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c-span, the c-span radio app, and c-span.org. and c-span taking you back on the road to white house shortly for a donald trump campaign rally in fortflorida, scheduled to start in about 10 minutes, 3:00 eastern time, where polls show a close race. before the candidate arrived, here is a look at some of today's "washington journal." or of the heritage foundation, and olivia golden of the center for law and social policy. we're having a discussion on the new report on poverty in 2015. olivia, we'll start with you. that report showed the largest single year decline in the poverty rate since 1968. total poverty number of people in the united states in poverty now at 1999 levels. we'll go into the details of that report. but what do you think are the biggest reasons for that drop? guest: the big headlines, as you say, is improvement as a result of the economy reaching across a large swath of americans, the economic recovery. in addition to overall poverty dropping, child poverty dropped, which is something we follow in particular from about 21% to just under 20%, so still one in five kids. so a big reason the economy, the economic recov

fort myer, n north florida. a republican. good morning. to c-span and ou thank you mr. hicks for being there. four years ago we had a of situation, we had the scanners and i have a photo in my phone i just looked up. 10:15 p.m. and the photo shows he ballroom, we live in a retired community, people have scanning stuff in their lap and ball room.und the probably more than an hour away night.oting at 10:15 at four years before that, we had electronic machines and they thrown out because they said no paper trail. it seems to me if you have entire electronic voting machine, it wouldn't take a technology to put a card in there that sent out answer or toll to various places to ensure there was no the ing going on that electronic machines were so much better, the filling in oval every single time. we had people here that -- old removed by be ambulance because the process and on, again, it was 10:15 people hadn't voted. there were people here well voted 1:00 that hadn't yet. believe it or not, the lady in county f voting in lee is running for re-election, i think that is an awful lot of nerve. put pa

fort independent. k, an caller: good morning, greta, and thank you, c-span. to talk all, i want about edward snowden. i believe a couple of callers i agree he should get the congressional medal of freedom. spies on ment everybody and as far as our military goes, we're spending $650 billion this year on military. it doesn't need to be rebell. biggest ady the military in the world by far and bases over 800 military in the world. i'm voting for jill stein and -- talk about recognize. trump is host: and the financial times on story, president obama plans to end curbs on myanmar. giving businesses an incentive to invest in the country. had towhat the president say when he sat down from our prisoner, asam suti . res. obama: over the last several years, it is a a nsition to elections, representative legislature that has significant constraints from the previous military government but is and ng voice to the hopes dreams of a new generation of burm burmese people, and as a onsequence, now, as state counselor and foreign minister her a position with a ernment to begin shaping remarkable social and political e

c-span's road to the white house coverage today. hillary clinton campaigning in philadelphia live at noon eastern time over on c-span2. then donald trump campaigns in fortflorida shows the candidates are in a tight race. according to a poll, clinton althoughone point donald trump has a one-point lead according to real clear politics average of polls. gary johnson has 9% and the green party's jill stein has two with independents divided. you can read more at the hill.com. president obama is expected to make a statement. you can watch that statement live at 11:30 eastern time, about 10 minutes away here on c-span. first, take a look at today's washington journal. >> dave leventhal is back at our desk. his work involves tracking campaign fund raising and spending. put this in perspective. are there estimates about the total amount of money that is going to be spent with the presidential election all combined? are estimates but they are probably less reliable this time around because of the donald trump factor than they would be in a traditional election with more traditional candidates. to the point of how expensive this is going to be, in february of this

fort myer, n north florida. a republican. good morning. to c-span and ou thank you mr. hicks for being there.our years ago we had a of situation, we had the scanners and i have a photo in my phone i just looked up. 10:15 p.m. and the photo shows he ballroom, we live in a retired community, people have scanning stuff in their lap and ball room.und the probably more than an hour away night.oting at 10:15 at four years before that, we had electronic machines and they thrown out because they said no paper trail. it seems to me if you have entire electronic voting machine, it wouldn't take a technology to put a card in there that sent out answer or toll to various places to ensure there was no the ing going on that electronic machines were so much better, the filling in oval every single time. we had people here that -- old removed by be ambulance because the process and on, again, it was 10:15 people hadn't voted. there were people here well voted 1:00 that hadn't yet. believe it or not, the lady in county f voting in lee is running for re-election, i think that is an awful lot of nerve. put pape

c-span when she made that announcement. host: all right, james, thank you. on to fort lauderdale, tony is on the line. good morning, tony.ler: good morning. it is a miracle. i find myself for the first time in my life agreement adam schiff. he put it perfectly. snowden did not just blow the whistle. then he ran. he went to two countries. -- howg has been living has he been living on this time? it is not like he's getting food stamps. he looks like he is doing well. if we decide this on a theyby-case basis, which are able to steal a doubled to foreign parties, we are dead. host: that was tony from florida. stone's new film is out in theaters today called "snowden." in the style section of the "washington post," has a piece on it. it says snowden is a hero to some in a trader to others. and making a murderer, overturned by the court of public opinion. from the short piece trailer to the movie snowden. >> you're making people very happy. are you ready for the collection? >> this looks juicy. how is this all possible? >> we are looking at everything they don't. >> which people? the in essay is really tracking -- the nsa is r