brian walsh?uest: i agree with the color in the sense that reid wilson is one of the most well respected reporters in washington. i think he's very smart in in the way he analyzes politics today. look, i think washington state and oregon, when i look at the senate map, are probably on the periphery. republicans need to win six senate seats next year to win back the senate. for the democrats is a lot of those are taking place in red leaning states. alaska, arkansas, louisiana. i think we are continuing to make gains in other states. michigan and iowa are two states that president obama won pretty handily, but could be the site of two competitive senate races. host: this is also from "the weekly standard" we have started to cover some of the possible presidential candidates on the campaign trail and those early primary states. on friday afternoon, we were in iowa were senator ted cruz was speaking. he took questions from reporters. the story from "the houston chronicle" cruise saying that he regrets

ben andsts are robert ra brian walsh. then a discussion about race with michael denzil smith and armstrong williams. washington journal, live at 7:00 on c-span. >> this week on the communicators, the ceo and founder of aereo. what is it? >> we think of it as a really new way of thinking about how people are going to consumed hell of vision in the future. it is an online platform among which is direct to consumers, and he will get access today to live broadcast television, along with a dvr on any device, without cable connections, using the internet for eight dollars a month. >> this is over the air broadcasting channels? >> that is correct. >> what am i holding my hand to? wax that is the key element. that is the foundation. it is a micro antenna. think of it as how you used to have over the air antennas in the past. throughturize them technology. the purpose of miniaturizing them is so we can build hundreds of thousands of these things into a very small room. we can aloud cloud implementation of how consumers can capture

we will be joined by democratic strategist robert raben and brian walsh. then a discussion about race in america with the institutes michael denzil smith and radio tv talkshow host and columnist armstrong williams. "washington journal" is next. ♪ host: morning. congress returns this week, the house is scheduled to take up a spending bill for the defense department, the senate is back on tuesday. a vote on the last week agreement over student loan rates. the president travels to missouri to talk about the economy. on thursday he makes -- we will put the weeks events into perspective on to sunday roundtables. we want to begin by looking at

our guest will be robert raven and brian walsh.ussion about race in america with michael denzil and armstrong williams. washington journal live at 7 a.m. eastern here on c-span. the top democrat on the house energy and commerce committee henry waxman is our guest this week on "newsmakers." nine he talks about the employer man -- he talks about the employer mandates and the new health care law and the status of the keystone xl pipeline. watch sunday at 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> jackie was raised as her mother was raised. she was the same kind of wife and hostess. the home, the children, the entertaining with style and nash. that was her heritage and she did it again in the white house. ,ight after her administration during the johnson years, the whole world erupted like volcanoes. we had the women who went to work and got divorces and demanded equal rights. we had flower children and we had free love and free sex. boy, oh, boy, was agreed to be young. i missed all that. [laughter] but the whole world changed and becam

our guests are robber raven and brian walsh. then a discussion of race in america with michael denzil smith and armstrong williams. washington journal is live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >> i decided that he was a delicious subject for a biography when it dawned on me not only atbeen abraham lincoln's bedside, but also at the bedside of william mckinley. who could this fellow be? of course, when i opened the archives, i realize what a rich subject it was. john hey, his life has two bookends. there is lincoln on one end. abraham lincoln's personal secretary, private secretary, so much of what we know about lincoln comes from him and his contact with him. the other end of his life, he served only under the new mckinley president, but he was the secretary of state for teddy roosevelt brady have these iconic bookends of american history. when you look deeper, all of the chapters in between from the civil war through teeth -- through to the beginning of the 20th century, he's a presence in all of those places. he has written those cha

ben andsts are robert ra brian walsh. then a discussion about race with michael denzil smith and armstrong williams. washington journal, live at 7:00 on c-span. >> this week on the

walsh-jennings. three names, one body. and one little stripe. and ufc fighter misha tate. >> gretchen: you have to buy the magazines to see the rest. >> brian: right out to maria molina who is joining us live right now on the streets of new york city. >> good morning. today we're going to be talking about more summerlike weather across sections of the plains. east of the rockies, you'll be feeling like summer. temperatures climbing into the middle to upper 90s in parts of kansas, parts of oklahoma, and even down into texas. a lot of heat across the plains. even in new york city, you're talking upper 80s. it is a little cooler than what we had to deal with over the weekend out here. we were talking temperatures well into the 90s and it was so humid, that it did feel like the upper 90s and triple digits at times across the northeast. showers and storms also expected across sections of the east coast. even severe storms could be possible in sections of the north central u.s., including states like minnesota, north and south dakota, into nebraska and iowa. damaging winds, large hail, and isolated tornadoes will be the main concern. later on i want to