commissioner clyburn, to "the communicators." >> guest: thank you so much. it's my pleasure to be here. >> host: i want to start with an issue that you've worked on for quite a while, and that's the prison rate telephones. >> guest: yes. >> host: what do you think of the current situation with regard to the appeals court and their partial decision on this? >> guest: well, and you were right to say partial because what i am most happy about is on february 11th rate relief will go into effect. so millions of families will have the opportunity to more affordably communicate. now, i will affirm that this is an interstate engagement, and we will continue our work on intrastate engagement, and we, of course, will answer any questions the court may have. but i am really happy that the state did not impact the rates that we're going to affect, and to me, that's the most important thing. >> host: i read that this is a $1.2 billion industry, prison telephone calls. >> guest: thisit is an industryo that's highly concentrated. you have two providers that have 80 plus pe

.. >> host: now on the fifth here on the commission, commissioner mignon clyburn served for acting chair for half of the year. welcome back to "the communicators." >> it is nice to be here. >> i want to talk about the privacy of telephones that you are working on. what do you think about the appeal and their partial opinion on it? >> on february 11th, rate relief is going to go into effect. so millions of families can more affordably communicate. this is interstate and we are going to continue work on the intrastate engagement. we will answer any questions the source has. but i am happy this didn't impact the rates going into affect. >> i read this is a $1.2 billion dollar industry. >> you have two providers with 80 plus percent of the market. you don't have a competitive engagement for the family and the people represented in prison n. the only type of engagement. when you have framework like that, that is not competitive, that screams loudly for regulatory oversight or engagement. >> how long will the rate take affect? >> these are interim rates and we will continue to work on that. we

clyburn says in the book he did end up voting for obama.ut as i quote him in the piece, he, too, is critical of running for hillary. this is a group trying to drum up energy for 2016 when they should be focusing on the midterms in 2014. >> let's talk about that. i want to bring in white house correspondent for yahoo! news. there is, matea, criticisms focusing too much on hillary and not much on the midterms, which are important. >> sure. and i think we saw that today with priority's usa which is a democratic super pac in 2012 making it clear they are encouraging donors to give to the super pacs and they are not even going to begin actively fundraising for 2016 until after the midterm elections. really trying to answer some of those concerns in the party that they are going to cannibalize the group and when you have americans for prosperity, there's a real anxiety among democrats that are not going to have the money to compete in this cycle. >> there's a big fear and back in 2007, a voter told him he was voting for obama. >> he looked at me

clyburn was acting chairwoman for a while last year. and the city was selected to do the study, in south carolina, which is her farther's district. >> and it grew out of family politics. and it is disadvantages populations and is there bias. that seems like a -- >> there's a lot more why these people were picked, how much they were paid and a lot much more. if we can just pause for a second, panel. >>> okay, off the record for just a minute. after getting caught with his pants down, stunning development as you know, fcc now announcing no journalist will be required to answer their snooping questions. but in the spirit of cooperation, i'm volunteering to answer each of their five specific questions they intended to ask. question number one. what is the news philosophy of the station? my answer, none of your business. read the constitution. question number two in this study. how much news does your station air everyday? my answer. watch and figure it out yourself. i'm not doing your work for you. question number three. in here. who decide

one last thing i want to throw in there, jim clyburn introduced joe biden saying he's become almost a native son of south carolina. i wonder why. >> did he now? >> reporter: he did skboindeed. >> i wonder if this clyburn little feud with the clintons is more real than we all think. >> reporter: look at that. look at that. could be a happy early endorsement. take care. >> i fine nugget there. >>> we're digging out and now measuring the snowfall in feet and the economic impact in the billions. first a look ahead at today's politics planner. the president, a very busy day today. we're going to be talking a lot about climate and the trip that he's making to northern california. but let's not underestimate what the president has got to be doing with king abdullah starting tonight down in palm springs. you're watching "the daily rundown" only on msnbc. a few th. you stopped by the house? uh-huh. yea. alright, whenever you get your stuff, run upstairs, get cleaned up for dinner. you leave the house in good shape? yea. yea, of course. ♪ [ sportscaster talking on tv ] last-second field go-- ye

jim clyburn. >> thank you very much, mr. hoyer, madam leader, colleagues. i think that all of us have been bowied -- buoyed today by the actions of the president, establishing a minimum wage for frl contractors. that executived offer, i think, is something that extends in areas that we have not touched on, in one instance, for about 20 years. it's been 20 years since we have for the ed a floor people who earned basalries from tips. that was established at $.13. -- $2.1320 years ago. nd $2.13 20 years ago and this raises it to $4.90 and covers concessions and service contract as well. which means that these concession stands we see, where have people blind and disabled who do certain services for the state government under contract with the federal government, that service is covered as well. i believe it's time for us as a congress to pass that bill. 4.6 uld immediately lift million americans above the poverty level. that's what that regulation would do. i think it's high time that we do that. because as is often said, over 60% of the people who are -- will

. >>> joining us now, james clyburn. thank you for joining us and your thoughts today over the debate over the cbo report. >> well, thank you so much for having me. well, i think that what we have to do is remember one thing, there's a big difference in losing a job and leaving a job, and i think that what the cbo report says to us is that a number of people will be leaving their jobs. not because they are being pushed out, but because for the first time in their lives, they now have choices that they can make. they can choose to stay on the job if it's a productive job, they feel good about, rather than to be hostage to a work environment only because you needed to have benefits. so the affordable care act is providing a plethora of choices for people that they've never had before, and because of these choices, they will be a bit more mobile in the workplace and if you really look at the report, that is what the conclusion is, more people will be leaving work rather than losing their jobs. >> congressman, i hear you spe

. >> my colleague was writing, the acting commissioner at the time was clyburn's daughter. she's affiliated with the democrats. she is behind the categories and a proponent of this. you can see maybe the political meaning behind it. fcc is majority democrat. it's important to look at the pattern here. we have the justice department ease dropping on news organizations, nsa, now let's get into, march into news rooms and find out what the priorities are in terms of news judgment. this is the fcc. every eight years they can decide whether or not to renew your license to broadcast. >> they are going into print news rooms. this is so outrageous, it's terrible. ben? >> a few things. if anyone at home is confused, it's like the atf walking into a gun shop asking for details on the weapons and ammo sold to customers. that's how i equate it. we have the first amendment as reporters. but, another thing. you made the point or the congresswoman made the point, finally, a news room that is going to do this. i doubt any would seriously entertain this. if they did, what's to say the report

south carolina democrat congressman james clyburn says former president bill clinton had some choicefor him when hillary clinton failed to win the 2008 presidential primary in his state. u.s. news and world reports says in his new memoir, he said he took a late-night phone call from mr. clinton essentially blaming him for black voters choosing barack obama. quote, if you blanks want a fight, you damn well will get one. he said it was clear that the former president was holding me personally responsible for his wife's poor showing among south carolina black voters. >> a group monitoring freedom of the press worldwide has issued a strong rebuke to the u.s. the world press freedom index ranks the u.s. 46th this year, down from 13 spots down from last year. reporters without borders says the u.s. had, quote, one of the most significant declines in press freedom. it cites the government's pursuit of bradley manning and edward snowden and the a.p. phone tapping scandal. that puts the u.s. between romania and haiti on the press freedom index. >>> finally, every child's favorite sheriff, woo

. >> fcc commissioner mignon clyburn tonight on "the communicators" at 8 eastern on c-span2. >> senior officials from the justice department, secret service and federal trade commission recently called on congress to pass federal standards for data security breaches. they testified before the senate jewish -- judiciary committee about cyber crime and the recent breaches at target and nieman marcus. in this runs a little under an hour. >> i'd like to ask the witnesses to raise their right hands. do you swear that your testimony will be the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? thank you. you may be seated. chairwoman ramirez, a commissioner of the federal trade commission since 2010, was appointed chairwoman of the ftc in march 2013. prior to in this, ms. ramirez was a partner in the office of quinn, emanuel, irkhart and sullivan llp in los angeles where she focused her work on matters of intellectual property, antitrust and trademark issues. mr. noonan is the deputy special agent in charge for the secret service's criminal investigative division, cyber operations. he has ov

he has a lot of friends there, fritz holing, joe riley, jim clyburn, he vacations every year at kiawah the coast. he has been down to the state for political reasons and white house business. i randomly talk to people and his name came up a lot. hillary is still without a doubt the big front-runner there and a lot of former obama people going to work for her. >> you should say, by the way, your piece on south carolina is burning up on cnn.com. it is fantastic. i get the sense that the hillary people, not the official held larry people, the ready for held larry people, don't fear joe biden. it doesn't mean they aren't afraid of some things. you note that there is one thing that a lot of people think could derail the hillary candidacy in south carolina. >> in 2008, 55% of the democratic primary electorate was african-american. they predict in 2016, it could be as high as 60%. an african-american talented, who is talented and charismatic could derail a potential hillary clinton candidacy. just this weekend in some dumb luck, deval patrick, massachusetts governor, set at the national gover

political party, including house majority whip kevin mccarthy and assistant democratic leader jim clyburn>> as for me, i'm just the lowly house majority whip. i keep things moving in a congress choked by pettiness and lassitude. >> no, the bill is going to come up this wednesday. i never make such big decisions so long after sunset and so far from dawn. it's still going to come up. >> i have no patience for useless things. >> i have zero tolerance for betrayal. >> power is a lot like real estate. location, location, location. >> well be, sure to keep an eye out for me, actually, if you're binging this weekend. i was lucky enough to have a small role this season in an episode directed by claire underwood herself, the ever gracious robin wright. there we are at the studio right here in this room. >>> up next, ted cruz's latest stunt, this guy is causing trouble for the rs. you're watching "hardball," the place for politics. ♪ [ man ] i don't know if this is gonna be a first or second, but this is gonna be a medal! [ man #2 ] and it looks like we could have another one of those photos! [ fem

this is a democrat brain child from the daughter of congressman james clyburn, if you can call it a brainld. at this point they should be wearing uniforms. >> oh, come on, that's the kind of over the top -- it makes a good soundbite, chris, but that's the kind of over-the-top rhetoric that i don't think helps your side. i would like to see the president respond to this and say this is not the way we conduct a free press in the united states. >> very interesting, guys. sorry to disappoint you both with that response. i hope you have a great weekend. >> thanks. >>> severe weather slamming parts of the united states where tornadoes now are being reported and which straights are under a watch. >>> giving a new meaning to baked goods. one girl scout catering to a different crowd by setting up outside a pot shop. so we want to hear from you. do you think it's thinking outside the box or over the line? tweet me @gretchencarlson. use the # real story. we'll air your comments at the end of the show. too big. too small. too soft. too tasty. [ both laugh ] [ male announcer ] introducing progresso's

said jim clyburn back there from the black caucus. i suffered from the progressive caucus. wanted to give a very special shout out this evening. help me, y'all. i want to give a shout out to nancy pelosi and all of my sisters. holla. i really thought i saw jeff. is he here this evening? sugar, if you are out there, i will meet up after party. drinks, and i the don't want any pill packs. in congress, we try to put our differences aside for one night. we like to get dressed up and have a little fun. all of you all are dressed up. do you see my dress? take a look at it. thing ireally special got it at a maureen mcdonnell clothing swap. got my j.c. penney and i got her oscar deller and the. it looks good on me don't you think? i realized that bernie williams went out wandering the streets handing out rolex watches and designer evening gowns. he was really trying to satisfy the neediest people in northern virginia. bet mitt romney 10,000 dollars on that particular deal. all seriousness, i want to get to the bottom of this. i am sure we will get to the bottom of the virginia scan

why just last week was congressman jim clyburn taking shots at secretary clinton and former president 2008 and the damage that president clinton did to hillary clinton's campaign? look, i'm not sure if hillary clinton's chances here in south carolina. i do know she is the most cold and calculating politician probably of our lifetimes. >> that's a pretty bold statement, matt, the coldest and most calculating? >> well, the most calculating, craig, is actually the governor of south carolina, nikki haley, who has spent most of her time outside of the state raising money, thinking about outside politics rather than leading this state. >> you know -- >> we could have an a whole hour talking about that. >> we'll save that for another hour. she has been in the news a fair amount. senator lindsey graham, south carolina senior senator, facing a number of primary challengers, underfunded, in that state. and hillary clinton has become somewhat of an attack line. take a listen. >> conservative republicans love hillary clinton. right? just ask lindsey graham. >> she's dedicated to her job. she love

mignon ommissioner clyburn tonight on "the communicators" on c-span2. "washington journal" continues. host: in this week's "your money" segment we look at the international space station. joining us from the johnson space center in houston to talk about it is mike suffredini, program manager for the station. thanks so much for joining us. guest: it is my pleasure, juana. host: the president recently announced that it would be extended through 2024. walk me through why that is necessary and important. thet: well, juana, international space station, as you mentioned, has been in orbit for some time. we celebrated our 50th anniversary last november. lastth anniversary november. in 2000 and we began entered is to focus on utilization as the construction was winding down -- in 2009 we began in earnest to --us on construction as focus on utilization as construction was winding down. importantly, the commercialization of low earth orbit. as we start to look forward, we are looking for companies to make investments in space, to see whatt they can to would be pr

said jim clyburn back there from the black caucus. i suffered from the progressive caucus.ut this evening. help me, y'all. i want to give a shout out to nancy pelosi and all of my sisters. holla. i really thought i saw jeff. is he here this evening? sugar, if you are out there, i will meet up after party. drinks, and i the don't want any pill packs. in congress, we try to put our differences aside for one night. we like to get dressed up and have a little fun. all of you all are dressed up. do you see my dress? take a look at it. thing ireally special got it at a maureen mcdonnell clothing swap. got my j.c. penney and i got her oscar deller and the. it looks good on me don't you think? i realized that bernie williams went out wandering the streets handing out rolex watches and designer evening gowns. he was really trying to satisfy the neediest people in northern virginia. bet mitt romney 10,000 dollars on that particular deal. all seriousness, i want to get to the bottom of this. i am sure we will get to the bottom of the virginia scandal. i know that i saw chairman ice ou

clyburn to address the members first. >> to add to that, i would say that all of talk about buildingeconomy that works for all, must be laid upon a solid foundation. and there is no more solid foundation than the minimum wage increased. all of us are aware of where we would be around $10.70 if we had indexed the minimum wage the last time it was raised. and going to $10.10 and index it so this is an issue we will not keep visiting is in fact the thing to do. as you just heard from the women in our caucus, 60% of the beneficiaries of a minimum wage increase would be women of which one of over four households will be women with children. we believe this is the way to go. i am looking forward to us coming back from this work period and starting to work on building a foundation upon which we can have an economy that works for all. with that, i yield back. >> there are a number of democratic priorities you could file a discharge commission on. the other is immigration reform. why was minimum wage the one you started to move through with first? or is this the start of many other issues? >>

and i couldn't leave out jim clyburn. i couldn't leave out people like that. modern communism borrowed from the devil because the cleverest thing the devil ever did was to convince people he didn't exist. and what have the communists done? exist, and if they do, they are not a threat. well, they are a threat, folks, and they are in your congress. and the other thing the book is about is the other big secret of modern communism. it is not adam bomb spies or anything like that, it is the ability of a tiny, marxist, leninist harty to use the labor unions and the people under their control to influence the policy direction of your government. thisou were very lucky in country for a long time because your labor unions were controlled by hard-core anti-communist like george meany and lane copeland. today, 1995, that all changed because that was the year the democratic socialists in america, your largest marxist , took over the afl-cio. they took them over, they took over the democratic arty. and that was the point when the moderates like joe lieberman and people lik

. >> host: mignon clyburn has been our guest this week along with gautham nagesh of "the wall street journal." >> c-span created by america's cable companies in 1979. brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> we will talk to steve king about immigration, the debt ceiling and health care. and lauren angle is here to given update on syria, afghanistan, and iran. and we will get perspective on u.s.-french relations. and the french president's visit to the united states. plus your phone calls, emails and tweets on "washington journal" >> on tuesday the new chair of the federal reserve delivers her first monetary report to the house financial service committee. we will have live coverage on c-span 3. >> saturday, booktv is live in georgia at the georgia book festival. we will continue all throughout the day: >> a look at efforts from doctors and insurance companies to block programs >> our guest is sam baker this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> we are talking about the medicare advantage program. explain what that is for people who are not familiar. >> medica

. >> fcc commissioner mignon clyburn tonight on "the communicators" at 8 eastern on c-span2. >> i thinkit's all an evolutionary process. you grow into this role, and my sense is that you never get comfortable if you're always pushing for change and growth not just in yourself, but in the issues that you care about. you're never done. so there's never a point in time where you feel like, there, i am now here, and i can do in the same way all the time. it's always changing. >> first lady michelle obama, tonight at 9 eastern live on c-span and c-span3, also on c-span radio and c-span.org. >> on capitol hill today, the senate and house are in session. the senate about to gavel in to to continue their work on military pay, specifically military pensions and repealing cuts in the military pensions. a measure that would seek to repeal a one percentage point reduction in the cost of living adjustment for military retirees that was part of the budge deal passed by the house and senate in december. test vote expected on that at 5:30 today. the president pro tempore: the senate will come to order.

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clyburn, to make some comment, because he has been one of the champions working hard on this issue. >you, mr. chairman. i would simply say that all the talk about building an economy that works for all must be laid upon a solid foundation. and there is no more solid of a thanation that can be told a minimum wage to be increased. i think that all of us are aware where would we be today, indexed the if we minimum wage last time it was raised. and index is, so we we do not revisited from time and time again. inyou heard from the women our caucus, 60% of the beneficiaries of a minimum wage increase would be women, of which one out of every four households will be women with children. we believe that this is the way to go, and i am looking forward to us coming act from this work period and starting to work on building a foundation upon which we can have an economy that works for all. with that, i yield back. >> there are a number of democratic priorities in which you can seek to file the discharge petition. can you talk about why the minimum wage was the one you decided to go fowith first?

. >> host: mignon clyburn is one of five fcc commissioners, she's been our best this week on "the communicators" along with gautham nagesh of the "wall street journal." >> c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> coming up, the u.s. special envoy to south sudan, donald booth. he discusses the civil conflict in the country, its root causes and the recent cease fire agreement between the government and rebels. after that members of the senate judiciary committee will hear from officials with the justice department, secret service and federal trade commission about their recommendation to combat cyber crime after the recent consumer financial data breaches at target and nieman marcus. and later the senate's back at 2 p.m. eastern to continue work on a bill dealing with cost of living increases in military pensions with a vote to advance the bill at 5:30. >> the heritage foundation is hosting a daylong conservative policy summit today to highlight some of the legislation that republicans hope to advance on capitol hill.

let me defer, however, to jim clyburn of the congressional black caucus who is assistant leader, because he's been involved in those discussions and have him comment. >> yes, i have been involved in those discussions. i think that what our concerns are, if you were to look at the list of possible judges, who have not been acted on, about 13 of them are african-american. and we believe that these are people who come with sterling credentials, but because of this process, blue slip process that we have, too many senators that are from various states are refusing to return the blue slip and therefore these people are just hanging out in limbo. and so we have asked that these senators take into account the fact that these people, some of them have been out there for two years, waiting on some action and because they were not -- they will not allow their names to move forward, we cannot get them voted on. they would get, as you said, by legislation, these people would be approved if they were allowed to have a vote. it's blatantly unfair for us to have a process that will not allow the full s

clyburn to make some comments because he has been one of the champions on this issue working very hardge issues. >> thank you very much mr. chairman. i would simply say that all the talk about building an economy that works for all must be laid upon a solid done nation and there is no more solid of a foundation that can be built then for a minimum wage to be increased. i think that all of us are aware of where we would be today at $10.70 an hour if we had indexed the last time it was raised in to go to $10.10 an hour and to index it so we won't keep visiting time and time again is the thing to do. as you just heard from the women in our caucus 60% of the in and the fisheries of the minimum wage increase would you women of which one out of every four households are women with children. we believe that this is the way to go and i'm looking forward to us coming back from this work period and starting to work on building a foundation upon which we can have an economy that works for all and with that i yield back. >> there are obviously a number of democratic priorities to file petition on.

. >> remember bush in 2000 with adam clyburn, said he's a major league you know what.ng and apologized that you heard me. [ laughter ] >> i think the good news is that now we're learning something here. joe may have a future in diplomacy. >> this adds to the news that we've learned on this broadcast. i've learned joe is both humble and patient. >> exactly. >> i think that's pretty clear. >> we should have my brother on about ukraine. >> we should. lets get him on. >> should we have him on? is that too much? >> no, it's not too much. >> really? my mom is next. gene, thank you. we'll look for your column online and in the "washington post," dr. sachs, david axelrod, thank you so much. david gregory, what do you have planned for sunday? >> we've got the authors of new book hrc about hillary clinton and schumer and portman. >> i love it. senator harkin joins the table to talk about raising minimum wage and growing retirement crisis but first lets check in with bill karins on the forecast. bill. >> the weekend looks okay. we've dealt with two major winter storms and our col

clyburn,er, james steve israel and chris van hollen came to hold a greetings press conference yesterdayvening. democratsre asking only this morning to talk to us about what they want the party to do for the priorities for 2014. tell us what democrats are saying their priority -- you touched on a little bit, but legislationwise, what will they push for? guest: you know, they are very, they came to cambridge is certainly feeling in terms of morale better than they had had a come late in the year. rolloutr with a rocky of the affordable care act and a lot of pressure on democrats to explain why the law was not being of limited as smoothly as they had hoped and dreamed and promised. they're coming off of helping republicans passed the debt ceiling vote on tuesday. which to them proves how instrumental they are at passing legislation to the house. and even the speaker john bane oehner conference. withhope they can come up legislative priorities that republicans as well as democrats that maybewards, this is a watershed moment for bipartisanship. democratic caucus vice-chairman said he was not

clyburn, to make some comment, because he has been one of the champions working hard on this issue. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i would simply say that all the talk about building an economy that works for all must be laid upon a solid foundation. and there is no more solid of a foundation that can be told than a minimum wage to be increased. i think that all of us are aware where would we be today, around$10.70 if we indexed the minimum wage last time it was raised. to go to $10.10 and index is so we do not revisit from time and time again. as you heard from the women in our caucus, 60% of the beneficiaries of a minimum wage increase would be women, of which one out of every four households will be women with children. we believe that this is the way to go, and i am looking forward to us coming back from this work period and starting to work on building a foundation upon which we can have an economy that works for all. with that, i yield back. >> there are a number of democratic priorities in which you can seek to file the discharge petition. can you talk about why the minimum wage w