c-span: what kind of schools did you go to in los angeles? >> guest: public schools. i went to la county public schools. c-span: and then what? >> guest: then i went to berkeley, where i was a student for four years and had great fun writing for the student newspaper and writing all sorts of incendiary things. i got people in berkeley all stirred up. and then i went off to yale and did a year in graduate school before deciding this was not what i wanted to spend the rest of my life doing. and then i went and got a job with the christian science monitor and wound up at the wall street journal eventually. c-span: go back to uc-berkeley. what is something that you wrote back there for the newspaper that got people stirred up? and why--why did they get stirred up? >> guest: well, there was--there was actually just about everything i wrote stirred people up. i--i wrote about how berkeley--a lot of people in berkeley were really relics from the '60s living on old ideals which had been discredited in the years since. i was there at the time of the gulf war, and i wrote column

c-span: she went to california? >> guest: she went to california. c-span: and... >> guest: but well, she didn't go to california. i mean, she went to california with the capital "c", i mean, it's very clear that she was killed because she simply disappeared from the scene, and given holmes' later behavior, and how he sort of dodged the question where she went, it's quite certain that she was killed by him. c-span: how did he do it? >> guest: nobody knows how he did that one. nobody knows for sure. but it's -- you know, he was a psychopath. and as that such, he was sort of a cowardly killer. he was not the kind of person who would go up behind somebody and slit their throats or something like that. his preferred weapon was chloroform in a rag, an overdose of chloroform, gas injected into a room, that kind of thing. so it's clear that he would have done that kind of thing. he would not have done the jack the ripper thing. c-span: let me stop you there and ask you about -- you read "in cold blood" by truman capote how many times before you wrote your book? >> guest: well, in terms of the whole scope of reading "in c

c-span: what was the reason the woman didn't want to participate? >> guest: she was going on to other things and wanting to--you know, she was having a baby and so forth and just moving on. c-span: so if they--did--were you concerned that they weren't going to cooperate, it wasn't worth doing the profile is what you're saying? >> guest: yes. i mean, she--she was not going to cooperate, it was clear, so it wasn't--i wasn't going to force that issue. c-span: when did you start the book? what year? >> guest: i started the book in 1996. i put together a 60-page proposal in--let's see, it was early 1996. it went out for bid in the spring. two houses were interested simon & chur--schuster and warner books. simon & schuster ended up with the contract. and--and so it was--it was a four-year project. c-span: and you start, and you acknowledge in the back, there's a young lady--i don't know if she's young--but a woman at cat--the cato institute, which is a libertarian group, who played a--a role in this. >> guest: anna mccollister. she's--she's very important to this because it was

c-span: yes. and ... >> guest: .. declared iran to be a democracy that's a -- that's a statement i think he will ultimately regret. c-span: but go back to this. your -- your enemies see thenewamericancentury.org as the great conspiracy. it's an -- tell us about the organization, and why did you sign the 1998 letter to president clinton saying, go after saddam? >> guest: because i believed then, as did the other signatories of that letter, that he posed a significant threat. remember that at the end of the gulf war, he was obliged to do certain things, including limit his military activities, including weapons of mass destruction. there were inspectors in - in iraq pursuant to that. he threw them out, or he basically made it impossible for them to remain. so we were at a crisis point. i think the failure of the administration to respond to that contributed greatly to our subsequent jeopardy, because we were seen to be weak and ineffective, unwilling to follow through on the demand that the u.n. inspectors be permitted to - to do their work. so i don't for a moment regret signing that letter. i think we were right to sign it. i on

. >> see the rest of this event in the c-span video library. go to c-span. or. asare live on capitol hill the committee is holding hearings on social security disability. witnesses, including the kentucky attorney, accused of filing fraudulent disability claims and two other officials. this is just getting underway. >> i am going to yield to the doctor now. we have some more things to say. i will say this. all of us know we are facing huge deficits in the country, down to about $700 billion. this is part of the reason why you have the government shutdown that is in effect even today, but there are a number of things we need to continue to do to make sure that we bring down that deficit and we run this country in a fiscally responsible way. i think we have a moral imperative to do what is right tom at right thing to do. i think we also have a fiscal imperative to make sure we are meeting that moral imperative in way, andy responsible the doctor and i have spent years working together, along with others on this committee, trying to make sure that we are rooting ou

so we're going to go to the senate on c-span2 as we always do, gavel-to-gavel coverage of the senate. now on c-span the house is in recess, so we're going to go to the president as soon as he comes out. he still has not come out into the briefing room. that was due to begin at 2 p.m. and that hasn't started yet. so on c-span you're going to be able to watch the president as soon as that starts. and then when the house comes back into session, they will go back, of course, on c-span. so it's a little bit confusing scheduling wise and just stick with us, and we'll all work together, and we'll get through it. jeff in lathrop, california, republican line. hi. >> caller: hi. >> host: please go ahead, sir. >> caller: yeah. um, i'd just like to note that, you know, that at this point we need to, we immediate to get all the federal -- we need to get all the federal jobs that are necessary, all this in order and take care of them and consider cutting all the unnecessary things that we've created. it turned into a monster, and it's changing our system. >> host: thank you, sir, for calling in. charles is in w

we'll leave this portion of this morning's "washington journal" to go now to the white house for today's press briefing. live coverage on c-span. >> welcome, everyone. thanks for being here, as ever. we can go right to questions because i have no announcements to make -- although i'm sure i now what you're going to >> i know many of you work with folks in the press office and are glad to see them back because there is no question that those of us who tried to fulfill some of their responsibilities didn't do such a great job. but i also want to welcome back jamie smith, deputy press secretary. great to have her here. i have no other announcements. so i'll go straight to the associated press. >> thanks, jay. congressional budget negotiator kicked off this morning, does the president see a direct role for himself in those discussions? or is he basically going to let congressional democrats do the advocacy on behalf of the budget priorities he would like to see? what we are hopeful is that congress -- >> what we are hopeful is that congress will seize an opportunity here to return to what has become known as regular order, which i

if you didn't get a chance to weigh in, let us know what you're thinking, go to facebook.com/c-span. you can join the conversation there. and let's see what house democrats had to say. maryland congressman, his district's mainly rural in suburban, just southeast of washington, d.c., and he and some of the house democrats spoke earlier about what's been oing on. >> once again in the 12th day of the shutdown of the government of the american people, on the 12th day of having people out of work, pledge to be paid, but not working for that pay, again, the republicans have refused to put on the floor legislation to open the people's government. we've had over a 150 members sign a petition to open the government now, and to bring legislation to the floor, which would do that. we had scores of members asking for unanimous consent of the body to do just that so the government could be open today. and in fact, mr. van holland just made a point of order of that, but for a resolution that was passed just a few days ago. any member of the house would have been in in order to ask for h.r. 519 to b

go next to collide in indiana. go ahead. to collide in -- to clyd e in indiana. go ahead. caller: lies it every time i watch c-spanhe republican party acts like little children? let's go to charles in oakland, california on the independent line. this -- i concern is am not a democrat or republican. i would hate to use a racial terminology, but it seems to me that we can solve this problem because this country is made up of various denominations and nationalities. why can't resolve the problem by changing the name of the white house to the people's house? it should be the people's house, not the white house. that has to do why a black man is in the white house, not being accepted by the republican side. you never see any black face among them. i hate to see a prejudice thing. can we all just get along? i wish we could do just that. host: what about african- americans from -- such as from south carolina. caller: tokens. they have their minorities. they don't have a rainbow coalition of people. it is just plenty of what it is. it is a prejudice organization that is trying to take over. never before has one man divide

c-span. for more information go to c-span.org, click on c-span series for prime minister's questions. plus links to international news media and legislatures around the world. you can watch recent videos including programs and with other international issues. >> author an astrophysicist neil degrasse tyson on america's call for scientists and engineers. >> as nasa's future goes, so, too, does that of america. and if nasa is healthy, then you don't need a program to convince people that science and engineering is good to do. because they will see it writ large on the paper. there will be calls for engineers to help us go ice fishing on your robe where there's an ocean of water that's been liquid for billions of years. we're going to dig through the soil of mars and look for life. that would give me the best but positive look at the national for food today. it's got biology, chemistry, physics, geology, planned to geology, aerospace engineers, mechanical and electrical engineers, all the s.t.e.m. fields. science, technology, engineering and math. represented in the nasa portfolio. a hea

c-span. and for more information go to c-span.org, click on c-span series for prime minister's question, plus links to international news meet and legislatures around the world. you can also watch recent video including programs do with other international issues. >> you are watching c-span2 with politics and public affairs, weekdays future live coverage of the u.s. senate. on weeknights watch key public policy events, and every weekend the latest nonfiction authors and books on booktv. you can see past programs and get our schedules at our website, and you can join in on the conversation on social media sites. >> now the chinese ambassador to the u.s. on u.s. relations with his country. from the johns hopkins school of advanced international studies in washington, d.c., this is an hour. >> thank you very much for your kind words. and good evening, ladies and gentlemen. it's really nice to be back at sais. it brings back a lot of happy memories. when i was running up and down the stairs back there, the library, and every wednesday evening to this auditorium. at a time it was chaired by a prof

c-span facebook page. what is your health insurance exchange experience unlike is it good, bad, haven't tried yet or won't be using it. go to facebook.com/c-span and let us know. >> one thing that is interesting. i think it's critical now it was a certification of mobile devices because of of these devices that literally hundreds of millions of americans have they can look and see that fcc stamp because we have to ensure they do not interfere with each other. back in 95 there were not that many mobile phones going through the process. but now it's really important. you have a battle between apple and samsung and motorola and others the need that certification. the of literally billions of dollars in advertising and then suddenly they are delayed by a number of days so that is a real cost. >> we've had several budget disputes and i think they stem from the budget control act of 1974. this occurs almost every year there is a crisis that goes on and yet after 40 years of this we still are not very good at figuring out how to operate the government. >> the effect of the government shut down on the fcc tonight on the communicato

to people who need it. so, thank you for c-span. i wish you would cover more. host: before you go. to do tould invite you check out the c-span video library, and the reason i have said it is we have dumbed -- we have done numerous segments of what you talked about. if you type in lobbyists or some type of keyword -- caller: with all due respect, i think it should almost be done as a segment on a daily basis, following the money, reminding us every single day what is happening with the money behind the curtain when little toto pulled the curtain back. host: thank you for the the suggestion. i would still ask you to go to the website just to check out what we have done on the topic already did grover, north carolina, independent line. hello. eddie, good morning, go ahead. caller: how're are you doing, sir? how are you doing, sir? host: you are going to have to stop listening to the tv and go ahead with your question or comment, please. aller: i wanted to ask question of the democrats and republicans. if the hard-working americans just up and automatically quit their jobs for a week an

c-span. for more information go to c-span.org and click on c-span series for prime minister's questions, plus links to international news media and legislatures around the world. you can watch recent video encoding programs dealing with other international issues. >> today on c-span3, two hearings about the affordable care act also known as obamacare. at 9:30 eastern a.m., the house over 60 looks at the iran's role in implementing the health care law. at 1 p.m. eastern the house small business committee on health and technology looks at how the law affects small businesses and part-time workers. you can watch both hearings live on c-span3, and c-span.org. >> on monday, the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee held a hearing on fraud any social security disability program. an attorney and an administrative judge accused of submitting and approving fraudulent disability claims were called as witnesses refused to testify. it begins with committee chairman tom carper. >> [inaudible conversations] >> the hearing will come to order. we welcome all of our guests here today. an

go to studentcam.org. >> c-span. we bring public affairs events from washington directly to you, putting you in the room at congressional hearings, white house events, briefings, and conferences, and offering complete gavel-to-gavel coverage of the u.s. house, all as a public service of private industry. we're c-span, created by the cable tv industry 34 years ago and funded by your local cable or satellite provider. and now, you can watch us in h.d. >> "washington journal" continues. host: joining us from nashville is russell moore. what does all that mean? guest: i lead an organization seeking to equip our churches to think through at the goal and social issues. how do we grapple with what the bible says and to speak in the public square in washington and places around the country on behalf of the convictions that we hold. host: you are relatively new in this position replacing richard land. there was a profile about you in "the wall street journal." recently -- is that inaccurate headline? guest: i think that is an

going to qualify probably for a subsidy that will offset the cost. so we do need to go through the marketplace. >> good morning and thank you to c-span. i am hearing a lot of experience and i would like to make my first win by letting you know that poor people who don't have internet and computers, and so all these computer glitches for the poor people without internet access, it doesn't have any relevance. and we are coming for years. so we have gathered the information herein i gather it for my nieces and nephews and texas is having this and they are putting out the phone numbers for the ac hotline. so we got churches together and it was just seamless. just call us, tell them what you got. and they give you information and most of my family and the young people from college had a 400 to 500% poverty. so it is a subsidy. we have signed up over 100 people. >> host: are you one of the navigators that you were talking about? >> caller: no, i am a disabled cancer patient that helps my community. >> host: can you explain what an aggregator is? >> guest: this would be a person that helps people sign up for insurance. as deborah benson, may

going to be more coverage about longevity on slates. especially slate/future tense. we are going to have videos of this up on the new america foundation site soon. god bless c-span. that means you're going to be able to watch is that too in the morning for the next 150 years. -- you're going to be able to watch it at 2:00 in the morning for the next 150 years. a special thanks to prudential for helping underwrite this. thank you all. have a good day. [applause] next "washington journal," we will discuss the political and legislative impact of the government shutdown, including what it might mean for the debate about the debt ceiling. we would talk with syndicated columnist mona chair and and columnist clarence page. he talks about the current state iran relations as well as the latest development of syria. and then a conversation with presidential historian douglas brinkley talking about president obama's relationship with congress and how it is to prior presidents. that plus your e-mails, calls and tweets on "washington journal," starting live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] as a result of the government shutd

we will be showing that live on c-span two and we will dip into that program when it happens. post" s "washington offers a preview -- that's going toappearing live on c-span two. we will show you a bit of that when that happens this morning on "the washington journal." andre taking your calls comments for the next half hour or so on the 10th day of the government shut down. tim is next from wilson, california, on our line for independence. caller: thank you for taking my call. votesrstand they have the to pass this and the speaker will not let it come to the floor. this does not make sense. there is a certain segment, not all republicans, but a certain segment of the republican party that i believe, and i hate to say this but the truth is the truth, that they want to punish america for electing a black president. i think they will try to make things so bad that when another black resident runs, people will say no. janice is up next from mississippi on our line for republicans, good morning. caller: good morning, i have a problem with nancy pelosi and harry reid. managed to table everything that the republican house has sent over. i

go to ohio on the republican line. caller: i just want to say that i really like the job you guys are doing on c-span. i was going to cancel my cable because i can't afford it but i'm going to find a way to afford it because you're the only program i want to watch right now. host: that's what pays our bills so we appreciate you signing up for cable. caller: i've never been more proud to be a republican after seing the congressmen talking on the floor, it just warms my heart. and i'm calling all my kid and telling them watch c-span and i have 11 children that are all grown. host: is that 11 cable bills then? caller: yes. i want to say if you compare john boehner what he said after the meeting with the president mpared to nancy pelosi and heir reid you can tell who is telling the truth. host: let's check our facebook poll. we've had this up since the weekend asking you who is responsible for the steal mate 3,619 thinkoting is t's the democrats caller: i'm 60 years old and i've been republican since the first day my father took me to sign up. party has cratic always helped their people. when they help the

and we are going to come up with something new. thank you, c-span, you do a wonderful job. are you going to be watching the hearing? i'm retired, i am a c-span junkie. i recorded it or i watch it. you get to see the real people saying the real things. i will be. if i don't watch it i will record it so i can watch it later. span3, itorded on c- span3.- record it on c- the house set to vote on two bills that are reported by wall street -- that is action slated for the house this week. chronicle" courtesy of the museum -- then "the arizona republic" their front page this morning -- "richmond times dispatch" on the virginia governor's race -- and president obama will be stumping for terry mcauliffe on sunday for the election of that state policy next governor. -- that state's next governor. jesse is up next on the lines. caller: i think they should keep spying. average americans don't know how safe they are because of spying. on theme not spying they are definitely spying on us. the average american does not know how safe they are? caller: exactly. host: next from texas, a repub

] [inaudible conversations] if you missed any of this discussion it is available in the c-span video library. go to c-span.org. we have more live coverage coming up on c-span networks. west virginia senator joe manchin and washington congressman kathy mcmorris rodgers. here is a preview. >> the campaign changed our family because of the west virginia battleground. we are catholic and of knowing that i was going to be a big part of this could he write that religious barrier? i never thought there was a barrier. everybody worked in the coal mines. and my daughter's father had a grocery store. i never knew there was no classis. i never thought religion was a problem because my methodist friends or baptist friends for all the same. the was a big thing. i will never forget one mind we were watching the news and they were talking about this if john kennedy got effected the pope would run the country. i looked at my mom and i said i don't think they know the catholics we know. >> for me the best thing that has happened since i was elected to congress getting married and becoming a wise man [inaudible] it

. >> we are going to first of all think c-span for their presence here. thanks for this first portion of things. >> from book tvs recent visit to montana, crow indian poet, henry real bird provides the importance of preserving indian history. these back >> in the wind, that feeling will begin, life, liberty, death, democracy and the jewel in soil in the heart of our soul. from the baath waters, steel waters, tears of war, joy, victory covered, we are pleased in the middle of lodges that are different for them to make us become pressing and that will never come. so go ahead, hit the secret drone. we have sent our step into prosperity to the yesterday dance into obscurity. all of us, where we come from our one. multi-race in america. we just want to live in peace. i thought celica going there, we started out from the earth lodge over of the big river, missouri river and watched it the yellowstone river with the wolf dogs. we were a family. but they keep through here, we were with them. pompey's pillar is will they call it a lodge, where the mountain lion sai

go to -- i mean, there were places. today it would be difficult unless you want to go to canada, gravitate to another company, i would like to see at least c-span ask the question. how many people, if the country was divided, going back to states' rights, and the state-run federal government having more of a say than the state had, i would like to see people's opinions on that. i know that would be a good question to ask, but there may be people out there that are very concerned and see that this country right now is going otally in the wrong direction. host: in south carolina that she their way of thinking as well? caller: i'm not sure how many people feel that way. i don't think it's just south carolina. i think there's very few people that may kneel way. but there may be enough to want to gravitate to one state, and if that state were put out there, even though i've been here for five generation, i would have to give it some consideration depending on what state laws they had. they could enact different laws that might be whole subject to a person who has the political feeling that they would to want live in that state. i know that's very co

that is going to be on c-span tonight after the house goes out. >> i have been asked periodically when we you the most afraid during your government service, which my service in government span the entirety of bush 43's administration from january 20, 2001 to january 20, 20009. and including 9/11 and when asked what was the scariest moment i think people are always expecting me to say 9/11 and in reality for me it wasn't. the scariest moments and there were more than one, came in september and october of 2008 when it genuinely appeared and probably was true that the global financial system was on the verge of a collapse comparable to or worse than what was experienced during the great depression. >> the director of national intelligence james clapper today called the government shutdown insidious. he and nsa director general keith alexander told members of the senate judiciary committee that 70% of the intelligence community is furloughed and they are bringing staff back on a day-to-day basis based on threats to national security. this portion of the hearing is two and a half hours. >>

you can also watch online at c- span.org and let us know what you think on twitter or go to our facebook page at facebook.com/c-span. >> he called because he is so frustrated -- know how the government shutdown is affecting you. .lease send us >> make your short video of the shutdown and upload it see what others are touting about. >> tonight part two of our conversation with josh bolten. >> start off by giving us what you saw with the press, the media, that world. how did you view them knockout >> usually with hostility. it is the natural state of affairs between the white house because that corps is the nature of what the press needs to do. they need to try to catch the white house out on whatever is going on. >> more with bush administration chief of staff josh bolten, tonight at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> on tuesday, the u.s. supreme court heard that campaign finance case. he challenges the limits on the total amount of money one individual can tribute -- can't intrude on each election cycle. one of the donors urged the court to strike down total contribution limits. this whole argument is an hour. >> we will h

going to be able to feed our kids. then this whole time we don't know if there's going to be another act forward. >> i don't have an answer for your question. just a reminder c-span is not in any way funded by the government. we are entirely financed by our cable viewers and cable industry. thanks for your call. john is in maryland on the others line. hi. caller: good morning. how you doing. >> fine. caller: you just wanted to make some comment. i'm a federal employee who is currently furloughed. 29 years. made a lot of sacrifice was this job. moving my family around the country. made a lot of foreign trips. i've been in some pretty tough places, and this is the kind of thanks that we get as federal employees. i'm kind of tired, i think most federal employees are, being used as pawns in these political games. i'm tired i have been watching c-span, i'm watching the republican talking heads and the democratic talking heads. blaming each other. they both say they want to reopen the government yet there is no action. i have tried calling my representative, i have called senator boehner's office. i called my maryland congresspeople. asking them who is going to pay my

c-span. for more information go to c-span.org. on the homepage click on international for british parliament and other legislatures around the world. also links to international media, and c-span programs on world issues. >> i'm a firm believer what they call unauthorized biography. unauthorized does not mean untrue. it means you're doing it without the cooperation and blessing of your subject and i do believe it's a legitimate, wonderful way to cover history. especially public figures that have spent many, many years and millions of dollars creating their own image and so i think it's valuable sometimes to go behind that. so usually i'm the one who's trying to get behind that and tell you what's going on. >> presidential history, political intrigue and american culture. biographer kitty kelley sits down for your comments life for three hours, sunday on booktv's in depth. in the months ahead look for other in depth guests including feminist critic christina hoff summers. and radio talk show host mark levin on january 5th. you have

the last caller said that he thinks the democrats are going to be held responsible in the next election, i think that if people pay attention to c-span and less attention to fox news and msnbc, that they will see that the tea party is holding the government hostage right now. boehner has a bill that could go before the floor right now, and if the house votes on it, what does he have to lose? i don't understand. why can be the they just put it before the floor and the democrats seem like they're willing to gamble and the republicans don't want to. they have a chance for the c.r. bill to pass. >> again the house republican approach has been to move forward with these short-term, so-called mini c.r.'s, piecemeal funding bills today, passing the f.a.a. bill tomorrow,tail take up border security. today in the senate, we saw a republican senator making motions to try to get the senate to take up these bills that have passed the house but no deal in the senate. those motions were blocked in the senate by senate democrats. ron is in ava, missouri, on our independent line. go ahead. >> thank you for taking my call. the government is -- i don'

we're going to continue taking calls on c-span if you'd like to continue watching that vote live and unfettered, it's on our companion network c-span2. we expect the house to gavel in this evening, we'll have that c-span. you on we also expect to hear from harry reid and other democratic leaders from the senate right after this vote. let's hear from randolph in i am a lifetime republican. i have been a lifetime republican until recently. party and in the tea the republican party. it is like they are separating the party. i am the guy who is kind of ashamed to be a republican

c-span video archives are so amazing. >> the video library is amazing. you can see c-span programming any time. go to c-span.org. click on what you want to watch and press play. you can find a person. just type in their name, hit search and go to people. you can also share what you are watching and make a clip. use the set buttons. add a title and description and click share and send it i e-mail -- by e-mail. the c-span video library. searchable easy, and free. created by the cable tv industry and funded your local cable company. >> as federal employees return to work, president obama spoke of the bipartisan agreement to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling. the bill funds the government through january 15 and raises the debt limit through february 7. these remarks are 20 minutes. >> good morning, everybody. please have a seat.well, last night, i signed legislation to reopen our government and pay america's bills. because democrats and responsible republicans came together, the first government shutdown in 17 years is now over. the first default in more than 200 years will not happen. these twin thre

go to paul next in pittsburgh, republican caller. hi, paul. caller: good morning. i would like to start thinking c-spanallowing us to have this unfiltered conversation that is important for the people to hear all of this. , ipent 30 years in the navy will be very brief. when the admiral was running an exercise, we would write the plan and then he would just call all the department heads in and go over all the details until he was completely satisfied that this was going to be executed properly. we call that leadership. it is an ingredient that apparently is missing in our government at the top level. it is inconceivable to me that you could after having the time that you had to roll this plan out to have this kind of a disaster, and everybody to deny knowledge. this is just amazing. with respect to the president's promise, and that is when he made, you can dismiss it if you like, but it was for explicit, and it was as recent as 20 12 during the campaign, the president said "if you would like -- if you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor. period . if you like your health care plan, you can keep y

the senate banking committee looks in to how the economy would be affected by not raising the debt ceiling and going in to defoment. that's on c-span 3 at 10:00 ament -- a.m. eastern. >>> this sunday part ii of the conversation with josh bolton. start off by giving us what you saw with the press, the media, and that world. how did you view them? >> guest: usually with some hostility, which is, just a natural state of affairs. between the white house and the press corp. because that's just the nature of what the press needs to do. they need catch the white house out on whatever is going on. more with bush administration chief of staff sunday night at 8:00 on c-span q & a. >>> now the house oversight committee looks at how the irs is implementing the health care law. members heard testimony that the irs has experienced few problems since the insurance exchanges opened for enrollment on october 1st. this is 4 hours. [inaudible conversations] >>> coming to order. first, americans have a right to know that the money washington takes from them at the irs is well spent. and second, americans deserve an efficient, effective government that

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c-span. the senate is in as well over on c-span2. go tour website to find out our coverage of all of the events happening here in washington today. on twitter -- what is your take on this? paul is a republican in tennessee. good morning. caller: thank you for taking my call. shot -- ake to give a shout out to the fisher group for stepping in and doing what obama couldn't or wouldn't do. i believe this man is trying to rip us apart from the very seems that were put together -- he would not spy on americans like ocean it, right yet though she wouldn't bring -- like what did it right? -- like bush did, right? now the muslim brotherhood of egypt, we send $500 million to them and everything is ok. republicans -- we know what the democrats are up to. they have two games, blame and race. they are already blaming us. before long it will be throwing that race card at us. that is why the republicans are not catching the fire. become the cans out here know the democrats are up to. -- republicans out here know the democrats are up to. if it had been m

not get what he wanted, not even close. >> i want to go back to an earlier question we had with you a couple of days ago when we chatted with you on c-span raid east washington today. what has this shutdown been about? >> this shutdown, i think, a lot of it has been about the tea party and the tea party wing of the g.o.p. which insisted on defound -- defunding or delay og ba ma cair. that was -- that really -- that movement got going because of implementation problems that the obama administration has had with the health care overhaul but at the same tame, it comes down to votes. republicans never had the votes, they don't have the power they only control the house, they don't control the white house they don't control the senate. if you don't have the votes on the strategy, the exit strategy will be dicey. house republicans for a while bobbed and weaved but harry reid stood there saying eventually you're going to come to me and at first the polls weren't too bad for the republican, they took the blame and democrats took a little less blame but over the last week it just really plummeted for the g.o.p. they lost a lot of political standi

going to get the program started. please make it to your seats. we are being broadcast on c-span tonight, so we do want to get the program rolling. everyone moved to your seats. we will get started. the senator is on his way in. let's get this grand old party started tonight. [applause] my name is david fisher. i'm the cochairman of the republican party of iowa. i'm sure you all understand that we have to get things going tonight, because the last time somebody offered senator ted cruz a microphone, he did not stop talking for over 21 hours. [laughter] [applause] we need to move through dinner and get the plates out of here and everything am a so we can start planning on how we will get breakfast in here tomorrow morning. welcome to all of you. thank you for coming out and joining us and supporting our party as we work together to advance our conservative principles. thank you also to the north -- the enormous number of media national, and, even international that have come to cover our event. we as first in the nation iowa republicans take it as an honor to host you here in des

the reason the two parties are going -- i am 27 years old and i am watching c-span. it's sad i am watching c-span and there needs to be a lot more young people watching it. this is ridiculous. we should not raise debt from the get go. we should be working on the way to cut all of these little entitlements. there are a lot of people that are making $15,000 per year off of just entitlements, like all of these -- it is just not right. that is all i have to say. >> dave on the independent line. >> they need to sit down and talk. they need to get a situated and get it all worked out. if they go to pass the debt it is -- go past the deadline it is good to shut the complete government down. that is how they are paying their bills, paying their medicals. what is going to happen if they lose all that? there are going to be a lot of people that died because they need that. them thata lot of need what medical they can get. some places will not take you because you have pre-existing conditions that they will not accept. the voters need to go to the governor and everything else and that is allet up in i have to say on it. >> we

book, "why teach" and i'm going to talk about it about 25 minutes or so, i hope not much longer than that. then you can ask questions or whatever your in the mood for. we have c-span here. honored to have c-span here. if you ask a good question or any question at all you can tune in and seven days and see yourself on tv. what can be better than that? the title of my book is "why teach" in defense for a real education. that is a really hard question i would like to put on the shelf for a while. but in defense for a real education, that's why i want to try to work with a little bit. so let me ask this question what is this thing a real education? and i want to say against the disposition of the culture at large a lot of fellow scholars from the university of this point it is humanities based. the real the education is a humanities based education. why? first of all the humanities based education is conducive to the development of citizens. conducive to the development of citizens. our founder thomas jefferson wanted to create a university that would help people become citizens independent republic. it's one of the reasons he brought us the university of virginia and

[applause] go to the microphones of you to ask questions because we are being taped for c-span. i think you were first. [inaudible] -- supreme court opinion justice scalia were justice thomas were to write that medicine has risen from the dead and appeared to them personally and the was behind -- or any of the other justices -- and there was behind their opinion. what would your reaction be? >> i don't want to become justice scalia -- that's a lie. i really do. he basically has said that in his opinion in his concurrence and citizens united. justice stevens writes a long descent in citizens united using the original list materials to say he believed the framers of the constitution would not have wanted corporations to have a free-speech rights that were given to them or found for them in that opinion and justice scalia takes this on and he says that may be true, the things you found me the truth that's just because in 1787 people thought of corporations as involving monopoly. and our corporations don't. and our framers of the framers of the new that would really like them, which

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going to help me make my payments for sure. >> reporter: since being sent home after congress failed to pass a budget, she has been glued to c-spanondering what the future holds. >> if this goes on for a month, this is unacceptable. i won't be able to make my loan pavements. i don't would be to be living like that. this is not why i chose this job or chose to be part of this federal system, to be in this constant bind. >> reporter: like her americans of all political stripes have been showing discontent with gridlock in d.c. [ protesting: stop the blackmail ] >> reporter: it's many washingtonians struggle to make sense of the politics while others just make due. there is a rippling affect from the sofas to the streets. >> we've actually had a big job offer. >> reporter: a dc general manager of national petty cat. he told us fewer tourists in the city is one hurdle his company is facing. the ordinary, barricades around the biggest attractions because they're closed for the shutdown. >> if you get to the heart of dc, if you want to see the washington monument, the jefferson, you're missing out on a lot of stuff. >> reporter: 20 mil

what, what is the staff doing backstage the c-span cameras are never going to find while their bossesre posturing the staffs know on both side we have got to fix this? >> the staffs are freaking out, lawrence. >> yes, there is that. first. >> you and i have worked on debt loan increases in our time. on this one i have never been more concerned that we are going to go off the tracks. but what i think and hope the republican staff are doing -- i help they're coming up with clever ways to impose restrictions on the congress in the federal budget process through budget resolution process that they can use to point to and say we did something here. having done that we will pass the debt limit. that is not a concession by the president. >> what is an example? >> they can impose new rules that have more teeth about the way the budget process works. the requirements that the conferences actually happen. the budget, budget resolution, most people don't realize never gets signed. >> resolution not a bill. >> concurrent resolution. not a joint one. >> promise to congress. >> looking for ways to

you can do that by going online to facebook.com/c-span. thanks again for your calls. we're going to move on now to look at what happened earlier today. both parties held press conferences after the house passed that measure that would give backpay to federal workers who were furloughed. this is about 15 minutes. we will take a look first at republicans and then see what democrats had to say. >> good morning. good morning. the house just took another step to try and ease the pain of the government shutdown, ensuring that furloughed federal employees will get their backpay. as you can see, it was a unanimous vote in the house. we had also gotten word yesterday that the obama administration had been making it very difficult -- if not toossible -- for chaplains come and conduct services on government property during the shutdown. we thought that that really was an abuse of this shutdown and wanted to make sure that the fundamental constitutional right to practice your faith and religion would be upheld. as you saw again, nearly unanimous on the house floor. herewe are look

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going to be -- as james said, there will be more coverage about one jodi on slate. -- about longevity on slate. have a video of this up on the new america foundation website soon. god bless c-span. that means you are going to be able to watch this at 2:00 in the morning for the next 150 years. [laughter] a few thanks to the incredible people who put such tremendous effort into bring this together. faithlessness, -- faith smith, becky. a special thanks to prudential for helping underwrite this. thank you all. have a good day. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2013] >> on monday, the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee will hold a hearing on possible fraud and abuse in social security benefits for the disabled. current and former officials from the social security administration will testify, along with several doctors. that will be live on c-span 3 at 3:00 p.m. eastern. >> i have been asked periodically, when were you most afraid during your government service? my service in government spanned the entirety of bush 43's administration, from january 20, 2009.o january 20, including 9/1

live coverage on the c-span network. let's go to miami. as a former politician, [inaudible] wacko toallow a govern by himself, this is going to be something wrong. they want to defund obamacare. we should have a single payer. in the bestcipated medical system in the world. there is no reason why she payer.t have a single was one of 18 republican senators voting in the u.s. senate against the measure. he spoke before the u.s. senate vote happen. >> i rise today in opposition to the deal the senate is getting ready to vote on. this is a terrible deal. this deal embodies everything about the washington establishment that frustrates the american people. this kicks the can down the road. , moreows more debt deficits, more spending it does nothing to provide relief for the millions of americans who are hurting because of obamacare. the young people coming out of school who cannot find a job because of obamacare, this deal does nothing for them. moms who are struggling and being forced into part-time work, trying to feed their kids on 29 hours a

c-span archives are amazing. >> the video library is amazing. you can view and share c-span programming any time. it's easy. here's how. go topan.org and go to the video library to watch the newest video go down to the most recent, click on what you want to watch, and press play. you can also search the video library for a specific topic or keyword or you can find a person by typing their name, hit search, and go to people. go to their bio page and scroll down to their appearances. you can also share -- >> "washington journal" continues. host: our conversation continues on the affordable care act. us.ael leavitt joins the former hhs secretary under the bush administration from 2005-2009. many have compared the affordable care act, the rollout of a, to medicare part d, of which you spearheaded. what was your role in that? guest: as secretary of health, i had all responsibility for its and limitation. i would have done the same thing at this point that kathleen sebelius is doing. obviously, there were tens of thousands and in some cases hundreds of thousands of people involved in it. my job was to oversee it. host: what was th