c-span: ... and it didn't turn out that it was that important. >> guest: it turned out that there was no swine flu epidemic. there-this guy got swine flu. no one knows where he got it from. he didn't have--it was totally unclear how he got it. a few other people seemed to have antibodies to a swine flu, indicating they might have gotten one and recovered, but nobody died, except for him. there were not--nobody was getting sick from this flu and so they had a vaccine against a flu strain that was not causing any sort of problem. and around the same time this--as everybody started getting immunized, people started saying, 'the vaccine is actually killing people. it's making them sick.' and so this was--there was a lot of fear of this vaccine. and i think that's haunted people to this day. because today, you still hear people say, 'oh, flu vaccines, they never get the right flu strain. and the vaccine is worse than the disease. and the vaccine can make you sick.' and i think a lot of that got starte

>>c-span: i am sorry. [laughter] >> guest: you go out and the competition goes on for a number of weeks and you write each week stories are essays and i wrote poetry. >>c-span: doesn't have to be funny? >> guest: i hope it is i was elected then we had a week in which you are humiliated which is their form of fraternities and we were told we had to where we are a black suit for one week with the black eye patch i almost got hit by a car crossing the street and we were called phools you had to go through a humiliating few days such a great institution such as john updike but nevertheless lock all of the gates of 19 gates just before a night class is were really so big crowds are gathered and then for four years i was editor of the harvard lampoon which culminated just before i graduated, we had done a parity of the saturday review. it was a lovely literary magazine and the editors of psat and liked a lot. they got in touch with us and said lourdes you do a parody of us it as the july issue you be the editors

c-span: how? >> guest: the first -- the papers -- what happened is he came down, he was at home to be keen to get the paper and make himself to your coffee and collapse behind his desk and died. what everyone thought at first is a heart attack. but the irony is that if he died in the very spot where he would have fallen if danny hansard the man who killed, had actually fired a gun at him, has claimed, and hit him he would have fallen right where he eventually died nine years later. c-span: where were you when you heard of this? >> guest: i happened to be in the atlanta airport on my way to miami at two atlanta through atlanta to savannah. and i'd gone to miami for i don't know, for it. and i got the word that he died. i was on my way back to savannah any way and went back. so he died. in fact that's the end of the book there you go. there's some suspense right there. but before -- what happens before is suspenseful. c-span: how close were you to him before he died? >> guest: he was very forthcomin

c-span: september 1st. >> guest: yes. c-span: is it too late? had things changed? >> guest: every word is relevant. there are some days i have found out since. there is nothing wrong. it has the right explanation for why the attorneys acted as they did. accurately portraying students. c-span: able to deal with jet lag and traveling. >> guest: when you have something like this on your mind and are revved up, the jet lag tends to vanish. i cannot recall a trip in which i have less problem with tentlike. c-span: q want to go back to jeff not to china? >> guest: absolutely. i have worked on a book is initially about what has happened since the death of mao. he died in 76, exactly 13 years ago this month. he left in a dreadful state of chaos. he came in putting things together and got tennant going in a remarkable way. he'd changed it in many ways. he brought prosperity by eliminating communes and enabling the army of private business and big money. and then this comes along. the unfortunate and contradictory. his career. i'm writing. of third was the diary. the researc

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caller: thank you for c-span. i would have called in on seniors but i dialled in on independent first. i'm 80. this is the most ludicrous thing. you know, aarp is nothing but a big insurance company. i wish to goodness, you would do something on c-span about the $100 something billion cuts they are making on the military. making the seniors and poor and children pay for this cal amity that's been caused by the millian airs and banks. thank you very much, rob. you have a great day host: next is bill on our line for republicans in new york. caller: seriously, dude, i don't know what is going on with social security codes and everybody stealing them. i think it is total bull s -- host: the decision by aarp, the senior entitlement lobby to maintain the possibility of cuts is a 9. 0 on the budget deficitscale. >> listen, i stopped paying into them four years ago. they are still sending me insurance information. >> what about the social security cuts. caller: my advice is pay it back. quit dipping into it host: john on

this is from the c-span website. he will announce his candidacy for president at a barbecue in new hampshire. it will be live on c-span2 -- 12:30 p.m. eastern time. that will be live on c-span2. the senate is out of session this week. so, c-span2 is open for those types of events. some mitt romney backers are backing out this time. this is an article in "the washington post." here are some examples that they put in this article. in south carolina, third on the 2012 calendar, mitt romney's highest profile backer is state representative nathan valentine -- that is just a little bit from this article about mitt romney. when they talk about the whole presidential, the republican presidential candidates, this is what comes up. when you put one word up and you can see this is done in that way -- the word they used the most about the republican field is the largest. unimpressed, disappointed, incompetent, all stand out. this was a "washington post" pew research center poll. michael in charlotte on our independent line. good

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thank you, c-span.political rhetoric talks about kennedy's starting vietnam, but from what i have read of the pentagon papers, eisenhower actually started the conflict when he started buying war munitions from korea to vietnam to support the french in 1953. my sense is a question -- i think kennedy, with his national security action memo #263, where he actually drew out 1,000 advisers from vietnam, proved what he intended as to vietnam. what do you think about that? guest: i agree. in my book, "an unfinished life," about john kennedy, what i argued, essentially, is that -- you are quite right -- he issued the directive to mcnamara to withdraw the advisers by the end of 1963. he was very skeptical -- doubtful about having a sustained, american operation there. he certainly did not think that putting in a large number of ground troops was going to be a good idea. in fact, he told schlessinger, that it would be like a man taking a drink, the effect would wear off, and taking another drink and another. he w

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i love c-span. i can understand your frustration with seeing my face or early in the morning, but this is the only one i have. caller: i like your look, but not the sideburns. cap.ou need is a robert cubber host: now to tampa, florida. caller: i have been calling twice a year to talk about how serious is that we get our tax system straightened out. people talk about it. talk about simplifying it appeared the more they talk about simplifying it, the worse the tax code gets. i don't believe either party is going to solve anything except all the bickering between conservatives and liberals. you cannot do it because of the tax code. we have billions and billions of dollars off shore in the cayman islands and all that stuff because of the tax code. can you imagine bringing that money onshore today? we need that desperately instead of pouring money from china. but were not allowed to talk about that. we will simplify it. it is just not going to work. i will probably be calling in -- i'm 66 -- i will proba

on c-span. that's our discussion regarding your message to the president and -- back to our discussion regarding your message to the president and congress. sharon, you are on the washington journal. caller: my message is to all your southern white republicans. you had 10 years of the bush administration, you had it 10 years of his policies. you had 10 years of not only his tax cuts, the republican way. what did we get? we got a housing prices and two wars off the books -- we got the housing crisis. and we got two wars of the books. they want people to die while they profiteer off of the tax dollars. where have you been sitting, southern white republicans? how did you benefit? host: ken in cincinnati, ohio. caller: i host a talk show in cincinnati. one thing i notice is we have major class warfare. my message would be to end the class warfare -- from the president on down. and you cannot raise enough taxes to pay for the wild spending. if you were to compare $1.20 trillion to $20 billion, it is

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i love c-span. i can understand your frustration with seeing my face or early in the morning, but this is the only one i have. caller: i like your look, but not the sideburns. cap.ou need is a robert cubber host: now to tampa, florida. caller: i have been calling twice a year to talk about how serious is that we get our tax system straightened out. people talk about it. talk about simplifying it appeared the more they talk about simplifying it, the worse the tax code gets. i don't believe either party is going to solve anything except all the bickering between conservatives and liberals. you cannot do it because of the tax code. we have billions and billions of dollars off shore in the cayman islands and all that stuff because of the tax code. can you imagine bringing that money onshore today? we need that desperately instead of pouring money from china. but were not allowed to talk about that. we will simplify it. it is just not going to work. i will probably be calling in -- i'm 66 -- i will proba

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c-span: you're next book, everybody speculating the city and all that. are you looking for a city or have you found a city? >> guest: i had been looking and told all of my friends even if you think it is a harebrained idea, you have one for me, please tell me. .. >> particularly that english speaking which is fascinating. but then going back and february interested in what was the american family owned coming out this fall and then by the boston families but then i realized not quite what i wanted either for the article that i stumbled what relates to the henry james and psat in venice who lives in them broken down what so and had been the mistress and henry james roche a wonderful story from the 1880s and as a scholar who did not know that they were still alive now that he knows he is alive and must have a treasure trove of the papers so he schemes and plots and gets into the house convinces the two old ladies so then the old lady dies. he confesses to the niece that he once the butter and says you can have it but he is horrified. he wanders court a day

i'm grateful for c-span. i was calling to say that it seems to me that the executive decisiveness of mr. cain and thoughtfulness of newt gingrich might go well together to possibly satisfy the thirst for fiscal sustainability embodied by the tea party movement. and i would be very happy to see either one of them proceed in a thoughtful ongoing getting out of the herd. host: appreciate the call. guest: herman cain had a bit of a buzz after the first debate. he is scoring well in polls relative to some other candidates who are more conventional. but the view on him, because he never held elective office and he is not completely conversant on all the issues yet that he really is a long lost all of his senior staff and most recently has fundraisers quit. if you like his views, they are not much -- there is not much there there anymore. in the iowa poll, he kept my head of tim pawlenti very that must be very ahead -- very distressing for tim pawlenti who worked very hard and done all the right things in terms of o

c-span is local content vehicle in savannah, ga. this weekend on c-span 2 and 3. host: we want to welcome the presence and ceo of the gay victory fund. what is your mission? guest: we believed to have this country to live up to the ideal that we are representing democracy, we of work to elect gay and lesbian and bisexual people to office. we train them first on the part of campaigning. we have a campaign training program. the of the basic and in abeyance training program. when they are running for office we will endorse them. we will fund them and raise money for them around the country. we will bundle money so they have additional resources. then we help them with technical assistance during their campaign. host: can you count how many openly gay men and women are elected to congress or any other statewide office? guest: total is about 500 right now. four in the house. none in the senate right now appear yenw. 400 are scuttled in local cattered in local municipal offices. we have a ways to go to parity. host: are the stereotype devolving were changing? guest: vot

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caller: thank you for c-span. i've learned so much from watching c-span. thank you, mr.ks, they do things that i do not understand, but i've learned so much, and thank you so much, because we need you very bad the. -- very badly. host: ned, what you think about congress on tv? caller: i enjoy it. it is so informative. i believe more people need to watch it. i don't think there is enough people in this country who know how things work. host: how often do you watch it? caller: i watch "washington journal" every day, booktv, you're the program, every weekend, all weekend long. i just wish we got the history section, c-span3, here. host: all right. you don't get c-span3 in washington, indiana? .aller: no, we don't t host: do you know why? have you talked to provider? caller: they are getting ready to change, and i intend to write and ask about that. i would like to have all three channels. that would be really nice. host: we will put the numbers back on the screen if you want to comment about 25 years of senate on television. june 2, 1986, was one of the senate -- was when t

thank you, c-span. i listened to what you said, but i want to go back to representative kucinich when he said one of the problems he has with the obama administration is its coziness with wall street. that means the investment banking crowd. we have a major problem in this country that is largely being ignored and kept under the rug. it has to do with the creation of crowded titles on millions and millions of mortgages. this has nothing to do -- it has millions andiskwith millions of good standing mortgages and people do not know -- probably 90% of people in this country have no clue that if they have done any refinancing if they bought a home in the last 10 years, due to the implementation of mortgage electronic recording services by the big banks, that basically 200 years of property law being usurped. i would like the congressman to address that we have a major problem coming up with that. and are going to bail out the banks again? host: congressman, any thoughts? guest: i heard a little about the pr

we hope to have technical difficulties result surely here on c-span. -- resolved shortly here on c- spangain, we are having some technical difficulties this morning with our "washington journal" program this morning. we have been talking to congressman mcgovern. schedule later this hour, tom cole. the only business in the house is a couple of resolutions dealing with libya expected to get underway at 9:00 a.m. eastern. once they finish their work today, the house is done for through the july 4 week. the senate is in or will be back in it next week. today, a house subcommittee looking at of venezuela and the house subcommittee looking at mutual funds at 9:30 on c-span3. president obama today is headed to carnegie-mellon university in pittsburgh. he will be delivering a speech and talking about manufacturing. we will have coverage of that later in our schedule on the c- span network. >> we are having some technical issues with our live coverage of the "washington journal" this morning. we are going to show you a little bit of today's earlier portion of "washington journal." host: good morn

eastern on c-span and c- span radio. >> c-span has launched a new website for politics in the 2012 presidential race, with the latest events from the campaign trail, biographies of the candidates, twitter feeds, facebook updates, and links to media partners in the early caucus states. visit us at c-span.org/ campaign2012. >> next, a look at the republican candidates and possible candidates from today's "washington journal." this is 40 minutes. we now go it the elephant stampede the lay he is story you have been working on, five reasons the republican race is so unsettled. give us one or two. guest: one reason is that the republican field is very large and the front-runner, who is a very recent front-runner happens to be somebody that is the most energetic part of the party, the conservative tea party wing of the party, isn't happy with so they are struggling with what to do about there. do you go with the republicans have a history of going with next in line but next in line is mitt romy who is relatively moderate. so, typically the republicans have had a clear frontrunner in february of the ye

caller: thank you for c-span. i've learned so much from watching c-span. thank you, mr. ritchie, what you are doing. you have one of all things on your show. -- wonderful things on your show. i wish that c-span could educate as a little bit more of about how the senate and house works, they do things that i do not understand, but i've learned so much, and thank you so much, because we need you very bad the. -- very badly. host: ned, what you think about congress on tv? caller: i enjoy it. it is so informative. i believe more people need to watch it. i don't think there is enough people in this country who know w things wor host: how often do you watch it? caller: i watch "washington journal" every day, booktv, you're the program, every weekend, all weekend long. i just wish we got the history section, c-span3, here. host: all right. you don't get c-span3 in washington, indiana? .aller: no, we don't t host: do you know why? have you talked to provider? caller: they are getting ready to change, and i intend to write and ask about that. i would like to have all three channe

we will cover that on c-span.is not live, because the house and senate is in session, but you will be able to see it later on this evening. now to the phone calls on the president's plan for afghanistan. james on the line for democrats. you are on with congressman scott rigell. good morning. caller: hello. it did not work in the 1980's and it is not going to work now. guest: thank you, james. i believe your statement is in support of the comments i made earlier. if that is not the case, maybe you can call back in. i believe that this more limited mission -- defeating al-qaeda itself and not the broader mission -- keep in mind that the entire national budget of afghanistan is $1.5 billion. i would say that the country cannot even take the amount of investment. you cannot even logistically handle a $3 billion investment in one year on different projects across the country. i say that with the utmost respect for our civilians. in some ways, in some sense, are at as much risk as our men and women in uniform often time

that is on c-span 3 at 10:00 a.m. eastern. on c-span 2 at 1:00 p.m. eastern, the former national security adviser brent scowcroft talks about foreign policy following the annual gerald ford foundation journalism award. also today, the senate commerce committee looks at threats to real security is members here from that of the transportation security administration and the amtrak police talk on c-span 3 at two o'clock 30 eastern. agriculture secretary tom vilsack was at the national press club monday to preview next week's meeting of the g- 20 agricultural meetings. will discuss how industrialized nations can help emerging countries. this about one hour. >> thank you very much and thanks to all who are here today. let me start off with a sobering statistic. the united nations food and agricultural organization says 925 million people were undernourished last year. this is an improvement from 2009 but still unacceptably high. our goal as a nation and as an international community is clear -- to bring down this number by increasing the availability and t

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you can download this and other podcasts online at c-span. >> monday on c-span, our road to the whiteouse coverage continues with former senator rick santorum as he makes his official presidential campaign announcement. that is live from somerset, pa. at 11:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> this week on "newmakers", we are joined by sander levin, democrat of michigan and the top democrat on the ways and means committee. we also have two reporters to help us with questioning -- alberto sanchez, budget and appropriation reporter with the "national journal," and ian swanson, news editor at "the hill" newspaper. ian, go ahead with the first question. >> thanks. >> glad to be here. we've known each other a few years. >> yes, and i'm looking forward to the talk today. i'm going to start out with a disappointing topic, at least -- the labor department today put out a report for jobs figures for may that found the economy only added 54,000 jobs last month. this came, of course, after a slew of other bad economic news, on housing, other private sector forecasts on jobs and manufacturing. i'm

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that is set for four, 15 and you concede house coverage on c-span and senate coverage on c-span 2. commerce secretary nomination goes before the commerce committee this afternoon. he is an environmental lawyer and helped found the natural resources defense council. watch the hearing live it to claude 30 eastern on cspan 3. back to politics met with a look at the influence of new media in campaign advertising. you'll hear from the former white house senior adviser david axelrod who is now heading up the reelection campaign for president obama and former rnc chairman ed gillespie. >> we want to reach people who might vote for us but we need to mobilize at the most -- in the most cost-effective way. when i started off in this business a long, long time ago, the late bob squire was a media consultant. he is to save that all the media should get together and put lawrence welk back and the air so we can target senior citizens. now we have more tools including cable television to target. we spent the vast majority of our money last time on broadcast television. we spent about 12% or so on

they keep for c-span. they keep for c-span. they're trying to gerrymandered this. we try to educate our kids about science instead of witchcraft in schools. also, teachers are getting fired here in texas. rick perry is trying to fire teachers. there is no talk about honoring and administrators or anything else. and i have kids in the school. the kids are overcrowded. the only good thing about rick perry running is it would take him off our hands. i do not think he can win. he is inept and debate. sarah palin wasscar wait till yoube in debate, see rick perry. he has personal skeletons in the closet that will come to light as soon as he hits the national spotlight. host: go ahead kirk. caller: i would support a pawlenty/perry ticket. they have both served a couple of terms as governor getting reelected. we have romney and pailin who have only served a term or part of a term and never got reelected. i think at this point it is important to have someone in the government who has what would be the equivalent of ceo experience, repeated ceo experience, and i think the bi

, and tell people about the c-span applications are available as well. but it's not been without launch bumps. for example, a lawsuit against viacom, disney, i believe, has also raised concerns about having its products screened under you're current contract negotiations. your job involves policy and technology, are you concerned about these initial issues on content providers' part? >> guest: no. i can't really speak very much about that issue because we're in the lawsuit, but, um, we believe we have the right to stream content on a customer's premise. it acts pretty much like an additional outlet, any oh screen in the -- any other screen in the house. >> host: over time you expect the industry will come to some sort of resolution about this. >> guest: yeah. i think you're right, susan, it will. >> host: one of this things you're talking about here is monetizing this in a way that you can capture the people using the services for advertising purposes. how do you see that progressing? >> guest: i think we need to report the viewership, so we're working w

caller: thank you for c-span.s far as rick perry is concerned, you might want to think long and hard before he makes a bid to run as president team made these comments about seceding from the united states, very treasonous talk. neo-confederate, almost racist overtones about the president. he needs to think long and hard before he makes a bid. as far as tim pawlenty, he had the opportunity to call out mitt romney, he has marginalized himself. newt gingrich, he told the truth about the rise in planning that castigated by his own party. after the 2010 elections, i think a lot of people are having buyer's remorse. we see that what thompson in ohio and new jersey, governors are attacking unions, teachers, people of color, women's rights, and a lot of people are having buyer's remorse. the democrats do not need to rest on the laurels but they do not need to go into pending mode. sarah palin does not want to be in politics. host: we will leave it there. kasie hunt. guest: you mentioned tim pawlenty and i think that you

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caller: thanks for c-span. the caller from georgia just go in little of my thunder in how money has been affecting our supreme court cases. host: how do you see it playing out and what are the ramifications? caller: it sort of started out two years ago with the citizens united case which i believe was the worst decision the supreme court has made in decades. it gives them as you know, corporations with billions of dollars of the same rights as a citizen who might have not two cents. but at least we all still have one vote. so no matter how much money -- will also have one vote and we can vote for presidents that appoint the justices that we want. i think obama made a good choice with kagan. i think she will be a good justice. but again, i think money is corrupting the supreme court and they are the law of the land. host: two of our callers so far mentioned clarence thomas. let's look and an article from "the l.a. times." this is from back in january. the justice's wife had an income the failed to report. the wa

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thank you, c-span.e extensive research on the history of bank of america, so i cannot really address that question, but it is a huge enterprise, and in the middle of the four clincher crisis absolutely, especially since it acquired countrywide financial, which is one of the leading subprime originators and also the biggest supplier of loans to be the way during the 1990's. the bank is front and center in a crisis still today obviously. the question on whether or not these institutions can be held accountable i think is a good one. if you go back in time and see they have not been in previous years and yet again they're given a pass, it does contribute to the idea that there are two sets of rules and america. one for the big and powerful institutions that have the potential to disrupt world financial markets if they get into trouble and the rest of us on main street. that is a very pernicious you, but it is really fed by the actions that have been taken to come out of this crisis. keeping their rates as

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