read his book and listen to senator tom coburn. the problem is being an elected person in washington, d.c., is their business. they are well paid. some of them are extremely good. i watch c-span every day. it is my absolute favorite show because it is educational and learning. but again, being a politician, being a representative or a senator in washington, d.c., you are well paid, it is big money. not only that, my hero also was william glasser. we are into power, we are into making the big money, we are into making the salaries, and yes, it is very sad. but again, read senator tom coburn's book and find out what he said. he did not just late the republican side. he was a man who listened to everybody and stood up for what he felt was right for the common people of the united states. thank you for listening to me this morning. host: sharon, you might have seen the interview we conducted with senator coburn before he stepped down this past year. it is part of our "q&a" program but if you go into the video library, he talks about th

saxby chambliss and lindsey graham, and coburn`s running for the senate, and others. so you know, there`s other careers, too. c-span: tom coburn did this show once, and it was -- i think i can say without exaggerating, it was a -- the book was a real criticism of the house in this town. did you read the book? >> guest: i read excerpts from the book. c-span: if you were going to criticize your own institution over there, after you`ve now been there for -- how many years? >> guest: this is my 18th year that i`ve been in the congress. c-span: what would you tell those kids out there in civics class? >> guest: well, you know, i always said -- you know, i taught government for 16 years. and when i first went to the illinois general assembly, i said, you know, the real difference here is the difference between theory and practice, that this place is a people business. it`s how you treat people. it`s how you deal with people is really how you get things done not necessarily if you`re a great orator or if you`re a great attorney or, you know, a great writer. it`s how you can

it is chicago and brayden coburn tampa bay lightening playing for lord stanley's cup. they are not going for their third cup in six seasons. >> an empire over there in chicago. >> okay. >>> speaking of duck this is one was luck year, police officer and neighbors from abington township came to the rescue of the talk stuck in the sewer great. police department posted these two pictures on their facebook page. we are happy to report that the duck was saved and released in a pond nearby. >>> much more to come on "action news" including our top stories stick around. >>> saturday night i'm walter perez. here's what is happening on "action news" at 11:30. victims of the super storm sandy could be getting help from the federal government but fema new plans to do to try to help homeowners still trying to rebuild. >>> plus the attorney for the the man accused of killing a family in washington d.c. says this her client's food preferences food he is innocent, we will explain. >>> local authorities in michigan, thought they had a tiger by a tail but this creature has had the last l

. >>> and, brayden coburn and tampa bay lightening has stunned the entirety of the league. they won two straight in montreal to open up their second round series. coburn dropped the gloves with brandon frost and ran in tampa's goaltender and that is no good. punches thrown, gloves thrown. lightening demolish the habs, six-two the final score in canada more news as we come right >>> thanks for watching "eyewitness news" at 6:00 we are back at ten on our sister station wpsg the the cw philly. we are back here at 11:00. >> stay tune for cbs opening news. they will have the latest from the texas terror attack plus another song controversy and details on that big hit and the song, it allegedly came from. hear is scott pelley reporting the "cbs evening news" from new york. >> pelley: islamic extremists open fire in a terror attack near dallas. we now know who the suspects were. also tonight as baltimore recovers, a new cbs news poll out tonight shows a big change in how americans feel about race. and he's half of silicon valley's ultimate power couple. we now know how david goldb

read his book and listen to senator tom coburn.he problem is being an elected person in washington, d.c., is their business. they are well paid. some of them are extremely good. i watch c-span every day. it is my absolute favorite show because it is educational and learning. but again, being a politician, being a representative or a senator in washington, d.c., you are well paid, it is big money. not only that, my hero also was william glasser. we are into power, we are into making the big money, we are into making the salaries, and yes, it is very sad. but again, read senator tom coburn's book and find out what he said. he did not just late the republican side. he was a man who listened to everybody and stood up for what he felt was right for the common people of the united states. thank you for listening to me this morning. host: sharon, you might have seen the interview we conducted with senator coburn before he stepped down this past year. it is part of our "q&a" program but if you go into the video library, he talks about the

braden coburn hoping to find his way back to stanley cup finals. they shut out rangers-0 to take a 2-2 series lead. >> coming off first place d.c. united looking for first streak of the money reason. i never wanted red bul arena. 57th minute. union a 1-0 lead. tv sa pong charged with dui. mistakes provide an opportunity for growth. that worked on the field too. union back-to-back games for first time 2-0 final. david letterman enjoying retirement at 99 running of indy 500 worked so hard on all the practice runs and you crash in the first consumer investigative reporterer that happened to sage karam from nazareth, pennsylvania. and james davidson leaving pits and got sideswiped and caused them to run into two cue members. within man was rushed to the hospital and had surgery on his ankle. >> he came back at the end from the checkered plaque and second win he was excited and also excited to have that glass of milk. where are the cookies. jeff gourd an honourary pace car indy 500 didn't stop them from make the play. jimmie johnson spun out lap 270 end

. >> andrew coburn looks at the rise of drones. during this event he reads transcripts from actual drone strikes and describes the role of the different participants. this is about an hour and contains language that some viewers may find offensive. >> i'm rick mcafternew the publisher of -- mcarthur, the publish per of harper's magazine, not a waiter on break. [laughter] i'm delighted to welcome you to a continuing serious series of events sponsored by harper's and is rapidly becoming a neighborhood institution. you will noted that this is -- note that this is not a chain store or a citibank branch which means that we really need your patronage to thrive. and and so far the support of our customers has been remarkable, and we're grateful for it. it's my great pleasure tonight to introduce andrew coburn who is the author of the just-published "kill chain: the rise of the high-tech assassins." i like doing this for two reasons. first, as publisher of harper's, i'm lucky to have annandrew as our -- andrew as our washington editor with

senator tom coburn releases a report every year that details in excruciating and, frankly embarrassingetail hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of ways to nothing happens. no one wants to go or anyone's arts in the system except the american peoples. we need to deal with that. there are many candidates talking about social security or entitlement reform, and eventually we must get there but why don't we clean up government 1st, stop taking money away from the american people and use the money the american people spend to washington every year and use it wisely and well. i would start by saying that government must gets smaller less powerful, less costly, less corrupt, and more competent. speaking of military, the speaking of military, the most obvious example to me of incompetence is how we serve our veterans. the veterans administration has been an embarrassment for a long time. when the arizona scandal hit , the political process felt a lot of pressure. a pressure. a bill was passed that allowed the v.a. to fire the top four hundred senior executives, not that that is not a

senator tom coburn releases a report every year that details in excruciating and frankly embarrassing detail hundreds upon hundreds of billions of dollars of waste and nothing happens. nobody wants to go gore anybody's ox except the american people's ox is being gored. there are many candidates talking about social security and entitlement reform and we have to get there, but why don't we clean up government first. why don't we stop taking money away from the american people and use the money that the american people send to washington every year and use it wisely and well. i would start by saying, government has to get smaller less powerful, less costly less corrupt. and more competent. speaking of military, the most obvious example to me of incompetence is how we serve our veterans. the veterans administration has been an embarrassment for a long time. when scandal hit, a bill was passed within three weeks that allowed the v.a. to fire the top 3, 400 executives, not that it's a bad idea but why don't we do that everywhere? it hasn't gotten much better. i can deliver a loan to a poor

then andrew coburn and his book about the history of drone warfare "kill chain." and authors gabriela blum and benjamin wittes discuss future of violence about what happens when civilians gain access to advanced military technology. .. we are glad you are here again and my hope is that you will take some time to spend some time in the galleries and spend time with the pack in the memorial. in the national museum for world war i the memorial was honored in december of 2014. it's honored by both the united states national museum and memorial. it's in the prestige that comes from the congress actually passed something. [laughter] >> that might be the most distinguished action of the bicameral bipartisan bill. >> we are also pleased to welcome the speaking union and are grateful for the generous support for the fund of the project. i'm especially pleased to english speaking union cosponsors on a 60-kilometer by craig on sunday when i stopped at a break at a school where we were having a drink one of the students asked me if they spoke british and australian. [laughter

host: do you stay in touch at all was senator coburn? guest: i do. in fact, we were inspired by dr. he was always the waste watchdog and what his we look, we have continued -- waste book, we have continued in that spirit with the waste watch the we are releasing quarterly so that we can have impact on there is no shortage of creepy crawlies. there is a lot of waste there. host: when is your first waste watch coming out? guest: we released the first installment in april and it had a lot of attention. we uncovered some pretty egregious things. we've already been able to impact some of that with the defense authorization. we also have sent letters and have asked for audits. we are getting assurances back. we're continuing to take. host: in waste watch, wasn't there some money being spent on elephants and national security? guest: i think some of the most interesting that we have seen -- we brought over a bunch of people from the middle east to do films, learned how to be filmmakers, and they went back in may -- made anti-u.s. films with our training. there was a range in afghanistan. i

host: do you stay in touch at all was senator coburn? guest: i do. in fact, we were inspired by dr. coburn -- he was always the waste watchdog and what his we look, we have continued -- waste book, we have continued in that spirit with the waste watch the we are releasing quarterly so that we can have impact on there is no shortage of creepy crawlies. there is a lot of waste there. host: when is your first waste watch coming out? guest: we released the first installment in april and it had a lot of attention. we uncovered some pretty egregious things. we've already been able to impact some of that with the defense authorization. we also have sent letters and have asked for audits. we are getting assurances back. we're continuing to take. host: in waste watch, wasn't there some money being spent on elephants and national security? guest: i think some of the most interesting that we have seen -- we brought over a bunch of people from the middle east to do films, learned how to be filmmakers, and they went back in may -- made anti-u.s. films with our training. there was a range in afgh

senator tom coburn releases a report every year that details in excruciating and, frankly, embarrassingetail hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars of ways to nothing happens. no one wants to go or anyone's arts in the system except the american peoples. we need to deal with that. there are many candidates talking about social security or entitlement reform and eventually we must get there but why don't we clean up government 1st stop taking money away from the american people and use the money the american people spend to washington every year and use it wisely and well. i would start by saying that government must gets smaller, less powerful less costly, less corrupt and more competent. speaking of military, the speaking of military, the most obvious example to me of incompetence is how we serve our veterans. the veterans administration has been an embarrassment for a long time. when the arizona scandal hit the political process felt a lot of pressure. a pressure. a bill was passed that allowed the va to fire the top four hundred senior executives, not that that is not a bad a b

. ♪ tom coburn good morning, everyone. what did you be focused on today?question about it. let's go to the bloomberg terminal and look at an important series. this is an important inflation -- or someone say disinflation -- adjustment. national stimulus pushing the rate down to 0%. the limitations and constraints one of them is the real rate of 4%. brendan: as we get these anecdotal reports, the possibility of a slowdown in china, confronting the possibility of less than 7%, it is an amazing number. their response -- ruchir sharma you are here with us from morgan stanley -- has been mostly in the last several months, monetary and not fiscal. ruchir: a lot of the credit allocation data is done in quantitative terms, which is not priced off interest rate but actually bank lending direct to new york. this is one part of the story, but not the full story. the whole issue is, launching a massive stimulus like they did in 2008, 2000 9 -- tom: the word here is beijing cramdown. is there ruchir: that is what the great story is. a lot of people keep speaking about

at 9 p.m., andrew coburn, author of "kill chain." and at 10:05 p.m. eastern gabriela blum and benjamin wittes who wrote "the future of violence." the republican presidential race has another contender today. former new york governor george pataki announced his candidacy this morning at an event in new hampshire. he's been out of public office since 2006, and he is the eighth republican to announce his candidacy. you can see his speech tonight beginning at eight eastern on our companion network, c-span. also coming up tonight during american history tv prime time on c-span3, it's the 150th anniversary of the civil war and a look at abraham lincoln's funeral, and that's at eight eastern on c-span3. >> this sunday night at eight eastern on "first ladies: influence and image," we'll look into the personal lives of three first ladies; sarah polk, margaret taylor and alabama bail fillmore -- abigail fillmore. sarah polk often helped her husband james make political decisions. zachary taylor enjoyed telling margaret she -- people margaret was praying for oth

then andrew coburn and his book about the history of drone warfare "kill chain." authors gabriela blum and benjamin wittes discuss future of violence about what happens when civilians gain access to advanced military technology. ..

at 9:00 andrew coburn the author of kill chain. and then gabriel burn talks about her new book out. also tonight, during american history tv in prime time on c-span3, the 150th anniversary of the civil war and looking at lincoln's funeral with reenactments. here are some of our featured programs for this weekend on the c-span network. starting at noon, politicians, whitehouse officials and business officials offer encouragement to the class of 2015 and george w. bush and melody hop from dream works. and former staff members reflect on the presidency of george h. bush. and more commencement speakers on sunday. booktv is in new york city an saturday with book segments and live call ins throughout the day. sunday evening on nine on afterwards, we look at the case hollingsworth that looks at the proposition a in california that restricted gay marriage. and we talk about first ladies who had the most impact on the executive mansion. and on sunday the life and death of james garfield who served two decades as a congressman from ohio and was assassinated 200 days in the being president. ge

coburn announced he was going to retire from the senate. james lankford, who i replaced in oklahoma's fifth district, he decided to run for that seat and i could see a path to get there. so i did it. and i thought win or lose, i'm going to give it a shot. host: what were you doing prior? guest: i run a small manufacturing business and i have been on the professional speaking circuit for over eight years with the speakers' bureau out of tennessee and talk about the saddam capture and decision making and my book and other things. so i have gotten around an awful lot. i did serve in the state senate for four years from 2008 to 2012 but left after a term. i didn't feel that that was something i was going to do for a long time. host: did you leave voluntarilyly? guest: i did and i was getting demands for speaking around the country and i just felt it was time to pursue that. host: how long have you run two rivers arms and how is it you were in the military? guest: i started the company in 2010. it's called two rivers because land of the two rive

a legacy of tom coburn. he really went after this. we've sort of adopted that as his legacy.elephants but we also have to identify things like a $2.4 billion overrun on an aircraft carrier. it was supposed to cost $10 billion. ended up $12.4 billion. >> you have a secretary of defense. whose problem is it? >> the system of acquisition. everybody is responsible. therefore, no one is responsible. when you look at -- >> how do you tie it down then? >> you have to have investigations hold people responsible. you have to have people who will sign off on these things so you can fire them and reform the entire system. it takes years and years now. where you used to live we can develop new devices in a matter of weeks. it takes sometimes 10 15 years to develop a new weapon system. >> they've become complacent that it's the status quo. >> it's grown so large, so cumbersome that there is a total lack of efficiency. and we're going after it. you'll see a little come throughess that's a reform bill. a whole variety of ways. >> before you sat down we were talking about this the nsa spooii

tom coburn said that the pentagon was the only institution in washington, d.c.st couldn't audit because it's so byzantine. do you think america needs a $600 billion plus defense budget? >> i'm a big fan of john lehman the youngest secretary under reagan. he says we need more ships, he would pay by them by reducing pentagon bureaucracy, he would cut spending to pay for the spending. >> would you cut the pentagon budget from 600 down? >> i it's not easy to say the exact number. i would say the defense is the number one priority. i will take what it takes to defend the country. do we need more than the 14 x countries combined? i think it needs to be combnd to we need to him a hack missiles, yes, cruise missiles? yes. there are a lot of things we need. >> you think there is money to cut? >> i think there the a huge bureaucracy, it's insulting the pittsburgh says we're too big to be audited. no government agency should say they're too big to be audited. >> what about these countries that the united states continues to support and basically defend and allowed to take

i'm able to follow tom coburn, and it's kind of like being danny white after roger staubach. there have been 17 other senators from oklahoma, great names like nonnickels, henry bellman, david boren and mike maroney to name a few. i have, to sit at the desk used by dewey bartlett and edward norr. in the 1930's, will rogers said congress is so strange. a man gets up to speak and says nothing, nobody listens and then everybody disagrees. this is my first official moment to join the ranks of those who step up to speak but i want to speak about a few things that i consider essential to the work ahead for all of us. what i call the three d's i talk about all the time. debt defense and directives. let me take those in reverse order. the directives. people ask me all the time what do oklahomans want from their federal government? the answer is simple, they want to be left alone. they do not want someone telling them what to do and how to run their lives. it's not the people in oklahoma are antigovernment, far from it. we have a strong patriotism that drives us to serve our nation and