alfonso aguilar, for the group american principles on action, on their proposal on immigration reform. washington journal begins live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> dreamworks animation chair melody hobson addressed the graduating class of usc. she is the president of aerial investment in the corporate investment of starbucks. her husband george lucas was a usc graduate. [applause] ms. hobson: what a day.

alfonso aguilar will be on to talk about immigration.k in a moment. ♪ >> monday night on the communicators. public knowledge president and ceo jean can homeland and former fcc commissioner helfrich got rock on the merger between time warner and cable. >> very few consumers have more than one wire into the home. hardly anyone has totwo broadband providers. the question is, where do you get more competition? it is coming over that very same wire, so it is the cable company controlling two parts of your service. a lot of companies want to make new services and packages of services to the cable company has an incentive to favor its own product. so i think law enforcement is going to have to make sure there is no unfair benefit to cable through this consolidation. >> lots of americans particularly young americans under the age of 30 have got the wire. they do not have a cable subscription, they do not have a telephone wire such action is there early wireless -- telephone wire to subscription. they are purely wireless. you have new companies c

alfonso aguilar from the group american principles in action on their bowls of from immigration reform. washington journal is live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this week our guest is two -time pulitzer prize winner david mccullough. he

alfonso aguilar, for the group american principles on action, on their proposal on immigration reform. washington journal begins live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> dreamworks animation chair melody hobson addressed the graduating class of usc. she is the president of aerial investment in the corporate investment of starbucks. her husband george lucas was a usc graduate. [applause] ms. hobson: what a day. i want to send my congratulations to the usc class of 2015 and all of those who celebrate and champion those. now i would like to ask the graduates to do something. i would like you to look past the ring and look up the sky. now i would like you to imagine that you are in a light caps off and it took you two hours to be 24 miles up. insane, right? the only way you can get back to the earth is to jump. this actually happened in 2012 where a parachutist put himself in this exact situation. he said if he looked out, he could see the curve of the earth as he contemplated his next move. if you watch the video, you will hear his ground crew tell him to disconnect the oxygen supply hoses a

alfonso aguilar on the proposal for immigration reform. "washington journal"" begins live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. tonight at midnight, the patriot act expires, including provisions authorizing the nsa's bu;klk phone data collection. the senate is meeting today to pass an extension to parts of the law. president obama has called on members to renew the provisions. >> i thought this would be a good opportunity to remind everyone that on sunday at midnight a whole bunch of authorities we use in order to prevent terrorist attacks in this country expire. fortunately the house of representatives was able to put forward a piece of legislation the usa freedom act that receives overwhelming bipartisan support. what it does is not only continue authorities that currently exist and are not controversial for example the capacity of the fbi or other law enforcement agencies to use what is called a wiretap -- a probing wiretap. if we don't individual where there is probable cause, where they might be engaged in a terrorist attack but are switching from cell phones, we can move from cell phon

and to alfonso aguilar. live at 7:00 a.m. et on c-span. >> this week on "q&a," our guest is david mccullough. he shares new stories about his book "the right brother's." -- " the wright brothers." >> he knew how bright they were. wilbur without any question was a genius. orval was very clever mechanically but he did not have the reach of mind that wilbur had. they loved music and books. nathaniel hawthorne was orval -- oroville's favorite writer. catherine loved so walter scott. i one of her birthdays they gave her a bust of sir walter scott. house with no running water, plumbing or electricity and they are giving a bust of a great english literary giant to their sister for a birthday present. there is a lot of hope in that. i think what i would like to get to know more about was the sense of purpose that they had. it sounds like a bad pun but high purpose. not something ordinary, but big ideas. nothing was going to stop them. >> tonight at 8:00 a.m. -- 8:00 p.m. et/pt. >> the u.s. has the world's largest prison population wi

alfonso aguilar from the group american principles in action on their bowls of from immigration reform. washington journal is live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this week our guest is two -time pulitzer prize winner david mccullough. he shares stories from his new book. >> they did not even graduate from high school. his father encouraged them if they had some interesting project, he would say stay home and do that -- do not go to school. he knew how bright they were. wilbur was a genius. orville was very bright and inventive mechanically, but he did not have the reach of mind that wilbur had. they loved music. they loved books. nathaniel hawthorne was orville's favorite writer. catherine loved sir walter scott. their brothers gave her a bust of sir walter scott. they were living in this little house with no running water, no indoor plumbing and they are giving a bust of a great english literary giant to their sister for her birthday present. there is a lot of hope in that. i think what i would like to get to know even more about was the sense of purpose they had. it sounds like a ba