middle of may, we will visit live coverage of the cape verde -- the gaithersburg book festival with david axelrodthen we will close out may in new york city where the publishing industry showcases their upcoming books. on the first week in june we are live for the chicago tribune printers row fest, including our live in program with pulitzer prize-winning author lawrence wright and your phone calls. that is this spring on c-span 2's book tv. >> live today on c-span, "washington journal" is next. at 10:00 a.m. eastern, jeh johnson testifies before the senate judiciary committee. at noon eastern, the u.s. house returns with legislative business at 2:00. they will work on naming of u.s. customs port of entry in arizona and a federal land bill. coming up in 20 minutes, we will look ahead to the supreme court oral arguments regarding same-sex marriage with brian brown, the president of the national organization for marriage and evan wolfson founder and president of freedom to marry. our guest is david savage, the supreme court reporter for the l.a. times and chicago tribune. he will discuss what a rul

david axelrod. rights measures exposed visions in the gop's ranks.e again. cpac derided by many as being a far right enclave, good luck finding people passing out petitions banning gay marriage. because most of them are college students, most are young. there is a generational divide and jeb bush might have got caught in the middle of it. >> the problem for jeb bush he staked his candidacy on standing up to the right on immigration reform, on education reform. i wonder whether he feels he doesn't have the running room to defy some of the more strident voices in the party on other issues. this, of course, has been the problem for their nominees the last two rounds. john mccain and mitt romney were center right republicans but felt they had to make bargains with the right to be the nominee and they made themselves unelectable. jeb bush has to worry about that. >> time and time again. in the iowa debate one of the defining moments of the iowa debates when mitt romney went so far out there on immigration. so nobody could accuse him of being a moderate on

. >> david axelrod was keeper of narrative, the narrative of barack obama who is so central to his. rubio understands and filled with emotion and as one of the things that's so met the candidates a lack. a sense of the trauma that comes from the human element of where they have come from. i do not think you can ride it back to the nomination or presidency alone but essential. >> he talks about and writes in his book about his family situation. his aspirations for middle class economics tax reform and educational opportunities. that is a powerful thing to do. the author leading candidates jeb bush, scott walker, they have a harder time. junk case it is able to take his own biography and related to the american experience. is powerful and he showed that. >> groupon to say that hillary campaign wants to party but the rubio campaign is different. marco rubio: our leaders put us at a disadvantage by taxing like it was 1999. a leader from yesterday -- [boos] marco rubio: she promised to take us back to yesterday. yesterday is over. [applause] and we are never going back. >> their rubio is

festival with tom davis and martin frost, as well as former senior adviser to president obama, david axelrodclosing out the month of may in new york city at the book expo. on the first week in june we are alive for the printers fast including our three hour in-depth probe -- program this spring on book tv. >> the fall of saigon was nearly 40 years ago. on april 30, 1975. next, the university of louisville posts a panel of south vietnamese refugees, including veterans of the south vietnamese army and air force, they reflect on the vietnam war experience and escape from the country following the fall of saigon. panelists eventually settled in kentucky. this is about an hour and half. >> i would like to introduce the moderators for tonight. dd and donald. they are amazing folks and they are the leading effort behind moving voices and this evening tonight. it is amazing to have worked with them over the last few in putting together this event. dd is a daughter of vietnam war refugees and an attorney. she is also u of l alum. and this makes me proud, she will enter the army jag core this friday.

and david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama.ht, rebecca, the big question, the chicken and egg question, is the media unfair to hillary clinton, therefore hillary clinton and people in hillary land hunker down and act with this kind of like embattled attitude towards the press? or does the embattled hostility towards the press produce the bad relationship in this relationship? >> that's the chicken and the egg question and you have to go back so far to a different generation of press really the sort of embryonic stage to the early '90s when she was running at the first lady with bill clinton and was just sort of pummelled for all kinds of things. >> crazy stuff, too. things that were obviously sexist. >> oh yeah. but she was really new. and we forget how far we've traveled as far as first ladies go. she was a total anomaly on the presidential scene. she had a career and education that was comparable to her husband's. he tried to sell it as a two for one presidency. she represented a generation of women who had brought change tha

thank you, david axelrod. thank you, marcy kaptur of ohio. >>> coming up, that postal worker who landed his gyrocopter on the lawn of the u.s. capitol is in court today. that flight yesterday may have exposed some holes in our security, of course, but it also made a bigger point about how this country is letting big, dark, secret money run our politics. that was his argument. that's why he took the risk of flying into the capitol. >>> plus, as the supreme court gets ready to take up gay marriage, we've got the fascinating story of justice anthony kennedy, the swing vote on the court, about closeted gay man who was his mentor and may have been his influence. >>> and everyone knows income inequality is on the rise in this country, so why did the house of representatives just vote to give a huge tax break to america's richest 0.2%? they did away with the estate tax, that helped prevent a permanent aristocracy. and let me finish with the rank and file, america's quiet doves. this is "hardball," the place for polit

first to david axelrod, let's talk about hillary clinton 2.0. they posted on "huffington post", a new epilog to hard choices, her paperback book. i wanted to read excerpts and tell me if you think she has the right tone there. just looking at it, she says, i wondered what a quilt of my own life would look like. so many people taught me so much. she's talking about a quilt sent as a baby gift when charlotte was born. now i have one more. charlotte already helped me see the world in new ways there was so much more to do and so many more panels waiting to be filled in, panels on the quilt. i folded up the quilt and got back to work. that in the new epilog is a big tease what she's going to talk about sunday on noon. is that the way to relaunch hillary clinton? >> as a new grandparent, i can relate what she's talking about -- >> congratulations to you. >> anybody who has a grandchild can speak to that. but kristen had it exactly right. in 2008 she launched this kind of clinton ink, this big jugger not and they recognized that was the wrong way to go

david axelrod, cooper and steve schmidt. mr. schmidt, let me start with you.ess the hillary clinton rollout. what did you think? we know governor mcauliffe is for it. >> it's so contrived, so inauthentic, it's almost difficult to articulate it. she talks about meeting real voters, but in the one instance when she walks into a store where there is an opportunity at chipotle to talk with voters, remains in silence in disguise behind dark glasses. bashes hedge fund managers while they are raising money from the $2 billion in donations from the hedge fund managers. the dissidence from what she says and reality is startling. all campaigns at the end of the day for president are a choice between change and more of the same. we've never as a country, once we made generational change, moving from the baby boomer generation to barack obama's election, have ever gone back. i think when you look at intensity of the republican fire on her, in this matter, talking about this is the future versus the past, i think it's a very cutting, very effective line of attack in the ea

as well as senior advisor david axelrod. we will close out may at book expo in new york city, where the publishing industry showcases upcoming books. in june, we are live for the chicago tribune printers fast. we will take your phone calls on that. that is this spring on book tv. >> they passed a bill last week to protect companies from lawsuits if they share information on cyber threats with other companies or the federal government. the bill also creates the cyber threat intelligence integration office, tasked with analyzing reported threats. here is some of the debate from the house floor. >> of a last several years cyber attacks have become a pressing concern for the united states. home depot, target and other companies have been subject to major attacks, resulting in the compromise of personal information of employees and customers alike. dave's, whether hostile foreign agents or money seeking criminals, have accessed medical records and credit card numbers and published confidential e-mails affecting tens of millions o

here is david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama, on all of this. >> no doubt that there is smoke around these contributions and the way the foundation raises money is going to continue to be an issue. but there is absolutely no evidence that even the stories that were written and secretary clinton made an extraordinarys fair to say that an accumulation of these stories is a burden for her campaign and there's no question about it. but i just caution everybody at this table as a voice from the midwest that people out there are not sitting there reading all the details of these stories. >> not reading the details. let's bring in our panel. jason riley, columnist with "the wall street journal," kirsten powers and charles krauthammer. jason, what are your thoughts? >> axelrod says there's no evidence. maybe there's no evidence because hillary erased them from her e-mails before she turned them over. this is going to continue and big picture, it could hurt hillary because she's vulnerable. she's already not a star politician in the sense of a candidate in the way that obama w

david axelrod, senior adviser to president obama, and michael 1250e8, both msnbc political analysts. hold on there, michael. the party seems to be generally hawkish, they always are, they want to protect their property here, but why -- does rand paul have a prayer of being an old-style libertarian that 4re9's do it in america? >> i think he does, and i think it goes to a bit of what how should said previously. i listened to that section of the speech on foreign policy very careful. what i took away was a hawk with common sense. he's not out here saying we're not going to engage in the world, we're not going to protect the interests of the united states, but we are going to apply common sense to those situations, which you hoe he tried to distinguishes himself from barack obama? type of rhetoric about drops a nuclear bomb, americans don't want to hear that. i don't care what your sometime is. at the end of the day i really don't believe the american people think that will solve or problem. >> do you think they'll take offense? >> you have a billion-some people saying you want to nucle

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i hate to admit as a democrat i believe david axelrod when he said the president was always in favor of gay marriage but wasn't always honest about it. >> right. that he lied about it. >> misled is another word we use nowadays, politically correct. but secondly if we look at the founder and the leader of christianity christianity, who was jesus, i think he would serve pizza at a gay wedding. i think he'd talk with these folks and pray with them. i think that's true christianity and the way i thought when i was in the church. >> yeah. megyn, just to -- >> picture jesus at the gay wedding. jesus has been on tv a lot this week. i'm trying to picture that scene. >> jesus always said go forth and send no more but he never ever took of those services that is either with a prostitute or the other sinners like the tax collectors, so on and so forth. sin does not mean you cannot love someone. >> we can find out a lot more about jesus, tomorrow's good friday. and "killing jesus" is going to be right here on fnc beginning at 8:00 p.m. jesus will be here tomorrow instead of me. ladies, thank you

david axelrod who ran barack obama's campaign against steve schmitt's campaign that year describes it almost exactly the same way. he said that a presidential campaign is an mri for the soul. once you are officially running for president, you may like the political press in this country or hate the political press in this country, but if you are a candidate, you will receive so much scrutiny by the people that are running against you and the press that is covering it all that every single thing that is to be known about you will become known. rand paul right now is not even to like the first x-ray part of this campaign yet. and the press and his rivals for the nomination have only just started to even give him a once over at this point. so it's going to be really interesting to see, how long does he get to deep getting credit for being a brave criminal justice reformer when he walks into the epicenter of a huge national discussion about race and criminal justice reform and he has absolutely nothing to say about it? similarly, there was just this astonishing visual today. rand paul in

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someone like david axelrod has also said that hillary clinton is going to have a hard time convincing investigators that she represents the future with her past. and, look democrats' problems are bigger than that not only is hillary clinton a polarizing figure. she is also entrenched in scandal right now. her lies are starting to catch up to her. as you noted with those polls, she is losing ground in key states and voters don't trust her. >> jessica glen thrush from politico. clinton campaign his words completely collapsing and she shouldn't even bother interesting the race. >> i disagree with that to say she is losing ground still in the margin of error with all a of those polls that came out today about this. rand paul should get a boost this week. he just announced. see if we get a hillary bump. she is still 40 plus points ahead in all of the democratic nomination polling and no one would thought the general would be be close. it shouldn't be. look what happened in the mid terms. it's not going to be signed sealed and delivered and i don't think so hillary thinks it will be. >> lis

joining me to provide inside analysis this morning are former senior advisor to president obama, david axelrod. kathleen parker of the "the washington post," helene cooper of the "new york times" and former senior advisor to john mccain's campaign steve schmidt. welcome to sunday, it's "meet the press." >>> good morning. lots of 2016 politics on the show. first breaking news overnight. a major rescue operation that is under way. hundreds feared drown south of an italian island of lampedusa, after a boat carrying as many as 700 migrants cam sized in the mediterranean sea between north africa and italy. kir simmons joins me from london. it is a fear most of these 700 already drowned. >> reporter: there is. good morning. that search and rescue operation is under way involving italian boats, the multis, navy and commercial vessels. the italian coast guard said 24 bodies have been recovered and 28 survived. one international organization is saying 49 are rescued and taken to sicily. the sinking boat capsized around midnight local time, which is more than 12 hours ago. the final numbers may be truly

it's like david axelrod saying she needs to act more humble. you don't act humble.r humble or not humble. acting i don't think is going to fly. you're asking her to be something she's not. >> and the third point -- clear she she hasn't won your vote, sean. and the third part is she's got to be focused on the future, not the past. too much of her reflections are going backward rather than forward. those are the three attributes she needs. in this first week, she didn't have any of them. >> all right, but matt, she's viewed as dishonest, untrustworthy by the american people, right? add to that, she claims to be, you know, isn't it time for a woman to be president? she's going to continue to take foreign money for the clinton foundation and takes money from countries like saudi arabia with atrocious women's rights records. and she's not giving that money back. she's not criticizing those governments. doesn't she have a vulnerability on this that's massive? >> i love one of the four points you brought up she's going to focus on in the future like frank is talking about,

. >> you know, i love that part in your book -- by the way, hell of a book "believer" by david axelrod. >> thank you. >> you talk about that critical moment when you had that debate. you may have been nervous about the president sticking his neck out and saying yeah first answer, yeah i think we should get to discussions with these people who don't agree with us on most stuff and may be dangerous and hillary clinton as a candidate saying no don't do it. he called you in your meetings saying stick with it no pulling back. i completely agree with you, that was the heart of the campaign right there with the president, future president. >> yeah, no no it definitely -- look he took a position that was difficult to take at the time. took a lot of opposition from our party and the other party, but he was very steadfast about it because his attitude was you don't resolve these situations by not talking. you have to talk to resolve these situations unless you're willing to accept war as the alternative in every instance. america has had a plenty of experience with that in the last dozen years o

senior adviser to president obama and director at the university of chicago institute of politics david axelrod. karen, how much time is the clinton team spending working on rebuttals to the rumors the questions, the scandals around donors? >> having been through this routine before with the attacks, the right wing attacks, not that much. i mean, look the reality is we have an operation that is designed to kind of do exactly what hillary was just talking about. let her focus on what she's trying to focus on and that is having a conversation with americans. we are absolutely prepared for these attacks. personally, having known her for more than 25 years, i certainly expected this would come. a little later than i expected. we got a whole week before this came out. but no we are prepared. and part of what you saw there and part of the reason that hillary spoke to it is we're not afraid of them. we will take on those attacks as we need to. but that is not -- we're not going to let that distract from what we're also trying to do. i think any good campaign has to be able to do both things at the sam

as well as former senior advisor to president obama david axelrod and then close out with book american in new york city where they showcase their upcoming books. during the revolution she was considered an emmy by the british who threatened to take her hostage. later she'd become our nation's first first lady at age 57. martha washington on c-span's first ladies. examining the private lives the position of first lady and their influence on the presidency from martha washington to michelle obama. and as a compliment to the series c-span's new book first ladies presidential historians on the lives of 45 iconic american women providing hraeufly stories creating an illuminating entertaining and inspiring read. available through your favorite bookstore or online book seller. >> we're working on getting our signal back from charlottesville. talking about the end of the civil war as well as the meaning of that war for african-americans. it's an event brought to you by the virginia ses ka centennial. when we get back together we'll have it for you on c-span3. in the meantime we've been traveli

. >> david axelrod compared bill clinton to nuclear energy. a little bit is really good.dioactive and explosive in a hurry. >> i think he's a total winner on the message. he's a great politician, great messenger. substance is the interesting thing. bill clinton was a moderate democrat. that democratic party doesn't exist anymore. so how does hillary clinton move off the clinton economic policies of the 1990s? >> right, which we know the left wants her to go left. you're right. the mid sl going somewhere else. another issue. it's called the rauch rule. a long-time colleague of mine now at brookings. he said candidates for president, they all get elected if they have been in the arena for 14 years or less. 4 14 years is sort of your sell-by date. that's your expiration date. hillary clinton, according to his math, has been in elected office 15 years. never mind as first lady for 25. christie cruz jind the, walker rubio. the ones quote/unquote stale are biden, bush huckabee clinton, and santorum. how does hillary clinton deal with this fresh issue? >> the terms expiration da

congressman tom davis and martin frost as well as former senior adviser to president obama -- david axelrode out in new york city where the publishing industry showcases their upcoming books. we are live for the printers row lit fest. with pulitzer prize winner lawrence wright. that is on c-span2's book tv. >> the new congressional directory is a handy guide to the 114th congress with color photos of every senator and house member, plus bio and contact information and twitter handles. also, district maps, a full that map of capitol hill, and a look at congressional committees, the presidents cabinet federal agencies, and state governors. order your come -- copy today. through the c-span online store at c-span.org. >> coming up, we will show you some of today's reaction to the ongoing protests and riots in baltimore. in 10 minutes, this morning's prayer in the senate for the city. then reaction from maryland sanity -- senator ben cardin and harry reid. larry hogan speaks with reporters on the state's response to the conflict. >> thank you for being here this afternoon. we moved the governors

in may, we will be at gaithersburg book festival with tom davis and martin frost and david axelrod.e will close out may at book expo america in new york city with the publishing industry showcases your upcoming books. then on the first week of june we are alive from the chicago tribune for his robe lit fest including our three-hour live in death program with lawrence wright. that is the spring on c-span2 book tv. >> at the international consumer electronics show in las vegas earlier this year, we spoke with university of california san francisco cardiologist dr. michael blanche about developments in medical technology and the future of medicine. >> you have to bring together these two very different organizations and to different dna is in cultures to really get to that space where we need to be. as an academic health center we're not going to invest the centers and build huge databases. that is what they are going to do. they don't know anything about clinical process or about doing clinical trials or discovering what really works. so we are working on these novel partnerships and

. >> david axelrod said, he compared bill clinton to nuclear energy.t is really good, but it could be radioactive and explosive in a hurry. >> he's a total winner on the message. he's a great politician. great messenger. the substance is the interesting thing for me. bill clinton was a moderate democrat. sister soldier moments. that democratic party doesn't exist anymore. so how does hillary clinton move off the clinton economic policies of the 1990s. >> the left wants her to go left and, you're right, the middle somewhere else. another issue, the roush rule, jonathan roush, long time colleague of mine at national journal, now at brookings, he came up and said, candidates for president, they all get elected if they have been in the arena for 14 years or less. and 14 years is sort of your sell by date. that's your expiration date. hillary clinton, according to his math, has been in elective office 15 -- first run for elective office, she's at 15 years, first lady for 25. if you look at the candidates, the ones that meet the roush criteria, 14 years or l

along with david axelrod. we will close out may at books expo new york city, where the publishing industry showcases upcoming books. in june, we are live for printers row, including a three-hour in-depth program with lawrence wright. that is this spring on c-span2's book tv. >> the supreme court will hear arguments this week in a case involving same-sex marriage. coming up, we get a preview of the case with a group of attorneys. that is followed by conservative religious leaders talking about opposition to same-sex marriage and how the supreme court decision could impact religious freedom. later, a look at issues important to progressives in the 2016 presidential election. the american constitution society for law and policy recently hosted a discussion providing a preview of a supreme court case on same-sex marriage that will be argued tuesday. the court has to decide if the 14th amendment requires states to issue licenses to same-sex couples and if states must recognize marriages performed in other states. a

we also hear from david axelrod. we close out may at book expo america in new york city. public -- the publishing industry showcases their upcoming books. and then we are alive for the printers row lit fest. we also hear from callers and talk to lawrence wright. that is on c-span, "booktv." >> this sunday on "q&a." jessica stern on isis. >> there are two aspects of isis the president needs to understand. first, their efforts and success on social media. they need for us to respond to that. -- of the need for us to respond to that. the narrative they are spreading successfully and so far. the other is the apocalyptic narrative. it is impossible for me to know for sure that they really believe the end times are coming or whether they are capitalizing on widespread belief in muslim-majority countries, that they will witness a bit and -- witness the end of times. take a sunday night on c-span's "q&a.' >> "washington journal" continues. host: next week brings us the 40 with us -- the 40 with salvation of earth day. joining us our air peek got, the president of friends of the e