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you can also listen on xmsatellite board, the c-span podcast. this week on prime minister's question, prime minister gordon brown discusses government spending and job loss. also, the unrest by iran following its presidential election. tonight at 9 eastern on c-span. >> now a session on president obama's upcoming trip to russia, the g-eight. the president will address the situation in iran during that cheek-8 meeting and praised ghana as a presidential election during a visit to that country. this is just about an hour. these people of the best in business. >> good morning. as long as we keep our expectations low, we are less likely to be disappointed. while all have been paid -- an advocate to try to improve the russian u.s. relationship, there is a flaw in the logic. we have a new leader, who is president obama, who is ready to adjust some policies from the previous administration. in moscow, we do not have a new leader. we essentially have the same leadership that we had before. to take that further, i don't think we should have any illusions

you can also listen to the program on c-span radio on satellite radio, an online as a c-span podcast. >> on monday, the senate judiciary committee began its confirmation hearings for supreme court nominee sonia sotomayor. coming up, a roundtable discussion about her decisions during her tenure on the federal bench. first, we start with three former clerks about her work ethic, her personality, and what it was like to work for the judge. >> with her confirmation hearings begin to happen monday july 13, we thought we would take this opportunity to talk to folks who know her best, some of her former law clerks. joining us are three of them. her clerk from 2000-2001, when she sat on the second circuit court of appeals. david moskowitz, a desk clerk 2007-2008, and juliet mason, clerk while she was on the district court in 1996. when did you first meet her? >> welcome at the time i met the judge, interviews for clerk ships happened ridiculously early, in your first or second year of law school. i probably met her in thank you for or 95 and have stayed in touch with her ever since -- in 1994

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legendary walker -- walter cronkite, and he literally anchored all those important and usually watched podcasts of the space race, including the famous 1969 broadcast, 40 years ago today, of man landing on the moon. >> the third round is executing a maneuver to make him and everyone in it temporarily weightless. what are the hazards, and water scientists doing to ensure man's survival in the hostile environment of outer space. >> i do not know any word for this except each right ones -- tension is mounting here at cape canaveral. >>oh, boy. boy. wally, say something, i am speechless. an american, standing on the surface of the men. >> a private service for walter cronkite is set later this week. a public ceremony is planned in a few weeks. he died on friday at 92 years old. stillstil fios guy! where ya headed? ah, just installed fios in the whole building. now everyone has the fastest upload speeds. and we're giving them a mini netbook. well, i'm sticking with cable. so's ted. (voice) no i'm not! he's just goofing. (voice) no i'm not! (sighing) ted has betrayed me. (announcer) unlike cable, fio

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you can also listen on xm satellite retial or download the podcast. >> host: chaim john dinges talking with eduardo galeano and we are talking about his book, "mirrors." eduardo is particularly important in latin america because he has captured the long history of repression and exploitation, immigration and conquests and has done this in a number of books and that wasn't enough just to talk about latin america. he is now taking on the history of the world with this new book, "mirrors." i wanted as we broke we were talking about your way of putting fees' together. one of the people i guess it was an interview that i read in which you were talking about your way of writing and you used the word -- which is the feeling thinking. >> guest: feel thinking. it is a language, a feeling thinking language able to express the mind and heart. >> host: how do you collect your stories so that you actually have those vignettes of 30 or 40 lines? >> guest: well, trying to unite a part of ourselves, the mind and the heart and the horrors and the marvels of life because if i would be just a writer writ

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you can also download the c-span podcast. >> "washington journal" continues. host: the deputy director of the state fiscal project of the center on budget and policy priorities. thank you for being here. >> thank you. >host: what is at the heart of most of this? guest: the heart of it is the national recession. unlike the federal government, states can not print money or run deficits. if the programs they provide for people are funded by tax revenues. in a recession, people purchase less and sales tax revenues go down. people make less money or lose their jobs, income tax revenue goes down. if states are seeing the largest declines in tax revenues since they can remember. you have to go back to the great depression to see this. it's happening in republican and democrat states. the resources they need have dried up. the irony of that is it is happening just as the recession is driving up people's needs. they need government services more than ever. >> when a state make a decision to increase its sales tax by 1.5% or more, do they work against themselves, becaus

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