flint, michigan, water crisis, hearing from viewers, obviously, and c-span radio listeners, and also keeping an eye on facebook, facebook.com/c-span. a couple of comments. here's the first one from tracy, who writes that "the governor inserted a city manager over all other elected officials in flint. he was over the mayor and city council. people always want politicians to be held accountable for what happens on their watch." melody says, "i am disgusted by this committee. the republicans ask softball questions to snyder and keep trying to hoist the blame on the epa." robert says "if people want to see what is wrong with congress, take a look at these hearings." . by the way, we will re-air the entire hearings coming up tonight at 8:00 eastern. we'll also give you a chance to weigh in. there you go. at 8:00 eastern time. we'll give you a chance to weigh in. we expect the committee to come back in and we'll open up our phone lines as well a bit later on. they should return shortly, but it looks like, i guess they -- i guess we're going to show you some of the opening statements from this morning's hearing. >> committee on ov

more are welcome online, facebook.com/c-span, twitter.com/c-span. i want to let you know our live coverage from cpac continues this afternoon here on c-span3 coming up at 1:15 eastern as we bring you the ceo of the national rifle association, wayne lapierre. and also reportedly -- i want to let you know coming up on friday, the rest of the road to the white house coverage, 1:15, governor john kasich of ohio, senator ted cruz and ben carson who just announced yesterday he's suspending his campaign. he will speak there as well. all of that coverage live on c-span. donald trump saturday morning 10:00 a.m. eastern. that will be a recorded speech and we'll follow that saturday morning on c-span with marco rubio at 11:35 eastern as well. follow all of that on c-span. our coverage from today of course available at c-span.org. we're hearing of a donald trump news conference this afternoon. we'll tell you more about that as we show you just the speech speech that just wrapped up in salt lake from mitt romney. >> thank you. thank you. it's good to be with you

that question is also posted on our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span. you can make comments and participate that way, as well as panwj is our handle. only trump supporters the last 20 minutes. >> the american conservative union will host their annual political conference. our three-day coverage continues live this afternoon at 1:15 eastern with speeches by republican presidential texasates, john kasich, sender ted cruz, and dr. ben carson. on saturday morning at 10:00, we continue with donald trump. live at 11:35 a.m. easter with marco rubio. we will bring you the results of the 2016 cpac poll. for the complete schedule, go to www.c-span.org. book tv has 48 hours of nonfiction books and authors every weekend. here are some of the programs to watch this weekend. on saturday night at 10:00 eastern -- >> the first sentence of the book is "the history of american conservatism is disappointment and betrayal." >> afterward, the discussion of republican politics in his book wrong:e right went conservatism from goldwater to the tea party and beyond." he is inte

more comments on this on facebook.com/c-span.ext, we are going to take you to a harrowing abuse summit and the program includes members from the national institute onim drug abuse and substance abuse and mental health services administration.th it reminds us of the tremendous number of deaths associated with drugs of abuse in general, the painkillers prescription opioids over 19,000 of the most recent data and over 10,000 from heroine. we will look at these in detail but i will point out that even the surveillance data has some messiness. drug overdose when we look at how the death certificates are are coated there's an awful lot that areoded as drug overdose and don't specify whether it may have been related to prescription opioids or heroine. so there may be even greater numbers that are specified in the national data. as you have already mentioned it's the increasing rate of prescription that have given so many people in this country a taste for an opioid. that means their brain has been exposed to it at some point or the comm

c-span or goet at to facebook.com/c-span.he south florida sun-sentinel about last night's debate, the gloves come off. let's take a look at one exchange between the two candidates on deportation. >> can you promise tonight that you won't do for children and that you won't deport immigrants who don't have a criminal record and could i get a yes or no answer? >> yes you can because the question you are asking was about children's taking asylum. , i would like to see those laws changed and i would like to see added to them, a guarantee of counsel and support for children. if you are asking about everybody already here, undocumented immigrants. the 12 million who are here. to deporties are violent criminals, terrorists and anyone who threatens our safety. policy asave the same the current administration does. that weit is important move to a comprehensive immigration reform, but at the same time stop the roundup, stop the deporting of people who are living here doing their lives -- doing their jobs and that is my priority. >> can

democrat -- republicans -- and independents -- you can also send us a tweet or go to facebook.com/c-spanthe phone lines are open. you can start dialing in now. people are contemplating trying to stop donald trump and how they do that if he continues to rack up victories. we want to turn to all of you and ask if he is not the nominee or pure candidate, supporting ted cruz or marco rubio is not the nominee, how do you plan to vote? if hillary clinton is the nominee, how do you plan to vote if she is not your candidate? the same for bernie sanders. we want to know what you think. let me show you were the delicate stands right now, because it is all about the math. if you go to our website c-span.org, you can find this constantly being updated. take a look for democrats, hillary clinton has 1221 delegates after las-- yesterday's primary. bernie sanders has 571. 451 are superdelegates for clinton. 25 are superdelegates for bernie sanders. where it stands right now. that means hillary clinton is 11 62 delegates short of the nomination, heading into this tuesday's big primary with four states,

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you can also tweet us @cspanwj or go to facebook.com/c-span.theront page of washington times" with the governor yielding to corporate pressure and vetoing the religious liberty belle. the influence of the entertainment and business lobbies was felt when the georgia governor knucked under a title wave of pressure by the .owing religious liberty bill it sought to protect religious wedding vendors from participating in same-sex marriage ceremonies was not warranted in georgia where no such disputes have risen. [video clip] >> i find it ironic that some in religious community feel it is necessary for government rights andm protections. if our religious liberty is and notd upon us by god man made government, perhaps we should heed the hands-off and off- the hands admonition of the first amendment. the inclusions and omissions in can lead toes discrimination, even though it might be totally unintentional. georgia governor talking about why he has decided to veto the religious liberty legislation. we are wondering if you support or oppose the idea of

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that's at facebook.com/cspan history. >> the supreme court cases that shaped our history come to life with the c-spanies "landmark cases." our 12-part series explores real life experiences. >> john marshall said in marbury versus madison says the constitution is a political document. it setups the political structures, but it's also a law. and if it's a law, we have the courts to tell what it means and that's binding on the other branches. >> what sets dread scott apart is the fact that it is the ultimate anti-press dential case. it's exactly what you don't want to do. >> who should make the decisions about those debates. >> each week, american history tv's american artifacts visits museums and historic places. up next, a visit to the national museum of the american jewish history in philadelphia. to learn about their poor exhibition, tracing the history of the jewish people in america from 1654 to the present day. this is part one of a two-part program. >> welcome to the national museum of jewish american history in philadelphia, pennsylvania. i name is claire pingle. i'm the associate curator her s

c-span .-dot. you can post, on twitter at the tv and you can make a comment on our facebook page, facebook.com./book tv. finally, you can send a text message to jane mayer as well and that this is not for telephoning, simply a text message. 202-717-9684. we will begin taking those calls in just a few minutes. jane mayer, we need to touch on landslide as well especially with the passing of nancy reagan at 94 years old. you tell a story and there actually two stories about nancy reagan, a one-off story, red dress. >> guest: the red dress was reagan calling on me. >> host: you wore it purposefully. >> guest: i was at the "wall street journal" covering the reagan white house and he was going to have a press conference and we had heard that he loved red. nancy often more red and so i wrote a little piece about how he usually calls on people wearing red especially women wearing red and i actually did not wear a red dress that day and my teat-- chief said you go right home and put on a red dress, cited. and went home and changed and went to the press conference at and there he was in my red dress and