we will be joined by dwight jones, the mayor of richmond. we'll continue to take your calls. the lines will be on the screen. we will start with lila. her sister is a police officer. caller: good morning. on.sh the captain was still my sister is an officer in d.c. a lot of the comments earlier in the program puts this premise forth as if all police officers are levelheaded good minded individuals. a lot of what goes on like the gentle than before me said also starts at home. ,hen they go into the training the division of races can even be seen in the training class. when my sister was in class with class was very segregated by race even during the police academy. and then it just perpetuates itself. i have never had terrible with the police. i was raised in montgomery county right outside of d.c. and i have been fine. but i have had many friends. i talk it to come out of the juvenile justice system where it is absolutely horrid and a scary to think about the interactions that they have with the police. and i think that when the police officers and representatives put things t

this is mayor dwight jones of richmond, virginia. thank you for your time today. guest: thank you. also want to thank the other members of the richmond police department for participant in this program. that's it for today. a new edition of this program comes your way tomorrow. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] >> there is word this morning that louis stokes, the first black congressman from ohio, died yesterday at the age of 90. he was first elected in 19 six the eight and served in the house for 30 years in the 1970's chair the house select committee on assassinations that investigated the murders of president kennedy and martin luther king. he retired from congress in 1998. his family released a statement saying in part that he died peacefully. louis stokes, that at the age of 90. -- 90. 90.ead at the age of coming up, rick perry at the iowa state fair at the des moines register candidate soapbox. a long-standing traditio

we'll be joined by dwight jones, the mayor of richmond. tomorrow morning on the washington journal. ♪ >> this month marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina. join us in about an hour for housing and urban development secretary julian castro. that will be live at 11:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. later today with new orleans mayor mitch landrieu. remarks. lots of 1 p.m. eastern on c-span. a daylong symposium evaluating borland's'-- evaluating new orleans'. that will be live monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. congress continues of their summer break with work on the iran nuclear deal continues. corker focusing on why he is opposed to the nuclear deal with iran. he concludes by saying the -- thetration has agreement should be one that allows us to maintain leverage and ensure it is enforceable, verifiable and hold iran accountable. this deal leaves the united states vulnerable to a resurgent iran, more able to work its will in the middle east. congress should reject this deal and send it back to the president. that from the washingt

join us, virginia's police training center executive and also joined by the mayor of richmond, dwight jones, all at 7:00 a.m. eastern/4:00 a.m. pacific, tomorrow morning on "the washington journal." >>> today on c-span3, programs about technology. coming up next, author larry downes, innovation as a result of the digital revolution. then a discussion on the technology on the u.s. economy and workforce. former secretary larry summers is among the speakers. after that a hearing on new technologies to improve the safety and efficiency of the nation's transportation systems. officials from volvo, amazon, bnsf railroad and the port of long beach testify before the senate commerce committee. >> tonight at 9:30 p.m. on c-span, liberal activists at the annual left forum in new york city. the final day of the event$"m features speak others a number of issues, including politics. here is charles lynchner on why he supports bernie sanders as president. >> the democratic party for me is a set of interest groups and they represent different groups with different interests. some groups that represent the

be joined by police chief alfred durham and captain harvey powers, as well as richmond's mayor, dwight jonesng our visit to richmond to prepare for this show, we talked with captain angela green of the community youth and intervention services about the role of that department's community care unit. here's a bit of what she had to say. >> our community care unit is actually comprised of many different entities, not just community care, which deals with our citizens out here in the community. it's really to bridge the gap between the police department and the citizens. we want to forge great partnerships with the citizens, be transparent with them, let them know what we do as far as law enforcement. our roles, our responsibilities and safeguarding the communities we serve. through community care, we put together many programs where we not only do neighborhood watch to get the citizens involved, we do business watches as well for the business owners to get involved and also put on what we call our themed academies, which is our citizens academy, hispanic academy, and our faith leaders academy.

the richmond police chief, the head of their police training academy and richmond mayor dwight jones. the program starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> former president jimmy carter held a news conference this morning in atlanta and briefed reporters about his health status. and treatments for brain and liver cancer. we'll show you the event tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. here's some of what president carter had to say. >> at first i felt that it was confined to my liver and the operation had completely removed it, so i was quite relieved. and then that same afternoon we had an-mile-an-hour of my head and neck and it showed up that it was already in four places in my brain. so i would say that night and the next day until i came back up to emory, i just thought i had a few weeks left. but i was surprisingly at ease. i've had a wonderful life. i've had thousands of friends and i've had an exciting, adventurous and gratifying existence. so i was surprisingly at east, much more than my wife was. but now i feel -- it's in the hands of god. and i'll be prepared. >> former pre

comments, the richmond police chief and head of the police training academy and richmond mayor dwight jones. it starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern on cspan. former president jimmy carter held a news conference this morning in atlanta and briefed reporters about treatments for brain and liver cancer. we'll show you the event on c-span. here's some of what president carter had to say. >> spots on the liver and the operation and that same afternoon, we had an mri of my head and neck and showed up it was already in four places in my brain. i would say that night and the next day until i came back up to emery, i thought i had a few weeks left but i was surprisingly at ease. you know, i've had a wonderful life and friends and exciting and adventurous existence. so i was surprisingly at ease, much more so than my wife was. but now i feel you know, it's in the hands of god and my -- and i'll be prepared for anything that comes. >> former president jimmy carter from earlier today. you can see all of his atlanta news conference tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern. 5:00 p.m. pacific on c-span. >> national institute

the mayor of richmond, dwight jones was a depest. then tomorrow we head back live to iowa to bring you demrents enator ted cruz, a list of presidential candidates scheduled to speak at the des moines soap box. see that tomorrow right here on c-span. >> this weekend on the c-span networks. politics, books, and american history on c-span saturday live coverage of presidential candidates at the iowa state fair continues. we will hear from republican rnors chris christie and sunday and on saturday book tv is live at the inaugural mississippi pook festival. former governor haley barbour and panel discussions on civil rights and discussions about the lives of harper lee and hen another will share her thoughts on the relationship between president obama and millennials and the preservation of landmarks and the history created to protect them and sunday at 4:00 p.m. on "real america," three films on the pilot district project, the program administered by the johnson administration to help poor realizes between the community and police in was

comments, the richmond police chief, the head of their police training academy and richmond mayor dwight jones. the program starts at 9:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >>> earlier this year, dr. ann shookette stressed to a senate committee that vaccines are safe and there is no scientific evidence they cause autism. washington d.c., california and several other states are dealing with measles outbreaks, sparking debate that vaccines for such diseases are mandatory for children. >> the senate committee an health education, labor and pensions will please come to order. we're holding a hearing about the reemergence of vaccine-preventable diseases. senator murray and i will have an opening statement and we'll introduce our panel of witnesses. after our witness testimony, senators will each have five minutes of questions. we have two panelists today and two hours for the hearing. we're going to end about noon. so we'll have an hour for each panel, and i will end the first panel at 11:00. from smallpox to polio, we have learned in the united states that vaccines save lives. yet, a troubling number of par

powers who leads the training academy as well as the mayor dwight jones.uring our visit to richmond to prepare we talked with captain angela green of the community youth and intervention services but the role of that apartment -- department's community care unit. community care unit is actually comprised of many different entities. whichst community care deals with our citizens out here in the community. gaps really to bridge the between the police department and the citizens. greatt to forge partnerships, to be transparent and let them know what we do. our roles and our responsibilities and safeguarding the communities that we serve. community care we put together many programs where we not only put together neighborhood watch we do business watch as well. so the business owners can get involved and also put on our themed academy which is our citizens academy, hispanic academy and our leaders academy. where also helping to mentor children in the city through mentoring programs which is the middle school aged children and we partner with police officers as

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