to his face so you can't... c-span: senator sarbanes. >> guest: that's right. that's who it is. c-span: we're going to go to some other photographs. where were you allowed to be in the--you know, were you allowed to get closer in the hearing room, compared to the... >> guest: the--the hear... c-span: ...others? >> guest: ...the--the--in the--in the house judiciary room there, you did not have the f--the freedom that you had in the senate caucus room when we were doing the watergate hearings. you had to pick your spot and stay there, and you were not allowed to stay in there continually. you rotated with other photographers, and you waited your turn, and you had 15 minutes or a half hour, and then you had to get out. so it was conducted quite differently than the senate. it also was a much quieter--you did not have all of the emotions that were going back and forth between the committee members and the witnesses during watergate, because there were no witnesses. they were just discussing the thing among themselves. c-span: what kind of lenses do you use? >> guest: in--in--in this instance, i--i used

to me. c-span: where were you born? >> guest: i was born in boston. c-span: so it's... >> guest: i'm native. c-span: it's everything. now where'd you go to college? >> guest: radcliffe. c-span: right there in boston? >> guest: right. i didn't travel very far. c-span: what do you think those that grew up in boston see that s--those that, say, maybe out in the midwest or in the far west don't see? >> guest: well, i think it's an older attitude towards the landscape and cityscape. we can walk around. but there's a defining quality about living in new england, despite the malls and the s--the strips and everything else. and that was the message of "preserving new england," a message that cities and inner suburbs are cities and inner suburbs and country is country, and that one--there were two ways of life. it was the old henry adams--winter was city and summer was country. and the kind of mindless scattering in this green countryside not only messes up the environment and takes two million acres of farmland a year, but destroys the sense of abandoning on the one hand and a true link with the natural environment on the other hand. c-span: you say that

to make sure that when , forype www. c-span.org example, or any other website name, you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to all the time, every time, for the last two decades. monday, on the communicators at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span two. a look now at the crisis in ukraine at the annual conservative political action conference on saturday, former under secretary of state paula dobry and ski -- halle dobr ianski moderated a panel. this is 25 minutes. >> good afternoon everyone. we are going to spend some time focusing on the crisis in ukraine. i want to take a minute and just give you a little bit of context to what is happening. let's go back to last year. in november of last year, then president yanukovych turned down the opportunity to become associated with the european union. that association would have resulted in economic reforms and political change in ukraine. ukraine is in dire economic straits. make a reals could difference in its way forward. as a result of his unwillingness to sign association, massive protests took out on the streets in kiev and throughout ukraine. people were protesting an

so i think we are less happy is the short answer to the question. c-span: go back to something you said earlier about how this all got started. you wrote the original article again in what magazine? >> guest: the journal of democracy. c-span: whose is that? >> guest: it's an academic article--academic journal published by the national endowment for democracy. it's--it's a journal namely for academics about--about, you know, how democracy works. c-span: and you said you had a theory about how that moved on from there. >> guest: well, yeah. i've written a lot of books and a lot of articles in my life as an academic. and some of them, i think, were maybe even better than the bowling alone article, but that got about a million tons more publicity. i mean, i got, you know, invited on pe--you know, shown on people magazine and bill clinton invited me to camp david. and there was just a lot of hubbub about--about the article bowling alone, much more than, as i say, for things that were, i think, equally valuable intellectually. and i think the reason was that i purel

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to ensure that when you david ww. c-span.org or any other website name, you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to all the time, every time i'm a for the last two plus decades. tonight, on the communicators at 8:00 eastern on c-span two. >> this week on "q&a," the chairman of the securities and exchange commission mary jo white. talks about her life and career and the agency she has supervised since 2013. >> mary jo white, why did you even consider being the chairman of the securities and exchange commission? >> great question. it is a wonderful agency. i was the attorney general in new york, worked very closely with sec. professional staff, totally dedicated. they mean so much to our lives. to our markets. and it is public service. nothing motivates like public service, particularly at this level, the sec. >> for someone who has no idea where it is, what it does, tell us. >> sec has about 4000 employees. its mission is to protect investors, which creates jobs. keep our capital markets fair and orderly and efficient. it has a vast array of responsibilities. the sec oversees about 11,000 investment advisor

c-span: i'm going to jump to something that you and i had in common, after i read this book, and that was growing up listening to john r. >> guest: you listened to john r.? c-span: well, i remember him as john r., john richberg and i also listened to somebody by the name of gene nobles. >> guest: that's right. c-span: now why did we both listen to that same radio station in nashville, tennessee? >> guest: i guess you're an octoroon and you've been passing all this time. c-span: who was john r.? >> guest: john r. -- i saw an article about him in the times in the '70s and he was this white guy who sounded black and loved black music and black culture. and i think many of us would have been shocked in the '50s and '60s to know that john r. was this white, southern, mountain guy who was in love with black culture. but he played both gospel music and soul, rhythm and blues, and blues, and that was my first encounter with black music on a national scale, as it were. but i have been surprised by how many people throughout the south -- but you're from the midwest -- who depended upon john r.

all are resolved to make sure that when you type to thepan.org," you go exact site that c-span wanted to go to all the time every time for the last two plus decades. lacks the head of the internet corporation for assigned names on "the communicators," on c-span 2. >> wednesday, prime minister david cameron talked about the situation in ukraine and relations with russia and the european union. he said the u.k. will withdraw from preparations for the g8 summit scheduled for june in sochi russia. the prime minister told members that russia should be condemned by the whole world adding that the uk's national interest is that the rule of law is upheld. this is about 35 minutes. >> order. questions for the prime minister. sir peter bone. >> thank you, mr. speaker. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues -- mr. speaker, this morning i had meetings with ministerial colleagues and others, and in addition to my duties in this house, i shall have further such meetings later today. >> peter bone. >> mr. speaker, -- [inaudible] 2000 new jobs. local conser

in the root, all names are resolved to make sure when you .org, for example, you go to the exact site that c-spanants you to go to all the time, every time, for the decades.plus >> the role that icann plays in assigning internet, names tonight on c-span2. "> "washington journal continues. host: we take a look at how your taxpayer dollars are spent. our topic today is special education and we are joined by james wendorf, the executive director for national center for learning disabilities. he joins us from new york. thank you for being with us this morning. guest: thank you. it is great to be back. host: let's talk about this year's budget. how much has a changed over the last couple of years? guest: i think the issue around budget is they reflect values. what we see with the president's budget is holding onto the values that have been there. it is a level funding plan. there are some tweaks. it essentially holds the line. we are happy to see sequestration put aside for the time being. i would say for those in the disability community, values really go back to the beginning of idea, the special ed

all names are resolved to ensure that when you or any otheran.org website name, you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to every time, all the time for the last two-plus decades. >> the head of corporate internet domain names monday on "the communicators" on c-span 2. >> william burns was on capitol hill monday to discuss the u.s.-russian relations. he testified for about two hours, 20 minutes. >> this hearing will come to order. let me thank deputy secretary of . ate burns for coming this was planned obviously well before the current state of events, understanding the schedule. of your we appreciate your still being with us here today, as well as our panelists for being willing to provide your perspective of the increasingly violent situation in syria and the russian intervention in ukraine. as a caution ri note, we have a vote taking place at 11:20, so we may pause to take that vote. to the increasing threat of violence across syria's borders, into lebanon and iraq. of great concern is the proliferation of al-qaeda splinter groups and the increasingly sec tarne rhetoric that offers --

to be biased. they can tell you the truth. they are all paid for by our dollar. and c-span, i like to watch c-span in the house. i really like to go to the real facts. if you're going to talk about something, watch the senate and watch the house. don't say i heard it here heard there. watch it. host: thank you ma'am. these are the evening news ratings for the evening shows the evening news shows in the last week or so. this is from the numbers for the week of march 10. you can see here that i million people watched nbc nightly news. abc 8 million and cbs 6.6 million people watched those evening newscasts. then you can look at the cable ratings as well. this is from tv by the numbers. the week ending march 18. fox news, 1.2 million viewers cnn 613,000 msnbc 400 2000. -- msnbc 400-2000 -- 402000. mitch from harrisburg, pennsylvania. caller: i get my news from pbs news hour which comes on at 6:00 third iwatch that for one hour. then i will watch c-span every morning. then i watch a lot of the c-span hearings or whatever you have on their, c-span1, that is. host: mostly tv, hot? caller: caller: definitely. i was getting the "harrisbur

to ensure that when you type www. c-span.org, for example, or any other website name, you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to all the time, every time, for the last two plus decades. >> the head of the internet corporation on the role they play in assigning new internet domain names tonight on "the communicators." >> this morning on "washington journal," nancy cook talks about the job report and anti-poverty programs. later, the executive director of the national center for learning disabilities discusses government funding for students with special needs. as always, we will take your calls. "washington journal" is next. >> welcome to the washington journal. sxsw routinely draws high-profile guests. snowden who is still living as a fugitive in moscow will speak at sxsw later today by live video. that is our topic is morning. we want to hear from you on whether or not snowden should address that gathering. you can also reach out to us online. good morning, everyone. this appearance is certainly drawing lots of controversy. many people, including some members of congress say that they actually think he s

c-span: who'd he challenge? >> guest: this--the senator was the--was alex wiley, who would later go on to become a major--one of col--mccarthy's colleagues here. the senate--the senator that mccarthy replaced, the one that got him into the senate, was his underdog campaign against robert la follette jr. c-span: how old was he when he was elected? >> guest: well, there's two versions to that. again, mccarthy's skill in playing with the--in playing with the truth--he was, actually, in fact, the youngest senator when he took off--when he took office in--in 1947. he would've been--well, let's see, he was born in 1909. he would've been (makes noise) 38. but just to make sure that people understood that he was, in fact, the youngest senat--senator, in his official biography, he knocked off a year--lopped off a year from his birth date to make himself even younger, to appear as sort of fresh, young blood the young maverick arriving in the us senate. c-span: elected first in 1946... >> guest: yes. c-span: ...took his seat in 1947. who controlled the senate? which party? >> guest: then, it was the republicans. it was a s

to ensure that when you type www.c-span.org for example or any other website name, you go to the exact site c-spants you to go to all the time every time for the last two plus decades. >> the head of the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers on the role it plays in deciding internet domain names on the communicator that eight eastern due to the special senate session. >> obama administration officials from the state department, usaid and the treasurtreasury department said recently before the house foreign affairs committee about russia's actions in ukraine. this hearing is just under an hour and a half. to call the committee to order we ask all the members if they can come in and take their seats for this hearing. let me begin by pointing out that ukraine is facing not one crisis, but a number of them. it's a new government is f not confronting an economic and financial crisis brought on right years of mismanagement an corruption by the previous of government officials.nage and it isme doing this while unr military invasion and economic milicion by neighboring russia. the world has

go to our c-span website. if you go to c-span.org, we have the video library.ll give you all of the video that is related to it in our archives. lisa, washington, d.c. caller: thank you. i have not called in a couple of years. my 90.1 radio every day. much to add in terms of what a lot of people said. i know the pressure for networks is great. to jump him what the previous caller said, clearly because , becauseno new news this is unusual, it could get interesting when they start talking about how unusual it is -- and how there is no existence or anything like that. out, when that stand i listen to the rebroadcast when , itstart the shows at 12:00 was incredible to me that less after it had happened, or maybe he was 24 hours because march 8 -- what was that, a friday? within 24 hours, the pressure they felt to say what had happened, i could not believe it had already caused david gregory to say when we start off the extend want to condolences to all of the families who lost loved ones in the crash. -- my mouth could not close. i could not believe he had already

behalf #pan chat using -- the #c-spanchat, and go to facebook.com/c-span.rent kentucky senator rand paul also, and we will have live coverage this afternoon. while this rate continues, remarks from texas governor rick perry. he spoke earlier at the cpac. >> come on, get it up. good morning. yes, it is a good morning in america. and the best part about it is that we are getting to be in the present and stand in the presence of american patriots. ofm reminded this morning words that speak to the american soul, words spoken by thomas a little who said rebellion now and then is a good thing. [cheers and applause] my friends, our country is in peril. our deficit is that a record -- thisour economy economic recovery is absolutely stagnant. our lays in the world is weakened. the world isin weakened. so i have a simple solution. it is time for a little rebellion on the battlefield of ideas. [cheers and applause] but instead of looking to washington to find the front lines of the battle, i ask you to look to the states. we find that the laboratories of innovation an

resolved to ensure when you type www.c-span.org, for example, any of the website name, you go to the exact site that c-span want you to go to all the time every time for the last two plus decades spent ahead of the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers on the role they play on assigned new internet domain names tonight on "the communicators" at eight eastern on c-span2. >> doug most recounts the competition between boston and new york city to build the nation's first subway system during the late 19th century. this is a little under one hour. >> thanks everyone for coming out on this slushy, lovely night. i have done one event so far on this and it was also a sluggishly, lovely night so maybe it's what i should expect going forward for things. it's appropriate, talking to people about this today as i was thinking about the snow come it's appropriate there's snow on the ground because snow as it turned out was a critical factor in the building of subways in this country. i'll talk about that, but subways became to be in large part because of a storm much bigger than the one we are experiencing

c-span. voters in afghanistan go to the polls on friday to elect a new president. tomorrow, we will hear about the election from retired general john allen, a former commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan. he will talk about the planned drawdown of u.s. troops. you can watch live coverage on c-span beginning at 10:00 eastern. also, a look at improving the management of federal government agencies at a hearing by the center -- senate governmental affairs committee. live coverage begins at 3:00 eastern on c-span. >> two weeks after the burglary, i received a large envelope at the "washington post." it had a return address of liberty publications in pennsylvania. it did not mean anything to me but was intriguing. inside was a cover letter from the citizens commission to investigate the fbi. that is the name the burglars game used -- gave each other. likethey wrote sounded something a commission appointed by a president or attorney general might say. they described the fact they had burglarized and fbi office. they had become concerned there were informers in antiwar

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cspan.org or any other website, you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go with to all theme, every time, for the last decades. internetad of the corporation for assigned names and numbers on the role it plays on assigning new internet domain tonight. >> a discussion now on how president obama's budget will affect the nation's health care law from today's "washington journal." guest: host: if you are one of these folks who had their insurance plan canceled and then found yourself in a situation where you could renew it after all, you'll be able to stay on that plan for at least two more years, perhaps as long as into 2017. what was the reasoning behind that? guest: the administration says it wants to give as much flexibility to consumers as possible through the exchanges and plans you may already have, through work or however you can get coverage. it's worth noting there's also a congressional election in november and these plans would have been coming up are either renewal or cancellation again around october/november when people were going to the polls. host: you think th

all names are resolved to ensure span.org orpe www.c any other website name, you go to the exact site c-span wants you to go to all the time, every time, for the last two plus decades. >> the head of the internet corporation on assigned names for the role played in assigning new domain names at 8:00 eastern on c-span3 due to the special senate session. the president's advisory council on financial capability for young americans held its first meeting today at the treasury department. the panel was created to help young people become better equipped to manage money as they transition to adulthood. speakers include treasury secretary jack lew on that education secretary, arne duncan, and valerie jarrett. this is just under two hours. >> it is great to have you all with us for the first meeting of the new president's advisory council on financial capability. a warm welcome to the members of the council. we are grateful you have agreed to serve. the subject of financial capability is a priority for the administration. we look forward to the work of this counsel with great interest. in a few minu

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going to take years to find. thank you both for being with us. >> thank you. >> next on c-span, the 24 team -- 2014 midterm elections. first, debbie wasserman schultz at the national press club. federal reserve talkshairman alice rivlin about the economy and the health care law. >> the problem is this bacteria whatcoming consistent to we have now. tb is one of the examples. gonorrhea is another example. we have new strains of tb which are completely persistent to the most antibiotics. the other problem is there is not enough interest on the pharmaceutical industry to develop antibiotics. we need to make this a global effort to work on this. ofre should be a great deal collaboration with the developed world and the developing world. ,> the future of health care tonight at 8:00 on c-span's q&a. next, representative debbie wasserman schultz. she talks about the democratic agenda going forward. this is half an hour. >> thank you for being here today. exactly a year ago, after losing up and on the ballot in 2012, the rnc chairman stood in this building and unrevealed what has been known as the autopsy report. they admitt

to it. thank you, c-span. host: if folks do want to watch it in their entirety, they can always go to c-span.org and view their or of course you can watch it live on c-span to this morning. that is senator jack reed of rhode island on the senate floor now. let's go to richard waiting in minneapolis, minnesota on our line for republicans. richard, good morning. caller: good morning. i think the republicans should take the stand that climate change is real, but do we want to really destroy our economy by this cap and tax. we are really driving ourselves into a noncompetitive economy with the cap and tax and the raising minimum wage. after all, the democrats and republicans sent our jobs overseas with nafta. now they want tpp transpacific partnership, we are becoming noncompetitive in the world, so why put another obstacle in front of this nation? host: richard, you're taking republicans should take a stand that climate change is real and happening. how do you propose that they deal with that? caller: we are already doing a lot of things, but cap and tax is the wrong way to go about it. we shouldn't put a lot of

to do this soon. >> c-span -- created by america's cable companies 35 years to go and brought to you today as a public service by your television provider. >> joining us on "the communicators" is jonathan edelstein who served on the federal communications a -- federalian communications administration. >> this is the association that represents companies that build jonathan -- build wireless networks. thateople that send all information to your cell phone, countries like sprint

if you want to continue this conversation, you can go to facebook.com/c-span.ere's a another big headline. report requested by governor clears him. you have probably heard about this already. " leadew york times editorial this morning says it is a whitewash for governor christie. lawyers hired by governor christie of new jersey at public expense issued their findings thursday on the traffic jams at the george washington bridge in september. it was apparently engineered as a bizarre form of political revenge. to no one's surprise, "the new york times" opines. lawyers found his hands clean. this cost the taxpayers of new jersey more than $1 million in legal fees. that is the new york times take this morning on the governor christie situation. henry is coming in from burke, virginia. they, you are on "washington journal. code should student athletes be able to unionize? caller: effect continues, yes. and ncaa will have asked for this. i speak from the vantage point of a parent of a very good athlete who is being actively recruited in college. what we're finding is

to do this soon. >> c-span -- created by america's cable companies 35 years to go and brought to you today as a public service by your television provider. >> joining us on "the communicators" is jonathan edelstein who served on the federal communications a -- federalian communications administration. >> this is the association that represents companies that build jonathan -- build wireless networks. thateople that send all information to your cell phone, countries like sprint and t-mobile, as well as companies that own and old cell towers, the antennas that you find in shopping malls. equipment that is behind the scene that makes possible what you see on the screen. >>, a cell towers are there? -- how many cell towers are there? >> hundreds of thousands. it is hard to keep up with the desire for new infrastructure because of the demands on them for structure today. what is your organization focused on? >> we are making sure that we want to illuminate barriers to get the networks in place. our priority. sometimes they are federal rules that might affect how we employ things or how the lighting may be

insure that when you type www.c-span.org, for example, or any other web site name, you go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to all the time, every time for the last two-plus decades. >> host: how are you funded? >> guest: when people buy web site names, there's a very small fee, a very small part of what they pay the registrar that comes to icann. that ends up to somewhere north of $90 million a year, and that's what icann uses to performing its functions. >> host: and where are you based? >> guest: good question. icann's home has been los angeles for a long time. but since i started i've taken the concept of a headquarter office and divided in what i call a triquarter office. and we now operate our core functions, all of you our core functions from three cities on the planet, los angeles, istanbul and singapore. this way we can offer stakeholders on the planet around the clock support and coordinated support because we also deploy what we call stakeholder relationship management systems in order to make sure that any stakeholder around the planet if they call any of our operational head qu

insure that when you type www.c-span.org, for example, or any other web site name, you'd go to the exact site that c-span wants you to go to all the time, every time for the last two-plus decades. >> the head of the internet corporation for assigned names and numbers on the role icann plays in assigning new internet domain names on "the communicators" at 8 eastern tonight only on c-span3 due to the special senate session. >> this weekend conservatives met just outside washington, d.c. to talk about the differences between social conservatives and libertarians on issues like abortion and same-sex marriage. the panel was part of the conservative political action conference. it's about 40 minutes. ♪ ♪ >> oh, can't we all just get along? [laughter] we have to, and we need to. but, first, we've got to get to some issues. citizen link is a public policy partner of focus on the family. we are social conservatives, and i'm going to dive right into the deep end. we believe that marriage is one man, one woman. marriage today means mom and dad. and i realize how difficult that is in some circumstances to hear that,

>> i have to close because we have c-span, i can't -- you're going to have to wait a minute. i'm sorry. >> if i may, there is a local organization, the purple mountain institute, and you can find them at purplemountaininstitute.org. they offer free courses for veterans in mindfulness-based stress reduction. you may have heard about it. it's a form of meditation. mbsr. classes are free for vets and their families, and it's offered throughout the year through the community, and i highly recommend it. i'm a veteran, served three tours in iraq. i've taken the course four times, and it's finally starting to stick. so i encourage you if you are suffering to look at the purple mountain institute. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. >> i just want to -- hey, a big hand for our two authors, david finkel and ann jones. [applause] yeah. the authors will be autographing their books at the sales and signing rare number one at the ua bookstore tent. please don't ask them on the way out, because they have to get there. the festival would like for me to say to please join as a friend of th

going to do some reading as well. but it's special because, one, this is powell's, we're in oregon. astoria is very nearby. the center of this story. and also we're here with c-spanbooktv x so we have a national audience as well as a oregon audience. so i'm going to tell some stories, and you oregonians may know some of the stories, and you may not know others. but i'll start with how i came to

>> i have to close because we have c-span, i can't -- you're going to have to wait a minute. i'm sorry. >> if i may, there is a local organization, the purple mountain institute, and you can find them at purplemountaininstitute.org. they offer free courses for veterans in mindfulness-based stress reduction. you may have heard about it. it's a form of meditation. mbsr. classes are free for vets and their families, and it's offered throughout the year through the community, and i highly recommend it. i'm a van

host: let's go to alan in arizona, you're on with sal good created caller: morning and thank you for c-span. i want to let you know that at our tea party meetings we had 178 people with standing room only. the tea party -- the tea party is for many things. you take a look at this economy and everybody says they want to get jobs. the number one thing i would like to see for the republican party is to have a theme, and that is lower the cost of living for every american. the it starts with energy. get energy below $39 per barrel, we win. we outcompete every nation in the world when it comes to energy. that brings jobs back to the united states, manufacturing, you actually lower the cost of being able to do business. if i want to open up a taxicab business in new york, i need put a million dollars up to be able to do business in new york. that is ridiculous. we have heard little kids wanted and understand and they couldn't even do that because they had to have so many restrictions. the thing that socks me about --ry reid and his agenda that shocks me that harry reid and his agenda of blocking

c-span 2. 9:00 on -- go toe discussing book tv.org to enter the chat room. >> a look at the san diego union tribune. lerner hearing when lois -- testified before the oversight committee. congressman issa was criticized for cutting off his colleagues microphone while he was trying to make a statement. he told the union tribune that he apologize to mr. cummings after the house voted down a measure to censure him. we will be taking a look at that hearing with lois lerner, followed by comments from darrell issa. the purpose of the hearing is to gather facts about how and why the i.r.s. improperly scrutinized certain organizations that applied for tax exempt status. today we have recalled ms. lois lerner, the former director of exempt organizations at the i.r.s. ms. lerner appeared at the may 22, 2013, hearing you should a subpoena and that subpoena remains in effect. before we resume our questioning, i'm going to briefly state for the record a few developments that have occurred since the hearing began nine months ago. these are important for the record and for ms. lerner to know and unde

c-span 2. part of the book club we'll be discussing joseph's new biography of carmickle go to book tv.org to enter the chat room. >> there was a poll done in 2013 after the 2013 -- after the second inaugural which asked americans it if ronald reagan were to run today against barack obama, who would you vote for? they said reagan by 58%. over obama and that is right after obama's reelection in 2013. here's a really fascinating -- how is obama elected principally, youth votes. youth vote that same poll, they asked people ages 18 to 34 who would you vote for ray begun or obama they picked reagan. unlike the gallop does a president's day poll every president's day annual president's day poll opinion doing this 13 times since 2001. reagan placed first among the american public as far as question who is your all time favorite president. reagan got on 2001, 2005, 2011, 2012. an reagan you recallly finishes in the top three. typically beats lincoln. [laughter] and imagine that. imagine that. there was in -- in june 2005 a poll done by aol and time warner that survived americans and didn't give them a choi

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c-span know it. they know what is going on. that is why they are giving away $5,000 to the school. st: c-span knows what? thatr: surely you all know they get paid every time they have to pay a tax or regulation or compliance. they get a billion dollars for that. don't tell me you don't know that. host: members of congress? they all do., insider trading -- as long as it is in the public, it is not insider trading so what they are doing is getting it all out so that wall street knows about it. host: margie, i am not sure if to the making reference student can contest that we just showed you, the 2014 winners have been announced, they know who they are. we just showed a little bit of the top winners and more about the contest. if you want to learn more about student can, go to our website, c-span.org. you can go to studentcam.org as well, and you can see all of the details there about the awards that we give out to the students for doing these -- participating in his annual documentary. zachary goldfarb. guest: i think the caller probably reflects a lot of frustration among americans w

tweets on the middle east and wars in iraq and afghanistan, live from noon to three eastern on "inn -- "in-depth" on c-span 2. go to booktv.org to enter the chat room. expwr veterans affairs secretary testified about his department's budget wednesday before the senate veterans affairs committee, and 309 billion dollars in 20 is a. this is just over two hours. [inaudible conversations] >> okay, let's get to work. i want to thank all the guests from the va today to discuss the budget. let me begin by thanking you, and for tackling some e nor nowsly difficult problems in the enormously difficult period of facing our veterans, and if anything i learned in the year and two months chairman of this committee is that the course of war is much, much greater, i think, than most americans are perceiving. we are dealing now with hundreds of thousands of men and women who came home from iraq and afghanistan, dealing with traumatic brain injury and ptsd. you know what? that's tough stuff. those are tougher illnesses to deal with, the numbers and magnitude extraordinary, and that's an issue to focus on today, but just the mag

conversation going, if the senator from rhode island would indulge me in answering my question, but i'd like to get back to the senator from rhode island. i want to say to people perhaps watching this on c-span or others, the reason i'm so grateful for the senator from rhode island, because, you know, i've been here, again, for a little over four months but the senator from rhode island is -- and forgive me if this sounds in any way disrespectful to say it this way -- but i almost think that the senator from rhode island reminds me of that movie "shawshank redemption." and i say that because one of my favorite parts of this movement -- i'm reminded that morgan freeman and the main character of the movie wanted to get a library for the -- for the prison and, frankly, that they -- their strategy was every single day to send a letter. and the reason why i have a tremendous respect for you is because you have been relentless, to my knowledge, in

when you type c-span.org or any other website name you go to the exact site that c-span1 to to go to every time for the last few decades. >> that is on the communicators tonight on c-span three. >> speaking of the special senate conversation is happening out. dangerous path. they see that we, our country and our congress, must change. so this is where we start, a moment of great peril for massachusetts, for america, for the world, but also a >> secretary carney discuss the climate change issues. good afternoon, everyone. thank you for being your. i have an announcement at the top -- i do not have an announcement. the president is trying to assess the situation crimea. if there's an opportunity to stop the referendum going forward or if the focus is on getting the community to delegitimize the result of that? >> the conversations the president has been having with the leaders of the world about the situation in ukraine and crimea have focused not just on , which we did not whichs legitimate and hardly anyone views as legitimate. it is a stronger effort to be united in calling for de-escalation to the crisis. have been working with our make it clear that there is an aven

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c-span. for more information go to c-span.org and click on series to view every program we aired from the british house of commons since october of 1989. we invite your comments about prime minister's questions via twitter using the hashtag, pmqs. >> this is a pictorial report on the nato manuevers of 1954. this is a gigantic land manuever under the coordination of the fifth corporation, u.s. 7th army. it has many trains purposes but additional purpose could be to display nato's might before the communists this exercise is divided into two opposing forces called, black and green. in this exercise, both sides have the american-built, 280-millimeter atomic cannon. the atomic cannon has never been fired in europe. what you will see here is a simulated atomic explosion. but the atomic cannon can be fired in europe. the guns are ready, the men are ready. should the soviets attack any one of the nato's 14 nations, atomic guns will fire. >> from the u.s. army's the big picture series, nato manuevers aimed at deterring soviet aggression in europe. this weekend on american history tv's real america. sunda

to go. >> we want to thank you for doing this, mr. chairman. thank you very much, sir. >> here's a look at some of the events scheduled on c-span. that's politician will talk about iran's nuclear program. this will be live from the atlantic council. -- atlantic council. the director of the national drug control policy will speak. we will have that live at 3:00 eastern. >> shortly after world war ii, the department of state became and then stuck that a military force was needed to guarantee the security of the foreign services across the world. students were taught the fundamentals of security. the pitfalls and problems which are hazards to security. they learned of the ad vet -- adverse affect of misconduct. >> this may have an adverse affect. generally speaking, these areas are the black market. illegal money exchange. reckless driving. drinking. and early marriage. >> a 1964 training film from the state permit security posts. c-span three.n next, alice rivlin. she talks about healthcare enrollment and the federal budget. this is part of the atlantic conference. about one half of an hour. >> thank you edward. next up, we have t

i would encourage anyone, especially democratic listeners, to go on the c-span website and check that. i was surprised by what i heard. host: did you listen to his speech as well? caller: i did. i thought that was great. he got the crowd going. he seemed kind of sedate, but we learned afterwards that he had just had back surgery. but i think he is back. he might surprise us in the coming years. host: all right. let's show our viewers a little but of what the former texas governor had to say. rather, stepping down as governor. governor rick very, from texas. [video clip] electt is why we need to the right leaders to washington. leaders who believe in free market. not in a bigger federal government. leaders who respect the freedom of the individual instead of depriving them of the power to realize a dream. it is time for washington to thes on the few things constitution establishes as the federal government's role. defend our country. a cogent foreign policy. what the heck, deliver the mail, roughly on time and on saturdays. [applause] get out of the health care business. of the educati

to talk about why it matters, what about the great depression. today c-span yours welcome. hoover's identity really began in college. you've written all book about that. where did you ever go to college and how did it affect them? >> was born in 1874 in iowa as the son of quakers and some of a blacksmith. he was orphaned before ten, went out to live with them on call in oregon, never had more than a middle school education. and then he applied for entrance into a newly formed stanford university in the summer of 1891. he got in mission and was told to take additional to agree with the help of which she post -- passed most of his entrance against. he was probably the first student at stanford university getting his dormitory room ahead of anyone else. that became his all moderate. after world war 100 -- hoover literally built his own home on the stanford campus. that's still there. >> and dr. nash, what did he do with his education and the got there? the study engineering. >> is the official measure was geology. he had an interest and engineering which quickly became his career after a graduated in the class of 1895. after your to in the united states he got a break and was

to realize it. >> see the rest of governor in the c-spans video library. goingive to cpac from lieutenant colonel oliver north and. -- oliver norton. news offered me the option of being here or in kandahar. to be here.l i am a representative of obamacare, i heard it was your responsibility, you young people, to buy into the program to help old people like me. get with it. [laughter] years since i started reporting on and documenting what our american heroes do. theve described them as finest military force the world has ever known. [applause] our military, in the hindu hush, mesopotamia, africa, the persian gulf, the indian ocean, all of them are the stars of what they have done in my reports and my books. they really are the bravest and best of a generation. they are, as i described them to be, america's heroes. [applause] i would like to remind young people that heroes are not the people who catch passes in the end zone or set olympic records. even those who appear on comic books and creations of television in a spandex suit and a cape. flak jackets and combat

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

pouring into syria for the fight with the rebel forces -- >> we are going to leave this hearing and you can find the rest on on the c-span .org. we will go to the u.n security council meeting on the issue of the ukraine. >> [speaking french] [speaking french]. >> madam president, members of the security council, since the briefing yesterday by assistant secretary to this council, there have been reports of continued serious developments in ukraine. in crimea, key sites such as airports, communications and public buildings including the regional parliament reportedly continue to be blocked by unidentified armed men. there are further reports of armed personnel taking control of regional administration buildings in several cities south of the ukraine. the new prime minister today released a statement appealing to president vladimir putin to provide assistance for the autonomous republic of crimea. in the same statement he announced she taking control of security in crimea and i quote, on a temporary basis. he told all security personnel to declare allegiance to him rather than the authorities of kiev. following the reporte

c-span. for more information go to c-span.org and click on series to view every program we've aired from the british house of commons since october of 1989. we invite your comments about prime minister's questions via twitter using hashtag, pmqs. >> cia director john brennan yesterday addressed accusation that is cia agents illegally tampered with computers used by senate staffers investigating the cia's detention and interrogation tactics. andrea mitchell of nbc news asked him about the senate's investigation in an interview at the council on foreign relations. this is an hour. >> good morning. i'm andrea mitchell from nbc news and msnbc and my honor to introduce the director of intelligence, john brennan. after a career at cia went to the white house as the president's top terror advisor and was confirmed to be the director of central intelligence. john brennan will have some opening remarks about his first year at cia as director. and then we will have a conversation and then we'll open it up to you in the audience and to some of our, cfr members who are sending questions in online. so th