senator al franken will join me. >> i've got no patience with it, i will not tolerate it. we will make sure exactly what happened on this. >> the president could face grilling over the irs scandal. >> irs employees singled out conservative political groups. >> the administration is under fire. >> prior to the 2012 election. >> is it all partisan politics? >> i have no patience with it. >> we had these before. where were the republicans in 2004 sfl. >> george bush had naacp audited. >> there's no targeting. >> irs commissioner was a bush appointee. >> there's absolutely no targeting. >> this is not a new program. >> this is the back and forth that happens when people apply for 501 c designation. >> take it away or make it full disclosure. >> what needs to happen next. >> the issue of talking points. >> passionate on the game with benghazi. >> the process has been a side show. >> never seen quite that look. >> the president's anger and frustration. >> this was a terrorist attack. >> focusing more on the talking points than substantive issues. >> no acts of terror will shake

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. >> senator max baucus, senator chuck schumer, al franken and senator carl levin. ten democrats in total pressured the irs to look into abuse of nonprofit laws. they said political nonprofit. stuart: max baucus sent the initial letter 2010? >> september, 2010 to then irs commissioner do you go shulman, the irs commissioner to say on the stand yesterday he wasn't aware of anything. and it's undercut by the letter. stuart: in 2010 and what about 2011. >> 2011, the irs used key words such as tea party or patriots with the computer spread sheet launch directing the irs targeting-- >> and the leading democrats in the senate sent letters to the irs about this targeting at that point? >> they think that the irs wasn't doing enough so you had representative peter welch, saying the irs need to do more. stuart: do more what? >> more probing of these groups and he also had senators chuck schumer and al franken threatening legislation if the irs didn't tighten on these. stuart: the he leading democrats in the senate he they wanted the irs pushed for this targeting. >> you must

you'll hear the outrage coming zblup we'll hear from john mccain of arizona ands al franken of minnesota. their reaction to the actions out of the irs. also talk to them about new bank regulations they are setting. >>> the other story we're following, the bloomberg breach. we continue to sort out who snooped on whom through their highly coveted and very expen expensive information terminals and what information may have come out that should not have. we have much more on that very important story just ahead as well. >> absolutely. >>> in the meantime let's take a look at where we stand as we approach this final stretch. we've been in the red all day as you can see here. actually we're at the best levels of the afternoon here hua decline in the session of 22 points on the dow jones industrial average. 15,096. pulling back from the all time highs we saw last week. nasdaq is positive. continue to see technology catch a bid. nasdaq up four points. fractional move at 3440. s&p 500 looks like this. similar chart pattern where you actually look at the standard and poors approaching the highs of

it came from carl and al franken. nice try. >> you know what the thing is? can they be tied to the administration? >> hang on. pleat me explain. let me explain. they went after their opponents. that's the problem. what i have to say time and again is what if a cop unfairly arrested somebody and tried to plead the fifth? they work for us. you don't work for them, they work for us. >> have i to get bill in there because we have to take a break. >> 99.9% of people think you are a huge jerk. >> where are you getting this poll? you can't poll yourself. how many times have we told you that? >> the remaining are outside the building with a gun. >> put me out of my misery, polsters, have at it. this isn't affected obama. peak scandal days. his number ropes from april. this has done nothing to him. and i have a recommendation for lois. you get the url. i have done nothing wrong .org. and then list the things you didn't do. this is related to your job. it is a tax writeoff. >> i want to see the hearing play out. >> i think representative issa will keep his word and he

. >> her popularity has been going down the way al frankens is rising. the way he rose, to show minnesotans i am going to work hard at the job of governing, not out there trying to be funny, get attention, but the way bachmann, if you tried to choose the exact opposite performance for being in office, the bachmann show. >> al franken may have been a comic in his former life, but he is a deadly serious u.s. senator. i disagree with him on all manner of issues, but he takes his job seriously. this was a carnival act from beginning to end and she's an extreme voice. and you look at the issues she has held forth on, you have that mix of ignorant extremism, the ethical challenges. this is a good riddance moment if you're a republican out there today. the fact of the matter is we have given up five u.s. senate seats over the last two elections, republican senator in missouri, nevada, delaware, in colorado, and we don't because of these extreme candidates. and nobody with a better representative arch type of them than michele bachmann. >> krystal ball, here is

. >> or she could be running for senate against al franken.st people in the senate versus one of the most unintelligent conservatives who is unintentionally funny in the house. >> stephanie: exactly. we suggested ♪ oklahoma ♪ wherever there is the best show tune. ♪ blow high blow low, a whaling we will go ♪ >> stephanie: listener adam in illinois wants to get in on the fun. >> from one [ inaudible ] to another, my name is michele bachmann. oh, the day is at hand. we are in the last days. your jehovah god. i am not here as anybody's judge. wonderful. let's appreciate and value everyone's cultures but not all cultures are equal. be sub mistoif your husband. >> we have to understood barbarians need to be educated. they need to be disciplined. >> stephanie: fabulous. >> so yes, i have very much been a part of the solution and it's insulting to say this is a political speech because that is something i do not do. when god looks at me or you, he wants to say he is hot, she is hot, because we are hot for him on the inside. let's be blood brothers on

and there are other people that just kind of played the system we have a list here let's go to al franken the former saturday night live writer and you know he's probably earning a lot of money from his stuart smalley movie residuals and he's worth about eight million dollars so good for him last it's got us well i don't know i don't know who would you like to talk about all right well according to c.b.s. news one a fifth of all the freshman class from last congress locked in their office so he's obviously french people nine nineteen of those were republicans by the way only two were democrats what is it what is sleep in the office exactly signified that there's a reason money that they don't have they're not millionaires obviously very millionaire you know by a voice sounded ok that's not just once or twice but the entire term in congress in their office right well they only have to be there when they're in session so they're not there every all right fair enough so that we don't have a plethora of millionaires in congress just almost a majority but yes they're going to be some poor peop

senators ted crews and al franken. >> after president grover cleveland lost his bid for reelection, his and ornaments for i want to find everything just as it is now when we come back again four years from today. >> and they did return to the white house winning the election of 1892. the lice -- the life of francis cleveland on "first ladies"tonight on c-span. month, formers arizona congresswoman deborah giffords received a profile in courage award at a ceremony in boston. our coverage begins with the beginsal hunt traducing caroline kennedy. this is 15 minutes. >> we have a very high-powered committee. senators and house members, republicans, democrats, ceo's, america's greatest lawyers, most distinguished law school attendees and distinguished newspapers. all of us know who our leader is. she inherited her father and mothers intelligence, charm, grace, and diplomacy. the heart and soul of this magnificent place in this marvelous award, caroline kennedy. [applause] >> thank you, thank you, al. going tod that ken was introduce new that was nicer than anything ken ever said. thank you al

i hope she's not thinking of running against al franken but i think she would get beat in that too.ew? >> caller: okay. >> stephanie: she fleed the interview. >> looks like your accomplice there in the wood chipper. >> stephanie: who will run? that will be fun. let's go to -- but 2:30 in the morning. marcus just got home. she's like now i'm up. i might as well make this gol darn announcement. >> he was wearing his fur coat coming in from the club. >> stephanie: trailing glitter. >> glitter and vomit. [ laughter ] >> stephanie: like the scene from behind the candelabra. my boyfriend matt damon decided to come home. let's go to mary in chicago. hi mary. >> caller: hi. how are you? >> stephanie: good. go ahead. >> caller: you know, i'll tell you, this has been hard on marcus. my daughter has a theory. >> stephanie: what's that? >> caller: he's helping out all of those folks. he's taking the gay rights from them. it is like an exorcism. he's not really gay. he's taking the gay right from them and internalizing it. >> he's borrowing it. >> caller: yeah, he's doing them a big service and

from senators levin, schumer, max baucus and al franken among others.s -- to irs commissioner doug shulman. a set of letters from senator levin went to irs commissioner shulman in july, beginning in july 2012, and he was complaining about a reaction to a letter that he got from -- that he had sent to lois lerner. he is saying that, essentially, lois lerner basically gave him an unsatisfactory response to his query. he's saying that the irs, quote: was behaving passively. he also said in his letter to the irs commissioner, how long after a complaint to the irs does the compliance review begin? so, jenna, these are letters we are staying on top of throughout the day and we don't know if there are even more letters involves from both sides of the aisle, not just republicans to the irs, pressuring the irs to act during elections season. jenna: what exactly where were e letters asking for? what initially did they want? >> well, senator levin's letter cited a dozen group that is he wanted the irs to look into to see whether or not they were doing multipolitic

we start with minnesota senator al franken at the university of minnesota. and texas senator ted crews in michigan. followed by university commencement with south carolina congressman james clyburn , then saxby chandliss and tammy bal i baldw baldwin. commencement addresses beginning 11:45 a.m. on eastern on c-span. >> the lot happened in the senate, three consecutive years we didn't even consider a budget resolution. i served on the budget committee for eight years and throughout budget history since 1974 their rears in which a budget resolution hasn't passed the three consecutive years, this is the fourth, they finally passed one in the senate but the house and senate have not reconcile their differences and by april 15th, we saw our taxes says the editorially congress is required to pass a budget and complete the process by april 15th and here we are, it is no wonder everything has gotten so distorted and out of whack with the automatic cuts and a major debt, $16.8 trillion national debt, we are in uncharted territory. >> republican senator olympia snow o

is that something that democrats ought to get more comfortable -- >> al franken runs locally, doesn't do the national media, doesn't have to run, not that it's not a right wing state. he's won because he runs in the state for the state of the state. >> democrat been married for 40 years wins every time. number one, he's a very good mayor but number two he's established his own identity. >> we need more tommys out there. why michael bloomberg makes conservatives nervous. this is "hardball," the place for politics. >>> remember on monday we told you about the heritage foundation study that immigration reform will cost $6.3 trillion over the next 50 years. today we learn about the study's author. the harvard doctoral dissertation, the average iq of immigrants is lower than that of whites. no one knows whether hispanics will ever reach parity with whites, but the prediction that new hispanic immigrants will have low-iq children and grandchildren is difficult to argue against. we'll be right back. >>> we're back. democrats now they had to face republican opposition next year, but they'll a

al franken of minnesota, oregon senator, merkley of oregon, shaheen of new hampshire and udall of new mexico and white house. and finally we have another letter, set of letters from karl levin of michigan, the retiring democrat from michigan who sends very tough letters to the department over this and says their answers are unacceptable and threatens to take them to task in a hearing in congress over these issues. maybe the low-level bureaucrats aren't so low level and maybe they were influenced by democrats in the congress saying take on these groups or else you will face the consequences in front of us. >> all right. let's go to the press conference at the white house today. there is the -- by the way, jay carney is an embarrassment. jay carney, when he said there were only stylistic differences in the twelve different talking points of benghazi, that was an outright lie. >> that was a complete and total lie. where is it in the cia draft. we know what the cia draft was. where was the story line it all happened because of spontaneous demonstrations provoked by an anti-muslim video. w

you send al franken to the senate, same state that sends michele bachmann to the house of representativesteresting range in your congressional delegation and what your state politics produces? minnesotans have one of the highest voting rates, they take their time, size up candidates and go for the person, not the party. >> governor, when this marriage equality bill started to move in the legislature, did it seem like this was a sure thing all the way through, that the votes were going to be there? >> no, not at all. in fact, at the beginning of the session i think most observers would have said it is not going to pass. senator peterson who you highlighted is one of the real heroes in this, republican senator who came out early and said he was going to support it. there were four members and republicans in the minnesota house who defied some of the radical right of their party to vote for it. and people ended up voting their own conscience, democrats who are from rural areas, may have challenges next fall because of this who didn't have to vote because it passed with 75-59. but they wanted

senator al franken meantime.says that the questions for conservative political groups aren't totallyur political analyst michael yaki is here. michael -- could this mean serious fall-out for the white house? and if you'd like to connect with michael yaki. you can find him on twitter, his handle is at- yaki-blog. >> in order for people to give the money and also not be disclosed to they are the 5 01 people will have to spend at least 50% on actual social welfare. so some of these organizations have beennd more on just pure politics. in line so it is a legitimate inquiry by the irs. >> the problem is that you can't take criteria targeted this the constitution protect the first amendment. >> it just feeds distrust in government. the integrity unit that deals with the 5 01 c 4 cannot simply say we will take these group and go after them. >> if they were having concerns whether these 5 01 c fours spending more than 50% they were allowed to stand on political advertising. the matter is when you look at how what groups have come into the system the majority are more conservative groups. >>

>> wasn't al franken supposed to be that?urned out to be -- >> biassed senator in the world. >> exactly. given the ties between the entertainment industry and liberalism and the democratic party, but democrats somehow just don't seem to produce them, and republicans do. >> anthony weiner was close for awhile there before the demolition. >> even he wasn't a lot of laughs until he went off the deep end. >> laughing at, not laughing with. >> exactly. but the truth is, it's strange. when there has been kind of wit in the democratic party, it's been very dry. jack kennedy, eugene mccarthy, and not a lot lately. obama can be amusing, but it's not this kind of fire brand, sure-fire entertainment stand-up comedy club type of stick. >> allen gracen needs to get, like, a zillion dollar pac where he grows people. >> he was the closest, but even he wasn't as sharp. michele bachmann, as silly and uninformed as she was, and some ways she was a really good performer once she figured out how to look at a camera. always a plus, i might add. >

0> tv's perry mason the late raymond burr, snl's al franken who is now a u.s. senator so god bless that guy for never leaving the world of comedy. plus i'll give the republican party some very serious advice. there is a real scandal in the american military that the g.o.p. could take on to salvage their public image. unfortunately, it does not involve smearing president obama. this is "viewpoint." >> john: good evening i'm john fuglesang. thank you so much for joining us tonight. the eyes and hearts of the country remain pointed toward oklahoma in the wake of the devastating and deadly tornadoes that swept across the state yesterday specifically through the towns of new castle and moore. the news was not as bad as we feared yesterday as the death toll has been reduced from previously reports of 51 to more recent reports of 24 while still at least 200 people are being reported injured. but the damage to the communities are severe and surreal as entire neighborhoods have been completely destroyed and reports that up to 20,000 people may be displaced. police firef

is that something that democrats ought to get more comfortable -- >> al franken runs locally, doesn'tn't have to run, not that it's not a right wing state. he's won because he runs in the state for the state of the state. >> democrat been married for 40 years wins every time. number one, he's a very good mayor but number two he's established his own identity. >> we need more tommys out there. why michael bloomberg makes conservatives nervous. this is "hardball," the place for politics. [ male announcer ] could've had a v8. 100% vegetable juice, with three of your daily vegetable servings in every little bottle. a confident retirement. those dreams have taken a beating lately. but no way we're going to let them die. ♪ ameriprise advisors can help keep your dreams alive like they helped millions of others. by listening. planning. working one on one. that's what ameriprise financial does. and that's what they can do with you. that's how ameriprise puts more within reach. ♪ that's how ameriprise puts more within reach. meet the 5-passenger ford c-mc-max one. c-max two. that's a super fuel

democratic senators al franken and chuck schumer a bit frustrated when asked about their involvementouraging the irs to audit conservative groups. listen. >> do you think you should be at the witness table for the irs considering you've pressed the agency to -- were your letters at all to blame, senator schumer? >> the man behind those interviews is "new york times" best selling author and radio host jason meterra. welcome to fox and friends. >> good morning. >> so tell me about the letters. who were they sent to and when were they sent? >> there were multiple letters whether al frannen, chuck schumer and five of their democrat colleagues in the senate wrote in february of 2012 and then again in march 2012 asking the irs to crack down on what they said political organizations who were set up as 501-c-4s. and we it though who they were targeting. they were americans for prosperi prosperity, cross roads gps, other tea party related organizations. it even goes back to 2010 where senator max baucus started to request the irs look and investigate these organizes. and in fact the wording t

what i'm wondering if she decides to run against al franken. >> let's talk about who might step in herruz in new york last night and let's play a small part of how they got that crowd up on their feet. >> you sit back and you list who are the brightest stars in the republican party? who are the most effective advocate for free market principles, you come up with marco rubio, mike lee, rand paul, scott toomey, scott walker. >> so he's trying to get them excited about who's on the mench and who's coming up. where does cruz fall in all of this and is he a logical person being over on the senate side that could take on the mantle of michele bachmann? >> what's fascinating is what you had in the beginning is the tea party being brought into the republican party through the house of representatives. now all those tea party congressmen are gall. michele bachmann is leaving, alan west. what you've had is this tea partyism in the party migrating over to the adult wing, to the senate. so now you do have rand paul, ted cruz, marco rubio. so now the senate side, which was supposed to be the place

really make it happen it is not going to look anything like whatever is being proposed right now by al frankenis pushing one bernie has one believe sherrod brown has talked about it peter de fazio there's a number of members of the house and senate who have said you know we need to at the very least rollbacks it as a united but i agree with you just rolling back citizens united might get some of the money out of politics but we have to get the money out it out of the you know basically corporate control out of the whole thing so it's not just money corrupting our politics it's money corrupting our food supply it's money corrupting our media it's money money corrupting our transportation systems it's money corrupting our our pretty much everything and we need to unambiguous they say as you said these two things human rights as defined in the constitution are only for human beings people who live breathe that d.n.a. are born and die and money is property it is not speech period well said john a boca raton florida a john what's up. hate. to think i've got to think. falls somewhere in the line bet

into office he's got this he had a super majority until scott brown was appointed and there's that al franken issue but he still had a. substantial majority and i don't think anyone expected that lobbyist would come in and work with minority leader mitch mcconnell to abuse the filibuster like he did but in any case he had a sizable majority but it was there was this remarkable thing that happened you know right about that time the president is elected and all of a sudden there's this tea for. exploration across the country and you know where we're where did this come from i mean one of the narratives that has kind of taken hold on the left i think is that. the tea party was this astroturf group you know done for economic purposes but really what they were doing is they were drawing on mostly white racists are you know the first black guy in the white house we can't back. to what extent is that narrative true versus it was really a genuine astroturf organization or i guess i guess that's an oxymoron but. i mean what is it what happened here i think it's a combination of a lot of factors and wh

in minnesota against al franken who won in a squeaker and didn't get the seat for nine months after the election. they can't get a candidate. they can't get legitimate mainstream -- >> woodruff: why is that? >> i think because the influence, the energy, the influence is disproportionate of the tea party in these states and in the nominating process. we just saw it in virginia where bishop e.w. jackson was nominated at convention for lieutenant governor and they're running away from each other. >> woodruff: very, conservative. >> very, very conservative. i do think it has its influence and power in the house republican caucus and that is a problem for john boehner, a problem for eric cantor who's tried to come up with an alternative republican program, the kind that have that bob dole urged them to have and he's been rained on by the tea party members and the conservative caucus so i think there's an energy that they have but i really do think there are roadblocks and they certainly intheubt republicans being competitive nationally at a presidential level. >> woodruff: to be continued. w

host: the comments of senator al franken of minnesota, speaking to the students at the university of. mike is joining us, new mexico. good morning, republican line. caller: good morning. my comment was going to be a little different, but i was asked a question about your screener, and basically, my message to the kids would be, work hard and be an american, understand what our core is, understand the difference between us versus those around the rest of the world, and try hard to teach your kids, and i do applaud obama. finally he gets to the black out of wedlock issue, but that's really important for the black community to really kind get control of families and go back to their roots, which is really christianity. so good for him for that. i totally applaud him for that. i don't really agree with him in anything else, but good to him. host: mike, thanks for the call. another speech from the co-founder of apple, steve wo sniak, who spoke to the students at u.c. berkeley. >> take the side roads in life. you know, then you might find yourself out in the middle of a warm field, and you

al franken also chimed in where they were making the case, if you support immigration reform, you can'tgration reform without that. in watching that kind of choreography, it struck me how that gang of coalition on both sides has really stuck together. you've had republicans who are trying to peel off marco rubio and trying to offer ways to get him off of it and he's fought them off, and here you have democrats basically doing the same to their base. >> yeah, i think it was watching the -- i mean, there were points at which senator graham was saying, senator flake was saying, look, we've taken it from our side on some of our amendments and we've stuck with you, which i think was sort of a key note that, like, as these votes come up tonight, you better stay up with us as well. they did, actually, they did vote on that would deal with family unification, and that was a situation where those same people where senator durbin and senator schumer said, we need to protect the gang of 8 and voted against it. >> the collusion of the gang of 8 is really something to watch, especially for people wh

this year's speaker was al franken. the senate energy subcommittee chairman and former saturday night live performer spoke about energy sustainability and u.s. energy policy. forffered advise -- dealing with future success and failure. this is about 25 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. wasn't holly great? [applause] i told her i wish she would have shared one of those 25 drafts with me. [laughter] thank you, chancellor johnson, for your leadership here, for your stewardship of this great tradition of intellectual achievement and engagement, and most of all for that really warm introduction. i want to begin by congratulating some people who truly earned a day of celebration. a day to take pride in their accomplishments and vinyl he relax a little bit after lifetimes of taking an impossible journey to get to this day. i'm referring of course to the parents of the class of 2013. [laughter] [applause] look, graduates, i will say nice things about you in a minute. [laughter] as someone who has been looking forward to having

. >> chuck schumer, al-franken asked for these kind of reviews and they got them.o now they don't like the result because the irs is acknowledging and apologizing for what they call a poor customer service today? it's like returning an item to j.c. penney or sears. give me a break. this isn't customer service. if you file a false return with the irs you don't get to say i'm sorry. you go to jail. this is absurd. it's politically motivated becoming clear by the moment. as more of this becomes under light. i think it's going to frankly megyn, we probably have just not even scratched the surface of what was going on. by the way in 2010, applications for a 01 c 4. look at the i.g.'s report were actually down. they put this in place before there was the surge of applications. if there was a surge of applications ask questions relevant to the determination of status not what books you read, who is on your membership list run for money have you ever thought for running for political office or anybody in your family. >> megyn: what the irs does to the normal american citiz

this year speaker with al franken.he former saturday light spokesperson talk about the effect on national energy policy. this is 25 minutes. [applause] >> thank you. wasn't holly great? [applause] i told her i wish she would have shared one of those 25 drafts with me. [laughter] thank you, chancellor johnson, for your leadership here, for your stewardship of this great tradition of intellectual achievement and engagement, and most of all for that really warm introduction. i want to begin by congratulating some people who truly earned a day of celebration. relax a little bit after lifetimes of taking an impossible journey to get to this day. i'm referring of course to the parents of the class of 2013. [laughter] [applause] things about you in a minute. [laughter] as someone who has been looking forward to having kids graduate from college myself, i can tell you your parents are every bit asrob today as you are. they you during the endless application process, every bit as miserable as you the wrist time you got homesick

senator al franken of minnesota wanted to introduce an amendment that would make it easier particularlyrs storoll it out. the immigration bill it is one the top priorities for president obama. it's a top prior to for democrats and for the republicans as well and we know why. profess offer steven yale loehr is here helping congress sort through some of these issues. it's a big one as the professor said it impacts every one of us in america directly or indirectly. your calls, questions, comments. immigration reform. join the conversation at 866-55-press. we will be right back. >> this is "the bill press show" live on your radio and current tv. hi, i'm terry and i have diabetic nerve pain. it's hard to describe, because you have a numbness, but yet you have the pain like thousands of needles sticking in your foot. it was progressively getting worse, and at that point i knew i had to do something. once i started taking the lyrica the pain started subsiding. [ male announcer ] it's known that diabetes damages nerves. lyrica is fda approved to treat diabetic nerve pain. lyrica is not for ever

dana milbank, al franken, amy holmes, we'll get you back here at some point in the very near future. trust and a big thanks to you as well. that's going to do it for me on this rainy sunday afternoon. we appreciate you spending at least a portion of it with us. don't forget to tune in tomorrow. up next, it's the brand-new ed show with ed schultz. he's standing by, he's rearing to go. don't go anywhere. he's right after the break. with the spark cash card from capital one... boris earns unlimited rewards for his small business. can i get the smith contract, please? thank you. that's three new paper shredders. [ boris ] put 'em on my spark card. [ garth ] boris' small business earns 2% cash back on every purchase every day. great businesses deserve unlimited rewards. read back the chicken's testimony, please. "buk, buk, bukka!" [ male announcer ] get the spark business card from capital one and earn unlimited rewards. choose 2% cash back or double miles on every purchase every day. told you i'd get half. what's in your wallet? available out there. i knew devry university would give me

the other thing i remember is back in -- i don't know 2003, 2004 when al franken had a show -- >> stephaniean but there were so many more options for him in massachusetts. he was of course kidding. but also kind of the grandfather of my talk-radio experience. >> stephanie: yeah. thank you, honey. he is the godfather. we still have a picture of him. it's right there -- sadly they put a locker in front of it. but still, i know the god father is always watching me. lee in portland. >> caller: yeah, stephanie i just picked up a 42,000 pound order of wine heading to l.a. should i bypass the address and go to your house. >> stephanie: yeah. party over here, party over there. can you blow your horn for me. [ horn blowing ] >> stephanie: yeah. diana in nevada. >> caller: hi, stephanie. i have been a huge fan of yours for years. but i wanted to let you guys know that here in the state of nevada, the legislator is now working on a gay marriage bill -- >> stephanie: not in nevada where marriage is sacred in las vegas. >> caller: exactly. think of the money the wedding chapels will make. >> absolutely.

inaudible conversations] >> saturday on c-span, commencem members of congress and we will start with al franken at the university of minnesota. then ted cruz at the university of michigan and south carolina congressman gibbs eight commencement speech at the university of georgia. wrapping up wet the wisconsin senator tammy baldwin at beloit college. messman addresses glendinning at 11:45 a.m. eastern on c-span2. >> the state of the air force is discussed along with automatic spending cuts. the strike fighter program and operations to meet the asia pacific region needs. this briefing is one hour. >> good morning. [inaudible conversations] >> good morning, everyone. we have the air force chief of staff here. we would like to update you on the state of the air force. i would be remiss if i didn't mention the preparations we are preparing for january 21. this includes the secretary remarking on how it is a difficult time and he has worked tirelessly to make sure that we address the challenges. he has been at the home leading the world's greatest air force in countless military operations. we are de

we'll hear from senator al franken and senator ted cruz. and more on iran's presidential election next month. and we hear from john pistol. all of that coming up at 8 p.m. eastern. this is some of the tornado moore, oklahoma. several children were found dead near by the school. >> it is a miracle when you look at this building. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captions performed by national captioning institute] [now audio currently] >> so far more than 3,000 people have filed claims with fema. a fema representative spoke with c-span in the joint field office for agencies responding to the disaster. >> we're at a crossroads. we are setting up what we call a joint field office. we will have an administrative office. we started a couple days ago working on building as part of the process, we would come in, we would clean it, maybe put up some sheet rock, dry wall. we'll run communication lines, that sort of thing, and we'll work out a place for the people to come and work. we also need a survivors' registry through fe

. >> bill: like al franken did hillary clinton did. >> not listening.ing his voice about anything that bothers him. so he's kept a public profile and that tea party mantle as he started in the senate. >> bill: actually, as you say the tea party darling. i would point out right that, christine o'donnell was the tea party darling so was sharon ingle and richard mourdock. >> it is important to remember in the last election cycle we saw a congresswoman who had no real background. had been in office relatively short period of time. ran for office. run for president and go et some attention. michele bachmann. but this slate of candidates the republican party had in 2012 is not going to be the slate of candidates they have in 2016. a lot of people didn't run. most of them had former attached to their name. and the rest of them weren't very prominent in their position. so to think that the next slate of candidates is going to be like the last one and that a first-term senator is going to be -- you know, a prominent experienced person on that panel like they wou