as i mentioned we are pleased to have cokie roberts here in conversation with mrs. bush. okie is the senior news analyst for an npr news, where she was a congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. additionally, she is a political commentator for abc news, a winner of countless awards for more than 40 years in broadcasting. she has been inducted into the broadcasting and cable hall of fame and the american women in radio and television cited her as one of the 50 greatest women in broadcast history. cokie is the author of several books, including we are our mothers daughters, an account of women's roles and relationships throughout american history and certainly an appropriate topic for tonight's program. i can tell you how proud i am to have worked with cokie's mom who is here with us today. she was of course a member of congress, distinguished member of congress and a member of the smithsonian board of regents in and the stalwart promoter and supporter of america's cultural heritage both in new orleans and louisiana and indeed across the nation. welcome lindy bogg

with george will, cokie roberts, sam donaldson, and donna brazile. >>> and as always, "the sunday funnies." >> the pulitzer prize was given today. for fiction. given to connecticut attorney general richard blumenthal for his vietnam war memories. >> hello, again. joining me now, the chairman of the democrat national committee, tim kaine and the chairman of the republican national committee, michael steele. gentlemen, welcome. >> hey, jake. >> good to see you. >> i want to get into a couple of controversies. mr. steele, i want to start with you. i don't know the you were expecting that. the kentucky republican senate candidate, rand paul, has expressed rejection to the federal government being able to tell businesses they cannot discriminate. >> i like the civil rights act that it ended discrimination in all public domains. i abhor racism. it's a bad business decision to exclude anybody. but, at the same time, i believe in private owner ship. there's ten different titles to the civil rights act. one deals with private institutions. had i been around, i would have tried to modify that. >> h

we have george will, cokie roberts, sam donaldson and donna brazile. >> he didn't 'accuse himself because an fair with her. he went on the say he did it for other reasons. >> always with the fairness, sam. i appreciate that. >>> let's talk about the pennsylvania senate race and congressman joe sestak's vixry over arlen specter. widely dord be one of the most effective ads in the election cycle. >> my change in party will allow me to be re-elected. >> he's been a republican politici politician. >> he's a firm ally. >> but now --? my change in party will enable me to be re-elected. >> wow. let me ask row this. the republicans are trying to make hay against the alleged deal that the white house tried to make with sestak. is it a big deal? >> not a big deal. they offered him a transaction, if they did. and i continue to see a thing wrong with it. >> they're trying to make a big deal out of it. >> i don't care. it's a small thing. not since 1980 when four incumbent senators were defeated for nomination, did this happen. we have specter out. bennett is the third, and mccain's state is still in

cokie roberts and ms. laura bush. [applause] [cheers and applause] >> thank you all. thanks so much. thanks, everybody. [applause] thank you all. thanks a lot. [applause] thank you,.your kurin. thank you, very much. and i did that to visit all the smithsonian museums and institutions. they were our neighborhood museum and they are so wonderful. they are such a huge asset to the united states. and so, i'm thrilled to be here at the invitation of the smithsonian institution. i'm very happy to be in washington and to see so many friends. thank you all very, very much for coming out today. i know that there are a lot of people who work in the administration. i think they're volunteers here that i volunteered to open on both letters and help us answer those letters. thank you all for everything you did for us for the 80 or so we list here in thank you so much for coming out to welcome me tonight. i'm thrilled to be back in thrilled to see all of you. you may not know that i actually have lived in washington place before george and i moved in the white house. george and i l

and laura bush talks about her new memoir with cokie roberts. find the entire weekend's schedule at booktv.com. and follow us on twitter. >> senate majority whip dick durbin is our guest sunday on c-span's "newsmakers." we'll talk about democratic efforts to pass financial reform legislation and look at the political landscape into the midterm elections, sunday at 10:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m. eastern. >> this weekend, entrepreneur ted leonsis on his book, "the business of happiness." his documentary about the nanking massacre and what it means to own a professional sports team. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from the economist's view, economics editor. as far as the numbers of jobs created, that's one thing what types of jobs were created? guest: it was across the board. one of the most encouraging things about the report we got was that you saw increases in government, also increases in manufacturing, which has been hard hit for a number of years, construction where employment has been declining almost nonstop. those rose as we