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eastern www.c-span.org on c-span, online at www.c-span.org or listen on the free c-span radio app. >> visit c-span's new online store at c-span shop.org. with the 117 congress in session, you can get the congressional directory. it helps support c-span's nonprofit operations. shop today at c-span shop.org. >> president biden called to congratulate the message at propulsion let perseverance team on the successful mars landing. here is a look. pres. biden: >> hey mike, how are you? >> we are very well. we are very >> you did an incredible job. n: i tell you what. you did an incredible job. >> thank you for that. we appreciate that. it is our honor. it is what we live for. [indiscernible] and a couple of other control rooms and online. these are keen efforts and it is important to us [indiscernible] and we appreciate your time. pres. biden: appreciate it? i am flattered to take the time to talk to. >> we would love to have you out here someday. [indiscernible] pres. biden: i would be happy to do that. i would be happy to do that. am i supposed to speak now? >> i know you are watching the lending coverage. [indiscernible] there were a lot

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c-span. >> c-span shop.org is c-span's new store. go there today to order a copy of the congressional directory, a compact, spiral-bound book with information for every member of congress, including bios and committee assignments. also contact information for biden administration cabinet. it helps support c-span's nonprofit operation. each monday in the last hour of the washington journal, we are taking a deep dive into different aspects of the covid-19 pandemic and response. this week we are taking some time to talk about covid-19 data when it comes to the coronavirus infections, debts, and vaccinations. our guest is alexis, a staff writer at the atlantic and cofounder of the covid-19 tracking project. what is this project? guest: it was an effort and remains an effort to compile data from all of the states. at the beginning of the pandemic, we didn't have national summary statistics. even today there are some things that are missing from our national data that you do find in other countries, and we had a methodology to go around to

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order your copy at c-span shop.org. every c-span shop purchase helps support c-span nonprofit operation. former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin is facing murder charges in connection to the death of george employed. next we'll show you his trial as it got underway with opening statements from the attorneys. >> we're on the record just looking out, i've muted microphone at the counsel table i figured you would prefer that

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i'm before the program to be sure to visit c-span shop.org get your copies of elizabeth kolbert's books. ♪ ♪ >> i am excited to hang things off to her main event for tonight, which is a conversation about howard morton's new book, when rabbis bless congress. howard wortman is the communications director for c-span which is a privately funded public service provided coverage of her u.s. congress. he is part of the d.c. media organization is with positions at msnbc and broadcasting that media strategies he's a native of washington and grew up attending and now he and his family are in northern virginia. when rabbis bless congress the great american story of jewish prayers on capitol hill is his first book. he is going to be in conversation with carl cannon who is the washington bureau chief of real clear politics. and the executive director of the real clear media group. carl covers everything with the campaign and political convention since. the most procedures of the gerald r ford distinguished reporting of the presidency entered award for excellence in presidential news coverage. i thi

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>> c-span shop.org is c-span's new online store. go there to order a spiral-bound book with contact information for every member of congress. order your copy at c-span shop.org. every c-span shop purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operation. >> up next on c-span, agriculture secretary tom vilsack speaks about the usda's priorities during a virtual conversation hosted by the national press club. this is an hour. >> good afternoon. welcome to the national press club, the place where news happens. i'm emily wilkins, membership secretary of the national press club and bloomberg governments congressional and campaigns reporter. you for joining us today -- thank you for joining us today with tom vilsack. we are pleased to welcome the secretary back to the national press club and look forward to his remarks. we want to mention a programming note to our audience members today. we are happy to accept your questions and will ask as many as we can as time permits. to submit a question, please email headliners at press.org. and list vilsa

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>> c-span shop.org and c-span's new online store. go there today to order a copy of the can national directory, a spiral-bound book with contact information for every member of congress. also, contact information for state governors at the biden administration cabinet. >> earlier this afternoon, white house press secretary jen psaki held a briefing on news of the day, topics discussed included a preview of president biden speech on infrastructure and the world health organization's report on covid-19. this briefing is 40 minutes. >> i have a couple of items of good news to kick us off today. the president will -- since the beginning of the pandemic, for thousand small businesses have closed for good and millions more are struggling to stay open. in december, congress will provide an additional bit of the protection program. we have improved over $200 billion for more than 3 million small businesses. in this round, we contributed a greater share of relief for small businesses. today, the president will sign the extension act into law.

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. >> this is c-span's new online store at c-span shop.org. check out the new products. gress in session we are taking preorders for the congressional directory. every purchase helps support the nonprofit operations. shop today at c-span shop.org. >> federal reserve chair jerome powell confirms interest rates will remain near zero in 22023. part of a news conference where chair powell updated report as nonmonetary actions taken to sustain the economy as a pandemic continues. this runs about an hour. >> good afternoon. i would like to start by noting it has been a full year since the pandemic arrived with force on our shores. looking back, it was clear that addressing a fast-moving global pandemic would be primarily the realm of healthcare providers and experts. we are grateful to them and all the essential workers for their service and sacrifice. the danger to the u.s. economy was also clear. congress provided by far the fastest and largest response to any postwar economic downturn. offering physical support for households, businesses, healthcare providers and local gover

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. >> this is c-span's new online store at c-span shop.org. with the congress in session, we are taking preorders from the congressional directory. c-span's nonprofit operations. shop today at c-span shops.org. >> house speaker nancy pelosi brings eight $1.9 trillion economic aid plan. she offered support to the asian american and pacific islander community that event targets of recent violent attacks. this is 40 minutes. nancy pelosi: good morning. good morning everyone. as we deliver the benefits of the american rescue plan and hard at work to lower health care costs, expand access to care, which we have seen a great need for. on tuesday, we will celebrate the 11th anniversary of the affordable care act. that was a great pillar of economic and health security for the american people. on part with social security, medicaid and america -- and medicare. we have some initiatives to expand the affordable care act and that is why i'm so pleased to be joined by three of our colleagues of representatives. talk about provisions in the bill and she wil

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and before the program sure to visit c-span shop.org to get your copies of her book. >> now a white house club in 19 response team update on vaccine distribution and the latest on positive cases, hospitalizations and deaths other topics include texas plans to reopen with no mask mandate other states removing public health restrictions and vaccinating teachers and childcare workers. >> good morning thank you for joining us. yesterday heard the president announced a new historic partnership to get americans vaccinated more quickly, i want to provide background and how this came together supported by the active involvement in the leadership from the u.s. government to of the largest u.s. healthcare and pharmaceutical companies johnson & johnson and merck into a historic manufacturing partnership to span the production of johnson & johnson vaccine as well as take on the complex and delicate process of putting the vaccines into the vials. while these companies are competitors most of the time heated by president biden's call their undertaking a wartime effort to come to the table for the good

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before the program sure to visit c-span's shop.org to get your copies of her books. .. >> what was your position at amazon and tell us about your experience. >> i worked at amazon for a little over 12 years and i started in march 1998. i did a couple rules in product development and software and starting in 2003 i spent two years working as jess chief of staff. internally they call that will jess shadow which meant spending 10 hours a day with jeff helping him they of their ceo and getting to see and learn how he wanted to scale company and so i spent 2 years doing that and was fortunate to have been in that role and i spent five years after that as chief operating officer of imdb, the internet movie database which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of amazon. >> in 1998 when you join amazon or the revenues and what were we buying from amazon? >> i joined in march and the annual report for 1997 which was the first year amazon had gone public came out and amazon did $147 million in revenue and 97 so we had just gone from hundred $50 million if you want to call it that and in 1998 ended up doin

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c-span history. for that c-span's new online store at c-span shop.org to check out new c-span products. we are taking preorders for the congressional directory. every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operations. following the passage of the 18th amendment, prohibition began in the u.s. on january 16, 1920. up next garrett peck explains how the nation's capital was far from a dry city. he gives insight into the network of speakeasies and bootleggers across the city as well as some of their clients, including members of congress. the u.s. capitol historical society provided the video. jane: garrett pack is in -- leads tours -- garrett pack leads tours through the nation's capital. he was featured in a two-hour documentary about prohibition put on by the smithsonian channel. he researched and pinpointed the washington brewery at navy yard and is especially proud that green pop -- green hat gin is named for a character pack road -- peck wrote about. it is a real joy that we have a mere today -- that we have him here today. i was sharing with sam that my own family history has been

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and before the program be sure to visit c-span shop.org to get your copies of elizabeth's book. mech hi everyone thank you so much for tuning in today. i am care about their senior editor at mother jones. i'm sure you can all relate i am reeling from the last week of news. as we watched in horror as our democracy came under attack, it was easy to forget the coronavirus is still raging with 4000 new cases every day. but these two events are related in one really important way. the people who stormed the capitol live in an alternate reality. their beliefs are reinforced by dangerous conspiracy theories shared in online communities. that same dynamic the online spread of misinformation has worsen the pandemic. so how do we stem the tide of dangerous rumors? i guess today, doctor seaman yasmin has a lot about that question. doctor gassman as a professor population health at stanford university but she previously served in the epidemic intelligence service at the cdc investigating infectious disease outbreaks. but her brilliance does not stop there. doctor yasmin as it ma award-winni

the new c-span products with 117 st congress in session we're taking preorders if the congressional directory and purchase help support c-span nonprofit operations. shop today at c-span shop.org. during a virtual program hosted by the reagan presidential library, former appellate judge douglas ginsburg discuss his bock on courts and the constitution. here he provides his thoughts on partisanship throughout american history. >> well we are still united around that ideas because that's where we argue about where does it mean and how should it be applied and shall it be changed and that -- intense partisanship and it goes from a beginning i think you start history if i recall and american early public if not more divide than we are right now at least as myself. newspaper, the newspapers ran constantly against someone candidate because they were in secret correspondents with the other candidate. they were -- outrageous claims made by each side a personal and so on. it was extremely bitter and it's been that way pretty much about maybe every year but off and on throughout our history nothing new certainly i've lived through it before through the water gate era just as recently as

and before the program be sure to visit c-span shop.org to get your copies of elizabeth colbert's bookshy o'neil interviewed debra stone in which she argued numbers aren't always objective. >> anything we can do to help people and help our leaders make better decisions is a good thing. and i think that, you know, the good thing about numbers is that coming up with a system whether it's algorithms or a simple list of indicators is that the exercise of trying to measure things forces us to think about what we value, what we care about, what's important. >> yes. >> and i think the point i want to leave people with is but we've got a system, maybe it's be better, maybe it's still got problems, but it's better than than -- [inaudible] as you said, everything that can take the burner off is good. but we shouldn't stop ever. we should always try time prove those systems and those measurements. and i think if we think of numbers as a language of talking about our values and what's important and who's being hurt and who's being helped, then we're using them wisely. if we think of them as this is

c-span's online store to check out the new c-span products, and with the 170th congress in session, we are taking preorders for the conceptual -- the congressional directory. shop today at c-span shop.org. >> here is a look at our live coverage tuesday. at noon eastern on c-span, treasury secretary ellen and fed chair -- treasury secretary janet yellen and fed chair jerome powell. then, president biden marks the 11 year anniversary of the affordable care act being signed into law at an event in ohio. on c-span two the senate is back at 10:00 a.m. to debate and vote on the nomination for the white house deputy budget director, and the u.s. surgeon general. let c-span3, the senate judiciary committee hears testimony on reducing gun violence. then a hearing with the acting director of the u.s. census bureau providing an up date on the 2020 census. >> go to c-span.org/coronavirus for the federal response to the coronavirus pandemic. if you miss our live coverage, it is easy to find the latest we things and the biden administration response. use the interactive gallery of maps to follow cases in the u.s. and worldwide. go to c-span.org/coronavirus. journal" continues. host: every week, we t

c-span products. with the 117th congress, we are taking preorders for the congressional directory. every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operations. shop today at c-span shop.orgcans have been contributing to american society for centuries. their history woven into the fabric of the country. in the next 90 minutes, we will share stories of african-american pioneers in business, civil rights, law, and education. first, an author whose book "reclaiming the black past," explains how it is misused in popular culture and what can be done to change it.

i'm before the program to be sure to visit c-span shop.org get your copies of elizabeth kolbert's books i am excited to hang things off to her main event for tonight, which is a conversation about howard morton's new book, when rabbis bless congress. howard wortman is the communications director for c-span which is a privately funded public service provided coverage of her u.s. congress. he is part of the d.c. media organization is with positions at msnbc and broadcasting that media strategies he's a native of washington and grew

shop today at c-span shop.org. >> now house armed services committee ranking member mike rogers talks about events policy and priorities including the defense department budget, potential to withdraw from afghanistan. it's hosted by the reagan institute, this is just over 45 minutes . >> thank you for joining us. i'd rather zach and i'm director of the reagan institute, home of the reagan foundation . we're coming to you live across the street from the white house and the sudden family auditorium. i hopeeveryone is enjoying st. patrick's day and i hope you fully recover . our former president loved st. patrick's day, a day to celebrate his irish roots and have fun . of course, the love of the irish is on display at the reagan library in simi valley with the reagan, and it's true that the club was originally founded in ireland. president reagan's homeland and moved to california. alas, this year we cannot host our guest today at the pub in the reagan library due to the pandemic. but we're confident we will be able to do so at the reagan nationalevent forum this december. that's not why

. >> visit c-span's new online store at c-span shop.org to check out the new c-span products. are taking preorders for the congressional directory. every c-span shop purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operations. shop today at c-span shop.org. >> washington journal continues. host: we are joined by maya macguineas, president of the committee for responsible federal budget, here to talk about federal spending in particular on covert relief. welcome to washington journal. guest: thank you. host: let's talk about the tracking that your group is doing and a couple of charts, the broader look at the deficit and debt in the united states. the first chart says the u.s. deficit will eclipse last year's . a look at the deficit of 2020 and the deficit ahead in 2021. the other chart is about the federal debt. that says the federal debt will set a new record this year. is all of this being driven by the spending and the recently passed $1.9 trillion measure? guest: the speed at the rate in which we will get to those milestones has come from the huge economic told the pandemic has c

before the program sure to visit c-span's shop.org to get your copies of her books. .. >> what was yourposition at amazon and tell us about your experience. >> i worked at amazon for a little over 12 years and i started in march 1998. i did a couple rules in product development and software and starting in 2003 i spent two years wo