administration himself. >> former clinton administration aide, and author of first friends, gary ginsbergcal influence wielded by confidantes and friends of u.s. presidents, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span q&a. you can also listen to una as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> next, a discussion on infrastructure investment in the developing world. panelists talk about the challenges and opportunities of global infrastructure development projects. they will also discuss the g-7 global infrastructure initiative known as the build back better , world. the center for strategic and international studies (csis) hosts this one-hour event. >> good day, everyone. my name is matthew goodman.

with us, gary ginsberg. author of "first friends," it's already a "new york times" best seller.end. number two, your humble host thought he knew just about everything about presidential history, especially in the modern era. had read every book. i learned a ton and had a hard time putting it down. to my friend, well done. let's start at the beginning, the most recent past president. who were donald trump's friends, and did this most transactional president of all time have a best friend? >> i wanted to do a chapter on trump, we went around and around for about two months, until a person confirmed that the president didn't really have a first friend. basically, it's just not part of his emotional makeup. he spokes to ike perlmutter, but really it was his twitter feed before it was shut down. i think all he needs is public affirmation. and one person said, and this gives some flavor to it, he would take a big group of family and so-called friends up to camp david for weekends, and would just sit by himself in the cabin, all day long, talking to supporters on the phone. that was hi

[captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2021] >> sunday night on q&a, ginsberg, offer of first friend. >> i have been fascinated by the american presidency since i was a kid and as i grew older i began to work on campaigns and worked in the clinton administration, and i started to notice a dynamic between the leader's best friend and the leader himself and how the best friend could speak in a way that no aid or staffer could, and speak more bluntly and act more naturally. i saw it with warren beatty in the gary hart campaign, how they would fly in for major campaign events and speak to the candidate in a way no one else around them would. and they would say stop acting and talking like a politician and gary would get roused but would listen and change the way he spoke. i also saw how he would relax. and then at night it late night dinners. i saw the same dynamic in the bill clinton campaign with vernon jordan and how they were of equal stature and what that allowed clinton to get from jordan, in a way he could not from anyone else who worked on the campaign and then in the admi

first, justice kagan, judge ginsberg, judge englemeyer and i thank you for your stories about justice thurgood. this is a warm evening, and i am honored to have been a part of it. the national heritage lecture is sponsored each year by the supreme court historical society, the white house historical society and the united states capital historical society. since 1991 when justice anthony kennedy delivered a rousing talk on president roosevelt's 1937 court packing plan, the three organizations have rotated hosting duties each year. this evening's national heritage lecture is of course a celebration of justice thurgood marshall's 50 years after his ascention to the supreme court. the society and all of us here are deeply honored to be joined this evening by his wife, cecilia marshall, his sons, thurgood marshall jr. and john marshall, his daughter in law, jean marshall, and his grandson edward patrick marshall. thank you so much for being here and honoring us with your presence. [ applause ] i thank all of you for coming, and please join us in the receptions in the east and west confere

author gary ginsberg joins me now. first explain what got you interested in this?ential campaign and saw something that made you think about this and what eventually led to this book. what was it? >> i did. actually even before i worked for gary hart, since grade school i've just been endlessly fascinated by the american presidency. then i worked on gary hart's campaign and later worked in the clinton administration and watched close friendships between leaders and their best friends. are with with hart i saw the actor warren beatty. i watched his friendship with gary hart during the 1984 campaign when beatty would parachute in from major campaign events and was the only one around hart who could talk to him in a blunt way. he said top talking and acting like a politician in a way nobody else could and hart would listen to him. i saw vernon jordan and the role he played with bill clinton in the 1990s when he was the only one around him who had actual stature and could speak to him in a way nobody else could. so i saw an entirely different kind of relationship betwe

the ruth bader ginsberg left them thought with how this should go and they're playing it out.trillion infrastructure bill failed the test. that would have paved the way for the vote to begin on the infrastructure bill. no republicans voted for it. it's significant. remember the ten that went to the white house, the president said we shook hands on it. none of them voted to move it forward. they were asking for the vote to be held monday, which could happen when the measure is back up for consideration. so we'll keep watching it. thank you. that's wednesday for "the story." i'll see you back here today. great to have you with us today. see you then. thanks, everybody. >> neil: thank you, martha. forget about voting on infrastructure. they're not even voting nor starting the debate on the bill behind it. i'm neil cavuto, this is "your world." senate republicans today blocking the overall formal debate on a bipartisan infrastructure, at least a package, the frame work to go forward. so this punts on an issue that republicans and democrats that used to have a bipartisan backing wi

hello, i'm richard ginsberg and you're at the listening post where we don't cover the news . we cover the way the news is covered. here are the media stories we're examining this week. user warning for activist dissidence and journalists, the world over your mobile phones may have been compromised by spyware. that one company is selling. and authoritarian governments are buying a match, made in face rockets there, billionaire payload, you said in the jeff bay. those are the news outlet for cannot get enough of the story. there is a crucial election coming up in germany, and the most widely read newspaper is building up its coverage, trying to maintain its influence and pranking anti lockdown protesters in the u. k . can you feel the hand of the new builder upon us with a fake news reporter and trolling the tabloids driving the store? it has been a week now since a global consortium of media outlets blew the lid off a huge surveillance scandal revealing how the hacking to pegasus has been used by governments around the world to spy on dissidence and journalists via their mobil

. >>> sunday night on q & a, gary ginsberg. >> i have been fascinated with the presidency since i was a kid. as i grew older, i started working campaigns and then clinton administration. i started to notice this dynamic between the leader's best friend and the leader himself, and how that best friend could speak in a way that no aide or staffer could. speak more bluntly, act more naturally. and i saw it with warren beaty, flying in for major campaign events and speak to the candidate in a way that no one else would act at the time. stop acting like a politician. he would get quite roused by and he would listen. he would change the way he spoke. and i saw the way he would relax and ignite with late night conversations, late night dinners. i saw this same dynamic in play with the bill clinton campaign with vernon jordan. how they were of equal stature. what that allowed clinton to get from jordan in the way that he couldn't from anybody else who worked on the campaign and then in the administration itself. >> the aide and author of first friends talks about the political influence wield

immigrants, professor liu also helped to launch the americorp program and clerked for ruth bader ginsberg and worked in a law practice in washington, d.c. he worked on notable boards, and the most of the american constitution society. he has been a visible speaker and writer in the public dialogue on anti-asian hate. when connecticut attorney general william tong took office in 2019, he became the first asian-american elected to state office there. prior to taking office, general tong practiced for 18 years as a litigator in state and federal court in the connecticut assembly. as a connecticut native, he earned degrees from brown university, and the university school of law. through the leadership role, through state attorneys general, and his own office, he has advocated on a wide range of issues including the drug industry for violation of trust laws and taking on big tech for stifling competition and protecting the environment. he and district of columbia district attorney carl racine and hosting the state attorneys generals to stop asian hate. before turning to the panelists, i wanted

congress who were selected to be in the room were picked, republicans including liz cheney and adam ginsbergack the majority next year, they want democrats to remain in control of the american people should keep that in mind especially republicans in their states and districts knowing these two would rather nancy pelosi stay in charge of the radical democrats advance their socialist agenda than republicans winning back the majority to save our country. this was a political stunt by the democrats, clear to the american people they are not falling for it. >> these are hand-picked officers, phenomenal people in the capitol police but they came across as political, that doesn't help anything. we want the police to be just the police, not picking and choosing, that is the point of what they said last year that the police have to be evenhanded, now we have to have the police making political statements. >> that is why i called on the chairman of the committee to bring the head of the capitol police, i thought they were prounion but they refused to hear from the capitol police union chief who would

is on everybody's mind at this point in ginsberg two is a battlefield in one thing, symmetry is oneing and on public squares, it's an insult to union soldiers when you can talk about reconciliation and you can't make that choice for people who were killed and died during our the values for confederacy were announced and the vice president and it essentially is in fact not to be enslaved and that's a cornerstone, slavery is a cornerstone and there's nothing that we can get from them that we can't get without all the baggage that is there, confederates, i don't have any problem with the removal of the statutes and the attempt to the destruction of the united states of america, we will talk about those kinds of things but it doesn't have to be the statute. i would be for removing those statues from public places, public spaces, private properties, battlefield, that is different. host: doesn't surprise you right across the river from d.c. in arlington virginia the jefferson davis highway existed until about a year ago. >> it does not surprise me but it's an attempt as david wright said

. >> sunday night on "q&a," gary ginsberg -- >> i've been fascinated by the american presidency sinceas a kid. when i grew older, i started to work on campaigns. i started to notice this dynamic between the leader's best friend and the leader their self, and how that best friend could speak more bluntly, act more naturally. i thought with warren beatty and the gary hart campaign, he would say all the time, stop talking like a politician. he would listen, and he would change the way he spoke. the same dynamic at play in the bill clinton campaign, how they were of equal stature. >> former clinton administration aide and author of "first friends" gary ginsberg talks about the political influence wielded by close friends of u.s. presidents sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span's "q&a." you can also listen to "q&a." >> the house of representatives reinstated its mask mandate on tuesday with the house attending physician saying it follows the cdc's new recommendation that even vaccinated people wear masks indoors in areas with substantial covid-19 transmission. on the house floor, minority

. >> former clinton administration aide, and author of first friends, gary ginsberg, talks about political influence wielded by confidantes and friends of u.s. presidents, sunday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span q&a. you can also listen to una as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> next, a discussion on infrastructure investment in the developing world. panelists talk about the challenges and opportunities of global infrastructure development projects. they will also discuss the g-7 global infrastructure initiative known as the build back better , world. the center for strategic and international studies (csis) hosts this one-hour event. >> good day, everyone. my name is matthew goodman. i am senior vice president at csis, delighted to welcome you to the special event on build back better world, meeting the global infrastructure challenge. delighted to have you with us. on behalf of my colleague, john, who directs our reconnecting asia infrastructure project, and myself, who directs the economics program at csis, we are delighted to have you here with us. this will be a very spec

. >> former clinton administration aide and author of "first friends", gary ginsberg, talking about confidents and close friends of u.s. presidents sunday at 8:00 p.m. you can listen to q&a wherever you get your podcasts. >> at a news conference on wednesday, federal reserve chair jerome powell announced the fed would hold the benchmark rate at almost zero and answered questions about inflation, the impact of the economy. economy. >> good afternoon. at the federal secretary powell: good afternoon. at the federal reserve we're committed to

. >> our guest this evening has been gary ginsberg, author of this terrific new book called first friendsshaped our presidents. if there is a presidential history buff in your life, or that buffets you, i recommend it. gary, thank you for coming on. best of luck with this book. >> thank you, brian. >> coming up for us. why this year's fire season in the american west is now weeks ahead of schedule with one mega fire already burning out of control? ut o control? for bathroom odors that linger try febreze small spaces. just press firmly and it continuously eliminates odors in the air and on soft surfaces. for 45 days. >> this summer has been one of extremes thus far for much of the country, if you're watching us from out was tonight than you know parts of the region are headed into a fourth temperature spike in just five weeks. the last thing we needed was an early fire season, and yet sadly, already, wildfires have consumed over 1 million acres. nbc news correspondent jacob ward has our report from california. >> tonight dozens of wildfires raging out of control in the west. >> we've had t

he has more authority at the court now that he's the senior justice since ruth baider ginsberg departed of four clerks hired for next term. he's given a major speech and is preparing to unveil a major book about keeping politics out of the judiciary in september. and he's promoting that book at least right now as a sitting justice. so i don't see it. but the pressure could get stronger. >> it's incredibly timely, but considering that it relies, this whole confirmation process relies on politics seems -- >> can i add one thing quickly? you know, the senate that we have now, even though it's f fragile with the democratic majority, should be the senate we have next year at this time. i think he believes this senate should hold a democratic majority, but to your thinking -- >> unless something goes wrong. i mean, of course, none of those folks, very few of these folks in the senate are spring chickens. i want to turn -- coming full circle here, we are a couple days away, six months past the january 6th insurrection. pelosi says she's created this committee. she's giving republicans five sea

. >> former clinton administration aid and author first friends, gary ginsberg, talks about the political influence wielded by confidence and close friends of u.s. presidents, sunday night at 8:00 he turn on c-span q&a. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. ♪ >> c-span is your unfiltered view of government. we are funded by these television companies and more, including midco. ♪ midco support c-span as a public service along with these other television providers, giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> at today's white house press briefing deputy press secretary , karine john pierre answered questions on covid-19 mandates and conflicting information from the white house and the cdc regarding the delta variant. she also addressed the united states policy toward cuba the , eviction moratorium and voting rights. this is about minutes. 45 karine: here is my mask from yesterday. wondering where that went. good afternoon, everybody. happy friday. i have a couple of things for all of you at the top. today, the president and the vice president met with gover

gary gary ginsberg joins me now. great book, fascinating subject.gures, gary hart and years later donald trump. explain that for us. >> sure. well, since i was a kid, i've just been endlessly fascinated by the presidency. when i got older i started working on presidential campaigns. the first one was gary hart's 1984 campaign. i watched how the very famous hollywood actor warren beatty would parachute in for the most important events. he was the only person around hart who could tell -- talk to him and tell him in a way, he would say to him stop talking and acting like a politician in a way that no other aide or staffer could. hart would listen in a way he wouldn't to any other staffer or aide. at the same time, beatty would relax with these late night meals and conversations and give him the respite that he needed. then i saw it again in 1992 with bill clinton's campaign and then his presidency with his best friend, vernon jordan and how he had equal stature and didn't need or want anything from him. it created a really special dynamic. so i looked

. >> unlike ruth bader ginsberg who had been suffering from repeated cancers, he's a very vigorous andjustices that we've seen in recent opinions. pete williams and yamiche alcindor. katie hobbs, a democratic candidate for governor in the state and a key factor in the arizona law that was targeting you specifically by expiring after your term expires. so it was definitely aimed at you by the republican senate leaders there. this is quite a blow. >> yeah. i mean, it really is a blatantly retaliatory action because the republican majority and the republican attorney general don't like how i've done my job and fought to continue to make sure that there's access for every eligible voter in arizona. >> so now what? is there no option at all? you know, we saw the walkout in texas, but that's going to be fixed from the republican standpoint because they'll revisit that in texas. according to the brennan center there's 17 or 18 laws that have already been enacted and among 48 that were proposed. >> this has been signed into law by the governor, but what we're going to do is continue to do our

. >> former clinton administration aide and author of "first friends", gary ginsberg, talking about confidents and close friends of u.s. presidents sunday at 8:00 p.m. you can listen to q&a wherever you get your podcasts. >> at a news conference on wednesday, federal reserve chair jerome powell announced the fed would hold the benchmark rate at almost zero and answered questions about inflation, the impact of the economy. economy. >> good afternoon. at the federal secretary powell: good afternoon. at the federal reserve we're committed to maximum employment and price stability. today, the interest rates are kept near zero and maintained our asset purchases. asset purch these measures, along with our strong guidance on interest rates and our balance sheet will ensure that monetary policy will continue to support the economy until the recovery is complete. progress in vaccinations and unprecedented fiscal policy actions are also providing strong support to the recovery. the indicators of economic activity and employment have continued to strengthen and real gdp this year appears to be on track t

gary ginsberg is the author of "first friends" the powerful unsung, and unelected people who shaped ourdents and he joins us now. great to have you on the show, gary. so you worked on presidential campaigns, in the clinton administration, and one of the catalysts for writing this book is when you learned al gore didn't have friends. what happened? >> well, i wouldn't say al gore doesn't have any friends. what happened was, i was vetting him for the vice presidency and i went to see a wise old hand in washington who asked me a series of questions before we went for the final interview. and he said, i don't really care about his views on the mx missile or noxious greenhouse gases, i kcare about whether he has close friends, because if you don't have close friend, you can't be an effective president. so he went to the interview and asked gore to list his friends outside of a couple of members of congress or his brother-in-law and the senator then just kind of stumbled and he came out of the interview and harry was just really concerned that somebody who couldn't kind of list a series of cl

also promoting while you promote this book we encourage all of you to pick up a copy of professor ginsberg relocal bookstore if you want to support the commonwealth club please visit commonwealth club.org. have a great night everybody. >> thank you so much programs ae booktv.work. >> in this week public affairs virtual event we bring you a conversation w >> this week we bring a conversation "washington post" national politics, missed with some conversation with her brand-new book in addition to

announcer: former clinton aide and author gary ginsberg talks about the political influence of closeds on u.s. presidents, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. you can listen wherever you get your podcasts. announcer: "washington journal" continues. host: robert field is here to talk about the legality of vaccine mandates. professor, first, let's talk about the word mandate. what does it legally mean? guest: what you want it to mean. it means different things in different contexts. a community government directive that you have to have a vaccine or pay penalty. it can mean a private business saying you have to have the vaccine to work there or enter the premises, without a legal remedy. so, it really means different things in different contexts. overall it means you have to be vaccinated or pay some price. host: is it constitutional? guest: again, it depends who is doing it. the basic answer is yes. if a private business does it, it is absolutely constitutional. if the government does it, then they have to deal with equal protection and due process, if they are taking away a right. but

its author, gary ginsberg joins us.on's wife. >> first i have to say, hillary went out and bought instant grits. she didn't make the grits, i learned from her. what surprised me most about this clinton/jordan friendship is how much clinton relied on jordan throughout his life and presidency. as you just showed, without vernon, we may never have hollywood bill clinton as president. he was that distraught when vernon went down there in 1980 and basically said, you've got to stay in the game. he gave him a really stern talking to. two years later bill clinton was governor again. when he was elected president a decade later, clinton offered vernon any job he wanted, wanted him to be attorney general. he said no, i can be more valuable as your first friend. any time clinton needed help, he'd say call vernon. he was there every time. he was involved in every major personnel position, helped him on key policy decisions. most importantly, he was clinton's main source of relaxation, whether on the golf course or anywhere else. o

ginsberg felt the same way. she said it was a good number. democrats aren't necessarily interested in preserving the integrity of the senate or preserving the integrity of the court or credibility they are interested in political outcomes that they can use to quite frankly maintain power in washington, d.c. for years to come. but again going back to the ruling on arizona that everybody on the left, the far left is so angry about, the white house is putting out this narrative that it destroys voting rights across the country. they need to now pass hr and sr1, the john lewis voting rights act. the bottom line is joe biden's own department of justice lawyers did not argue that the law actually violated the voting rights act and so this is not something that is necessarily a win for them in terms of what his department of justice was arguing. on the other side, the california case that came out this week democrats are arguing that dark money is now going to take over elections as a result of the california law being struck down and people not hav

. >> gary ginsberg talks about the political influence wheeled by confidants and close friends of u.s. presidents sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span's "q and >> c-spanshop.org is the c-span online sure -- start with a collection of c-span products. your purchase will support our nonprofit operations and you still have time to order the congressional directory, with contact information for members of congress and the biden administration. go to c-span shop.org. >> health and human services assistant secretary dr. rachel davino talked about covid-19 vaccination efforts at an event hosted by the washington post. this is about 30 minutes. >> good morning, i am a. senior writer at the washington post. today. we will talk about the troubling rise in cases from the delta variant and vaccination challenges with dr. rachel,, assistant secretary for health at the department of health and human services. dr. levine, of warm welcome to washington post life. -- live. asst. sec. levine: thank you, pleasure to be here. karine: wonderful to have you here when we need to understand so much mo

he also clerked for the late justice ruth bader ginsberg on the supreme court. professor, welcome. you may proceed with your opening comment. >> chairman peters, ranking member portman, members of the committee, my name is richard primus. i am the collegiate professor at the university of michigan law school. i'm honored by your request that i participate in today's proceedings. i want to recognize chairman peters as my own senator and ranking member portman as a graduate of the law school which i teach. savannah greiss, rob luthman and tyler washington. the constitutionality of s-51 is straightforward. this empowers congress to admit new states subject only to the limitation that congress cannot unilaterally reconfigure existing states. s-51 would not reconfigure any existing state. it would take american territory that is not a state and make it one. that's exactly what the admission clause empowers congress to do. some say that this admission would require a constitutional amendment but the constitution doesn't say that. the constitution gives the power to admit new states to co

. >> former clinton administration aid gary ginsberg talks about the political influence wielded by confidants and close friends of presidents. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. >> texas state legislators testified before congress about the state's election laws. democrats have been in texas for more than two weeks to prevent the state legislature from having a quorum. jamie raskin chaired this hearing of the oversight subcommittee on civil rights and civil liberties. >> we are here today to talk about the voting bills that are currently pending in the texas legislature and how those are related to other voter suppression proposals in states across the country. specifically, targeting voters of color. we are lucky to have texas legislators joining us on the front line. i want to make sure we have the opportunity to hear from texas voters. let's take a moment to listen to some public testimony given earlier this year. >> i am here representing grassroots and asians that educate texans to vote and create a legislature that reflects the diversity of texas. ba

. >> former clinton aide gary ginsberg talks about the political influence of close friends and confidantespresident. you can listen to q&a wherever you get your podcast. >> washington journal continues. host: this is a part of the program we call open forum. if it is of interest of politics to you when you want to talk about it, you can call the phone lines. 202-748-8000 four democrats. republicans 202-748-8001 independents 202-748-8002. the washington post taking a look at the biden administration saying they are going to resume fast-track deportation. they plan to resume both expedited removal flights following another sharp increase of the number of central american families crossing into the rio grande valley of south texas. the explosive spread of the virus as the delta variants along the border has intensified pressure. this more back at the washington post if you want to see it there the headline of the new york times. this is amanda saying in the new report which was intended to explain, the cdc described an outbreak in massachusetts that mushroomed to 470 cases in massachusetts al

. >> former clinton administration aid gary ginsberg talks about the political influence wielded by confidants and close friends of presidents. you can also listen to q&a as a podcast wherever you get your podcasts. >> texas state legislators testified before congress about the state's election laws. democrats have been in texas for more than two weeks to prevent the state legislature from having a quorum. jamie

openly about his satisfaction in leading the court's left wing since the death of justice ruth bader ginsbergces private discussions has made a difference to me. it is fought a fight. ness not sarcasm. it is deliberation. justice brier was appointed in 1994 by president bill clinton and will be 83 next month. claire miscass sell, your take? >> reporter: well, the supreme court is an insular place and this is not an institution that has a lot of circulation of different kind of opinions or political takes. you know, it is most of their clerks come from a handful of schools. most of the justices come from a handful of schools. it's not healthy that justice brier probably doesn't understand that this is bigger thans him. i think if sandra day o'connor had an honest and open discussion, she would regret when she retired in lew of citizens united and what happened. on the other hand, what we've seen with supreme court nominations is that the republican party will do whatever it has to do, including, you know, really just ignoring the constitution if they have to, to stack the court. so it's disapp

tim doherty who will be presenting this item for the ssmta and i want to turn it back to director ginsberg before we go into further conversation. >> thank you, chair boarden. and members of both the m.t.a. board and recreation and park commission. i want to acknowledge vice chair mcdonald. thank you for chairing this meeting today. this is an exciting opportunity for our organization to work together. [phone ringing] i want to thank you for the opportunity today and there have been few silver linings resulting from the pandemic. but as our city has sought to create safer places for residents and run and stroll through their parks and streets, the past 14 months have offered the opportunity to experiment with our public spaces and re-examine the configurations and uses with an eye toward the future. admittedly, change can be hard and as we continue to work to balance both the present and future needs of all san franciscans, we do so with boldness and with a reminder that great cities do great things. today we'll begin by setting the context for the great highway. its current conditions and

tim doherty who will be presenting this item for the ssmta and i want to turn it back to director ginsberg before we go into further conversation. >> thank you, chair boarden. and members of both the m.t.a. board and recreation and park commission. i want to acknowledge vice chair mcdonald. thank you for chairing this meeting today. this is an exciting opportunity for our organization to work together. [phone ringing] i want to thank you for the opportunity today and there have been few silver linings resulting from the pandemic. but as our city has sought to create safer places for residents and run and stroll through their parks and streets, the past 14 months have offered the opportunity to experiment with our public spaces and re-examine the configurations and uses with an eye toward the future. admittedly, change can be hard and as we continue to work to balance both the present and future needs of all san franciscans, we do so with boldness and with a reminder that great cities do great things. today we'll begin by setting the context for the great highway. its current conditions and