dan glickman will also be with us.e is the chairman of the institute of medicine and food and nutrition under a new study on the american problem of obesity and in our final segment, we will look at america by the numbers, the foreign-born population. as we begin, the prosecution rested yesterday in the john edwards trial in north carolina. the defense will pick up the case next week if, in fact, the trial continues. we will learn more about that in a few minutes. we will use the john edwards trial to talk to you about it this morning. to talk about what it says about american politics, we would like to hear your thoughts about this on our phone lines. we also of a special line for north carolina viewers. you can tweet your response or send us a facebook message. good friday morning to you and thank you for being with us. we will talk about the john edwards trial. we hope many of you in the audience have been following the press coverage of last couple of weeks that the trial has been session. the federal court in nort

and a regular member here, senior fellow at the bipartisan policy center dan glickman. i also want to acknowledge and hope he will participate actively ron brownstein and ron has written a great deal about the issues we'll be talking about today. i'm very pleased that he was able to be here and join us. as you know, bipartisan policy center was established five years ago, building on the work in the national commission of energy policy. it was founded by four former senate majority leaders, howard baker, george mitchell, bob dole, and tom daschle, who believe that while there's a critical place in the making of public policy for partisanship and differing views and values, all of whom were certainly on the barricades, fighting for the things they believed in and for their parties. but they also believed and practiced that we had to be able, as they had been, to shape and negotiate solutions to tough and critical national issues across partisan, ideological, regional and economic lines. i should mention, incidentally -- some of you are aware of it. some of you may have b

we'll be joined by the institute's food and nutrition chairman, former agriculture secretary dan glickman. libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson, the former governor of new mexico will take your calls about the campaign. and we'll examine the foreign-born population in the u.s. with elizabeth grieco from the census bureau and audrey singer from the brookings institution. "washington journal" is live on c-span every day at 7:00 a.m. eastern. >>> next, a house panel examines inspector general vacancies at federal agencies. right now there are ten inspector general vacancies, seven of them have been vacant for over a year. california congressman darrell issa chairs this house oversight committee chairman which is about two hours. >> hearing will come to order. before we begin, this is an unusual hearing. and i hope you'll all agree that this is a hearing in which we're not talking about any particular problem that's occurred in the recent or not recent past. we're talking about an ongoing question of the independence, the value of inspector generals and where this committee should

fort dan glickman, the chairman of this report, -- host: dan glickman, the chairman of this report.isconsin. richard, an independent. caller: i want to make a comment. every time i try to explain something on c-span i get cut off. that is the first thing. now, to solve this problem we have to go back into time. c-span talk about sugar cane and putting a tax on it mainly because of to the. -- mainly because of cuba. will we have to recognize is manufacturers decided instead of using sugar cane they came up with the idea of using corn syrup. corn syrup is the main culprit. now, as far as what we need to do to get control of our health-care system, we need to recognize what is called integrated medicine. i challenge people to look up this dr. -- dr. russell, dr. steven. i challenge them to watch "your health" of national television. they have a following of over 75 million people by -- people. tell people to study the book called "the food giant." this is a long time ago. what we need to understand, and this was recently on "dateline," where they talked about the supplement industry. t

we will be joined by dan glickman. gary johnson will take your calls about the libertarian campaign at 8:00 eastern and we will examine the foreign-born will examine the foreign-born population in the u.s.

. >> dan glickman and everyone in the chicago council, we were originally going to convene with the gin my hometown, i want to bring a bit of chicago to washington. it is wonderful to see all of you. it is great to see quite a few young people here as well. i want to acknowledge a good friend. we were just talking back stage. he was my inspiration for singing at the apollo. bono is here. it is good to see him. [ applause ] now, this weekend at the g-8 will be represented by many of the world's largest economies. we face urgent challenges. creating jobs, addressing the situation in the eurozone, sustaining the global economic recovery. but even as we deal with these issues, i felt it was also important, also critical to focus on the urgent challenge that confronts some 1 billion men, women and children around the world. the injustice of chronic hunger. the need for long-term future security. so tomorrow at the g-8, we're going to devote a special session to this challenge. we're launching a new partnership to reduce hunger and lift tens of millions from poverty. we will be joined from

we'll be joined by the food and nutrition chairman, former agriculture secretary dan glickman. libertarian presidential candidate gary johnson, the former governor of new mexico, will take your calls about the campaign. and we'll examine the foreign-born population in the u.s. with elizabeth greco and awdty singer with the brookings institution. washington journal is live on c-span every day at 7 a.m. eastern. >> these men go through things and have scars that no one can understand except each other. >> the first thing that startled us was the relationship between harry truman and herbert hoover who were two such personally and politically different men and who ended up forming this alliance that neither of them would have anticipated and ended up being enormously productive and formed the foundation of what become a very deep friendship. the letters between them later in their lives about how important they had become to one another are really extraordinary. >> it may be the most exclusive in the -- exclusive club in the world. the private and public relationships of the ameri

we will be joined by dan glickman. gary johnson will take your calls about the campaign. we will examine the foreign born population in the united states. washington journal is live every day at 7:00 eastern. >> furthermore, i remain optimistic about the future of indiana and the united states of america. the news media and political leaders spend a great deal of time talking about what is broken in our country. to some degree that is the nature of their business. we should also have confidence that the unique american experiment is alive and well and our political system still can work. >> tuesday night richard lugar lost to richard murdock. look back on his sixth term career including his work in the 1990's on a nuclear disarmament program with the soviet union. >> the justice department has filed a lawsuit against the maricopa county sheriff's office. the case stems from allegations of violations from the constitution and is only the second such action. thomas harris spoke with reporters for half of an hour. -- thomas perez spoke with reporters for half an hour. >> tod

appreciation, first and foremost, to the chicago council, in particular catherine bertini and dan glickman for bringing us all together today, to our very special guests, the heads of state and government. from tanzania, ethiopia and ghana. and to tell you how exciting it is that we have this partnership at the highest levels with the countries that you represent here at this conference and for the months and years ahead. i also want to thank raj shah and his great colleagues at usaid. raj has led a tireless effort on behalf of advancing food security worldwide along with the wonderful help of people not only here in washington, but in our posts and missions across the globe. thanks to our g8 partners. i see representatives from the secret countries here -- g8 countries here. thank you for your commitment to food security, for the great work that started in la quila and has continued forward to here in washington. and thanks to all of you in the private sector, the not-for-profit sector, in the academic world, in the faith community, in the agricultural/productivity and research world. tha