i'm fortunate to be joined by brian bender. a bunch of you know him.co from the "boston globe" and known secretary carter going back to the '90s when brian was the global peacekeeping correspondent. how did that work out? >> well, i wish it was more peacekeeping operations. >> and brian is also on the board of the military reporters and editors association. we're very honored to have with us today secretary of defense ashton carter who just told me he's worked directly for seven secretaries of defense, including both republicans and democrats, he's worked in 11 administrations and came back as the boss. someone when he is's negotiated with our enemies, has written or co-written 11 books when he was at yale. probably enjoyed the upset yesterday. degrees in astrophysics and medieval history. >> medieval history which i would like to know from the secretary how much that comes in handy these days. >> before we kick off, we want to thank john comingwood and bank of america for these conversations. bank of america's made playbook breakfasts, cocktails, lunc

secretary ashton carter being interviewed by "politico"'s correspondent mike allen and defense editor, brian bender. should get underway in just a moment. live coverage here on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. >> ladies and gentlemen, the program will begin in just a few minutes. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. [inaudible conversations]. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome "politico"'s chief white house correspondent mike allen and "politico" defense editor, bryan bender. [applause] >> good morning. thank all of you for recovering from your st. patrick's days festivities to make it out here for a early playbook breakfast. we appreciate. welcome to all of you in live stream land. we're grateful for you tuning in as well. i'm grateful being joined by bryan bender. a bunch of you know him. he came from "politico" from "the boston herald." he was "jane's defence weekly" as global peacekeeping correspondent. how did that work out? >> i wish there were more peace-keeping operations. >> and bryan i

it's a very good way to do it. >> thank you brian bender for the great team. thank you secretary's team who made this possible for their hard work on this event and we think our political events colleagues who always pull off an amazing weekend. thehank all of you and lifestream audience for joining us and we think john collingwood. we think bank of america. we think all of you for coming this morning at mr. secretary, thank you for a fantastic conversation. sec. carter: thank you everybody. [applause] >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. morning, saturday david shepherdson, policy reported for reuters joins us to discuss this week's congressional hearing on the flint, michigan, water crisis. and the national journal senior analyst will be on to talk about the potential for a contested or brokered convention within the republican party. and what campaigns are doing behind the scenes to influence delegates. then, jeffrey menthol, deputy director and senior fellow at the center for strategic and internationa

brian. >> good. >> we've had slowdowns, maybe a couple of fender benders, but definitely lighter than usual today ont and take a look at the east shore freeway. and you can see traffic here. when you have seen 19 minutes on the road sensors between the carquinez bridge and the macarthur maze, here it is, almost 7:00 and we don't have any major traffic jams. you know it is going to be lighter than usual. also looking at the bay bridge, that definitely is lighter, usually at this time we have a full toll plaza. that's not happening right now. traffic is moving along relatively well. chp is reporting a crash northbound 280 just north of farm hill road, but -- farm hill boulevard, pardon me, but it is not affecting traffic. the traffic is still light. 6:49. let's go to steve in the weather center. >> thank you very much, sal. >>> on this friday we have a little bit of a different forecast here because there's plenty of low clouds that have moved in, even a little band of high clouds. so slight cooldown coast and bay but still some low 70s inland, these clouds, higher clouds will clear out. looks like th

brian shirley/cy fair rescue) "they're trying to talk her down right now."the sheriff's dept says the woman had already caused a couple of hit and run fender benders when she pulled over.(darlene knebel/witness)"she got out of her car and was going towards the 18 wheeler. all of a sudden she started throwing her clothes at the traffic, the oncoming traffic."she somehow climbed up on the truck and stayed there for over two hours, as rescuers tried to figure out how to get her down without causing her to fall and hurt herself.she as if sunbathing...even mooned onlookers as news choppers circled overhead...(breaking news)"now to that bizarre traffic tieup on the northwest freeway."at one point you can see one of the rescuers modestly avert his eyes. authorities attributed her behavior to a psychiatric issue or possibly drugs or both.(dept. thomas gilliland/harris county sheriff's office)"she was talking about all sorts of things. wall street, the cia, aliens, all types of things." finally buckets from two ladder trucks converged on the woman and managed to grab her. passing motorists didn't just gawk, they posted to social media...(nat sound)it's hard not to

brian: i think the narrative on energy got far too negative. we have been at this for decades. n energy lender with years of experience. going to have a few fender benderbut our portfolio is performing as we expected under current conditions. i think they'll market is starting to realize that maybe it got a little bit ahead of itself. >> certainly the loans -- we talked about provisions for credit losses having to rising little bit, lines of credit or lending commitments that are out there, which you report a somewhat has been drawn from energy companies, you have any concerns about undrawn parts of the credit line. brian: they are high quality companies where we have comfort with the management team and their ability to execute. as is where we thought and we are capital with our exposures. pamela: that is essentially what all the banks have been saying. only one of 3% of their portfolio in there alone books are exposed to the energy market. vonnie: it seems a day doesn't go by that we don't hear about a european bank going out of emerging markets. scotia bank is widely dispersed across emerging markets. this bank is the most international of the canad

brian and sharrie but at least everyone in these jams is keeping their clothes on. that's the good news. this is 95 in delco southbound by ridley park there was a fender-bendering some attention and slowing things down a little bit extra as you come south of philadelphia international airport this afternoon. had the culmination of that police chase in west philadelphia so you want to avoid 52nd and katherine. also still have there crash on the roosevelt boulevard southbound at cottman in the outer drive. stick with the inner drive as you come south of woodhaven on the boulevard. flower show continues of course at the convention center so all week this week we'll see extra traffic on the local city streets as well as the vine street expressway around broad street. have a couple accidents in cheltenham this afternoon. one along cheltenham avenue near ogontz another on ashburn near penrose. in upper moreland one on upper blair mill road. a a crash taking out two lanes on the inner drive outer drive the way to go in that neck of the woods. in pennsauken a crash on westfield avenue by mr. tattoo a favorite spot of brian taff. >> if only you could see under this c