c-span: why? >> guest: because he believed as--he was a cons--he was a conservative revolutionary and he believed that order was fragile and that in order to maintain order, you had to en--create some awe between the people and their officeholders. and the president he saw as the pre-eminent officeholder in america and he thought that the president needed all the respect and honor, adulation and obeisance almost possible in order to keep this frail republic intact. c-span: who--who beat him on this? >> guest: well, the--the--the people who later became jeffersonians. they weren't that yet in the first congress. they came as just elected men from their neighborhood. they weren't clearly defined by party yet. but there were people like james madison. others just thought this was laughable. it was just ridiculous. c-span: well, you say that--was it madison or his wife that wanted the "hail to the chief"? >> guest: yes, that was later. c-span: and why was that? what was the... >> guest: well, let me--

c-span: your father was a minister. >> guest: yes. c-span: where? >> guest: eastern kentucky mainly. c-span: where did you grow up? >> guest: i started out in tifton, georgia, a little southern town north of the florida border and moved to eastern kentucky when i was 7. c-span: what town in eastern kentucky? >> guest: whitesburg, kentucky, a coal-mining town of about 1,300 initially and then mount sterling, kentucky, which is a farm town on the border of the mountains and the bluegrass. c-span: what kind of minister? is he still alive, by the way? >> guest: yes, he's still alive. he just turned 84. c-span: where does he live? >> guest: he lives in knoxville, tennessee, now. c-span: and what kind of a minister was he? >> guest: he was a presbyterian minister. c-span: what impact did that have on your life? >> guest: huge. c-span: how? >> guest: i had a very privileged upbringing. i spent my childhood going around to work camps in southern georgia, coal mines, trailing along my father as he did social work. that was, i think, important in developing m

you are on c-span.aller: i listened to the trial yesterday, what ever you want to call it, and when they turn to all of these people, as it did not seem right to me. i think he should take responsibility. it did not slam right to me for someone to come up and all the sudden have like they do not know anything that is going on, when i have heard several times that he knows everything going on in his company. and to pay out this kind of money and he does not know what is going on? it does not seem right to me. host: thanks for calling in this morning. one of the lines of questioning that came up with the murdochs is it was hacking into the phones of the 9/11 victims. here is a response. >> we have no evidence of that at all. >> i was just going to say that as our incredibly serious allegations and have come to light very recently. we do not know the veracity of those allegations and are trying to understand precisely what they are and at any investigation to -- i remember well the september 11 attacks. i

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and we have c-span here live. we're going to continue the proceedings, the chairman, by the way, my name is mark milosch, i'm the chief of staff with the health commission, and someone from mr. smith's staff on personal issues. we'll proceed. the first question that i have, have any muslim leaders in egypt condemned the kidnapping, forced marriage, forced conversion of coptic christian girls?

caller: thank you for c-span. if it was not for you, a lot of people would not know what is going on in this country. i'm very scared about social security benefits. i am going to be 68 friday. i have been on social security for just about a year. i cannot go back to work because of my physical condition. i am scared. my dad raised need to pay my bills first, and then go play. i have always believed in that. if we do end up -- how long would we lose our social security, or how long would that less? i have to pay my bills, sir. i have bills to pay. higher rents, and i cannot afford to buy a house. -- i rent, and i cannot afford to buy a house. i just lost everybody in my family. host: richard, we will try to get an answer to your question. guest:, so, let's look of the history. back in early-1996, there was a similar impasse, not quite as severe, but similar impasse over the debt limit, and then secretary rubin wrote to congress, and said i did not have enough cash to pay the social security benefits in march of 19

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caller: thank you for c-span.t president obama doing basically let the republicans hide in his administration. you have a republican party in place. this is where it came from. you have these tax cuts, medicare part b. president obama is not going to change those tax breaks. we are still in a fix with these republican parties. we need to come out of these wars. republicans are deliberately trying to sabotage this economy because this is the only way they can get someone elected in this economy. everything else to sell or group -- sour grapes. keeping the unemployment rate at the level that it is. they are trying to destroy this economy. host: some of those things you mentioned could be resolved if this was done in the open? jerry is gone. let's move on to rhode island. caller: but would like to point out that there are many, many federal institutions and agencies that are not warranted by the constitution. we could get rid of many of them and it would save this nation billions, if not maybe trillions of dollars an

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thanks for c-span. just wanted to point out to people that both sides are talking about raising the debt ceiling. really, we shouldn't raise the debt ceiling at all. if you go back and look at the statistical an tract of the united states, and you can get that through c-span by going to the resource tab on your web page -- type you're making a lot of people who work on that very happy, fred. thanks for telling them about it. caller: well, if they go down to the executive and the cabinet departments, go to the department of census, and under the department of census -- wrong, go to department of commerce, under the department of commerce, go to census bureau, and then down at the bottom of that page there's a phrase called statistical abstract. if you click on that, that gives you your snap shot for 2011. if you look at -- i think it's table number 467, it will show you the outlays that the federal government's done since 1960 up to 2010. if you look at 2004, you'll find out, you know, assuming that the

thank you c-span. thank you c-span. host: oush facebook page, if you are a user of that social networking service looks like this. we already have comments coming in. put it on the screen, please. we will show people that you, too, can log into facebook and show the comment. we will include it in the conversation, if we can, with the senator. next up is a call from michigan. this is fred, independent. go ahead, please. fred, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm 64 years old. all my life i've heard from people in michigan. i'm not from any other area, i'm raised in michigan. about people telling me about about people telling me about other people they know that are receiving social security, food stamps, welfare, medicaid, i will li legally. -- illegally. and people know this. is there a possibility way they can set up a reward program for turning these people in? host: thanks, fred. next up is cedar creek lake, texas. this is betty. what do you think about what's going on in washington over the debt debate? >> i thin

thank you for c-span. wanted to touch base with our guest and find out if he has any specific information with regards to you know, if he is actually a country they are looking at. is it close to a failure or not? thank you. host: amill. before you go, there was break up in my microphone. where are you from? caller: camaroone. host: do they say they are failed and do they see problems? what are they relating to you? caller: there are problems but with regards to the economy, it could be better. you know, unfortunately, we have a bunch of folks who are just out there to steal from the people, you know, in most of the countries in africa. they take money that is, you know, meant for the general public, you know, i mean it's hard, the economy is tough. people are suffering. a bunch of students out of school. universal graduates cannot find jobs. it's a whole mess. the country has a lot of potential. host: emil from virginia and camaroone is 24th on the list. guest: in certainly countries it feels like a count

on c-span 2. now an update on the progress between president obama and congressional leaders on the debt ceiling from this morning's "washington journal." we will get to that and the answer. first we have a congressional editor for politico that is on the phone. good monday morning. many talks occurred over the weekend. what is on tap for today? guest: no serious talks over the weekend and nothing specific on the schedule. when they sit down publicly, it is a little bit more feeder. there will be action this week as you indicate. there will be votes on the house floor and maybe even the senate floor. this is not the actual vote. the package is something that the conservatives want to check up on but has no chance of passing the senate. host: explain it for us. guest: a vow to cut spending and balance the budget. it sounds like common sense on the surface. the problem is the way it is written. the cap on spending is a hard cap. it is hard to overcome when you have an emergency. an example is a terr

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eastern on c-span.> monday night on c-span, look back at president nixon's foreign policy. members of his administration and the president's son-in-law discuss topics including communism in china, invading north vietnam, and the 1967 war in the middle east. >> the discussion then in the newspapers were nixon's secret plan for peace. what was it? of course, he never talked about it. that was rockefeller pushing nixon to say something, to expose what his plan was. rockefeller did not think that nixon had a plan. he comes in after a hard day of campaigning. he liked to listen to stokowski -- tchaikovsky. should i ask him? what's your plan? andgoing to go to peking vietnam. that's how we will bring about peace. >> watch the discussion monday night at 8:00 p.m. on c-span. >> he decided several days before mckinley arrived that he was going to kill him. he followed mckinley's were about in the newspapers, which were reported in great detail, and he began tracking him. >> on september 6, 1901, the self-proclai

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thanks for c-span. the biggest problem i have is how do you compromise with a man whom only two years ago said himself that you don't raise taxes in a recession? i guess if that's what you want to call what we're in. i'd like to call it more of a depression than anything. host: obama's prospects tied to a debt deal. his chances for re-election and reheard a figure in access of $80 million raised by the president in the second quarter for the democratic committee and this story from the "new york times". new sfabl of wealthy donors. 31 of these so-called collected excess of $500 thousand each in contribution to the campaign. including two hedge fund managers listed here and a wealthy pure torilawyer and oth include a post friend and consultant to steven spielberg and the e editor of vogue. the party establishment have been front and center in contributing to the campaign. live in 26 states and the district of column by a most coming from texas, florida and above all new york. philip from hawaii. caller:

caller: i love c-span.his situation concern me when i found out when president obama capitulated as elizabeth warren for first choice. host: why would you have like to see her as head of the bureau and what do think it means that the president chose someone else? caller: i think it means that the actual architect, the person who thought of everything, will not be representing the people. of course the republicans are trying their very best to hold us back. they do not want to have a black president. i believe that is their policy. guest: we are getting into another side issue there. he is voicing the concern that a book of the corn for the did dream this up. you are reporting in this recent piece about how we're really was her vision. richard shelby of alabama said to think of something, to create something of this magnitude and then look to be the head of it, i would not do that. he is saying do not create your own job. guest: it is an interesting thought. is room for start-ups in our country. thinking of

you can watch the program org.ime on c-span dot wor c-span, washington your way. a public service created by cable service programs. he led an original c-span interviews with current and retired justices. this book includes an interview with elena kagan. you can watch multimedia clips from all of the justices. this is available now where sold.books are host: images all over the papers today of same-sex marriage. yesterday was the first day it could happen in york. guest: it is very significant for new york and same-sex couples, and the country. same-sex couples can marry in the district of columbia as well. it is incredibly significant. the images we see of loving couples waiting in line to join an institution really sends a signal, not just to people in york coming into the gay and lesbian community, but people all around this country that equality is what the country is built on. host: what do you think of about this in other states such as maryland. is what is happening in the york influential? guest: what happens in new york last month -- yesterday was the fir

his remarks are next on c-span. in a few minutes we will hear from senate republicans on the debt ceiling and the senate's agenda this week. and we will get a closer look at some federal spending and budget negotiations. "washington journal starts at 7:00 eastern. the u.s. supreme court has a network for the term. today, a look at some of the court's decisions. the court blocked a class action at wal-mart and allows video gamers to continue to sell violent video games to minors in california. that's toasted by the heritage foundation and moderated by a former attorney general. coverage under way at 10:00 a.m. eastern live. >> president obama spoke briefly to reporters about the debt ceiling and spending reduction negotiations between democrats and republicans. his remarks are under five minutes. >> no, everybody. i want to give you an update on the negotiations we have been having the last several weeks and i want to wish everybody a happy fourth of july. coba the july 4 weekend, my team and i had a series of discus

caller: got less c-span. the republicans want to lose that last election and they are doing everything to make everything worse and worse. all they have to do is show for 16 months. am i off? host: we are listening. caller: all you can hear is through the phone. all of them money people is just want to chill for 16 months and all we care about is the unemployment rate. if that does happen, the thing that they are going to do, big business does not want regulation or taxes. if they do not do anything, they have no interest in creating jobs. if the republicans had polled this economy back, that would be crawling and breaking their arms over each other. it is not just the economy. they have tried to get him to claim the economy after three months which is just ridiculous. host: let's hear from rick, a republican and tampa, florida. caller: i could not disagree more with the last caller. obama and the democrats could have made any changes they wanted to make. i am for a flat sales tax which will allow everyone to

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neihaus is live on c-span and the senate on c-span2. >> today on c-span. the dalai lama and martin luther king's speech writer speak on non-violence. discuss osama bin laden's death, the nuremberg trials, the execution of saddam hussein, and the death penalty. >> the number of people who have killed their violence -- through violence number the millions. that problem must stop. that action, and also exploitation, i think this lays down the seeds of hatred. these things i feel. >> watch this discussion tonight at 6:30 eastern on c-span. tonight on c-span, a look back at president nixon's foriegn policy. members of his administration and the president's son-in-law discuss topics including communism in china, invading north vietnam, and the 1967 war in the middle east. >> the discussion then in the newspapers were "nixon's secret plans for peace." what was it? of course, he never talked about a. nixon could say something to expose what his plan was. most people did not think he had a plan. i would be in the library waiting for trisha to change her clothes. we

eastern on c-span. tonight on c-span, a look back at president nixon's farm policy.embers of his administration and the president's son-in-law discuss topics including communism in china, invading north vietnam, and the 1967 war in the middle east. >> the discussion then in the newspapers was nixon's secret plan for peace, what was it? it was rockefeller pushing nixon to say something to expose what his plan was. rockefeller did not think nixon had a plan. i was in the library waiting for patricia to change your clothes because we were going out and it came in after a hard day of campaigning -- he came in after a hard day of campaigning. i asked him what his plan was. he said it is going to go to the moscow and beijing and bring peace back to the world. >> what the discussion tonight it's 8:00 p.m. eastern on c- span. >> mission control, houston. >> roger, discovery. >> nasa is on schedule for the final mission of the space shuttle program this friday with the launch of 135 atlantis. a look back at the shuttle program starting with columbia 30 years ago and explore w

eastern on c-span. for the complete schedule of programs and times, go to c-span.org. >> well, they decided several days, really only several days before mckinley arrived that he was going to kill them. he had gone out, bought a pistol, and he followed the whereabouts in the newspapers, which were reported in great detail where the president was going to be, and he began tracking him throughout the fair. >> on september 6, 1901, there were two fired shots fired at president william mckinley. sunday, we look at the president and his assassin and the changing era in which they lived, on c-span's "q&a." >> this fourth of july, three-day weekend on american history tv on c-span3, we'll visit the smithsonian museum of natural history to learn about a 19th century u.s. government expedition to circumnavigate the globe and their treasure, 40 tons of specimens which became the foundation of the smithsonian institution. former first lady laura bush on her time in the white house, planning her husband's president

eastern here on c-span. tomorrow on c-span 3, the u.s. chamber of commerce will host a in jobs for american summit. leaders will discuss the factors in hiring and the role of government trading an opportunity. also include the release of the small business outlook survey. that is at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. representatives from every presidential a administration talked about the core principles of the space program shared by administration. this is about three hours. >> good morning everyone. everye an author's a of major space policy. this is the first event of its kind. it has not been done before. it is good timing. it may be the last one c-span does. the end of the world this tomorrow. a little bit about the space enterprise council. we advocate for the advancement of the space commerce in the context of why space is important to economic and national security. " with the budget and barn to have, space budgets are under attack. we believe that's boys -- space is so important to our nation that this has to be our message. we bri

angela, you are on c-span. caller: i am 38 and currently on the last social security statement the early retirement age is 67 and a full retirement is not until 70. host: because of your aid your early retirement is 67? caller: it is directly on my social security statement -- i started working in 1988 when i was 15, so i have been working for almost a quarter of a century and my early retirement this 67 -- and broke -- full retirement is 70. i will be working into my 70's if they raise this age and working 60 years until i am able to retire. the reason they are doing this is they want the wealthy to pay more taxes. well, we know the tax rates go up and down. they could raise taxes now and five years from now and go back down but they are never going to lower the social security age. it will keep going up and i feel it is unfair that what the tax rates go up and down, the age for retirement is digging pushed and pushed. i want to stop and smell the daisies' before i am pushing them up some day. i don't wanna be

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i want to thank c-span.t is the agony you provide us to come on and spout out our perspective of things. i thank you. i would like to say something about senator coburn's speech yesterday. it was remarkable. no one with common sense could not agree with him. that is what has to happen in washington. we have to clean up the government, but not at the risk of the calamity we are at now. once again, i thank you, c-span, for all that you do. god bless america. host: on the republican line, richard is joining us in halifax. caller: i was just telling the young lady who put me on hold, and very deeply concerned about the country. we're justified in this manner. i wonder if we're going to descend in some kind of chaos. the rodney king riots in los angeles will be a drop in the bucket compared to what will happen if all of these checks are cut off. that troops are liable to start on the generals. but tea party people, it is a good thing that they have got the conversation on the table about cutting government. but i

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i always appreciate c-span.get to the point and take any comments he may have often the air. why do people from the left and never state the facts that sells a security reforms that have been talked about in recent years to not touch anybody 55 years or older? that is one question. then, social security will become insolvent down the road. everyone on both sides of the aisle agrees on that. they never want to mention the reasons why this might be necessary. although we all pay into social security, in this day and age, people take in more than they ever paid in. guest: 55 years or younger, that is not true. they are talking about a cost- of-living adjustment and the way they calculate it. social security has plenty of money and it is absolutely solvent. the government is obligated to pay it. it will not become insolvent. the treasury notes that are in there are good. there are the same that everyone else has across the world. unless you say the government is not. to pay its debt, which i do not think people want

thank you for c-span. >> good morning. caller: when pelosi and reid took over the congress, since then, in two years, she increased the cost of running congress by over 100%, back to 2006 on all levels. obama's increased spending by 80% across the board. time for the 2006 levels. it's simple. he increased employees, federal employees, by 200,000. let's get the numbers back where they belong and put america back to work. thank you. have a good day. >> stories this week about chavez having cancer. a follow-up story in the wall street journal this morning saying his army chief, general henry silva says the military would guaranty constitutional order while he receives cancer treatments from cuba, down played any talk of mr. chavez leading the oil rich country. the general silva adding he expected the president to recover soon. let not one have nip doubt. it's chavez in charge here. >> that's the energy minister weighing in on this issue as well. from baltimore sun this morning, the headline is nato fissure showing in campaign

it is all searchable on our c- span a video library. c-span, washington your way.ublic service created by america's cable companies. "washington journal" continues. host: now joining us from new york is kurt schacht, managing director of the cfa institute. we are going to be talking about the nation's bond rating and what these bond agencies do. first of all, could you identify what the cfa institute is before we get started? guest: sure. good morning, peter, and a pleasure to be on your program this morning. cfa stands for "chartered financial analysts." is a global organization and its mission is to be the investment professional globally in terms of education and ethical practice and integrity and the markets did our flagship foundation of the organization has been at the cfa charter, the charter financial analyst credential. credential. host: question no. two -- what is the standard and poor's, what is moody's? what do they do? guest: well, they are doing a lot of things this week. those are the three most recognized and probably the most important credit ratin

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on c-span as well. -- it is very popular when we air it on c-span as well. what is fleet street mean? guest: the print unions had a very tight grip on the industry. in the early 1980's, murdoch wrote that, and he took his newspapers out of the street, -- murdoch broke that, and he took his these papers out of fleet street and 2to a new site. there were protests. fleet street is still used as an umbrella term for national newspapers. host: have you talked to colleagues who work for news corp.? what is their view of this? guest: they are keeping a pretty low profile, i have to say. my colleagues who work for news corp. work for quality newspapers, "times of london," "sunday times." one said that hopefully this will blow over soon. i'm not so sure. there are lots of celebrities that "news of the world" wrote about here. "news of the world" had a bureau here for years. it is hard to believe that they did not get into phone hacking as well. host: "wall street journal" this morning, a murdoch publication -- "murdochs are grilled."\ several articles within "the wal

eastern here on c-span. coming up this hour, we will continue our conversation on the debt and federal deficits. a pennsylvania congressman chaka fattah joins us and we will talk about his proposal to

join us this monday night on c-span. if you looked at every photo and spent one minute on each, it would take over 24 years to see them all. host: grover norquist, president of americans for tax reform. what was your message yesterday? guest: i asked michelle bachmann to speak. we had a discussion certainly people from boehner's office and mcconnell's office came by to talk about the various proposals back and forth. people don't want tax increases, they do want spending restrain. negotiations are a little built of a black box. host: what do you think of mcconnell's proposal? guest: it's an interesting thing that brings us back to something people don't understand. the government has passed the budget. that's the one that says on taxes, they will take the top rate to 25%. at the spending level, it takes $6 trillion of additional spending. takes $6 trillion off the table and puts us on a path of a government that's smaller as a percentage of the economy. obama to date has taken us to historical levels up to 25. the democr

eastern on c-span. -- that is at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> this week, the budget deficit and reducing government spending was a focus of the weekly addresses. president obama it is followed by senator dan coats with a republican address. he called for a passage of a balanced budget amendment and said it the nation should look to his state for the hoosier of solving the nation's fiscal problems. >> right now, there are a lot of folks still struggling with the effects of the recession. layoffs,orried about expenses. they're not sure of that could help their kids pay for college. for many families, these challenges were around long before the recession is it in 2007. i ran for president because i believed in an america where ordinary folks could get ahead, or if you worked hard, you could have a better life. that has been my for this since i came in office and that is our focus now. it is one of the reasons we're working to reduce the nation's deficits. the government has to start living within its means. we have to cut the

c-span: now what courses will you teach them? >> guest: well, i'm teaching a course now on the impact of the enlightenment on american nation building. that's a--a seminar that i'm teaching. i teach the introductory course in 17th- and 18th-century america. i teach upper-division courses on the revolution and the writing of the constitution. that's, you know, a mix, but almost always 17th and 18th century. c-span: you say you've been at ucla since 1981. >> guest: mm-hmm. c-span: what's changed in 19 years of teaching at ucla? >> guest: i don't know that the teaching has changed. thethe quality of interaction of of the students has changed, and it's justi l--i really love it. ucla is an extraordinarily diverse campus. i mean, we're just every ethnic group, every religion, every race. and i--over the 18 years, 19 years, i have seen the students become more and more at ease with each other. it's--it truly is wondrous to watch their interaction. there was always i--a lot of mac .. in a society in the second great awakening and i don'

here on c-span. today, house financial services committee chairman barney frank gives an update on the consumer regulation law would live coverage at 10:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. ♪ >> this week our guest is nick gillespie herded>> nick gillespie, i want to read some words back to you from your book. >> i hope i recognize them. >> senate minority leader, tom daschle, democrat, south dakota, former senator. "precisely the sort of well- coiffed nonentity who passes for a wise man in washington, d.c." nonentity? >> yes, i'd say so. let me put it this way. a couple years ago i read a piece called "the league of undistinguished gentlemen" about the senate, and tom daschle had a long record of service, does anybody really miss him? in the end he was just a time- passer and he wasn't even a big enough presence for the obama administration to fight for him to be their secretary of health and human services. i don't necessarily mean it as an insult to him or to the senate but let's face it, most of our e

[laughter] >> arlington, virginia, you are on c-span.me to our discussion about ernest hemingway. >> caller: thank you, good afternoon. i'm interested to know if your experts have any knowledge or input of a duel that ernest hemingway was supposedly involved with a reporter from new zealand. his name may have been thomas scott, edward scott. and i just have heard rumors that he was -- there was a challenge to a duel and i just wondered if there was any truth to it or if they could elaborate on this? >> linda miller, do you know about a duel in his past? >> i know about a duel that he had in the office of max perkins related to a challenge to

the peabody award winning c-span video library.hington, your way. >> the supreme court is now available as a standard in the hand eb-ook -- and enhanced e- book. this new edition includes an interview with the u.s. supreme court justice, elena kagan. there are multimedia clips from all of the justices. available now or ever e-books are sold. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we are back with congress jan schakowsky -- congressmen jan schakowsky -- congresswomen jan schakowsky. harry reid put out his own plan and. speaker boehner put out his own plan. could you vote yes for that in the house bella guest: first of all, we have to address what is the real crisis right now. the real crisis is that if we allow our country to go into default, to not pay our bills, the consequences, despite what some might say and the republican side, are catastrophic. the full faith and credit of the united states of america, in the world economy, we would see for ordinary americans devastating consequences if we did not do this. we could do this

. >> hi, c-span.y question is, of course, i view hemmingway as a visionary caught in contemporary times and i don't want to be disrespectful or invade his e estat certificau tell me why there were events leading up to his suicide because of his obvious fame and contributions to literary world? >> well caller, let me ask you, before you go, you say he's a visionary for contemporary times. why do you make that claim? eye make the claim that he saw the events of pearl harbor and otheother things that you alreay mentioned prior on the air and that he was a visionary in those aspects, but he was caught in contemporary times in basically the time period that he was writing. and -- >> ok. >> caller: that's my perspecti perspective. >> ok. thanks very much for that. susan beegle, we need to get to 1961 at some point and his death. he died at his own hand. that's correct? >> write. ernest hemmingway committed suicide in 1961. it's a very complex question. lots of dirent reasons for it. but first, let me start

you can listen to them all on c- span radio.ou can download it as an iphone app or listen online at c- span.org >> who is going to get fired up over nancy pelosi or john boehner customer they are proxies' for the narrow range of choice that we have been elected officials. gillespietv's nick takes on the tea-party system and possible solutions. c-span has launched a new and easy to navigate web site for politics and the 2012 presidential race with events from the campaign trail, facebook updates from candidate and political reporters, and links to media partners in the early caucus states. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we began a three-day series yesterday examining pending free trade agreements. yesterday we took a look at the south korean trade agreement. tomorrow we will examine the panama trade deal. vicki needham joins us now to talk about the colombia free trade agreement. what are the basics in the agreement? guest: the biggest thing is for the united states. the united states. 80% of all tariffs going in to col

you can also listen to it live on c-span radio. is there to talk about the federal reserve's annual military policy report. you can see that again live on c-span3 and listen to it live on c-span radio. that is fed chairman ben bernanke in front of the house financial services committee. back to the phones about the republican leadership and their handling of the debt talks. washington state is our next caller. cliff, what do you think about the republican leadership in their handling of the debt talks? talks? caller: i think they're doing as well as they can. it is surprising to me that more people are not pointing out that social security is a bottle -- supposedly self supporting. why wouldn't there be tax cut on the third of the month? i'm sure they are paying into the system. there should be plenty of money for. most people do not realize that $1 trillion is 1000 billion dollars, to count from one to one trillion would take you 70,000 years. so if people understood that, they might understood that -- the gravity of the situation

you'll be able to watch it here on c-span. senate is in at 1:00 in the afternoon for you can watch them live on c-span2. ryan on our line for independents. caller: a quick comment on one of the previous callers about businesses and people investing, businesses reinvesting. i think that more than raising the taxes, is the uncertainty that the community faces right now, the health care bill, and if you watched the president address the chamber of commerce, it seems clear that the business community is not a big fan of the current administration. also, i wanted to comment on the fact that -- host: ryan, we will leave it there. guest: the businesses had been urging congress to work the problem out and to get it resolved. and they made the point that the uncertainty in congress is bad for business. i think that this point from business was reinforced by the discouraging news yesterday that the economy is very weak. growth came and in the second quarter of this year at 1.3%, lower than expected, lower than is necessary to create job

this monday on c-span. for the complete schedule, go to c-span.org. >> david axe was imbedded with the u.s. army in afghanistan. it is his fourth visit to the country. he spent time with the 4th airbourne, patrolling in remote areas and engaging the security situation. obama announced a plan to bring 10,000 troops home from afghanistan by the end of the year. >> it depends on where you are. my experience is in the east. i have a little experience in the south. in the south, there is a lot of open combat. this is the headquarters of the taliban. >> in the east the violence depends on where you are. these to have strong relationships with kabul, with a lot of traffic. today, these are what i call, bombing galleries, where the coalition troops and a large coalition presence is trying very hard to like this town in order to protect this. but every step that they take, they are threatened. thousands every year, that are killing hundreds of native troops, and many times the number of afghans. as we move closer to

caller: is this c-span? host: it is. go ahead. caller: i enjoy c-span. in our history, americans were here to be free. we should be free to be in space without any country involved. but i think the world should get together to put their money together to go together to mars. join in their funds and technology and talents and he had indicated people and get them together in one group instead of being just nasa and america because we want to be number one in the world. we have to join the other kwoirpts to be able to survive. host: let's get i current response about the sentiments in washington about cooperation rather than competition. guest: there is some support for that idea. president obama has talked some about that cooperation. nasrallah has been used as a soft power. during the kennedy administration, it was us against the russians. some type of international mission to the moon or beyond could be a type of soft power to symbolize that america wants to be a team player with the rest of the world. there are still concerns about it on capitol hill mo