and furthermore there is a program that chairman cleaver was instigating along with several republicansto address areas of persistent property. and when he took this to the president and said speaker boehner is on board with this, budget committee chairman paul ryan is on board, the president tried to dissuade him, cleaver from passing the persistent poverty initiative. and so progressives in other words have also had problems with obama as well as republicans. having said that, that should see the difficulty. key to sit here and say you should do a better shot, but there's a limit to congress to try to deal with. >> host: one of the fun tidbits i found in your book is emanuel cleaver of japan ceiling are good friends. guests at japan ceiling as the chairman of republican conference, an up-and-coming texas republican has done on the super committee. maybe people hold that against him, maybe not. that emanuel cleaver would've been the mayor of kansas city grew up in texas which is about 35, 40 miles outside texas. i know more about this stuff than i should. it's were very close.

maybe it's time for vanilla president or ward cleaver.ing of research, obama campaign is trying to walk away from the cbs news, "new york times" poll that shows romney outscoring president obama most women. keep it up. the more president obama focuses on women, the more they exit the obama rankings. >> greg: beckel, comment on the poll or anything you like. >> bob: in terming of women in the polls now on the gay marriage issue in the south, women decidedfest obama. it only matters in the seven swing states. in the seven swing states, obama is in good position with women voters. gallup released a poll showing people believe by majority for the first time in a long time, next year economy is better than today. i think there is a lot of things that you assume here. if you do, that you get a different picture. >> andrea: democrats are assuming things about women. they assume women sit at home and worry about birth control and gay marriage, when they are actually worried about the cost of premium rising, women going back in the workforce. they

representative cleaver is calling for people to tempora temporarily step aside. to express my deep and abiding concern with the protracted length, abnormal number, motive, and fairness of pending matters. manu, good afternoon to you. five black lawmakers currently under scrutiny in some shape or form by the ethics committee. first of all, is this an unusual number? >> there are at least fierchlt remember the ethics committee is a very secretive committee. there could be even more. you know, cleaver, there are questions about whether this is racially motivated or not and a lot of these members are senior members of congress, people who have been on rounds for a long time, people who have been targeted over the years, and when you're that senior and that powerful, sometimes like -- you get hit with some ethics kplanlts. the question is whether or not it's coincidence and cleaver thinks it may not be. >> the congressman cytoed the case of congresswoman maxine waters who's been under investigation for the better part of three years. are there no rules on things like

it is great listening to congressman cleaver, and i'm thinking to myself, why they do this to me?he's a congressman and a pastor, and he brought it, didn't he? [applause] so, thank you, congressman. it's a privilege to join with you and with dr. richardson and dr. burton in opening this 2012 consultation, and i thank you for your kind words, leadership, and partnership, and, of course, for your prayers. i need the prayer. the president needs your prayers. please keep them coming. we also thank the members of the support of the national black churches and congressional black caucus for here today and your work in bringing us all together and bringing renewed attention for the need to protect or talk about the day of the voting rights of every eligible citizen. it's a pleasure to be a part of this discussion to be among so many friends, allies, and dedicated leaders. i'm grateful, in particular, for the opportunity to include the important work that the people in this room are doing each day, who all across the country, enrich our communities and improve our lives. since it's offici

he was very close with cleaver. he was an agreement with cleaver that it would be good thing to put money towards poverty regions. he was in step with him on that. >> this is the book. "do not ask what good we do." robert draper is the author. free press is the publisher. thank you for being on the program. >> pleasure in it in a few moments, arlen specter on his career in the state of politics. and a little less than an hour, author john shaw on richard lugar. after that, if a party on senator ellison said. later, we will re-air "washington journal" on behind the scenes of the 112th congress in the 2010 midterm elections. >> several evidence to tell you about tomorrow morning. the committee continues investigation into his corporations possible ties to british politicians. that is here on c-span 2 at 6:30 a.m. eastern. also on c-span 2, at 830 eastern, bloomberg posed an event on the economy federal economy and housing market. this includes shaun donovan and allen greenspan. >> four years ago, i was and a washingto

joining me now is representative emanuel cleaver, chairman of the congressional black caucus, and jared bernestein. thank you for being here tonight. >> good to be with you. >> thank you. >> congressman, let me start with you, how can romney run on a business record he doesn't like answering questions about? >> he can't do it successfully. i was the mayor of kansas city, missouri when bain capital cannibalized a company there. we offered everything we could for a government. we offered them everything except the chiefs and the royals. they still pulled out and took all of the money. i'm not trying to say he's not a good guy, he probably is, but bain capital did not create jobs, it created wealth. for a real clear reason, it created wealth for him, himself. he never should have brought up bain capital as an example of what he could do as president in now that he has, he'll have to deal with that. he brought it up, the president didn't. >> and we're going to have a gs former employer on in the next segment. jared, let me go to you. let me show you this full screen here about the economy,

cleaver beaver, whatever his name was. >> cleaver beaver? >> i don't think that -- >> i don't think romney can rally his family around the holidays. >> that's my point! stereotyping because he's a nice, married man, traditional values. he's boring, andrea. >> yeah, but i think if we're talking john hughes' movies that blaine is obama. who is ducky? "pretty in pink" who would ducky be? >> biden. >> maybe. i don't know. >> that's a really good point. >> if you look at the polls, yesterday i was digging into the fox news polls and you look at the approval ratings, a majority of the country doesn't approve of the job the president is doing on any issue except afghanistan and bob is right. he has this magic where people like him. so basically, obama is america's bob beckel, right? you don't agree with him. you don't think he handles issues properly but you really, really like him. >> well, thank you for that. >> that's what i was thinking. but in some ways, it being popular is not necessarily a compliment. well, he's a nice guy. the first time it

one of those who is in agreement with cleaver's comment that it would be a good if you follow some money toward persistent poverty regions and so he is very much in lockstep with this but he cleaver on that. postcode this is a good, "don't ask what good we do." robert draper is the author. free press is the publisher. thank you for been on the program. >> guest: my pleasure. .. >> so we're going to get started. >> ok. >> thanks all for coming out. my name is neal thompson. i'm the author of "the life of times of alan shepherd" which is the first biography of the first american in space. i wanted to say thanks to the u.s. naval academy for having me here, particularly the folks in the bookstore and the visitor center. danielle vaughn and donna player and thanks to the public affairs office here at the naval academy. diane and pat burrows, debbie good and commander gibbons. the naval academy here is where alan shepherd got his start. he was a little boy of the lindbergh generation who grew up who wanted nothing more than to fly airplanes. that was his life's mission. he came from a family

he said we faced a moral crisis as a country and a people that was as old as the scriptures and as cleaver clear as the constitution. clearly martin luther king led the movement really steeped in religion. you've written a book of the holy vote, the politics of faith in america and write about the advent of the cultural wars and how religion has become a polarizing feature of the current national politics and less successful to helping us create the blessed community. is it no longer wise to invoke moral values and religion to promote civil rights? >> you have to understand if you invoke religion, it doesn't get you the same portion of the audience that it once did. at a time in our past when almost everyone in the country was in some way either lightly affiliated or strongly affiliated with one of the abrahamic religions and almost everybody in the country was culturally educated in it, you pulled in almost everyone listening to you when you invoked a common religious heritage for this country. but the united states is so much more religiously diverse than it was earlier in our history. t

china will be the major threat to russia in the sport at the olympics in genuine heat on the very cleaver of to take gold in the men's fifty k. russia's world and the limping champ that every board should finishing down in ten . formula one pastor maldonado has clinched his maiden victory after winning from his first ever pole position at the spanish graeme prayed the venezuelan was overtaken by financial on zone started second on the opening lap but the williams driver would stall back into the lead after the second pit stop while former seven time champion michael schumacher crashed out yet again after running into the back of brunei centers but maldonado hit top form at the barcelona track to beat along just over three seconds for him your i can and third fellow to shred no it was williams first victory since two thousand and four more than are those made and we . need to be happy because they did the science fair slop. for a number better start than me but i was the us for doing that based on the one story my my first body on my first big three you can imagine where they feel. well th

because i take my seat saying i never gave chairman cleaver a hard time. what i told the chairman was that i didn't know much about the bible. all i knew is that i was an altar boy, they were talking latin, throwing incense in my face and i was listening to the same thing every sunday. but there was one thing that came out of it. and that is there was some rich people and they wanted to get into heaven as i remember. and they were waiting for jesus to explain why he was blocking the way. for r the admission into heaven. and he explained to them that he was naked. and he had no clothes. that he was sick. and didn't come to visit him. that he was in jail and they didn't know he was hungry, he was thirsty. basically, he was in bad shape and he went to them and they just turned him down. and as i remember the story, they looked and said, no, you got the wrong people. you never came to any of us. and he said something like, if you don't understand how you should be treated, people not be, but the lesser of people like me, then you should go straight to hell. th

he lives in the kind of beaver cleaver times and then he was not someone caught up in the hippy movementn any way, shape, or form. >> 1971, students were protesting and people described mitt romney as a boy scout in those days. he was older than the typical student and lived off campus and married with a son. that set him apart from the group and individuals told me stories about his devotion to the friends he made and the people he met. >> me because it's an active debate. they said mitt romney and the high school he went to and the allegations of bullying and lots and lots of people said who cares what he did in the 50s. does this stuff matter who they were? granted decades ago, but when you were there, did it give you and does it give you insight into what they are today? >> when you look at the stories of barack obama the bridge builder or stories of mitt romney who may have been a little distant from a group of people, but had strong connections with individuals that he felt a personal tie to. you can see echoes of that today. generally speaking i think it's helpful to understand th

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police say he chased her into the daughter's room and stabbed her repeatedly with a meat cleaver.l was talking on a video chat. she managed to escape, but the friend could see and hear the attack. >> he could hear the victim saying please, please, and she could -- he could hear the daughter yelling no, no. he then heard the defendant say, you've got to die, you've got to die. >> the boston globe reports that the suspect pleaded guilty to stealing a woman's wallet and gps device. he later returned the items with a letter of apology. >>> indiana parents are in serious trouble for strapping their four kids to the hood of a car. witnesses reported seeing the couple tie their kids to the top of the car. the father then reportedly drove his kids and mother three blocks to the store. the children were not hurt, but police reported the incident to the department of child services. the father is now facing several charges, including drunk driving. >>> a second male massage therapist joined a federal lawsuit accusing john travolta of sexual battery. both men say travolta touched them inappr

emanuel cleaver. it says, the issue of race has already raised its unprincipled head.ar, republicans are going to blame president obama for being black. they are paleolithic who know that race baiting still works. when he says race baiting still works, do you believe that? do you believe it is something that is still very effective in american politics? >> yes, i do. and a part of what is happening, post what we experienced in 2008 with all the hope and the change. with all the promise of president obama's election. essentially what we have now is a back lash which i in my writing often refer to as white redemption 2.0. which i know is a little aggressive but it describes what occurred in american politics. be just in american society but american politics in particular. between 1866 and 1877. essentially, you had this back lash that saw the rise of the ku klux klan against african-americans voting and then voting in their own electoral officials. and essentially, what we now have is this back lash against this african-american president. it is insidious, the way that

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he is is doing essentially telling a bunch of church leaders their theological obligation, this is cleaver, the head of the congressional black caucus was saying same thing. this is part of their duty as pastors. megyn: those were his words. >> to get out the black vote. megyn: that they have a theological responsibility to participate in the political process so. >> and it is not the attorney general's role to tell people what their theological responsibilities are. megyn: jonah goldberg. see you sir. >> thank you. megyn: we have big news on the health care overhaul today. in three minutes why a key part of the plan to help millions of uninsured workers now appears to be failing and what will that mean for rest of us? >>> plus we have growing controversy over a special 9/11 license plate and what happened to the millions of dollars this plate was supposed to provide for the children of 9/11 victims? you will not believe what some officials decided to do with that money instead. >>> new developments in the case of the death-defying skydiving granny. she says she has no plans to sue anybody

. >>> also, from june cleaver to carol brady to claire huxtable, my favorite, top tv moms of all timehicken. we're getting hungry. >> yes. >>> first, over to lonnie quinn for a final check of the weather. >> good morning. first, i give you a shot here. new york city camera looking right downtown, freedom tower right there officially the tallest building in new york city. i want to talk about what we've got coming up tomorrow because it is, of course, mother's day. just a couple of facts. mother's day first observed in west virginia in 1910. woodrow wilson made it a national holiday in 1914. the official flower, a carnation. it is said if your mom is living you wear a red carnation. if she's passed away you wear a white carnation. all moms are celebrated. the toughest weather today will be in portions of texas, now making its push into louisiana, into the mississippi valley. tomorrow on mother's day it's the southeast where we have problem. let's let mom sleep in. sleepy eye, minnesota, 74. candy town, ohio, 66. that's a quick look for all the moms out there, a closer look at the weath

the chairman of the cbc representative emmanuel cleaver joins us now.essman, welcome. >> good to be with you. >> so what are you advising black pastors to do? i know love offerings are in the mix. >> absolutely. in some states where the new requirement for government issued i.d. is part of the law, we want to make sure that seniors are able to make that purchase. we also believe it really amounts to a poll tax but that's the law and so what churches are going to do is to collect money from the congregation so seniors who can't afford to pay $28 for government issued i.d. would be able to get it. in addition to that, the pastors are going to have voter registration nonpartisan voter registration. they are also going to make vans available to carry people to the polls. it's a bit embarrassing that the world's largest democracy is maybe unintentionally, i'm not sure, not ready to make accusations, truth of the matter is that we're restricting access to the polls when we should be encouraging it. >> congressman, i think some people don't understand why show

let the mank -- let me thank chairman cleaver for led leading out not only members of the congressionalack caucus but collaborating with other organization and let me thank my colleagues who have work sod hard on this issue, let me thank congresswoman christensen who is detined at a matter she had to attend to who has been anchoring these hour-long discussions. what you do to others comes back to you. the idea of limiting a person's access to voting and being able to vote on the cause of how you think they will vote and how you don't want toes theme -- those people to vote comes back to americans who want to vote in which ever way they do. stop me from voting, you get stopped from voting. the idea of a voting i.d., a photo i.d. is not a respecter of race and if you're elderly and can't get to the department of public safety office or in another state you can't get somewhere, if you're inhibited or prohinted -- prohibited, it is an impact on you no matter what background you come from. thank god for the congressional black caucus that is a respecter of the rights of all people. we are fi

. >> 13 minutes before the top of the hour congressman emanuel cleaver said of the congressional blackus will join us here in full court press when this monday march 26th, surveying the political scene on the republican side, democratic side with washington post national political reporter, nia malik henderson talkking your calls at 866-55 nia malika. i don't know anybody else with a hyphenated first name. how did that come about? >> my parents couldn't make up their minds. i actually hyphenated my own name. i had this short first name, n. ia and a long last name. i felt like my first name needed company. i hyphenated it. >> you are not married? >> people think i am married because i have a hyphenated first name. >> i was going to say, let's say you marry joe smith. you would be a nia malika henderson-smith. >> right. >> you would have two hyphenated names. >> a long by-line. >> the obama campaign doing nothing but raising money right now. >> that's right. >> and sharpening their message. >> sharpening their message. >> i have the impression they are ready to leave outed of the box. >>

the big lies, although still possible, require more stealth and cleaverness. because with careful reading of books, newspaper, and new materials on internet, the flaws are reviewed. it wasn't for nothing that the nazis made bonfires of books. >> in 1992, anna won a pulitzer prize. in a few weeks, you can talk to the best selling author on c-span. get a head start by watching some of her other comments overt years on her writings, briefs, and convictions and her life in journalism, all archived and searchable at c-span.org/videolibrary. >> "washington journal" continues. >> host: every weekend we take a look at a magazine. this week we look at "christian science monitor" the cover story by pete spotts, "inside the funnel." learning more about twisters. thanks for joining us from boston this morning. >> guest: thank you for having me. >> host: you start off your story with a very dramatic account of a family who had a twister come through, and they did get a quick warning. tell us about how much warning time can people get before a twister comes through? >> gues

have waited to get a president of color, we need a minister, legislator and a leader like aldredge cleaver to help us lead out being critical of eyes to find a pathway that provides rates for those that follow us. bringing this together with the energy of staff and having all of the members get excited about this. i am telling you that it is the moving thing arise. someone said that this is the beginning of a partnership. now, we can't afford to have this as the beginning of anything. this is it. this is the big one. this is the time and we have to pledge to each other. i'll let you in on a couple of secrets and were going to leave here is one. first of all, i got a lot of metals and korea. some other people that survive with me, and track medals, but what the. i'm here. but when i thought that these tens of thousands of chinese just about had done everything to my colleagues. 90% casualties, i took a shot of the dark of the jesus, i know it's all over. i was 20 years old. i mean, there's no way with her moaning and groaning and crying and buglers and gunshot and see people being captured,