. >> follow clifton truman daniel on his journey to hiroshima sunday on american history tv.e joins us to discuss meetings with bomb survivors and the inspiration for his trip at 9 eastern. >> now discussion of slavery in contemporary society. oppressors and authors discuss the legal economic and policy -- a group of authors discuss the legal economic and policy decisions. toast the by young university. -- hosted by yale university. >> good morning. what a full room. what a full room.

. >> follow clifton truman daniel in his journey to hiroshima.dent's grandson joins us and bomb survivors. 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> on tuesday, house speaker john boehner participated in the official lighting of the capitol christmas tree. colorado lawmakers took part in the event. this is 30 minutes. >> good evening, everyone. and welcome to the 48th annual capitol christmas tree lighting ceremony. i am the architect of the capitol and i am honored to serve as your master of ceremonies tonight. for everyone's safety, we ask that you stay in your seat until the conclusion of the program. >> every year, i look forward to this event to officially kick off the holiday season here on capitol hill. and even though the weather doesn't feel like it's december 4, nothing says christmas like the playing of festive holiday carols. i would like to extend a special thank you to the united states air force band under the direction of peter foliard and created this great and festive holiday mood. and gentlemen. [applause] -- let's give them a hand, ladies and gen

. >> follow clifton truman daniel on his journey to hiroshima. the president's grants and joins us in washington to discuss meetings with bomb survivors. this is on c-span 3. >> professional golfer arnold palmer received the congressional gold mine -- gold metal. many talked about his contributions to the game of golf and his work as a humanitarian. he also received the presidential medal of freedom from george w. bush in 2004. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome our honored guest, not members of the united states house of representatives, members of the united states senate, and the speaker of the united states house of representatives. [applause] ladies and gentlemen, the honorable john boehner. [applause] >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the united states capitol. i want to say how much i appreciate you all be near. on behalf of my colleagues in the united states congress, i will ask that you all join me in a moment of silence in tribute to ambassador stevens and the united states personnel who were kille

. >> follow clifton truman daniel.e joins us to discuss meetings with bomb survivors and the inspiration for his trip at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we continue our look at unemployment insurance and its role in the fiscal clift debate, we are joined by michael tanner and josh bivens. mr. michael tanner, if you had your way in these discussions, where what unemployment insurance end up at the end of the day? guest: i think the emergency extension should fade away and we should go back to the 46 weeks that we have been at, the 26 weeks of traditional employment, and extended benefits in states that have higher unemployment rates. you start with the fact that unemployment insurance itself, when you extended for a long times as questionable value. we know it leads to an increase in the on and -- unemployment rate. that is dubious enough, but when you factor in that we will deficit finance this and slow economic growth overall, destroying jobs of the same time we pay people for being unemplo

. >> follow clifton truman daniel on his journey to hiroshima on c-span3's american history tv, to discuss meetings of bomb survivors and the inspiration for his trip at 9:00 p.m. eastern. >> retiring senators joe lieberman and john kyl discuss iran's nuclear program, syria's civil war and the israeli-palestinian conflict. senator lieberman chairs the homeland security committee and senator kyl chairs the terrorism subcommittee. from the foundation for the defense of democracy this is just under an hour. >> thank you so much. i will thank you more formally in a few minutes the we will start with a conversation, this is a wonderful time to pick your brain and talk with you. let me start with you if i may. when you came to congress the united states was engage in a cold war against the fatality rate regime. as you leave the senate the united states is engaged in an asymmetrical war against i would argue totalitarian regimes, movements and ideologies. have you made any progress? >> we have made progress. i was about to quote when in, two steps forward , two steps forwardlenin , two steps forw

. >> follow clifton truman daniel on his journey to hiroshima.ndsondent's eldest joined us in washington to discuss meetings with bomb survivors and the inspiration for his trip. that is on c-span 3. "washington journal" continues. host: our topic is the fiscal cliff. as we have done for the past several sundays, we will come joshua gordon and stan collender. thank you for coming back. stan, as we stand on the edge of the fiscal cliff, is there any chance we do not go over? guest: is pretty small. we are relying on a set that has been dysfunctional to come up with a disagreement to avoid a filibuster. then we are relying on house that could not take the lead and somehow we were expecting them to follow. it is important to state that while the official deadline is the 31st, the truth is that congress can continue to work until it goes out of business. we've got about three days to get this together. host: joshua gordon, are we going over the cliff? what does it mean if we do? guest: even able to reach a deal, we are going of the cliff. the contour

. >> clifton truman daniel will join us and talk to us about the inspiration for his trip sunday and 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. >> the campaign to fix the debt held a forum-today on health care costs and the tax code. next, senator max baucus called on congress to extend the bush era tax cuts on incomes under $250,000. this is 15 minutes. >> welcome back, everybody. i think that was a really good group on health care. now we have special guest joining us. we have chairman baucus, chairman of the defense finance committee. we will talk about the budget negotiations going on now and the fiscal cliff. but what is really important is that senator baucus and the group working on tax reform will be some of the lead folks who are shepherding whatever kind of framework, hopefully, conduct of the fiscal cliff to help develop the beat goes on how to deal with tax reform. we lucky to have with us today chairman baucus. he has been thinking about these ideas for quite some time. he has a tremendous amount of expertise. he will talk about where the situation is. thank you, senator. [applause]

. >> follow clifton truman daniel on his your honory. the president's eldest grandson joins us in washington to discuss meetings with bomb survivors at 9:00 p.m. eastern. host: for the next hour and a half we'll take a look at america's state of the health. dr. thomas frieden joins us. and joining us here in washington, d.c., dr. thomas fauci, he serves as their director, good morning director, good morning to you. guest: gorn. host: since we're talking about overall state of america's health concern, can you talk a little bit about where your agencies fit in that larger 30,000 seat role? and dr. freeden, why don't you go first. guest: the center for disease crot works 24/7 to keep americans safe from threat, whether they're infectious, not infectious, whether it's from this country or abroad. identifying environmental threats or helping people live longer, healthier, more productive lives with the nations prevention agency. a lot of our work is done through partners, particularly state and local governments, state and local public healt

. >> clifton truman daniel will join us sunday at 9 p.m.tern on c-span3. >> now, a discussion of how the military and national security might be affected by spending cuts scheduled to take effect the first of the year. part of the so-called fiscal cliff. former chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, admiral mike mullen, was joined by the chairmen of the senate house armed services committee. this is a little less than an hour. >> good afternoon. thank you for coming. my name is. peter:rerson -- peterson. i want to give you, first, a review of our foundation and why we are supporting the project you're going to hear about today. starting about 30 years ago after studying the profound demographic trends and the vast and unfunded promises that we had made, i decided that our projected long-term -- and i emphasize long-term debts -- were not only unsustainable, but a primary threat to our future. speaking of unsustainable, in the nixon white house in which i served, herb stein was chairman of the council of economic advisers, and he used to say

. >> clifton truman daniel will join us to discuss the inspiration for his trip sunday at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span3. >> a report by the group securing america's future energy says the greatest threat to national and economic security is dependence on foreign oil. members of the group, business political and retired military leaders are suggesting a plan of maximizing oil and gas production, reducing consumption, and improving conservation as a way to boost revenue and reduce our debt. this is a little less than an hour and a half. >> good morning, everyone. thank you all for coming. i especially want to thank the members of the leadership council that could be with us here today. they've been a distinguished group of people working on this issue since 2006. we're nothing without their credibility as the great c.e.o.'s, entrepreneurs and military leaders of our time. i also want to give a special thanks to the staff at securing america's future energy. really we stand on their shoulders, all of us, and the hard work that they -- and the time that they spent to put these reports in

follow clifton truman daniel sunday on c-span 3. 9:00 p.m. eastern. "washington journal" continues. att: this week we're looking the united states long-term energy outlook. we will use a new report that came out this week from the u.s. energy information administration that protect u.s. energy consumption out to the year 2014. adam sieminski is the administrator of the eia. missionwhat the eia's is. guest: it is one of the 14 of the independent statistical agencies here in washington. we are responsible for energy information. we are by law -- it is supposed to be unbiased and neutral in our development of energy analysis, using the debt that we collect -- data that we collect. the annual energy outlook reference case, which were published today, is not really a forecast as it is a baseline. it is built on the idea of existing law and regulation so that the public and policymakers can compare what new laws and regulations or changes in world events might mean to our baseline. host: frank verrastro doggett is vice president of the energy program at the nonprofit center for strategic

. >> follow clifton truman daniel on his trip to hiroshima. he discusses meetings of bomb survivors and the inspiration for his trip at 9:00 p.m. eastern. housing secretary shaun donovan today said he could not guarantee the federal housing administration would be able to avoid using taxpayer dollars next year to shore up its home mortgage fund. this senate banking hearing comes after a government report projecting as $16 billion deficit in the f.h.a. the mutual mortgage insurance fund. this is an hour and a half. >> i call this hearing to order. thank you for joining us, mr. secretary. i asked you to testify today because i am deeply concerned about the recent report that the f.h.a. could potentially need taxpayer support for the first time in its 78-year history. i would like to help the committee gain insight into the fiscal challenges at the f.h.a. and what h.u.d. has done and can do to mitigate losses and address the shortfall in the capital reserve ratio. f.h.a. has been helping save -- by ensuring that qualified lower to moderate income

clifton truman daniel will discuss the inspiration of his trip on sunday on c-span 3. >> over the next several hours we will show you some of today's events regarding the unless congress acts -- first, a bloomberg government former members of both parties said negotiators should be able to reach an agreement. in an hour, president obama speaks to ceo's at the business roundtable, followed by news conferences with house speaker john boehner and minority leader nancy pelosi. >> the supreme court will look at what was passed in 2008 by a majority of six-three, i believe, and they will say that is precedent. indiana had a voter i.d. -- >> they decided on the indiana case, it was constitutional for them to establish id they did not say all of that was subsequently -- >> they talked about indiana. you misrepresented what i said. the supreme court is the law of the land. >> when i hear these accusations that black people voter i.d. loss disproportionately affect minorities -- implies to me that somehow we have something missing in our brain. as -- if white americans can get id to vote and go

. >> follow clifton truman daniel in his trip in hiroshima. he speaks about the inspiration behind his trip on sunday at 9 p.m. eastern. >> now a discussion on the so- called fiscal cliff negotiations and the impact on unemployment insurance. from "washington journal" this is 40 minutes. host: we continue our look at unemployment insurance and its role in the fiscal clift debate, we are joined by michael tanner and josh bivens. mr. michael tanner, if you had your way in these discussions, where what unemployment insurance end up at the end of the day? guest: i think the emergency extension should fade away and we should go back to the 46 weeks that we have been at, the 26 weeks of traditional employment, and extended benefits in states that have higher unemployment rates. you start with the fact that unemployment insurance itself, when you extended for a long times as questionable value. we know it leads to an increase in the on and -- unemployment rate. that is dubious enough, but when you factor in that we will deficit finance this and slow

host: the words of clifton truman and daniel. arriving at enter hiroshima. -- arriving at in hiroshima. the decision by his grandfather. we will have more with the conversation tonight at 9:00 eastern time along the with a video from hiroshima, what he learned and what he saw. that is tonight on c-span 3. back to your calls and comments about what the president's party should be in the third -- the president's priority should be in the second term. peter is on the phone from alaska. caller: good morning. i think the priority should be rejected like the guy said back there, he ought to pray. he up to ask god. it got will talk to him. he has answers to all of our problems host: call from cambridge, ohio. caller: i would have to say the number one priority should be to cut the super bloated defense budget. nobody is talking about cutting the defense budget. along with that, we should vigorously prosecute and investigate the reasons why the wars of tourists are going on. all the other worst been going on my whole lifetime since the e

every petty my father's stage where harry truman's name came up said he bought a tie from the his haberdashery. i said in a column everyone actually had. clifton daniel married to the king of western missouri. a lot of people thought harry truman that he was under rated. actually interviewed harry truman when i was in college trying out for the paper. the library had not started and he was then an office building in downtown kansas city like frosted glass there was a secretary. that was his entourage. he asked me to send it to him and he sent me back a letter that said thank you for the article it was perfectly all rights. [laughter] i have a lot of time for harry truman. he is the on the kansas city president. >> i am from kansas city. >> could we pause for a minute? where did you go to high school? >> she is from johnson county. it is okay. that is called cupcake plant >> i have read your humorous books but the favorite is about alice what is your favorite the you have written? >> that would be one of them i have written a lot of different kinds. it is apples and oranges for comparison. and another way to look at it and never got my act together bu