host: we are talking military funding and veterans issues with congresswoman colleen hanabusa we -- colleenbusa from hawaii. safetyt with mike from harbor, florida, on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. thank you for taking my call. i will be brief. i want to make a point, the iraq war was supported by democrats and republicans, while bush did lie, so did all of the democrats. i voted for obama and i changed because i disagreed with all of his positions, this being one of them. the lady said she was surprised at the deaths of the veterans, and how can you be shocked when our veterans are treated the way they are. aren't 50% of homeless people veterans? you find all of the money for wars and to give away to people to incentivize them to not work, throw money in the education system, and we just keep falling further down in our test results, but you cannot find money that -- for people that have gone and made the greatest sacrifice. you tout the flag, the colors, and the rhetoric, and the yellow ribbon around the tree, but you do not do anything for these pe

host: we are talking military funding and veterans issues with congresswoman colleen hanabusa we -- colleen hanabusa from hawaii. safetyt with mike from harbor, florida, on our line for republicans. good morning. caller: good morning, c-span. thank you for taking my call. i will be brief. i want to make a point, the iraq war was supported by democrats and republicans, while bush did lie, so did all of the democrats. i voted for obama and i changed because i disagreed with all of his positions, this being one of them. the lady said she was surprised at the deaths of the veterans, and how can you be shocked when our veterans are treated the way they are. aren't 50% of homeless people veterans? you find all of the money for wars and to give away to people to incentivize them to not work, throw money in the education system, and we just keep falling further down in our test results, but you cannot find money that -- for people that have gone and made the greatest sacrifice. you tout the flag, the colors, and the rhetoric, and the yellow ribbon around the tree, but you do not do anything for the

colleen knows she has to go back without an air conditioner. >> i think it will be a restless night. we will be in sports and t-shirt and sleeping on top of our sheets. >> and this is what it is like coming home to a house without ac. >> 903 degrees. 93 degrees. >> there is no shade covering todd's berkeley hills home. the sun beams through the front window and the deck absorbs the heat like a hot skill let. >> finally breaking down. >> it all seems a bit unusual. >> it is. usually i am here in a blaine a cet. >> keep the blanket at home because tomorrow it could get hotter. in the east bay, alan wang, abc7 news. >> now you can track the record breaking heat anytime with the abc7 news weather app. we have downloaded the information on our website, abc7news.com/apps. >> right now the coast guard is towing in a boat stranded at the pacific ocean. they sent out a distress signal this evening. it is 22 miles southwest of the golden gate bridge. three people were on board when it started taking on water. the coast guard responded by boat and helicopter. crews have drained the boat and hav

colleen knows she has to go back without an air conditioner. >> i think it will be a restless night. we will be in sports and t-shirt and sleeping on top of our sheets. >> and this is what it is like coming home to a house without ac. >> 903 degrees. 93 degrees. >> there is no shade covering todd's berkeley hills home. the sun beams through the front window and the deck absorbs the heat like a hot skill let. >> finally breaking down. >> it all seems a bit unusual. >> it is. usually i am here in a blaine a cet. >> keep the blanket at home because tomorrow it could get hotter. in the east bay, alan wang, abc7 news. >> now you can track the record breaking heat anytime with the abc7 news weather app. we have downloaded the information on our website, abc7news.com/apps. >> right now the coast guard is towing in a boat stranded at the pacific ocean. they sent out a distress signal this evening. it is 22 miles southwest of the golden gate bridge. three people were on board when it started taking on water. the coast guard responded by boat and helicopter. crews have drained the boat and hav

colleen knows she has to go back without an air conditioner. >> i think it will be a restless night. we will be in sports and t-shirt and sleeping on top of our sheets. >> and this is what it is like coming home to a house without ac. >> 903 degrees. 93 93 degrees. >> there is no shade covering todd's berkeley hills home. the sun beams through the front window and the deck absorbs the heat like a hot skill let. >> finally breaking down. >> it all seems a bit unusual. >> it is. usually i am here in a blaine a cet. >> keep the blanket at home because tomorrow it could get hotter. in the east bay, alan wang, abc7 news. >> now you can track the record breaking heat anytime with the abc7 news weather app. we have downloaded the information on our website, abc7news.com/apps. >> right now the coast guard is towing in a boat stranded at the pacific ocean. they sent out a distress signal this evening. it is 22 miles southwest of the golden gate bridge. three people were on boardt started taking on water. the coast guard responded by boat and helicopter. crews have drained the boat and have ta

colleen on the amount of respect china's legitimate rights and interests can stop this disruptive action. when our turn to thailand where leaders of anti government protesters to tap taps event has told his followers to state a final offensive on friday to achieve your goal to pull the ousting the caretaker government on thursday opposition protesters took to the streets of bangkok to celebrate a court ruling which ousted the match to watch as interim prime minister. they've been demanding factly this for the past six months the protesters are still many reforms taking place before or not although ministers. the caretaker government resign. you might not support this man has the red shirts have concrete huge rally on saturday in the capital bangkok and surrounding areas to protest against the constitution quizzical. what is the kind of thing giving you who dispatched two thousand people sent it to george of the red shirt she'd been cool but will plan to protest against the two males in action. the red shirts need a connection. lee. was not so anti corruption commission has found former p

colleen corless is with a group that helps veterans adjust to civilian life.epped in and made a bold call to say we'll end veteran homelessness by 2015. it never happened before. >> she says highways been successful in the mission. in three years, the number of homeless vets dropped by 20% and claims have gotten better. kevin miller had two deployments to iraq. he says his biggest problem with the va was wait time. >> my problem is seeing certain specialists i had an orthopedic spine specialist. it took threes mos to get that appointment. >> shinseki criticized for setting the standard all pash yenths had to be seen within 14 days of their desired appointment date. this many with not meet the new wait is 22 days. at palo alto, it's 14 days times are more reasonable compared with other hospitals. >> here in san francisco, it's easier to recruit physicians, nurse practitioners and team members. it's more of a challenge. and we have recently, i believe, since january, probably added about seven physicians. >> both va hospitals were inspected during these two week

thousands of people we have enrolled in medical is target those who are not yet on cal fresh and do we colleen an in reach strategy and get them to avoil themselves of the cal fresh benefits so basically two needs, one is staff to do that in reach and second is staff to manage that on-going case load. as you can see by the graph, the red line below, although fte's have grown, they haven't grown proportionate with the case load yet the state when they do their funding models to county looks at that and funds us accordingly. so we are looking at that state money and know we can hire additional workers to do the in reach, to do the outreach, and manage the case load. i don't have to tell you the benefit to families but it's a huge need for families trying to manage high rents, high cost of living in san francisco and having a few extra dollars toward food is significant and one of the strategies for the food insecurity task force is to increase cal fresh food stamps enrollment and specifically approximately 36,000 households in san francisco we think are eligible for cal fresh but are not receivi

change is a managing partner at a company that invests in high growth boot strapped companies and colleen is the director of digital media. they provide stories about entrepreneurial women. >> the first question is about employee benefits. >> the whole arena of benefits for employees and my people is changing a lot. it's very confusing because of the costs involved. the easiest way out for a small company is not to do anything. is this the right approach at this point and time? >> it's a good question. it's confusing, but it's always been complicated, benefits. if your inclination is to give benefits, don't cop out by not giving them. where does he start? >> it's complicated is not a good reason not to offer them. the best people are going to require benefits. there's a small window in a small company's life when you don't have to offer benefits. that ends quickly. >> where can you turn to uncomplicate it for him? >> one of the simplest things you can do is encourage employees to maybe go out and find their own individual policies. we are talking health care, they can now buy policies on

and colleen is the director of media at the story exchange a nonprofit media group that provides stories about entrepreneurial team with partners like "the new york times." so great to see both of you. >> great to be here. >> let's start with the first question. the first about employee benefits. >> the whole arena of benefits for employees and my people is changing a lot. and it's very confusing because of the costs involved. so the easiest way out for a small company is not to do anything. is this the right approach at this point in time? >> good question. you know, it's confusing but i've got to say it's always been complicated. benefits so. if you are inclination is to give benefits i don't think you should cop out by not giving them. where does he start? >> i think the fact that it's complicated is not a good reason not to offer them. ultimately your business is as valuable as the people that are inside of it so the best people are going to require benefits so there is a small window in a young company's life you don't have to offer benefits but that ends quickly. >> so where can he

colleen corless is with a group that helps veterans adjust to civilian life.stepped in and made a bold call to say we'll end veteran homelessness by 2015. it never happened before. >> she says highways been successful in the mission. in three years, the number of homeless vets dropped by 20% and claims have gotten better. kevin miller had two deployments to iraq. he says his biggest problem with the va was wait time. >> my problem is seeing certain specialists i had an orthopedic spine specialist. it took threes mos to get that appointment. >> shinseki criticized for setting the standard all pash yenths had to be seen within 14 days of their desired appointment date. this many with not meet the new wait is 22 days. at palo alto, it's 14 days times are more reasonable compared with other hospitals. >> here in san francisco, it's easier to recruit physicians, nurse practitioners and team members. it's more of a challenge. and we have recently, i believe, since january, probably added about seven physicians. >> both va hospitals were inspected during these two we

when the windsor decision was decided by the second circuit, callirst site -- person to me was colleen. when the supreme court decided, the first to be placed with two after my parents were judge kay and colleen. for advice onhem questions and it is important to find people like that. they are out there. >> on many cases that come before the supreme court now, it possible to predict in advance a 5-4 vote. five conservative justices vote one way and four so-called liberal justices vote the other way. as a prominent attorney who has had a very successful career in andsupreme court arguments, this being law day, how do you feel about that division, do you there is certain amount of distrust or lack of confidence that the public will have when the results of the predictable?so proof --ot of the less high-profile cases, the supreme court, there really is not that division. it is 8-1 or 7-2. uri. we thought we were, we had a chance of getting a six vote. .ased on the descent i would like to have a greater majority on my side. ishink part of that today the political process. the president can

we will be joined by hawaii democrat colleen hanabusa. she will take questions about veterans healthcare. will discuss the significance of breakthrough technologies from the past. is live on journal" c-span everyday at 7:00 a.m. eastern with your calls and tweets. >> the house tuesday debated a bill condemning the abduction of nigerian schoolgirls by the group boko haram. this is a little more than 40 minutes. might consume. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. royce: thank you. members, members of the house, the world is now fully aware of the absolute terror of boko haram. over the last few months there have been over 500 schools burned to the ground by boko haram. struck by the brazen abduction of nearly 300 innocent school girls, people are now asking, what is boke harm? sadly -- boko haram? sadly for the communities in nigeria, they know the answer to that. they know what boko haram means to them. they know that the definition of boko haram is western education is a sin and they know that for this particular organization o

. >> colleen wrote, we were so happy to see you back from maternity leave, but you have to listen tot. you will never get these moments back. so happy you were able to do this. farewell our morning friend. >> from bill, i dvr wnn to see your smile. enjoy your time with your family. >> go check out those facebook comments. >> hardest part of leaving the show is the incredibly loyal fans and they love you and will miss you. >>> this morning on "world news now," calls to resign. a showdown is shaping up today as lawmakers call for the ouster of the head of veteran's affairs. >>> vicious attack. a runner mauled by a bear as she is sharing her story of survival. what she remembered from childhood that helped her survive. >>> plus, the winning word in last night's spelling bee was only three letters, t-i-e. the unusual ending to a nail-biting competition. >>> a bittersweet day here on "world news now." it is diana's last show. we will look back at some of the best times we have had sitting on this desk, many of which include food. >> oh, yes. >> and choice moments. it is friday, may 30th.

when the windsor decision was decided by the second circuit, the first person to call me was colleen. when the supreme court came down, i think the first two people i talked to were judge kay and colleen mcmahon. i still call them for advice all the time and it is important to find people like that. they are out there. >> ms. kaplan, on the cases that have become -- come before the supreme court now, it is almost possible to predict a 5-4 vote. five conservative go one way, and four so-called liberal go the other way. as a prominent attorney who as head a successful career in supreme court arguments, and this being law day, how you feel about that division? do you feel that there is a certain amount of distrust or lack of confidence that the public will have when the results of the case will be sort of so predictable? >> in a lot of the less-high-profile cases, the supreme court does not really have that division. often it is 8-1 or 7-2. that is the majority of the cases the court decides. unfortunately, or maybe fortunately, the supreme court's job is to decide cases about the meanin

when the windsor decision was decided by the second circuit, the first person to call me was colleen. when the supreme court came down, i think the first two people i talked to were judge kay and colleen mcmahon. i still call them for advice all the time and it is important to find people like that. they are out there. >> ms. kaplan, on the cases that have become -- come before the supreme court now, it is almost possible to predict a 5-4 vote. five conservative go one way, and four so-called liberal go the other way. as a prominent attorney who as head a successful career in supreme court arguments, and this being law day, how you feel about that division? do you feel that there is a certain amount of distrust or lack of confidence that the public will have when the results of the case will be sort of so predictable? >> in a lot of the less-high-profile cases, the supreme court does not really have that division. often it is 8-1 or 7-2. that is the majority of the that is probably the majority of the cases. supreme court's job is to decide cases about the meaning of the and you are a

and colleen do you think to a certain extent that america the american public is becoming desensitized to the information just because of the sheer volume that's coming out are are you worried about that at all well i think that is happening naturally people just throw up their arms and they say what what can we do about it the good news is that the house judiciary and intelligence committees just this week seem to have agreed on a compromise that at least what address the massive they call it the telephony metadata collection so there does seem to be progress even though i think people are really tired of it tonight by the way on our p.p.s. t.v. we're going to start seeing a documentary called the united states of secrets that actually features much of the n.s.a. disclosures and whistleblowing i read about that and i know it's going to be a two part series and encourage a lot of people to tune in a bass we just signed sam's report we now know that u.s. intelligence partners extend well beyond the five i and the slide show some of these foreign partners are france and israel but at the

agent and whistleblower colleen rally thanks for joining me thanks for having me so if then nearly a year since that first n.s.a. document was leaked it's hard to believe are you surprised that a year later we're still seeing trolls of documents and secrets be released it still hasn't ended yet are you surprised. actually no i wrote an article called massive spying on americans is outrageous where many of us had these ideas based even on prior whistleblowers prior n.s.a. was so glorious what's different is the documents prove it and i'm very happy to learn that glenn greenwald now is releasing some of these additional documents from the n.s.a. and colleen do you think to a certain extent that american the american public is becoming desensitized to the information just because of the sheer volume that's coming out are the are you worried about that at all well i think that is happening naturally people just throw up their arms and they say what can we do about it the good news is that the house judiciary and intelligence committees just this week seem to have agreed on a compromise t

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please nbc4,e coanchor from colleen williams. >> hi, everyone. the four we get started, i want to ask, are there any foe's in here? you know what that is. friends of erroll. [laughter] there you go. i understand you had to be an foe to get in here. the men we are about to meet on the panel today -- i will be brief in terms of explaining who they are. you have their bios there. it allows me more time for questions. first up we have the research director for international security studies at uc san diego. his research interests include economic development and conflict. he earned his phd in economics at harvard. "the newt book economics of terrorism." he has way too many publications to list, but i trust you will read along. brian jenkins, rand senior adviser and the author of several books and reports and articles on terrorism. including "will terrorists go ?"clear if that does not keep you up at night, i do not know what will. on the 10th anniversary of 9/11, he was involved in an effort to take stock of where we are and where we should be going.

among hundreds of cases, this ruling could affect is the high profile killing of high school teacher colleen ritzer, allegedly raped and murdered by 14-year-old student philip chisolm. chisolm will now be eligible for parole, even if convicted of first-degree murder. and more than 60 already convicted murderers in massachusetts now suddenly have a shot at freedom. for some prosecutors, that is hard to swallow. >> we understand the human development of the brain. but there are just some crimes so heinous and so abhorrent that you have to take a different tact. >> reporter: jonathan blodgett is the head of the commonwealth district attorney association. >> this is a converted conference room. it's now the war room. >> reporter: the war room? >> to handle the appeals. >> reporter: his office is now scrambling to prepare for unexpected parole hearings in 11 cases, some decades old. >> these are the worst of the worst of the worst. the court on that date and that decision redefined justice for 11 victims. >> reporter: one of those victims is beth brodie. >> we have to be the voice for beth, becau

colleen is coming in from fairfax virginia. hello. >> good morning. i ran for congress back in 2010. during my two years previous to the primary iran and the south carolina district six. wasof my top three items veterans. i grew up during the vietnam era and i watched with a broken heart how we as a country and all the administrations prior to this one treated the veterans due to the vietnam war. i have watched that. one of my top three priorities was veterans. executives atmany walter reed and/or medical center in south carolina. there was atime nine-month backup. this was before shinseki announced the ptsd and agent orange. cousin both died of cancer related agent orange diseases 20 years ago. i have interviewed homeless veterans for years. it is not this administration specifically. it has been years and years and years. it is so similar within the nrc and the veterans. you see the lower administrative and management working hard. youexecutives to hide who they height to make sure they hide things. host: i think we got your point. guest: she's hitt

documentary, women in their own words, speak out about their triumphs and hardships, like new mom, colleen biologists and breast-feeding is what you should do. >> reporter: two weeks in, she admits that mom and baby are having some trouble. >> i haven't enjoyed the experience of breast-feeding. i was very optimistic. i was very naive. >> reporter: this dad admits that public breast-feeding makes him uncomfortable. >> i'm a shy person. so, therefore, i get shy around people that are exposed. >> i think it's a reality check for our country, what women have to go through. and what kind of families we have. >> we are happy to welcome ricki lake. >> it's like coming home. i watch you every morning. i'm so inspired by you. it's great to see you. >> you had such success, producing "the business of being born," which focused on home birthing. this seemed like the natural progression. >> this is about choice. and this is also the same thing. we are not telling woman you need to breast-feed. we want to give people the options, the information. we want women to make an empowered choice, an informed c

colleen, why is that? >> there is growth other places in apple. 6 is expected to do very well, a lot of other products are expected to do really well. i think what we're seeing here is that phones are getting bigger and better. laptops are getting smaller and with better battery life and so the tablet, as we know it, is getting squeezed from 2010 when the ipad debut to 2013, the tablet was really the breakout star and now we're seeing the tablet space go into bit of a more maintenance mode. >> i guess this will mean from the likes of verizon and at&t and they do a nice margin business on people who have tablets because they don't have the telephone component to them. >> right. >> it's a data rich product. >> tablets are sort of a spectrum. she was saying we have the phone and 8 inch tablet. all kind of the same device at different sizes, and -- and no matter what, you know, by 2017, 87% of connected device sales are going to be tablet styled devices. >> people shouldn't suddenly go long on the old pcs, is that what you're saying? >> nobody is buyi

colleen is coming in from fairfax virginia. hello. >> good morning. i ran for congress back in 2010. during my two years previous to the primary iran and the south carolina district six. wasof my top three items veterans. i grew up during the vietnam era and i watched with a broken heart how we as a country and all the administrations prior to this one treated the veterans due to the vietnam war. i have watched that. one of my top three priorities was veterans. executives atmany walter reed and/or medical center in south carolina. there was atime nine-month backup. this was before shinseki announced the ptsd and agent orange. cousin both died of cancer related agent orange diseases 20 years ago. i have interviewed homeless veterans for years. it is not this administration specifically. it has been years and years and years. it is so similar within the nrc and the veterans. you see the lower administrative and management working hard. youexecutives to hide who they height to make sure they hide things. host: i think we got your point. guest: she's hitt

to talk more about the post card campaign and what can be done to stop gun violence in america is colleen goddard senior policy advocate with every town for gun safety and a survivor of the two thousand and seven virginia tech mass shooting welcome back to the program thanks for having me tell us about this postcard campaign. we watched again newsbreak of another mass shooting in america and set back in our chairs you know we did not again and soon after that we started to hear mr martinez start to hit on some notes that i think a lot of us in this country feel and when he said not one more you know let every member of congress know not one more we want to echo that and so we launched a not one more postcard campaign where you can literally send a postcard like this to all of your elected officials in congress and in a few days we already have or two or fifty thousand people signed up a million messages going to members of congress and we encourage everyone to join us and mr martinez and get this message to our leaders you know just my staff over the radio studio yesterday we all filled u