with professor barbara feinman todd. a with professor barbara feinman todd. then, justice ruth bader ginsburg and it will be followed by a presidential leadership survey. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," georgetown professor barbara feinmann todd. and how she was still able to did herself out of the washington swamp. brian: barbara feinman todd, your book is "pretend i'm not here," why the title? barbara: the most salient reason is because i felt as if i was not here for many years. that other people treated me as though i was not visible. and that was in part because of the role i played. i was a ghostwriter. but also because it was easier for people who needed a helper to pretend as if i was not there. brian: why? barbara: because i think people don't >> people in washington want power. they want to appear powerful. needing help is seen by a lot of people i guess as a sign of weakness. brian: we are going to talk about a lot of the people, he -- but just name a lot of them so people know how involved you were with ghostwriting. barbara: i want to make a dis

barbara: i did. morry taylor would go on radio shows and tell everybody about this nice little jewish girl who was a ghostwriter. he was the antidote to working in the white house. i came off of the white house gig and all this stuff happened that we talked about. then i got deposed by the whitewater committee because i slept over at the white house when some rose billing records having to do with whitewater were found. just all this unpleasant stuff happened and i was literally in my apartment packing up boxes and i was going to move to key west and michael lewis called and he said "what are you doing?" no, i have the perfect gig for you. you are going to be more a aylor's-- morry t ghostwriter. i was like i don't think so. he said no, really, you want to do this. he paid me the best money i ever made. he was just a lot of fun to be around and he really helped me get my sense of humor back. he reminded me that it is important to take things seriously but not take yourself , seriously. brian: raised

with professoray barbara feinman todd. a with professor barbara feinman todd.hen, justice ruth bader ginsburg and it will be followed by a presidential leadership survey. ♪ announcer: this week on "q&a," georgetown professor barbara feinmann todd. and how she was still able to did herself out of the washington swamp. brian: barbara feinman todd, your book is "pretend i'm not here,"

barbara: you have to great warhorses.of a national parks the future of our national energy and development at stake. industry and protecting the national parks can coexist. i have seen it one industry has come in and we have been able to lay out what we want to accomplish. it does take a certain amount of trust and to sometimes that is hard to develop because we're so used to wearing our white hats and our black hats that we forget to talk to one another but the first step has been taken and that gives me a great deal of satisfaction. >> barbara brown would be the first to admit that in washington, rarely has there been such a clear victory and almost never is there such a lasting one. the political drama the political drama that shapes our laws and lives is a constant struggle. for now, the regulation as written will be an force but this role and the clean air act itself will be challenged again as well all of our laws. we have seen a former park ranger that one person can have an effect on national legislation and so to

. >> in washington, barbara brown is concerned.nment will soon be inundated with 90 new permits to locate power plants and strip mines in the very shadow of national parks. this could be the biggest battle of her new career. >> what brought this job to me was i took a backpacking trip for the first time in my life, and i was totally stunned by the beauty of the grand canyon. ♪ >> the grand canyon is there because it is a natural thing of -- natural scenic wonder. i have seen it when it is crystal clear and all the colors shimmer, and i've seen it when it is hard to see a rock across the gorge. pollution is probably the number one threat to our national parks. there is a problem, and if something's not done about it, there may not be national parks as we know them today. ♪ >> one of the first to see the problem is a former park ranger and now naturalist photographer, gordon anderson. from a remote corner of bryce canyon, utah, his is a remote voice in the wilderness. >> i make several trips per year to bryce canyon to photograph. my

barbara start just perfectly laid it out for us. it could be one of the options. she points out it hasn't been taken to the president yet. gayle, stay with me. i have rick francona. what do you make of this possibility? >> oh, this is a big step. this would be a major shift in our policy and it really gets into a political nightmare. if you look at what's going on in syria right now, you've got a conglomeration of the syrians. that means the syrians are supported by the russians, iranians and hezbollah operating. you have the free syrian backed by the turks and this american backed organization called the syrian democratic forces. if we're going to go in there and work with them, that's going to put us at political odds with both the russians and the turks. so, this is going to be not only a military problem, but it's going to be a huge political mountain that we're going to have to climb. we have tried to take a hands-off approach with the turks so far, but this will put us in direct confrontation because we're going to want to put american troops there to take r

larry ran the paint crews and barbara did the books. in 1999 they expanded to roswell where they now employ 130 people. last week i joined them to celebrate the expansion of 70 new employees. leta is paying off for roswell and helping barbara grow her business. thank you, barbara, and much success in all that you do. clay bush from valley cold storage. he was moving where development is booming and businesses are taking advantage of our border, where they are taking state investments has resulted in one of the country's largest inland ports. valley cold storage recently broke ground on a massive facility. $14 million of investment. clay, thank you for your investment in new mexico and much success to you. zach dago is the president of precheck. thank you for coming. this was a company that moved to new mexico from texas. they found two things when they got here. a great workforce and programs that help them grow from seven employees to 188 employees. their annual payroll grew from zero to $5.2 million. they have invested $9.7 million in

garcia. >> director barbara garcia. >> barbara french laid out the tdm program i have a straightforward question how real is that policeman. >> it is real we have the dollars that be 1 pointed 3 correct and $10 million to assist us with the parking issues the staff offsite construction and lalth at other offsite parking and release some of the parking in the parking lot to insure that patients go have access and have community assess and bicycle parking and ride share and assess for diddles individuals so we have a robust system and working closely with the mta on the tdm plan. >> yesterday you gave us an e-mail with detailed about the lease division about the ground lease in it you call out the long term mitigation planning i love for you to talk a little bit about the potential revenue bond for the $20 million gap sincerely with any conversation with supervisor ronen we share a genuine concern a huge gap not convinced a bond measure will fund it gap can you talk a little bit about what you're thinking. >> absolutely and share that with our cfo we are looking at did revenues that will

barbara mikulski, how many of you have heard of barbara? what an amazing woman and someone who was a mentor to me. well, so i wanted to tell those stories and also wanted to share, how do you get through some of these times? when people are calling you dates and tried to shut you up and tried to shut you down. because i believe in life. we face those things regardless of whether we are in politics, whether we are in a community situation, at work, in our family. there are people who will try to shut you down. and how do you retain your toughness? how do you summon your toughness? so in many ways it's an impairment -- empowerment book as well. i had -- how did i get the name? while i was writing this book during that period of time people would keep coming up to me and say, how did you get to be so tough? how did you get to be -- and i was on the top, just, i was born in brooklyn. i mean -- [laughter] i'm just who i am and i do what i think that you know, you are really tough. i'm not -- we had this big argument and then i decided maybe i re

ladies and gentlemen barbara boxer. [applause]. will, where's my has been. today is our wedding anniversary 55 years to one guy. it's amazing. i'm so thrilled to be with you. an interesting time don't you think? it's an interesting time. jamie before you leave everybody in the writers festival so professional and so helpful stu and i about 12 years ago we brought a house it already had it. this library and now the writers festival that really made my day. what more could we want. i'm going to talk about this book it took me four years to write this book. this is an effort of love and memory and i had been published before. this is my fourth published book. this one is the closest to my heart. for a couple of reasons. as we get older we do get wiser we do understand things better. here we are all products of the times in which we live. so for someone like me and yesterday we have a little bit of a writers lunch that was so fabulous. they're so brilliant and they look at things from way. and put it in the context of the universe and i had been at ground zero a

barbara boxer the art of tough. ladies and gentlemen barbara boxer. walt was my husband. today is our wedding anniversary. only for you what i do this on my 55th wedding anniversary but yes and here. fifty-five years who would amazing. i'm so thrilled to be with you today an interesting time don't you think some he said zero please. it's an interesting time. before you leave everyone in the writer festival so professional and so helpful and thank you for everything stuart and i about 12 years ago we bought a house is such a special place. it already has this library now the writers festival that really made my day. what more could we want. i'm good at talk about this book. it took me four years to write this book. it was an effort of love and effort of memory and i had been published before and this one is a closest to my heart. for a couple of reasons. as we get older we do get wiser we do understand things better and were all products in the times in which we live. for someone like me and yesterday we have a little writers lunch it was so fabulous. the writers who were

[laughter] >> barbara boxer is a great candidate for the democraticic party. female and learning disabled . vice where this this is the name he is on tv for him. is whh he said he continues to prove she is an unfit for any office. even hire a band the turd inspector. >> this is the worst but i will not read them all to you bet this one but in the feature barbara boxer could be remembered the nazi war criminal who directed the experiments may have decided to come back as a woman. but yot but you can see how tough ones. >> won the fiesta knicks in but here is what i do. i reached about politics and issues. is a creative outlet. so when i got to the house house of representatives after serving as a county supervisor i said where's the gym. and they said i am used to the filibuster. i don't want to lose my way here. when i get to the house of representatives i say where's the gym. they say where there is no gym for women. there is a little room you can get in the gym. i'm from california this is 1983. we were already working it out. and jumping around. i said what

former president george hw bush and his wife former first lady barbara bush performed the honors.they received a standing ovation from the crowd. both president bush and his wife were recently in the hospital. both are doing well. ♪[ music ] >>> there's lady gaga rappeling in for a high flying super bowl halftime show and fan reaction just pouring in tonight on twitter. that's amazing. michelle says that was one of the best halftime those i've seen in years. lady gaga definitely blew the performance out of the water. >> purple steve tweeted at us great voice, no politics, a bit overproduced for my taste, but all super bowls are, solid performance, christian moreno commented on the coin toss writing great choice and surprise. thank you, president bush, and first lady barbara bush, great patriots. >>> the other spectacle, of course, the commercials, let's look at the top trending one. mr. clean has been trending on twitter even though he's been around for years. >> not only did some viewers director around here find this a little creepy to tweet about and troll other commercials as

is, and his experience, barbara. >> reporter: hi brooke. oddly enough, general mcmaster is in an army job, a very senior job, grant you but he is involved in army training and doctrine. something very sort of inside the weeds. but he is a veteran of multiple tours in iraq and afghanistan. he has worked for the u.s. central command. he knows that region of the world very well in the years that he rose to become the three-star general that he currently is. this is his expertise, this part of the word. he's going to have to deal with some other areas. he has also served in germany. he knows europe. not a lot of experience as much perhaps in the pacific. he will be dealing of course with the challenge of north korea, of china, of the pacific rim economic issues as they affect national security. general mcmaster is very well respected inside the military. and i think what he will bring to the table is a very plain spoken attitude as i think you and i were chatting a few minutes ago. this is a guy that doesn't suffer fools. he is going the say wh

barbara from oklahoma. independent caller. ahead, please. >> yeah. hearinghe things i keep people talk about but nobody seems to pay any attention to is the fact that the more muslims this country, verybody knows that they want sharia law. hey come into the country, become citizens, and vote and you're not going to tell me that judge almost one passed it, that there eventually sharia law.t i'm one of those people who was downsized from california so i it is to lose a job. host: thank you. from e last call annapolis, maryland. john. you get the last word this morning. hi, there. hi. thank you for taking my call. i'm an african-american general contractor and i'm calling on the immigration issue. i have crew from mexico and they're the hardest working people. for been trying to hire many, many years african-american construction orkers for jobs and also white folks for the same jobs but to be honest, the only guys that do no complaints h are the mexican people. our guys are lazy and the whites to be managers. as an american african-american ontractor i

. >> reporter: barbara callahan was a passenger. >> i flew forward. like this. and hit a pole that was in front of me. and bruised my forehead. >> reporter: the 74-year-old had just traveled to honduras. >> i would classify it as a loss of situational awareness. >> reporter: the airport director says the drive carry new of but lost track of the construction area before backing into it. >> should the mobile lounges be any safer? >> we always are looking to make things safer. i think that they are extremely safe, among the safest vehicles we have operating on the air field today. >> reporter: the i-team checked out mobile lounges and one of the operators let us see his perspective at night inside the cab. the view is limited on either cameras help people see behind them. are the blind spotted eliminated? >> i don't know that everything's eliminated, but to the extent we can identify blind spots we address them. >> reporter: the i-team confirmed something the dodsons alleged, the speedometer is not always well illuminated in the cab at night, it can be difficult to

every summer until i was 15 years old, my grandmother was allowed by barbara to use a house on barbara's rather large estate in connecticut. when ever i tried to talk to barbara, she was always working on another book. "the guns of august" is one of the first serious history books i ever read and influenced me to become a historian, i think, after a while. at least i have that going for me. well, i want to begin this talk by showing you photos of four leaders of the largest and most sophisticated opposition to any war in u.s. history until the vietnam war. none of these people is known to most americans. even -- this is the only figure i think, who's known to most historians except those who focus precisely on this period. each of these figures was a l d leader of a major segment of this anti-war movement, this coalition a better way to put it, because it involved people in congress and outside congress, one of the reasons it was as powerful and influential as it was. as most of you probably know, follette, a senator, republican, intellectual motivation leader of progressive republicans

we worked a lot before that in getting there in the first place barbara has been at the tipping point of getting all of that done. i also want to salute an executive member of the executive committee of the board and with secretary chuck hagel one of the kcochairs the future of iran international advisory council. it has now been a year since the joint comprehensive plan went into consideration. the consensus is other parties have largely met their obligations but there is discontent about the impact of the deal on both sides. we are also honored to welcome after the first panel senator chris murphy to discuss the deal from the congressional point of view, so we are delighted we will take time out of our crowded schedule. i turn it over to provide welcoming remarks. >> thank you, fred. thanks to the atlantic council. it is so remarkable. this is a well run organization. as you know, it is a good place to come for these things. this is the first time we have had one of these in which the iran nuclear deal isn't front page news. i'm hoping that the wisdom that will come out of this meet

why would i talk to barbara bara streisand?ver and say, "i'm a huge fan." >> she's been incredibly gracious and introduced herself to me and we sort of moved on. >> stephen: does she just, like, hang out like a normal person? >> well, yeah. >> stephen: because she is a living legend. >> she is a living legend. she does. she hangs out. she gives jim notes every once in a while. she's incredibly gracious on all of us and she sort of disappears which is great. and the thing that is sort of amazing about that whole thing, jim will eventually, every once in a while tell a story. "barbara and i were taking a road trip across the country and stopping at truck stops." and i say, "i'm sorry, you and barbara were driving across the country and stopping by truck stops? and he said, "yeah." and i was like, "how was that?" and he was like, "oh,, you know, it's barbara. she's fascinated and, you know, she gets along with everybody. she fits in with everybody." which is true. she's a completely wonderful human being. but that's the documentar

.) >> barbara smith. >> (clapping.) >> barbara smith >> (clapping.) >> i want to recognize theo miller an incredible champion theo has been the inside guy that has been silently pushing the mayor and we have a host of the community nonprofit organizations our partners i want to recognize mercy bridge helping us to troofrm all of this. >> (clapping.) >> thank you very much and to the housing authority commissioners grateful for your time and commitment when times were tough and more importantly recognition the residents that have been living in public housing for generations that have's endured the roaches and rats and now this is our gift to i got that drama a trip to department of housing and urban development executive said people have suffered through the rats and roaches and today is about standing at all and strong. >> (clapping.) >> so it feels good to stand up here we have the junior 49ers thank you and a ton of residents leaders i'm looking at to see the jackson family is here thank you, larry everyone at forefront prior to my election on the board of supervisors now there is o

. >> let's feed some to barbara and see if she lives. >> barbara not only lived, she invested in the grilled cheese restaurant called tom and chee. >> everything in my bones says this is a runaway hit. >> it's now expanded to 18 franchises across 14 states. total sales so far, a reported $47 million. >> i'm john, this is my partner wombi. >> it's been just 14 months since kevin felt the love for the 3d greeting card company love pop. >> we are tapping into something much bigger, the human need to connect. i was the most nervous at that point over any other time in my life. >> what's yours, barbara? >> real estate, of course, but his is money. >> since then, their company has reported growth from $300,000 in sales to more than $8 million, kevin says his initial investment has been returned tenfold. >> he should be very excited. >> you are the doctor of -- >> i am the doctor of love. >> and this was the company that knocked daymond's socks off. >> our company is bombas, and we are here today seeking $200,000 in exchange for a 5% equity stake. >> in season six, randy goldberg and david

all right, barbara starr at the pentagon, thanks very much. congresswoman kathleen rice is joining us. congresswoman, you're a member of the house homeland security committee. your district, by the way, is on long island, not very farah w a from that russian spy ship lurk ug off the connecticut coast right now. only 30 miles or so off the coast. what do you make that of? >> i think it's just another incident, wolf, of provocation by russia and now it's directed at america. and the question is how is president trump and his administration going to answer this? and that's why all the issues that are going on here, domestically, are affecting i believe the president's ability to have an objective response to clear provocations by one of our enemies. so, it's a very fluid situation right now and i think what we need to do is try to resolve as many of the issues that are going on. it's only been 25 days or so since trump has been in office. there's a lot of disorganization, a lot of disarray. there's no national security advisor at a time when we d

barbara asked her about nasa's mission to mars. she said she's confident she could still calculate the trajectory for landing if they asked her to. you can see more of barbara's interview with katherine johnson and the modern figures who are carrying out her legacy at nasa langl langley. go to nbc washington's app and search "hidden figures." >> what an inspiration. >>> the u.s. navy is monitoring a russian spy ship off the east coast but lawmakers from connecticut say that's not enough. two u.s. senators and other members of congress issued a statement today condemning what they believe is a russian show of force. the vessel was shotted 30 miles from a subbase in groton, connecticut. for people who live around that base, opinion isix democratic lawmakers want president trump to address russia's actions. >> they are doing it obviously with aggressive intent to say the least. >> i'm not too concerned with it. it's something the russians have done before. it's like they play these little games. >> the u.s. navy does spy on russian mi

board of education decision was a young woman named barbara, a high school junior, lead and walk out to protest the conditions of her school. that walkout attracted the attention of naacp attorneys in richmond, and they agreed to come meet with the barbara johns and her fellow students and their parents. but that decision led the naacp to take up the pace -- case of a lawsuit on behalf of the students and that eventually made all the way to the supreme court as part of brown v. board of education and it was the only student led case out of the five. county leaders of their were so stunned by the decision as were virginia leaders and leaders across the south and the country. but i think prince edward county leaders felt particularly embarrassed and particularly nervous that they would be held up as an example and forced to integrate the four -- before commuters across the nation. they really took measures that other communities didn't see as necessary to prevent them from having to integrate their schools. they began conversations very early about what they would do if they're put in

but yesterday there were ten in prince george's county, one of them just a few yards barbara's back door in dplglend. >> it looked to me like three feet high then, the flames. >> reporter: no one was hurt or had to be evacuated. brush fires were popping up around prince george's county yesterday, including one here on public works road in bowie. while normally one fire truck can handle a brush fire -- >> yesterday just about all ten of the incidents we handled required more than one engine. and on the one in bowie and glendale took us hours. >> reporter: brush fires are unusual for the month of february. >> one of the contributes factors is the warmer temperatures, lower humidity and the wind. it wasn't a stiff wind, about 10 miles per hour, but enough to spread that fire rapidly. >> reporter: this could be the situation for the next few days. but officials have these tips for keeping yourself safe. >> they can limit the amount of things they do outside, including if outside to smoke a cigarette, make sure it's extinguished properly in the proper container. >> reporter: if you decide to

barbara, what is your reaction? caller: when you take the advertising you are pumping out to the public and you lower that price, and then you take the opiates off the market and find some other way. there is phantom pain and real pain. you have got to find this out. i have a relative that goes from doctor to doctor to get what drugs she wants. there should be some control over where they go and how much drugs they get. what, a, barbara, national database? caller: yes, that shows how much drugs this person is going from doctor to doctor to get those opiates and painkillers that they do not need. they sell it on the open market to get what they want. i know people here in michigan, yes, they go to a doctor, they are on medicaid and disability. they sell their drugs to get money to get illicit drugs. now, this has got to be addressed. host: all right, barbara in michigan. let me show you what is happening in new jersey. chris christie spent a big portion of his state of the state address talking about this issue. this

let me ask you okay i'm sorry i'm going do the barbara walters thing, for those of you who remember barbara walters, you worked really closely with steve, you say the two offices are really close to each other, what do you like the most about him? >> uh. >> hold on let him think. >> i love how many collars he wears. interesting look. one thing -- we're different, but we're very similar, i think he is very dogged making sure every day that the promises that president trump has made are the promises that we're working on every day, number one. number two, he's incredibly loyal. and number three, which i think is a really important quality as we're working together to see to it that president trump's vision is enacted is that he's extremely consistent, that as you can imagine, there are many things hitting the president's ear and desk every day. different things that come to the president that want to move him off of his agenda, and steve is very consistent and very loyal to the agenda and is a presence i think is very important to have in the white house. and i consider -- secondly, and a ver

. >> sunday night on "q&a," barbara feinman todd talks about working as a researcher and ghostwriter for hillary clinton and others in her book "pretend i'm not here," how i worked with three newspaper icons, one powerful first, and still managed to dig myself out of the washington swap. barbara: i spoke in general terms about what it was like being in the white house, and then i told the story of being in the room during this unusual exercise. i told her you cannot use it. there were only two women in the room who were doing this, and then there were one or two staffers. i said if you use it, everybody will know that i was the source. and i was very worried about the. but i trusted her. >> sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q&a." weekly press briefing, house minority leader nancy pelosi commented on allegations of a betrothed administration's communications with russia and call for a congressional investigation. rep. pelosi: here we are. the soggy conditions -- the saga continues. veryommunication has been revealing. democracyrmining our and compromising our national sec

cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr, what are you learning? >> reporter: well, good morning. there is the picture the president cannot show, of him with the new national security adviser now that a very respected vice admiral, retired bob harward, has turned the job down. i think it's really important to point out that retired senior officers have a very strong ethos of not saying no to sitting president. it's why you have retired general jim mattis, retired general john kelly. you just don't say no to a sitting president. but admiral harward did. people who are familiar with his thinking say the public answer was family issues about privately the admiral was very concerned about the chaos in the administration. the president tweeted earlier this morning indicating that nothing was the case like that, president trump pointing out one person he might have in mind, saying that general keith kellogg, who i've known for a long time, is very much in play for nsa, national security adviser, as are three others. general kellogg, long retired, many years ago, worked in iraq. he's bee

i always wanted my name to be deborah or linda or barbara. >> seth: mm-hmm. >> and i wanted to have a seth: yeah. [ laughter ] that's like -- i love those are not names that i ever think that a cool girl wants to get her hands on a barbara. >> barb. >> seth: oh barb. >> like barbara is your full name and barb is your like realtor name. >> seth: yeah okay, got it. >> you know? >> seth: oh so you aspire. you were like, "i wanted barbara, but only so i could be a realtor by night." >> yeah. [ laughter ] my parents were realtors when i was growing up and i spent a lot of time in model homes. which, psychologically i'm curious what that does -- [ laughter ] but i think i saw like a business card and a realtor. she was named linda or barbara or something like that, and -- and she had red curly hair and a pink suit. >> seth: wow. >> and i was like how old is she? 34? i want to be 34. [ laughter ] maybe i'll make it. >> seth: so the nice thing that i've learned here is now if you could go anywhere in time you would go back to fixing your eyebrows, but when you were younger, if you could have

barbara plett—usher takes a look.k of their relationship. these are the four priorities. first and foremost a chance to reset us— israeli relations at the top. 0bama didn't get on very well with netanyahu, a now... you -- he is strong. the best thing that could have happened is israel. so get ready for lots of mutual admiration. i plan to keep with —— speak to president trump about how to counter the threat of the iranian regime.- the threat of the iranian regime.- the top of netanyahu's agenda is around. with leaders are critics of the deal to curb iran's nuclear programme. this is a bad deal, a very bad deal. i think it was the worst deal at everything negotiated. netanyahu worst deal at everything negotiated. neta nya hu wa nts to worst deal at everything negotiated. netanyahu wants to scrap the agreement, trump is more likely to enforce it vigorously and take a harder line against iran. then there's the battle against the so—called islamic state. trump vows to crush the group in syria, netanyahu to crush the group

barbara hope zuckerberg. corporate funding is provided by mutual of america-- designing customized individual and group retirement products. that's why we're your retirement company. additional support has been provided by: and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. from the tisch wnet studios at lincoln center in new york, hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: good evening and thank you for joining us. the trump administration has lost its first appeal of a federal court order halting its ban on immigration from seven predominantly muslim countries. early this morning, the ninth circuit court of appeals-- which covers the western united states-- upheld friday's temporary restraining order by a federal judge in seattle. the courts have halted enforcement of the 90 day ban on citizens from iran, iraq, libya, somalia, syria, and yemen from entering the u.s. the january 27 trump executive order also banned syrian refugees from entering t