woodward, and c-span.'m a political junkie, an old retired firefighter, and like a lot of firefighters, i hear a conversation in the firehouse. i want to know where the person making the comment is coming from. in the comments i hear on television and read and newspapers, it is always left out what the person that is making the comment or writing the books personal opinion is about the person they are writing about were the situation they are writing about. if you are opposed to war or the war we are in, i would like to know upfront that i am opposed to this and this is a book i have written in regards to this, or i am opposed to or support a particular parpolitical person -- host: kenny, we got it, we are out of time. guest: a good and fair question. this is a neutral inquiry. i am not for obama, i am not against him. that is why i am able to do this kind of work, i think i am not for or against the war. i am trying to present what carl bernstein and i back in the watergate age called "best obtainable ver

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woodward, and c-span. a political junkie, an old retired firefighter, and like a lot of firefighters, i hear a conversation in the firehouse. i want to know where the person making the comment is coming from. in the comments i hear on television and read and newspapers, it is always left out what the person that is making the comment or writing the books personal opinion is about the person they are writing about were the situation they are writing about. if you are opposed to war or the war we are in, i would like to know upfront that i am opposed to this and this is a book i have written in regards to this, or i am opposed to or support a particular parpolitical person -- host: kenny, we got it, we are out of time. guest: a good and fair question. this is a neutral inquiry. i am not for obama, i am not against him. that is why i am able to do this kind of work, i think i am not for or against the war. i am trying to present what carl bernstein and i back in the watergate age called "best obtainable versi

caller: thank you, cable, for c- span and thank you c-span for being c-span. i have seen these people and evansville, it is seems the families right to peacefully assemble is being violated. host: this tweet -- caller comes from a longview, texas. charlie on the republican line. go ahead with your comment. caller: these people are burning the flag and sang god hates you and god hates america, are not americans. i lived through this when vietnam was the 11. they done the same dam thing. whatey'd don't do it like merrill haggard's song says, get the hell out of our country. if they don't love it, go to where the sign says. that is all i have to say. host: tweet -- today is the ninth anniversary of the start of the afghanistan war. here is the lead story in "the wall street journal" this morning. we will discuss this later but former ambassador to pakistan, former ambassador to iraq and former state department official for near east affairs, ryan crocker. the next call is from topeka, kansas. jan on our democrats' line. jan? you know what? i punched up the wrong

we take c-span on the road with local contact vehicle. it is washington your way, the c-span network now available and more than 100 million pounds. >> here is a debate between the 14th house district candidates. the incumbent congressman and his republican challenger. the poll has represented a foster trailing republican by one. . this debate is about half an hour. first, a closer look at the race. >> we are looking at some of the most hotly contested races leading up to this midterm election. >> good to me you. how're you doing? how're you? >> is the overall level of payments to get from medicare very different from the private levels? >> if this is direct billing and the system is all inclusive, this balances. the challenger is trying to hammer to voters that the incumbent voted the party line. the 14th district is big, it looks like a bow tie and it stretches as far west as iowa and as far east as we 10. this is a very interesting district. the seat was once held by dennis hastert. he really established and republican legacy and it wa

eastern tomorrow night on c-span -- at 10:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow on c-span. >> "q&a" -- a justice stephen breyer. >> it is sometimes hard to avoid your basic values -- how you see the country. how you see the relationship between law and the average person in this country. what you think laws is about. those basic, fundamental, legal and political values, i think are part of you and they will sometimes influence an approach where the question is very open and we're in bed nets to that kind of thing. >> supreme court justice stephen breyer, sending it on c-span. >> after -- actor george clooney recently returned from a trip to sudan. he spoke about that at this event with the council on foreign relations. there is a peace agreement between the north and south in the works. is this a little over an hour. -- this is a little over an hour. >> we are mic'ed. hi. >> hi. welcome, everyonei, a-- welcome, everyone. i am tami hultman. i need to make a couple of announcements. please completely turn off your cell phones. don't just put them o

caller: first of all, i want to think c-span. c-span.oach to fixing the car industry, i do not think it has been addressed yet. i have worked in the auto industry for over 30 years. back in 1975 was when i first started working at ford. quality and has always been an issue. i do not know what mr. rattner's book is about, but i know for a fact, because i was there, the quality of the management decisions -- any time anyone in the inspection department would call something to the attention of a manager, they had the ability to let it go or fix it. guest: respectfully, a lot of what you said would have been true years ago, but the ford company has made great strides in improving quality. one way that we can see this is a number of complaints going to the national traffic highway safety it ministration. gm was getting six times the number of complaints that title was getting. now, taking into account the recalls, they are now at the same level. other errors are work in progress -- areas are works in progress, but i do not think that quality

caller: yes band a c-span junkie. i am addicted. i have been watching a lot of c- span. it seems like when they do any investigation, and if you look at independent news you find out that goldman sacks and a lot of these groups tide of engineered something for several years where they got the laws changed so they could go in and take these funds and these loans and then borrow against the value and sell that as if it was a real commodity, like it was really worth something. then they pay off people in the ratings agencies in order to get them rated aaa. this whole thing was kind of a set up. i think white people are upset is the fact that they ended up bailing people algers still made money off of it. they are the ones left with the loans that were given out. i have relatives and friends in the banking industry. they were pushed to give out loans to people who had nothing. my worked works -- my wife works for the credit unions. they do not just ahead and sell all their stuff. they hang onto it as it was a long-term investment. all they were doing was pushing as much pape

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you are on c-span. caller: i think the question is kind of broad because i think it depends on the issue. you can't just say compromise versus ideology because it depends on some questions -- compromise would mean forgetting about the constitution and the rule of law. the real question should be are we ruled by one sheet of paper or an actual set of laws. to say just ideology, both the left and right extreme. if you go extreme right, what they are calling friends and moments it's our people advocating for nothing more than the rule of law as it exists, not for changing it or doing the is there are not permitted to do. my question is, when we compromise, i think you the media needs to step up -- not just play the objective game. objectivism could be the worst thing that happened to us because when somebody violates the constitution digging -- like, we should do x, y, z, and it is strictly prohibited, if you say it is good or bad, you kind of lead people under the assumption that you can do whatever you w

caller: c-span, you do a great job. i have been watching since you first came on and you are helping to educate the american people. it's amazing. but i would like to say one thing. everybody out there remember, we in america don't have any money. we are broke. the only way we are getting money is printing it. and then selling it back to the treasury. and then the government is buying it back. or we are borrowing it from china. china loaned us probably $2 billion less one trillion dollars last year. and that money goes all into the treasury. it is fungible. it means, we don't know where it goes. let me ask you, when you talk about the chamber of commerce, who is paying for all of the salaries, who is paying the salaries of the political parties? it is not our tax dollars. they have volunteered it is the money that we on our way, is about as foreign money. host: a couple of stories about the economy this morning. the front page of "the new york times." top u.s. banks set to resume its foreclosure process. they are all go

caller: i love c-span. i am a registered independent but i sent in my absence ballot for the democratic ticket because i do not approve of industry holding back on employment until president obama is shagged out of office. i also object to having tuesday voting. it should be on the weekend so more people are free to voice their opinion. guest: tuesday voting good it is the tradition. i don't know if they will change that one. host: as a canadian -- reading that toronto elected a conservative, or "the financial times" calls him a right wing mayor, a la tea party. a surprise in toronto. guest: i can't speak specifically to that race. it just seems like the general mood of folks -- canada's economy has not been hit as hard as the united states but folks are still anxious about the future and it looks like they are willing to go in a different direction. host: asheville, north carolina. jackie on the democrats' line. caller: i wanted it remembered if richard burr wins, he did it with the help of dccc. the day o

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eastern on c-span. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] part one of the two-part interview tonight, and then remarks from ed miliband. after that, gordon brown speaks at harvard university. . >> he would have been the fiercest in the drives. the people who knew washington best and did so by that same personality, someone but was much more personality. we tend to think of washington as a bland but were the character. he was anything but. there was a tremendous will. he was tremendous in his personality under this very reserved facade. >> you say in your preludin to this book that you want a fresh portrait. after all that has been read, how did to do a fresh portrait? >> hamilton had washington in the revolutionary war. hamilton wrote a series of very perceptive letters about washington. i can remember being absolutely startled. i read so much about washington. these were significant things that were overlooked by previous biograp

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i believe c-span is extremely fair. think they have more liberal -- no, it is all from your own point of view, but i think that c-span makes great attempts to be fair. in the people that you bring on, and the topics discussed. concerning williams, i watch fox -- i am a conservative. i used to be liberal. but i love the diverse points of view. when i listen to juan, i do not agree with him, but i think he is a man of integrity. the problem that i have, and reason that i think that funding should be taken away is the hypocrisy of npr. i listened and i believe that they are extremely slanted. there was a common some years ago -- of which i'm sure that you are well aware -- host: yes, from the 1980's when she was talking about the north carolina senator helms. caller: it is our opinion, but if you're going to fire williams over an opinion far less damaging than her comment, to me that screams hypocrisy. want one penny of my tax dollars going to them. i hope that they do survive, it and that there will still be diverse point

caller: first of all, i want to think c-span. c-span. the approach to fixing the car industry, i do not think it has been addressed yet. i have worked in the auto industry for over 30 years. back in 1975 was when i first started working at ford. quality and has always been an issue. i do not know what mr. rattner's book is about, but i know for a fact, because i was there, the quality of the management decisions -- any time anyone in the inspection department would call something to the attention of a manager, they had the ability to let it go or fix it. guest: respectfully, a lot of what you said would have been true years ago, but the ford company has made great strides in improving quality. one way that we can see this is a number of complaints going to the national traffic highway safety it ministration. gm was getting six times the number of complaints that title was getting. now, taking into account the recalls, they are now at the same level. other errors are work in progress -- areas are works in progress, but i do not think that

through c-span's video library. it's washington your way. the c-span networks, now available and over 100 million homes. created by cable, available as a public service requests hawa. candidates for governor square off in a debate. neil abercrombie faced democratic candidate duke aiona. neil abercrombie served in the u.s. house representing hawaii's first district from 1991 until february, 2010, when he resigned to run for governor. duke aiona has served as lieutenant governor since 2002. why public radio's -- hawaii public radio moderated the vote. a polls showed the candidates tied with 48% in a survey. this is an hour and a half. >> live from the maui arts theatre -- focus 2010, a gubernatorial conversation, with duke aiona and former u.s. congressman neil abercrombie. toight's debate is brought you by hawaii public radio, with the support of the cultural center. tonight's program is being cable cast courtesy of the university of hawaii. and now our program -- "focus 2010." ♪ >> and good evening. welcome to "focu

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find c-span content any time through c-span pose the video library. and we have the digital bus and local content vehicle, bringing our resources to your community. the c-span networks, available in 100 million homes, created by cable, provided as a public service. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> there is an accusation that nancy pelosi violated ethics rules, citing news reports in which speaker pelosi vowed to seek help from -- leaning organizations and it lists political expenditures by those groups after her comments. a spokesperson for nancy pelosi calls this a stunt. the illinois candidate for governor is leading the incumbent democratic governor pat quinn by one point. there are reports mr. brady has 42% to 41% for pat quinn. voters supporting third-party candidates don't care for the democratic incumbent, but cannot bring themselves to support the republican challenger. each night on c-span, we are still in debates from key races across the country. live at 7:00

c-span -- greeted by cable, available as a public service. >> this week on c-span's "newsmakers," sheila bair. she is chairman of the fdic. one of the government officials who will be responsible for implementing the new dodd-frank regulation laws and to address -- and to address the mortgage crisis currently facing our country. here to question her, tom braithwaite of the financial times newspaper. and never solomon of the wall street journal -- of -- deborah solomon of the wall street journal. mr. braithwaite, first question? >> chairman bair. we are in the middle of a foreclosure crisis. to what extent is this a failure of regulation? >> well, i think it's a very good question. um, you know, it turns out this was an issue with large servicers. the banks were the primary supervisor. we have been collecting information that you have not -- we have been collecting information and are fairly confident they have not been been implicated in this. that's because they have small portfolios. it was really a symptom of size. it's very unfortunate. so in our back up policy. -- in our back up sup

thanks for c-span.ghostly registered democrat that will be voting for christie no donnell -- christine o'donnell. this is the first time that i have seen a poor person or middle-class person could actually run for the senate without having millions of dollars in advance or being part of the elite. also, i am an unemployed teacher. i was unemployed for two years. i got unemployment for six months of that, and i have been under employed cents. i am not custodian making $8.50 an hour. a and obama misread his mandate. he did not have a mandate to go completely left. he had a mandate to get us all jobs. guest: that this an interesting take as far as the wealth of members. we adjusted our top 50 of the wealthiest members, and there are a lot of what the members of congress. but generally speaking, the pattern as people make their money and then run for congress. but you do not see a lot of pork people in congress. christine is the underdog in delaware. there's no doubt about it. congressional republicans won

i agree about c-span. i think we try to provide the facts and the information so the people can make their own judgment. there's a difference between our editorial page that might agree on one side or the other. host: back to your speaker. president obama has been surprised by all sorts of challenges, not just big ones like the economy and the wars, but a myriad of little ones that hindered his progress. obama trusted his judgment and seemed to impress people in his own party must have a basic sense of integrity. guest: he was asked. sir, you have been in over a hundred days. what surprised you the most? the number of people that don't pay their taxes. i think he is, as every president, as to adjust to an era where you're no longer in a small will campaign. you have to run a big government. there are thing that come up that you don't expect to throw you off balance. rose, cleveland, ohio. host: rose, are you still with us? >> i'm going to put you down. we will come back to you. if you could mute your tv. w

thank you for c-span. dittos to the caller from north carolina about the fear mongering. nobody wants to bail out the banks less than i did. but, however, we had to take bad medicine. our economy was very sick. and it turns out that the side effects were not nearly as bad as everybody predicted. i think it was necessary. it was a necessary operation. and i think down the road the historians are going to have to sort it out. i am glad we did it, in retrospect. i am beginning to see that maybe the new banking industry was right, they really screwed everything up and we had to do this. we had to bail them out. the whole economy -- not just of the united states, but the world economy was on the verge of collapse. thank you so much for c-span. i will take my response of the air. host: this is the money and investing s -- money and investing section of "the wall street journal." we will read a little bit from that article. first, we wanted to talk to jonathan weissman from "the wall street journal" to talk about

you can see it all this week here on c-span and on c-span radio. john from huntington, new york, good morning. caller: good morning. i wanted to mention about what you said about the medicare thing. i was -- my supplemental was canceled last week and i was on the phone all week and nobody wants to accept me. and it's scary. it's scary stuff. so i don't think the republicans are lying so much about it. guest: i'm not sure how much individual cancellation for supplementry medicare would be a factor of the health care law. are you sure that's a function of the new law? caller: well, it seems to be, because nobody wants to accept me. and they're saying that they're not going to take the medicare. and i'm trying to stay with my heart doctor because i had a buy past and because i'm trying to stay with him i'm having a really hard time. guest: i think what i know about the law, and i'm not an expert in health care coverage, we have a reporter on our staff who really to focuses on health care. the core benefits are not being changed. the impact from the la

to send us an electronic message this morning, send it to journal at c-span wj. welcome to the program. tell us about the reporting over the next year as american forces withdraw from iraq. those are tensions and how those will be resolved. >> when you say tactical level, what does that mean? field level reports on the ground kind of low level units and divisions they don't give away secrets of how troops operate. of the almost 400,000 reports, we identified 20 we wanted to post on the web we redacted them and took out anything that could take away tactics we brought these to the pentagon. they said, we don't like the fact that these are going to be published after you showed them, did they ask you to redact anymore information from what they had tried show you in the report what about a reaction from iraq? any response from iraq or from men and women on the street? jo no. it is too soon for that. these raise an important question what happens? who watches over this? who pushes back over the influence thank you for joining us on the phone this morning. >> thank y

on c-span. >> hey, middle and high school students. c-span's video document. down loadly january 20, 2011. you'll have a chance to win the grand prize of $5,000. this is $50,000 in total prizes. this competition is open to all students grades 6-12. >> the financial stab ilt over sight council joined be three non-voting state regulators. this is a half an hour. >> we have a very strong set of new laws and legislation for over sight of this financial system the supervisors of the world have come together to agree on new international capital standards which brings in the stronger global standards. we all know why we are here. we have causes caused by the complicated factors we allow large parts to operate outside those rules this body is charged with putting in place those new rules and trying to give us the capacity to deal with financial risks. >> this law and this council is designed to protect the independent authority and co-lab operation. we are going to be careful to preserve that basic balance and try hard to make sure that these riels ahead of us of the

thanks for c-span. ghostly registered democrat that will be voting for christie no donnell -- christine o'donnell. this is the first time that i have seen a poor person or middle-class person could actually run for the senate without having millions of dollars in elite. also, i am an unemployed teacher. i was unemployed for two years. i got unemployment for six months of that, ani have been under employed cents. i am not custodian makg $8.50 an hour. a and obama misread his mandate. he did not have a mandate to go completely left. he had a mandate to get us all jobs. guest: that this an interesting take as far as the wealth of members. we adjusted our top 50 of the wealthiest members, and there are a lot of what the members of congress. but generally speaking, the pattern as people make their money and then run for congress. but you do not see a lot of pork peop in congress. christine is the underdog in delaware. there's no doubt about it. congressional republicans won in mike castle to win the primary.

that is tonight on c-span. tomorrow on "washington journal," bob woodward stops by to discuss behind-the-scenes obama white house negotiations on the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it is the subject of his latest book. join the discussion on "washington journal" on c-span. a senate armed services committee report contends that some contractors paid and aren't afghan war lords and strong men to provide security in afghanistan. committee chairman carl levin spoke to reporters about an investigation into private security contractors in the country. he speaks for a half-hour. >> afghan war lords are linked to murder, kidnapping, robbery, pro-taliban and anti-coalition activities. it describes the failures of some security contractors to adequately vet, train, and equip their employees. it discusses contractor personnel using drugs, being issued and serviceable weapons, and leaving their guard posts unmanned. all too often our reliance on private security contractors in afghanistan has empowered -- let me start over

thanks for being with us and sharing your perspective with our c-span audience. guest: thanks. guest: thank you. host: the president is beginning this week in ohio with a couple of campaign rallies, then maryland for an event tomorrow. the president then travels to a number of states beginning with a rally in seattle on thursday for senator patty murray. on friday, campaigning for senator barbara boxer and then on to nevada where he'll attend a campaign event. and then wrap up the week in minneapolis and also the democratic congressional campaign committee fund raisers. . . >> next, "newsmakers". with sheila bair. after that former secretary of state, condoleeza rice. >> this week on c-span's "newsmakers," sheila bair. one of government officials who will be responsible for implementing the new dodd-frank regulation laws and to address the mortgage crisis currently facing our country. here's to question here, tom of the financial times newspaper. mr. brinkly first question? >> chairman bair. we are in the middle of a foreclosure crisis. to what extent is this a failure of regul

follow c-span election coverage right to election day. our live debate coverage continues tomorrow night with the governor's race in massachusetts. that is live at 8:00 eastern. that is followed by the new mexico governor's debate. that is live from albuquerque. you can watch both debates live on c-span and c-span.org. in florida, the candidates for governor met for their second debate earlier tonight. the current governor, charlie crist, is running for a year nets >> mr. scott is leading in the race by six percentage points. this is an hour. >> from the vehicle counts as a -- camp as of nova, a decision 2010, before you vote, presents the candidates for the office of governor of florida. >> welcome to our gubernatorial debate. tonight's event is being broadcast by a number of stations across the state so we can reach as many voters as possible. the two candidates are democrats alex sink and republican rick scott. the candidates will each have one minute and 15 seconds to respond to questions, and they will be signaled by a clock that is

and thank you to c-span. my comments are that it worries me when you have folks like glenn beck and rush limbaugh and an colter and those sorts of people that are making so much money off the stirring up people. you know? they're so afraid of -- hold on . host: there's a little delay. caller: ok. i'm sorry. anyway, they're making money off of scaring people. and what worries me is when you have a company like fox news and glenn beck and they have the air waves, the radio waves, the tv and people are listening in, and you have one mega phone of propaganda that's coming up 24/7. and people are listening and they're thinking that this is the truth and they're going about their lives trying to make a living and they don't have time sometimes to get on the internet or just go to a library and start looking up history and trying to figure out what is the truth. and all of this stuff coming from glenn beck and limbaugh, they're making a lot of money off of fear mongering people. and what's going to happen is this. i

we have lots of politics ahead on c-span on this sunday leading into november 2nd balloting. thanks for being was. -- with us. >> c-span's local content vehicles are traveling the country visiting congressional districts to look at the most closely contested house races in this year's mid-term elections. you can promise low taxes, balanced budgets, promise to bring our troops home safely. but when you're handed the keys to government it's about choices and what choices are we going to make as a nation to move our country forward, working to help middle class families towards prosperity. . when the other side starts telling you that you can't . >> >> our inwum bent is jim boachry. and it was a republican district. and looking to unseat him is republican jim ren aci, a businessman, a former mayor. the 16th district is kind of a unique district. the candidate has to be balanced. he has to be able to understand the needs of an urban population but also a rural population. one of the thing that is you'll find is the republicans in advertising and speeches, they are in a way having

caller: i am a big fan of c- span. i have been watching the kentucky race between conaway and paul. -- conway and paul. i am wondering how the local races, democratic and republican strength, are helping other candidates? guest: the strength of the ticket pretty much benefits everybody. what you said it is interesting. if jack conway has any chance to win the race, he needs to run up big margins in louisville, a lexington, to offset where he will lose in other areas. paul may win more comfortably than we think. host: yesterday we had a guest on -- we were showing a clip of the senator grassley. is he in trouble? guest: despite being on the floor as many times as he has, he is serious, he raises the money, he is running a full campaign this time. the last numbers i saw he was 18 points ahead. he should be fine. host: a viewer tweets in -- guest: if this was not 2010, this would join my troika of absolutely top races. the state is known for its close races, but this is just not her year. this is not a reflection on robin

follow c-span election coverage right through election day. >> c-span's local content vehicles are traveling the country visiting congressional districts to look at the most closely contested house races in this year's midterm elections. >> this evening, here in the historic smith theater, voters in west virginia's first congressional district will have their first opportunity to see the candidates on the same stage. >> i want to see washington take a different direction, to begin the journey, my first vote in congress will be to replace colosio as the speaker with a leader who can create jobs in the private sector, can reduce the size of government, and a year to the constitution that its principals without policy of road -- the policy. i'm pro-life, pro-done, and committed to fiscal responsibility. >> i believe washington has gotten it wrong, especially during these past two administrations, when it comes to dealing with this enormous entity called the federal government. >> there are two candidates for the race for congress in the first district. mike oliverio, a senator, and republican d

eastern on c-span. -- at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c- span. coming up, debates between house candidates from new hampshire's first district and pennsylvania's third. candidates previously the next election. you are watching campaign 2010 coverage. >> what is ahead for the tea party movement. revenues in and doug shilling talk about the possibility of a viable third party. that is part of booktv on c-span 2. now to watch previous programs go to new booktv.org. >> the granite state debates, live from the new hampshire institute of politics. now the candidates in the first congressional district. >> appearing at tonight's debate, the two term from rochester and her republican opponent, the former manchester mayor. good evening, and welcome to the first of four debates being held here at the new hampshire institute of politics. tonight, the first congressional district. questions will focus on the the major issues focusing -- major issues facing the country. for th we will also have questions from fewer and peter e-mails, and there will be two rou

live coverage, here on c-span. >> good evening. from the university conference center on the campus of indiana university, indianapolis. on behalf of the indiana debate commission, welcome to the first of three debates. i am your moderator. this is the central indiana debate. the northern indiana debate will be held on october 22 in fort wayne. this southern indiana debate will be held on october 25. as part of our mission to put to voters first, you can still submit your questions for the remaining two debates by logging onto our website. the three u.s. senate candidates will answer questions from voters for the next hour. the jurors will consider the

thank you, c-span. guest: that is an interesting question that in fact i looked this morning at the ideology of young people 18 to 29 and among them 37% indicate they are liberal. 34% indicate they are conservative. so it is pretty much split 50-50. 27% moderate. when it comes to 18 to 24-year-olds almost 50% or 48% specifically say they are a liberal so you clearly have a liberal bias mock the students -- among the students of college campuses across america. on the other point i don't think young people have been indoctrinated. it was young people after september 11 and the early years of the iraq war were more support active of -- supportive of president bush and older groups. so the idea young people were born with a democratic leaning d.n.a. or progressive d.n.a. is not necessarily the case. a couple of years before the presidential election of 2004 we we were in hypothetical races between george bush and a generic democratic candidate bush was leading. so, they were open to voting for republicans

archive debates are online at the c-span video library. you can see upcoming event coverage, campaign ads and other helpful resources. follow election coverage on c- span right through election day. >> now, the final the senate debate between colorado senator, michael bennett and republican ken buck. this took place in denver and is moderated by the news anchor. this is about one hour. >> thank you for joining us. in the next hour, we will be quizzing of the candidates for senate in colorado. for both men, this is the first time they have faced general election. michael bennett was elected after can sell as are joined the obama capital last year. he has worked as a superintendent of denver public schools and in the private sector -- private-sector as well. he is 45, married and has three children. his opponent is republican ken buck, elected as returning in 2004 and has worked as a prosecutor in the u.s. department of justice and the colorado attorney's office. his 51 years old, married and has two children. he beat jim norton, a republica

. >> c-span's local content vehicles are travelling the country visiting congressional districts to look at the most closely contested house races in this year's midterm elections. >> bringing michigan to where it once was. i have had a close family lows his business after being in business for six years. >> it is bad. pontiac went down. they have nothing. >> i am concerned about employment definitely. the auto industry changed. michigan used to be the hub of the wheels that used to run michigan, jobs were plentiful.

eastern on c-span radio. that will be nationwide on ex-im satellite radio channel 132, and online ne c-span.org. a number of journalists and scholars met with mahmoud ahmadinejad on his recent trip. now we will hear them discuss their meeting from the center for international scholars. this is one hour and 10 minutes. >> i am the director of the middle east program at the woodrow wilson international center for scholars. i would like to welcome to you -- welcome you to this meeting to assess mahmoud ahmadinejad's trip to the united states. we auletta iran has been in the news for the last three decades -- we all know that iran has been in the news for the last three decades and continues to be so. mahmoud ahmadinejad decided to take part in the un general assembly in a bizarre way. i do not think there was one media appearance that he missed, and he -- during his visit, he met with a selected group of journalists. he also invited a group of what they referred to as iranian- american intellectuals to a private

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. >> c-span's coverage of 2010 election. live coverage begins at seven pimm eastern and live at 10:00 p.m. that's here on c-span. >> q and a tonight. justice steven breyer. >> it's sometimes hard to avoid your basic values, how you see the country. how you see the relationship, between law and the average person in this country. what you think law is about approximate. those basic fundament legal and political values, i think are part of you and they will sometimes influence an approach where the question is very open, and where it admits to that find of thing. >> supreme court steven breyer and his new book don't on c-span >> on friday. ben bernanke made a case to boost the economy. speaking on the monetary policy conference. mr. bernanke said there are reasons to act. this is about 30 minutes. >> good morning. the topic of this conference, the formulation in a low inflation is timely indeed. brings inflation under control was the biggest issues. increased independence from short term political influences central banks have

eastern on c-span.ky senate debate with democratic jack conway and republican rand paul. the cook political report rates this phrase of tossup. the university of louisville along with whhstwv organized to this debate. it is about an hour. >> welcome to bigelow hall for tonight's political debate. tonight's debate will be between the candidates for u.s. senate. i am from the university of louisville. i am the director of media relations. i will be moderating these debates. we have four reporters who will be asking questions of the candidates. the reporters will be asking questions of the two canadas, democrat jack conway and republican rand paul. the audience has been asked to refrain from applying until the end. if they believe their opponent has said something about them that they need to respond to, i will give them a little leeway. the coin toss was won by jack conway. rand paul had the second option and has chosen to go last in the closing. you each have 90 seconds for your opening statements. mr. c

thank you, c-span, and god bless you. host: we need to go back to hand-counting votes, he argues. guest: i think unfortunately, in a place like los angeles county, they might have as many as 250 contests in the county and it is in one election. it is probably not realistic in most places in at the united states to hand-count those ballots if we want accurate results in a timely manner. what i do think that we can do is, you know, we have these machines now, and in much of the country, as i said, we have ballots that are either filled out by the voter or a paper trail, we can check this offer totals. so that if there are suspicions that for whatever reason the software is inaccurate, we have this paper record, and we can hand-counts of percentage of them. there are all kinds of formulas out there that statisticians have been together where we can have extreme confidence of the software is giving us accurate totals. so i do not think that we have to throw up our hands and say there is no way that we can know if these electronic machines are giving is accurate results. host: earlier,

see the rally this saturday at noon eastern on c-span.ough the weekend, we will show campaign events, debates, and interviews and open our phone lines for your comments. follow the campaign coverage right through election day. >> more on campaign 2010 with a look at the latest poll numbers from across the country. we will watch this until 0 live road island governors' debate at 7:00 eastern. continues. >> sean miller of "the hill" newspaper, here is your front page this morning. how do you know this? guest: we have been doing polling in 42 senate and house races. we have had the majority of the republicans up in these races so we are looking at some of the races we pulled, and in addition to the ones that are just too far gone where we see democrats with a massive deficits -- host: who is too far gone? guest: who is too far gone? one of the guys we pulled who is not probably coming back, he runs the illinois district across the mississippi river. we found him down against a republican bobby shilling by double digits -- host: why? guest: i

it will be on c-span radio. solar panels will be installed in the white house by spring of next year to heat water for the first family and supply some electricity. it is not the first time the mansion has used solar energy. former president carter spent $30,000 on a water heating system in the 1970's and former president bush had solar systems powering some buildings and heated water for the pool. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. >> every weekend on c-span 3 specious american history tv. 48 hours of people and events telling the american story. hear historic speeches andy witness accounts of speeches. visit museums, historical sites and college campuses as top professors and historians delve into america's past. that is all weekend every weekend on c-span 3. host: we will now talk about housing policy. he writes for the national journal magazine. let's talk about a potential lame duck situation and what happens with fanny and freddie when they come back. guest: house financial services ch