ford o'connell, your thoughts. guest: as the republican, i want bernie sanders to keep singing, i want him to yell it. any way that he can discredit hillary clinton is fantastic for my guys. at the same time though, there's one thing that he did say that we're going to be able to play over and over and he said that hillary clinton has been outhustling for money and she's disconnected from the reality of the everyday american which she's trying to represent. so therefore, bernie sanders is the best person so far of who we think is going to be on that deal who can really drive hillary clinton. the question is whether or not she's going to take the bait. i hope she does. guest: the most interesting about watching that is as an absolute self-identified liberal, i'm listening to him and he is striking chords with me. i love the term "billionaire class." instead of eight the -- instead of saying the wealthy, which is such a difficult at some points, to determine definition. what is wealthy? $100,a year? -- 100,000 a year

ford o'connell, your thoughts.uest: as the republican i want bernie sanders to keep singing, any way that he can discredit hillary clinton is fantastic for my guys. at the same time though, there's one thing that he did say that we're going to be able to play over and over and he said that hillary clinton has been outhustling for money and she's disconnected from the reality of the everyday american which she's trying to represent. so therefore bernie sanders is the best person so far of who we think is going to be on that deal who can really drive hillary clinton. the question is whether or not she's going to take the bait. i hope she does. guest: the most interesting about watching that is as an absolute self-identified liberal, i'm listening to him and necessary striking chords with me. i love the term "billionaire class." instead of eight the wealthy, which is such a difficult at some points, to determine definition. what is wealthy? $100,a year? -- 100,000 a year? $500,000 a year? is i am a pragmatist and i kn

we're also joined by ford o'connell. thank you for being here. ford: thank you for having us. host: ford, i want to start with you. let's talk about the broad field for the gop nomination. george pataki is the latest one to announce this week. ford: it will be tough. we have nine official candidates. the problem is those that are the highest name id are the ones holding the best and that will hard for any of these folks to break away until we turn to the debates in august. right now it is name id, therefore the polls are so tight no one can break away. host: and liz chadderdon, we started this week with bernie sanders announcing his candidacy. that was for president on the democratic ticket, is he a viable candidate, what are his plans? liz: let's define viable. i do not think anyone thinks right now that senator bernie sanders will be the democratic nominee in 2016, but there are plenty people that thought that about senator barack obama in 2007 as well however, i think senator sanders is a much greater long shot at this point to be our nominee. i like senator sanders. i thin

here for a fair and balanced debate civic foreign tax chair ford o'connell and joe lastingy. difficult for republicans to answer? >> it is more difficult for jeb bush, but he should have had his answer candid. he should have known this answer was coming. i think what happened is jeb struggled. they're new to this game. they haven't done it before. they thought they could wing this. >> does this play into the narrative, joe, that jeb is out of practice he's rusty, it has been years since he's run a campaign? >> i think it does. the hard part of this is it is -- this was the one question he knew he was going to get. he wasn't ready for it. that -- >> how do you miss that? >> for him, he'll be able to answer 100 times over. he has to understand there is other things from his brother's past like rising deficits things will come up. >> no child left behind. >> what jeb needs to do if he wants to win the republican nomination is become jeb bush and not the third bush. if he gets tagged third bush he's done. >> that's i'm assuming what democrats would love to do. >> he'll have to be

announced presidential candidates with democratic consultant liz chatterton and republican consultant ford o'connell>> here are some of our future programs for this weekend on the c-span networks. politicians, white house officials and business leaders offer advice and encouragement to the class of 2015. speakers include former president george w. bush and the chair of dreamworks animation. and at 9:15 p.m., former staff members reflect on the presidency of george h.w. bush. former secretaries of state give commencement speeches. book tv isn't new york city with events from book expo america beginning at 10:00 a.m. and live call-in segments throughout the day. sunday evening at nine, on afterwards we look at the case hollingsworth d perry -- v perry. and not american history tv, on c-span3, this evening at t 7:00 p.m. eastern, first ladies have had the most impact on the executive mansion. as of the afternoon, the life and death of our 20th president who served almost two decades as a congressman from ohio and was assassinated 200 days into his term as president. >> last month saudi arabia's interio

done dunham about getting rid of the death penalty and democratic consultant liz chatterton and ford o'connell this weekend we're live at book expo america in new york city. in the beginning of june we're live for the "chicago tribune" litfest including our three hour live in-depth program and you're phone calls. near the end of june watch for the roosevelt reading festival. in the middle of july we're live at the harlem book fair literary event with panel discussion. and at the beginning of september we're live from the nation's capital celebrating its 15th year panelists discussed programs aimed at going to college and succeeding there and socio economic factors on educational achievement. this is 4.5 hours.achievement. this is >> i'm calling it back into order. this is day two of the civil rights briefing on completion rates on the socioeconomic ability on minorities. i'm chair of the u.s. commission on civil rights and today is may 29 and we called this to order at 9:00 a.m. eastern time. as i said today's briefing continues yesterday's panel which we held for a bulk of the day talking abo

announced presidential candidates with democratic consultant liz chatterton and republican consultant ford o'connell>> here are some of our future