any communications between you -- filling you in at all? mrs. clinton: i'm not going to answer that.

i just want the vice president to decide to do what is right for him and his family. i don't think it is useful to be behind the scenes asking this or saying that. i just want him to reach whatever he thinks the right decision is. he has to do that. it has to be a really hard one. i was at his son's funeral. i cannot imagine the grief and the heartbreak. joe has had more terrible events than most people can even contemplate. losing his first wife, his first daughter. now losing his son. he has to do what he has to do.

i'm going to continue with my campaign and do what i believe i should be doing. he will have to decide what he should be doing. reporter: [inaudible] because of your endorsement of secretary clinton, -- [inaudible] tom: i tried today to explain to my friends and my neighbors in iowa why i am here today and endorsing my friend, hillary clinton. it is a personal decision and it is one that i didn't hesitate to make in 2008 and don't hesitate to make today. i know what kind of person she is. i know what kind of leader she would be. she would be an incredible president.

i love joe biden like we all do. he is a wonderful man. everything hillary clinton just said i would echo. this business is -- they call them campaigns for a reason. they are tough. they are hard. choices are difficult. but our friends and neighbors here need to know by think where i stand, where christie stands, and we stand behind hillary, and we will until the last dog dies. [laughter] [inaudible] i did not time this endorsement. this is something secretary clinton and i talked about some time ago candidly. i was on vacation.

hopefully you can see the proof of that. this is the opportunity. mrs. clinton: thank you. reporter: anything about the shooting? mrs. clinton: first of all. i was so stricken to think that these two young people doing the work that you guys do every day would be murdered on live television. and i will extend my condolences and sympathy to their families and coworkers, and pray for the woman who last i checked was still in critical condition. we have to do something about gun violence in america.

i will take it on. there are many people who face it and know it, but then turn away because it is hard. it is a political, difficult issue. i believe we are smart enough, compassionate enough to figure out how to balance the legitimate second amendment rights with preventive measures and control measures so that whatever motivated this murderer, who eventually took his own life, we will not see more death, needless, senseless death. i feel great heartache at what happened, and i want to reiterate how important it is we not let yet another terrible instance go by without trying to do something more to prevent

this incredible killing that is stalking our country. we have so many instances of it but it happens every day, intentional, unintentional, murderers, suicides. it happens every day. if guns were not so readily available, if we had it universal background checks, if we could put some timeout between the person who is upset because he was fired or the domestic of use, or whatever motivation may be working on someone who does this, maybe we could prevent this kind of carnage. i hope that in addition to expressing sympathy to those directly affected, maybe for the

media, public, elected officials, what it hopefully will finally take for us to act. >> florence harding said she had only one hobby and that was warren harding. he was a significant force in her husband's presidency. she would help define the role of the modern first lady. florence harding. on "first ladies," examining the public and private lives of the women who filled the

position. sundays on 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> thursday, a look at the economic implications of lifting sanctions against iran. panelists consider a new world bank report on the subject. we have it live here on c-span. the american bar association holds its annual homeland security conference here in washington dc. topics include immigration, drones, emergency preparedness, and balancing privacy with that security. it is live on c-span two. next, weekly standard founder william kristol on the 2016 presidential campaign to read from washington journal, this is

50 minutes. >> we want to welcome back to the table bill kristol. kristol, the editor of "the weekly standard." we are looking at the latest of move lastmp ar night and what does it do for the party and immigration? so far, the voters are not letting their opinion of donald trump spill over to the rest of the republicans. -- a critic of the is excessive critics of donald trump and people who worry so much about him. there is no evidence that he is furthering the republicans. the matchups and states against hillary clinton and donald trump is not strong for the republicans.

so far, i think the trump campaign has been a bit of a circus i don't think donald trump should be the nominee. he has raises some issues that are usable and is captured a sentiment that is real and the other republicans can learn from him and channel him in a more responsible way. so far, the republicans are doing better in this presidential campaign than the democrats. if you go back six months and ask where they were, they talk about hillary clinton and she has been damaged in the republicans have had crazy campaigns because of donald trump at novick damage. host: you don't buy the headline from "the financial times?" he troubles a lot of party insiders and those who are liberal on immigration. he is troubled by some of the things trump says. they were all troubled in 2014. these were the same people that set up the republican house does not pass immigration reform this

year, republicans are doomed in 2014. they cannot win states like colorado which has a large hispanic population. suddenly the republicans picked up nine senate seats. i don't buy the argument. says "the financial times" -- guest: look at donald trump and if you think he is a representative republican, the average republican -- he is donald trump and republicans are saved by the fact that he is so famous. his brand is unique so no one thinks he speaks as a republican. is it better to be the party

that is concerned about there being so many illegal immigrants are better to be the party that is basically for total amnesty for everyone who has come here? i think it's better to be the first. i don't think the american hugec is on board with legal immigration and unmonitored illegal immigration. think republicans should be anti-latino. they went over the line in the last couple of years and mitt romney said some stupid things. mitt romney could have gotten 40% of the latino vote and still lost the election. it was not key to the election. i have no problem with being more hawkish on immigration. there are better ways to say that the donald trump has. host: what about the weight jeb bush talked about it monday? [video clip] focusing onid i was

a specific targeted kind of case where people are organizing to bring again women into the country where they have children so that children can become citizens. tot is fraud and we need enforce the law. we need to create a more secure border not just at the border but across the spectrum. 40% of the people that come here illegally came on a legal visa. and portion the immigration laws needs to be a high priority. -- put more resources >> how will you refer to these issues? >> give me the name you want me to use and i will use it. guest: i sympathize with jeb bush. there are some people who illegally, cross the border because of their rp