you are the chief government affairs officer for the american retirement association. also the executive director of the plan sponsor council of america. two different hats tell us what , each job involves. guest: the american retirement association is an organization with 38,000 members and all of our members have a 401(k) or retirement plan. we have members who are financial advisors who advise 401(k) plans. we have consultants administrators, record keepers who do the daily functions of retirement plans. the organization i oversee, that is your hr folks, human resources, individuals who are sponsoring a plan, running the plan for the company. as an officer, i advocate on capitol hill, even on the local level, ensuring that we have a strong private retirement system for americans to be able to retire with a secure retirement. host: we have a big private retirement system in america, but what role does the federal government play with those private retirement systems? guest: back in 1974, gerald ford on labored day signed the employee retirement security act and a law.

saturday morning, a look at the retirement savings program with will hanson of the american retirement association, and jen abelson and nicole about their podcast, broken doors on the use of no-knock warrants by police. watch washington journal live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning on c-span or on c-span now. join the discussion with your phone calls, facebook comments, text messages, and tweets. >> house and senate members continue their work periods this week. the senate will be back on monday at 3:00 eastern. lawmakers are expected to debate president biden's federal reserve nominees. also lisa cook who would become the first black woman to serve on the fed board. when congress returns, we will have coverage of the house on c-span, wash the senate on c-span two and online at c-span.org or with our video app, c-span now. >> during a speech at stanford university, former president obama talks about the threat disinformation poses to democracy at home and around the world. this is at about -- this is about an hour and 15 minutes. ♪ >> please welcome professor michael for -- michael mcfall. [applau

the chief government affairs officer for the american retirement association. so the executive director of the plan sponsor council of america. tell us what each job involves. guest: the american retirement association is an organization with 38,000 members and all of our members have a 401(k) or retirement plan. we have members who are financial advisors who advise 401(k) plans. we have consultants administrators, record keepers who do the daily functions of retirement plans. the organization i oversee, that is your hr folks, human resources, individuals who are sponsoring a plan, running the plan for the company. as an officer, i advocate on capitol hill, even on the local level, ensuring that we have a strong private retirement system for americans to be able to retire with a secure retirement. host: we have a big private retirement system but what role does the federal government play with those private retirement systems? guest: back in 1974, gerald ford signed the rate -- the employee retirement security act and a law. it was roughly $138 billion in assets

the american retirement associations will hansen will be talking about efforts on capitol hill to improvemerican's ability to save for retirement. and then we will talk about broken doors, which looks at the , use of no knock warrants by police. that is ahead. >> next week, on the c-span network. both chambers of congress is in session, the house will take up legislation to increase aid to ukraine. they will consider the federal reserve nomination. members of the president's cabinet will talk about the budgets, including secretary of state antony blinken. attorney general, merrick garland on thursday. on wednesday at 11:00 eastern. live coverage of the funeral for former madeleine albright from secretary of state madeleine albright from, the washington national cathedral. homeland security secretary will testify at a hearing about the mexico border. and saturday, c-span's coverage of the correspondent's dinner with sights and sounds from inside the ballroom and highlights from past dinners. then at 8:00 p.m. eastern, trevor noah headlines the first correspondents association dinner since

up saturday morning, a look at the retirement savings program with will hanson of the american retirement associationat the washington post's jen abelson talks about the podcast broken doors and the use of no-knock warrants by police. what washington journal live at 7:00 eastern sunday morning on c-span or our free c-span app and joining the conversation with your phone calls, facebook comments, texts and tweets. >> monday, want to debate among democratic candidates running for senate in pennsylvania. live coverage starts at 7:00 eastern on c-span and c-span.org or watchful coverage on c-span now, our free video at. >> georgia republican -- video app. >> georgia republican representative marjorie taylor greene testified at an administrative hearing in atlanta. when the judge issues findings, the georgia secretary of state will decide if congresswoman greene should be barred from running for reelection over the january 6 attack on the u.s. capitol. this is the first time a member of congress has testified publicly under oath about the events of january 6. [applause] >> [indiscernible] thank you. >> ev

douglas london is retired senior cia operations officer, adjunct associate professor with georgetown university, and author of "the recruiter: spying and the lost art of americanor joining us. you wrote a piece in foreignaffairs.com related to intel world, raised what america could do covertly to undermine the kremlin. give us examples. >> cia would be continuing and expanding training and support it's likely been inviting since 2014. but the agency has unique abilities that include access to covert supply lines, foreign sourced weapons and ability to provide targeting support and intelligence our defense might not be able to do. there's also a lot of room to accelerate. biggest vulnerabilities that putin has, client states, b belarus, chechnya, kazakhstan, there were hundreds just recently protesting in belarus. there's ukrainian forces made of belarussian troops and czechens fighting for ukraine. there's ability to organize, provide intelligence and ratchet up to uprises if possible. something we could expand as well inside of russia. grassroots opposition is what putin worries about, just getting news into the country is something the agency can do covertly

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american people pay their debt? >> senators, thank you for this opportunity. i'm stephen patterson, retired environmental science and if -- this falls into the larger point of medicine community that was mentioned earlier. i'm here today to associate with your understanding of burn pits, and rebel health exposures and how those were documented. primarily i can speak to the time of 2008 and 2009 when i was a senior informal finds officer for combined joint task force gonna one was the headquarters for afghanistan. in this position, i travel to nation extensively and saw most locations where u.s. forces were deployed. my job was conserved to fighting force and identify environmental health exposures. the deployed environment is very challenging, it's very difficult to document the persons exposures in such a setting. equipment to identifying quantify exposures is often acting as our train personal, especially in remote locations. this is made more difficult as we often have exposures which won't, anticipate as well as challenge of actually place a certain person and location at a given time. this is made worse when attempting to look back ten or 20 years, as names often chains and personnel system does not operate down to the person