brian: kurt deion, you have a website. kurtshistoricsites? kurt: it is a website where i detail the accounts, i have the accounts of all my different trips to presidential and vice presidential burial sites, presidential homes, libraries. different gravesites. i have interesting facts about the different individuals whose gravesites i have been to because also, not just showing the different sites i have been to, but it is also supposed to be a learning tool. brian: how old are you? kurt: 20 years old. brian: where are you in school? kurt: cranston high school west in cranston. brian: and where are you now? kurt: presently, i am a rising senior at bryant university in smithfield, rhode island. brian: what is your major? kurt: i am a history major, one of the few at bryant. it is a very small history department but a very good history department and i have actually the only history major graduating from bryant next year. brian: why history? kurt: i have been so passionate about history for well over half my life. i first got into presidents wh

. ♪ >> this sunday night on qad -- q&a, 20 euros college student k deion has been visiting the gravesu.s. presidents and vice presidents since he was nine and documenting those visits on his website. grave one great site -- site that everyone has trouble getting to is the nelson rockefeller one. >> how did you do it? >> we were able to do it for what my father describes as an act of god. he walks further down the perimeter of that cemetery and saw this gigantic tree had fallen. he went in and actually saw nelson rockefeller's grave, and decided he would have to get meet their fairly quickly after that. deion, sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific. >> saturday, august 29, marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. one of the five deadliest storms in u.s. history. c-span's a lot -- c-span's coverage begins with an all day event featuring authors and community leaders. then at 8:00, more from the conference with newer lens based poets, activists, and others. at 930 -- 9:30, new orleans citizens describing their experiences. >> they told us they would take us to shelters where we

and, deion, you keep us posted on where you're gonna go to school. >> stony brook, we think. >> stony brook. okay. all right. thank you very much. >> thank you, sandra. >> up next, why you should care about insurance fraud, when we come back. >> staged car accidents, unauthorized auto repairs, and unnecessary medical procedures are just some of the instances of insurance fraud that cost americans $80 billion a year. now, that's according to the coalition against insurance fraud. here today to offer some fraud-fighting tips and underline why it is in your best interest to fight fraud is elijah mercer with the new york alliance against insurance fraud. nice to meet you, elijah. thanks so much for being here. >> thank you. >> insurance fraud -- it's one of those crimes that i think a lot of people think, "well, that has nothing to do with me," but that's not quite true, is it? >> that is not quite true. insurance fraud, as you said before, costs $80 billion a year. it makes everyone's insurance premiums go up, especially in new york. new yorkers pay some of the the nation. and so when pe

deion has been visiting the graves of presidents and vice presidents.talks about those visits, his interest in american history, and what it was like meeting bill and hillary clinton.

. >> let's thank deion and paul. we want our panel to come up. timing is perfect. >> yes. >> right in between. i next our next panel to come up. >> got to be at capital in six minutes. >>> next, an interview with a freshman member of congress. republican lee zeldin of new york's first district. last november he beat incumbent democrat tim bishop. congressman zeldin served in the new york state senate and was deployed to iraq in 2006. this is about 20 minutes. >> congressman lee zeldin. what got you interested in public office in the first place? >> i came off active duty from the army in 2007, loved serving in the military, wearing uniform, alongside great men and women, transitioning into the reserves i wanted to continue to serve. i came back home. moved about half a mile from where i grew up before college, law school and active duty in the army. and i started running for congress. >> and where is home? where is that? >> this is long i'll. the first congressional district of new york is the east end of long island. a lot of people know of the

. >> this week on qa day, 20-year-old college student kurt deion.ce age nine, he has been visiting the graves of presidents and vice presidents. he talks about those visits, his interest in american history, and what it was like meeting president bill and hillary clinton. brian: you have a website

. >> this week on qa day, 20-year-old college student kurt deion. since age nine, he has been visiting the graves of presidents and vice presidents. he talks about those visits, his interest in american history, and what it was like meeting president bill and hillary clinton. brian: you have a website. it is a website where i detail the accounts, i have the accounts of all my different trips to presidential and vice presidential burial sites, presidential homes, libraries. different gravesites. i have interesting facts about the different individuals whose gravesites i have been to showingalso, not just the different sites i have been to, but it is also supposed to be a learning tool. kurt: how old are you? you?an: how old are kurt: 20 years old. brian: where are you in school? presently, i am a rising senior at bryant university in smithfield, rhode island. brian: what is your major? kurt: i am a history major, one of the few at bryant. it is a very small history department but a very good history department and i have actually the only history maj

it says on here kurt alexander deion, bone up on history. then it says what? gravewater.tv? i mentioned before the tv concept my father and i were presently working on. the first idea was "gravehunter," where we would start at the grave site and maybe work backwards in their life. there were some aspects about it but i wasn't a fan of and one of the rare times that my father and i butted heads. grave hunting is very personal to me and there were some things he wanted to tweak about it to make it more tv-worthy that i wasn't a fan of. brian: a little bit of a close up here. there is a podium and you are standing behind it? kurt: that was actually at a gravestone. we had a photographer friend come with us, so that is at a burial site -- i believe it is in providence, rhode island. brian: there is a note on your website about a couple that often visited hubert humphrey's grave site in minneapolis. they found a medallion on his grave site. is that what this was? kurt: yes, it is. we have the coin, which was an aspect i liked, where it is tradition in certain cultures to leave so

let's meet -- deion sanders. (laughter) that -- (laughter) that's ned flanders. sure.ure, that's bernie sanders. all right, fine. (laughter) there we go! how will this two-term senator, this eight-term representative, this full-term curmudgeon battle the incredibly powerful clinton machine? >> let me just make a brief comment and i will be happy to take a few questions. we don't have an endless amount of time. i've got to get back. (laughter) >> jon: with charm! (laughter) that was his presidential campaign announcement. not so much yes we can and more like let's just get this over with. i'm a busy man! busy running is anti-hillary. he's a centrist, he's a leftist. her campaign is managed to a t! he forgot his comb! (laughter) she has almost 100% name recognition! he is somewhat lesser known! (laughter) she has a private server in her home where she deleted tens of thousands of her own e-mails. he owns a vhs copy of tootsie. (laughter) she has a set of consistent principles that he has -- he has a set of consistent principles he has run on his entire political life. sh

how's that for a game plan, deion sanders?r is scoring big with a rockin' burger that doesn't "shrimp" on taste. and clinton's pimping store-bought treats into one mind-blowing spread. you know what else doesn't require an oven? soup! and you're going to need a big spoon for this one. and it all starts right now on "the chew." [ cheers and applause ] >> good afternoon, and welcome to "the chew"! how you guys doing? do you need an oven to make a table full of food? >> yes! >> no.

deion tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific. jimmy cartersident held a news conference to discuss his recent diagnosis of cancer. he took questions from reporters and talked about his plans going forward. from the carter center in atlanta, this is 40 minutes. no audio] carter: they did a scan, and that kind of lights up that place. they were pretty sure that there was a cancer before they operated. the tumor was only about two and a half cubic centimeters, so they removed about a 10th of my labor. -- my liver. they did a biopsy and found out it was indeed cancer and it was melanoma. they had a very high suspicion then and now that the melanoma started summer else on my body -- somewhere else on my body and spread to my liver. the doctor told me that 90% of all melanoma is skin cancer and about 2% are internal. that andck here after they did a biopsy and found -- i think they did an mri -- and found that there were four spots of melanoma on my brain. they were very small spots, about two millimeters if you know what a millimeter

[applause] >> next, "q&a" with kurt deion. then, your calls and comments from "washington journal. " saturday: august 20 nine marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina, one of the five deadliest dorms and u.s. history. c-span special coverage begins live today to look ok in eastern with the atlantic magazine's conference in new orleans, an all-day event. at 8:00, more from the conference with the new orleans-based poets, actors, and others. then, c-span's tour of new orleans recovery efforts, and then a 2005 house hearing featuring new orleans citizens featuring their experiences. >> they told us that they would take us to shelters where we they loadedlp and us up on these military trucks, then they declared the city of zone.leans a war and it still didn't sink in that we were the prisoners of war. on wednesday eight :00, c-span's tour of hurricane damage and recovery at st. bernard parish. >> he can't describe it -- that is your whole life gone. know?, you all your friends and family, everybody is gone. a year later and

anna: of heartbreaking stories of teen deion returning to the station las vegas after taking a year lunch break to take care of her husband who has been battling throat cancer, she says he is being fed intravenously for two years. she was torn about going back, she loves to sing for people but didn't want to because her told her he wanted her to return to her show at caesar's palace where she will be thursday. at the same time she says he gets a lot of anxiety caused his wish is to, quote, died in her arms. right now he is staying at their home in las vegas as she goes back to work. cheese as she is asking doctors how much time is left and they don't know. justin bieber has reportedly been banned from doing live interviews. he will embarrass himself while promoting his first single in two years. this is like that beyonce move, she will only did taped interviews and that is what justin bieber is doing to cut down on potential for controversy so his reps are not commenting on things that he has gotten in trouble and arrested for d y for throwing eggs at that neighbor, he got into trouble, u

deion of the "washington post." thank you both for being here. >> good to be with you. >> thank you. congresswoman, i want to talk about the debate later tonight in a moment. first your reaction to the first rounds of debates? >> well, you know, reverend al, i think it is important for us to commemorate and acknowledge that this is the 50th anniversary of the voting rights act. i wish i could say that i was surprised it didn't come up in the happy hour debate. what came up was making sure that we can keep immigrants out of this country, kick immigrants out of this country who are simply here to make a better way of life for themselves and their family and no mention of comprehensive immigration reform. what i thought was interesting even without donald trump on the stage, this entire night is clearly going to be the republican debate starring donald trump. i mean, they couldn't even avoid within the debate that doesn't feature donald trump having the second question that the candidates were asked be about donald tru

a throwback to the years you saw michael irvin out here and deion sanders and those guys.ta vikings facing a fierce backlash after posting a family day photo of star running back adrian peterson and one of his sons. the same adrian peterson who was brought up on child abuse charges for disciplining his 4-year-old son with a switch. arthur, this is tough one, you take it. >> harris started off saying before, football is not exactly badminton. if you're paying a guy 70 million bucks you want the fire in the belly in training camp. >> good point. >> that he will bring it out on the field. hey, i paid for the bull that will come out in the rodeo kicking and screaming. >> especially reminiscent of your most recent successful era. jerry jones is desperate to have a championship team once again. >> that is who he referred to. >> romo, bless his bones, he will not do it. dez bryant is hothead. he is known for getting in conflicts. that is pays off in marketing and opponents are scared, seeing their own player, what he will do to opponents. >> this is interesting the way jerry jone

come on up, deion. >> good to see you again. >> we just got here. >> we just had -- deion, you've beenworking with omar in dallas, and you know -- and also you have been one of the few celebrities that spent a lot of time in the hood, operating a school, operating a sports program, and i wish, paul, you would talk about why you got this thing going when we first met and i'll ask you the question we asked on the video, as a former vp candidate, and now chairman of ways and means committee, why are you interested in this issue? >> okay, first of all, because we can do a lot better than what we have been doing. it is just that simple. and then if you want to do better on restoring and funding poverty, you got to figure out what works. and when you get out of the city, and get around america, you can find people like omar, like shirley, like paul and everybody else, darryl, you can find things that work. and so as policymakers, it is our job to go learn and listen. that's what -- that's what the comeback is all about. you have the video. that's what that is about, showing there are amazing

. >> tonight on q&a. 20-year-old college student kurt deion has been visiting the president and vice president since he was nine and documenting his adventures on his website. he talks about those visits and his interest in american history. thate one gravesite everyone has trouble getting to is the rockefeller grant, nelson rockefeller. >> how did you do it? >> we were able to do it to her what my father described as an act of god. my father walked farther down the perimeter of the cemetery and saw that this gigantic tree had fallen across the past. he went in and actually sought nelson rockefeller's grave and decided that he would have to get me there fairly quickly after that. tonight at 8:00 eastern and pacific on c-span2 a day. final day for soapbox speeches at the iowa state fair the crowd heard from democratic national committee chair representative debbie wasserman , and republican presidential candidates governor chris christie of new jersey and louisiana governor bobby jindal. this is about an hour. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning perfor

congressman paul ryan, chair of the house ways and means committee and nfl hall of famer deion sandersffer their views. event co-hosts, the center for neighborhood enterprise and the news platform opportunity lives released a new documentary mini series called "comeback," telling stories of individuals overcoming adversity in america's communities. >> good. let's get under way with our -- some of the folks here actually hold the title of phd. the mudslinging start, yes, indeed. i've asked the pastor to stick around as co-moderator of this panel. right, he's used to adaptation here on the fly. but i'll just quickly introduce the panel then we're going to hear a little bit from glen how willery and i'll explain that in a second. professor lowery is professor of economics at brown university. the full bios are in your program so i won't go into it. and in his -- professor lowery was one of the first academics to really write thoughtfully about the programs that we've been discussing. as long ago as 20 years ago, 30 years ago in public interest and first things, magazines like that. gerard

q&a.rt deion on >> remarks from senator marco rubio at the iowa state fair.he florida republican spoke about immigration act of this candidate forum. [applause] senator rubio: thank you. i am going to cut it a little shorter because they see another band is coming through and i do not want everyone to get all wet. probably a little too late for that. i want you to do for your children what my parents did for me. my parents came from cuba, they barely spoke the language, had no money and very little education. they were able to buy a home and raise a family, they were able to retire with dignity and leave all four children better off than themselves. what i am worried about, americans feel like they can no longer achieve that. the world is changing and our policies must change with it. we are not just facing an economic downturn. we are facing an economic transformation. it's just like the industrial revolution, except it is happening faster and it is deeper. the jobs that once sustained the middle class have gone overseas and they do not pay what they once di

the executive director of women with a vision is deion haywood and joins us now.e to see you, dionne. >> hi, how are you? >> i'm just fine. i was following you and your responses to the president's speech on thursday and i know that you felt, in part, that the president -- and not just the president but that others in thinking about this recovery haven't maybe talked about the experiences of girls and women in particular and the inequities they continue to face in the city. >> yeah, i thought for the most part the president's speech was pretty good but i was amazed that he talked about nola for life, the amazing lunch he had with the young men and what nola for life and my brothers keeper will do for young men. and then with no mention of women, no mention of girls. yesterday, again, no one brought up gender. and i've just been amazed how we can talk about recovery in a city where 99% of the children are involved in criminal justice system. 39% of african-american children are living in poverty. i'm just going to go out on a limb and say their mothers are african-

[applause] >> next, a discussion on the state of journalism today. ,hen, q and a with kurt deion talking about his visits to presidential and vice presidential gravesites. then at 7:00 a.m., your calls and questions on washington journal. >> tonight, on the communicators . this summer marks the 25th anniversary of digital television. >> in june of 1990, almost exactly 25 years ago, cbs convinced us we should submit it to the fcc for consideration as the next generation u.s. terrestrial broadcast standard. we were not quite sure we wanted to do that because we were really satellite and cable guys and did not have a whole lot to do with the terrestrial broadcast network business. that we ended up doing it. all of a sudden in june of 1990, our cover was blown, what we were doing. at first, everyone said it was impossible, what we were claiming. ,ure enough, a year or so later all of our competitors were essentially following us and it became a real race. >> tonight at 8:00 eastern on the communicators on c-span2. >> washington post executive and thearty baron washington editor of the new yo