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c-span. the roots angela johnson had while other news outlets have reported on dissension in the v.p.'s office, it's important to note spiering was a political writer for the washington examiner before moving to brightbart where worked as a white hou correspondent. so hrobably not the biggest fan of the biden harris administering. as you can possibly imagine, the fox news crowds ready to pick up everything is -- no matter how you feel it's no coincidence this book coming out in the middle of the republican primary season i describing the untry's first black v.p. female who happens a democrat aicult. but to imply that amer district attorney who represented california in the united states senate, where she served on the senate select committee on intelligence is not qualified for the job of vice president is laughable. guest: it's certainle not laughable, because it's not just conservatives who have problems with kamala harris. her approval ratings are in the low 30's. there is a huge portion of the democrat base that view her as unsuitable for office. i think the daily mail ran a poll in

s rhetoric. i enjoyed it. thank you for giving the coverage and have a good night. susan: thank you for watching on c-span. we appreciate it. tomorrow's speakers include former president barack obama, the governor of illinois jb pritzker who was instrumental in bringing this convention to chicago, and the second gentleman doug emhoff. next is a call from ollie in las vegas, a democrat. >> thank you for having me. you nailed it wire-to-wire on the coverage. great job. being originally from the bay and traveling all over the country, this is the most energetic and optimistic i have seen the opening night of the convention, top to bottom. senate, house, even the president's nominee coming out. high energy, high enthusiasm. hopefully they can carry the momentum and we can see moderate and unidentified voters, there is a future here. susan: thanks. harry is up next from louisiana, a republican. >> my comments tonight, thank you. will tonight was just excellent, and being a republican and all of this, when she came out on stage unexpected. when hilary came on stage, and then when the president comes on stage, i

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c-span. the roots angela johnson had this to say about your book. e other news outlets have v.p.'s office, it's important to note that spiering was a political writer for the washington examiner before worked as a white houseere he correspondent. so he is py not the harris administering.den her as you can possibly imagine, the fox news crowd iy to pick up everything is -- no matter how you feel it's no coincidence this book coming out in the of the republican primary season is describing the cos first black v.p. female who happens to be a democrat as diff but to imply that a for district attorney who represented california in the united states senate, where she served on the senate select committee on intelligence is not qualified for the job of vice president is laughable. guest: it's certainle not laughable, because it's not just conservatives who have problems with kamala harris. her approval ratings are in the low 30's. there is a huge portion of the democrat base that view her as unsuitable for office. i think the daily mail ran a poll in september of last year and she was fou

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's happening on the sidelines of the national democratic convention in chicago. watch live at 4:00 p.m. eastern on c-span, alson c-span now, our free mobile vide app, or online at c-span.org. >> discover the heartbeat of democracy with c-span voices 2024 as we engage voters at this year's democratic national convention, asking what issue is most important to you in this election and why. >> for me it's abortion rights. in fact, i'm the author of the women's health protection act which would restore roe v. wade for every woman in every zip code of this country. now women have less rights than their grandmothers and that's not right. >> the number one issue that concerns me is the lack of civility in our politics. i always say that we are ohioans and americans before we're democrats and republicans. and it's time to start bridging the gap and bringing our country back together and i know that our candidate, kamala harris, is going to do that for our country. >> one of the most important issues when it comes to this year's election is probably gun control. as an incoming high school senior, i fear what

now, dave lawrence, to all off s here, needs no introduction at all. but since this is on c-span, i think i will let some of the others out there get to know him as well. david lawrence junior is among the countriesno best known journalists. he retired at the early age of 56, but he didn't really retire. we all know that, right. he basically has become in incredible advocate for children especially focusing on the crucial early learning years. he was at the miami herald, the detroit free press, and now he shares the children's movement of florida. he's got 13 honorary doctorates, he is chair at the local, he chaired the local arrangements for the 1994 summit of the americas. he cofounded the vocational technical school in haiti. he and his wife, roberta, live here and we are so happy to have robbie withs us today. let's give a big round of applause. [applause] for those of you out there, you needat to find this book the dedicated life of journalism, justice and the chance for every child. this is his memoir and it is a memoir that you won't forget. so, please welcome both dave la

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interesting because it has been 50 years now, and if you look at the c-span ratings of the presidency , nixon goes up and down, but he is in the high 20's's, which is not awful considering he is the only president to resign in disgrace and for his behavior in vietnam and watergate. i think that over time, he will never be totally forgiven as john dean says, but i think that over time people have begun to appreciate more about him. lyndon johnson, who sins on almost every scale related to richard nixon's, is largely because of civil rights and the great society programs and has now risen up into the top 20 of american presidents, and many of those same values and those same accomplishments could be said to nixon. he will never be there with lincoln and washington, but neither do i think you will be angering in the basement of history forever. host: richard, iowa, good morning. caller: good morning. i'm actually in reno, nevada. i'm enjoying this conversation. i have a couple of observations and then a question. wasn't it under nixon that title ix, the establishment of the epa and clean water and air acts are passed? which are so profound

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c-span. thank you for taking my call. i am a medicare recipient on part d medicare. i am currently taking eloquence -- eliguis, the blood thinner. my husband works. he is 73. i'm in my 70's. he works to pay for our prescriptions and food on the table which is not very easy these days. i just want to say that i think it is unacceptable that our government has to wait so long to stop these pharmaceutical companies from their prices being so high and to have to wait another year and a half for my eliquis to go down to be affordable. i will be paying several thousand dollars to take my eliquis. i truly believe if trump gets into office, he will get things done and make this go a lot faster. guest: i think you are touching on a point that democrats are thinking a lot about right now which is how do we emphasize the benefit of this to beneficiaries but also take into account that this is not kicking in right away and that beneficiaries have to wait another year and a half to see the benefits of this program. in terms of what former president trump could do, that would require an act of congress to speed up the timeline. this got through congress on party-line vote. i do not an

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s i have a dream speech. he said he actually had more people than the civil rights leader did for his iconic speech. bob from illinois, democrat. caller: hello. i love c-spanthe hosts and everything. when trump said -- when he had his news conference yesterday, it was just soft questions. someone from msnbc said it best, the soft questions. but the big thing i want to say is, how could i vote for someone that made fun out of nancy pelosi's husband being hit with a hammer? i look at him every day, i would vote for a chinese that don't believe in hitting somebody's head with a hammer. i can look at him and feel that way. and also, his brother-in-law was on -- no, his nephew was on tv, and he was talking to trump, and trump said why don't you let your son die, because he was disabled and it cost a lot of money. how could i vote for a man like that? that is all. host: whose nephew was he talking to? say that again. caller: trump's nephew was on tv -- host: during covid, you mean, or recently? caller: no, this was during the earlier years of his life, and they were interacting and he said his son was disabled, his nephew's son was disabled, and they were talkin

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's we're going to stand up to it and i want to acknowledge c-span is doing a great job on letting usu might have people say things, whatever, but at the end of the day, when you're under god and you're god's people, you'll control things. thank you very much. host: one of the points billy raised something i heard from several administration officials as well is that it's important to sort of make the point that russia should not be allowed to continue this. i wonder how you read this concern about the precedent it will set if russia is allowed to maintain the territory it's taken in ukraine. >> a fair point i think that goes back to the earlier gentlemen's comments. post world war ii apparatus we created. i think it going back to your questions about you know, is a settlement in the offing? is ukraine going to be pressured to negotiate with russia? i believe a lot of people who say it shouldn't be pressured to negotiate with russia because russia should never have been allowed to invade a sovereign territory and occupy land. if the west sure it should have been more force. . that sho

's we're going to stand up to it and i want to acknowledge c-span is doing a great job on letting usu might have people say things, whatever, but at the end of the day, when you're under god and you're god's people, you'll control things. thank you very much. host: one of the points billy raised something i heard from several administration officials as well is that it's important to sort of make the point that russia should not be allowed to continue this. i wonder how you read this concern about the precedent it will set if russia is allowed to maintain the territory it's taken in ukraine. >> a fair point i think that goes back to the earlier gentlemen's comments. post world war ii apparatus we created. i think it going back to your questions about you know, is a settlement in the offing? is ukraine going to be pressured to negotiate with russia? i believe a lot of people who say it shouldn't be pressured to negotiate with russia because russia should never have been allowed to invade a sovereign territory and occupy land. if the west sure it should have been more force. . that sho

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republicans to call in to c-span and explain to me, convert me to a republican, how you justify having a commander in chief make these disparaging calls or remarks about p.o.w.'slosers and disparage and debase them when everybody knows the medal of honor represents to us in this country. i would like to hear something about this from the d.n.c. and, c-span, you bring some of these people on for visitors, a guy a few days ago from notre dame negotiates or tries to negotiate civil war and stuff like that. you should become a little bit pro-active. i think you ought to give a half who are forum for just republicans and invite them to call in and state to all of us democrats why you are voting for donald trump because of the p.o.w. issue and they don't think the appealed of hop is the -- the medals of honor is the most important. host: this is barbara in kaiser, west virginia, independent. caller: i would like to tell the people that abortion is wrong in my eyes because i'm a christian and that says when you murder someone it is a crime in god's eyes and i feel like that is murdering a child. i also think takam lahair resist -- that kamala harris has a lot of poli

c-span. thank you for taking my call. i am a medicare recipient on part d medicare. i am currently taking eloquence -- eliguis, the blood thinner. my husband works. he is 73. i'm in my 70'she works to pay for our prescriptions and food on the table which is not very easy these days. i just want to say that i think it is unacceptable that our government has to wait so long to stop these pharmaceutical companies from their prices being so high and to have to wait another year and a half for my eliquis to go down to be affordable. i will be paying several thousand dollars to take my eliquis. i truly believe if trump gets into office, he will get things done and make this go a lot faster. guest: i think you are touching on a point that democrats are thinking a lot about right now which is how do we emphasize the benefit of this to beneficiaries but also take into account that this is not kicking in right away and that beneficiaries have to wait another year and a half to see the benefits of this program. in terms of what former president trump could do, that would require an act of congress to speed up the timeline. this got through congress on party-line vote. i do not anti

c-span. thank you for taking my call. i am a medicare recipient on part d medicare. i am currently taking eloquence -- eliguis, the blood thinner. my husband works. he is 73. i'm in my 70'she works to pay for our prescriptions and food on the table which is not very easy these days. i just want to say that i think it is unacceptable that our government has to wait so long to stop these pharmaceutical companies from their prices being so high and to have to wait another year and a half for my eliquis to go down to be affordable. i will be paying several thousand dollars to take my eliquis. i truly believe if trump gets into office, he will get things done and make this go a lot faster. guest: i think you are touching on a point that democrats are thinking a lot about right now which is how do we emphasize the benefit of this to beneficiaries but also take into account that this is not kicking in right away and that beneficiaries have to wait another year and a half to see the benefits of this program. in terms of what former president trump could do, that would require an act of congress to speed up the timeline. this got through congress on party-line vote. i do not anti

first, c-span visited the chicago history museum for exhibition curator elizabeth mahoney walked us through a portion of the exhibition called "designing for change: chicago protest art of the 1960's970's." here it is. >> the chicago history museum features an exhibit called designing for change. we are here with the curator ms. elizabeth mahoney. what was your goal in creating this exhibition? >> it was to showcase the important role in that chicago artists and designers played in social movements of the 1960's and 1970's. this is a banner of the youth international party known as yippies. they were here in chicago during the 1968 democratic national convention. an unknown member of the organization created this banner and kay read it in one of their demonstrations. it features very interesting design. that is the eye of providence. you would recognize that if you turn your dollar bill over and see it there as well, and it is floating above the word "now" and the message is to end the vietnam war, which is one of the goals of the yippies, as well as creating a new counterculture value, including the legalization of drugs. this banner was donated by members of the chicago seed to

eastern on c-s c-span now, our free mobile video app, or online at span.org. >> day three of the democraticconvention continues today in chicago. tonight's ss include transportation secretary buttigieg, formerouse speaker nancyosi, former president clinton and minnesota governor tim walz. officiallyting the vice presidential nomination. again, that's live tonight on c-span. you can a watch on the free span now video appr online at a c-span.org. >> we're at the democratic national convention in chicago speaking to historian douglas brinkley. conventions have become a major tv spectacle. what were they before that? >> the big year, in my mind, is one of the conventions nobody talks about, 1952, because they brought tv cameras in. and in those day days there were a couple of tam -- cameras trainedra right on the stage. you don't really know what's going on and didn't have all this interpretive apparatus around us. walter cronkite was a very young former world war ii reporter who got the lowest job in the world, tv. nobody cared about it. but cronkite made money giving candidates makeup and how

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c-span supports mediacom, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> here with lewis goldstein, a delegate for new york for this year's national convention. this isn't your first convention s is it? mr. goldstein: i've been at four conventions over the years. the first national convention i was at was in 1968. also, here in chicago, 56 years ago, i was loyal to the anti-vietnam war movement and for a more progressive party. the mayor at that time, mayor daley was criticized as being a racist and he was, by jesse jackson and others. i stood with senator gene mccovey. i walked after the police beat up kids in grand park. i walked with the progressive movement. and ian still visualize the blood on the grass. i heard the senator get up and tell the delegates, a connecticut liberal, what was going on. i felt so -- i was infuriated with what was going on. we were told you cannot protest, you cannot march. the protests this past year, since october 7 are different in the sense i feel that all lawful protests should be allowed. i have nothing against those who have family and friends who are palestinians, who like me, feel that there are atrocities on both sides. i feel, no questi