c-span: and a woman. that seemed to be also very important. pick off any of those. >> guest: and just go with them? c-span: what impact did they have, each one of those in your life? >> guest: being a woman wasn't really an issue. as i mention in the book, my father and my mother as well, but particularly my father -- you know, fathers and daughters have this special relationship -- really never at any point said that i couldn't do what a man did. now, it wasn't put in those terms. it was just you will be a surgeon or you will be a trial lawyer or that kind of thing. there was never any comparison made, so it never occurred to me that i couldn't do anything that lofty. in fact, it didn't seem lofty. it seemed kind of a natural thing to do, which was odd for somebody that was an immigrant, especially an italian immigrant, who would more likely be thinking of where i would get married and settle down and how many kids i would have. catholic, yes. it was a catholic family. i went to catholic schools. i bought the line. i still buy the line. c-span: have you stayed with your religion all your life? >> g

i didn't know if i was ever going to be able to be in a relationship again. c-span she read the book? >> guest: yes, just when we were friends. c-span: so, i mean you said yourself some of the journalists today blame you for the relationship with the journalists in the future with the military. do you think that's accurate? >> guest: i think that's nonsense. it's overblown. and the other thing i would say, what is our relationship with the military gaining us over the past few years? i would say not very much, you know. this idea that oh media military relationship is destroyed because of "the rolling stone" story is pretty crazy. the other thing i think that has been a healthy democracy, you know he probably want this media and the military relationship to be strained. again, the deck is stacked against us. 27,000 pentagon employees working on $4.6 billion in what is the budget of all the couple euros and the budget of all the baghdad euros to work? it is dwarfed by the pentagon message is pushing out, dwarfs -- c-span: do we know as americans, reading the american

going to be in. it was very hard to get him. c-span: what will happen when he no longer is in power? >> guest: i think there is going to be a tremendous power struggle inside cuba. i still believe that it will happen pretty soon. there is a lot of problems right now between him and his brother -- raul is trying to seize power or be in a position to seize power if anything happens to fidel, and there is a lot of problems, in my opinion, between raul's group and all the groups in the cuban military. we have seen, for example, the execution of general eschowa which was from a different group, the group of cuban generals who were in africa, the cuban generals that were in angola, in ethiopia, in nicaragua, and the other group that are just friends to raul castro, which is not part of that elite corps. there is a lot of problems among both groups or between both groups in there. c-span: today, tell us your status. are you an american citizen? >> guest: yes, i am. c-span: how long have you been one? >> guest: since 1969. c-span: how long did you serve in the u.s. military? >> guest: well, a

c-span: i'm going to go back to the book at page 356 and have you explain it to us non-lawyers. >> guest: us. c-span: i knew you were going to do that. that's fair. i caught it just -- the teacher will never forgive. all right. tech chiewrists -- text ualist should be called strict constructionists. it's a pagorative. is that correct? >> guest: i think that people tell me that pejroative is the correct pronunciation. c-span: whether they know it or not, strict constructionism opposed to fair reading text textualism is not one to be taken seriously, and you mention laying hands on a priest. >> guest: right. c-span: would you like to explain that? >> guest: a statute made it a crime to lay hands on a priest, and does that mean if you shake hands or pat him on the shoulder? of course not. it's used colloquially to mean violent attack upon a priest and a lot of other things. the first amendment, for example, if you are strict constructionist, you would say that the first amendment does not prohibit congress from censoring handwritten letters because it only protects freedom of speech and of

i went to college and he was killed before i finished college. c-span: where to go to school? >> guest: chapel hill north carolina. c-span: and is your father and mother still alive? >> guest: yes, they are still in atlanta. c-span: still in the business? >> guest: no comegys retired now -- c-span: and his business what kind of dry cleaning? >> guest: dry cleaning and laundry; had a lot of them all across the land, carriage cleaners. c-span: about your mom, what did she do? >> guest: she helped -- we all helped in the laundry. it was kind of a family business, and then she later went into real-estate a little bit. c-span: and you live now we're? >> guest: in baltimore maryland after living here in washington for a number of years. c-span: if we saw you in your environment where you're putting all this together and actually writing what would it look like? >> guest: it's a little cubbyhole in the rest of the turret of an old victorian house with files for all the way down through -- and the basement, fireproof files that go all over the place accumulated over these 16 years. but

to homer. c-span: i want to run an audio tape. whited lady bird let those tapes go way ahead of the planned supposed to be 50 years after lyndon johnson's death? >> guest: don't know. c-span: how useful habit ntu? >> guest: to me they are quite amazing. i mean, when we see -- but we want to find out how johnson has been in congress to his will, just to take one thing in this book and you learn so much because what he's saying to people. everyone says johnson was talking all the time. when johnson needed information, he's not talking. practically his first call, the night he gets back -- the senator from florida. more important, i lyndon johnson could really count. he was a pragmatic senator. i believe it's the very same night, to ask about the situation is that the bill in a civil rights bill. he just hear from lyndon johnson for quite some time, but then he starts to talk to bring senators around, representatives around and you say wow, this is a genius at banning people to his will. c-span: here's the tape your bobby kennedy is on the tape. >> can we have fbi peop

minutes to understand what's going on with their heart condition, whether there are other ways of changing the lifestyle or other aims. it's much easier to say who go into the lab and put a stent in. c-span how did you get to the cleveland clinic you have in the documentary, how did you find you find asner? >> guest: we were reading "the new york times" and there's an article about a doctor outside of washington d.c. who is basically putting in way too many stands. this article explains overtreatment and not one of the doctors quoted was the head of cardiology at the cleveland clinic. so we gave him a call and asked him to be in our film and he agreed and it threw him that we learned more about the clinic as a model for health care. in speaking with them, one of dr. shows patience. c-span: here is here is more to continue that part of the story. >> how are you? >> i have great. >> she came to see me when she was at her with sand. she had had bypass surgery at an early age. 27 cardiac catheterization and well over 7 cents. this is just an unbelievable amount of students. >> i'm sorry, it's going to get pretty tight. >> i can't tell you how shocked we were when we saw her for the first tim

to him in that campaign. c-span: as i remember, you even had the details of the ambulance ride going to the hospital. >> guest: that's right. c-span: his wife was in the ambulance with him. >> guest: his wife and joe, and i talked to his kids and also to ted kaufman, who is his closest aide and was right there at the hospital with them. c-span: you've got quotes from her saying some strong language to the driver. >> guest: yes. you know, they had an ambulance from wilmington, and they were going down to walter reed. the wilmington ambulance guys didn't know where the heck walter reed was on the washington beltway. there were maryland cops supposed to pick them up at the state line, and they never met them. it was the middle of a snowstorm. bo biden, the senator's oldest son, was riding shotgun in the lead cop car, and he had a ball cap on and a parka and the state cop who was leading them must have thought that bo was some kind of federal swat team guy or secret service guy or something they get into maryland, and he turns to bo, who was, i think, at the time about 18 years old, and he said, "where are we goi

if we don't address this, it's just going to, you know, it's going to continue to tear the country apart. c-spanat the end of 2011, you made a speech in los angeles. and i would like to share a quick. >> guest: the population that i'm working with on the streets of all tomorrow, they don't believe that anything can be different. they don't believe that anything can be different than the four square blocks of a live-in and that's the reality that it is. you know, what i want to propose to some of you folks is changing the language a little bit and creating a new model. maybe healing from another dimension. one that takes us out of this position of being victims of the government and everything that has happened to us. because that will go on forever. that is just the nature. so what can we do to operate from the now? i am talking to the folks on the street. saying that if you you want things to change in your life, if you want things to change in your family and community, and you're going to have to be part of this change. c-span: why are you doing this? >> guest: because it's who i am. it is my

c-span: so how long are you going to teach? > guest: i'm going to teach until -- i'm going to teach as long as i can maintain high mental faculties. c-span: have you missed any of that? >> guest: in what sense? c-span: things you wanted you had in your life besides write a column and right books and speak and be a professor and a penchant for rush limbaugh and his radio show. >> guest: i don't think i missed missed anything and as i used to tell my wife, the day i die i want to have taught that morning. i love teaching and i don't see myself retiring. and i think i have led a charmed life in the following way, i am happy doing everything i do. i look forward to doing what i'm doing and in the late part of july i began to get -- and looking forward to classes beginning. c-span: year-round where do you live? i know here in our are pretty live most of the time? >> guest: my primary residence is in a far more patriotic part of our country, namely valley forge. c-span: what do you do in that community? >> guest: i took a job at georg

to that. c-span: we still try to find this list of people. >> guest: you've piqued my curiosity. i have to go and do it. c-span: one thing is getting information. how hard was it for you to get this information in holland to take you to do this? >> guest: josh had a lot of the information is not the because he had been following the company for years and years. i summoned my notebook because i've been following the company in writing about it since 1995 or six another step towards at ford's then later at the paper. so pleasant starting from scratch. we both have a lot of experience with the area with the crisis occurred with it to that. so i think it took nine months to rate it. c-span: is there information you'd like to have -- obviously there's also some information, but that she can't get into in washington d.c. because there's an excuse for holding it up. you mentioned something in here about hud held back information on mortgages. on a day-to-day basis, how much information is being withheld? >> guest: right now it's hard to say. early on this quite a bit of control of the information. i

c-span: who will like it the least? >> guest: i think the people exposed. so if you are an executive at a too big to fail bang, you're not goingto be happy this book explains the power influence to exercise over the government. c-span: some of those in the front cover, jamie diamond. >> guest: in the fact they called their institutions be broken up through the afterward also make them not like it. and the officials named. i name the names, lay out the conversation. so whether secretary geithner for the people i was working with. c-span: i know what to ask you or you will vote for politics, but will it make a difference based on what you seem if either the republican or democrats win in november? >> guest: but it seems the power, unfortunately no. both candidates at this point have only committed to continuing a status quo essentially that allows large financial institutions to exist in their current form. neither kennedy supported breaking up the banks. as of yet at least. right now i think there are some differences in some policies around the edges, but the core issue of preserving this corrupting influence in washington, ne

you can go to facebook.com/c- span. is college worth going into debt? let's go to new york and hear from marian wang. she is the education reporter for propublica joining us byvia skype. >> thank you for having me. >> what got you interested in the area of student debt? >> there are record numbers for student debt. i began covering education. i got sucked into it. so much is happening in that space. there are hard economic times that is putting an extra crunch on students and families at a time and college costs keep rising. >> we showed audiences the -- the conversation you participated in a couple of months ago. the scope of the issue and the size of the student debt that we are dealing with these days. >> the government issued more than a hundred billion dollars in student loans to families and grad students and parents carries. over all, the big number that you'll hear is this past year that student debt exceeded one trillion dollars. that is a big number. it also exceeded outstanding credit card debt. those are two big milestone to hear a lot. >> a

c-span: when did you start to travel? >> guest: i started in 1991, beginning in new england and traveling north and west, going to places like alaska, coming back around down into utah and louisiana. c-span: why did you want to do this? >> guest: well, i found myself very perturbed and frustrated with, what i perceived at the time, to be the definition of black in america. a lot of the stereotypes i was seeing in the news media, you know, magazines, television shows just seemed be very limiting. plus, i was very worried about perceptions a lot of young folk were having about the limitations on what their own identity meant, and--and there were certain insecurities on my own part. within certain segments of the african-american community, there can be certain attitudes that somebody is blacker than another person and this 'blacker than thou' attitude, and i found that, you know, again, baseless and i really wanted to apply geography to the question in a way that i hadn't seen done a great deal. c-span: how many towns did you stop in that you write about in your book? >> guest: i think ultimately there are about 23 included, b

[applause] >> we are going to have a q&a and the c-span person is going to walk around with that instead of me and he wants to catch you, so don't start talking until he gets there. so if you want to be on c-span, raise your hand. would anybody like to ask me a question or talk about something? oh, come on. does anyone want to say something? >> go ahead. >> i've read that i guess maybe it's common knowledge that when rupert murdoch purchased the "wall street journal" he was trying to take away circulation on "the times" and he was introducing that greater new york section. do you know if he's been successful with that? >> i think he's been moderately successful. he has a great amount of financial resources and he's pouring them in. i don't think he's in any way met the goal of being a national newspaper on the level of ""the times". i think clearly he had some setbacks in england for his stature which has undermined the regard in which he's held. but certainly, that picks up some readership for him and he's moved into more sports criticism. he's made that effort and maybe more is forthco

we will have a special welcome to date c-span who is going to be a proverbial fly on the wall today coming and we appreciate your being here as well, c-span. we are honored truly to have a friend, not that old but a longstanding friend, harold holzer who is the co-chair of the u.s. bicentennial commission whose authors and co authored 30 books on lincoln in the civil war -- seems like more. a specialist of lincoln in the civil war infantry and has a collection for that matter as well. he earned the lincoln prize for the union and has also won the award four times and the fraiman award in chicago in the round table and three achievement awards in the lincoln group of new york. he's also the senior vice president for the external affairs of the metropolitan museum in new york. he has a job. so today's book we are featuring is the newest and the latest called lincoln president-elect abraham lincoln and the great secession 1863 co 1861. simon and shuster publishes it and its $30. james mcpherson rights that this is, quote, detailed and gripping narrative with new information and key insight an

going to make eight lot prettier. [laughter] a lot easier to look at and watch c-span. t to be -- i think remains to be seen but way things are going right now, i don't see it will make vast difference in way things are handled now. few women really just rise up lead the charge it can make a great bit of difference. hope. ly be more efficient. >> until we have representative government where 51% of the members of congress and senate are women then -- and i think we're basically right now because we have -- we're not there. >> we're not there. we only had 44 women total serve in the senate. we have 20 of them right now. that says how far we've come. but we're still not there. >> absolutely. >> let's face it, when -- if she speaks up, she's a democrat. i would imagine that she is not going to be very pro-war. if on the other hand she's a democrat who spoke out sometimes about war in ways that in fact were more she might be different. i don't think that's -- mccain was a veteran. he is a veteran republican who speaks about war the way it affects a republican to do. i would

c-span. >> for more information go to c-span.org and click on c-span series were prime minister's questions, plus links to international news media and legislatures around the world but you can also watch recently given going programs deal with other international issues. >> greases opposition party leader spoke at the brookings institution yesterday about his country economic crisis. this is an hour 20 minutes. >> welcome, everyone. welcome to brookings. welcome to go to members of the diplomatic community. ambassador from greece, ambassador from cyprus, and ambassador from malta. and, of course, a special welcome to ambassador alexis tsipras, the u.s. ambassador to hungary. so many of you are here. i know many were here for the inauguration, the first working day of the second term. our first major event here at brookings in the second term. and yesterday president obama's second inaugural address has already called a manifesto for liberalism, bolstered his supporters on a range of issues, and his credits are already complaining he is preaching to the choir, or worse, that he reaffirmed t

c-span. for more information go to c-span.org, click on c-span series for prime minister's question, plus links to international news media and legislatures around the world. you can watch recen recently do including programs dealing with other international issues. >> all of us worked hard for causes way before we got to the white house. the white house just was an enormous push up. i think the ladies would agree that the day before you are married to the president-elect, nobody gives a darn what you say. and the day after he is the president-elect, people think you're brilliant and your cause is very good. [laughter] that helps. >> spent a new original series, first ladies, influencing image, their public and private lives, interests and their influence on the president, over 44 administration. season one begins presidents' day february 18 at 9 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. >> today, a look at automobile fuel efficiency. >> derksen is going to pass a bill. it will be a good bill on civil rights. can do all get him to agree to come off coach with you and go o

to, facebook.com/c-span. the hash tag on twitter and coverage on c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. i would encourage you to go to our website, too. you get video on demand and the visual blog page. that and much more on our virtual and our website and virtue wall presence. on the democrats line, hello? hier, you're on. caller: hello. this is a.j. i think that the congress should pass the bill. i think they should stop delaying. i think they should go ahead on and pass. we are in debt, and if you're in debt then you are supposed to pay your bills. the government is not supposed to shellac on their bills. if you owe a bill, you're supposed to pay it. host: so do you think the senate will come up with a hard budget? caller: well, let's just do the bill first. host: well, that's part of the proposal from the house for some type of budget from the senate. caller: well that wasn't it before until -- that wasn't like that until the president said that he was not going to debate this debt crisis. and if they wanted to do that they should have done that before time. let's stop playing games. host: first from pennsylva

c-span. we're going to head over to georgetown in washington, where president karzai is speaking live. this is live coverage here on c-span. we're waiting for afghan president hamid karzai appearing here in georgetown. earlier we just showed some of the reporting from the press conference, president obama and the afghan president says they want to sleed up the moving afghan forces into the lead and u.s. troops shifting to a support role. there are 66,000 u.s. troops in afghanistan. the leaders also said that president obama agreed to place detainees under the afghan government. again, waiting for afghan president hamid karzai. georgetown university is also where the u.s. women's council is located. again, waiting here at georgetown university, we're live tonight waiting for hamid karzai. he met with president obama and they spoke at a press conference earlier today. we're going to bring you that press conference again tonight you can watch it here at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on c-span. the two leaders have agreed to speed up slightly the move afghan forces into the lead in that country. t

c-span video library. check it out at c-span.org. let's go to carl from pennsylvania. on the republican line. go ahead, please. caller: hello? host: are you with us? we will go to jerome in pennsylvania, democrats line. good morning. caller: my name is jerome. i registered democrat. i'd like to first say thank you for the cable companies, thank you for c-span. my comment about senator hagel is that i think a lot of the people that would be opposing senator hagel are doing so because they cannot believe that an enlisted man in the army could rise to the post of secretary of defense. that is all i have to say. host: thanks for the call. you touched on that earlier. guest: i don't think that is true. we have already had an enlisted man become secretary of defense, during the clinton years. i don't think it prohibits you. i don't think it gives you much an advantage in running. that does not mean the services not vastly appreciated, but the area that it translates into being a batterer good, i don't think the evidence is there. host: chris jones calling iraq the single biggest foreign policy blun

i tend to flip over, especially if there's something important going on, coverage of the florida works are not going to see that. c-span is where you find something important going on that's not otherwise covered. even listen to c-span radio in my car. >> we talked to her about the book on the campus of georgetown university.ning whos >> on your screen is professor chandra manning, author of this book, "what this cruel war wasv, over: soldiers, slaery, and the civili war". thi professor mannion, what was your approach to this book worksoacht >> the first thing about approach is to give me way too much credit when you say i th approach. the book is not at all the book i thought it was going to write when i started. i started with an interest in civil war soldiers and a desire to read their mail, butriting eysolutely no intention of everh writing about soldiers in, none i was enlisted in the regular farmers and shopkeepers in the not slaveholders and northern iain growers so i was really interest did thn people who lived in an 18th century thought about this thing called the nation. what did you mean if you're from diffe

to go. i am just so concerned, but i appreciate c-span so much. this is the first time that i've ever been able to call and i just wondered if the times had heard about that, and i'd like to see them report these kind of things in the times. >> host: mr. gordon? >> guest: i think that the call has raised a good point. we have reported some of these things. first of all there is nothing to speak of an iraq. a lot of them are from years ago in and out of the country well before, you know, any of the american war there and one of my colleagues, "new york times" colleagues actually found life and one of the few remaining jews in baghdad and he wrote a story about it, but the man was so petrified that about being found out that it was all worked through a series of a think intermediaries and the had to interview him in a very indirect way because that's the point that there. as far as christians are concerned, the call is right that there have been persecutions and not by the government, but you know, there's a lot of fashion's there. al qaeda is there

get them to c-span by friday, january 18 perchance at the grand prize of $5,000. for more details, go to studentcam.org. >> a hearing looking into the abuse of refugee programs by terrorists. hosted by a house homeland security subcommittee and chaired by representative patrick meehan, this is just under an hour and a half. >> tthe committee on homeland security and subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence will come to order. the subcommitttee is meeting today to hear testimony regarding the exploitation of refugee prgrams by terrorists. i would like to welcome everyone to today's hearing. i look forward to hearing from today's witnesses from the department of homeland security and the state department. i would also like to take this opportunity to thank them for taking the time to be here with us today. you are all dedicated public servants and we thank you for the hard work you do on a day- to-day basis. i know you have provided extensive briefings to my staff over the last year on this issue and i greatly appreciate your assistance on this important issue. from 2004 to 200

c-span. for more information go to c-span.org and click on c-span ceres for prime minister's questions plus links to international news media and legislatures around world. you can also watch recent video including programs dealing with other international issues. >> i think that's collective of the minds of america's founding fathers is particularly dangerous because as i say so often in the book they were not a collective unit. presenting them as such tends to dramatically oversimplify the politics of the founding generation and come to use as a big battering ram to beat people over the head with in ways that are historically incoherent and unsound. >> university proposed an english professor michael austin on what he calls the deep historical flaws by conservative commentators and their use of america's founding history. he shares those views with stores washington university associate professor david montana on booktv's afterwards sunday at 9:00 p.m. and midnight eastern on c-span2. you are watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs weekdays featuring live coverage of the u.s. senate.

going to vote. this is interesting. if you enjoy c- span. if you are going to watch this vote slowly.people that have been against this and there is going to be a slow dance. >> catherine: you are saying they are kind of playing chicken? >> yes with each other and even in the same party. who will cast that deciding vote? nobody really wants to be the deciding vote. but this is a big victory for the president. there are a lot of things that no other president would cast. and this sets up which is going to be a wild and woolly and very divisive fight later this year >> catherine: the biggest sticking point remains for the republicans with not enough spending cuts? >> they wanted more spending. the sequester was about net spending cuts. however, they have offset the sequestered for two months with the tax increases. that is what obama got that people to not understand. he received a lot of the exemptions for people faced out. he got a lot of research and removal tax energy critics into this bill truck i think the president is pleased. >> catherine: and i hope that they decide soon. >> an

on c-span, and go to our web site c-span.org to follow all of our programming.o the hurricane sandy release -- -- relief, here is " the new york daily news ." are you keeping track of where the votes are? guest: with members of congress, we put all vote alerts, and we try to explain what we think the right to vote would be, but in this case, again, a lot of that money is not going anywhere near new jersey or to aid victims, in a lot of the money has very little oversight. i think we ought to find out exactly what the people need. we think flood insurance should be a state and local responsibility, not a federal responsibility. here, people paid premiums, and there was no money to pay off half contractual -- contractual obligations. that isn't the way to run the program. it is distorted because the federal current does not know how to price, and the insurance industry likes the program because they are paid to administer it and they take on none of the risk. you have a perverted risk estimations on all sides, and it leads up to obligations with no money to pay it

going to bring the whole republican caucus in? and a lot of people would like to have the negotiations broadcast on c-span. host: are mcconnel and bide then team now going forward? guest: it changes all the time. at one time we thought we'd have a deal between biden and cantor. then we thought boehner and obama. reid and mcconnel have a good relationship. they've struck deals before. that's the interesting thing about the new congress. we don't know who the main principles are going to be an president obama has shown a distaste for these gos. that's why he got biden involved. host: what about the new member, how will they be the same or different than the 112th congress, the tea party freshmen we saw, how are they they same or different? guest: i don't see a lot of similarities. there are some republicans in conservative districts coming new york stockman, from texas, he likes john boehner but he's not going to vote for him, expressing concerns about his conservative credentials. overall, much different freshmen class. democrats picked up eight seats in the house. they cut into the house republican majority

to have any questions. [inaudible question] >> could. by the way, this is being filled by c-span and is going to be on television ask me some good questions. the questions? we have one. >> hello. can i ask you in spanish? >> short. of translate it for c-span, assuming i understand it. >> are correct. [speaking in native tongue] >> the question was, how then i began -- this is for c-span. how did i began as a writer. my first book was my doctoral dissertation which i wrote during the seven years i was in the foreign service. it was about an argentine to will probably the most important figure in argentine history. but was down lecturing a couple to three months ago about him and other things. my doctoral dissertation, ambassador to the united states, president of argentina, but he wrote a lot of books. the one book have translated from spanish to english as one of his books on the united states. my first book was really my doctoral dissertation which i was living in princeton them, now in morristown, new jersey. i took a across the street to princeton university press and the like the idea and

going to happen? that is what i have to say. but charles in new mexico, republican line. you are on c-span, charles. >> i just have to quit commons. -- two quick comments. we got into a bind and had to do without electricity for three months. now we are back on track and everything is fine. as far as the debt ceiling, if i walked into the bank and said i really cannot afford to pay my loans, can you raise my limit? they would let -- they would laugh me out of the bank. where are we as a country? >> that is charles in new mexico. several hundred more tweets have come in since we last looked at these. lance in california on the independent line. you are on the air. >> thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to say that congress is dealing with a president who has family in values, with high morals. he doesn't care about the cost, he cares about the people. that is something they don't get, they don't understand, and they are not going to get it. thank you very much. >> cleveland, ohio, another independent. >> my comments is about the oath of office that these guys take when they get elec

c-span is where you can find something that's important that's going on that's not otherwise covered. even listen to c-span radio in my car. >> bob schiff watches c-span on directv. c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979. brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >> last month the economist magazine hosted an all day festival in new york city titled the world in 2013. one of the discussions focused on how data gathering is being used to save lives and privacy concerns have arisen. speakers include the chief digital officer of new york city, and the president of the polytechnic institute in troy, new york. just over 20 minutes. >> i just wanted to -- give a little introduction to the session we are about to start. we have been hearing all day about data and how it's increasingly powerful force in our life. the speakers that are going to be coming on after me are going to talk exactly about that and we are looking forward to a lively debate. the first speaker is going to be the honorable shirley ann jackson. she's the 18th president of rensular polytech nique instit

c-span. and or 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 also watch recent video including programs dealing with other international issues. >> the greatest honor history can bestow is the title of peacemaker. this honor now beckons america, the chance to help lead the world at last out of the valley of turmoil and onto that high ground of peace that man has dreamed of since the dawn of civilization. >> we must embark on a bold new program for making the benefits of our scientific advances and industrial progress available for the improvement and growth of underdevelop canned areas. >> this weekend on american history tv, public radio's back story with the american history guys who explore the history and traditions of presidential inaugurations live saturday morning at 11 eastern. part of three days of american history tv right through inauguration day on c-span3. >> after winning another six-year term in october, health concerns have forced venezuelan presid

see it in its entirety, go to the c-span video library at cspan.org. the u.s. senate returning from recess to give members to review changes to senate filibuster rules. leaders agreed to the changes this morning. now to live coverage of the u.s. senate here on c-span2. quorum call: the presiding officer: the senator from south dakota. mr. thune: madam president, i ask unanimous consent that the period of morning business be extended until 3:00 p.m. today and that all provisions of the previous order remain in effect. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: and, madam president, are we in a quorum call? the presiding officer: we are not. mr. thune: madam president, i would ask unanimous consent to speak as if in morning business. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. thune: madam president, i come to the floor today to talk about the debt crisis facing this country and the opportunity we have to address this issue in a way that balances the budget and ensures the long-term fiscal solvency for future generations. the recent fiscal cliff agree

to celebrate his inauguration on such a monumental day, it especially being an african- american. host: caller, you are on c-span. please go ahead. caller: i am calling from missouri. since he was sworn to uphold the constitution, i was just wondering, since he has tried to change the second amendment, should believe what he says? -- we believe what he says? he is already trying to change the second amendment of united states. i do not believe him. host: front page of the "new york times," change comes after four years. brenda is joining us from orlando, florida. caller: hi. i would like to say congratulations to our president. hi. unlike the senate congratulations, president obama. -- i would like to say congratulations, president obama. you've been through a lot. i would like to say congratulations to president obama. host: a caller on our independent line. caller: i am talking about the first inauguration of president obama. i decided to go to gettysburg warfield and actually hear the ceremony. i was standing along there. it was very cold. the senator from california introduced president obama and she used one phrase. m

c-span, c-span radio and c-span.org. .. >> thank you to harvard bookstore, c-span, publisher simon and schuster and all of you for joining me this evening. i am only going to speak for about 20 minutes and then i am going to jump right in. i found this book in the ad in dominical -- the middle of the atlantic ocean. six years ago in bermuda i embarked on a 140 foot sailing ship, the seat association education, i was at sea for three weeks away from telephones, internet and libraries. but i was in the middle of a research project on benjamin franklin that required me to read material in french. i decided to use my time at sea to revise my french by reading a novel in that language. the book i chose is a small paperback edition of jules verne's around the world in 80 days first published as a newspaper serial in 1882. when i wasn't on watch or otherwise busy on the ship by slowly made my way to the book. my french was good enough to my surprise that i enjoyed the story and as a historian i appreciated it. a detail. especially the nature of the sense the protagonist racing around world. at his london club he remarks offhandedly that scheduled travel servic

c-span. >> i primarily watch the house and the senate. i worked in the senate and i flip over there. coverage of the floor and the networks, you're not going to see that. c-span has it and c-span has it if it is important and i listen to c-span radio. >> bob ship washington c-span created by america's cable companies in 1979. brought to you as a public service by your television provider. now we maff to airo space engineer and manned space flight and compares today space program to the earlier days of space travel held by the world affairs council of jacksonville of north florida, this is a year and a half. >> i am going to talk about meanly two things. there is inspiration. inspiration for our kids so they can be innovative. and i am going to talk a lot about manned space flight. we are on the space coast, i guess, right? we will talk quite a bit about the history of manned space flight. pretty much that. i really welcome your questions when i am done. my first job out of college was a government job. i worked for the air force. flight testing airplanes during the vietnam war. i did that for seven years. it was a wonderful thing for future a

c-span. next we are going to take a look at richard fisher. he talks about banks and the economy. he says "too big to fail remains a threat." he served as special assistant to the treasury secretary in the carter administration. this is about 50 minutes. [laughter] >> one of the more unusual introductions i have received. john is a descendant of the iconic patriot patrick henry. we are mostly anti-crown. i asked him why it was patrick henry was the most outspoken. his answer was incredibly candid. richard said it was because he was poor. how of reports he may have been, patrick henry was a very rich order in one of his speeches. "different men often see different subjects in different lights. i shall speak forth my sediments freely and without reserve." patrick henry was addressing the oppression by the british crown. tonight i wish to speak to a different kind of repression, the injustice of being held hostage to large financial institutions considered too big to fail. to fail.

kennedy, and now added to it is the new technology and c-span itself. and going to tweets, the way people become the media. backing up what clarence said, there are only going to be two inaugural balls this time, in the evening after the ceremony. in bill clinton's era, there were 14, and i believe he attended all 14 of them. host: the professors will be with us now throughout the morning for a while to take your calls and to talk about the inauguration. as events are going on in the west front of the capital, we will be showing you those in not talking over them. once they get started, we will just show you what is going on in washington and let you watch it. we appreciate the two professors being here with us for a little while. you can go ahead and dial in if you have questions about inaugurals or comments. ahead and dial in and we will get to those calls in a minute. c-span's greta brawner is down and the mall. >> we're here with members of the delaware national guard people you have been here since 3:30 a.m. this morning. what are your assignment? >> we are

to the mall and c-span rio, on a 90.1 fm in the washington, d.c. rate -- washington, d.c. area. you can also listen on your smartphone or go online to c- span.org teo .org -- cspanradio.org. >> hopkins could read the president's new unlike anybody else. he came as close as anyone to be in evidence in to what robert sherwood would call roosevelts heavily forested interior. heavily forested interior. he went to be still in the presence of the president. went to press him. when to back off and to the joke. after he local election, wendell willkie was in his office, and they remained friends, and like you said to the president, why do you keep that man so close to you, that man being hopkins. roosevelt said, you may be in this office and they, you will understand, but he asks for nothing except to serve me. >> trusted adviser and friend to fdr, harry hopkins lived in -- in the result white house for 3 1/2 years. david roll on "the hopkins touch." [drum line] host: the military marching parade in formation and the reversals taking place on capitol hill. all this in advance of the ceremonies that will get underway in eight days.

c-span is where you can find something that's really important going on that's not otherwise covered. i listen topan radio in my car sometimes. >> bob watches c-span on directv. c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979. brought to you as a public service by your television provider. [video clip] >> you don't always find many newspaper editors of any era increasing investigative reporting. it's not just economics. it is the discomfort that investigative reporting often causes in the newsroom, because it is troublesome. it is that more than that, but if you are going to ruffle the status of someone powerful, that death of people complaining to the publishers and there are stories of that happening to the years. in the 1970's and almost all of our careers to work for people who were really upright in that area and let the chips fall where they may. >> a pulitzer prize-winning investigative team will take your calls, e-mails, and tweets this weekend. they began collaborative work in the 1970's and have written eight books together. want to live on sunday at noon eastern on "book tv" on c-

that's live here on c-span2. >> i like to watch c-span because i can get the news about the goings-onin congress, also the debates and election news coverage. i like c-span programming because it's clear, it's direct, and it doesn't seem to be colored by points of of view at all. if i want to get good, clean, unfiltered information about the nation, the world, tune in to c-span. >> david maxwell watches c-span on comcast. c-span, created by america's cable companies in 1979, brought to you as a public service by your it's provider. your television provider. >> in his book "freedom's forge," arthur herman writes about fdr enlisting private industry in the war production effort during world war ii. he talked about the book at the american enterprise institute in washington. this is just over an hour. [inaudible conversations] >> good evening. i'm henry olsen, i'm vice president of the american enterprise institute and director of its national research initiative which is a foundation or an organization within aei -- entity, that's what i was looking for -- entity within aei that support

go. thank you very much everybody. i can get you one. this is a nice one. that is yours. >> c-span's 2013 inaugural coverage continues. we're going to take you to a couple of balls. a couple of sizable balls over at the washington, d.c. convention center. the inaugural ball and commander in chief ball. first we vect to hear from vice president biden. we hope to begin with the vice president's comments coming up shortly which everything running a little bit late because of the parade earlier today. we showed you the very end of the ceremony at the capitol. at least 1 million people were on the national mall for the president's swearing in ceremony. if the figure is accurate it would put the attendance up 55% of the 2009 crowd. >> 8800 marnlers and 60 units, here's a look look. [indiscernible] ladies and gentleman, a pershing -- approachg the presidential reviewing stand, the president of the united states. the vice-president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. the president of the united states, barack obama, and michelle obama. the vice president of the united states, joe biden, and dr. jill biden. they are at the r

year of tuition, and you may have undergrad loans, and you're going to be taking out conceivably 300 grand for medical school? >> right. for c-span, do we need to repeat question, or are we okay? repeat the question? so the question is, um, how are we going to help young people make it through, um, you know, their educational goals, college or graduate school, in light of runaway tuition. >> yes. >> is that right? okay. do you want -- >> and also -- [inaudible] >> right. >> i mean, how are we going to get the doctors if tuition is 70 grand a year? >> we write in the booking about how -- in the book about how hard it is for homeless kids in the cities in which they live today just get through high school. the challenge that so many kids confront, and liz murray wrote, you know, a beautiful memoir, "breaking night," about her journey from homelessness to harvard, how are we going to create opportunities for kids whose families won't or can't take care of them who have been told over and over again you're broken because they're poor or their parents hate them or reject them because they're gay or lesbian. these kids feel so damaged

i go back to my tapes from c-span and political tapes i taped in the '90s, the same problems are still there, and so we feel -- >> host: diane, we're going to get an answer. diane is one of our unofficial archivists out there in the world who -- >> guest: very important to have. >> host: she just records a lot, a lot, and almost nearly all. >> guest: well, die -- diane, you're right on the nafta business. what we have done in the latest book is to go back over a long period of time, showing not just the nafta agreement but trade agreements before that. what everybody said they would do for employment, how they would make the market fairer for workers at home. so on down the line. nafta still is one of the most dramatic examples how people were sold a bill of goods. it was promoted on the basis this would be a great thing to send exports to mexico and at the time we actually had a trade surplus with mexico. when nafta was approved. and people made all kinds of claims about how the kinds of jobs that would be created and so forth. the trade surplus evaporated almost overnight. we now run

going to show this series to them. so i show them the weather channel, the food channel and c-span.eally have to watch all these politicians. that's all they get. they're still getting television. >> and one of his latest innovations when we were there was this idea of this, what he called a chair, actually an exercise bike, that would power the televisions. >> a lot of you guys are kind of fat. you need to lose some weight. >> i know. put me on the chain gang. >> i gained 20 pounds since i've been here. >> gained 20 pounds. okay. a lot of you guys need some exercise. have you ever been on an exercise bike? like that? >> yeah. >> can you do an hour at a shot? okay. >> an hour at a shot? >> yeah. >> okay. >> he wanted the inmates to ride this bike in order to have the privilege of watching tv. >> we're going to hook the chair up to the television here and as you pump, you can watch television and we're going to let you watch anything you want. you're going to work hard for the television to lose weight and to protect your heart. i think it's only right for you to be able to watch nbc

c-span you can find something important going on. that is not otherwise covered app i listen to c-span radio in my car. >> bob watches c-span on direct tv. c-span created by america's cable companies in 1979. brought to you as a public service by your television provider. >>> the 113th congress opens tomorrow. the senate convenes at noon eastern with live coverage here on c-span2. vice president joe biden will preside and read the oath for new senates and those who were reelected in november. it's possible that norm senate may consider new rules on the filibuster. departing u.s. senates gave farewell addresses last month opt the senate floor. over the next two hours we're going show you some of the features starting with indiana republican richard who served six terms. >> maim president, i rise todayam p to stress my colleagues on aagues number of issues important the future of the united states, and while for s some perspective on. senate service. in a fewin weeks, i will leave the nate for new pursuit. v that allow mee to devote much deeper attention to a number of issues that