. >> this week our guest is documentary filmmaker greg barker. >> greg barker, we need to tell the audience that you actually used to produce this program. what year? >> 1984, my first job out of college, until 1989. they were great years. >> you were an early producer of "book notes." >> i was the first producer of "book notes." >> we have been struggling to remember that. time has gone by. we did not invite you to talk about that as much as what you have done since then. explain what your job is now. >> it is largely a product of what i went through here. i am a filmmaker. i make mostly documentary films, mostly about international events and characters that i find that have interesting stories to tell, and provide a window to the outside world for a general audience. i look for stories that are compelling and relevant and speak to me personally. i am making feature documentaries, 1 1/2 hours in length, for hbo and for pbs and bbc over the years. aboutve not talked anything so we're going to catch up. i have to warn the audience. we're going to have a grim hour here. some of this that the

barker. tell them what you did in 1984. that is a bus that went around the united states. >> i was the driver, first job out of college. i was hired to drive that bus around the country for the election coverage. i have a distinct memory of going to picking someone up at the airport and running out of gas on the interstate during rush hour. i was thinking, all i wanted to do was walk away. but i stayed and we got a tow truck and managed to have a career in television. >> on that note, greg barker, thank you very much for sharing. >> thanks, brian. >> since we never got the hacksaw, we could not move the reinforcing rod, so the only way to get him up was to remove the body that was pinned in the rubble part way up. i had the task of using my combat knife again to cut the body in half. so they could haul it. and if you think cutting the leg off was fun, even though the victim was dead, obviously deceased, it was still hard work. >> and they finally got him up. i lifted him and said, gil, you're home now. i am going to keep yo

a few years ago, drew carey took over for bob barker. up with bob, and when they asked him how he thought his replacement is doing, he didn't exactly rave. >> how do you think drew is doing? >> well, he does the show differently than i did. >> you can't copy the original. >> well -- i tried to make the show really exciting. and he doesn't do that, he just plays the games. >> jimmy: that is a -- kick in the plinko there. i don't know why he felt compelled to say that. maybe he didn't leave as voluntarily as we were led to believe. either way, after hearing what bob said, pay very close attention here, because it seems like drew takes a little bit of a dig at bob's favorite cause. >> folks, thanks for watching "the price is right" today. it was a really good show. let your [ bleep ] do whatever the [ bleep ] they want to. we're out of time. bye-bye. >> jimmy: almost seemed as if -- quick note to bob barker. you know why drew carey doesn't make the show really exciting? it isn't really exciting. [ laughter ] it's crazy people in sweatshirts

. >> when we see a credit for greg barker, how much derided that? >> for pbs and for television, producer generally mean something different than it does for the moment for hbo. for that, it means if you are in charge of that. it is run to a production company that i would be in charge of for the budget. produce means the organizational, business side of that. directed means this is where the camera goes in and who is putting it all together. written means who is writing the script. in the feature documentary world, produced has more of a film connotation. that was bringing the packaging and money together and dealing with the executives financing it. directors are the creative force behind the project. >> where you live? >> right now i am living in california but i spent most of my adult life after c-span based in london. >> what to come back to california? >> my wife and i were sitting around. we had just had our second child. we were thinking about where to edit my most recent film at the time. there was an editor in l.a. that i wanted to work on

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after that, greg barker. then another chance to see the british house speaker talking about changes he would like to see in parliament. last week the senate passed the education, jobs, and medicaid assistant act, 61-39. if because of that, the house will reassemble on tuesday to take action on the bill. live coverage of the house on c- span. >> book television has been finding out about the new votes coming out this fall. >> jimmy carter wrote in his diary every day with an intimate look at the white house years. this is super, super top secret. anything that bob woodward does is meaningful. this will be big rig -- this will be one of the biggest titles. this is not a sweeping biography of george bush by about specific things about his administration. >> learn about these and other books in our fall book previewed this weekend. for the lettuce and nonfiction, of watch book tv every weekend. -- now all political roundtable on middle election campaign. from today's "washington journal," this is about 40 minutes

no accommodation for homeless eastern europeans the problem so serious that polish charities like barker work in conjunction with local authorities to get eastern european migrants off the streets and encourage them to go home if they fall on hard times recent figures show a quarter of london's four thousand homeless are from central and eastern europe because of their lifestyle many have serious alcohol problems with reports of some drinking alcoholic handwash stolen from hospitals for people are known to have died often it only takes a relatively minor life event to pull the rug from under their feet. and money and. decided to come here instead of going home david felt he was better off squatting in london and that's true of latvian martins too he ended up sleeping on a park bench and scavenging for food from bins off to several job losses now scorching and hoping to find work he's got a message for anyone considering coming to the u.k. to seek their fortune. to. find who are going to work what you're going to do no one is waiting for you here and just doesn't ring them from the sky ma

come author of the book that made america how the bible formed our nation and from wisconsin down barker co-president of the freedom from religion foundation gentlemen thank you both for joining me now dr know if i want to start with you do you think that just because the majority of americans are christians that that makes america a christian nation no i think the foundation of america is what makes america having a unique way in which god is a key part of the founding of america and here's the the main point i want to make the declaration of independence is our national birth certificate the declaration of independence mentions god four times but most importantly says that god is the source of our rights the constitution eleven years later was signed in the year of our lord and was signed in the eleventh year of the declaration of independence the declaration is the why america exists we have god given rights and the constitution is the how to of those of those rights so those two key founding documents said that our nation is one nation under god and because it's one nation under god

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flu >> this week our guest is documentary filmmaker greg barker. >> greg barker, we need to tell the audience that you actually used to produce this program. what year? >> 1984, my first job out of college, until 1989. >> you were an early producer of book notes. >> i was the first producer of book notes. >> we have been struggling to remember that. explain what your job is now. >> it is largely a product of what i went through here. i am a filmmaker. i make mostly documentary films, mostly about international events and characters that i find that have interesting stories to tell, and provide a window to the outside world for a general audience. world for a general audience.

in addition to the merits of the case the court has ordered barkers to discuss why the appeal shouldn't be dismissed outright for lack of legal standing keep the ginger for that. we did have insurance to talk sense go up for dessert to fighter with the ruling means and how will affect the case. >> it is unusual for the record to grant a stay of a trial court's oral but it is not unheard of. this side of a decision is within the discretion of the ninth circuit panel of judges carefully they chose to preserve the status quo. there's no question this is a big victory for the backers abroad bay today. when they're trying to preserve the status grow this simply say we go look to this more carefully give us time to hear the arguments and read the briefs on the merits. in that sense it means we'll have a decision and your order. the same sextuples were being represented said had to import a consolation prize as it is very important in the ninth service was struck in this case it is also very important that they're telling the backers that they better be prepared to defend their right to bring

thee also considering nominations of frank barker tony -- frank ricciardone i serve as u.s. ambassador to turkey. turkey remains a vital partner for the united states despite several recent disagreements. our next ambassador must continue to develop opportunities to reinvigorate the u.s.-turkish alliance. one opportunity concerns energy security and the development of the nabucco pipeline as a southern energy corridor to europe. completion of the nabucco project will directly connect nations of the caspian region, the caucasus and europe, bringing energy diversification that will benefit supply, transit, and consumer countries alike. ms. connelly in mid-may, the committee met with prime minister side ari -- saad hariri. members engaged him on the full range of issues and expressed particular concern about the daily like the progress on the ambassador it -- on the implementation of un security council resolution 1701. on june 8, senator casey's subcommittees' held a hearing that highlighted the intransigence of hezbollah, which continues to act counter to lebanese interests a

a quick look on barker everything running fine right now but as it gets hotter we may see some delaysaaa says more americans will take trips to the road over the labor day weekend there expecting 34.4 million people to travel at least 50 mi. from home between thursday september 2nd and monday september 6th so this is up nearly 10% from 2009 the survey predicts most people travel by car traveling an average of 635 mi.. not this weekend and next. i can't believe that holidays on this already in a lot of kids already in school. >> a plan by medicare to try to make it simpler for consumers to pick drug coverage could force 3 next year whether they like it or not. that's because of a new effort by medicare to make it simpler for consumers to pick prescription coverage. it could be an unwelcome surprise for seniors who hadn't intended to make a change during medicare's open enrollment season this fall. the analysis a leading private research firm, estimated that more than 3 million beneficiaries will see their prescription plan eliminated as part of a new effort by medicare to winnow down d

jenny is now on the phone is our were barker with the san as a police department you have any new detailso not at this point, we are still investigating the leads we developed on the first day of the case. really we're asking for the public's help to help call as if they were in the area and saw something, i heard something that maybe did not mean anything to them at the time but now on the context of what occurred then it might be important to the case. >> in the meantime to extra patrols out? >> we have officers working that area on a re your 24-hour basis, there will also have detectives that were in the area your state during daylight hours doing a very thorough evidence search. contacting neighbors door-to-door canvass. >> in the meantime would be advisable the use of car? >> well, in any kind of situation we will always be aware of their surroundings. take precaution anytime, day or night they should be careful. when there and about. if anyone is out, alone in the evening and feels trend that they call 91 or go to a business. feel free to call us, or down on one. >> thank you, you s