the three hundred pillow pink grand piano dangles above the foyer of the world congress center in the bomb. it's a sound installation created by gong. for the principal venue of the beethoven festival. like the idea of having a massive thing like a piano in this huge hall perhaps the verdict the halls imposing spaciousness. and if you know the law instead of standing around like a concert piano would it's pink and floats in the air so much like a butterfly we commit the link. for the beethoven festival the piano rhys fitted with little motors and magnets that make knocking sounds in various rhythms. the installations german title is a play on words meaning future typewriter or future screen machine. yanno and the typewriter as machines are closely related for the. machine and. then there's the scream. this is also breaking with a coven also wanted to break free of that scream of liberation from social and musical conventions was everywhere in his work he met a man. and his colleague christina shirk who spent three days building and to achieve the intended result. it might not always l

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just a few kilometers away however visions of the future are being discussed this huge congress center is in the modern business district of the vietnamese capital and it's here that the world economic forum is meeting never have so many southeast asian leaders attended the yearly events. vietnam's prime minister is promoting the region he says is already home to the world's largest economy digitalisation would drive growth further. we've been the world's factory and till now that creates growth but now we'll see faster growth through innovative ideas. but the downsides of a technological revolution are also being openly discussed in hanoi millions of jobs could be at risk and inequality could rise especially for women what we're seeing with the digital economy and as it grows is that the great strides that the as countries have made in closing the gender gap is actually widening again. we're seeing that women have less access to the internet less access to mobile phones. every person should be able to afford a smartphone that's one of the demands here that at least would give everybod

just a few kilometers away however visions of the future are being discussed this huge congress center is in the modern business district of the vietnamese capital and it's here that the asean world economic forum is meeting never have so many southeast asian leaders attended the yearly event. vietnam's prime minister is promoting the region he says asean is already home to the world's largest economy digitalisation would drive growth further. we've been the world's factory until now that creates growth but now we'll see faster growth through innovative ideas it's in. the move. but the downsides of a technological revolution are also being openly discussed in hanoi millions of jobs could be at risk and inequality could rise especially for women. what we're seeing with the digital economy and as it grows is that the great strides that the as you and countries have made in closing the gender gap is actually widening again . we're seeing that women have less access to the internet less access to mobile phones. every person should be able to afford a smartphone that's one of the demands he

this is a three hundred kilogram pink grand piano that's hanging in the for you of the world congress center the main venue for the festival so it's a sound installation by. and it's fitted with dozens of little motors and magnets that make a knocking sound in various different rhythms and the german title of this is a play on words that mean a future typewriter or a future screen machines symbolizing you know the the breakout screen for freedom of musical convention that characterizes so much of the top works but you know there are a lot of other composers it's not just words by beethoven there will be a lot of. the few that come to mind at the moment and as usual there are a lot of public screenings so that as many people as possible can get in on it and it's a real event that wrekin. interest in classical music every year and it's funny i don't know about you but every time that i hear a symphony by beethoven i wonder why we aren't listening to music all the time because it is so breathtakingly beautiful when you actually take the time to stop and say oh yeah there it was and we can liste

is a three hundred kilogram pink grand piano that this is hanging in the four a of the world congress center in bonn which is their main venue and it's a sound insulation by georg fitted with dozens of little motors and magnets that make the rocking sound in various rhythms of the german title is that a play on words that means future typewriter or future screen machine and that symbolizing the sort of breakout scream that for freedom from musical convention that characterized so much of beethoven's works a lot simpler than it looks more complicated that it looks pardon me for lots of other composers as well absolutely brooke. the covert steve you see there's going to be a lot of other stuff to hear and of course the world be the as usual of the public screenings on the market square in the city and so it's. really didn't it actually rekindles interest in classical music for everybody out there every year and i don't know about you but every time i hear a beethoven symphony especially number five on her seven or even number nine i wonder what it was into more often there's so much stuff that

workers would meet and march across the street to kaiser medical center. congress men are set to join that protest. kaiser is laying off employees, outsourcing jobs and won't engage in negotiations. >>> happening now, some of the california's best cyclists are riding around the streets of san francisco, including the studio i'm sitting in. it kicked off at 8:00 this morning. the race will close streets around levi's plaza and battery skpr front sfreets and embarcadero. the final pro race pedals off at 3:00 this afternoon. they might have to be careful because a spare the air alert is in effect. the millions of cars on the bay area roads combined with hot temperatures and wildfire smoke are expected to cause poor air quality. they should be done in the early morning. this is the 11th spare the air alert for smog this year. not what we want to hear on a holiday weekend when people want to enjoy their last day. tat's what we have. >> the day everybody is out there. there was nobody on the road. let's talk to the folks and tell them what to expect. let's take a look at

from 38 test from 1938 to 1941, farm policy was centered in congress and more so in world war ii when the agricultural communities had immense leverage to exert because of the dynamics of the war. they transformed commodity policy from the new deal on support policies as a shock absorber to support policies aimed at rigid controls from price stabilization to price determination. irony to alllicy of this, or there would be. that is that the policies of regulating, controlling, subsidizing, after world war ii became combined with the limited rich strengths -- limited restraints giving farmers the leeway to innovate. a marketis encouraged centered revolution and productivity. the parts of the input suppliers, the equipment manufacturers companies, pesticides and insecticides, this will produce a new agriculture. what we now have is a new the 1950's governed by outdated policies. policies aimed at the depression, policies aimed at world war ii. there are contradictions galore. the nature of congressional politics and such that the cost of changing these policies was much greater than the

congress?? guest: that's the idea. the foot that forward as an idea. have worked with the bipartisan policy center on the issue of early childhood. issues with congress in george miller. who is not ideologically where i am on these issues. we came up with a report last year to do just that on a variety of different things. some of which, congress has already acted on. host: did the center come to you? this is ani mean, effort on the part of the bipartisan policy. they get involved in a whole variety of issues. some of which i like this where there is some bipartisan support. others, they take on even tougher, tougher job to try to bring people together. that is really the whole purpose of the organization is to try to forge some sort of common ground. maybe very small. or, in this case, a little larger. it is a really worthwhile effort on their part. i want to get to two calls who have been waiting for a while. go ahead. caller: thank you for taking my call. i really appreciate that we are having discussions into taking care of our children. that's what this is all about. nurturing our cheat -- ou

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congress has enacted. host: did the bipartisan policy center come to you and senator dodd? sen. santorum: this was on their part. withget a bunch of issues, some of them are like this where there is bipartisan support. others take on a tougher job to bring people together, but that is the purpose of the organization is to forge some common ground. it may be very small or in this case it is larger, but it is really worthwhile. callsi want to get to two that have been waiting. independent candidate -- in california. caller: thank you for taking my call. i really appreciate we are having discussions into taking care of children. nourishing our children to be healthy. i would say we already have on paid family leave act, so how short-termtates have individual disability to tap into? instead of going through corporations, individual persons in a situation especially mentioned low income person that live paycheck to paycheck, and their rates -- contact the state program and apply for it, for french assistance. -- financial assistance. sen. santorum: you mentioned disability programs.

centers of america. appointments available now. >>> at the start of yet another chaotic week at the trump white house members of congress are at thee over the confirmation of supreme court nominee and federal judge brett kavanaugh, and that has the cross-aisle blame game already heating up. >> well, it's amazing to me that these allegations come out of nowhere at the last minute and that they weren't brought up earlier in this process. and it's not untypical for our friends on the other side to pull that kind of crap. >> so we need an investigation. anytime there's a crime what do we do first? we investigate. so the republicans are totally stonewalling any investigation in their desire to fast-track this nomination come hell or high water. >> here with us tonight to talk about it, two of our favorite returning veterans. two former members of congress. donna edwards, democrat of the great state of maryland. and david jolly, republican of the great state of florida. welcome to you both. congresswoman, i'd like to begin with you. i don't know if you've seen the president's handiwork tonight on twitter. from trump tower as we were com

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center at this point. you ivan see democratic members of congress left wing liberals out there saying hey, this is no way to express your opinion, come forward, put your authorship on it lots of folks upset with the "new york times" in the media who are saying well, it better be somebody really super senior or else they would not have granted anonymity. i don't know who it is. i know their type and their type is very unimpressive. somebody who doesn't have the courage to come forward and say this is my opinion. this is how i feel. i think in large part because they don't have first-hand knowledge of what they are writing. this is not the president i know as described. this is not the decisionmaker and leader that i'm around every single day. there are those of us who are here because we believe in the president's agenda and we respect the fact that he is executing every day under these circumstances to boot. the accomplishments of this president in the first 20 months would be impressive by any measure but under the constant assault and attack that we all absorb, they are that much more remarkable. everywhe

law and i said, if you are an american out there who prefers the country right of center, there hasn't been a better congress and the time i've been in the senate. >> bret: he has added to, in the wake of the bob woodward book and his reaction to that, that you have this anonymous op-ed, your interaction today? >> we were talking about finishing the people's business before the end of the fiscal year. three conference reports and appropriation bills, sounds boring to your audience but 9 out of 12 of those are signed into law before the end of september, that will not have happened since 1997, over 20 years ago. completing a farm bill. america in general is in good shape. agricultural america is not. we are intent on finishing this farm bill, getting it signed before the farm bill expires at the end of september. those are the things that we were focusing on. >> bret: the last thing on this, are you worried that there are people inside this administration that are essentially trying to bring this president down? >> my job is to try to achieve as much of the american people as i can. these republican governmen

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. >> the wilson center which is nonpartisan and, so understand i had my long chapter in the congress but now i try my hardest as they think you did, too to reach for responsible politicians from both parties. the wilson center hasn't arctic program and now there is the notion. not just an increasing body of water, but the art to goshen qualifies as a nation in the world and global warning they are. twice as fast as the rest of the world. a country's border and it's interesting because in addition to the possibility that it could become the shipping channel between asia and europe because it's a much shorter distance than the panama canal. the countries that border it are cooperating on security issues and climate issues including russia. one part of this book is a long chapter about dealings with russia. some of them for this, some of them frustrating. >> syria was the most frustrating of all. i call it the open wound. i had hoped that we would've decided we'd find a way to love for each that we wanted -- not business but were trying to get a result that would shape along the lines of

in 2016, despite winning fewer than half of all votes for congress, republicans again one a 33 seat majority. the brennan center has reported that to win back the house, to win a one seat majority, democrats will have to carry the national popular vote by 11%. and it is notir how our elections are supposed to work. that is why i helped to launch, and i'm proud to share the national democratic rate districting -- redistricting committee. [applause] with the support of president obama. [applause] you think the country misses him now? with the support of president obama and other leaders, we are taking steps to combat gerrymandering to ensure the voting is gone fairly. through the national redistricting foundation, we are challenging unfair lines where they have been drawn illegally. this is very important work. going to change things, we need an accurate census in 2020. that way, when we do redistricting 2021, the lines will be drawn fair. we end up with legislatures that represent the diversity and priorities of american people. earlier this year the foundation for individual citizens who live in maryland, flori

congress providing oversight now, the administration's response to this incoming storm? because by all accounts, florence looks to be an exceptional storm. a devastating event, as the hurricane centers calling it. what is congress doing to hold the administration to account? >> congress certainly has. although i think congress could have done a better job over the last year. the other thing is, you have two layers of bureaucracy, basically. the federal government that sends a lot of money to state governments and then the money often is supposed to go from there. the texas state government has also not done the best job of making sure the resources get to the folks that have been affected. and unfortunately, too often, that's the case. >> i want to change gears now to ask you to react to donald trump jr.'s interview this morning. because a lot of comments, certainly the typical attacks on the mueller investigation. but specific to his own situation, he was asked, does he fear going to jail. he said he doesn't. he said that investigators in his words will just try to create something. based on the evidence that you've seen as a member of the intelligence committee, should donald tru

center is? guest: a nonpartisan think tank created by congress in 1968. our mission is to advance understanding of the world and u.s. relations with the world. we try to bring the world to washington and take washington out to the world. one of the most important things we do is to explain the political process in washington to folks in other countries and try to advance neutral understanding. the misunderstands we have seen over the past couple of years s. host: do you think renegotiating nafta was a good idea? guest: interesting gusman people have attacked this administration for opening up a pandora's box. the fact is that for a number of years many of us have been saying i'm a nafta is an old lady of trade agreements and need to be modernized and we need a nafta 2.0. this was not the way we thought it would happen. certain positive things will come out of it. yes, i think a lot of us believed it was time to renegotiate. guest: this is negotiated before anyone had internet in their homes, before the digital ,conomy, before online banking before a lot o

congress in 2014. this was held in the national conference center. we are your primary source for campaign 2019. speemac first, i want to offer my personal gratitude and appreciation to you for agreeing to step up and seek the opportunity to represent us. leadership is necessary. we need good people to step up and attempt to be those leaders. i want to offer that congratulations and thanks will begin with opening statements. both candidates have two and a half minutes. a lot of yellow card will go up when they have 30 seconds remaining. based on that, senator waxman, you go first. >> good morning. i'm jennifer waxman number needs to be your nexgen senator. as a prosecutor, but dangerous criminals and sex offenders behind bars. as a state senator, proud to have passed over 40 pieces of legislation, all with bipartisan support while serving in the minority party. during my time i have worked with chambers to look at the priorities that are important to us and received a 100% score from that partnership. i'm honored to call reedsburg my home to live with my husband and sons were students and loudou

force can take immediately without further action from congress, we were moving forward with the restructuring of the space and missile systems centert that we have systems smarter and we are working with the joint staff under the guidance of the secretary of defense and the president to establish and support a unified, combat and command for space to put the wrar fighter's focus on space operations and the space rapid capabilities office which was recently established by congress provides the mechanism to continue to accelerate special program of high, national priority. the air force is fully committed to ensuring the united states is continues to lied ead in space. the president has brought space to the spotlight. dominating space has become kitchen table conversation and that will benefit this country. while the air force is driving forward, restoring the readiness and the lethality of the force and buying things faster and smarter. in the end, the most important thing we have is people and the ideas our airmen have to make things better in austin, teshxa had an idea. lieutenant colonel paul vickers, lieutenant colonel eric from

. >> david, president trump is at the center of the fight for congress all across the country.lately not in a good way for republicans. here in california's 45th district outside of los angeles democratic challenger katey porter vows to hold president trump accountable. that puts pressure on the republican incumbent mimi walters i asked walters if she considers trump a danger to the country. >> no, i don't i do not believe that. i think he has a very good team around him, and i believe he's doing what he thinks is right. there's processes in place to make sure that if there is corruption then, you know, it will play itself out but what i'm focused on is i'm focused on making sure i deliver the promises to my constituents. >> i think that some of trump's actions represent a real threat to our democracy part of congress' job is be a check. if you're not asking hard questions, if you're not asking the right questions, if you're not looking at the evidence of the corruption, you won't see it even when it's there >> and strange as it sounds when you talk to voters here it almost doe

i said john i have been offered the job of president and ceo of the wilson center, succeeding lee hamilton, a member of congress and chairman of the house foreign affairs committee for a long time. and i'm ambivalent. i've been elected to my 9th term. i might disappoint some of my constituents. i might thrill others. i said what is your view? you didn't pause. you said do it. it has been a great decision, eight years in to run an institution dedicated to nonpartisan serious scholarship leading to actionable policy ideas which is the frame for woodrow wilson or only phd president and our first international president. so you spoke there as in 2016, maybe earlier, but 2016, on your last dayss a secretary of state, and i appreciate it -- on your last days as secretary of state, and i appreciate it, thank you very much. we had a conversation of trade, if i remember. i wonder what you think of the value added at a number of think tanks? i think you spoke at carnegie today. in this town especially now? >> they are an essential ingredient of our democracy. they are a key check and balance, if you will, on those who ar

a great deal of information not only to members of congress but by visiting the members making sure that they understand that their work with the center for judicial excellence and protective parents association of california have made sure that they've -- that they saw these issues clearly and talked to members of congress about our ideas, not only as we fund federal programs but as we understand in our discussions with states that we prioritize and help them look at what is a seemingly national crisis this national crisis is about how our children are dealt with in the court system and looked at and specifically this is a concurrent resolution which urges states to develop family court procedures to resolve claims of abuse in family violence before making a o

this legislation includes members of congress immediate access to imgation detention centers. we must remain committed to seeking justice for families who have been torn apart at our borders. they have we have been stopped to immediately access these detention centers and this amendment when it is signed into law will allow us to conduct oversight as a co-equal branch of our government. mr. chairman, more importantly, before yielding back, i want to thank chairman rodney frelinghuysen. it has been an honor to serve with this gentleman in the truest sense of the word. he has done a remarkable job serving his constituents. it has been fun being a member of the appropriations committee while he was a chairman and ranking member and now the chairman of the full committee. and we will miss him and i know his constituents will miss his service and i urge members to support this appropriations bill and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: i yield two minutes to the chairman of the

seems the party is moving very hard left, and there's this space in the center, and that the political rewards for the members of congressompromise or consensus if governing, it's to play to the bases. i think that's the tragedy here. and john mccain certainly wanted us to try to arrive at that consensus. i don't know that enough people are going to heed his advice. >>> so you've retired from your role in congress, but during year last campaign for the house in 2016, you were campaigning at a tea party forum in pennsylvania. i want to play a very short audio clip of that appearance. >> i understand that these are the kinds of issues that i have to deal with, you know, i know john mccain. >> he's an idiot. >> he's a patriot. he's great man. who would call him an idiot? >> just to add some context. you were explaining why it was different to support the nominee for president, donald trump. talk about that moment and why you got to passionate? >> well, that was a debate, actually. i think they were really trying to set me up, to find out why i was not supporting donald trump for president. i started to tell them why. i ment

congress in 2014. this was held in the national conference center. we are your primary source for campaign 2019.emac first, i want to offer my personal gratitude and appreciation to you for agreeing to step up and seek the opportunity to represent us. leadership is necessary. we need good people to step up and attempt to be those leaders. i want to offer that congratulations and thanks will begin with opening statements. both candidates have two and a half minutes. a lot of yellow card will go up when they have 30 seconds remaining. based on that, senator waxman, you

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heather: can congress a compass what americans voted for. the director for policy studies at the centertudy, thank you very much for joining us, appreciate it. $1.6 billion is far short of the $5 billion the president wanted. as he justified in being frustrated? >> he should be very frustrated. republicans in congress are ready to squander the opportunity to deliver exactly what voters wanted and voted for two years ago which is more money for border enforcement and immigration enforcement in the interior of the country. these programs need resources to be effective. that is what people want to see happen but they want to wait until after the election for some reason. this is the time to deliver what voters said they wanted and a good opportunity to put members of congress on record for working for this agenda or not. that is what you want to do before an election, not after. it is perplexing why they are doing this was the only reason i can think of is some republicans in house leadership like paul ryan and mitch mcconnell want to wait until after the election to tack onto critical hom

voters that our democracy depends on his party taking back congress, a move that thrilled democrats but donald trump thinks obama being front and center will fire up republicans. >> republicans are saying it is america. i remind them those job numbers are the same they were in 2015 and 2016. >> i watched it but i fell asleep. if the democrats got in with their agenda in november of almost two years ago instead of having 4.2 up i believe honestly you would have 4.2 down. he would be negative. >> reporter: conservative charlie kirk noted if the president is doing such a bad job as the resistance movement claims why is former president obama trying to take credit for what is "happening now" with the economy. shannon: which is it? administration in chaos or checking one promise after another off the president's to do list. former ohio senate minority leader, washington times opinion editor charlie hurts and senior editor at the federalist molly hemingway. you heard and reference charlie kirk. of trump is doing such a horrible job why does obama want to take the credit? >> here is the thing. let's back up and put this in context from my ho

because we just lost -- we're new strategic plan that will be very user centered the library of congress is for you, for congress and for you, and this is our representation of our new visual identity that has the word "library" but the book ends. that word can contain anything. the collections, videos of the people, all kinds of things can be contained. >> host: i'll show that to our viewers right now. the inside here. you have -- that wonderful folder you showed me earlier. sorry about that. >> i had to keep up with the names of all the authorses. look at that. you have ancient manuscript, photographs, you can put video in there but you see that the word library is one of the few words in english language that if you separate it you still know, and that we think is very significant. so, people will be seeing all kinds of things contained in those bookends. >> host: this past summer you did an interview, you were the interviewer. who did you interview. >> guest: well, i tell you i have much more appreciation for interviewers as i told you i got the honor of interviewing first lady miche

well, since that didn't work out, last year in the mbaa congress relocated the operation to the global engagement center at the state department. now, the global engagement center may or may not be the -- the state department by law has to engage in truthful operations, not -- they don't necessarily have people trained in thinking about psychological warfare or political influence operations. you might want ideally an organization maybe at the nfc. but by law this is where they put it so this is what we need to work with right now. we need to support them and what they're doing. the gek under the public affairs section and it is tasked with coordinating the various operations. we need to therefore help them to establish the understanding of how to do this and to make sure that they have access to the professional [ inaudible ] generated internally, so that they can engage in recommendations on the full range of counter-propaganda operations that are possible. now, with that said i think -- do we take questions now or later? [ inaudible ]. >> very good. [ inaudible ]. >> all right. and if anyone has any

congress national book festival. saturday starting at 10 am eastern. our coverage includes the washington convention centerith to prize-winning buyer for john meacham and his book, the storm of america, the battle for our better angels. doris kearns goodwin with leadership in the turbulent times. roger mouth with his book, grant. brian tell meet with his book andrew jackson, and a miracle of new orleans. the battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival, live on c-span two book tv. saturday at 10 am eastern. >>> up next on american artifacts,

center. the very first amendment isn't the one involving freedom of speech. there shall be one representative in congress for every 30,000 inhabitants. if that amendment had passed there would be 6,000 representatives in congress today. also the size of the chinese national congress today. the reason they were so concerned is because they wanted enough representatives to be responsive to their constituents, but not so many that the size of the assembly would become unwieldy and degenerate into demagogues. here their cautionary tale is kleon innagens. they reduce the assembly to invading sparta. subsequent scholarship has suggested that aristotle, plato and later democrats may have done kleon an injust is, and atheenian government was more effective in disbursing knowledge of people with different backgrounds. and may have fallen not because the war, but because of the plague but the war itself it may not do it justice to athens to reduce it to demagogues, this was the framer's vision as it was the vision of florentine critics of democracy, as well as those in britain and france who were trying to defend

congress. this isn't hogwarts. the nonpartisan tax policy center says that this is going to cost $3.2 trillion. and you know what, it's important that people pay attention to this because this makes -- i've got to give give the republicans credit for their kind of sneaky ways to try to avoid the realities. they have an amendment that says this massive giveaway to the wealthy magically doesn't count. and here's the other thing. we won't even get to vote on it. it's in the rule. it'll be self-executed once the rule passes. so no one has to take any responsibility. this is at a time when the u.s. treasury is borrowing money at a rate of $5.4 billion a day. the congressional budget office found the majority and trump administration have blown a $900 billion hole in the federal budget. the deficit will increase by nearly 32% this year alone. with one of the main causes being the first g.o.p. tax law. mr. speaker, what happened to the republican party that claimed to care about fiscal discipline? this majority is drowning in red ink. and the list goes on. second, the original republican tax scam redu

congress thank you there with. both of sweden's main political blocs of failed to secure majorities in sunday's general election but the country's far right has recorded major gains the ruling center left social democrats and their allies took forty point six percent of the vote just more than the center right alliance with mohnish forty point three of the populist sweden democrats of certain third place taking seventeen point six percent the far right party hopes to become kingmaker in any ruling coalition of both centrist blocks of declared that they will not work with them. europe's populist way now we each ng sweden in part because of this man u. me aur kosong declaring a big future for his third place anti immigrant party. do you know what friends of sweden they said on t.v. that it's hard to declare a winner of this election i know who's won the sweden democrats i was in a small country that's taken in four hundred thousand asylum seekers since two thousand and twelve orcus owns message has resonated for those skeptical about immigration and the establishment that establishment incumbent prime minister stuff on left been center left coalition came out just millimeters ahead

congress. sheila jackson lee, jim clyburn, gk butterfield and barbara lee. they lent their names to that effort. director at the centerand the author of the single best book on the chinese question called "the hundred year marathon." dr. pillsbury, should members of congress be lending their name and reputation do this kind of effort? >> know they should not. members of congress have automatic security clearances and frankly they have funds to visit china whenever they want. the u.s. embassy will escort them around, arrange visits and give them classified briefings about what's going on in china. if a member of congress supports this kind of informal activity and takes funds to do it, to pay for the travel and let the chinese make the arrangements, they miss out on getting the truth about china from our own government. i think it's a mistake to do this. >> tucker: it is a mistake and it's unfortunately kind ofbohi comment. come in here google is in the middle of what seems to be a real controversy over the search engine that has been secretly developing on behalf of the government of china. the intercept report is tha

congress national book festival. saturday starting at 10 am eastern. our coverage includes the washington convention center with to prize-winning buyer for john meacham and his book, the storm of america, the battle for our better angels. doris kearns goodwin with leadership in the turbulent times. roger mouth with his book, grant. brian tell meet with his book andrew jackson, and a miracle of new orleans. the battle that shaped america's destiny. watch the 18th annual library of congress national book festival, live on c-span two book tv. saturday at 10 am eastern. >>> up next on american artifacts, we travel to northeastern france to trace these steps american soldiers during the spring and early summer of 1918. first, a portion of the 1960 u.s. army film describing the military situation at the time. >>> the germans rolled across the aim river stretching from -- in a driving relentless force that struck panic into the french nation. in three days, the german tied had crossed the river and was less than 40 miles from paris. purging moved to second and third u.s. division into the area around jacko sherry

congress has enacted. host: did the bipartisan policy center come to you and senator dodd? sen.torum: this was on their part. withget a bunch of issues, some of them are like this where there is bipartisan support. others take on a tougher job to bring people together, but that is the purpose of the organization is to forge some common ground. it may be very small or in this case it is larger, but it is really worthwhile. callsi want to get to two that have been waiting. independent candidate -- in california. caller: thank you for taking my call. i really appreciate we are having discussions into taking care of children. nourishing our children to be healthy. i would say we already have on paid family leave act, so how short-termtates have individual disability to tap into? instead of going through corporations, individual persons in a situation especially mentioned low income person that live paycheck to paycheck, and their rates -- contact the state program and apply for it, for french assistance. -- financial assistance. sen. santorum: you mentioned disability programs. ther

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