with bill allison. first a news update. it is 9:22 a.m.tern. 12.2% ine prices jumped may compared with a year ago. that is the biggest earlier 2006.since march of the increase shows the recovery is strengthening. increases were widespread with all 20 cities showing gains a may from april compared to year ago. prices in dallas and denver reached the highest level on 2000. back to diplomats are meeting in the ngton to resolve israeli-palestinian conflict. s a new round of talks begin secretary of state kerry thinks this are more reasons to master quickly because as he said time running out. secretary kerry speaks to the media this morning. covering the event. that will be later in our programming schedule. accused of dier passing u.s. government secrets will learn if he of been found guilty charges. bradley manning has been on fort meade, maryland and could get a life sentence if convicted. -- we are ng track keeping track of that and will have the verdict after 1:00 p.m. eastern. latest from c-span radio. a very young was man when he was he

later, bill allison of the sunlight foundation discusses congressional fund-raising third plus, your phone call, e-mail, and sweets. "washington journal" is next. ♪ with four days to go before congress leaves washington for the month of august legislative action focused on spending bills and possibly a deal on the student loan rate. here is what we are watching in washington today, a verdict is expected at 1 p.m. eastern in the bradley manning case. and the senate banking committee will talk with bank implementing the dodd frank reform bill. live coverage on c-span three at 10 a.m. we will begin us morning on washin

and later, bill allison of the sunlight foundation discuss the tracking of congressional fundraising. plus your phone call, e-mail, and tweet. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> the next a look what ahead this week in congress before member adjourn on friday for the august recession. from "washington journal," this is 45 minutes. >>> back at the table this morning is gail, washington political editor for the "christian science monitor" thank you for being here. >> guest: thank you. >> host: she's here to talk all things congress. it's the final week before the august break. the question for our guest is what does want to or need to accomplish this week? what is the generally mood on the hill head together break? >> guest: they are already thinking about 2014 elections in a big way. they want to leave this week with a strong message to take back to their constituents and, i think, that is really dominating everything we're looking at. >> host: what are the messages from each side that are being crafted at that point? >> guest: the republicans have

later bill allison discusses the tracking fundraising. plus phone calls, e-mails and tweets. "washington journal" is live everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> now a conversation on violence in urban communities. this event hosted by the congressional black caucus focused on domestic gang and gun violence. this forum was in chicago state university last week. >> good evening. thank you all for coming this evening on a friday night in chicago. how are you? you got a medal. we welcome you to the town hall of the national summit on urban violence here at chicago state university, i first like to introduce the president of the university dr. wayne watson to give you some greetings and welcome you to the university. >> good evening. we can never acknowledge and thank those who have the courage to have vision and the courage to bring it forth. we can never acknowledge and thank them too much. our congressional black caucus, let us applaud and acknowledge them. my mother used to always say, let me smell my roses while i'm here. you know, two things, one is, a question was aske

and later bill allison discusses congressional fundraising, plus your phone calls, e-mails and tweetsn journal" is live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on the and. >> up next, debt reduction and economy. and then we have a discussion about the new health care law and what it is designed to do and how it is implemented. >> when we have a certain longer be due to color the color of your skin. when did that happen? [cheers] [applause] >> you know, a reporter once asked me why i didn't talk a lot about race and i said because i am a narrow surgeon. and they thought that was pretty strange. someone might take i take the scalp off, i am operating on a ring that makes the person who they are. color doesn't make the person who they are. when will we understand that in ben carson talks about your phone calls and e-mails and tweets. sunday at noon on booktv on c-span. >> the center for american progress hosted a forum on bill deficit reduction. panelists discussed the budget and entitlement programs, log. >> hello, i am the director for economic policy for the center for american progress and i want to th

bill clinton was involved in getting allison grimes to run. but this is a different kind of race. not just because it is a senate race but because it is mitch mcconnell. this is somebody who makes no bones about the kind of campaigns he he runs an given his numbers he has to make it about allison grimes, president obama, not mitch mcconnell. that's the way he wins. i wouldn't expect a whole lot of happy talk from mitch mcconnell. i think you will see a lot of ads from mitch mcconnell. >> what does this end up looking like? we saw what mcconnell did to ashley judd and she never even got into the race? >> it is going to be nasty, it is going to be divisive. one thing allison grimes doesn't have, she isn't that lightning rod coming out of the gate. mcconnell campaign will try to do everything they can. >> biggest obstacle to mitch mcconnell? >> mitch mcconnell. he is someone who has great advocates and great detractors. they'll all come out. grimes is someone who's credible an they can rally around. >> thanks, guys. >>> former representative william gray died monday at the age of 71.

bill: what rhymes with imriems? >> i want to thank me, me, me. i want to thank allison ♪ >> bill: i don't get it. >> it is stupid. >> bill: pardon me. it is stupid. it doesn't sound like mitch mcconnell. you know what i mean? >> that was my biggest thing. >> bill: it doesn't fit mitch mcconnell. i get a picture of him looking at it going what the hell is going on here? trying to convince him it makes sense. >> bill: i would have like to have been in the room when his political consultants said we have the new ad for you senator. you're going to like this one. mcconnell is like what the hell. give me another bourbon. we're going to kick off this hour by going right to cairo and finding out what's happening there. the latest in the showdown between morsi and the military and the protestors. talking to the aclu in the next hour about the showdown in texas. we'll have reporters coming along from "buzzfeed" and also the atlantic. to cairo first. >> announcer: this is the "full court press." >> quick check of other headlines. some other headlines making news before we go to c

. >> i want to get to the unions, allison, nancy pelosi said, let's pass this bill. we have to pass it to fine out what is in it because obama said if you like your doctor, you can keep it. doesn't seem to be the case. is obamacare unraveling? >> i think it's a fair argument you can make. this is an additional setback. and have seen a lot of setbacks, the deplaying of the employer mandate to hhs's announcement they will allow you to self-report for insurance sub diz and i think this is very problematic for the democrats. usually they can count on unions to be an ally, and their ali is turning against the bill. so see a lot of democrats worried about not having the support of unions in terms of mobilizing voters and this is a problem for the obama administration and democrats in general. >> steve, let's talk about it. self-reporting, you may be entitled to some benefits but if you say you are, under the irs is the one -- that's the group that is going to, i guess, take care of oversee it. there are so many problems, top to bottom. >> yes. i think the biggest problem w

. >>> allison lunder gone grimes has the best chance to defeat mcconnell, his seat the biggest surprise. >>> brit hume is here. >> backers of the senate immigration billay it contains the strongers border enforcement measures taken, and have to be in effect before anyone takes a step on the path to citizenship. those statements may be true, but in political terms probably beside the point because the bill makes what is called registered provisional immigrant status available almost immediately to most illegals now in the country, and that's before any of the new border protections are in place. this is what house republicans mean when they complain the bill puts legalization ahead of border enforcement, it does. this provisional legal status is not quite amnesty. those that register have to undergo a background check, couldn't vote, have to payback taxes, wouldn't be eligible for most government benefits, but it is close enough to amnesty to give house republicans some firm political ground from which to oppose that senate bill. they're told to look at the 2012 election results and weak showing by mitt romney with the growing hispanic vote. oppose imm