kaplan.hen, the washington journal. andill talk about the life legacy of nancy reagan, who died yesterday at the age of 94. ♪ announcer: this week, robert kaplan. mr. kaplan discusses his book, "in europe's shadow: two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through romania and beyond." brian: robert kaplan, in your you started by talking about books. why? robert: i think the ultimate goal of travel is to create a bibliography. beautiful landscapes and intriguing landscapes of you do to books about them to explain their past. those books lead you to other books, often very obscure ones. we travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. the relationship between travel and good books is inextricable. brian: why a book about romania? robert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? your first visit? robert: my first visit was in 1973. i traveled as a

fred kaplan, devlin barrett, thank you both very much. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> woodruff: stayus, coming up on the newshour: where candidates stand on immigration and how it's impacting voters. a young man in foster care tries to beat the odds. and how race plays into the heroin crisis. but first, iraq's christians have fled the country in startling numbers since the u.s. invasion in 2003. that exodus has been accelerated by the isis onslaught over the last two years. now some are standing their ground to fight back. special correspondent jane ferguson reports from erbil and the nineveh plain, in northern iraq. >> reporter: iraqi christians celebrate easter's holy week, a time of re-birth, hope, salvation. but many here see little hope in their ancestral lands. they have fled isis's grip for the nearby safety of erbil city, and they have no idea if they can ever go home. father douglas bazi has worked to raise awareness around the world of the plight of iraq's christians. yet even he understands why most choose to leave a nation they struggle to feel a part of. >> the big probl

guy: robert kaplan speaking to bloomberg there. let's bring in our chief investment officer talking about unemployment and he says that the market may be disappointed. the market is getting used to hundred thousand numbers from payroll which is becoming the norm and has been for a little while now. we started to see which is picking up and some evidence. the question and everybody's mind is would a further fed rate hike destabilize that? been quitebers have strong in recent years in getting close to 200,000. what will be important to the fed is wage growth which will ultimately feed the demand and lead to growth. the other one suffered in recent years has been the participation rate. if we see an update in which growth and the participation rate at this plenty to an sitter . >> a visa you have the run to november. what is the more important fact of the economy? >> i think you're right. this element of considering the mandate for the central bank to consider unemployment growth and obviously inflation. the political landscape is ver

later, another chance to watch q&a with proper cap. -- robert kaplan. thed cameron spoke about uk's future membership in the eu . he also responded to questions about childcare in britain and the syrian cease-fire agreement. >> order. questions the prime minister. >> intended to take 7 billion pounds from scotland and will he , mr. speaker, take this opportunity to explain why? what we have done is built a powerhouse parliament for scotland that will have more powers, more ability to set tax rates, more ability to determine benefits for its itizen. now it's time for the s&p to start talking about grievances and get on with government. they taken on presidencies. we have one more apprenticeship starts in 24 team. does my right honorable friend agree it's time for government to stick with the plans to live in our have the opportunity to take it on? >> the president is right. we have this target word meant to be trained in this parliament. we will do our bit by funding those programs. we want to do its part by contributing to the apprenticeship levy. but w

kaplan is my good friend. we disagree. i look at the ukraine and i see a massive intelligence failure by the russians. their intelligence and what was going to happen in kiev was bad. in this region, there is a sense that the russians are 10 feet tall and can do anything. in fact, the history of the past 40 years of russian intelligence has been a failure after failure. [end video clip] robert: george is always insightful on europe. there are few people who have been more insightful about europe than george. george saw the coming european union, the economic crisis years in advance. he has always worth listening to and he is right. he was in part an intelligence failure because vladimir putin's intelligence services have said do not worry about ukraine. turned out they cannot handle it. i think he downplays the power of russia in a country like romania because you can do a lot through purchasing media, third parties, subversion, intelligence operations, the building a network of natural gas pipelines that tie in central an

brian: robert kaplan and your new book -- you started by talking about books. why? think the ultimate goal of travel is to create a geography. beautiful landscapes and treating landscapes of you do to books about them to explain their past.

michelle: that was david kaplan reporting. several southern and gulf coast states are bracing for more damage as a series of severe storms moved through the area. three people have already died and others have been forced to evacuate. janet will have a look at the story coming up on the today show. >> slow-moving storms of the south the past 48 hours. this is one of the hardest hit communities. we' ve been talking to residents here, they are trying to salvage what they can. but many of them still can' t get back into their homes. we will have the latest coming up on today. jason: here in central florida we are not talking about rain just yet. we will michelle: see it creep into the forecast. michelle:we are on the other side of all that bad weather. amy, we have to just lovely. amy: we have been very dried we will continue this today, tomorrow and saturday. on sunday, that will be our next, best chance for rain warm and dry today, more sunshine than yesterday. we will hit 86 in orlando. a little cooler at the coast because win

. >> announcer: next, q&a with robert kaplan. then, david cameron takes questions from the house of commons. after that, i discussion on the life of nancy reagan. ♪ week, robert kaplan. he discusses his book, in europe's shadow: two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through romania and beyond. robert kaplan and your new book -- you started by talking about books. why? robert: i think the ultimate goal of travel is to create a geography. beautiful landscapes and treating l

christian kaplan live for us near the oakland waterfront with more on what happened. christian. >> reporter: an incredible scene here. you can see the bullet holes that are riddled into the side of this charter bus. we have counted at least nine rounds fired at this bus, no word if there were more fired that simply missed but certainly a very scary incident for anybody who was on that bus for the bus driver. you can see those bullet holes in the side of the bus. we have another perspective on this, if we can take a wider shot so you can see, they are actually at the broadway off- ramp off of 880, that's where this whole incident happened. this is where the bus finally stopped. investigators tell me they are going to be heading up that ramp in a few minutes to examine the area where they believe this shooting happened. we heard this shooting happened on the freeway that the bus was driving on, another car pulled up alongside and opened fire. again, this bus appears to be a charter bus. no word on how many people were on board at the time of the shooting or what may hav

. >> sunday night on "q&a" robert kaplan two cold wars and a 30-year journey through romania and beyond. he talks about their history and romania's struggle to gain fall. cy since the >> romania was extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions . everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> heading into super tuesday, hillary clinton leads bernie sanders in the delegate count with 544 to his 85 which includes superdelegates. >> republican presidential candidate marco rubio campaigned in atlanta and was critical of republican rival donald trump. senator rubio is introduced by south carolina governor nikki haley. georgia is one of 12 super tuesday states. nikki haley: hello atlanta ! i love to see the good people of georgia. ur sister state. we have somebody here and he has lost his voice. i will tell you the interesting thing is when you work hard and you fig

. >> sunday night on q & a, robert kaplan, he talks about the history of the balkan states and romania'suggle to gain democracy. >> romania was endemically a construct country. extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q and a. >>> next, food and drug administration commissioner dr. robert califf testifies at a senate hearing about p

service industry's for a fourth straight month in february and robert kaplan spoke earlier about this key component of the economy. robert kaplan: the service sector continues to be the the economyth in appears the manufacturing sector andinues to struggle continued weakness outside the united states. carol: we are joined now by ander renick [indiscernible] tomorrow.alk about you've gotten some economic reports, job-related economic reports. yellen a, what does that tell us about what we will get tomorrow? consensuse bloomberg is about 295,000 tomorrow. 70,000,s from below below 100,000 and something above 200,000. so a bit of a range. but on the upper end of the range and we expect something closer to hundred 20,000. we expect payrolls to go -- 220,000. we expect payrolls to go back to the moving average. incy: we did see less hiring the isn survey. is that a negative for payrolls tomorrow? do you see anybody retching dennis petitions? ena: if the history is any this employment component of the nonmanufacturing went down below 50, nothing really happened much to the payroll numbers.

dalgs fed president rob kaplan speaks about the economy this morning. kroger reports earnings before the opening bell while broadcom, h&r block and hp enterprise out after the bell. >> kroger earnings are going to be good. it's an economic indicator in themselves because it's the biggest grocer in the u.s. outside of walmart. there has been noise from walmart about food deflation. in other corporate news today, apple formally objecting to a judge's order directing the company help the government unlock the iphone at san bernardino shooter. this is essentially a procedural move. the aclu filing a friend of the court brief to the magistrate judge yesterday, urging her to reject the government efforts. >>> chesapeake energy founder aubrey mcclendon died in a single car crash yesterday, one day after being charged with breaking federal anti-trust laws. >> reporter: aubrey mcclendon was a natural gas titan who revolutionized the energy industry. he died in a single car crash in oklahoma city. the only occupant in a sport utility vehicle that slammed into a c

dallas fed president robert kaplan will be in front of the mike this afternoon. then we have economic data. the monthly s&p case-shiller home price index out at 9:00 eastern time. that will be followed by march consumer confidence at 10:00 a.m. home builder lennar reporting results before the bell. we'll also hear from david & buster's after the close. >>> let's check in on global markets this morning. first up, another look at futures, which are ahead, as we said earlier, but only slightly. we're up by 15 points on the dow. so we're taking some strength from the european session, which at the moment is green pretty much across the screen. only norway earlier was weighed down in part because the oil price is low. as you can see post that long easter weekend in europe a bit of a sugar rush for european markets. france up 1%. germany up 0.8%. asia, however, saw predominantly red across the screens. the hang seng index up fractionally, but both shanghai and the nikkei down. shanghai down by 1.25%. >> let's show you the broader market picture this hour. wilfred menti

robert kaplan talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was extremely corrupt, because it indefinitely had weak institutions. everything was based on bribes and doubledealing. what this showed was in this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q&a. the u.s. economy added 240,000 jobs last month and the unemployment rate remained 4.9%. the bureau of labor statistics release those numbers this morning. bloomberg news reports the economy is currently in the best two years of job growth since the last two years of the 1990's. as we mentioned, live coverage , tedac with john kasich cruz, and ben carson, and others begins at 10:30 a.m. eastern when party chair reince priebus is scheduled to speak. until then, a conversation from this morning's "washington journal." eli dourado from george mason university, director of their technology policy progr

. >> reporter: jay kaplan moved to olde city last year and has been talking to various arts and communityizations about how they can participate. >> i thought this would be a very exciting and interesting way for me to learn about the city, learn how the city functions. >> reporter: it takes less than five minutes to sign up on web site. you can share a little about yourself and was might be interested in. keep in mind volunteers are not guaranteed access to convention related events. the convention will be held at the wells fargo center but attendees will also be at the pennsylvania convention center and around the city. reorderergreeters are needed. >> admin help, transportation monitors. you can be a private dry, helping with loading and unloading buses, teaching folks about our fabulous subway system. >> reporter: 24-year-old tahir stills began volunteering last fall. he still plans to pitch in come july. >> we have a lot of history here. we are a very great city and i'm glad that everyone else in the nation can see there. we posted the sign upon 6abc.com n center city, katherine scot

in --ight, robert kaplan, shadow." "in europe was correctromania because it intimately had weak institutions. everything was based on bribes and doubledealing. nothing new.is was what is happening is the upanian population has grown and become more sophisticated. 8:00 eastern on q&a. >> wednesday, the supreme court heard arguments on whole woman's health v. hellerstedt, and abortion case in texas. it forces clinics to meet itpital-like standards -- constitutes an undue burden on women seeking abortions. this is one hour, 25 minutes. chief justice roberts: we'll hear argument this morning in 74, whole woman's health v. hellerstadt. ms. toti. ms. toti: mr. chief justice, and may it please the court,the texas requirements undermine the careful balance struck in casey between states' legitimate and women's fundamental liberty to make personal decisions about their pregnancies. they are unnecessary health regulations that create substantial obstacles to abortion access. justice ginsburg: ms. toti, there is a preliminary que

that money for no income health care even roads and bridges top republican and senate president bob kaplan knows it's unconstitutional voters and tax shares are looking to be protected from people that are willing to just take the money out of their pockets and spend it wherever they want while pertaining to solve their problems today's decision was a legal finding so lawmakers on both sides will have to keep wrangling over exactly how to use a provider fee money when it comes to the state budget the drivers into the hospital after being trapped in a truck dangling off by 25 the happened this morning driver's brother-in-law taws is a woman cut that driver off causing this word go off the interstate emergency crews quickly shut down all lanes and carefully remove the his life and of course like my brother family just so much stress anybody the driver of the truck was cited for careless driving for failing to maintain control police are still talking to witnesses to determine what caused the wreck nu at 10 colorado's national parks and landmarks attract a lot of visitors but there's also a h

-- john williams of san francisco, charlie evans of the chicago fed, and the dallas fed's robert kaplan, are also speaking. all that and we'll also have the march jobs report on friday. we've had over 200,000 jobs created four of the last five months. nearly 300,000 in october of last year. for "nightly business report," i'm bob pisani at the new york stock exchange. >>> a co-manager of the sequoia fund is stepping down. robert goldfarb is retiring following the fund's big investment in troubled drugmaker valiant. yesterday we told you valiant at one point accounted for more than 30% of sequoia's portfolio, an unusually high percentage. shareholders have lost more than 80% of their value over the past year. sequoia is a popular holding in some corporate retirement accounts. >>> investors are always looking for promising opportunities and tonight our market monitor guest found some, including two in a sector that has been under an enormous amount of pressure. he's david smith, chief investment officer at rockland trust investment management group. david, good to have you with us, appreci

. >> reporter: lee weiss is vice president of kaplan test prep. why the change now? >> sure, so the college board has lost ground to a.c.t. over the last few years. the s.a.t. is the second-most popular admission test for college students behind the a.c.t. so a lot of changes have been made, perhaps to catch up to the a.c.t. >> reporter: hassan told us she prefers the older version. bob schaeffer, with fair test, an organization critical of standardized tests, says students taking the new s.a.t. are taking a gamble. >> oh, we heard that all over from high school counselors, from test prep companies. nobody wants to buy a product the first day it's out on the market because they don't know what could go wrong with it. >> reporter: with the old s.a.t., students would receive their scores within four weeks. jim, with the new test, it could reke 6-8 weeks because score reports are more complex. >> axelrod: demarco morgan, with the latest on the s.a.t., thank you. the latest flash point in europe's migrant crisis: a refugee camp in greec,e, near the border with macedonia,

ktvu fox 2 christian kaplan joins us from the newsroom this morning for what we know this morning and also the hunt for the terrorist behind the attacks. >> reporter: secretary of state john kerry now confirming that americans were killed in the blast. at least two americans were killed but so far the state department is not identifying them or clarifying whether they were killed in the airport or subway bombings. kerry is in brussels for counter terrorism talks with the european union and with belgium leaders. >> i offer our deepest condolences to the people of belgium and to all of the families, all those individuals who have suffered an inconceivable loss in the last few days. >> there are still a lot of questions and unknown -- an unknown number of americans are still unaccounted for this morning, they include a brother and sister from new york and a couple from tennessee. belgium police have arrested six people in raids across the country. investigators say they also found a large amount of explosives and other bomb making material and what is believed to be an isis safe house. i

announcer: if you liked this program with robert kaplan, here are some others you might enjoy. pulitzer prize winning anne applebaum on her book. jay nordlinger talks about his book. and the inquiry into the sons and daughters of dictators. and margaret mcmillan, detailing the assassination of franz ferdinand and other events that led to world war i. you can find those interviews -- youat c-span.org stop can find that those interviews online at c-span.org. nancy reagan died today at her house. susan swain moderated a discussion about how his or he might hurt nancy reagan's legacy will stop here is a clip. >> nancy davis was an actress in the blacklistng area. she found her name on a blacklist. she was a young actress without much clout. she go to theted screen actors guild and he would help her. ronald reagan. into a longturned dinner and romance and ultimately she was aware of his lyrical ambitions because the screen actors guild was very much involved in politics. she had some early missteps in washington. was always known throughout their political partnership as the person

. >> this week, robert kaplan.discusses his book, "in europe's shadow: two cold wars and a thirty-year journey through romania and beyond." brian: robert kaplan and your new book -- you started by talking about books. why? robert: i think the ultimate goal of travel is to create a geography. beautiful landscapes and treating landscapes of you do to books about them to explain their past. those books be due to other books. often very obscure ones. we travel to learn and we can only learn by reading. the relationship between travel and good books is inextricable. brian: why a book about romania? robert: i have had a third of a century long obsession with romania because it is where essentially i started my professional life. where i realized i was finally doing what i wanted. brian: 1973? robert: my first visit was in 1973 as a backpack after college. i stayed in youth hostels from east germany down to bulgaria. that journey taught me that all these countries were the same. what i found in 1973 was at they were all e

looks from the state and obama represented the un arms black people men and women with brodeur said kaplan dash society under the first black presidency how they would address that to play a signature role in many of these incidents that were of the minds of millions of black people i want to thank you on behalf for those questions that you ask that were timely and relevant so barack obama determined early on it isn't a type of conversation i want to have but if i can control the condition is that it occurs today and hesitant to to engage in in discourse busily inflame the passions as opposed to leaving them. has when the crisis begins to occur of racial of hostility he wasn't engaged with dash issue to allow it to a slide of the one hand and when he did address that issue occasionally to tried black america with their feelings without structural inequities and should be addressed. in then to argue in the book with the criticisms of the of black people to do with white americans and that contrast to think about those difficulties the he tried to address. >> host: that is interesting. one o

jay kaplan, who worked at the department of defense and nsa, and alex webb, who covers apple for us. you were in paris, reporting on the attacks. what do you make on this latest twist in the french government? it did not just support the legislation. you've got 474-32 voting for this. >> i was culling french media reports today, and there was barely a blip on the radar. there is huge backing for this. i was there after both attacks, charlie hebdo and bataclan. they were petrified this could happen twice. emily: what are your thoughts? i know you are on the side of apple. >> you can understand where the french government is coming from. a company like apple has broad engineering resources. they can force certain people to insert capabilities to give access they might need. what happens to a smaller corporation? you force an executive to comply. what if the people who program the devices or software do not want to comply? can you put an executive in jail for that? emily: tara, you worked for the cia and joined us on the night of the paris terror attacks, which still loom large there. i

robert kaplan, author of "in europe's shadow." the talks about the history of the balkan states, and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. robert: romanian was a corrupt country. weakately they had institutions that were very -- everything was based on drives and doubledealing -- bribes and doubledealing. this shows that this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become more sophisticated. they are demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. announcer: sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. history,tures in professor brian craig miller talks about the experience of confederate veterans through reconstruction. he describes how options for support. widely between the southern states. he also argues that many southern organizations founded to aid veterans, instead put their money towards large monuments and pro-confederate. propaganda his class is about 50 minutes. miller: april the 12th, 1865, was the surrender date. robert e. lee, ulysses grant

out bloombergpolitics coming up next, emily chang speeds to jay kaplan.n miami tomorrow for the debates. we will see you from the sunshine state. sayonara. ♪ >> you are watching "bloomberg west." and human nations rights groups are concerned about a multibillion-dollar plan from the european union and turkey to handle the migrant crisis. migrants would arrive from greece and be sent back to turkey unless they apply for asylum. for each migrant sent back, a syrian already in turkey would be resettled in the eu. security officials in indonesia say the government will take all necessary steps to make sure president obama's plan to close the prison at guantanamo bay does not result in the return of an alleged terror chief who has been accused of heading an al qa group linkedlitant the bombings in indonesia. sexual transmission of the zika virus is more common than first thought. says there is evidence a spike in birth defects is caused by zika.

cutting down and still hanging debris. they gave the residents the thumb's up to go back inside. lori kaplan opted not to. >> i don't feel safe there yet. and as soon as they fix anything up, will feel safe again. >> the building maintenance manager, were here on site. all the residents say, they like living here and they appreciate what the owners have been doing. they would not like to talk to your camera, and it's by the failure of the main support column. and there's another one at the other end. and three apartments adjacent to the balconies. and the city ordered, the doors going to the balconies that are long gone, be screwed shut. and they say they will be able to be there safely. the investigation has just begun. >> are you in the business district on ludlow. >> yeah, i'm a couple of blocks, couple of blocks from the esquire theater. right in the heart of the business district. >> those people are pretty lucky, aren't they. >> yes, indeed, they are. nice to cover story like this where everybody is okay. >> they want the owner to hire an engineer, to the design of >> and debra dixon,

. >> you're going to put stanley kaplan out of business. [applause]. >> and the princeton review and all those guys. but no credentialing. there will not be a khan academy diploma. there will be no graduation from khan academy. >> that's not on our -- you know, we are focused on the learning piece of it. there's already a lot of other -- you know, there's scaffolds of assessment and credentialing already. >> right. >> but, yeah, you know, in the learning piece, there's a lot to do. >> all right. we're out of time. fantastic. thank you so much for being so expansive in discussing all this stuff. it's really interesting, and congratulations for your success. >> thank you. >> salman khan, thank you very much. >> yeah, thank you. [applause]. >> we'd love to have you join us in the studio. visit our website at klru.org/overheard to find invitations to interviews, q&as with our audience and guests, and an archive of past episodes. >> well, what if it's a home run as a not for profit? in a lot of ways it's harder, but what if it could be the next

robert kaplan from the dallas fed said -- look, consumer spending is going to keep us out of a recession. the fed funds rate will keep going down. , as theymagine why were saying, it's like a game of thrones. there's always an element of psychological warfare. if you want to impart where you believe the market is going, the market can fight back very voraciously. the u.s. economy is fairly resilient. we have significant headwinds demographically and parts of the labor market, but anyone was asleep for the past six years and woke up today with unemployment at five, you would think that the fed fund rate would be well below one. i think we have to keep that in mind. i understand the cautiousness of the federal reserve, but if they were to resolve in the u.s. economy we would have a different trajectory. stay with us. we will continue this discussion in a moment. as we go to break, here's a look at the 10 year into year today. dropping on the dovish fed. ♪ this is "bloomberg markets." i'm betty liu, here with lisa abramowicz. we are here with joe davis, a vanguard. he was there in the room

. >> robert kaplan, two cold wars and a 30-year journey through romania and beyond. he talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was indemically a corrupt country, extremely corrupt because it indemically had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and doubling-dealing. and what this shows is this is not nothing. what's happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." >> looking at the super tuesday republican results -- donald trump won seven of the 11 states in which republicans voted yesterday. georgia, virginia, arkansas, alabama, tennessee, massachusetts and vermont. ted cruz winning the g.o.p. caucuses in alaska. it was his third win on super tuesday. adding to victories in the texas and oklahoma primaries. marco rubio scored his first win in minnesota. john kasich and ben carson haven't won any races. me

robertay night on q&a, kaplan, author of in europe's shadow, two cold wars and a 30 year journey throughomania and beyond, he talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was endemic the a corrupt country, extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bride anbe an doubledealing. this is nothing new. what is happening is the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q&a. >> all weekend, american history tv is featuring anaheim california who was home to many german immigrants in the 1850's and known for its wine production before citrus became popular. visitedities tour staff many sites showcasing the city's history. learn more about anaheim all weekend here on american history tv. >> we are on what is now a one acre park known as founders park. basically, it was designed to incorporate the mother colony house and historic house. b

>> sunday night on q & a, robert kaplan, he talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy. >> romania was endemically a construct country. extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new. what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on q and a. >>> next, food and drug administration commissioner dr. robert califf testifies at a senate hearing about president obama's 2017 budget request for his agency. he also took questions on the fda's efforts to help combat opioid addiction. senator jerry moran choirs t ch hearing. [ no audio ] >> good afternoon, everyone. we are having an abbreviated hearing today as a result of four votes being announced at 2:30. dr. califf, congratulations on your confirmation. welcome to the food and drug administration. senator merkley and i have agreed to withhold openi

. >> sunday night on q & a, robert kaplan, he talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to gain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was a corrupt country. extremely corrupt because it had weak institutions that were very -- everything was based on bribe and double dealing. what this shows is this is nothing new, what's happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated and is demanding clean government. it is its number one demand. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's q & a. >>> every election cycle, we're reminded how important it is for citizens to be informed. >> to me, c-span is a home for political junkies and a way to track the government. >> it's a great way for us to stay informed. >> there are a lot of c-span fans on the hill. they will say i saw you on c-span. >> there's so much more that c-span does to make sure people know what's going on. >>> our next segment will deal with the crisis in the

fred kaplan. thank you. fred: thank you. come, scott to kelly's historic year draws to a close.ext. ♪ busy: apple ending a very day. it was a strong day for the rest of u.s. stocks. ramy, what happened? of green happened on the market's beard basically, what happened is u.s. factory data came out a little better than expected. it was still a contraction. that helped to boost investor sentiment. we saw markets closing at session highs and basically at their highest in the past seven weeks, in fact. looking at the numbers, the dow was up by about 2%. the s&p up about 2.5%. the nasdaq was the biggest winner, up by nearly 3%. this is its best day since august. as for the nasdaq 100, three stocks were down. you can see it closed up by about 3%. memory chip makers were some of the biggest gainers. seagate and western digital jumping about 6%. sector-wise, tech stocks as well as the financials were the biggest number one and number two leaders. apple, microsoft, facebook, google, all of on the order of nearly 4%. with apple, interestingly, rally seemed to ride the and basically was una

. >> fred kaplan war stories for slate, the new book, dark territory, the secret history of cyber war lot of people may think you're an expert on cyber, but you're an expert on war. you've written about war for a long time. national security, nsa as well. john mcphee, is he right, cyber war coming, are we in one right now. >> way too far when he says 90% of the population would perish. i don't know weigh's talking about exactly. he is our computer security industry and might have an interest in saying that. but it is true. look, we are -- we have infiltrated into the networks of military and critical infrastructure in many countries abroad. many countries abroad are trying to infiltrate our military, have in many cases, they're vulnerable to attacks. this has been acknowledged by the pentagon, which no longer a from it quickly. they accept that somebody's going to get in if they want to. >> reading your book, i get the point this is the new face of war, cyberwar. >> it will definitely be an important supplement to any war. in war, all of our qualitative advantage in weapons are wrappe

at the time, warmer kaplan was saying it was that for the committee, they have better things to do this and it puts them in an untenable position. but nonetheless, it showed the committee to be a resource for the nation in a way that other agencies could not be trusted as much. that's it. >> thank you, joe. [applause] >> ok, thank you both, george and joe. we have a few minutes, if anyone has any questions or comments, feel free. again, i would just ask that you keep them brief. >> [inaudible] >> i am pete davis, i was hired as an economist on the joint committee in 1974. my recollection is that mr. nixon scraped up some free cash, and the pardon the mr. ford wrote for him was written for all crimes and misdemeanors, not for watergate crimes and misdemeanors specifically. to allow him to evade paying the bulk of that tax that he owed. and president ford's press secretary resigned over that issue. isn't that correct? mr. thorndike: it is my understanding that the pardon was written with tax issues in mind. i don't know if that, in fact, led to him not paying. i just don't know. is that c

james kaplan calls an analogy to to a brother beyond death. dream of a memoir, a blazing map of familiar love and loss. gorgeously written. not since a previous debut novel, "lie down in darkness" has there been a more eloquence, courageous depiction of the tentacles of madness and ambivalent love for a father dragging down a southern family, even as it tries to rise. says hes week magazine" has the makings of a young charles dickens, a consummate storyteller in love with language and all of the variations of lights, people, and a probable situations. "the atlantic monthly" calls it earnest and unflinching. defining the relationship and their lives. pat conroy says he burns as brightly as any other writer of his generation. for all of that, it is a remarkable book. an interesting time to think about family, i'm pleased to welcome david payne to this table for the first time. welcome. david: thank you. an honor to be here. storye: it is a powerful of your brother and your father and your mother. and your granddaughter. all of them, i knew. why

. >> sunday night, robert kaplan talks about the history of the balkan states and romania's struggle to regain democracy since the fall of communism. >> romania was in chemically extremely corrupt. it had weak institutions that were very that everything was based on bribes and double-dealing. and what this shows is that this is nothing new. what is happening is that the romanian population has grown up and become far more sophisticated. and it is demanding clean government. it is his number one demand. announcer: sunday night on c-span q&a. >> each week, american history tv railamerica brings you archive footage. this is korea. in 1951 film documenting the hardships faced by u.s. forces on the peninsula. funded by the u.s. navy and directed by academy award winner john ford, the 50 minute film was produced six months after the war began. ofthe first major conflict the cold war, north korea was backed by china and the soviet union.

robert kaplan believes that policymakers should not rush to raise rates. >> i believe that the fed that we should avoid having a predetermined mindset regarding the path to policy. the past should be driven i our ongoing analysis of cyclical and secular trends. emphasize ate to this juncture that monetary policy remains accommodative. >>, meanwhile ray dalia says that an investor should of expect low returns and volatile financial markets but he does not foresee a repeat of the global financial crisis. >> am not expecting something like 2008 because 2008 was a debt crisis. there are a lot coming due in the canary paid. this is not like a crisis situation. it is not one of them. i do not think we're promising a big bank crisis type of thing. what we're going to see is this kind of situation where there is a dynamic of relative stagnation, lower terms and not much picking up and second and volatile markets. >> let's bring in hans redeker who joins us for this hour on the program. is job stay so let's start with your thoughts around the u.s. economy. what is the significance about what we

. >> ♪ >> dave kaplan, 71 years old today, from welcome back could ther. >> severe weather slammed partlahoma last night. take a look at this. several roads in tulsa now closed, and police and fire crews are canvassing the city at least one twister sent debris flying while causing a whole lot of damage. >> here is video everyone funnel cloud spotted earlier yesterday, the national weather service confirming multiple tornados, touched down, in that area, at least nine people have been injured so far. >> sue, taking a look at our weather, measurable cool down ahead for us. >> yes, and we could actually get some thunderstorms tomorrow. not predicting anything interest dramatic, but you will have to keep your eye on this guy late in the day friday. today, looks dry, and we have a bit of a breeze out there. your weather headlines are warm breezes today, we expect the winds to pick up little bit this afternoon, but much warmer today, than it was yesterday, the rain arrives late, meaning, after midnight tonight, and no joke, it will be a rainy friday on and off on and off with a few thundersto