to do. c-span: before we run out of time i want to make sure i ask you, you really going to do a 24 hour monologue>> guest: i am. c-span: where? >> guest: it will happen twice. it will happen once on the west coast in portland, oregon in september and it will happen once on the east coast in new york city at under the radar festival in january. c-span: what are you going to talk about? >> guest: everything. it's called all the hours in a day, and the show was about a huge number of topics. it's an earnest attempts to create a gigantic story that actually compels people's interest, kind of like scheherazade, like the gold actually can make it compelling enough that people stay longer than they thought they ever would. and it's about many things, but in part it's an attempt to create a working definition of the american national character as having a strong streak of puritanism running right through the heart of it which on its positive side gives us our work ethic and on its negative side gives us repression. around that is a streak of anarchism and it's really an attempt to reconcile those things

go to bloomberg? bluebird of tv operations really. it's going to be a career ender. c-span what triggered the agent? >> guest: when i wanted to go to bloomberg i got a play like i am in the big leagues and have an agent. c-span: was that a hard decision? >> guest: the decision to part is always a hard decision, but you have to look at in the long run. it's not a financial decision per se. you are running a marathon when you're planning your career out. you're not sprinting. it's not a race. it's american. c-span: through all this are still single? >> guest: job. c-span: do many of your colleagues do that? >> guest: i think most of my colleagues have done that, yes. c-span: what is the verdict on trying to do all of this and have a family at the same time? >> guest: i don't know how -- i respect my colleagues tremendously, those colleagues that have families because i can barely get myself out the door in the morning, let alone getting little people at the door as well. c-span: here you are talking about options, whatever that is. >> options actions begins now. >> the show w

to work. c-span: now, are you going to go back after this volume and continue to do work in the library? >> guest: sure. c-span: have you been back since people have read this book? >> guest: well no, it just came out last week. c-span: and you haven't been down there since then? >> guest: no. c-span: will you talk about... you have a chapter in this book devoted to his wife, and someone who is still alive, lady bird johnson, and here is a photograph. do you happen to remember what year this photo was taken? >> guest: 1948. c-span: and what was he doing in this year? >> guest: he was running for the senate against the man on the other side of the page, the man with the pipe, coke stevenson. c-span: who at that time was...? >> guest: well, he was the former governor of texas. he was running against johnson for the senate. c-span: and the outcome of this election? >> guest: johnson won by 87 votes out of about a million votes that were cast. c-span: and one of the points that you make in this book is that he stole the election. >> guest: the election was stolen, yeah. c-span: and how do you

and if you're going to use it, say that there is a skew in the sample if you can. c-span: and what to ask what relocations in your life. go back to louisianan. what kind of shape is it in today after katrina and other things that have hit the state? >> guest: i mean, my relationship to it is very distant at this point. i mean, i kind of visit my local area, which is as north lullabies, you go 44 miles and you are in arkansas, so was north louisiana as you can get. was it really affected by the hurricane. and i hadn't visited -- this year was the first time i've been back to new orleans. i actually didn't want to see it, quite frankly. i kind of wanted to remember it the way i remember it. but when i was there, there were two things the were striking to me. first of all, you couldn't see the damage from the airport to the hotel. so i didn't see what a lot of people have seen. i didn't -- i just couldn't make myself go on one of those jurors. and i stayed in the french quarter. but you know there is a certain, you know, change in the vitality and the fabric of that city. yo

to frame an argument. and we did--we had some powerful conversations there. c-span: did you go to class all the time? >> guest: i went to class... c-span: i mean... >> guest: ...all the time. c-span: ...did you ever skip a class or cut a class? >> guest: i don't think i skipped any classes. i didn't always stay up in the reading, however. it was hard because i kept doing my job as film critic... c-span: at the new york magazine. >> guest: ...as--as film critic of new york magazine. and i have two children and an interesting wife and a normally busy, middle-class, new york life. no busier than anyone else's but busy enough. c-span: you say that you--i mean, i've read you in--in the book saying that you were a member of the sds out in stanford? >> guest: i was. in 1969, yes. c-span: threw--threw tomatoes at ronald reagan? >> guest: i threw a tomato at ronald reagan at sacramen--in sacramento in--in--at some sort of--we went--we--stanford sdsers went out to the valley with--with our cal--university of california brothers to protest a--to--a slight intuition increase at this magnificent state university.

c-span: how are they now? >> guest: seem to be doing fine. seem to be handling it well. c-span: after -- what are the chances you're goingdo you know yet? >> guest: that, i guess that's going to depend on a lot of things. how well i perform in the internship, whether or not they are hiring at the time that i'm finished, and, you know, whether they have the openings in the place that i want to go. that kind of stuff. c-span: at this stage in your recovery, how much therapy do you have on a weekly basis? >> guest: i do therapy, now that i'm doing the internship, four days a week. i usually go in around eight o'clock or nine o'clock, and i stay until one o'clock or two o'clock. an hour lunch break. c-span: what things do they have you doing now? >> guest: what i'm doing now is related to triathlon training and rowing training, and at first, they have you do a lot of strengthening of your core and hip flexors so that you're able to control your limbs and they do a lot of balance practice, and when you first get knees, they teach you how to use them, and then you just kind of do harder and harder stuff until you get to a poin

c-span: going back to this book, "the faculty lounges" and other reasons why you won't get the collegeeducation you paid for, who thought of that title? >> guest: that was me. c-span: where did you get the interest? was it at the journal when you started and what triggered the idea that you said ivan r. dee will publish this? >> guest: i try to sell it to other publishers too. c-span: who did you start with? >> guest: it was about three years ago but i have been covering higher education for a long time and i think what was the driving force behind this book again was the sense that i had this advantage that other people did not. i kind of understood what was going on behind the scenes in higher education vote because of my background in terms of my own family but also just because of all the reporting i had done on higher education and you know what happens when a student walks on a campus today, you know you were an 18-year-old and a walk onto a college campus and someone hands you a guide to this thick of it says pick anything. see what you like and administrators kind of tout it as

to be kidding. c-span: here we go. lating list of acronyms to explain why he was not responsible when stuff happened, an old phrase of yours, and this memoir is like a living breathing version of the man himself, it's totally absent any self-criticism. >> guest: false. anyone who read it knows i tried in there to talk about things that were disappointments or things that one might regret and do regret. i think what i've done is to try to set out not only my recollections and my opinions, but also documentation that supports it. c-span: do you read that stuff when -- >> guest: no. c-span: never? >> guest: my goodness gracious. c-span: why not? >> guest: why would one? she is a fixation and she's cynical. my wife read one and said i hope that women is not as cynical in all her life as she is in her columns because it would be an unhappy life. c-span: how do you filter information now that you're in civilian life? >> guest: i obviously use a computer, and i listen to news programs occasionally, and i read a lot. i read new

to in a very emotional direct way. and so we put some of those up and it's all quality journalism. c-span: so, how are we goingto deal with all this? we have three networks and a radio station. >> guest: i know, i listen to your radio station over the weekend. c-span: but you have what used to be a newspaper and now a website with video and, you know, i'm sure podcast and the whole thing. how are we going to deal with all of this information? evgeniy track's? >> guest: i think it makes the new york times more irreplaceable in our society because we do have authority and we are known for the quality of our journalism. i think people turn to us because they think they are going to read what is confirmed and truthful. c-span: succumbing your job is going to be harder than it used to be? >> guest: will come in terms of the competition, it's harder because you have to keep track of, you know, so many stories are breaking at any given moment. but, you know, to keep our focus on the ones that matter, and i think our editors and reporters are really good at zeroing in on the list. c-span: all right. give us one thing

sort of burst pop 3,000 use a day every day by day in and day out which is amazing to me at that level. c-span: we are going to look mostly today at the second video. what's that called? >> guest: the fight of the century. c-span: what's the basis? >> guest: we wanted to look at what the the stimulus package had worked. we wanted to go back in history and looked at health keynes in hijacked and how to get a set of recessions will to focus on that. c-span: how did you approach this one differently than the first one? >> guest: i think we wanted to make it sort of bigger and better in every way from a, you know, visual and audio way. so the song i think is a much bigger, bolder song. it's got a song refrain by richard murphy, eddie murphy's brother, and i think the other thing, too, is this in a lot of ways is complementary to the fear of the boom and bust where fear the boom and bust was a sort of your medical textbook macrojargon in this video was much more sort of the political economy, and sort of the applied theory. so they are really talking about how do these things impact the real world he's got to ta

c-span: did you go there? >> guest: oh, yes. both to the letters at dartmouth, and to the site at cornish. c-span: how many -- you know you said it, you used information from over 30 different institutions. how many different places did you physically go? >> guest: just about all of them. harvard, yale, collections in boston, collections in new york, collections here in washington. c-span: you hit chicago. >> guest: chicago, and i love that. i love that part of it. c-span: how many times did you go to paris in the middle of writing this? >> guest: at least once a year, so four times. we'd stay about two weeks or so. the research was almost all here, brian, because the letters are here. the diaries are here. the letters were written to people back home. the diaries were brought home. the diaries are accessible in this country, and as is of utmost importance, a newspaper which was published in paris in english, and the library of congress has the complete set of all of those newspapers. they are invaluable, and the paper is still a book s

c-span: i want to go to a project you're working on and start showing some of your photos. >> guest: ay. c-span: we can catch up how, and you can talk us through. first one is in alabama. why were you in alabama? >> >> guest: so i have a 30-year relationship with the library of congress, and they have been kind enough out of 14 million images to put me in the top six collections. last year, i was honored by a man by the name of george who funded me to go to the state of alabama as the first in a series of going all over the united states, to all the states, and photograph this beautiful, amazing state of alabama, so i spent all last summer, and, you know, you see all sorts of things here from the shrimp boats to historic structures to way out there, you know, everything about this beautiful state is just, in my estimation, makes me driewl. some of it i did on black and white cameras, others i did -- look at the beautiful flower gardens, the cemeteries, and i have traveled the united states for 30 year, and i i know it well, but i had not spent that much time in alabama, so when i went

going to do. you do every single thing that is in my brain right now. c-spanto sit in the book one of the things it's the patient bill laundered each to have a relationship with their primary care doctor back in other words you aware of that rather than waste that time. explain that. >> guest: one of the things i began to realize that is the relationship with my patients very strong is that sometimes that specialty is we try to commit like the special forces we just go we think about taking the two were held and we sometimes tend to think that that's it, that's all we can do what i've been able to do in my group and my team is to take for instance that a work in the laboratory to try to secure it and i get the patient involved will be in their care but being a part of history so they can donate. tecum strictly from the institution. so they feel a part of history. in my relationship with those patients continues to revolve beyond just taking care of the tumor and that is a rule that we can fulfil very well as green surgeon's especially the ones who specialize i

: if you go to our facebook page and check out the poll, you'll see that ron paul was the no. 1 vote-getter. if you want to continue to add to that, go to our facebook page, facebook.com/c-span. you will be able to see the entire list of political heroes. next up is shar on our line for democrats in iowa. caller: good morning. merry christmas to everyone. my hero is john edwards. he was an advocate for insurance, him and the roosevelts. i think they have been really -- thery have been too critical of him. he really did want to help the people. he was an advocate for -- my husband as multiple sclerosis -- has multiple sclerosis. he is in the hospital right now. i do not hear any of the political heroes talking about our insurance. our insurance is poor. host: are you able to separate the work that he did on behalf of insurance litigation vs some of the shortcomings that came up in his personal life? caller: i do not care about his personal life. john f. kennedy -- i would consider him a political hero. he would be right up there next to him. it does not make any difference. i think all of them do the same thing. host: we're going to move on to scott on a line for republicans,

c-span as a platform for attack. newt gingrich figured out how to use c-span, he figured out how to use cable tv, he's sold all these books. >> i'm going ton c-span tomorrow to sell a book. still works. >> well, far be it from me to criticize that, but that's what he's doing. >> you know, the interesting thing, i think our medium is pretty fascinating. don't criticize "hardball." would you slow it down?! would you stop interrupting people. nobody's ever said we're too slow. you guys are the best. thank you, howard fineman. and i can't keep track of the brilliant pieces of analysis you two come up with in just ten minutes. i need some sort of chronicle to keep up with your genius. hey, guys, thank you. happy holidays, but i'll see you sooner than that. >> see you soon. >>> coming up, mitt romney's campaign for president seems to have a lot in common with hillary clinton. this is no knock. they're both people running on tried and true records, have done great things in the past, very accomplished, but may not be caught up in the zeitgeist, the sense of what their parties want. hillary clinton was on the wrong side of the iraq war issue a

go to a republican in north carolina. good morning. caller: i was turning to the channels and i saw your show. i'm not a real fan of c-span. to get to work. there's one thing that is on my mind and blows my mind away. i used to be a democrat. then i realized, where are going now as a country? why can we just break the go,iers and say, let's economy. there are people that we will be following. i do not know. am i wrong? maybe you can enlighten me. host: argue following -- are you following? guest: maybe i am a leader. caller: i'm not voting in 2012. next election, when the have real leaders, i will probably vote because i'm not identifying with anybody. guest: there is a huge amount of dissatisfaction with barack obama. we can look at the disapproval ratings are the approval ratings. he is not the most popular guy in town. among republicans, there seems to be a broad base level of dissatisfaction with the available candidates. i think he is tapping into something that is widespread. what are the things that would replace that? this is where i think somebody like ron paul is fascinating. he was not saying that he is a messiah

c-span. for more information go to c-span.org and click on c-span series for prime minister's questions, plus links to international news media and legislatures around the world. you can watch recent video, including programs dealing with other international issues. >> in a few moments of the lighting ceremony for the u.s. capitol christmas tree. in 20 minutes former vice president dan quayle endorses mitt romney for president. and then president obama's speech in kansas on jobs and the economy. >> this capitol tree as a 65-foot white fir from california. yesterday's lighting ceremony was 20 minutes. >> good evening and welcome and 20 deaths its capitol christmas tree lighting ceremony. i'm stephen s. from the architect of the capital, and i'm honored to be your master of ceremonies this evening as we carry out this wonderful tradition which began right here on the west front of the capitol in 1964. for everyone's safety i ask that you remain in your seats until the conclusion of this evening ceremony. each year i look forward to this event to officially kick off the holiday season here on ca

it was wonderful. >> for the c-span viewers, we are going to have to play musical chairs. s really cool. we were not told up until this morning that c-span was going to be here. i did not know for sure. michele, welcome back, good to see you. >> we are always happy to be here. thank you. >> that is the morning guy. he is the boss. you are welcome anytime you want. >> lots of road to the white house coverage on c-span the head of the iowa caucuses tuesday. mitt romney this evening in his campaign, unveiling 10 additional stops for the weekend, saturday through monday. we will have mitt romney for you at a rally today in ames, iowa. earlier today, at an event we covered with rick perry in cedar rapids, he talked about rick santorum, calling him a prolific the marker -- earmarker. here is what he had to say. >> i do not get confused, but sometimes there records do not always match their rhetoric. i got great respect for senator santorum. we stand on the stage, i pray for his daughter on a daily basis, his little girl. the fact is -- he is a good man -- but money talks about ph

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that is going to be here on c- span. you can check in at 5:00 p.m. pacific time. w, we are going to take a look at senator rob portman, a member of the joint deficit reduction committee appeared monday, he said that changes should be made to entitlement programs to get the economy on track. following his remarks, economics dollars and former white house officials discussed the next steps for deficit reduction. this will be about an hour and 45 minutes. >> it is so convenient to listen to c-span any time anywhere, with the free c-span radio app. free streaming audio of c-span radio as well as all three c- span television networks. you can also listen to our original programs. c-span -- it is available wherever you are. find out more at c-span.org /radioapp. >> now to senator portman. monday, he said changes need to be made to entitlement programs to get the economy on track. following his remarks, economics scholars and former white house officials discussed the next steps for deficit reduction. we will take a look at the panel here. >> ok, now, we will look quickly

to waste time. the c-span audience is participating as well. ross, can we take calls from listeners from c-span? we will do that. let's go to dallas. jonathan, good morning. what is on your mind? >> thank you for having me on, first of all. i want to congratulate michele bachmann for being the strongest female in the republican race, by far. i think she is fantastic. ron paul is unelectable, with comments like we cannot build a fence on the border, because that would not keep people -- keep people from coming in, it would keep us from leaving. michele bachmann is up against not only the other candidates, but up against president obama, who has facebook, twitter, google, and youtube in its back pocket. i believe that helped him win the last election. no president should have the monopoly of those companies in their back pocket. not republican or democrat. i wanted to know what you think about that. >> i absolutely agree, jonathan. we have seen, whether it is the head of facebook or google, it is clear there is an alliance with the obama administration, as well as with nbc. i think that is very concerning. we do want to have a separa

going to be upset. >> host: this is c-span's "communicators" program. our guest, gordon smith, president and ceo of the national association of broadcasters and paul kirby, senior editor of telecommunications reports is our senior -- is our guest reporter. last week, senator smith, we had michael powell, the head of national cable television and communications association on this program. he talked about the telecommunications act. we're going to show that, and then i want to get your response. >> guest: great. >> guest: we're still regulating in very balkanized buckets. you're entitled to telecommunication carrier, if you use coaxial cable, you're a title vi provider. but when you have industries being whole service communication providers of every type and stripe, almost all regulatory questions now are gray because the act doesn't provide clarity, and it creates a lot of litigation, the heavy inefficiency in the statute. so it's either going to die under its own weight, and it's certainly growing in irrelevancy, i would argue, and at one point i thin

to nebraska. i've done all the others plus puerto rico. c-span: any plans to go back to your homeland?guest: is rather sentimental. has anyone said are you sad? i can't bear the idea of not going back. at least once. i couldn't do it now. it have to be so im on what they call a chemo holiday. c-span: we are out of time and i think the best way to end it is to say i'll see you in a couple years. >> guest: thank you very much. it is brian, it's not? >> author christopher hitchens died of pneumonia while battling as possible can there. he was 62.unfortune >> i awoke this morning to unfortunate guinness. a friend of mine and one of the world's most brilliant writers and analects, christopher hitchens estimate yesterday. christopher hitchens was a brilliant man who was a writer and a provocateur.have agreewith you may not have disagreed with him. i think everybody knew thater wl christopher hitchens was well-versed on the subject of which he spoke and could express it in a way unlike any other. ta i don't think there was a more erudite, knowledgeable individual on the face of this earth. he

going to mean less and less in this country. host: that was teddy in hagerstown, maryland. a couple of events coming from iowa live on c-span today. newt gingrich old town halls and i would -- he will be in mason city. alive at 11:30 a.m. this morning. and mitt romney is also going to be live on c-span. he will be in clinton, iowa, at home where's deli and bakery. also live at 1:40 p.m. on c- span2. michele bachmann will be in bed asserted, live at 1:00 p.m. today. and finally tonight at 8:00 p.m., ron paul host a salute to veterans in iowa. and you can find the full schedule of events that c- span.org. nick in tampa bay. how were you? we lost nick. we will move on to the needs of -- anita in mississippi. caller: thank god for c-span. i love your show and i catch it every morning. i am so sick and tired of this award conservative. every time it is applied to a republican candidate or any candidate that speaks ill against blacks and women. and what is going on in the united states, they use key words to say i am most conservative. i looked up the word conservative and i did not see racism anywhere near that word. but i watch

we are going to take a break, get an update on today's news from c-span radio. then on this holiday week, we're going to learn more about george washington's presidential leadership and the legacy that he gave to presidents as we go into this election year. we'll be right back. now to c-span radio. >> the youngest son of the late north korean leader kim jong il has a new title today. kim jong un is now the head of the ruling workers party, a post that gives him authority over political and military matters in the country. meanwhile, seoul says a private delegation of south koreans are in pyongyang to pay condolences to kim jong il and has met the late leader's son and heir. it appears to be kim jong un's first reported meeting with south koreans since his father's death, december 17. seoul's unification ministry said they paid respects at the palace, where kim jong il's body is lying in state. the widow of former south korean president kim dae jung, who held a summit in 2000, is one of the group's leaders. the other is the hyundai group chairwoman, whose late hus

to be notified, the air force saying they would be forthcoming. you can see that whole exchange on our c-span video library, if you wish. if you go to c-span.org, click on the video library link. it will be there for you to see, as well as other information that we've had over the past few weeks as well. danville, georgia. thanks for holding. dave, independent line, we're talking about the fact of fast and furious. caller: yes, i was wondering if the families of the deceased agents could personally sue for wrongful death. they might throw it out, but at least it would make a big splash, you know, sue the president. i mean, this is nothing more than chicago-style -- it's the way they run things in chicago, you know? i mean, lie, lie, lie. cbs uncovered some email, this was their plan, put the guns down there, blame american citizens, and then the justice department, the a.t.f. will be able to crack down on u.s. citizens, and the problem is not that, the problem is the government, you know, trying to do this subterfuge to get guns away from people. on the bright side, since obama was elected, i'd say probably another five, 10, 15 m

going to have a list of suggestions. i am going to talk about two things. there are two things that have not been talked about. if it is possible for people to go to the c-span washington journal library and look up impact two or three months and fined a guest that was on with the last name rubin. she made a freudian slip and said that basically romney was going to be the nominee, had already been selected by some other method besides people deciding, and if you try to go back and fix it, people can go back and check that. the other one was that no media ever challenges the fed, and people are being steered toward close some entity once to be president. mccain ran with palin. obviously, these two people were not going to be wanted for president and vice-president. people that would not make it, could not make it. then, you have people running for president on the republican side, and they are obviously not people we would have really chosen if we could choose ourselves. people are being steered. i do not believe in this political system. i am 63. i am watching it, and this is more like the movie "rollerball" like a sports team. you pick your team and hope it

types of systems however, but that seems to me going forward a major area that we are going to have to focus on. >> host: you are watching "the communicators," c-span's we can look at telecommunications and telecommunications policy. our guest, dale hatfield is joining us from denver. he's a professor at the university of colorado and he is also a member of the commerce department spectrum management advisory committee. he is also the former engineering and technology chief at the federal communications commission. he has about 50 years of experience in telecommunications, policies particularly spectrum issues and he is considered one of the leading experts on spectrum in the nation. paul kirby of telecommunications reports is our guest reporter. >> guest: one of the things you may have referenced earlier i think was dynamic spectrum access technology. that's technology that started with the defense department as they tried to make basically reuse the spectrum and improve its efficiency i believe i-10 times. give us a sense of what this would do and how this could help going forward. >> guest: well i believe it could help enormously because as i indi

go to the phones. betty, a republican in long island. caller: good morning. thank you, c-span. first of all, what is going to happen in two months? when are they going to start this meeting and getting together? it's not until the middle of january, for the senators who get five weeks' vacation. we are going to start all over again with the same people arguing and fighting back and forth. i don't think this will get done. people out there that call and complain about and not getting air brakes and whatnot, -- not getting tax breaks and what not, you get what you deserve. you voted these people in. we need to start all over again because we need the help. host: connecticut, lisa, a democrat. caller: thanks for taking my call. i am extremely disappointed in the way congress handled this whole situation. the situation with december 31 looming should never have happened. enough backbiting and arguing man acting like angry children when they don't get their way. that's enough. we the middle class need a break. we need some help from washington and we are not getting it. that's the wa

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. >> i think judges do take opportunities across the country to go into different forums to talk about different issues. i've seen on c-spanpreme court judges, appellate court judges, district judges, i've seen them go into different venues and talk about, you know, ideology or talk about the law, the constitution. and i don't think there's anything wrong with having a judge come before members of congress to give their thoughts. they've done that on many occasions. >> professor turley, in a blog post today, you write, "it is the very definition of demagogue to dangle out the image of judges being clapped in irons to satisfy citizens angry over decisions by judges. article iii is designed to guarantee independence from people like gingrich so that judges can rule in favor of the constitution, and yes, at times, take positions disliked by the majority." i think you went on to say, other than that, it's fine with you. i'm joking. respond, if you would, to congressman watts. >> well, there's a great deal wrong with this. it's perfectly robes pearian. this is part of the danger that lies in any free nation, that you can cause

go to c-span.org and get all the details. go there and you'll see in this series, you will see a lot of the different c-span series that are available and go to ahtv, american history tv, and on book tv this weekend as well, a new book, december 19, 1941. and now will be saturday on both tv which is c-span2 on the weekends. u.s. office quiet aid to european debt talks. senior u.s. officials are planning a behind-the-scenes role in the efforts to contain it european debt crisis, cajoling their region's leaders to take steps to calm the markets and try to mediate among competing governments. that is in the kit you washington post" this morning. back teacher calls on the president's speech yesterday. under $150,000, hello. caller: i would like to say that i agree with most of the callers. the lady on disability, she was a beneficiary of democratic programs and she is not going to vote for them, she is shooting yourself in the foot. trickle-down economics means that money goes into the top and it remains to the top and it is supposed to trickle-down to the workers and create demand. what happens is it trickles out overseas with the mone

to government, u.s. government securities agencies and corporates or -- >> see the rest of this testimony in the c-span video library. go to c-span.org. we are going live now this morning to the council on foreign relations here in washington where remarks from homeland security secretary janet napolitano. she's just returned from a meeting of interior ministers in paris. her speech this morning is expected to focus on strengthening global travel and trade networks and securing cyberspace. this is c-span2. >> via a password-protected teleconference. we'll see how well that password protection works. now, one thing, and this is an excellent reminder to me as well, we're going to turn these off altogether, not just on to vibrate, because the radio signal will interfere with the broadcast. so, please, turn off all cell phones. this meeting is on the record. that is a reminder to everyone. and before we begin, i just wanted to look ahead on the council's schedule. on december the 14th there's an upcoming meeting you may be interested in, the geopolitics of the arctic with scott borgson. if for more information on the upcomi

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. >> it is just as tough to go up there to the arizona memorial as it was then, on the day i saw it burning. >> this weekend, c-span-3 marks the 70th anniversary of the attack on pearl harbor, from oral history, eyewitness accounts of veterans and survivors. next weekend, more programs about pearl harbor as historians join us to take your phone calls. sunday, december 11th, beginning at 5:00 a.m. eastern. >> this week on "the communicators," a discussion on broadband spectrum. >> this week on "the communicators," we are pleased to introduce you to dale hatfield. he is a member of the commerce department specter management committee. he is also a professor at the university of colorado, and he is considered to be one of the nation's foremost experts on spectrum and spectral policy. he joins us this week on "the communicators." if we could, a lot of talk here on washington -- in washington about spectrum shortage. what does that mean to you, and is there a spectrum shortage? >> that is a really good and very fundamental question. the radio spectrum is the parts that we are most interested in. it is already allocated

and mitt romney is also going to be live on c-span.in clinton, iowa, at home where's deli and bakery. .- homer's also live at 1:40 p.m. on c- span2. michele bachmann will be in bed ford asserted, live at 1:00 p.m. today. and finally tonight at 8:00 p.m., ron paul host a salute to veterans in iowa. and you can find the full schedule of events that c- span.org. nick in tampa bay. how were you? -- how are you? we lost nick. we will move on to the needs of -- anita in mississippi. hi. caller: thank god for c-span. i love your show and i catch it every morning. i am so sick and tired of this award conservative. every time it is applied to a republican candidate or any candidate that speaks ill against blacks and women. and what is going on in the united states, they use key words to say i am most conservative. i looked up the word conservative and i did not see racism anywhere near that word. but i watch c-span and cnn and i even watched fox to see what's lies they are telling -- host: are you a republican? caller: i am an independent. host

to be tified, the air forcesaying they would be forthcoming. you can see that whole exchange on our c-span video library, if you wish. if you go to c-span.org, click on the video library link. it will be there for you to see, as well as other information that we've had over the past few weeks as well. danville, georgia. thanks for holding. dave, independt line, we're talking about the fact of fast and furious. caller: yes, i was wondering if the families of the deceased agents could personally sue for wrgful death. they might throw it out, but at least it would make a big splash, you know, sue the president. i mean, this is nothing more than chicago-style -- it's the way they run things in chicago, you know? i mean, lie, lie, lie. cbs uncovered some ema, this was their plan, puthe guns down there, blame american citizens, and then the justice department, the a.t.f. will be able tcrack down on u.s. citizens, and the problem is not that, the problem is the government, you know, trying to do this subterfuge to get guns away from people. on the bright side, since obama was elected, i'd say probably another five, 10, 15 million gun

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