years of limited or negative growth and the very generous pensions granted to the public employees radel is rapidly heading to a point where it was no longer be able to meet its pension obligations in twenty seventeen the government ran up a deficit of more than sixty billion dollars in order to cover pensions despite this unsustainability an overhaul of the pension system is politically difficult to achieve. usually their government and. we members of the program only when there is no crash of a loved one. not because you need that good sees things in order to people feel more secure and more comfortable weekend for and seize them. and so all the time that they kept dry the reform always the scene this sales of cutting expenditures and not being pro by the in a better service. the issue of pension reform is complex and controversial and neither of the presidential candidates facing off in this sunday's election runoff have clearly addressed it however it's one of the most urgent challenges the newly elected congress will face in twenty nineteen. brazil's pensioners will no doubt be plea

tonight, david radel, the administrator of national commission's task medication administration discussespolicy. interviewed by a senior editor, howard busker. >> i want to shift gears to spectrum, because we all love to talk about spectrum. 5g is a headline almost every day now. is the u.s. going to win the race to five g? -- 5g? >> we are in it. we are spending a lot of time looking at the data to see what we can do to help the private sector get to where it needs to be to make sure that america retains its leadership in wireless. we are the undisputed leader in 4g. we deployed it nationwide in a way that was holistic and brought broadband the multiple -- to six covers around the country. now we are trying to do the same with 5g, but we have competition. china and korea are trying their best to be first to have nationwide 5g as well it will be a race, but we are confident -- we are confident that we are doing the things we need to do to go forward. announcer: watch "the communicators" tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. debate in up next, a the oklahoma governors' race. from the ok

the radel is made out of a gourd and it has pictures of sunflowers and sunflowers only, when there is an abundance of rain. if you look at the pictographs and artistry on most of the hopi artwork, you see nothing but abundance, you see butterflies and flowers and corn and rain clouds,s and squash, feathers, all the things that surround our beautiful life what we have an abundance in life and that is what our prayers are for in the community. to be able ton support the story making through this exhibit. and what that meant was i was a lead committee cater and all i was was a facilitator and i found 10 or 15 other people who wanted to help shape the story and brought them together and worked with the director and the lead curator at the museum and we sat down and talked about all the wonderful, huge, beautiful ideas we have in our community and the hardest thing is to bring those down into three or four or five major points because there is so much to say, but the space is small and you are talking about a whole culture. what we do is we divide up each of the sections and talked about m

we are looking at radel ground states. the most competitive races of the midterm election.ota, new york, california, pennsylvania and florida. campaignor our live 2018 colin during washington journal at 7:00 eastern on c-span. national security adviser john bolton will discuss the trump administration's national security strategy. he is speaking before the alexander hamilton society in washington. we'll have live coverage at 1:00 p.m. is turned. our live today coverage continues tonight with republican representative tom mcarthur faces andy kim in new jersey's third district house race. live tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. you can watch online at www.c-span.org and our app. tomorrow, candidates in west ridge and you's -- west virginia's u.s. senate race.