>> absolutely, america is really an aspirational nation, and in those aspirations, we the people hold these truths to be self-evident. world, those free kinds of aspirations. it's based on those aspirations and not the hard-core realities, where people have fought in order to gain access to citizenship rights. >> watch this weekend on booktv. >> washington journal continues. host: eleanor smeal joins us now, she's a president of the feminist majority foundation and their group is calling for full and impartial investigations into the allegations against brett kavanaugh. before the investigations have been conducted you say you believe the accusers, why? because we know a lot about sexual assault and it's -- it is pattern

those kinds of aspirations. it's based on those aspirations and not those kind of hard core realitieses where -- realities where people have fought in order

general election last year we set out what our aspirations are for the people of this country, aspirations of eliminating homelessness and aspirations of putting more money and resources into education through and resources into education through a national education service, ending university fees and building 500,000 council homes and taking water into public ownership, overwhelmingly popular policies. sadly we did not win it but we got the highest vote for labour since 2000. i think we need to recognise people are not prepared any longer to live in a society that is so unequal and walk by on the other side while we have fellow citizens living on the streets. we must invest in our future and public services and that is what the fundamental labour party message was in the general election. that clip from jeremy corbyn in leicester this morning. in a moment we will have business news but first the headlines on bbc news. sir vince cable announces he will step down as liberal democrat leader once the question of brexit

as more people get online, their aspirations grow.re is no way we are going to meet the aspirations of 8 billion people without massive new investments coming from the private sector. if i were to do anything after this, i would work on that problem. did your parents live to see you become the president of the world bank? jim: not my father, but my mother. my father passed away when he was 57. david: she must have been proud. jim: yeah. she learned what the world bank was. [laughter] david: i do not play golf. when did you have time to learn? jim: i grew up in iowa. we lived near the local golf course. i played it competitively through high school. david: you played with president obama? and president trump? who is better? [laughter] , let me put itow this way. president obama started late in life. for someone who started late in life, he is good. president trump has been playing for most of his life and he is extremely good. he can hit all the shots. they are two different kinds of golfers completely. how is that? david: that is a ve

when they see the way he welcomed and the affinity between him and modi they all aspire i'm sure they all aspire to be modi's being embraced by donald trump the quote from bob woodward's new book with c a c. egypt was actually so worried about everything that's going on here in terms of the investigation the modern investigation that he asked donald trump are you going to last because a lot of these leaders they base their policies on what donald trump does or says he is the president of the most important and powerful country in earth in everything in the us it is important i got it but now just going back a little bit to what i was talk about those who are now to be for something and forgot to mention he is being advised by bolton you know so there is a picture of his son and daughter in law that is a fair comparison right ari i want to get everybody take on this i'm going to ask you to be very brief namrata you can start the most challenging part of covering president trump and the u.s. administration right now is it's almost like you going to finish my sentence for me

leader of the free world, those kinds of aspirations. it's based on those aspirations and not those kind of hard-core reality where people have fought in order to gain access to their citizenship rights. >> watch this weekend on c-span2's book tv. >>> we're joined by bob bixby. he is with the concord coalition and serves as their executive director talking about funding of the federal government and other matters. mr. bixby, good morning. >> good morning. >> a little about the concord coalition and the approach you take. >> we were started in 1982 by former commerce secretary pete peterson. the idea was to be a bipartisan public education organization focused exclusively on the federal budget and the rising debt and things that we could do to prevent that. >> mr. bixby, leading up to this point, there were concerns about a government shutdown and if that would take place. could you walk our viewers through about the concerns of why we came to the point -- why we're coming to the point of potential shutdown? >> every year congress needs t

as more people get online, their aspirations grow, so there is no way to meet their aspirations withoutnvestments from the private sector. if i were to do anything after this, i would work on that problem. david: did your parents live to see you become the president of the world bank? dr. kim: not my father, but my mother. my father passed away early at age 57. david: your mother must have been proud to see you president of the world bank. dr. kim: yeah and soon after she learned what did the world bank was. [laughter] david: i don't play golf because i don't think i would be good at it. you are obviously a good golfer. when did you learn golf? dr. kim: i grew up in iowa and we lived near the local golfing course. i played competitively through high school. david: you played with president obama and president trump? dr. kim: yes. david: who is better? [laughter] dr. kim: gee, so, you know, let me put it this way, president obama started late in life. for someone who started late in life, he is very good. president trump has been playing for most of his life. he is extremely good. he is

their aspirations grow as they get on smart phones, and there is no way to meet their aspirations without new investments from the private sector. if i were to do anything after this, i would work on that problem. david: did your parents live to see you become the president of the world bank? dr. kim: not my father, but my mother. my father passed away early at 57. david: your mother must have been proud to see you president of the world bank. dr. kim: and soon after she learned what did the world bank was. [laughter] david: i don't play golf because i don't think i would be good at it. you are a call for a. when did you learn golf? dr. kim: i grew up in iowa and we lived near the local golfing course. i played competitively through high school. david: you played with president obama and president trump? dr. kim: yes. david: who is better? [laughter] dr. kim: g, so, i know, let me put it this way, president obama started late in life. he is very, very good for someone who started late in life. president trump is extremely good. he is an extremely good golfer. he can hit all the shots. the

as more people get online, there aspirations grow. is no way that we will meet all the aspirations of all the people without massive new investments coming from the private sector. if i were to do anything after this, i would somehow work on that problem. david: did your parents live to see become the president of the world bank? dr. kim: not my father but my mother. my mother saw. david: she must be proud. dr. kim: yes. soon after, she learned what the world bank was. [laughter] david: i don't play golf because i don't think i would be good at it. you are obviously a good golfer. when do you have time to learn? dr. kim: we live right near the local golf course. i played it competitively all through high school. david: you played with president obama and president trump? dr. kim: yes. david: who is better? dr. kim: gee... [laughter] let me put it this way. president obama started late in life. for someone who played late in his life, he is very good. president trump has been playing all of his life and he is as from a good golfer. the

so their own aspirations for themselves and their children went up. > but was it hard to get a live here here to permanently? >> my father was a fully 46 trained dentist and was a professor. but when he came back, he had to complete the live here permanently? >> my father was a last two yea of dental school again. we were in dallas and he was a dental student at the same time i think working as a nurse in a hospital to make enough money. then we went, he finished his dental education at baylor dental school in dallas. then for some reason, we moved to iowa. we grew up in iowa. >> at the time you did not speak english. >> when i came at the age of five i didn't speak a word of english. >> so you moved to iowa. then in high school, this was what i couldn't understand. how did you manage to be the quarterback of the football team, the point guard on the basketball team, class president as well, and also valedictorian? was that hard to do? >> well, you know, before you get too impressed with that, our football team had the longest losing streak in the nation at the time. 56 defeats in a row.

as more people get online, their aspirations grow, so there is absolutely no way we are going to meetns of 8 billion people without massive new investments coming from the private sector. if i were to do anything after this, i would work on that problem. david: ok. now, did your parents live to see you become the president of the world bank? dr. kim: not my father, but my mother. my father passed away early when he was 57. david: she must've been pretty proud to see you president of the world bank. dr. kim: yeah. and soon after she learned what did the world bank was. [laughter] david: i don't play golf because i don't think i would be good at it. you are obviously a very good golfer. when did you learn golf? dr. kim: i grew up in iowa and we lived right near the local golfing course. i played it competitively all through high school. david: you played with president obama and president trump? dr. kim: yes. i have. david: who is better? [laughter] [laughter] dr. kim: gee, so, you know, let me just put it this way, president obama started late in life. and so for someone who started la

those kinds of aspirations.t's based on those aspirations and not those kind of hard core realities where people have fought in order to gain access to their citizenship rights. >> watch this weekend on c-span2's book tv. >>> this weekend, on american history tv, on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on lectures in history, brandeis university professor abigail cooper talks about african-americans during the reconstruction period. sunday at 4:00 p.m. eastern on "reel america," the 1919 film "the lost battalion" about the lead-up to the end of world war i and an army unit of men from new york who ran out of water and food when they were surrounded by german forces. at 6:00 p.m. eastern on american artifacts, women's history with a visit to civil war related sites in alexandria, virginia, where women worked as nurses and aided communities of newly freed slaves. and at 8:00 p.m. on the presidency, a look at how first ladies have influenced political and cultural times through fashion. watch american history tv

their aspirations grow.re's absolutely no way we're aspirations ofhe all 8 billion people without massive new investments coming the private sector and so you know, if i were to do wouldng after this, i somehow work on that problem. >> now, did your parents live to see you become the president of bank?rld >> not my father, but my mother. my father passed away early when was 57, but my mother has. proud she must be pretty to see you be president of the world bank? >> yeah, yeah, and soon after i named, she learned what the world bank was. [laughter] play golf because i don't think i would be very good at it. you're obviously a very good golfer. did you have time to learn golf? >> so i grew up in iowa and we near the local golf course. and so i played it competitively all through high school. you played with president obama? >> yes. >> and you've played with president trump? >> yes, i have. >> who's better? [laughter] >> gee. so you know -- [laughter] way.t me just put it this president obama started late in l

leader of the free world, those kind of aspirations. it's based on those aspirations and not those kind of hard core reali realities where people have fought in order to gain access to their citizenship rights. >> watch this weekend on c-span2's "book tv." >>> federal reserve chair jerome powell announced an interest rate hike at a news conference this week. it comes after the federal open market committee met to discuss economic conditions and what monetary policy actions are needed.

those kinds of aspirations. it's based on those aspirations and not those kind of hard core realitieses where -- realities where people have fought in order to gain access to their citizenship rights. >> watch this weekend, on c-span2's book tv. inues. caller: -- host: a conversation about fact checking in the age of president trump or the washington post fact checker since 2011. the world of fact checking now fundamentally different now than it was a little over 600 days ago? guest: no. fact the world of checking, which has been growing. since i first started doing this almost eight years ago. the core of fact checking is to explain complex policy issues. to viewers or readers. have a politician statement it is designed to unravel the complexity of difficult issues that often politicians speak in code words or short and. the difference for donald trump, we have never encountered a politician, certainly not a president, who routinely says things that are wrong. and even even after he has been fact checked, repea

and we do make an aspirational statement within each of the strategic goals. and then we have a very specific goal we are targeting within that broad category. so the first one is affordable and sustainable and we are making an aspirational statement to ultimately transform health care purchasing and care delivery to provide quality, affordable and sustainable health care for our current and future members. through value driven programs decisions systems, you will hear the word value quite a bit. and it really is about worth, usefulness and importance. you will hear other words like value-based payments. payment reform and that's really trying to get around reforming the reimbursement system today which is based on fee-for-service. so you are rewarding for volume versus value. value is a broad description but you will see that theme throughout the document. the specific goal in that category is to design a transparent health equi system that results in higher quality better outcomes and eliminates wastes and inefficiencies in the system. the second is reducing

they want to do something on behalf of their families, aspire ,o great opportunities in life and having grown up in the 1960's, i was part of that national conversation, also participation over the course of my career, immersed and involved. problem with what my opponent is saying is we have a large contingent of our district that feels he has not embraced them, the rule and -- communitiesl,ying and he refutes to engage them. beene eight months i have in this campaign without a paid staff, we have worked hard to uplift the entire community unapologetically. >> i often hear from people in district parts of this who say they feel overlooked, springfield's union station, and say an extreme amount of federal money was spent there. tahirah amatul-wadud, how do rural residents benefit? tahirah: there are 87 cities and towns. multiple counties, worcester county, franklin, and hampshire county, so a massive undertaking to be on this campaign trail and to serve a diverse geographic community, 3000 square miles. it is a lot of work. in the eight months on the trail, i made sure i reach people whe

perhaps there is something more there. there. to praise their son, also an aspiring writer. aspiring writer. the stress lines in the relationship. relationship. performance was brilliant the first time i saw the film. time i saw the film. glenn close's phase, and it tells you lots of things. you lots of things. proud, but there is something going on behind that. on behind that. there is some unrevealed story. unrevealed story. of what he feels is an underlying malaise in the marriage. malaise in the marriage. it is really welljudged. really welljudged. was a great performance is a really great performance. great performance. stop it from getting huge awards and recognition. recognition. close does is show don't tell, but it is very content. —— glenn close. when the timing, politically, the whole narrative is so interesting. whole narrative is so interesting. there are great performances, jonathan pryce is a great actor. jonathan pryce is a great actor. actors are even space to tell the story. story. i think you will really, really like it. i can't wait. read, i can't work out whether

he was the kind of leader that i aspire to be like. all these different pieces of who he was, and how he came across connect with a kind of learning environment we want our newcomer school to be like, for immigrant children and their families. when mayor lee died unexpectedly , many many of us were shocked. if not devastated. as our city grappled with his loss, the idea came from different members of our school community to rename the school in his honor. to embrace and continue the legacy of his work and his life. fast forward to an afternoon at the school where i was afforded the great honor of sitting at a table in my office with an easily, wife of the late mayor edwin lee. president of the school board at one of our over-the-top super amazing community volunteers from the rotary club of san francisco, chinatown. it was, in that afternoon, in that little office, in the shadow of these three powerful leaders, that the idea brought in to include anita lee so that we could honor the work that she has done in supporting education too. o

leader of the free world, those kind of aspirations. based on those aspirations and not the hard-core realities where people have fought in order to gain access to their citizenship rights. announcer: watch this weekend on c-span2's book tv. mike pompeo, nikki haley, and a john bolton held a news conference on the sidelines of the un's general assembly in new york city. they preview the president's schedule and priorities and answered questions on plans for a second u.s., north korea summit. they were also asked about rod rosenstein. this is 20 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. it is an honor to be here for the 73rd united nations general assembly. my first as secretary of state. kind of the super bowl of diplomacy. americans can be proud of the deal we are negotiating. americans expect the united values,o reflect our and trump -- under trump, we are leading. this was clear from the first meeting which we issued a call for the global drug problem. the scourge of substance abuses is intensifying on a global scale. within the united sta

her mourning clothes gone ceremonial garb and hastened to the city suddenly the goal she had long aspired to was within her grasp. passion isabella chose the city's finest square for her dramatic appearance. on the program maior she had a day is built and there she had her self proclaimed queen it was not until sunday . later that her husband learned of it. henceforth britain and isabella were the catholic monarchs of spain and that set the seal on the country's faithful union of church and state. the conclusion of isabella's speech left no room for doubt queen and proprietors of the kingdom isabella queen of cause steve. ferdinand her lawful spouse. on the thrones of the costly and kings replicas of which are displayed on the aka

aspirations of eliminating homelessness, aspirations of putting more money in resources into educationthe liberal democrat leader thinks millions of voters feel homeless. today he offered them a roof over their heads, saying he'd open the party to outsiders who shared his liberal values. he even suggested the next lib dem leader wouldn't need to be an mp. why are you confident that millions of people would flock to you, in this new system? well, there is clearly a demand out there for a rallying point, for large numbers of people, you know, who are fed up with the drift of the country, and the fact that the two established parties are being taken over by extremists. some conservatives and many labour mps are increasingly uncomfortable with the direction their parties are going i. with the direction their parties are going in. there have been conversations about setting up a new party or breaking away from the old one, but without an obvious figurehead from inside or outside the political system, it's hard to see how any of these ideas would get off the ground. and there's certainly no

i love reading everything that he writes, but if you aspire to be a leader, which he clearly does...l, interestingly, notanywhere leader, which he clearly does... well, interestingly, not anywhere in those 4500 words was there a suggestion of a change of leadership. do you think it was implied? that says it. you don't have to say anything else. but i just don't think doing this three days before the party conference, when the country is incomplete turmoil, i don't think there is coal for it. so wrong move? if it genuinely is this is the way i feel andi genuinely is this is the way i feel and i have no aspirations to lead the party, i salute him. two days before the party conference? awful. iam one before the party conference? awful. i am one of sirjohn major's greatest fa ns, i am one of sirjohn major's greatest fans, but for him to stand on the same platform as sir david and talking about how he dislikes brexit, i admire him for his commitment and fortitude —— david miliband. do you remember when he had an overall majority and was really struggling? give the woman a chance. it is a

cani down the path it was aspiring to. can i make a pointabout down the path it was aspiring to.t risk with an accountable government thatis risk with an accountable government that is being undercut by globalisation. and taxes need to be imposed by the government. one of the things that struck me, from bob woodward's brick and donald trump is apparently during the transition, and gary cohen said to him, if you are here for eight yea rs, him, if you are here for eight years, you will deal with the automation of the car and the truck and about 25% of the american population make a living driving vehicles. those are the bigger problems. there are those are the bigger problems. there a re lots of those are the bigger problems. there are lots of jobs those are the bigger problems. there are lots ofjobs for robots, fewer and fewerjobs are lots ofjobs for robots, fewer and fewer jobs for the are lots ofjobs for robots, fewer and fewerjobs for the kind of people who vote for donald trump. and robots do not pay taxes. that's it for dateline london for this week — we're back next week at

the ability to aspire to do something with ourselves.thanks to the league of women voters. >> moderator: thank you very much and thank you for joining us this evening. we are out of topic thank you to the candidates. thank you for you for watching and we might devote primary day tuesday september 4. good night. [applause] >> today at 9:30 a.m. eastern watch c-span's live coverage of the senate judiciary committee hearing on the nomination of brett kavanaugh to the supreme court. opening statements by the committee chairman, senator chuck grassley and all the committee members. the introduction of judge kavanaugh's from former secretary of state condoleezza rice, ohio senator rob portman and attorney lisa blatt. following the introduction judge katzmann makes his opening statement. watch the senate confirmation hearing for brett kavanaugh live today at 9:30 a.m. eastern on c-span, c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> federal officials discussed the lessons learned before and after the september 11 terrorist attacks. reall

aspirations of eliminating homelessness, aspirations of putting more money in resources into educationat leader thinks millions of voters feel homeless. today he offered them a roof over their heads, saying he'd open the party to outsiders who shared his liberal values. he even suggested the next lib dem leader wouldn't need to be an mp. why are you confident that millions of people would flock to you, in this new system? well, there is clearly a demand out there for a rallying point, for large numbers of people, you know, who are fed up with the drift of the country, and the fact that the two established parties are being taken over by extremists. some conservatives and many labour mps are increasingly uncomfortable with the direction their parties are going in. there have been conversations about setting up a new party or breaking away from the old one, but without an obvious figurehead from inside or outside the political system, it's hard to see how any of these ideas would get off the ground. and there's certainly no agreement about what might happen next. vicki young, bbc news, w

leader of the free world, those kinds of aspirations comments based on those aspirations, and not the hard-core realities. people have fought in order to gain access to their citizenship rights. >> watch this weekend on c-span 2 book tv. >>> u.s. chamber of commerce president tom donahue on jobs, trade policy, the economy, and the chambers political spending during the 2018 midterm cycle. he talked to reporters at a breakfast hosted by the christian science monitor. >>> hello everybody. good morning, i am linda feldman, the chief of the christian science monitor. today, we have 2 guess from the u.s. chamber of commerce. we have tom -- tom donahue and neil bradley. this is mr. donohue's ninth appearance at a monitor breakfast. this is mr. bradley's first. welcome to both of you. now to some biographical background. mr. donohue grew up in long island, and earned his ba at st. john's university and mba later on, but -- before joining the chamber in 1997. he was deputy assistant postmaster general of the united states. before that, vice president of development at fairfield university in

i wanted to talk about that america is really an aspirational nation and its in it's in those aspirations that we the people we hold these truths to be self-evident. a leader of the free world. the skin of aspirations it's based on those aspirations and not those this kind of hard-core realities where people have fought in order to gain access to this with citizenships and rights. good evening ladies and gentlemen. welcome to barnes & noble up all -- upper west side. as well as the director of i was instituted for workplace studies . he received his phd in american history. sarah kessler is the author of the end of the job. and she is a deputy editor of ports at work. her reporting has been said by the washington post new york magazine and npr. they bring us tonight the new book temp. how american work in business. how the american dream became temporary. every working person asks the same question. how secure is my job. for a generation roughly from 1945 to 1970s. business and government leaders embrace it for the american workforce. but over the last 50 years job security has stopped. i

we talked about the school climate, the network that creates the aspiration. they already have that. ,e talked about the advocacy the network that allows them to work with others to try to create a more just america. i want to be clear, it was collaborative. and it wasn't always fun. thethere were times when they were mad at each other, the lawyers, educators. it wasn't always fun, but they have an advocacy structure that is working. do you know what the black educators wanted? access. child what for my you have for your child. i want for my child what you can take for granted would be true for your child. i just want access. formula that is their vision, but in real time, those educators not only do not get their vision, they make change, hoping that america will do right. thing that happened when we got rid -- when we decided to integrate, we got rid of black schools. the curriculum, telling children you can be what you want to be, that is gone. not only do we get rid of black schools, but also black teachers. one person threatened in the early 1950's that w

so i got down on the ground to capture the termites, i had an aspirator, that homemade contraption can consisting of an air filter and tubing and under the first rock i saw beetles, white spiders, millipedes and at area and i looked up i saw a light homeland security truck. in the goalie were old sneakers, flattened mylar part hydration packs and evidence that someone had come through from the border with mexico. i hated to think of someone hiding dehydrated in this no man's land . my phone delivered texts that said i'd crossed into mexican telephonic space. the scrub here was more barren and others spot. i wondered if it was secretly occupied. i didn't so much feel eyes upon me as i felt an uncanny tingle. landscape made me feel dominant clumsy and if i was going to be clumsy, i wanted to be systematic so it again i began turning up over every practice in my path . termites leave behind erie wooden galleries, ghost towns with dicky dust webs wondering like tattered lace curtains. i'd almost forgotten i was searching when i lifted a rock and saw a length of exoskeleton. i dropped to my