[laughter] -- me and george miller. somebody told me that george miller was here. ground.ommon schools must demonstrate improved results on reading and math for minority children, or face consequences if they don't. imagine that anything so basic could be so controversial. >> awesome guy. what does that sound like? >> typical george bush. >> what does that mean? >> he speaks in a very colloquial fashion. has always been that way. it's pretty refreshing. >> how did you get along with them? >> we got along with him because he was doing something i had never seen done before, where as was prepared to take responsibility for the performance of each and every child. it wasn't a perfect system, but i have never seen anyone willing to break out how each child was doing in a fourth grade class. i was intrigued by that, because i could see what was happening in my district trade -- distr ict. the averages were a way to hide the poor performance of half of the student body in an elementary school, especially if it was poor, minorities, reduced lunch eligible. coming from texas and f

. >> q&a with george miller. then another chance to see queen elizabeth deliver her speech at the british parliament. the russian i -- on intervention ukraine. >> "q&a this week on -- this week on "q&a," our guest is representative george miller. he's retiring at the end of this term after 40 years in the u.s. house. >> when did you first think of stepping down from congress, after 20 terms? >> probably eight or nine months ago. when it was first really brought to my attention that i had been here 40 years, i had never thought of it in those terms. i had approached this job where

on -- this w our guest is representative george miller.iring at the end of this term after 40 years in the u.s. house. when did you first think of stepping down from congress, after 20 terms? >> probably eight or nine months ago. when it was first really brought to my attention that i had been here 40 years,

for more let me bring in congressman george miller of california. congressman, good to have you with us tonight. this outrage over bergdahl, is it all about president obama or is there really something flagrantly wrong here? >> there's something something very, very wrong. we know that they've spent the last six years trying to make sure that president obama can never hit his stride. his message to the country is always interrupted and they can mask the fact that this is the least productive congress in history. the tragedy is it's the least productive on behalf of the middle class working people in the country. we've seen the median family income drop $4,000 while the top 1% is skyrocketed. we see the sales of middle class housing falling off, while sales of housing to the 1% soar in prices and the number of houses sold. we see no effort to move the minimum wage bill overwhelmingly supported by the republicans and democrats all across the country. to help put wages -- money into people's pockets and get them a livable wage and get the big companies

it has paralyzed [inaudible] >> george miller tonight at 8:00 on c-span q&a. wait until the thing shows up, you have waited too long. when it shows up, it is better and less expensive. in the case of our navigation example, we have companies like tom-tom and magellan and they knew the smartphone was starting to take off. they understood it was possible that somebody, google, apple, could launch a navigation app, but they said, we do not see any threat yet and we will wait. off he did respond, it took . you had millions of people saying, this is better and cheaper. this is worse than more expensive. which one will i choose? lookingrs need to start much earlier into the lifecycle of new technology and recognize that even before or as a product, there will be a lot of experiments going on. things like kickstart her and all sorts of other crowd funding platforms allow you to see how people are playing with new technologies. that is the moment you should get worried. >> monday on the communicators. 8:00 on c-span 2. >> president theodore roosevelt -- a generation h

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then q&a with george miller journal." the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee will hold a hearing on u.s. border security. officials will testify. we will have that live at 3:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 3. for over 35 years, c-span brings public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings and white house events. in offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house. c-span, created by the cable tv industry 35 years ago and brought to you as a public service by your local cable or satellite provider. like this on facebook and follow us on twitter. presidents -- presence in a guest and winds down, some intelligence assessments have warned that al qaeda and other terrorist groups are beginning to resurface. this is an hour and a half. i am a senior analyst and i've been working on al qaeda for the past five years. i am hoping this will be a very interesting discussion. mary just joined us here at aei after being a professor and she is publis

george miller tonight on c-span's q&a. tuesday, simon and schuster was releasing hillary clinton's latest book "hard choices." thetv was in new york at book publisher office to talk to some of the people involved in the production of the book. >> i have been totally involved through all of the books actually. publisher, butl i have been involved in the process. we tried to persuade her to publish a book and it came to take a village. help there trying to convince her to do so. i'm not the editor. it is not my course rank. i watch over the application and help get it all organized. i made sure things are on track. sure that all of our best people are working on it. >> we are publishing "hard choices." it is her fourth book with us. i was editor of the book. i am overseeing all aspects. i'm working closely with all of the people at the company will stop >. >> as the editor, are there a lot of act and forth e-mails? try to givease, and as much attention to secretary clinton's book as i had to all of the other authors be publi

. >> congressman george miller. sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> on a lonely windswept point on the northern shore of france, the air is soft but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke, and the cries of men and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. at dawn, on the morning of june 6, 1944, 225 rangers jumped off the british landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. their mission was one of the most difficult and daring of the invasion. to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. the allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here. and they would be trained on the beaches to stop the allied advance. the rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers, the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades. and the american rangers began to climb. >> this weekend, american history tv will mark the 70th anniversary of the d-day invasion of normandy. starting saturday mornin

and he should have never been allowed to attend the festivities where he could be treated like a george miller-- like a legitimate world leader. leader fromical russia has been speaking out against vladimir putin. >> there are billboards in downtown moscow say he's a national traitor. socialistself-styled who has often infuriated his fellow legislators. he's been the sole vote against the ban on international adoption and anti-gay legislation. "the post" says sadly he is one of the last opposition voices that can still be heard in moscow. >> and have also been dissenting opinions. >> one editorial says to prepare for war and not be sprayed it says a new cold war will be long and nasty and that threats of sanctions only belie europe's reluctance to start a trade war with russia. another piece says russia is on track to become another iran. has returned putin as president, he has managed politics in iran's style and set up a supreme leader whose authority cannot be challenged. and says the west worries iran is a nuclear state that -- rogue state that could go nuclear while russia is a nuclear st

news brought cordal's case to the attention of congress and senator bob casey and congressman george millero the secretary of labor about dr. wheeler's questionable and potentially unethical prak tictice thousand. >> his tainted evidence continues through the cyst temperature to work against the miners. >> reporter: a short time later the department of labor sent a directive about dr. wheeler to officials across the country just in time for the interview with abc news earlier this week. >> how recently was that done? >> today. >> reporter: the labor department expects the big coal companies who relied on dr. wheeler so much for so many years and fight the decision and perhaps find others to replace him. >> reporter: it send a signal the department of labor hasn't sent for a long time. they're not going to tolerate this kind of evidence. they're not going to tolerate a system that is rigged against people who often don't have much power. >> reporter: dr. wheeler still maintains he made the right call on all the miners that he always follows what he says was the standard of care. as for the l

in the east bay district 11 four democrats and a republican are fighting to replace george miller who is retiring after representing that district since the 1970's. voters today will decide the state senate race between east bay assembly man and form assemblywoman who now is on parole for shoplifting. >> governor brown maintained a huge lead ahead of the primary and will likely face one these two republicans in november: assemblyman donnelly or neel kashkari. brown is seeking up police denned fourth term as governor. polls open at 7:00 and close at 8:00 tonight with election results as soon as the polls close and on twitter found at twitter@abc7newsbayarea with coverage at 9:00 on "coffee 20" and news at 1 with complete results tomorrow here. >>> the coast guard is searching for a person missing from a sunken sailboat near sausalito. the coast guard received a distress signal at 4:30 yesterday morning. crews found the partly sunken vessel. is the scene near the golden gate bridge with investigators believing there was only one person on board and the better was headed to hawaii from a

. >> congressman george miller, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> on a lonely, windswept pointnorthern shore of france, the air is soft, but 40 years ago at this moment, the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men, and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. at dawn on the morning of the , 225 rangers, 1944 jumped off the british landing craft and ran to the bottom of these cliffs. their mission was one of the most difficult and daring in the invasion, to climb these sheer and desolate cliffs and take out the enemy guns. the allies had been told that some of the mightiest of these guns were here and that they would be trained on the beaches to stop the allied advance. the rangers looked up and saw the eminently -- the enemy soldiers shooting down at them with machine guns and throwing grenades and the american rangers began to climb. >> this began, american history tv will mark the 70th anniversary of the d-day invasion of normandy. this morning at 10:30 a.m. eastern, watch this year's commemoration from the world war ii memorial in washing

. >> congressman george miller, sunday night at 8:00 on "q and a." >> chelsea clinton was the keynote speaker at the national conference for college women leaders on sunday. she talked about the challenges facing female leaders and offered advice to students. ms. clinton is the vice chair of the clinton foundation and works with her mother, former secretary of state hillary clinton. this is 50 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. thank you all for joining me for the kickoff of the 2014 national conference for college women student leaders. [applause] my name is elba moise and i am a member ofaauw's national student advisory council. [applause] i love the energy in the room. [laughter] i'm currently finishing a duel masters in public health and applied anthropology at oregon state university. [applause] this fall will continue in doctoral studies and i am focusing on education at the university of washington. [applause] it is with great pleasure that i introduce our featured speaker greater chelsea clinton, vice chair of the clinton foundation, working alongside her paren

george miller and i were the ones that raised the most objections about the pack thaj camepackagethat came out of andrews. i'm going to do a ross perot by using a chart. the top chart separates the population by income. it shows what the irrelative impact on different income brackets of that package. we felt that because it relied too heavily on increasing the burden for those at the bottom, we were uncomfortable with it and voted no. the deal that finally passed looked like this on the bottom. as you can see, the larger burden had been shifted to higher income groups. that made the difference as far as we were concerned. so we wound up as bill said, having a product, which was more pal aable for democrats. the president told him he was going to get a worse deal than he would get if he voted for the first package and that proved to be correct. when we voted against the package, tom foley almost skinned us alive. he was furious with us because everyone put a lot of work into that package. he let us know how he felt. i thought he would never speak to us again. in a house like that you a

. >> congressman george miller, tonight at 8:00 on "q&a." >> a senate environment subcommittee held a hearing recently on the impact of climate change on wildlife and agriculture. witnesses included educators and representatives from the fishing, for history, and farming sector. the hearing is one hour. >> welcome. it's great to have you all. i would like to introduce our second panel of witnesses. i will introduce everyone now, and then we will proceed with the testimony. our first witness is from oregon. jim serves as the executive director of lake county resources initiative, an organization dedicated to improving forest management and inanding the use of energy rural communities. he has worked for -- to foster more collaborative approaches in oregon. our second witness is force wheattor -- generation farmer in oklahoma, and serves at the state association direct executive. he served in the oklahoma house of representatives from 1994 through 2004. the third witness is daniel cohen. ands a commercial fisherman does business on both coasts. a retired professor of forest tree at aubur

>> in the east bay, state senator took 59 percent of the vote to replace retiring congressman george miller and will face republican in the november election. miller is retiring after resting the district for 40 years. >> and a close race to see who would face swawell who won 49 percent of the vote and corbitt was edged out by 610 votes. >> district 17 is between two san francisco supervisors, board president chu and supervisor compost. chu raised twice as much money for his campaign. >> from northern california this morning, voters in two counties defeated measures calling for the create of a 51 state named "jefferson," voting against the measure year. a similar proposal is leading in another county with more votes to be tallied. our election coverage conditions online where you can fine results for every county. >> new new video in the newsroom overnight, showing the controversial transfer of army sergeant bowe bergdahl from taliban custody to united states hands. that is bowe bergdahl in the white walking toward an army helicopter and the video is from the taliban and was shot this past

. >> in the east bay state senator took in 59 percent of the vote to replace george miller. the democrat will face a republican in the november election and miller is retiring after representing the district for 40 years. >> and a close race to see who will face swowell edging out corbitt by 610 votes in district 17 the battle is between two san francisco supervisors, the board president chu and the supervisor with 47 percent calling the second-place finish a victory because chu who got 48 percent raced twice at much -- raised twice as much money. >> time running out for city college of san francisco. the same mission that voted to strip the school of accreditation is scheduled to meet today and it is not on the agenda. the commission for community and junior colleges is not scheduled to discuss city college's fate although it is the final meeting of the year. several missions, including congresswoman nancy pelosi, have urged the commission to give the school more time to fix their problems. the commission maintains it does not have the authority to extend the july 31 deadli

the east bay district 11, four democrats and a republican are fighting to replace congressman george millers retiring after representing that district since the 1970's and voters today decide the state senate race 20 east bay congressman and an assemblywoman on parole for shoplifting. governor brown has a huge lead and will likely face either neel kashkari or tim donnelly facing unprecedented fourth term as' much the polls open at 7:00 and close at 8:00 people and we will have election results when the polls close at abc7 news come and on twitter@abc7newsbayarea. we will have live coverage at 9:00 on "coffee tv 20," and abc7 news at 11 with complete results tomorrow on the morning news. >> happening right now, the coast guard is searching for a person missing from a sunken sailboat near sausalito. this photo provided by the coast guard shows the partly submerge ed boat. the coast guard received a distress signal at 4:30 yesterday on morning. crews combed the water near the golden gate bridge. investigators think there was only one person on board. the better was headed to hawaii from alamed

. >> congressman george miller tonight at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >> this morning on woverl, jennifer duffy will discuss the mid term elections and the battle for control of the u.s. senate. then jonathan allen talks about hillary clinton's new memwoir hard choices. and then the status of prisoners at guantanamo bay after the release of five prisoners in exchange for captured sergeant bowe bergdahl. and we'll take your calls and you can join the conversation. "washington journal" is next. ♪ good morning. it is june 8, 2014 on the sunday morning on capitol hill. we have a three-hour washington journal program for you where we will discuss the 2014 senate races, hillary clinton's new book, and the prison camp at guantÁnamo bay cuba. we are focusing on the department of veterans affairs in the out wake of veterans seeking treatment. members of the house have announced plans for overhauling the be -- overhauling the v.a.. we are asking viewers if you have lost trust in the vap it up if the answer is yes, what can the v.a. due to restore that trust? phone lines are open -- you can also catch up

. >> george miller, sunday night at eight on c-span's q&a.-- some intelligence assessments have warned that al qaeda and other terrorist groups are beginning to resurface. the american enterprise institute hosted an hour and a half foreign-policy discussion this week looking at the u.s. battle against al qaeda. >> thank you, everyone, for joining us today. thank you. thank you for joining us here today. we will start the event now. you on like to welcome this beautiful afternoon for an that is cosponsored with the foreign-policy research institute. i'm thankful that they are here a visitingve brought scholar. analyst and i've been working on al qaeda for the past five years. i am hoping this will be a very interesting discussion. both of whose work i admire very much. et their views on the al qaeda challenge. mary just joined us and she is publishing a sequel to her book, "knowing the enemy" next year. she just published a report called "getting it right." it is available outside. he is a senior fellow at foreign-policy institute. his work is

[laughter] >> george miller, leaving congress at the end of this year after 40 years. thank you. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> for free transcripts or to give us your comments about this program, visit us at q&a.org. programs are also available at c-span podcasts. iinext, queen elizabeth delivering her speech at the british parliament. that, the u.s. and european response to russian intervention and ukraine. then a discretion about the future of the european economy. >> now if you wait until it shows up, the cheaper alternative, you have waited too long. it is better and less expensive. in the case of our navigation example, you have something like tomtom and garmin. they knew the smartphone was taking off. they understood it was possible could launch else a navigation app. but they said we don't see any threat yet. who will respond when it shows up. it did responded it took off. within months there were millions of people who liked it, but it was better and cheaper. by then it was too late for

another chance to see q&a with california congressman george miller. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] ♪ >> good morning. not long to go before the queen arrives here in that traditional carriage procession the start of a new procession of parliament but the new we know is 11 months so there's hardly any time to start an ambitious new program of legislation. having said that there are some interesting and significant items in the list of bills we're expecting today and we will be talking about those in due course. we also put the thing in the wider political context following the recent local and european elections which saw the rise raising new questions for other party leaders. plenty for david cameron about. he left number 10 about a half hour ago. it is of course the coalition's program of government being announced today. the other bit of the coalition as the deputy prime minister also left within the last 45 minutes or so on his way to the houses of parliament. no word

eight," "sundays now available as a father's day this week on "q&a," our guest is representative george miller he's retiring at the end of this term after 40 years in the u.s. house. >> when did you first think of stepping down from congress, after 20 terms? >> probably eight or nine months ago. when it was first really brought to my attention that i had been here 40 years, i had never thought of it in those terms. i had approached this job where every day is a new opportunity, and yesterday was yesterday and today is a new day. i never thought of in the idea of how long i had been. that started me thinking, and my sons started thinking about, why don't you come home? we started having a family conversation. >> where is the district? >> the east side of san francisco bay, and to the interior of california. it used to go quite a ways into the interior. >> you have been chairman of a couple committees. what are those? >> chairman of the natural resources committee in the house, house education and labor committee, and a subcommittee on children, youth and families a number of years ago the tip o

. >> george miller on sunday night. points on the northern shore of france, the air is soft. the air was dense and there were cries of men. there was a crack of rifle fire and the roar of cannon. on the morning of the sixth of june, 200 25 rangers jumped off a british landing craft and ran off of these cliffs. it was one of the most difficult and daring. cliffsg these desolate and taking out the enemy guns. the allies have been told that some of the mightiest guns had been here and would be trained on the beaches to stop them. the rangers looked up and saw the enemy soldiers at the edge of the cliffs shooting down at them and throwing grenades. they began to climb. >> american history television will mark the anniversary of the invasion.y watch the commemorative at the memorial. it is followed by the historian who will discuss his new book. yourimon will take questions live. they look back at the presidential speeches that commemorate the day. all on american history television. years, c-span brings public affairs events to you and puts you in the room at congressional hearin

. >> congressman george miller sunday night at 8:00 on c-span q&a. >> the week in the senate ended on of a bipartisan know with an agreement between bernie sanders and john mccain veterans health care. we are joined by the editor-in-chief for roll call. as this bill possibly comes to the senate floor next week, what has been the reaction so far and what potential obstacles lie ahead both in the senate and in the house? >> well, senator mccain is obviously a decorated war veteran and someone who has a lot of respect on capitol hill and in the veterans community. his blessing on this legislation does give it a fairly clear path going forward, but there is not any smooth, 100%, this is going to president obama's desk at any point. the house would like to see chairman jesse miller, republican from florida, write his legislation, and take a look at some serious investigations as to what has happened, and that could slow it down and making it to the president. in addition, they would like to make some sort of allowance for veterans to get private health care while they are waiting for care.

. >> george miller sunday night at 8:00 o'clock on "q&a." >> we are back with more live coverage from the 2014 printers row lead fast. the book is rebel music, race and empire and the new muslim youth culture. >> good afternoon, and welcome e to the 30th annual "chicago tribune" printers lit fest. i'm with the festival might like to start by giving a special thank you to our sponsors. the book will be sold in the main lobby and there will be a signing immediately after this presentation right outside of the auditorium. today's program is going to be broadcast live on c-span2's booktv. we are going to devote about 10 minutes at the end of this discussion for q&a and if you have a question, why not for the benefit of our television viewing audience. if you'd like to watch this program again, it will be re-airing this evening at 11:00 p.m. central time on c-span2. please keep the spirit of this going all year long with a subscription to the printers row journal and membership programs. this year we are also introducing a new digital book store through our books application. make sure you

the george miller bill in the and the companion bill, elizabeth warren in the senate. we would hope -- we were hoping they would pass. that is the student emergency act. that is some kind of an acronym but i get them all mixed up. it starts with bank on american opportunity tax. -- b-o-s-e-l.t does that mean anything? no? [laughter] existing student loans at lower rates. the republicans in house and senate, both houses, shows to stand to block the votes in both chambers. a significant defeat in the senate on that. we were much more hopeful in the senate. it was just another example of a republican agenda, focusing on doing what they need to do for millionaires at the expense of the middle class. one example, again, is on the floor. instead of working to create american jobs and strengthen the economy for everyone, republicans have continued their double standard, adding aliens with the twot builds on the floor today. the house is considering more of the completely unpaid $614 billion, 12 bill gop package for permanent tax breaks, mostly for business. it is so interesti

. >> congressman george miller on "q&a."t at 8:00 >> for over 35 years c-span brings public affairs events directly to you putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white and events, briefings conferences and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage f the u.s. house all as a public service of private industry. the e c-span, created by cable tv industry brought to you as a public service by the local satellite provider. watch us in h.d., like us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> a senate subcommittee implications of updating the communications networks specifically how like 911 willices function as the country single purpose networks to i.t. base networks that serve multiple purposes video, g broad band, data and voice. f.c.c. s included the chief technology officer and internet experts. 90 minutes. --e will call the leaguer leagu hearing to order. i want to thank all the witnesses for being here today a number of ave colleagues coming and going this morning. other a number of hearings and mark-ups, et cetera

miller,essman george sunday night at 8:00, on c-span's "q&a." >> in the weekly address, president obama talked about the importance of higher education and student loan refinancing. florida representative jeff miller has the republican address. he talks about the nation's veterans and recommends changes to the department of veterans affairs. >> hi, everybody. this is commencement season come a time for graduates and their families to celebrate one of the greatest achievements in a young person's life. but for many graduates, it also means feeling trapped, by a whole lot of student loan debt. we have to do more to lift that burden. a 21st century economy, the surest pathway into the middle class is some form of higher education. forunemployment rate workers with a bachelor degree is 3.3%, about half of what it is for high school graduates. a typical graduate of a four-year college runs $15,000 more per year than somebody with just a high school diploma. neverime when college has been more important, it has also never been more expensive. that's why since i took office, i have worked to m

. >> congressman george miller, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> on thursday, the one-yearanniversary of the first story published on the edward snowden leaks about the nsa. the senate intelligence committee considered house passed bill that would limit how the nsa gathers and uses data. witnesses, including representatives of the nsa, the fbi, and verizon. it's three hours. >> the committee will come to order. i want quickly to set the ground rules for this hearing. the first thing is any discussion at all, i will clear this room immediately. please, everybody know that. this is a serious discussion, a serious subject. witnesses deserve to be heard and members deserve to be able to ask their questions, select the first inkling of a demonstration, we will clear the room and come back when the room is cleared. so, today, we meet to receive testimony and discuss the legislation passed by the house of representatives on may 22 two reform the foreign intelligence surveillance act. that legislation, which is called the usa freedom act, was approved last month by the two committe

. >> congressman george miller sunday night at 8:00 on c-span "q and a." >> on thursday, the one-yeariversary of the first story published on the edward snowden leaks from the nsa. the senate intelligence committee considers a house passed bill looking at how they gather and use data. witnesses including the nsa, fbi,s of and verizon. this is three hours. >> the committee will come to order. any disruption at all, i will clear this room immediately. please, everybody knows that. this is a very serious discussion. it's a serious subject. be heard.deserve to members deserve to be able to ask their questions. at the first inkling of a demonstration, we will clear the room and come back when the room .s clear today, we meet to receive testimony and discussed the legislation passed by the house of representatives on may 22 to reform the foreign intelligence .urveillance act not legislation, the usa freedom approved last month from the two committees of jurisdiction in the house. the house judiciary committee and the house permanent select committee on intelligence. after amendments on the

. >> congressman george miller, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. >>> c-span's new book sundays at eight including financial journalist gretchen morgenson. >> what role should the government play in subsidizing finance? we want to talk about it and the populace agrees it's something we should subsidize, then put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident, and make everybody aware of how much it's costing. but when you deliver it through these third party enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mac, when you deliver the subsidy through a public company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way of subsidizing homeownership. >> read more with gretchen morgenson and other interviews from our book notes and q&a programs from public affairs books, now available for a father's day gift at your favorite book seller. >>> michael lind, policy director at the new america foundation recently wrote a cover story for the journal national interest where he argues for revamped policies on immigration, t

. >> congressman george miller sunday at eight on c-span2 and eight. >>> president obama and the british print mr. david cameron took questions from reporters earlier today at the summit in brussels. you can see the entire news conference in a few minutes at 8 p.m. eastern on our companion at work, c-span. right now, here on c-span to come a few minutes of the president's comments about the release of the army so sergeant bowe bergdahl. >> that is a par for the course but i will repeat what i said two days ago. we have a basic principle. we do not leave anybody wearing the american uniform behind. we had a prisoner of war whose health had deteriorated and we were deeply concerned about him and we saw an opportunity and we seized it and i make no apologies for that. we had discussed with congress the possibility something like this might occur. but because of the nature of the folks that we were dealing with and the nature of these negotiations we felt that it was important to go ahead and do what we did. and we are now explaining to the congress the details of how we move forward. but th

. >> congressman george miller, sunday night at 8:00 on q&a. is weakened on book tv, live coverage of the chicago tribune printer row lit fest. andthomas, joseph ellis, harbor aaron reich. sunday's topics include the father and son relationship of bill and willie geist. and vietnam's dragon lady. live this weekend on c-span2. book tv, television for serious readers. the consumer financial protection the total u.s. to $1t loan debt as up trillion. the senate budget committee held a hearing on how that debt affects consumers and the overall economy. senator patty murray chairs this 1.5 hour on hearing. [inaudible conversations] see this hearing will come to order. i want to thank senator johnson who is filling in today for my ranking member senator sessions. welcome to you and all of our colleagues who are joining us today as well as a roomful. welcome to all of you on a really important topic today. we are going to be talking about a challenge that 40 million people around our country face today and for many americans who want to further their e

. >> then george donahue and fallon and chick miller they were in my platoon, they came up to me andwere completely disorganized. we didn't know where we were we couldn't find our equipment bundles. >> what was the original plan. how many of you were supposed to land in that same area? >> what happened when i was where we were taking off, our c-47 was disabled for some reason, and our whole crew of 48 men was split into four other planes that we were not familiar with. i was the -- usually we jump a 16-man stick in a c-47. in this particular case with my extra men in this c-47 i was the 24th man in the c-47. and i was sitting next to the radio operator, his name was irving ward. and when we flew over from england, we started to converse and it seems that irving he was two years older than i, i was 19. irving came from the bronx where i came from and we found out we went to st. valentine church together. and we had these little missiles with a little bible and he wrote his name and address into that book, and i gave him my name and address and when we came over from the gurnsy island

. >> garbagemen george miller, tonight at 8:00 on c-span q&a. >> washington journal continues.llary clinton's memoir as her years of secretary of state is said to be released on tuesday. excerpts from that book hard choices are ready finding their way into news reports. jonathan allen, co-allen of the new york times best-selling book, hrc secrets, and the rebirth of hillary clinton. we know hillary clinton has been contemplating a potential presidential bid. how does this book fit into that process? guest: it is a big milestone on her path to running for president. she has been running all along, but the question is whether she will stop not whether she will start. this is her take on the four years she had at the state department, a little bit of her take on the 2008 presidential campaign and what wrong there. withhat the relationship president obama was like. i think it is an effort by her to move past that as well, to start pivoting towards the future. hopefully being able talk about what her vision for 2016 is. rather than talking about the past. unfortunately for her, peop

it was endorsed by george miller, obama has been a huge supporter.ate legislature, at the state level, the union is still powerful. here you see parents being so frustrated that they're willing to go to this extreme and bypass the legislative process. >> sam stein has a quick question. >> i confess, i haven't been following this. campbell, can you tell me what the law that was ruled unconstitutional? >> there were five statutes that dealt with teacher tenure which is automatic permit employment after 18 months in california. >> yeah. >> the last in, first out, se seniority rules which means that seniority defines how layoffs take place. and dismissal protections similar to ones we have on the books here in new york, give teachers multiple appeals that go way beyond due process. >> yeah, but why were they ruled unconstitutional? what level did they violate? >> the way it works, the defense in this case had to prove there was a reason for the laws. the burden was on the defense here, so the judge decided the laws had -- this is a really important point

we have a companion bill in the house, which i'm a cosponsor a, john turney, george miller are the leadponsors of it, and that is what middle-class families do today when they have home mortgages with high interest rates, they take advantage of low rates that are out there in the economy, but private student loan rates can be as high as 12% because bank underwriting for student loans basicallyvate sector treat people as high risk when you're 18 years old, 19 years old with no collateral and going into borrow money. host: let's get our viewers involved. we have a fourth line for students and parents as well, (202) 585-3883 is your line. -- we gocap refers and se to ca kathryn first in staten island, new york. caller: good morning. i do not understand why all of this outrage because the guy lost last night. nobody should be surprised because people got fired. don't you see? we all see what is going on. we all work for groceries, for big companies, they want their salaries to go down lower and lower or the american people. they are not working, ok, so i do not see why -- millions and milli

. >> congressman george miller, sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a. on booktv, live coverage of the "chicago tribune" printers row lit fest. ellis, and joseph barbara ehrenreich. sunday, the father and son relationship of bill and willie geist, and vietnam's dragon lady. the printers row lit fest, live this weekend on c-span2. booktv, television for serious readers. "> "washington journal continues. host: joining us now is jonathan turley, a professor at george washington university law school here in a d.c. thank you for joining us. guest: thank you bot. host: we will talk about the release of bowe bergdahl in members for 5 taliban at guantÁnamo bay. if the white house wants to transfer prisoners out of that facility, what do they have to do legally? guest: there is a law in which congress sets some standards. some of them are rather obvious. that is a provision saying if you released someone from guantÁnamo bay, you need to have the secretary of defense make certain determinations, like this is not going to come back on the united states in terms of

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to thank the captain of the democratic team, mike mcintyre and finally, i want to acknowledge george miller who is a co-chair of the caucus. i thank the u.s. soccer foundation for all their support. if we could have some order. . mr. van hollen: i do want to thank the soccer organization for all the work they do. now it's my great pleasure to yield to the co-chair of the soccer caucus, former division i player at the naval academy, todd young. mr. young: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. mr. young: i commend the gentleman and his team. congratulations to the democrats. the republican side fought hard. we had a late surge and we came up short by one goal. but this was for a greater cause than ourselves. promoting the sport of soccer among the youth of america and i too would add, go u.s.a. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from illinois, mr. ken zinger, to suspend the rules and concur to t

stan destruct miller who used to run george soros' money, and then he ran his own hedge fund.f the best investors in america. the can koch brothers were offered a chance to be part of this thing, they declined. so what happened? all these guys showed up to a meeting march 6th where hank and david boies laid out the details of the case, talked about the progress that it's going well. liz: the chances they heavy. did they file with the sec? this is so dramatic. >> no, they didn't file yet. hank has not decided whether to go forward, to accept their funding. by the way, this is called alternative investing. this happens a lot. you fund them, they get a right. they get like a securities contract. and when those damages, if they win, you can exercise that security contract. we should point out hank has not decided to go forward, but from what i understand, all the investors i mentioned to you were very interested in doing the deal if hank does open it up. and we'll know, i think fairly soon, whether he does. 9q9ñ so did every one of those investors. they did not deny it. we have th