so you can am i want to go with that. c-spanhow concerned are you when you want to do a profile that the door would not be open to you. >> guest: defined way to get the story. that's what you have to do i was back in ferment and 10 vermont. i know that they had told the press advisor that this would in my cruder end of his career. c-span: didn't end his career? he was a civilian? >> guest: yes, it did. he was a civilian. i have said that i think that duncan sort of took a lot of the blame when in fact, i think that, you know, people want to blame or take responsibility for it and there was plenty to share the. c-span: who also started this? >> guest: this is a big-time public affairs guy. at the end of the day, general mcchrystal to his credit knows this -- it was general mcchrystal's command. he was the guy, setting the tone for the entire bunch of guys. general mcchrystal is the ultimate operator and i hope he realizes that he set the tone. c-span: was there any fact checking that went on as this article got closer? >> guest:

c-span: how often are we going to see you in the public spotlight from now on? > guest: i don't know. i suspect less and less and less and less. c-span: why? >> guest: it's too disruptive. i was talking about my work habits. it also includes working seven days a week. if i stop, the steam goes out of the boiler and i have to spend another two days building up a head of steam, so that stopping is very bad. i'm actually unable to work if i'm going somewhere and doing something every 14 days or something. i would never get anything done. c-span: when we were talking earlier about your work habits, i wanted to ask what you're like to be around when you're writing. >> guest: i don't know because i don't allow anybody around while i'm writing. my wife manages to live with me and my son and our dog, but i like to be let alone when i'm working. i see these hollywood movies where the man gets up in the middle of the night and dashes off a few thousand words, and his little wife comes in to make sure he's comfortable and everything. that's all foolishness. i would never be

yeah, i tried to count it up one day, and maybe -- and it's probably -- quite possibly 200 or more, but certainly well over a hundred, yeah. c-span: well, go back to, then, 1993, on that january day when you got the stomach pains. >> guest: right. c-span: where were you? >> guest: at the house. we have a residence for the community on 19th, between 1st and 2nd avenue in manhattan. and as i say, they hustled me -- a friend of mine, george weikel, a writer who i think you perhaps know and -- they hustled me down to cabrini hospital. and then crazy things -- i mean, you're -- of course, immediately then, after we got past the officious gatekeeper, you're -- you're shot up with a lot of stuff before you're taken to the operating room. c-span: did you have any idea what was wrong with you at that time? >> guest: oh, yeah. yeah. i mean, i knew there was something terribly wrong with my stomach, that something was busting. and -- no, and you get -- my friend, who was with me at the community house, called my doctor when i was found, you know, just rolled up in a fetal position on the floor, just absolutely seized with this unspeakable pain. and s

to elections and independence. c-span: we mentioned earlier your mother had neuritis and there's a photograph of her going away to get treatment on an airplane here. >> guest: yes. yes. c-span: wh--where was she going? >> guest: i think she was probably going to st. moritz to do the cure there, or there--there was another place she used to go to. i'm afraid i can't just remember. and the woman with her is such a nice person. she's grace hamblin, who was my mother's devoted se--she came to chartwell in 1932 to help out in the office and she stayed for over 40 years and she became a great friend. she was my mother's secretary all through the war. i went and saw her the other day. she has a lovely--she has a dear house on the green of westerham she's one of our greatest friends. my mother loved her. c-span: and how long did your mother have neuritis? >> guest: well, it plagued her on and off in the '50s. it got better towards the end of her life, but it's a very tiresome thing, neuritis. it--it hangs around and comes back, as i'm sure anybody who's had it will tell you. c-span: now you also point out that your mother wa

go to c-span.org/products. >> c-span, created by cable companies in 1979 and brought to you as a publicervice by your television provider. next some of this year's commencement speeches by business leaders around the country. we begin with the twitter ceo dick costolo at the university of michigan, ann arbor. and nate silver at the new school university in new york. and later, steve wozniak at uc berkeley. >> twitter ceo dick costolo give the commencement address at his alma mater, the university of michigan. before his internet career, he was a canadian -- he was a comedian. [applause] >> i love you too. you know i have to start by tweeting this. give me a second. i'm a professional. this only take a second. [laughter] all right. thent to start by thanking school's president and the students and faculty and the board of regents who sit behind me and quietly judge us all. myould also like to thank mother and father who are here today. and i would like all of you to remember at the end of the day to take a moment to thank your parents or whoever it was that help you get where you are tod

to make sure we are prepared for the next one. host: we will be covering the hearing here on c-span. goo our website, c-span.org, for more details. louisiana, democratic caller, hi there. caller: i want to congratulate the congressman. brothers that he has read memorize the republican line perfectly. i agree with the republican lady who called in who is disgusted with the way the republican party is operating nowadays. they are against everything, everything that might move this country forward. that's all i have to say, thank you. guest: i appreciate your call. ie things that i talk about, know the truth. they are policies that will turn our economy around. you look at this new progressive liberal movement that looks at a growing and expanding influence -- influential government, that concerns a lot of us. we want a free people that are able to govern themselves, that don't have massive into winces from the government. we believe in smart rules and regulations. i think a perfect example of a growing, massive government is with the irsened were you have an agency that is targeting ameri

host: if you go to c-span's video library you will be able to watch the entire speech as president barackbama talks about national security and constitutional rights. he sees someone -- you see somebody different. [video clip] >> it but for a false choice from the liberty we cherish and the security we provide. i will provide our televisions and law enforcement agencies with the tools they need to track and take out the terrorists without undermining our constitution and freedom. that means no more illegal wiretapping, no more national security letters who spiled citizens not suspect a crime. no more tracking citizens who do nothing more than protests. the more ignoring the law when it is inconvenient. it is not who we are, it is not what is necessary to defeat the terrorist. the court works, the separation of powers works, our constitution works. we will again set an example for the world but the law is not subject to the whim of the rulers and justice is not arbitrary. there are no shortcuts to protect america. senator barack obama in 2007 -- guest: he has gotten older. that job a does

president bush was handling the issue, he himself linked human rights on a friday afternoon -- go to c-spanrchives, you can see my press conference with nancy pelosi. thatre utterly shocked serious and substantial progress in a number of categories where there was progression, the president took his executive order and went like this, ripped it right in half. that was a game changer in my opinion. when the chinese dictatorship took the measure and said the office trump's human-rights. i believe that we need strong and serious engagement, but at the core we have to say -- how you treat or mystery or citizens matters to us. we stand with the oppressed, not the oppressors. frank wolf and i had a face-to- face in china. we raise human-rights issues. many of them are still there. incensed that these congressmen, walter smith, had the audacity to raise human- rights. we need to do that every time, everywhere. the president has a bully pulpit unlike anyone else to raise these issues and look the chinese president in the eye and say -- let [indiscernible] go and be free. if he does not, it will be

getting rt reaction to what the court will two e any minute about marriage.n same-sex you can go to c-span 3 and your tweets.d now to the house. 2013. i hereby appoint the honorable reed j. ribble to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. signed, john a. boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11:50 a.m. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. fitzpatrick, for five minutes. mr. fitzpatrick: thank you, mr. speaker. this morning, mr. speaker, i rise today to acknowledge the memory and the life of pearl s. buck, an author, humanitarian and political activist who made her home in hilltown, bucks county, on greens hill farm

is this going to be on c-span? >> i'm not the best person to ask that. >> we are live on c-span now. i am glad -- gaithersburg local tv have it on afterwards. >> it will be on line too. >> it will be on line for sure. he said in the library. >> with the study of dna, i hear sometimes on the radio these commercials about these commercial services of being able to send and a swab of your dna and they will be able to tell you your lineage and all these interesting things about you and your ancestry and things like that. what kind of science is there in your experience in studying dna with those kinds of claims? >> i actually, i explained in the introduction i submitted my dna for one of those tests and i ended up enjoying the process. i thought it was kind of fun to do. there were a few scary moments in it. there were certain diseases and my family history that i didn't want to look at and did not want to think about but overall i think those services are a lot of fun if you realize that there are limitations to them,

they have to do places like c-span as well. so who knows if this is ever goingut you're able to plot a lot about that strategy. >> we're going to part from the establishment using television to a group that a lot of people watching will know about. a lot of people will not. this is from info wars.com. >> it's tuesday, may 7, 201. i'm alex jones. get ready for another original edition of "info wars" nightly news, straight ahead. news, straight ahead.1 tonight. danger, google tells internet users that the drudge report and infowars.com websites contain malicious software. i don't think so. plus, more information has emerged about google's relationship with the government and spook agencies. as they group calls for hearings into google's ties to the cia and nsa. and the professor griff says obama is a mass media deception. the info wars' exclusive interview premieres tonight on "infowars" nightly news. >> thank you for joining us. all of the subscribers and viewers that make "info wars" possible as we fight the globalist plan to construct a prison planet on the ash

to do it in politics and news media. it's prepressed because if you do something on chris christie. something on c-span, c-span is goingke fun at themselves or draw to themselves. free publicity with a project you're dealing with people. trinity ou were at college in connecticut, what did you think you would be doing with your life? >> that's a question. i wrote -- i did a lot of fiction, a bit of nonfiction. i would always be writing and then as soon as i -- of the college, you quickly realize there are no jobs for writing really. accessible ones for college graduates. i had experience working with kids teaching in college. got an iting clips and entree to washington, d.c. >> how long did you teach? th english and -- one for three years year longer. exhausting.ear was i try to tell people trying to reporter that you need credibility. a one is going to publish op-ed by you saying i'm bryan citizen. i have to say i'm a history teacher. cared about my thoughts about current events because i quote/unquote credibility. so i was able to build up a ortfolio to bring down to a prestigious place like d.c. and say here's some c

president bush was handling the issue, he himself linked human rights on a friday afternoon -- go to c-span archives, you can see my press conference with nancy pelosi. we were utterly shocked that serious and substantial progress in a number of categories where there was progression, the president took his executive order and went like this, ripped it right in half. that was a game changer in my opinion. when the chinese dictatorship took the measure and said the office trump's human-rights. i believe that we need strong and serious engagement, but at the core we have to say -- how you treat or mystery or citizens matters to us. we stand with the oppressed, not the oppressors. frank wolf and i had a face-to- face in china. we raise human-rights issues. many of them are still there. he was incensed that these congressmen, walter smith, had the audacity to raise human- rights. we need to do that every time, everywhere. the president has a bully pulpit unlike anyone else to raise these issues and look the chinese president in the eye and say -- let [indiscernible] go and be free. if he does n

if you want to dig into her days, you can read it all there t c-span dwoshfirstladies. -- c-span.com/firstladies. >> let's now go to the white house for the next video. and you will learn more from the white house curator, about the white house china collection. >> when she came to the white house she was very interested in how the place worked. she came down here. this was the ground floor but it was sort of considered to be the basement because the kitchen was down here, laundry facilities, storage for food and tableware and such and she found that it was rather dirty. sort of ominous. and she tried to like spruce it up. she went through the cabinets and found old pieces of china and then asked servants if they could tell her, does anybody remember how old this piece is? so she started the idea of trying to catalog and create a sense of what chinas were. she had a plan for putting some display cases in the state dining room. but never came to fruition. she was credited with being the initiater of the concept of a permanent china collection at the white house. she was interested in designing china she wanted it

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to have. it is important that we have that transparency and it is open and i appreciate the fact that you have groups like c- span that peter mentioned is goingcover in three of these hearings as they come in the debate on the armed services bill. i am glad that people tune and listen and pay attention. host: mike tweets in cash , itt: well, first of all doesn't more aspects than you think. oftentimes what you see in the press is kind of the extreme and you see the people that are fighting with each other. you don't see the kind of working relations that i see everyday that are taking place in congress congress, and they are on a host of fronts. i worked very closely with a member of congress was a democrat on healthcare issues. i worked very closely with my for the seapower subcommittee, and not just a colleague of mine, but a dear friend of mine, democrat, mike mcintyre of north carolina. we haven't ignobly close relationship. i think you see those relationships -- we have an incredibly close relationship. i think you see those relationships but they don't get out in the press and to disclose as much as i wish they could. obviously, i wish

c-span. >> for more information go to c-span.org and click o on c-span series for prime ministers questions plus links to international news media and legislatures around the world. you can also watch recent video including programs even with other international issues. >> today, funeral services for the late new jersey senator frank lautenberg who died earlier this week. vice president joe biden, cinda bob menendez in new jersey and former secretary of state hillary clinton are expected to speak at the service from park avenue synagogue in new york city. live coverage at 11:30 a.m. eastern here on c-span2. >> i realized that our citizens it's not as dramatic as the pursuit of war and frequently the words of the pursuers fall on deaf years, but we have no more at task. some say they speak of piece or world law or world disarmament. and that it will be useless until the leaders of the soviet union adopt a more enlightened attitude i hope they do. i believe we can help them do it. but i also believe to do much to examine our own attitudes as individuals and as a nation. for our attitude is as

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going to be? just continuous expansion -- it continues and continues. like i said, i appreciate what you guys do because you bring it to light. more people should watch c-spanveryday, honestly. guest: i can't agree with you more on the last point. [laughter] but i think some of the concerns that you get at about this kind of continuing on a growing are some of the things we talked about with "the new york times" article, and it is stunning to expand. on the other hand, the majority did lay out -- a number of really good reasons to do this, and i have to clarify what i said before. there is a fundamental difference between the majority and the dissent in this case they talked about identifying somebody. justice scalia took a normal dictionary view of the term " identify," and what he said was that you're not identifying somebody, you are trying to solve a crime. justice kennedy, who wrote the majority opinion, took a more existential view of identifying somebody, and he said that it know who they have in custody and who they have in custody really incorporates have these people committed past crimes, on a violent, what have they done in the past? the point t

to the .p. table. i'm sorry for those of you watching online on c-span that you're not going to get those upcakes. but before coming here today to speak, i thought it would be a good idea to get a sense of how the seizure of a.p.'s phone records by the u.s. department of justice was affecting our reporting. and what i learned from our journalists should alarm everyone in this room and i think should alarm everyone in the country. the actions of the d.o.j. against a.p. are already having an impact beyond the specifics of this particular case. some of our long time trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking to us even on stories that aren't about national security. and in some cases government employees that we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone and some are reluctant to meet in person. in one instance our journalists couldn't get a law enforcement official to confirm a detail that had been reported by other media. i can tell you that this chilling effect does not just go on at ap. it is happening in other news organizations as well. other journalis

. >> we are going to keep moving. >> the c-span library has reached a milestone. there are more than 200,000 hours of original programming, public affairs, history, and nonfiction books searchable and free. a public service. america's cable company. ," with patricka gavin. followed by prime ministers questions. then william hague addresses uk intelligence surveillance. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] patrickweek on "q&a," gavin local reporter discusses the media on a variety of platforms. , how would youn describe your job? >> i am a staff writer. i do not cover politics very seriously. i do

to the a.p. table. i'm sorry for those of you watching online on c-span that you're not going to get those cupcakes. but before coming here today to speak, i thought it would be a good idea to get a sense of how the seizure of a.p.'s phone records by the u.s. department of justice was affecting our reporting. and what i learned from our journalists should alarm everyone in this room and i think should alarm everyone in the country. the actions of the d.o.j. against a.p. are already having an impact beyond the specifics of this particular case. some of our long time trusted sources have become nervous and anxious about talking to us even on stories that aren't about national security. and in some cases government employees that we once checked in with regularly will no longer speak to us by phone and some are reluctant to meet in person. in one instance our journalists couldn't get a law enforcement official to confirm a detail that had been reported by other media. i can tell you that this chilling effect does not just go on at ap. it is happening in other news organizations as well. that journalist

some people are going to get quite a bit of impact and others a lot less. >> this weekend on c-span, the impact of the new health care law on insurance premiums. sunday night at 9:00 eastern. also this weekend on c-span twos book tv, pulitzer prize-winning author rick atkinson takes your questions on "in-depth." on american history tv on c- span3 our weekly look at the presidency of george h w bush and german reunification. sunday at 7:30. of this year's commencement speeches by business leaders from around the country. we begin with twitter ceo take cost alone -- dick costolo. then writer and statistician nate silver at the new school in new york. , apple cofounder steve wozniak at the university of california berkeley. later, new york stock exchange atduncan near our -- colgate university. dick costolo give this year's commencement address. before his career, he was a stand up comedian that worked in improv theater. this is just over 15 minutes. [applause] >> i love you, too. you know i have to start by tweeting this. give me a second. i'm a professional. this only take a second. [

conversation from the alliance for health reform, you can find it in its entirety online, just go to the c-span video library. the senate about to meet, they're going to be working today on immigration and the farm bill, but before we go to the senate, take a look at what to expect this week on capitol hill. >> rachel, take us to that immigration bill that's going to be on the floor, what's the timing for that debate, how long are we expected to see this on the senate floor? >> guest: yeah. this could be a very long process. this is a huge immigration bill that the senate's gang of eight -- because of the bipartisan group that's put together the bill -- that could see the most sweeping changes to immigration reform for, in decades. the motion to proceed, which is the 60-vote bar to get to debate on the floor, is expected to happen on tuesday. there's not supposed, there's not expected to be any objection from republicans to move on to debate. so we could see it as early as tuesday, or they could wait for some procedural hours to happen and debate might not actually start until thursday. but deb

to go on vacation unless you pack me in your suitcase and take me with you. that's what it is going to cost. >> stephanie: oh, my. okay. go ahead. >> caller: i have been watching c-spaney aren't. how much clearer do the results have to be, right? >> caller: yeah absolutely and they just completely ignore it. we not only have that one immigration, which boner already said he is going to kill it as soon as he sees it. he did say he was going to bring it up, and now he is not going to bring it up. >> stephanie: which bill? >> caller: the immigration bill. last week he said i'm going to bring it up on the floor. yesterday he said, no it's not going to pass. it's not going to get the votes, so i'm not bringing it up. and it's sad because they have already killed the dream act. >> stephanie: the house republicans are like a condom with a hole in it. they are completely useless. they are passing abortion bills that aren't going to go anywhere, revealing health care for the 37th time they aren't doing any legislating that will effect anybody, right? >> caller: right. and the farm bill within itself is kind of a nightmare and failed miserably which is a bittersweet thing, bec

we want to spreading, go to the website link to her c-span website. thank you very much. >> the sunnylands essay played host to president obama's meeting with chinese president xi jinping today. we visited this estate is a retreat or seven u.s. presidents. >> sunnylands is the historic estate as annenberg. they built this as a president and is completed in 1966 and they lived here until their deaths in 2002 and 2009. sunnylands has been referred to as the camp david as the last and that is of course because presidents came here to relax and take it away from the hustle and bustle of washington d.c. during the annenberg lifetime. walter annenberg's father owned a company called triangle publications inc. and not company published in the daily racing form in the "philadelphia inquirer" and his father had been involved in business for decades. his father was sent to prison in 1940 for tax evasion and at that point, walter took on the reins of triangle publications and it was in deep financial problems and he was responsible for introducing a number of ne

to 2014. that's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c-span. going as far back as abigail adams and martha washington, you find first ladies later an active role in the white house and in the campaigns that it took to get there. aigail adams was basically campaign strategist for her husband. she helped advise him on who to woo in order to win election, who he had to keep his coalition. they would talk incessantly about the politics of the day and the legislation that needed to be passed which senators and congressmen he could count on which ones he couldn't and what he needed to do to win more support. >> as we continue our conversation on first ladies, john roberts takes a look at our nation's first ladies as political partners with their husbands rather than wives and mothers. monday night on c-span. >> the new energy secretary will address this years energy information administration conference on monday. watch our live coverage beginning at 8:45 on c-span2. now, defense secretary chuck hagel and joint chiefs of staff chair, general martin dempsey

try to do my work in the spirit of unfamous journalist who don't get invited to give speeches broadcast on c-span or get to gon the shows, whatever, those are my heros, the people that keep me going. [applause] >> i have a question that is probably a long answer. do you have israel's involvement in dirty wars, drone wars, either as a model or as, you know, a producer of drones and so on. >> yeah, i mean, israel was a trend setter with this for the u.s.. the israelis model, you know, with these assassination ops really is what the u.s. based its program on, and, you know, israel and the united states are deep in bed together in all sorts of covert actions around the world, and, of course, the u.s. yowrks know, gives tremendous military support to the israelis. i recommend people watch the film, if you have not seen it, called "the gate keepers," a flawed movie, but important and worth seeing where the guys describe the people that were running the kill program in israel describing how they saw it playing out and what the actual, you know, end result has been, and there's sobering remarks in that, but israel an

going to pay off. because it's going to give a urge of nationalism around the country. >> monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> even though gettysburg was the midpoint of the war and more died after than before, why does it still loom so large in national memory? three days of fighting. 7,000 killed, 33,000 wounded, some of whom later died and 11,000 missing. a staggering total of 50,000 quarblets in one three-day period. >> the 150th anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. live, all day coverage from the gettysburg national military ark. >> on wednesday, congressional leaders along with vice president biden honored rederick douglass. washington, d.c. delegate eleanor homes norton and netty washington douglass were there, the great-great granddaughter of frederick douglass. this is just over an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, the speaker of the united states house of representatives, the honorable >> ladies and gentlemen, good morning and welcome to emancipation hall. this is a proud day for all americans especially so for the leaders and the residents of the district of columbia. we have long labored to s

going to take over that country. we all know that. people out here are not stupid. we watch c-span and we read a lot of papers. e are a lot of people who know that is what is going to happen. for those three men to have died the other day when we should be out of here now -- what ever happens there, it happens. we cannot cure all of the people's struggles in this world. don't you realize what is happening to our government? you are talking about prosperity. we might be the richest country in the world. that is only for a few. the rest of us are hard-working it.le who are barely making we see money go out and out and out. it is great to feel you can save the world. but at whose expense? these young kids who are being killed and maimed? an army officer for a dozen years. . have been to afghanistan once nobody cares more about what the soldiers are going through a what they have done and what they have accomplished and i do. i do not think the taliban can win or will win. they would not seriously negotiate if they thought they could. i am a supporter of coming home. we have given afghans their best chance at freed

go to jerry, republican. caller: good morning, c-span. i just want to ask you one question. democrats go on with this immigration bill. they say it will be good for the country. it will make everything better. the last time they did this, this made everything very bad under ronald reagan. african americans still suffer from that. when you talk about bringing 11 million more people, the unemployment rate is just doubling. i am telling you now. if you bring more people in that will make us suffer. we are the ones that used to do those jobs that used to do in construction in steel mills. we got pushed out when you all came in. when you all talk about this, think about that. how are we going to make this work? we are here. they are coming here. who's going to take those jobs? we are. i do not want to pick hispanics versus blacks. we do not want to do that. we want to look at this as americans. we are not talking about bringing those folks in. they are here already. we are not talking about putting them on boats or airplanes. they're here already. they have been here for many yea

c-span page. c-span.org/history. the battle of gettysburg, the civil war, 150 years. we go back tour calls, daniel from south carolina. hello. caller: i was calling about climate change. i believe in the climate change. i was listening to some of the callers say it was pretty much a hoax. 97% of scientists believe is true. stopping polluting, they spent $65 billion last year to combat climate change when we only spent and $30 billion. but theylutes a lot are not trying to do anything like americans have been doing. china is out buying us on solar panels. risinghen you see nations such as china and india, their demands increase for energy, that has to factor into a global approach, do you think? caller: definitely a global approach. we all live on earth. if earth turns away, that is everybody. that is not as people in china or india or america. that is everywhere. host: do you think the united states can influence other nations on this issue? caller: we are america, we influence other nations on all kinds of things. sometimes good, sometimes bad. host: people look at the treaty as f

c-span. 3:30 p.m. eastern. >> no doubt about it, this bill is going to pass, and this will be the first time that comprehensive imgreagsrorment has passed since 2006 in the senate. it went down that year, and then they tried to get in, and that failed. this is a big accomplishment, but this is a long way to go efore this is law. host: one senator said this reads like a christmas list for haliburton. what is he saying? guest: he is saying there this could be a potential place for waste and abuse. in all likelihood, senator leahy is going to vote for the bill. democratic leaders if they can ove the bill to the right, who will likely be upset, but who will still back the bill. host: congressman gutierrez at the hill saturday at a conference exprepressed optimism that they have 218 votes. we know 218 is a passable number in the house. what's the reality over there? >> the preelt is, if you talk -- the reality is, and i have talked to a fair amount of conservatives in the house, they are not for the vote. certainly senator boehner will not bring the bill to the house floor. we have a lot of senators more worried ab

going to buffalo, n.y. on the independent line caller. caller: good morning. i would like to think c-span.y issue is i have been self- employed for 30 years. i did not understand why george bush jr., senior, and reagan, held insurance skyrocketed. in i did not hear anything about it. health care costs has gone up 25% in four years. -- i did not hear anything about it. if we do nothing like the republicans did, health care could increased 12% in the next 30 years. we have to do something to curb the cost. the try to teach clinton, by -- but my comment is health-care costs have skyrocketed and no one has done a thing. >> how to you get your health care? do you have a primary care physician? have you ever use the safety net hospitals, hospitals that are willing to take you as a patient even if you do not have insurance in mind? caller: right now i am starting to collect medicare. people that knock social programs, what would they do? i am just saying the cost of health care has skyrocketed. ont: getting a perspective the cost of health care change over time and insight on the federal health-c

if you want to dig into her days, you can read it all there at c-span dwoshfirstladies. -- c-span.com/firstladies. >> let's now go to the white house for the next video. and you will learn more from the white house curator, about the white house china collection. >> when she came to the white house she was very interested in how the place worked. she came down here. this was the ground floor but it was sort of considered to be the basement because the kitchen was down here, laundry facilities, storage for food and tableware and such and she found that it was rather dirty. sort of ominous. and she tried to like spruce it up. she went through the cabinets and found old pieces of china and then asked servants if they could tell her, does anybody remember how old this piece is? so she started the idea of trying to catalog and create a sense of what chinas were. she had a plan for putting some display cases in the state dining room. but never came to fruition. she was credited with being the initiater of the concept of a permanent china collection at the white house. she was interested in designing china she wanted it

going to pay off. because it's going to give a surge of nationalism around the country. >> monday night at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >> even though gettysburg was the midpoint of the war and more died after than before, why does it still loom so large in national memory? three days of fighting. 7,000 killed, 33,000 wounded, some of whom later died and 11,000 missing. a staggering total of 50,000 quarblets in one three-day period. >> the 150th anniversary of the battle of gettysburg. live, all day coverage from the gettysburg national military park. on tuesday, representatives from the aarp and the national reverse mortgage lending association testified on the pros and cons of the reverts -- of the reverse home mortgage market. insured loan that could allow a person 62 or older to maximize capacity on his or her home. this is just over an hour. >> good morning. this hearing of the subcommittee and housing transportation community development will come to order. thank you all for being here today to help us address the long-term sustainable aylett he a reverse mortgages. we will better understand impact on the insur

we are going to fail. i love c-span and keep up the good work.as far as the federally acked loans the government makes money on the student loans but there's been a debate how much government should be whether energy loans and significantly housing loans have been a huge issue. republicans and democrats want to reform that issue but have struggled to do so. cusack is managing ditor of "the hill" and thank you for the preview. in a moment we will turn our iran.ion to our guest will be karim adjadpour of the carnegie endowment for international peace. see what he brings to debate in that part of the world. some more news from c-span radio. today on the re-air ta -- sunday talk shows we will have a number of discussions. at noon "meet the press" will be republican homa senator tom coburn and dick durbin. congresswoman loretta mike rogers. 1:00 p.m. "this week" is with general keith alexander director of the national security agency. joaquin castro and mike kelly. it is "fox news unday" with lindsey graham and mike lee and gabriel gomez the the open

going to pay off. it is going to give the surge of nationalism around the war. but our focus on first latest continue on monday night. why we study first ladies monday night on c-span. during question time, british prime minister answered questions of the g8 summit, the european trade dealt, and humanitarian aid to syria. this over at 30 minutes. questions to the prime minister. >> thank you, mr. speaker. have further such meetings later today. i will be making an announcement. after the end of the year, the former chair and chief executive of hsbc will be stepping down. i can announced today in the livingston for the past five years, the chief executive one important's most businesses will be taking over. mr. speaker. there are many people benefiting from outstanding teaching of inspirational teachers. not all of home -- of whom have been -- >> he makes a point. there are good teachers in our school was not been through the crisis. with had another new policy from the party opposite banning all such teachers from such schools. i have been busy. i have had a careful look at this policy. i know there are teachers, people who teach, including those of the opposite. t

going to get more science on this. >> from port author, texas, gil is calling on anti-legalization line. c-span: thanks to c-span for the progressive topics on the booktv show. thank you very much, sir. my question is what has the research department has information coming out of the green triangle up in northern california? i'll hang up, and thank you for taking my call. >> yeah, sorry, can you repeat the question? about the emerald triangle. >> he hung up, sorry about that, but, beau, he asked about the green triangle up in northern california. >> i think that's the emerald triangle. >> which is what? >> this is where there's a lot of production -- >> legal or illegal? >> depends. some of it is for the medical market here in california, and some of it is not for the medical market. there's a tremendous amount of production there. >> okay. is there a lot of enforcement up there? is there -- >> it depends. in terms of, you know, different counties have different policies about how they are -- about how many plants they are going to allow, but it's important to distinguish between the state leve

i do my work in the spirit of on famous journalists who don't get invited to speeches broadcast on c-span or go on the racial matt out show, those are my heroes that keep me going. >> i have a quick question, with probably a long answer. can you tell something about what your investigations have shown as to israel's involvement in "dirty wars," drone wars, as a model, producer of jones. >> the israelis, the israeli model with these assassinations, really what the u.s. based its program on, israel and the united states are deep in bed together in all sorts of covert actions and the u.s. gets tremendous military support. if people watch this film called the gatekeepers, interviews with former heads -- it is a flawed movie but important movie and definitely worth seeing, these guys, people running the killed program described how they saw it playing out and what the actual end result has been and there has been some pretty sobering remarks, israel and the fact that it possesses hundreds of nuclear-weapons, no one is allowed to talk about, when a scientist blue the whistle on the nuclear program th

if you want to dig into her days, you can read it all there at c-span dwoshfirstladies. -- c-span.com/firstladies. >> let's now go to the white house for the next video. >> let's now go to the white house for the next video. and you will learn more from the white house curator, about the white house china collection. >> when she came to the white house she was very interested in how the place worked. she came down here. this was the ground floor but it was sort of considered to be the basement because the kitchen was down here, laundry facilities, storage for food and tableware and such and she found that it was rather dirty. sort of ominous. and she tried to like spruce it up. she went through the cabinets and found old pieces of china and then asked servants if they could tell her, does anybody remember how old this piece is? so she started the idea of trying to catalog and create a sense of what chinas were. she had a plan for putting some display cases in the state dining room. but never came to fruition. she was credited with being the initiater of the concept of a permanent china collection at the white hou

to be asked about government contractors and the intelligence community. richard, go ahead. caller: representative sanchez, you are just a breath of fresh air. i have been a c-span junkie for years. i have come to the conclusion that congress and the united states, it has come down to being run by the executive branch almost entirely. i am not so sure how much the elected president and vice president at the national level have to run people in the executive branch. the bureaucrats within these agencies control the controls and revise the rules. in the last election cycle i donated to someone running for congress. i have unsubscribed from that list. i no longer trust anyone in the government. i think we need people like you who will lead a congressional revolt. unless congress takes back their power, people will be afraid to donate to you because they will be afraid of winding up on an enemy list. guest: let me tell you first that sometimes i am not very popular with some organizations, businesses, corporate america, because i do think at the have a bigger ability to sway the congress these days than just your average person who used to be able to walk right into

going to see you otherwise so we just came to do this. >> thank you, steve. >> hi, thank you so much. >> thank you. >> great crowd, i'm surprised. >> yeah, this is awesome. >> what? >> you want to be on c-span? >> how are you? >> good. >> good to see you too. there was a big line to buy the book so we didn't, but i thought i bought one with the preorderrings but maybe not. >> is it on the way? must be coming. >> i thought i did, but i never got it so probably not. >> yeah. thanks for turning out. >> is this how it usually is? >> i've had different kinds of events, and this is parole the best so far. >> yeah. >> yeah. >> definitely --there's a huge line outside. >> first one, we had beer and wine at. i think that's why that was a good turn out. >> there's a long line outside too. >> really? wow. >> yeah. >> okay. great to see you. >> first of all, i'm david, i work here at edelman, and thank you so much for coming out to support a good friend, eric, in liz haunch of the new book "front row seat," the bush administration had the honor and privilege of running the white house's website, whitehouse.gov, so every morning we started, obviously, almost like a blank slate waiting if the conference

go to. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> coming up today on c-span, "washington journal." at noon eastern at the house returns to the floor for work on a defense authorization bill. take of the name of this place still resonates with the shuddering in the hearts of the american people. more than any other name connected to civil war, except weekends, gettysburg reverberates. americans retain the knowledge that what happens here is the crux of our terrible, a national trial and even americans who were not sure precisely what happened on the field note that all the glory and tragedy we associate with the civil war reside here. >> the 100 but the it anniversary of the battle of gettysburg live all day sunday june 30 on american history tv on c-span3. joeoming up in 45 minutes, wilson of south carolina, chairman of the armed service committee on military personnel discusses military issues in foreign policy. sanchez ofa california, a member of the homeland security committee talks about nsa data collection progra. our spotlight on a magazine features, fo

going to move on to dwayne in texas. he's 26 and calling in as an independent. caller: good morning. thank you gentlemen both for your time here at c-spannd what you provide here. i guess the exception to the rule -- and i don't understand why it is the role of government to provide student loans or the role of government to decide who is to be married or to get a house loan. that i think is a little more ideological than pragmatic. host: did you go to college? caller: yes. host: how did you pay for it? caller: with private loans. host: all right. guest: great question. there's a really philosophical debate at the heart. which is is is there a roll of government in making sure that higher education is accessible through grant money and through subsidizing student loans. and there's a legitimate argument that certainly a -- an argument that by subsidizing loans you are making them more available and increasing demand and opportunity for people to enroll in college which doesn't force colleges to keep their costs doin or in check. but regardless the heart of the issue is the heightning income inequality in our country. if college remains,

how are they going to -- first, the comment the lady made. c-span knows this.y did a deal your are so ago. , showing back 75 years all of these cliffs. healthuld have passed care in 24 hours. i do not know how anyone could say it was rushed. c-span did that special. it has been part of the conversation for anyone running for office. host: can you hang on for a second? you have a question. we are able to a little confused sitting up here. you have 17 seconds to ask a question or make a statement. thisr: how do they expect health care deal to go through when funds have been withheld? health care costs have been skyrocketing. c-span was showing hearings -- the affordable care act, i do not think it is affordable or fully care. there are tax increases that have hit and some are yet to hit. the supplies will be taxed. your medicare tax will go up. other things will go up. betill do not think it will enough to cover what is happening. beyond all that, we have looked at some things that needed to be stopped, which will have a huge negative impact. tax forms on small b

to offshore oil drilling including one drilling along the u.s. and mexico maritime boundaries. live coverage here on c-span. right now, if you go to our facebook page you can join the conversation by answering the question "do you support or oppose the border security amendment and why? the senate plans to vote on that short-lived. you can weigh in with your c-span. at facebook.com/ toearlier today, jay carney question on edward snowden's relief from snowden. here is a portion now. with regard to your question about the chinese government, we are not buying that this was a technical decision by hong kong immigration official. this is a deliberate choice by the government to release a war and.despite the it has negative impact on u.s./china relations. [inaudible] >> i'm not going to hypothesize the result they have dealt this as a serious setback. if we cannot count on them to honor their legal obligations and there is a problem. it is a moment we are waiting for them very quickly. have no presidential communications to report to you. we are communicating our counterparts at the appropriate levels. >> are there repercussions for

going in and talking to the senate. i know, i have farmers in my family and i know people watch and c-span and didn't pass and the cheer t up from the democrats is something that i think is going to resonate in the farming community. this was, you know, farm poy policy and food stamp shouldn't be in one and that's what we had yesterday and maybe now we can get on the business of farm policy as farm policy and food stamp as food stamp policy. stuart: what is next? where do we go from here. >> if nothing else happens, you go back to the farm policy in 1948 and that will be startling to some people if that happens. does that mean -- no farm price support. >> correct e what about food stamps? >> well, you know, here is the sad part about this. the food stamps are a entitlement program and they're on autopilot and you don't say we'll eliminate both programs, that doesn't happen. you end up be disrupting to the farming community, but the food stamps endure without. change. and the shame we have an opportunity here. stuart: i'm sorry i'm flat out of time. a very active market this morning. representative, thank you for joining

many books as possible, so i want to make sure we get the cover on camera for anyone who watches this on c-span or the policy web site. and be for you lucky few, it's goingmediately following with a signature for luis, and let's all join in thanking him once more for coming today. thanks. [applause] >> is there a nonfiction author or book you'd like to see peetured on book -- featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. >> malcolm balad welshing what's your new book about? >> it's called david and goliath, and it's about underdogs. i got really interested in telling the stories of people who seem weak and powerless and yet go on to accomplish great things. and i, that was a puzzle of how they managed to do that that i thought was worthy of a book, and so this is my latest. >> host: well, back in '09 you wrote a piece for the new yorker. >> guest: yeah. >> host: david v. goliath, about -- and i'll let you tell the story, but is that when your interest started? >> guest: yeah. i wrote a story, although weirdly nothing in that article i wrote for the new yorker made its way into the book, but it was what got