host: dan berman with little go, thank you for your time.ing up, we're going to be switching gears and turning our attention to lyndon johnson's vision for great society. atre doing a series looking that every day in the specific legislation that

events in the middle east and ferguson, missouri with dan berman. after that, we continue our weeklong discussion of resident lyndon johnson's great society with patricia does stacy harrison. she will talk about the public broadcasting act signed by president johnson in the 1960's. then a discussion with tom scully about the creation of medicare under lbj. as always we will take your phone calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter, starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. c-span presents debates on what makes america great, evolution, and genetically modified foods, issues spotlight with in-depth looks at veteran health care, student loan debt, campus sexual assault. new perspectives including global warming, voting rights, fighting infectious disease.

dan berman, what do you think? that's the second call so far with you, but that call, the sentiment earlier today, comparing the two situations. >> guest: absolutely. and, again, the situations, you know, i wouldn't say are exactly equal. but this is a question that continues to come up, is, you know, the treatment of, you know, cliveen bundy, a rancher in nevada, versus what is happening in ferguson. again, with cliven bundy, what happened originally was you had the federal government, bureau of land management, go in and try to collect this debt, and then he, you know, basically holed up, and there was a standoff. here you had an incident with local police, and, you know, it was the local police, the it was the county and eventually the state that had been handling it. it only came, you know, kind of later that the justice department came in and said, all right, we're going to have this parallel investigation, we're going to conduct our own autopsy, we're going to, you know, look at it again, this incident throug

host: dan berman with little go, thank you for your time. coming up, we're going to be switching gears and turning our attention to lyndon johnson's vision for great society. atre doing a series looking that every day in the specific legislation that president johnson push. up next, the public broadcasting act and we will talk with the current president and ceo patricia de stacy harrison. later, medicare and medicaid. first, a news update from c-span radio. >> here's a story from the associated press on the situation in missouri. they write "when racial tensions erupted midway through his first presidential campaign, barack obama came to philadelphia to decry the "racial stalemate we've been stuck in for years." over time, he said such wounds rooted in america's painful history on race can be healed." six years later, the still may summon seems more entrenched than ever as president obama calm andr understanding of ferguson, missouri, struggling to determine what role, if any, the nation's first black president can play diffusing a crisis th

administration has been handling events in the middle east and the situation in ferguson, missouri with dan berman. after that, we continue our weeklong discussion on president lyndon johnson with patricia harrison. she is president and ceo of the corporation for public broadcasting and we'll talk about the public broadcasting act that was signed by president johnson. scully about the creation of medicare under lbj. and as always it will take your phone calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter, life beginning on 7:00 a.m. month, c-span presents debates on what makes america great. evolution and genetically modified foods. issue spotlight with in-depth and campus oversight sexual assault. new perspectives on global warming, voting rights, fighting infectious disease, and food safety. and our history to her, showing sights and sounds from america's historical places. find our schedule one week in advance at c-span.org. let us know about what you think about these programs. call us or e-mail us. join the conversation. like us on facebook. follow us on twitter. >> coming up shortly, a

the obama administration has been handling events in the middle east and ferguson, missouri with dan berman. after that, we continue our weeklong discussion of resident lyndon johnson's great society with patricia does stacy harrison. she will talk about the public broadcasting act signed by president johnson in the 1960's. then a discussion with tom scully about the creation of medicare under lbj. as always we will take your phone calls and look for your comments on facebook and twitter, starting at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. c-span presents debates on what makes america great, evolution, and genetically modified foods, issues spotlight with in-depth looks at veteran health care, student loan debt, campus sexual assault. new perspectives including global warming, voting rights, fighting infectious disease. and our history tour showing the sights and sounds from america's historic places. find our tv schedule one week in advance at www.c-span.org. about know what you think the programs you are watching. call us or e-mail us at comments@cspan.org. join the conversation. like us on facebook

tomorrow, dan berman talks about the obama administration's stance on foreign-policy issues, ferguson,g unrest in missouri. then our look at president johnson's great society patricia didh stacy harrison. she will discuss the public broadcasting act which provides financial assistance for noncommercial tv and radio broadcasting. after that, tom scully on the creation of medicare under president johnson. as always, your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets. here is a look at our prime time schedule on the c-span networks, starting at 8 p.m. eastern tonight on c-span. a discussion on the safety of genetically modified foods. at 8:30 its book tv with a look at books on fracking and energy. and on c-span3, american history tv with programs on the overland campaign during the civil war, a series of major battles taking place in virginia in 1864. all of that tonight on the c-span networks. securityoday the human council got an update on the israeli-palestinian conflict and ongoing negotiations from the special coordinator for middle east peace process. this is 15 minutes. >> the 7243 m

with dan berman. as for that -- we continue our discussion on lyndon johnson's great society was patricia harrison. president and ceo of the corporation for public broadcasting and we will talk about the broadcasting act that was signed in the 1960's. scullyaring from tom about the creation of medicare under lbj. we will take your phone calls and look for your comments by facebook and twitter. he getting at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> next debate on the safety of genetically modified food known as gm of' -- gm owes. this two-hour event was part of the vail symposium held in march. s are jeffrey smith. he is a leading consumer advocate promoting non-gm of choices. his book includes "seeds of deception." the world's bestseller on gm o's. jeff will be speaking this saturday at noon in carbondale. i am sure you can find it on the internet. gregory stock who is to my immediate left. a biotech entrepreneur bioethicist, best-selling author, and public communicator. ands a leading authority founded the progr

at how the obama administration has been events in the middle east and the situation in with dan missouri berman after that we continue our discussion on president lyndon johnson's great society, with patricia harrison. she's president and c.e.o. of the corporation for public broadcasting. and we'll talk about the public broadcasting act that was signed johnson in the 1960's. we'll also hear from former anders for medicare medicaid services administrator tom scully about the create of medicare under l.b.j. at 7:00 a.m.g eastern on c-span. house democratic caucus chair wassier becerra held a town hall with constituent this is month on the economy, immigrant children on the border, and u.s. foreign policy. was held in northeast los angeles. it's 90 minutes. thank you to so many much you who i've seen in town hall after that we've done. thank you to those who participated in the town hall i do from wowed when you can't be home. i love it that you participate. it.et's keep doing let me run through a little bit of the format again for those you iy be new and most of see have been at my town halls in

berman is here with us. chris is off. we'll stay on our top story tragic details have been revealed about robin williams' final hours. officials confirm the legend hanged himself in his california home. dane again from california with the very latest. good morning, dan. >> reporter: good morning kate. people were generally surprised by the level of detail disclosed by the marine county sheriff's office because typically they are pretty sparse in releasing this kind of level of detail at least at the early stage. the bottom line is williams was discovered by a personal assistant after he failed to respond to a knock on a bedroom door. >> our indication is that it's a suicide due to asphyxiation, due to hanging. >> reporter: upsetting details released by the coroner revealed robin williams hung himself by a belt. >> the personal assistant entered the bedroom to find mr. williams clothed in a seated position unresponsive with a belt secured around his neck with the other end of the belt wedged between the clothes closet door and the door frame. >> reporter: williams who was recently battling severe depression may have tried to slit his wrist with a pocketknife. the 20-minute long press conf