host: congressman bill pascrell, we will leave it there.emocrat of new jersey, thanks for being with us. guest: it's an honor. host: coming up in a moment, some of the latest news from c- span radio. next, amanda bennett. every wednesday we spotlight on magazines. she's a contributor to newsweek magazine and helped write for bloomberg news. we will talk about end of life care and her own personal story, coming up in a moment. nancy calo has those and other stories making news on this wednesday morning on c-span radio. >> good morning. in syria, russia is accusing the west of inciting the syrian opposition after a suicide bomber killed the defense minister and president bashar al-assad's brother-in-law today. foreign minister sergei lavrov says, "instead of calming down the opposition, some of our partners are inciting it to go on. a british resolution that would impose sanctions and allows for possible military intervention would amount to direct support of the revolutionary movement." the un security council meets at 2:00 eastern time toda

take a look at some other news today here they are blasting new jersey's democratic congressman bill pascrell they're claiming that he has ties to mohammad kodnani and a mom allegedly tied to hamas allegedly is a key word however that's missing in this headline by the way but the way this week of reports i guess it sounds scary and so therefore it is beyond doubt is that an example of a democratic congressman teaming up with a terrorist is newt gingrich's theory about secular atheist islam isn't actually coming to fruition no not even close denies the allegations he once even told his parishioners to help the f.b.i. after nine eleven he's got rabbis priests prosecutors defending him so it's not surprising that chris christie himself defended the mom just yesterday but the beacon include that there article that a rising star republican presidential hopeful has ties to a hamas terrorist nope because that would interfere with their smear democrats at all costs editorial policy and just take a look at other kinds of journalism that they put out there here's one of their shrill reporters trolling