host: we are talking to paul sullivan an adjunct professor of security studies at georgetown university and also teaches at the national defense university. ventura, calif., on our line for independents. caller: good morning, c-span and good morning, mr. sullivan. i have a [unintelligible] that seems to be going on in the middle east. how much has social media and the availability of information for the younger generations coming up -- that seems to be the pushing force behind all this. state newspapers, blah, blah, blah. what is the energy? are they going to be able to maintain the energy? i see all the young people who are causing all of these changes. don't you think it is important from a policy perspective to reach out to these people? especially the youth because this is happening and all the middle east nations. host: ralph, thank you for the call. guest: that is a super question. satellite tv started this thing off before the internet and facebook twitter and all that. people started to see what people's lives were like outside of their own countries. i ran tried to ban satellit

host: we are talking to paul sullivan an adjunct professor of security studies at georgetown university and also teaches at the national defense university. ventura, calif., on our line for independents. caller: good morning, c-span and good morning, mr. sullivan. i have a [unintelligible] that seems to be going on in the middle east. how much has social media and the availability of information for the younger generations coming up -- that seems to be the pushing force behind all this. state newspapers, blah, blah, blah. what is the energy? are they going to be able to maintain the energy? i see all the young people who are causing all of these changes. don't you think it is important from a policy perspective to reach out to these people? especially the youth because this is happening and all the middle east nations. host: ralph, thank you for the call. guest: that is a super question. satellite tv started this thing off before the internet and facebook twitter and all that. people started to see what people's lives were like outside of their own countries. i ran tried to ban satellit

tomorrow, paul sullivan examines relationships between the united states and libya on the diplomaticne. shawmut arnold discusses the effect of radiation and what they considered standard levels of it. it is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. the u.s. has increased contact with libyan opposition forces. he said the opposition is "off to a good start. u.s. knowledge of him except the opposition is limited. his remarks are about 25 minutes. it is friday in the house. good afternoon. welcome to the state department. it is our good fortune to have with this our ambassador to libya. we will introduce you to some of the current events coming in libya. >> thank you. >> good afternoon. and the u.s. ambassador to libya. have resided there until 2010. you know the circumstances to which i left. i'm not here to discuss the circumstances. and here to discuss what the partners are doing. to stop the blood chilled -- the bloodshed. my team was evacuated on february 23 and has been reconstituted in washington. it is more difficult to get the in the nation we would like. let's discuss how we got he

we'll have music from quinn sullivan and jake gyllenhaal, too. on thursday, paulknow, music from oh land and penelope cruz will be here. join us for that. our first guest tonight is an actor, an author and occasionally a forecaster. you know him as dwight on "the office." you can see him fighting crime as the crimson bolt in the new movie "super." it opens april 1st. please say hello to rainn wilson. [ cheers and applause ] >> jimmy: how's it going? good to see you. >> nice to see you. >> jimmy: i saw your movie and i enjoyed it. we'll talk about that in a minute. i want to talk to you about seattle. you're from -- >> you lived there? >> jimmy: i did, for a year. >> were you a dj there? >> jimmy: i was. i worked at kzok. >> seattle's best rock. >> jimmy: yeah. i think kisw was seattle's best rock. >> kisw, seattle's best rock. >> jimmy: we were seattle's mediocre rock. >> you played a lot of yes. >> jimmy: we weren't -- >> the endless organ solos. >> jimmy: when we get a yes record, it was like, whoa, we got new stuff here. >> "owner of a lonely heart" just came i

paul iacono -- hey, he's got your last name. penelope cruz, and music from oh land and quinn sullivan.my cousin sal. >> hi, everyone. >> jimmy: sal, how is the -- how's the office pool going, the ncaa office pool. >> it's not good. well, i'm running it. i think this is the last year because our executive producer jo is winning. she's killing everybody and she doesn't know anything about basketball. >> jimmy: she really doesn't. >> if a basketball rolled into her office she'd call the exterminator. i really -- she wouldn't know. i said to her, jill, you don't know anything about basketball. it would be nice if you won, donate the money to charity and she's like, i'd like to do that, but i need a tenth pair of $750 tory burch thigh-high leather boots. >> jimmy: how selfish. well, some people only think of themselves. >> what's with your hair? >> jimmy: don't worry about it. i'm just happy it's still there. oh, yesterday was the 26th running of the l.a. marathon. tens of thousands of malnourished men and women hoof here in l.a. and as he is every year, my cousin sal was there to make a ba