califano, and get larry o'brien, which i did. and we went to convince him. can, you know, just back off. let us get this bill out of committee. but, no, he didn't do it. and we ended up, we lost. we got the first three things. we got -- we didn't get registration of guns and licensing of gun owners. to propose that today, it would be laughed at. and i have to tell you, when i look at all the proposals, a little better background check, we're going to be a little more careful about it, we're going to provide, you know, get an authorization, then you've got to get -- it's not a battle where you get one vote. i want these kids to get some kind of a law. i hope they do. but it's, you know, while we applaud them, there's another army, smaller, but it's a lot richer working to make this different. than they want. >> so i'm going to finish i'm not a pundit, but i'm going to say something punditry here. so, in other words, i'm reading into what you just said. a little bit of glimpse of optimism that this can be done. >> the guns? >> yes

even though she's never received an echo board himself califano blowout the audience with a performance to round off an evening to remember. italian tunisian film actress claudia cardinale has appeared in some of the most critically acclaimed european films of the one nine hundred sixty s. and seventy's when she got her start of the movies after winning the most beautiful italian girl in tunisia competition in one thousand nine hundred fifty seven well now the actress is celebrating a major birthday more on her life and work at the top of today's express. cloudy account you know as jill mcbain insead giuliani's one thousand nine hundred sixty eight spaghetti western once upon a time in the west performances in such films as fitted eco fellini's eight and a half of the leopard directed by luchino visconti had already made to tunis born actress a star of european cinema. she shot over one hundred films during a career that spanned five decades cloudier cardinale turns eighty on sunday. on friday a four month old polar bear cub made her public debut at the soon to late miss felton gelsen c

carter cabinet secretary joseph califano examines u.s. democracy in our damaged democracy. republican national committee spokesperson karen mcmain oat grassroot' popular movement in the u.s. on the new american revolution and a discussion about the republican party from the tenth annual tucson festival of books, author craig shirley took phone calls and tweets on the topic. after that, syracuse university professor danielle thompson on her book, opting out of congress and former u.s. trade negotiator and ira shapiro on his book, broken. booktv all this week in prime time on c-span2. both the house and senate are out this week. the house returns for business tuesday and in the senate, lawmakers reconvene monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. the center will be working on judicial and executive nominations and they'll swear in a new senator. republican cindy hyde smith chosen by mississippi's governor to replace thaad cochran who retired april 1st. the senate live on c-span2. >>> sunday on c-span's q and a, miccio kaku talks about his latest book, the future of humanity. >> the norm f

former johnson white house official and carter cabinet secretary joseph califano examines u.s. democracy in "our damaged democracy." republican national committee spokeswoman kay league mcenany, author craig shirley took viewers phone calls and tweets. after that, syracuse university professor danielle thompson on her book "opting out of congress." and finally former u.s. trade negotiator and senior senate staffer ira shapiro on his book "broken." book tv all this week in prime time on c-span 2. both the house and senate are out this week. the house returns for business tuesday and in the senate lawmakers reconvene monday at 3:00 p.m. eastern. the senate will be working on judicial and executive nominations and they'll swear in a new senator. republican cindy hyde smith, chosen by mississippi's governor to replace thad cochran who retired april 1. you can watch the house live on c-span and the senate live on c than 2. >>> sunday on c-span's q&a, theoretical physicist and author michio kaku talks about his career in science and his latest book "the future of humanity." >> the no

eastern with the joseph califano,; his book, our damaged democracy.then republican national committee spokeswoman on grassroots populism in the u.s. her book is, the new american revolution. tonight tonight a discussion bit the republican party from the tucson festival of books, with conservative awe senator buying agrapher craig shirley, professr talks about her book, opting out of congress and we close with former u.s. trade negotiator, ira shapiro and his book, broken. book tv at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on newschannel5.

. >> joseph califano was a top aide. >> the state department's overwhelmed.cations. so many issues get to the president's throat because you've got these issues. >> perhaps the biggest challenge is we have become a presidency-obsessed nation. now in many way we expect one person to represent a country of 327 million people. >> what should change? >> where do youbegin? i think our expectations should change. we should think about what a president does in office when we pick them. and you talk to both sides and they say congress needs to step back up and be a co-equal branch of government, not a branch that operates after the president. >> do you think you would have written the same piece if president trump were not president? >> it started in the obama years. i talked to people for over a year in both parties. supporters of president trump say he's blowing through. his critics say it's because he's doing so that it's a problem. >> they call that a d. >> jake tapper is tapping into history in his el. demonstrators is holding a 24-hour rally... to protest the 2