colson wants me to break into the brookings institute and firebomb the brookings institute. he said the president is convinced there is a copy of the pentagon papers in the brookings institute and what we should do is send a team in there and explode the place and when the fire company comes, we can send someone into crack the safe and get these papers out. i said this is insane. he said i am troubled by it, too. i said don't do anything. the president, john ehrlichman bob haldeman are all in san clemente. i called john and i said i have something we should talk about eye to eye, person to person. i jumped on the next courier flight and flew to california. i met with him the next morning and he said, what's troubling you? i told him what caulfield had done in by then i had pulled dc code and learned it's a capital offense the district of columbia anybody dies as a result of arson. i said i cannot believe the white house would risk having involved in a capital offense or would get involved in this kind of insanity. i just went on and ticked up all the reasons this was absurd.

. >> martin o'malley spoke at the brookings institution yesterday brookings institution yesterday about how to use statistics to make decisions and measure government performance while he was governor of maryland and before that as mayor of baltimore. he is considering seeking the democratic nomination for president in 2016. the former governor was asked about hillary clinton's use of a personal e-mail account while she was secretary of state. >> good morning everyone. it's my pleasure to welcome governor martin o'malley to the center for effective public management here in brookings governance studies program. one of the critical problems that we analyze in our work is how to make government work better for the middle class the average american and for everyone. martin o'malley has been a trailblazer in doing that as governor of maryland for two terms from 2,722,015 and before that serving two terms as mayor of baltimore. under his leadership as governor, maryland recovered 100% of the jobs lost during the great recession was one of just seven states to maintain a aaa bond rating and t

. >> set now is benjamin wittes the senior fellow at brookings institution to talk about the isis war authorization. this debate over war powers. let's begin with the history here. why have president's gone to congress to ask for authorization to fight a war or to fight terrorists in this instance, where cher the command -- when they are the commander-in-chief. >> so congress gives the president the power to declare so the war powers are shared between the president and congress. it makes as you say, the president the commander-in-chief. but the decision to go to war is a shared decision. over the years, since world war ii really the declaration of war in the formal sense has kind of lapsed. we don't use them in international affairs any more. and what is left of it is the authorization to use force which is a domestic law permissioned by congress to invoke the war powers of the presidency. in the '70s, congress passed the war powers resolution which was an attempt to regulate the circumstances in which the president had to ask for an authorization. it has been a document of, shall we

. >> former maryland governor martin o'malley was at the brookings institution to discuss his use of data-driven decisions as governor. he has been mentioned as a potential presidential candidate in 2016. this event is part of c-span's road to the white house coverage. >> good morning. it is my pleasure to welcome governor martin o'malley. here in the brookings governance studies program. one of the critical problems we analyze is how to make government work better for the middle class, for average americans, and for everyone. martin j. o'malley has been a trailblazer in doing that as governor of maryland from 2007-2015. and before that in serving twp terms as mayor of baltimore. under his leadership as governor, maryland recovered 100% of the jobs lost during the great recession. it was one of just seven states to maintain a aaa bond rating. the college board organization named maryland one of the top states in the nation in holding down the cost of college tuition. the state also had the best public schools in america for five years in a row. governor o'malley compiled a similarly

we also have a fellow from the center of middle east politics at the brookings institution. i want to start with you, wolf. when benjamin netanyahu began his speech he said that the united states and israel's alliance is stronger than ever. i want to play a bit of that sound and then ask you a question after. let's listen. >> reports of the demise of the israeli/u.s. relations is not only premature, they're just wrong. [ applause ] you're here to tell the world that our alliance is stronger than ever. >> wolf i got to tell you, as i listened to the rest of his speech i got the feeling that benjamin netanyahu doesn't really believe that. what did you take away from that? >> he clearly disagrees with the president of the united states on these negotiations with iran to try to end its nuclear program. he made it clear. he thanked the president for economic support, military support, intelligence support. he said there were certain things that the united states has done for israel. he couldn't even talk about publicly. he went out of his way to underline that supports comes not

he is at the brookings institution. was it useful for netanyahu to come and address congress? >> it was useful for his real election campaign katty:. this week, he is trailing in the polls behind his main rival and he has a problem with the president of the united states. normally the israeli voters do not like that. it was streamed to israel that congress has our back and i know how to talk to congress. everything will be all right. katty: what about the context of the reason he is tentatively came for, the negotiations with iran. >> i think he is concerned and he has a legitimate case that he made forcefully and effectively about the intentions towards israel that they do not hide. they have been hegemonic in intentions. katty: the way he did at this juncture, was that useful? >> it was designed to undermine negotiations and, in effect, torpedoed them, using the congress. he made it clear that this was a bad deal that should be done away with. in that sense, it creates a crisis in the relations with the administration as they tried to -- as they tried to negotiatey to negoti

unfortunately unfortunately it was portrayed as the brookings institution wants to give weapons to ukraine. we we felt obliged to.out that not everybody at brookings supports that policy. policy. we wrote an op-ed in the "washington post" last week. discreetly sum up what we argue they're. a couple points we try to get across. i think that single issue is the most urgent want. >> coming in. the rationale for what is going on in the ukraine is hard to figure out. they look at the situation certainly the 1990s but much wilder. the security. ukraine is not yugoslavia the 1990s. very helpful. about the future. the whole nature of security to the relationship with russia that conflict. but i don't want anyone to think that we are taking a slightly. very clear. so this is not just a matter of academic's policy. outlines not yet. so i think all this. one reason for the questions that everyone's when you make this stuff engagements and accomplishments what do you know what the response will be back because the idea is to change the conference. and as outlined in the book well prudent has shown and

former federal reserve chairman ben bernanke is writing about economics and finance on the brookings institute website. he's a senior fellow at brookings. he defended his actions as the head of the central bank to keep interest rates low. not only did he post his first blog but he also made a rare public speech saying rates may not remain this low fo >> the downward pressure on global interest rates will probably moderate somewhat over time. the pressures for the trade deficit of the united states will probably moderate somewhat over time. i think those are positive factors that need to be taken into account thinking about growth. >> until today mr. bernanke has only made limited comments on the economy since he left the fed last year. >>> on that note, that does it for "nightly business report" for tonight. thanks for joining us. i'm sue herera. >> i'm tyler mathisen. that's it for me too. have a great evening, everybody, and we hope to see you right back here >> welcome to "film school shorts," a showcase of the most exciting new talent from across the country. experience the future of film,

. >>> now the brookings institution hosted a special on the future of the u.s. postal service. panelists include acting chairman and current specter general of the u.s. postal service. they address the current health of the postal service and what changes are needed in order to modernize and improve the financial condition of this government institution. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >>> good morning everyone. i am the director of the center for public management here at brookings. >> -- one of the perhaps oldest, along with the united states army, organizations in the u.s. government. and about which there's been much written, and even a movie made. okay? or two or three. and the post office is at a particular crossroads. i will ask you to just think of the following. when is the last time any of you got a letter with a stamp on it? okay. now some of you did. i suspect those of you born after about 1980 don't even really own any stamps. just for the edification of the young people here, stamps are these things that you stick on envelopes and put in post office box and it wou

we are live at the brookings institution waiting to hear from antony blinken, the deputy secretary of current prospects in asia. it should get underway shortly. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] >> ladies and gentlemen, it is my great pleasure to welcome all of you here today. i am the director of the center on the united states and europe and i'm here to welcome you on behalf of the working foreign policy program and also the economy development program here at brookings. our address today will be by secretary blinken, who'll be discussing central asia. most of you are familiar with him, but nonetheless i would like lay out his current career in government. he has been the to the president and deputy national security advisor. he has also been the national security advisor for many years on the senate foreign relations committee. and that is just the most recent iteration of tony's career in government. because he also served

i am bill galston senior fellow in government studies here brookings institution and i want to congratulate the governor on his speech. i cannot imagine a more appropriate speech to be delivered under the aegis of the center for effective public management and government studies here at brookings. let me also out on a personal note that if you could find a way of bringing 48-hour pothole guarantees to washington d.c. i would follow you to the end of the earth. [laughter] and set with 500,000 other people. that caught my attention. >> it's hard to do in the middle of the summer. i am informed there's a little bit of wiggle room on the backend so we have close to happen our or the question and answer. math. let me tell you what the plan is. i'm going to ask you one question and then i'm going to turn to the audience first taking four or five press questions and then moving on to this very large and interested standing room audience that is gathered to hear you talk. if there's time at the end i will wrap it with a question and if not i want. so let me begin with my question. as you know, ther

professor john villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. thank you professor villasenor for being here today. john d. villasenor: thank you very much. members of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to testify on this important topic. i'm a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institute and i am on the faculty at ucla. the views i am expressing are not necessarily those of the brookings institution, stanford, the university of california. i'm going to devote my remarks to the very important issue of privacy. it is important to start by acknowledging privacy is a legitimate concern. for the first time ever, unmanned aircraft systems are making it easy and inexpensive to obtain overhead imagery. the overwhelming majority of the time, operators and both the public and private sectors will be mindful of the need to respect privacy, but as the number of users and flights continue to grow, sometimes inadvertently or intentionally uas will be used in ways that violates privacy. to what extent are our current legal frameworks up to

really favors the undertaking that we begin here tonight. [ applause ] >>> later today the brookings institution talk about current priorities and future prospects for u.s. engagement in central asia. that will be live on c-span starting at 3:30 p.m. eastern. and the runoff election is scheduled for april 7th in chicago's mayoral race. chicago mayor rahm emanuel faces as challenger jesus garcia. they'll face off in a live candidates forum hosted by wptw tv in chicago. neither candidate won a majority in february's election. you can see the candidate's forum tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> tonight, on american history tv programs on the 150th anniversary of president abraham lincoln's second inaugural. on march 4th, 1865. less than six weeks before his assassination. at 8:00

this event was hosted by the brookings institution. >> good morning, everyone. it is my pleasure to welcome governor martin j. o'malley. here in the brookings government studies program. one of the critical problems we analyze is how to make government work better for the middle class for average americans, and for everyone. martin j. o'malley has been a trailblazer in doing that as governor of maryland from 2007-2015. and before that in serving twp terms as mayor of baltimore. under his leadership as governor, maryland recovered 100% of the jobs lost during the great recession. it was one of just seven states to maintain a aaa bond rating. the college board organization named maryland one of the top states in the nation in holding down the cost of college tuition. the state also had the best public schools in america for five years in a row. governor o'malley compiled a similarly distinguished record as the mayor of baltimore, where "time" named him one of the top five big-city mayors. he is going to talk about some of the public management tools she helped pion

." >> the brookings institution recently hosted a form on the future of the u.s. postal service. they looked at proposed changes that would help to modernize agency and improve its financial situation. this is one hour and a half. elaine: good morning everyone. i am the director of the center for public management here at brookings. we are gathered here today to talk about a very large and important entity, the united states postal service. one of the perhaps oldest along , with the united states army, organizations in the u.s. government. and about which there's been much written, and even a movie made. or two or three. and the post office is at a particular crossroads. i will ask you to just think of the following. when is the last time any of you got a letter with a stamp on it? ok. now some of you did. i suspect those of you born after about 1980 don't even really own any stamps. [laughter] just for the edification of the young people here, stamps are these things that you stick on envelopes and put in post office box and it would go to your grandmother or someone like that.

. >>> a startling figure has turned up in a new brooking institute report on the income gap between america's highest and lowest paid workers. the top 5% in san francisco earn 17 times more than the bottom 20% earn. san francisco's top earners make at least $423,000. no other american cities' top 5% come anywhere close to that. >>> yelp stock taking a tumble. closed down more than 4% yesterday. another half percent down today. this after the trailer for a new documentary called "billion dollar bully" started making the rounds on line. abc7 news reporter tiffany wilson has details. >>> i've been managing property since i could push a lawnmower -- >> reporter: the wall behind his desk is covered with accolades. the better business bureau endorses him. on line, david's reputation has a different slant. >> delve the worst property management -- definitely the worst property management company i've encountered. clueless incompetent. another, unethical, dishonest. >> reporter: those comments posted more than five years ago but top his yelp page. the five-star review from last month, gone. michael f

professor john villasenor is a nonresident senior fellow at the brookings institution. thank you professor car for car for being here today. >> thank you very much. members of the subcommittee, i appreciate the opportunity to testify on this important topic. among the faculty. the views i am expressing are not necessarily those of the brookings institution stanford the university of california. it it is important to start by acknowledging privacy is a legitimate concern. unmanned aircraft unmanned aircraft systems are making it easy and inexpensive to obtain overhead imagery. both the public and private sectors, mindful of the need to respect privacy, but as the number of users and flights continue to grow sometimes inadvertent -- inadvertently or intentionally uas has been used in ways that violates privacy. to what extent are our current legal frameworks up to the task? i believe existing legal frameworks will provide substantially more protection. that does not mean there is no need for new privacy laws but we must have a full appreciation. the applicable framework f

he is now at the brookings institution and also the atlantic magazine. begin and ask him a point i asked chris hughes when he was here about a month ago, what happened? leon: what happened was the owners of the "new republic" decided to take the magazine in a direction he believed was necessary for its survival and i believe destroyed it. that is what happened. charlie: explain to me and then i will have a clip from him, explain what the difference in where he wanted to take it and where you wanted it to be. lien aseon: as far as i understand it, he was overwhelmingly concerned for commercial reasons with the transposition of what we did to certain new technologies especially mobile. everybody has an obsession with mobile. charlie: some say you have to have an obsession to survive. >> leon: my view is if it did not affect the content of the magazine, this was simply a historical inevitability. i'm not a fool. i understand there are technologies that reach many more new people than paper did. my own view was, just because there are new titles does not mea

>>> later today the brookings institution hears from deputy secretary of state tony blinken. he'll talk about current priorities and future prospects for u.s. engagement in central asia. that will be live on c-span starting at 3:30 p.m. eastern. and the runoff election is scheduled for april 7th in chicago's mayoral race. chicago mayor rahm emanuel faces as challenger jesus garcia. they'll face off in a live candidates forum hosted by wptw tv in chicago. neither candidate won a majority in february's election. you can see the candidate's forum tonight starting at 8:00 eastern on c-span. >>> tonight, on american history tv programs on the 150th anniversary of president abraham lincoln's second inaugural. on march 4th, 1865. less than six weeks before his assassination. at 8:00 p.m. an event commemorating the president's second inaugural. after that a discussion on the making of the president's second inaugural address, given just before the end of the civil war. and later this evening, the last speeches given by president lincoln and martin luther king jr., before their assass

robert einhorn is a nuclear arms expert and senior fellow at the brookings institute. join me next hour. cory: "bloomberg west" will be right back. ♪ cory: the bwest byte is one story that tells us -- is one number that tells us whole lot. spencer silver has it. spencer: 100 million. as the number of users which has stop twitch just announced yesterday it was hacked, so they are still working through the details and have released only a small amount of information, but they have 100 million users and put out a general warning requiring all the love them to change their passwords and sent an additional e-mail warning people who were effected that portions of their credit card number could have been compromised as well as their name -- cory: i've never realized how successful twitch is online. next it has a huge audience, 100 million subscribers and people who are gaming enthusiasts will go and watch people play video games and interact with them. it is a very devoted audience. cory: interesting also because amazon has generally been hacked free. you can get the latest h

bruce is the vice president of the brookings institution. janet murkier is president and c.e.o. the national council of la raza, the largest national hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization in the united states. and the executive director of the policy institute which serves more than 100,000 youth and young adults at 125 programs in los angeles. randi weingarten is president of the american federation of teachers, which represents 1.6 million educational professionals. and finally, seth williams is c.e.o. of rockford technology company, a company with mission to give back to its urban community by creating jobs and manufacturing earth friendly products. so, we have a great group of people here today. i'd like to start out the discussion with lee saunders. lee, why should we actually care about our urban areas? mr. saunders: first, let me thank you for coordinating this and sponsoring it. we believe that this is a discussion that's long overdue. in fact, there is a tragedy going on within our urban centers across this country. the lack of jobs, good-paying jobs, and we h

some members of congress. >> host: we're talking with benjamin wittes who, senior fellow at brookings institution governance studies but he also is editor-in-chief of cofounder of the lawfare blog. you can follow him on that website as well, a member of the hoover institute. we will go to darrell long beach, california, independent caller. good morning. >> caller: good morning. basically i see the united states of america has a tremendous amount of investment into the military, and it looks like no matter what happens we searched for situations and problems of which right now i notice in -- a commentary mode with senators, and some of the senators was referring to putin as a thug and a criminal even though our athletes went to the winter olympics and even though they are used to be nga. used to be. it seems like when world war iii starts with the united states be what, 50% responsible to you think? see what you say. >> host: let me throw in this headline on ukraine. the headline in the near times peter baker's piece, obama's addresses growing pressure from all sides armed ukraine. what do you mak

this evening we have these two fine authors from the brookings institute around the corner that made the nice long trek. to my left is mr. cliff gaddy and perhaps the more esteemed of the two. fiona hill. i thought of that on the way in. please give them your warm attention. shut down the cell phones. [applause] >> and at the end you'll have a few minute tore questions socks please save those for the end. thank you. >> i'm going to introduce the more esteemed of us -- she is probably not even going -- i know in her office she never sits. she has standing desk so maybe she wants to stand. >> everybody hear okay? and -- we're very happy to be here. very happy to see all of you and very happy for the chance to talk about the new edition of our book. we would like to call it a new book altogether. we had an edition a year ago. we have added about 40% 40% to 50% more new material on to the book. we have not revised what was there. the book about vladimir putin, a book that we originally wrote to try to explain who this individual is what kind of ideas he has what is his outlook, and where

>> well, i've been in this industry for 31 years, and here we are once again at the brookings institution going about probing the nation's postal soul. and rather than sit up here and try to act as a social engineer i'd rather sit around and talk to you from my view of things for those specific prism and that is from the perspective of the people that i help whose businesses are tied in one way or another to the use of mail as a vehicle for the transaction of business communication and commerce. now we're in the process of talking about postal reform and you've heard others talk about the definition of universal service obligations and so on. and i hope that my comments today might crystallize for you what mailers genuinely believe should be part of a postal reform package and what also should be part of their aspect of the definition of universal service. i'm not going to be talking about universal service from the perspective of the individual customer who is out there. i'm going to be talking about it specifically in terms of the way businesses would do it. i don't choose to talk about

a fellow at the center for middle east policy at the brookings institution joins us also.g with me. i want to start inside that auditorium. how is ambassador power's speech going over? >> she's having a very warm welcome by this crowd of 16,000. i think really a good choice by the administration to lower the atmosphere and this tension between the u.s. and israel making a strong case why not just on the iranian issue will the u.s. continue to stand by israel. saying the relationship with israel is about politics but also laying out a lot of areas particularly at her perch at the united nation where the u.s. does stand by israel on anti-sem anti-semi anti-semitic attacks and going on about why the u.s. and israel are close friends despite this profound disagreement on the iranian deal shaping up carol. >> i want to go to wolf blitzer right now to talk a little bit about what netanyahu might say after samantha power. i don't know the reason for this. originally samantha power was set to speak after netanyahu but suddenly she was moved before him. i don't know if that really

the brookings institution says right now almost two-thirds american households earn less money todaythey did manyo two. how do you explain that? >> well, the issue of real wage growth is one of the most important pieces of unfinished business from the great recession. we have the wind at our back but what we have to do and the difference between now and the late '90s is that the growth we saw in the late '90s resulted many a greater show of prosperity. the rising tide lifted more boats. what we have to do now is make sure our tailwind shows prosperity and the issue of stubborn growth of wages isn't simply an issue the function of the great recession. this has been a problem and a challenge for literally 30 years. with the exception of the late '90s, we have seen great productivity growth but it hasn't translated into real wage growth. for the decades before that productivity growth and wage growth went hand in hand. >> woodruff: is this a structural problem? we have been hearing for some time the wages are going to come burks they're still not coming and i think the american people v

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. >> a representative from the brookings institution joins us now. the comments about no palestinian state is clearly an attempt to win over the right wirngs. is it going to work? >> probably not. it's competing for the same votes. it has national ramifications. it's a last-minute idea to stave off. but i suspect most right-wing voters already know netanyahu very well. he's been there for a long time. and they're probably going to buy less of the last-minute statements. >> a lot of people were surprised about the comments especially his statements about two-state policies in the past. which policies will be the most crucial? >> right now we're looking at two blocks that don't have half of the knesset, so essentially a hung jury. one is the star of the last elections. but more importantly a party led by a former la kud minister. whatever he decides, if the polls hold will be the winner. the nature of israeli politics is it's always crazier than one thinks. >> there is the issue of the economy. there's a growing wealth gap in israel. netanyahu has prom

. >> reporter: thomas ban, with the brookings institute, and uc institute of government affairs says the information may be politically embarrassing, but unlikely to alter clinton into the presidential election. >> swing voters in november of 2016 will likely have no memory of the great email scandal of 2015. >> reporter: about an hour ago, mrs. clinton broke her silence on this controversy with a tweet in which she said she wants the public to see her emails and has asked the state department to release them. she added the state department told her they would do that as soon as possible. >> today, she's saying go ahead and release it to the public. >> that was just an hour ago. >>> a federal appeal's court has upheld an ordinance that restricts high capacity gun ammunition. the law bans magazines that hold more than 10 rounds. it was approve the by sunnyvale voters back in 2015. the national rifle association is among those arguing against the ban saying it inflingsed on the rights of gun owners to protect themselves and their homes. opponents can now ask the ninth circuit to rehear

he joined the brookings institution as the senior fellow and i am very pleased to have him back at thisable. i consider him a great friend. leon: welcome to be here. charlie: let's talk about israel first. i just read a bbc account, i think probably it was on msnbc probably andrea mitchell. she is over there. in which benjamin netanyahu said he is not against a two-party state. leon: lets me get it straight. it is time to take it back. charlie: in the end, it's probably a good thing. i have not read the interview but i read the bbc account. they have to figure out a way to get to a good two state solution. leon: first of all, that is not what he said, what he summoned the base before the election. charlie: the weekend before the election? leon: that he de-legitimated the two state solution which is about the most dangerous thing anybody can do in terms of reconciliation. and as soon as he won, 10 minutes away from learning he really is for the two state solution. i think he treats the subject with total cynicism and i think whether he is for the two state solution or isn't for the two s

we haven't heard from him in a while, but he spoke today at the brookings institute in washington d.caking you better bet your bottom dollar that steve liesman is going to find him zoosh he has been on the speaking circuit talking for a fee, but not necessarily always publicly. very rarely sitting down for public interviews with the media. this time on tape and he was at a conference this morning at the brookings institute where he actually works and where he is completing his book due out in the fall and he was asked about this issue of a bill that would require the federal reserve to follow a monetary policy rule or formula. you can bet what he thought about that. if the fed is always taking actions like that and congress is pushing back and saying no you're violating the rule i think that is less direct of the fed, but i think it still is a way in which congress would exert undue influence of monetary policy. >> so the former fed chairman joins the current fed chair in opposing this rule in congress along with the audit the fed bill which would allow the government accounting offic

46,000 twitter accounts are associated with supporters of the islamic state, according to brookings institutionthe social media giant is working to ban the users. the study found that twitter deleted 1000 isis supporter accounts over four-month period. >>> back to the battlefield, u.s. intelligence finding nearly 18% of released gitmo prisoners are returning to the terror fight. here now lieutenant colonel bill cowan, fox news military analyst. we have geraldo rivera host of "geraldo at large." thanks to both of you for joining us. colonel cowan, let me start with you. how do they track this? how do they come up with a number like 18%, do you think? >> good intelligence, melissa. we have people watching these guys. we've got friendly nations we returned some of these people to watching them this is good on the ground intelligence work where some of these guys go and whether or not they're back in the game. melissa: seems like 18% is lower than what i would think. geraldo? >> first of all guantanamo bay was a shyster's ploy to avoid the united states constitution opening it was a scandal, a stai

. >>> now the brookings institution hosted a special on the future of the u.s. postal service. panelists include acting chairman and current specter general of the u.s. postal service. they address the current health of the postal service and what changes are needed in order to modernize and improve the financial condition of this government institution. this is an hour and 25 minutes. >>> good morning everyone. i am the director of the center for effective public management here at brookings. we are gathered leer today to talk about a very large and very important entity -- the united states postal service. one of the -- the, perhaps oldest, along with the united states army, organization of the u.s. government. and about which there has been much written, and even a movie made. okay? or two or three. and the post office is at a particular crossroads. i will ask you to just think of the following. when is the last time any of you got a letter with a stamp on it? okay. now some of you did. i suspect those of you born after about 1980 don't even really own any stamps. just for t

our guest is benjamin pittos of the brookings institution. then the authorization of use of military force. we'll talk with the american enterprise institute and the center for american progress. "washington journal" is live on c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern, taking your phone calls, tweets and facebook comments. >>> here is some of our featured programs for this weekend on the c-span networks. saturday starting at 1:00 p.m. eastern c-span 2's book tv is live from the university of arizona for the tucson festival of books featuring discussions on race and politics, the civil war and by "the nation" magazine writers with call-ins throughout the day of authors. and sunday at 1:00 we continue live coverage of the festival with panels on the obama administration, the future of politics, and the issue of concussions in football. and saturday morning at 9:00 eastern when american history tv on c-span 3 we're live from longwood university in farmville, virginia, for the 16th annual civil war seminar with historians and authors talking about the

. >> from brookings institution. the pipeline in alaska, such serious jeopardy as to its flow levels whether any criteria when you have these sales in alaska take into consideration those that might be the nearest if something is found to keep the pipeline alive. >> thank you for that question. i worked on the alaska pipeline when i was a college student a little engineering problem like what you doing when the pike moves and how do you keep the inflation on it, very tricky place to do business and what is interesting is when alaska chose land, the federal government shows land, native corporations chose land, they chose the oil-field to develop that very softly and it peaked in production in the 80s. no surprise production is going down and i will say the state of alaska, and governor walker finds herself in. we support development in the national petroleum reserves in alaska, and the area outlining for myself , and the secretary and tawny has been out there. the national petroleum reserve, the unit which was the re

writers, leon defined standards for piercing criticism culture and society and joined the brookings institution. i am very very pleased to have him back at this table. i consider him a great friend and it is my honor to have his friendship. >> good to be here charlie. >> rose: so let's talk about israel first. i just read a bbc account of an interview, i think probably with -- it was on msnbs andrea mitchell where he said -- >> yeah, it's time to take it back. >> rose: in the end he said, that's a good thing. i haven't read the interview but i read the bbc's account of it that they have to figure a way to get to a good two-state solution. >> first of ail, that's not what he said when he summoned the base before the election. he delegit mated the two-state solution which is about the most dangerous thing anybody can do in terms of prospect of peace and reconciliation. as soon as he won, i said to someone we're ten minutes away from seeing whether he is for the two-state solution. i think he treats the subject with total cynicism and i think whether he is or isn't for the two-state solution wheth

the brookings institute michael owe happen lan says that has pushed president obama to step up involvement in fairness it is worth pointing out in iraq last year he started dropping bombs now has 3,000 u.s. troops on the ground helping coordinate the counter offensive against isil and may be willing to do everybody a little bit more than that. notices a complete allergy to any and all involvement. >> reporter: perhaps the biggest symbol of the president's policies syria in 2013, he drew a red line at the assad regime using chemical weapons then backed down. >> so not only has it not constrained the assad regime's use of chemical weapons but it had an enormous impact on perceptions of u.s. credibility in the region. >> reporter: steven with the u.s. institute of peace, it is mr. obama began his presidency trying to course correct the bush administrations unilateralism. but may have eased off the gas pedal too much. >> that's a real -- it's a disappointment. and i think it's something of an opportunity lost. >> reporter: he says international focus is now otto bomb a administration's role in

guest:>> charles ettinger from brookings institution. madam secretary, i was wondering if you believe that the alaska pipeline, certain objectivity with its flow levels whether those that might be nearest ought to be taken into consideration if something was found and hence keep the pipeline alive? interior sec. jewell: thank you for that question. i worked on the alaska pipeline when i lie was -- when i was a college student, solving problems like what do you do when you put hot oil on a cold type and the paid moves and you keep insulation on it. it is a tricky place to do business. what is interesting is that when alaska achieved statehood, the federal government chose lands and native corporations chose lands, alaska chose an oilfield income parekh -- ap in production in the 1980's. it is no surprise that production has been going down, and i will say that the state of alaska is really hurting right now with oil prices, and i am sympathetic with the situation governor walker finds himself in and a whole state. we certainly support dev

. >> earlier we heard from a fellow at the brookings institution about the different parties at the centerese elections were a competition between two agendas. netanyahu wanted to pull it toward national security and foreign policy where he's stronger. where the median israeli voter in the submitted closer to netanyahu than to herzog. herzog tried to pull it for domestic affairs where netanyahu is weaker. after six years as prime minister and nine years in total, israelis are angry at netanyahu partly for his fault, partly for thing that are structural on the economy and especially the cost of living. you mention the cost of housing. that's a central concern. this is where the center parties in particular are gaining a lot. they are talking very clearly and consistently about domestic issues the cost of living the price of housing, the banking monopoly a host of issues that don't usually make the international press about israel. >> okay. 25 parties, a raft of candidate. we'll be following this all day. poll close at 4:00 p.m. eastern, about 10:00 p.m. in israel. that's going to be a long