joining us now is the president of the influential center for american progress. e used to work for the obama administration as secretary for health and human services. nura, great to have you here. >> great to be with you, ezra. >> you're a better political mind than i am. do you see a political trend, a change in the way they're treating what would be called cultural issues? >> i would say throughout his history, the president has always believed in the politics of conviction and has believed that when you talk to his people honestly about issues, you gain political points, even when they're not totally popular. and now we're in a time where, you know, we're not trying to pass legislation particularly on the hill. everything is literally ground to a halt. and so, he has the ability to talk honestly about these issues. and truthfully, after a situation like aurora, for him not to mention it at all i think raised questions with people. and you know, he took this from the perspective that was very much common sense and cited gun owners themselves, which i think was

because he voted for the obama care and the affordable care act, he's now president of the center for american progress in. >> good to be here. good morning. >> bill: you guys at the center were all prepped all prepared to go public with your response to the supreme court decision last thursday. were you surprised? did you have one prepared for upholding the entire damn thing? >> we did. and you know, i had actually -- i had thought it was going to come down 6-3 in favor so kennedy was the biggest surprise to me. it really was -- >> bill: you thought roberts would be the -- >> i did. when you look at -- it is in print. if you look at it from a constitutional perspective, this was really well within the bounds of where constitutional -- i wrote a piece the day before saying this was really not a choice between liberal constitutionists and conservativestitutionallists -- constitutionalists and federationists, those who supported the articles of federation, these didn't have the interstate commerce clause. didn't have the general welfare tax and spend provisions, the founders tried that approach with the

joining us now is neera tanden, the president of the president influential center for american progressn as an adviser to the secretary of health and human services. neera, thank you so much for being here. >> great to be with you, ezra. >> first, you're a better political mind than me. do you see this trend, do you see sort of a change here in the way they are treating what many call cultural issues? >> throughout his history, the president has always believed in the politics of conviction, and he's believed that when you talk to his people honestly about issues, you gain political points. even when they are not totally popular, and now we're in a time where we're not trying to pass legislation particularly in the house, everything is literally ground to a halt, so he has the ability to actually talk honestly about these issues. and truthfully, after a situation after aurora, for him to not mention it at all, raised questions with people, and, you know, he took this from the perspective that it was very much common sense and cited gun owners themselves, which i think was a smart move.

the center for american progress looked at three years of questionnaires. more than a third of fourth graders said their math work was often too easy and eighth graders said history was too easy and only one in five eighth graders read more than 20 pages a day. it shows most children are not being pushed academically. that's too bad. >>> a florida lifeguard fired for leaving his post to rescue a drowning man is being honored. >> he has been given the keys to the city. thomas lopez and the 19-year-old victim were reunited. lopez saved a man from drowning in hallandale beach last week. he was fired almost immediately after that happened. the mayor called his firing embarrassly. lopez was offered his job back and he politely declined. lopez wants to get a new job and study business administration at a local community college. the city contracts out this lifeguard company, and this was bad pr for the city. >> it really was. >> a nice key helps. >> good for him. sure he'll do well. stay with us, news 4 continues at 5:00 a.m. >>> an old d.c. school left in rubble

center for american progress put this out yesterday.pen for a single work day. so you figure $30 million times 33. >> look, it is a total waste of taxpayer dollars. it is a total waste of energy. and at a time when we've got very important pressing issues to deal with, especially the economy and to go back to the fact that they haven't even had a vote on the president's jobs bill. >> bill: on the jobs bill, 33 for healthcare and zero -- >> those are the numbers people should remember. 33 and zero. >> bill: i'm sure you talked yesterday about the president's proposal to give 98% of americans a tax cut. does it have a prayer of getting through the house? >> you would think that our republican congress would join us in making sure that 98% of the american people got a tax relief to provide that certainty right now. you would think also they would want to deal with the long-term deficit issue which is why it's important to ask the folks at the very highest entity income ladder to contribute a little more to deficit reduction because if they

rahm emanuel and ray lahood speak about infrastructure hon refunding this morning at the center for american progress in washington. you concede that live on c-span at 10:15 a.m.. at 12:10 eastern, mitt romney campaigns in new hampshire. that is also live on c-span. more road to the white house covers live on c-span at 6:00 p.m. with first lady michelle obama delivering a campaign speech in fredericksburg, virginia. >> this weekend, familiar cities, the harlem book fair, live coverage starts saturday at 12:30 eastern on the future of african-american publishing followed with a look at education at 2:00 and then cornell west examine the next presidential election and at 5:00, we will celebrate the 150th anniversary of the emancipation proclamation. sunday at 2:00 p.m., the eagle forum summit with authors. harlem book fair and the eagle forum collegiate leadership summit is part of book-tv this weekend on c-span 2. >> florida governor jenna bush on wednesday campaigned for mitt romney in ohio. -- florida governor jeb bush on wednesday campaign for mitt romney and ohio. >> unfortunately, the big fans wi

the center for american progress don't feel students feel challenged. data suggests that kids aren't being pushed academically and are bored. among the survey findings. 37th of fourth graders said their math work was too easy. 67% of 8th graders felt that way about history assignments. 39% of seniors said they barely have any writing assignments. the center is recommending new curriculum standards nationwide starting in 2014. >> ready fornetwork. lady gaga. this network is very specific. let's bring in scott budman. scott, little monsters. >> this may be the first example of what the future of social network looks like. instead of shifting through face book or swit twitttwitter tl, b through a network of her and her fans. she already has more than 50 million face book fans. and more than 25 million twitter followers. how could any one possibly get more in touch with lady gaga. with this -- little monsters.com, a new social network devoted to gaga. we visited the little company response bum for tibleñfor the . and funding tono carrierringrin0 b plane say

these were most recently articulated by the center for american progress. they are not new ideas that many people have mentioned them over the years, but they just wrote an article that i thought was particularly interesting, and i just want to mention a few of them today. they estimate they could save $2 billion a year from our assistance and resources if we did the following things which are related to eliminating the regulations and changing laws that don't support our foreign assistance program. the first would be ending cargo preferences for u.s. foreign aid or food aid in particular. so demanding that u.s.-flagged vessels or ships registered in the united states were used for the shipping of foreign -- for food bound for foreign countries. the second is eliminating monetized food aid which is a program that the united states gives rice or american agricultural products to private voluntary organizations who then sell it on the local market and two nearby countries and then take the money that they earned from the sale of those commodities and use it t

that he was with has working for him a lobbyist in campaign butler loffler who as the center for american progress reports is a paid agent of a foreign government earning a paycheck to protect promote a system developed hong kong's economic and trade interests in the united states of america or the fact that one or romney's biggest supporters sheldon adelson and macau casino tycoon that's macau as in part of communist china has pledged to spend more than one hundred million dollars helping romney is known to have business dealings with the chinese tong is that they're they're getting a quote of the mafia president obama is not a foreigner he was born america raised america went to school america and has devoted his life to public service in america but romney knows he can pick up a few million more votes if he blows that dog whistle to get one simple message across to resist voters and that is they'll bring a white man's touch to the white house let's all keep pointing out the appeals to twisted hatred that lie just under the surface of romney's rhetoric and put an end to dog whistle politics in a

it's and it's unnecessary you know that think progress which is the activism arm of the center for american progress around a great analysis by progressive writer named paul waldman who book for the first time believe it or not actually looked at what the n.r.a. has done and the endorsements it's made over the past several election cycles and the truth is their influence is very rarely dispositive in any given election they tend to give money to income but they tend to give money to people who are in safe seats four or five races in the past several cycles have they potentially made a difference so people run away from this organization and they don't have to have maisie's all these politicians live in terror of the n.r.a. and the n.r.a. is a paper tiger that's exactly right now it's not to say that people on our side of the issue don't need to do more you know democratic donors who give money to you know politicians and let's be frank to blue dogs in particular need to start asking those guys where they are on this issue and if they're not in the right place they should give the money elsewhere yea

winning the white house in november that's because repealing obamacare will kill jobs as a center for american progress found if republicans succeed in repealing the affordable healthcare act than two hundred fifty to four hundred thousand jobs will be lost every single year over the next decade not only that medical spending will increase by one hundred twenty five billion over the next decade making our deficits worse and family health insurance premiums will increase by two thousand dollars dropping more and more american families out of the middle class in other words repealing obamacare will tank the economy which suggests that this whole debate and this vote today in particular really has nothing to do with health care it has to do with politics and fulfilling mitch mcconnell's pledge back in two thousand and nine to make president obama a one term president as for the rest of us the millions of americans being foreclosed on the millions of americans who need a job the millions who want to see a doctor the millions of can't put enough food on the table. we just all have to wait until republicans

has to be a bill payer we are in trouble physically and defense has to be a bill payer center for american progress and i.p.s. jus i worked on a report with them is coming out in september we show where you can reduce the budget by a trillion dollars over the next ten years the national security budget that's intelligence homeland security veterans deal the nuclear that's the whole national security budget but the pentagon's the biggest part of it you can take nuclear weapons down we just had a fantastic study down at maxwell air force base you can take nuclear weapons down to three hundred eleven that's all we need good study well documented and you can save ten billion dollars in the process the defense department needs to be national security needs to be a bill payer to the reduction of the deficit. but one of the things that i want to get your take to you on this the leak scandal that we've seen because one of the things that the defense department does is they leak to the press to they talk to the press because they constantly need to justify more of this money and more of the threat that's ou

but likely won't happen until after the election is long over but the cokes aren't alone center for american progress has compiled a long laundry list of corporations that are funding right wing causes cleaning marriott hotels angel soft waffle house gold's gym and charles swallow so the question is do the wealthy in america have too much influence in our politics and should those who wish to spend hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars in an election be forced to reveal their identities so lee you were you were on h.b.o.'s newsroom last night it was a nice cameo yeah yeah expose. so what's what's the story here with the lack of transparency in american politics well this is the big issue in one hand we have the entire country realizing that after citizens united and really after a string of supreme court decisions the wealthy corporations and some unions have really taken advantage of this new campaign finance landscape and have lavished campaigns and outside groups with money but the other big problem is that much of this money is undisclosed when you see these ads on television no one kn

. >> senior fellow at the center for american progress. ou for joining us. >>> in the last week alone, there have been three police involved shootings. one in fairfax, one in montgomery, and one in prince georges county. all three were fatal. today, prince georges county police unveiled a new software system that will help officers deal with the increasing number of confrontations with armed suspects. >>> the sound of gunfire echos inside the training building of the prince georges county police department. >> drop the weapons. drop the weapons. >> apartment leaders are touting what they describe as one of the most important pieces of technology they have ever acquired. >> the intersection is much better than our old system. >> it's called the milo use of force simulator. it's the software system that prince georges county police started using just a few weeks ago to train officers when to fire their weapons and when not to. >> come on out. now. >> put it down. >> it's amazing. >> commander of the department's training division. he says the

for your time and good work as always. joe romm is ed der of climate progress, part of the center for american progress.ork and find out more about the drought conditions at climate progress.org. when we come back, we'll jump back into the george zimmerman interview last night on fox news with sean hannity. making a hero out of this murderer? >> announcer: this is the "bill press show." or, get some fresh air. but this summer, we used our thankyou points [ man ] ever year, sophia and i use the points we earn with our citi thankyou card for a relaxing vacation. ♪ ♪ sometimes, we go for a ride in the park. maybe do a little sightseeing. or, get some fresh air. but this summer, we used our thankyou points to just hang out with a few friends in london. [ male announcer ] the citi thankyou visa card. redeem the points you've earned to travel with no restrictions. rewarding you, every step of the way. every day, an average of 5,000 people switch from cascade to finish dishwasher detergent. that's about 150,000 a month, over 2 million people so far. with finish quantum you get incredibly clean sparkling dishes

center for american progress looked at three years of questionnaires.th graders said the math work was often or always too easy. 57% of eighth graders said history class too easy. and only one in five eighth graders read more than 20 pages per day. most kids simply aren't being pushed academically. >>> less than a month before the start of the london olympics, britain celebrated a very eccentric event. >> yes. organizers say the point of the games to pay tribute to a time that's gone by, and celebrate gentlemen. >> oh. >> instead of an olympic flame, there was a pipe that was lit and passed around to contestants. in place of usual olympic events, they have iron board surfing, jousting with umbrellas. and butler baiting. chap olympiad. interesting. >> looks dangerous to me. and are there rules for that sort of thing? what requirements are there to be a chap. >> we sent our own chap to great britain, to get you ready for the olympics, folk. that is why we sent doug camper over to olympics. he will give you a first-hand look at olympic park. >>> 5:57 is th

the center for american progress looked at three years of questionnaires, given to students at yearlyional tests. more than a third of fourth graders said their math work was often or always too easy. 57% of eighth graders said history class was too easy and only one in five eighth graders read more than 20 pages per day. experts say the results show most kids simply around being pushed academically. >> got to change that. >>> 6:41. time for weather and traffic on the 1s. let's check in with tom kieran to tell us about the refreshing change. >> time for weather and traffic on the 1s. 6:41. quite a contrast in weather going on. at the same time of the viewing area. partly cloudy in washington and points north and west. partly cloudy. south and east, patches of color, light rain, showers, and moving into charles countcounty about to enter calvert county. getting heavy downpours, a few sprinkles. home toup forecast, fairfax, by noontime. and hitting to the mid to upper 80s and this evening, cooling down to the 70s by midnight. a look at the rest of the weekend in ten minutes. >> tom, tha

this is 35 minutes from the center for american progress. >> good afternoon and welcome to the center for american progress. i am the president of the center for american progress. it's my pleasure to welcome democratic whip steny hoyer here to the center. congressman hoyer has been a tremendous friend of the center over the last several years and we are honored to have him here talking about manufacturing and economic growth. since cap's founding, we have been focused on how to ensure a strong and stable middle class because we understand that a strong and stable middle class is central to a strong economy and it sounds like that is a basic fact, one that should not be in dispute but as we see in our national debate and discussion of how to forest growth, that issue, whether building a middle class is a central pillar of growth, is question. we've seen over the last year and we will see continually over the next several months that this question about how to build growth is central and there are two visions of that. on one side, there's a debate about lowering taxes and ensuring what

senior fellow from the center for american progress. washington journal is next. it is "washington journal" for july 14, 2012. a three-hour program. in the paper several letters have reacted to the decision by close clothes designer ralph lauren to use clothes manufactured in china to clothe the u.s. olympic athletes. the story in the first 45 minutes, your thoughts on the larger idea of the term "made in america" and if it matters to you as far as things made in america and if you make an effort to purchase things only made in the united states or if it doesn't matter to you. here is how to respond. you can call on the numbers on t bottom of the screen. made in the u.s.a., does it matter. you can reach out on social media. twitr.com/cspan twitter.com/cspanwj. facebo facebook.com/c-span and journal@cspan.o journal@cspan.org. the larger issue associated with this decision by the clothing manufacturer ralph lauren to clothe the olympic team. garments made in china. here is a picture that set off this with four olympic athletes off what ng showing the designs will be

cap, center for american progress institute policy study and cut a trillion dollars out of the national security budget over the next ten years, roughly $100 billion a year. in the first year you'd take us down to $472 billion for the core pentagon program, and that would be about the equivalent of 2006-2007, which incidentally was one of the highest spending years since world war ii, including all of the cold war. we'd only be cutting about 14%. dick cheney myself, and my boss colin powell at the time and george h.w. bush cut about 25%. this is not a draconian cut, even if it's done by se questation. >> you've warned about the industrial complex, nice turn of phrase there. is there any way out of it. >> well, dwight eisenhower is the man we should give credit to that. i don't know anymore. that's an excellent question. my former boss, colin powell, mentioned about nine months ago or something about us having created a industrial terrorism complex, and when you look at the homeland security budget, you look at $100 billion-plus for the intelligence community and ask what are we getting

reasons to keep the defense budget sequestration cuts according to lawrence korb at the center for american progressback to the phones, your message to congress on sequestration, manhattan, new york, on our line for democrats. caller: yes, if the united states could take creed of this country, we could cover all people. what happens to the doctors who took an oath to save lives? the person has to live whether it is their hearts or anything, they charge ridiculous rates. you go into the hospital now and they give you a band-aid. that is a couple of hundred dollars. if you need a heart valve, it can cost you a fortune. host: we will keep it focused on your message to congress on sequestration. that is up from our e-mail. dallas, texas, on our line for democrats -- caller: good morning. i am totally upset with congress. why are they on recess again? they will not do their jobs and if they knew sequestration was coming up but they don't want to act because they don't want tthe defense budget to be cut. host: is your message to them? what should they do? caller: they should do their job. if you pass a la

[applause] >> i am always pleased to be here at the center for american progress that is doing such a wonderful job. thank you for researching those issues that are important for the american people in making decisions on where they want to go. congratulations to you on your leadership. i gave you my best to john here is out there in the netherworld. i know that tom is here, my former colleague. you are a vice president that does such a wonderful job. you are such a wonderful friend. good morning. good afternoon i guess i should say. as he prepared to take office, president kennedy spoke to a nation troubled by anxiety of america's leadership and uncertainty over whether future americans would have a strong and secure a economy. he offered a rousing appeal on the call to action. he spoke to a generation of americans and ask them not to shrink from their responsibility, to advance across a new frontier of science and commerce. today i suggest we confront a similar anxiety with much greater global competition. it is therefore essential for us to seize the initiative and education, innov

the center for american progress looked at three years of questionnaires.hey found that more than a third of fourth graders said their math work was often or always too easy. 57% of eighth graders said history class was too easy and only one in five eighth graders read more than 20 pages a day. results show most kids simply aren't beingpushed. >>> the county council voted in favor of rezoning a piece of land off route 1 in riverdale park. developers want to build a town center there which will include a whole foods. opponents say it will create too much traffic. they say the rezoning violates the county's master plan and they may use that argument to challenge the council's decision in court. >>> a bill that would block construction of large gas station in montgomery county may be in troubling. one of the bill's coast sponsors said he's thinking of pulling his support for the legislation and that could leave the support needed to pass the county council. block plans to build a gas station at a costco which is under construction in wheaton. the massive gas s

the center for american progress senior fellow discuss this with their schools and united states arellenging their students. washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. if and watch more of the 1 1/4 national governors' association meeting this weekend here on c- span. our live coverage and -- includes of life panel to lower medicaid costs. later, roundtable discussion about veterans welfare. sunday that conference wraps up with a look at the way states can support entrepreneur ship. that is live coverage of the association meeting this weekend. >> when you realize that the armies were not coming to is a, there was no escape to the west, that is when he collapsed when he realized it had come to an end and it was only a question of suicide. >> a new look at the second world war with a look at the rise to power to the final part days. >> the main objective was not to be cut -- caught alive by the russians. he was determined to die. have a brown was determined to die with him. >> more on sunday at 8:00. >> this week, governors from across the country gathered for the one ord

the center for american progress estimates that the percentage of minority voters in 2012 will increase and the share of white working class voters will decrease by 3%, compared to 2008. today, in nevada, joe biden spoke to a hispanic audience. >> you, the hispanic community, latino community, is the fastest-growing population in america. you now make up 16% of the population of the united states of america. but, give yourself an applause, because your time is about to come. there are ices among us who fear your inclusion, but that's not new in american history there's always been a fight between the voices of inclusion and the voices of exclusion. >> joining me now, joy reid, managing editor of the agree joe.com and alicia menendez the of huff post live. joe biden in that speech had the political line of the day in nevada. let's listen to that first. >> when his father was a candidate for president in 1968, his father released 12 years of tax returns because he said, and i quote, one year could be a fluke, perhaps done for show, end of quote. that was his father. his son has released o

but the chart is courtesy of the center for american progress and the department of defense. so when you look at that, you have to ask the question, do the claims of national security disaster add up when it comes to the sequestration? i asked that question to someone who should know the answers. >> sequestration could have a devastating impact on our overall economic condition. you mentioned 2 million jobs lost. that could raise the unemployment rate on a national level by about 9%. we're talking about both defense and non-defense jobs. sequestration impacts both elements of the budget. >> so help me understand because i've heard that argument and it makes sense. but then i look at some other numbers and it doesn't make sense. for example, the cuts, in terms of real terms, the cuts that the defense department already agreed to and then the sequestration on top of that would only be about 11%, in real terms. ronald reagan cut defense by 10% in his second term. george h.w. bush cut it. so this is right in line with those. that seems to make sense. >> yes, when you're talking a

state education commissioner and education department official and executives from the center for american progress which hosted the hour and a half event. >> thank you for coming to the center for american progress and i offer you a welcome. i am vice president for education policy at the center and i want to thank you for joining us for what we hope will be a compelling a provocative and informative conversation on the state of state education reform. that's where all the action is. we are pleased to have a distinguished group of panelists to kickstart the conversation. but we also hope that you will join in as we move along this morning. over the past five years, states have launched an unprecedented efforts to reform their education systems. 46 states adopted the common core standards. 25 include measures of student learning and teacher evaluations according to the most recent data from the national council on teacher quality. states have lifted caps on charter schools, put time and money into school turnaround and change their capital policy. now 33 states have weavers from the no child left b

steven moore from the wall street journal editorial board and christian weller from the center for american progress. what do you think, steven moore? did he do the right thing by holding out and saying, look, i'm just not going to do it yet, even though you have people like chuck schumer, you know, i've got to give him credit, throwing in the towel and saying, look, we're not going to do it, buddy. it's you or nobody. >> you used the right term, gutsy. i thought this was a gutsy speech by the fed chairman, ben bernanke. the members of congress, you were right, they were like crack cocaine addicts, begging ben bernanke for just one more fix. and he said no to that. and i thought that was an important point in that speech. he was quite discouraging about the economy. anybody who thought that ben bernanke was going to give congress a pat on the back and say everything is going to be okay and full speed ahead, that was not the presentation that he gave today. he said, look, we're in some really tough times. he didn't project that the unemployment rate would fall. he basically said we're going to be at

tuesday at center for american progress.ing about the nra. >> daniel silva's new novel "the fallen angel," wonderful read. >> we will have mr. silva on. >> and we are really happy in our home that our cousin is back from afghanistan, stephanie is a marine officer and she got home safely. >> happy birthday, mom, one day later. that's it for this edition of the daily rundown. coming up next, chris jansing. she is live from aurora, colorado. >>> i'm meteorologist bill karins with your business travel forecast. airport delays are very likely during the late afternoon hours, especially up through new england, all the way back down to philadelphia, baltimore, washington, d.c. everyone has a chance, it seems, of thunderstorms at one portion of the day. now, also, back into the central plains, very hot conditions continue today. it looks like our heat wave will continue early this week. enjoy. you know what i love about this country? trick question. i love everything about this country! including prilosec otc. you know one pill each