robert costa, catherine lucy, rick stengel. robert costa, on wikileaks, it sounds so much like the narrative -- your newspaper has a headline wondering if trump has become a conventional republican. this move to make him more establishment, more mainstream even if it's his -- the people he picked out who are doing it. >> it is such a contrast we're watching in the early months of this presidency, compared to the trump we saw on the campaign trail who rev he willed in in l intelligence information, sometimes private information revealed by wikileaks. this was an organization that was looked down upon by the u.s. government, was seen as operating in a negative way. revealing too much information that was inappropriate. perhaps even classified. and now as president he's running the federal government and he's in a different position with his officials striking a different tone. >> catherine, when you hear that he brought no members of his senior staff with him to florida, and we have a long weekend here, and you see what you see g

coming up monday morning, the press white house reporter catherine lucy and political reporter -- theyiscussed the week ahead in congress. on therketwatch reporter future of student loan forgiveness programs for public servants. sure to watch c-span's washington journal, life at 7:00am monday morning, join the discussion. ♪ >> all month, we are featuring c-span's studentcam winners. this year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress.

coming up monday morning, the press white house reporter catherine lucy and political reporter -- they discussed the week ahead in congress. on therketwatch reporter future of student loan forgiveness programs for public servants. sure to watch c-span's washington journal, life at 7:00am monday morning, join the discussion. ♪ >> all month, we are featuring c-span's studentcam winners. this year, students told us the most urgent issue for the new president and congress. our grand prize winners are sisters from blacksburg, virginia. ava lazar is homeschooled in the seventh grade. mia lazar is in the ninth-grade. their documentary on refugees and immigration policy is titled the tempest tossed. >> is not about what political party you are. it's more about values and helping these people. >> as parents, this topic was particularly personal because both my parents were refugees. so i think that also drove them a little bit. when they do some video on a topic that's personal for them, that helps a lot. i think you saw the energy in that. >> the reason we named the documentary the tempest tos

coming up, associated dress white house reporter catherine lucy and political reporter discussed the week ahead in congress. ok watch reporter jillian berman on the future of student loans for public servants. be sure to watch at washington journal coming up at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion. ♪ >> an estimated 5 million americans are living with alzheimer's disease. a senate hearing looked at the alzheimer's research. maria shriver testified at a hearing of the senate aging committee. this is two hours 21 minutes. [applause]

we welcome to the broadcast tonight catherine lucy white house reporter for the associated press. with us in the studio, public diplomacy and affairs at the state department, rick stangel also former editor of time magazine. robert, i have to ask you how this new to the job and learning the job notion has affected what you're seeing and hearing. we talked about you last night in abstenia. you were part of a by-line piece with 21 off the record sources with this administration which kind of had to be a modern record. >> brian, you are as generous as always. appreciate that. what we learned, brian, yesterday and today in conversations with white house sources, this remains a president who is nonidea logical. he's not only learning on the job, but he's picking up his own agenda on the job, through conversations with business executives and wall street figures who are now in his administration. the ideologues who fueled him during the campaign remain at his side, like steve bannon, his strategist, but it's gary cone and visiting ceos dee na pal, others, jared kushner, ivanka trump who

we welcome to the broadcast catherine lucy, white house report forethe "associated press." and back with us in the studio, former undersecretary for public diplomacy and public affairs at the state department, rick stengel: robert, i have to ask you how this new to the job and learning the job notion has affected what you are seeing and hearing. we talked about you last night in absentia. the piece you were part of a three-by line piece with 21 off the record source out of this administration, which kind of has to be a modern record. >> brian, you wered a generous as always. appreciate that. what we learned, brian, yesterday and today in conversations with white house sources is that this remains a president who's non-idea logical. and he is not only learning on the job, but he is picking up his own agenda on the job through conversations with business executive and wall street figures who are now in his administration. the ideaogs who fueled him during the campaign remain at his side like steven bannon his strategist but it's gary cohn, visiting ceo and others, jared kushn

monday morning, associated press white house reporter catherine lucy and political reporter discusseshe week ahead in congress. then marketwatch reporter julian berman on the future of student loan forgiveness programs for public service. be sure to watch c-span washington journal live 7:00 a.m. monday morning. join the discussion. check out our c-span classroom website at c-span.org/classroom. it is full of free teaching resources for c-span classroom members. the improved layout gives teachers easy access to ready to classroomfor the including current events videos, constitution clips that bring the constitution to light, social studies lesson plans as well as on this day in history resources. our search function allows c-span classroom teachers to search and filter by date, person, keyword, topic and grade level. our bellringer's video clips are teacher favorites. they are short videos paired with vocabulary that make the federal government and politics more accessible to your students. >> i love the bell ringers. i will use them in conjunction with connectivity we are doing that d

monday morning, white house reporter catherine lucy and politico reporter discussed the week ahead in congress. on theetwatch reporter future of student loan forgiveness programs for public service. be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. will -- monday morning. join the discussion. >> coming up at about five catherine simply discusses the ways in which florence harding set new precedents as first lady. she is the author of first lady florence harding, behind the tragedy and the controversy. here's some background on her hunt, president warren harding. >> he was mr. nice guy. of people person, foster children and talks. >> i love to meet people. it's the most present thing i do and really the only fun i have. >> some might say warren harding like people too much. his good-natured trust in others spell scandal when the public discovered members of his administration were trying to get rich behind his back. he was a reputed womanizer who are poorly engage in at least two affairs, one of which may have resulted in the birth of a daughter. he once recounted in public the wo

about those topics, were joined by kimball politico, she's associate editor for that publication, catherine lucy joining us of the associated press and the white house support for both of you, thank you for joining us. what's the focus this week with the first 100 days coming up, what do you see as the focus of this white house this week? >> there's a lot of different focus is in some ways but the white house is staring down a new day even though they're trying to downplay the significance, they are looking to get wins going into that. >> a couple of different things they are trying to do, obviously we can talk more about this, there's the budget deadline, they'd like to resolve that. i want to see some kind of money or the border walls which is been a key priority for the president. there's also renewed interest in trying to do something around repeal and replace healthcare, also the president is providing more details on his tax plan this week so they're looking to do a lot of different policy things this week but obviously a lot of the stuff they can'tdo by themselves . >> is there any relati

monday morning, associated press white house reporter catherine lucy and political reporter discuss the week ahead in congress. then the future of student loan programs for public servants. watch c-span's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. sunday morning. join the discussion. former president barack obama is in chicago tomorrow for his first public appearance since leaving office. he will discuss civic engagement and community organizing with young adults at the university of chicago's logan center for the arts. here on c-span, we will take you there live at around noon eastern after a brief session in the house. later in today, attorney general jeff sessions talks about workplace integrity and ethical ethicsds at the annual and compliance initiative conference in washington, d.c. that event will also include a discussion with former justice department officials of the clinton, george w. bush, and obama administrations. watch live starting at 3:15 p.m. eastern on c-span. night on "theday communicators," we attended the state of the net conference in washington, d.c., and spoke with

monday morning, associated press white house reporter catherine lucy and political reporter discuss the week ahead in congress. then, marketwatch reporter jillian berman on the future of student loan forgiveness programs. watch c-span's "washington a.m. l," live 7:00 join the discussion. for theesults are in first round of voting in the french presidential election. the two candidates receiving the most votes are former french economy minister emmanuel macron and national friend leader marine le pen. they will now face a runoff vote on may 7 two determine who becomes the next president of france. it is the first time in modern french history that the presidential runoff will not feature a major party candidate. next, a look at some of the election coverage, including speeches from the candidates. this is courtesy of france 24. there we have it. a major upset in french political history. emmanuel macron, the newcomer 23.7% of thep, 43.7% o vote, head of marine le pen's

coming up, associated dress white house reporter catherine lucy and political reporter discussed the week ahead in congress. ok watch reporter jillian berman on the future of student loans for public servants. be sure to watch at washington journal coming up at 7:00 a.m. this morning. join the discussion. ♪ >> an estimated 5 million americans are living with alzheimer's disease. a senate hearing looked at the alzheimer's research. maria shriver testified at a hearing of the senate aging committee. this is two hours 21 minutes. [applause] >> this hearing will come to order. first of all, thank you for that wonderful welcome which i know was for maria shriver, but we senators will pretend that it was also for us. >> [applause] >> good afternoon to all of you. i am delighted to convene this annual hearing to assess the art of alzheimer's from venting cognitive decline to assuring quality care for those living with dementia. it is also -- it is always inspiring to sit here and look , butt that sea of purple it is also a reminder that this terrible disease has affected each and every one