donna hopkins, any last words? guest: i have a common 3 we have great empathy for the fact that poverty is a crushing problem in africa. i think the people who would excuse piracy on the basis of poverty do great disrespect to the millions of proud and productive smalleomalis for tryg to deal with their situation in ways that do not involve the extortion of other human beings. the proceeds from piracy do not helping alleviate the poverty of these nations. piracy is adding to the poverty of the nation because it suppresses international development. suppresses tourism. it is discouraging humanitarian aid. the united states government is aware and we're doing a great deal to try to address it. host: donna hopkins with the state department, thank you for being with us. in just a moment, we will talk to andrew mccarthy the national review. he has a new book, "the grand jihad: how islam and the left sabotage america." we will take your calls. first, a news update from c-span radio. >> president obama's first high- schoo

i don't care to watch the circus, no. >> larry: thank you, donna.nk you so much. >> larry: this week's cnn hero is a tour guide from cambodia. she uses her tip money to transform the lives of rural children. survivor of the oppressive and ruthless regime has made it her mission to educate cambodia's poor by giving them what they need to go to school. $20 per child for an entire year. watc watch. >> in the countryside in cambodia, some children, they come to school, but not very regular. the school is free, but they don't have any money. how can they have the money for uniform and supplies? my name is ponheary ly. i got the children to go to school. i had one girl in the beginning. after that, 40 children and now 2,000. after several years, i see the change because they know how to read and write and they borrow the books from our library to read for their parents. i need them to have a good education to build their own family as well as to build their own country. >> larry: ponheary ly and her organization have helped more than 200,000 children get

you do not favor this execution, donna, he killed your soul mate, why?was a gentle soul. and he loved people and he loved life. and he would not have wanted ronnie lee to be killed, especially in his name. his father also knew that about michael. and asked, please, to not execute him. we speak for michael saying michael would not have wanted the execution. i would not have wanted the ex-cushion. execution. and neither would ron tumu who went down and tried to give him mouth-to-mouth after he was shot even though ronnie lee had not been caught yet. trying to save his life. >> larry: have you contacted, ever spoken to ronnie lee? >> yes. he asked to speak to me last month. >> larry: what did you tell him? >> what did i tell him? >> larry: what did he tell you, what did you tell him? >> that's between us. but we each had, a, yeah, that was our conversation. and i felt really good about it. and it brought closure for me on a level that i needed. >> larry: this is a tough word, do you forgive him? >> i never judged him. i never blamed him for michael's death.

host: coming up, david drucker, at 8:35, donna hopkins. and drew mccarthy who wrote "the grand jihad." thanks for being here today. we'll be back tomorrow. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> our guest on "newsmakers" this week is the agriculture secretary tom villsak joining us by connection from iowa i, his home, where he just hosted a rural summit. let me start with your midwestern summit on the economy. tell us, you've got some big goals for communities and the agriculture economy. can you give our national audience a sense of where you're leading this effort and why. >> sure. the summit was an opportunity for us to educate america about the important role that rural america plays for all of us. it is the supply of inexpensive affordable quality food, it is the supply of water that we drink and rely on. it helps to make us energy independent and at the same time it's a substantial percentage of our military comes from these small towns. so it's important

donna leinwand, speaker committee member who organized this event. >> sean carroll chief of staff for usaid and guest of the speaker. kathy bunk of communications consortium, and skip, and in a writer for the international bar association among others. he's a member of the press club foreign corresponddnts and photography committee. thank you. [applause] two weeks after today's speaker was sworn in to lead the u.s. agency for international development a devastating earthquake struck eda. president obama instructed dr. rajiv shah to take charge of the u.s. response to this disaster just a few hundred miles away from the u.s. mainland. since then the u.s. government has committed more than $1 billion toward relief efforts in haiti and pledged another $1.15 billion at the donor's conference in april. of this funding usaid contributions total more than $500 million. as the six month anniversary of the earthquake approaches, conditions and haiti remain donner and in addition to that nation, dr. rajiv shah has managed programs in more than 100 other countries. shah has said that usaid's goa

donna on the independent line. caller: disappointed at our governorship, actually the republican nominee will be nikki haley. we went through two years of nightmare with mark sanford and here we have nikki haley who is now accused of having several affairs during her marriage. i'm just afraid that if she is elected our governor, we will have at least four more years of mark sanford-like administration. the fact that she was supported by sara palin who i am very afraid of this woman because she is the neocon darling. anyway, south carolina is blood sport what comes to politics but i'm really disappointed that nikki haley is going to be probably our next governor. host: amy walter, she faces a runoff june 22. she got 49% of the vote. not enough to beat out her republican challengers. as this view were noted and john mercurio noted earlier, this is a republican state in a republican year and it is likely she will win. or whoever wins that republican primary will then when the general election. host: -- guest: there is

i hereby appoint the honorable donna f. edwards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day.igned, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2009, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate . the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to 30 minutes and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes. -- party limited to 25 minutes and each member other than the majority and minority whip limited to five minutes each. but in no event shall debate continue beyond 10:20 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. connolly, for five minutes. mr. connolly: thank you, madam speaker. it would be unconscionable for this congress to fail to enact legislative protections for the nation's consumers after the worst economic collapse in 80 years. we must pass wall street reform when it comes before the house, hopefully lat

. >> maryland, congresswoman donna edwards there from the neighboring district outside of wheaton.at's the fourth district. here's charleston, south carolina, next up, charleston -- excuse me, fayetteville, north carolina. republican line, alex, go ahead. >> you said -- >> i said fayetteville, north carolina, is that you, alex. >> i thought you said republican. >> well, go ahead with your comment, alex. >> didn't state it. anyway, i was commenting on the effort done on the oil spill. it's good but is it efficient enough and is it -- it is not capped yet or what's going on? >> well, it's a little bit offtopic. we're talking about the health care meeting with president obama. thad allen, you can watch that online in our video library at c-span.org. here's orlando, florida. magda. >> i'm magda from orlando, florida. i was watching the health care, and what i don't understand is the american people, they don't realize, we had a dumb president who killed my son in 2003 and 2004 and this health care, how can you be so smart and at the same time attack a president who is so decent, who do

good morning, donna. caller: i like to say a couple of things. i think the country is a mess. the whole world. we talk about plutonium, nuclear-weapons. it is aamess. it is a shame that the country has come to all this. i would like to know, is there anything [inaudible] can do about it? to be honest, i don't think there is. host: thank you. his comment in this twitter, might be tied together. -- his, and this comment from twitter might be tied together. guest: welcome i don't quite agree with the twitter comment. i do think that obama came with experience, as a state legislator and senator. being a legislator means you're close to the people and understand what their day-to-day lives are. people who work in state government probably have a very acute sense of people's day-to- day lives and the needs of families. i think he was close to the ground, and that is important when you are president. you cannot forget who you are trying to help and what people's lives are like. that said, i do not disagree with the caller that the world is a mess. that is not america is doing alone.

donna had this comment. it's all a game. they don't care about the people they work for. tina from alex andrea, virginia. caller: yes. i'm calling -- excuse me. i think most of the people calling from the south are very critical of this -- from this administration. they probably go to white house.gov to see the president and his administration is doing for the country. i think if they do that they may change their viewpoint to realize he is working for us, the people. and when people usually say positive things about him, they are usually calling from the north or out west or some part of the country. but it seems to me that most of the caucasian people in the south in the deep south, especially. they criticize i think you guys should -- in that some time. host: i agree derek says we don't want to be like the nanny state. good morning, rob on the republican line from pittsburgh. caller: good morning. first of all, i'm glad it is a war zone with this president we got. i also want to personally thank everybody calling in that supports obama. i just lost my job because of hi

host: donna in rio vista, california. caller: first my comment if we let jimmy carter continue his program with retphubls we would be farther ahead than when ronald reagan took over. my question is, is the oil that comes out of the united states deep water, who is it sold to, the united states or the international market? guest: if i understood the question, who buys the oil that is imported into the united stat states. different companies. those are all private company transactions. the government doesn't buy oil and distribute it among companies. host: what about the oil that comes out of the gulf? this is a b.p. well. is that exclusively b.p.'s oil or do they sell it? guest: the oil is shared among the partners according to their working interests. and until recently some oil produced in the federal offshore went to the government under the royalty in kind program of the interior department. now secretary salazar has terminated that program, so the government gets its share of the production in dollars rather than barr

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i hereby appoint the honorable donna f. edwards to act as speaker pro tempore on this day.signed, nancy pelosi, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 6, 2009, the chair would now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess until 2:00 p.m. today. >> to this confirmation hearing just getting under way for supreme court nominee elena kagan. on today's agenda, opening statements from members of the judiciary committee as well as from the nominee herself. you can see it live coverage on our companion network c-span3 as well as c-span radio and at our website at c-span.org. once again, a live picture of the u.s. capitol here, the flag being flown at half mast today for senator robert byrd, who passed away this morning. he was 92 years old. he served more than 50 years in the u.s. senate, longer than anyone in history. we will now show you in the interview with senator byrd from

donna hopkins, from the state department bureau of political military affairs, examines the threat posed to maritime security and what v administration is doing to prevent it.3 book, "the grand jihadis." "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern on c-span. national security agency director general keith alexander is in charge of the u.s. cyber security command, he talks about cyber threats and the work of his new command at the center for strategic and international studies in washington. this is one hour. >> good morning, and welcome. i am john hamre. this is a session that i have been bugging general alexander to come here for about seven months, when it first became clear he was going to be the head of the new cyber command. it was not clear to members of congress, and this took a hell of a lot longer than it should have. it was obvious that he was the right man at the right time, a time when we very much need this. now, this is going to be far more dramatic, i think, for nsa than than for the nation. "no such agency," it used to stand for, and this is an agency that does so many cruc

host: joining us for the first time is donna hopkins, the head of the bureau of political military affairs. specifically focusing on maritime security. not many people get up in the morning and go to work saying that my job today is the fight pirates but that is a large part of what you do. guest: it is. not myself, there are lots of people who are consumed with contemporary piracy. by and large we try to deal with crosscutting, pressing issues without any other bureaucratic home. piracy counterinsurgency issues. ples without residence in the state department in terms of bureaucracy. host: wheyo are dealing with issues like piracy you are obviously working in tandem with the pentagon, correct? guest: yes, but also internal to the department we also work with the bureau of economic ergy affairs. we work with boeotian of environmental science and reonal bureaus we're in this case piracy is a pressing iue. crosscutting in that there are lots of different activities going on. humanitarian aid toastern africa is being terribly undercut by the pirates. host: why has it somalia become a pop -- fo