." >> c-span's new book, "sundays at eight," includes gretchen morganson. >> what role should the government play in housing opinions? if you want to subsidize housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populace agrees that it's something we should subsidize, then put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it's costing. but when you deliver it through these third party enterprises -- fannie mae and freddie mac -- when you deliver the subsidy through a public company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way of subsidizing home ownership. >> read more of our conversation with gretchen morganson and other featured interviews in c-span's "sundays at eight." from public affairs books, now available for a father's day gift at your favorite bookseller. >> booktv covers hundreds of author programs throughout the country all year long. here's a look at some of the events we'll be attending this week. look for these programs to air in the near

. >> c-span's new book, "sundays at eight," includes financial journalist gretchen or morganson. >> what should the government play in housing finance? if you want to subsidize housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populace agrees it's something we should subsidize, then put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it's costing. but when you deliver it through these third party enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mac, when you deliver the subsidy through a public company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way of subsidizing home ownership. >> read more of our conversation with gretchen morganson and other featured interviews in c-span's "sundays at eight." from public affairs books, now available for a father's day gift at your favorite bookseller. >> live now from the 38th annual printers row lit fest, barbara ehrenreich will talk about her book, "living with a wild god." [inaudible conversations] .. [inaudible conversations

. >> read more of our conversation with gretchen morganson and other featured interviews from our book notes and q & a programs from public affairs books. now available for a father's day gift at your favorite book seller. next a senate commerce subcommittee hearing looking at what is being done to update the nation's communication networks. witnesses included the chief technology officer and internet industry experts. this is an hour and a half. we'll call the hearing to order. >> thank you for coming to the senate subcommittee on communications technology and the internet. the committee on commerce house of transportation, i want to thank all the witnesses for being here today. we'll have a number of colleagues coming and going this morning. we have a number of other hearings and markups, et cetera, going on as well. so some of our colleagues will be coming and going. let me just say good morning to everyone and welcome to today's hearing. we're here today to discuss the public safety and network security aspects of the ongoing evolution of today's nation networks. today they're in t

i'm talking about gretchen morg morganson, the entire staff at "the new york times." >> oh, geez louise. is gretchen on the show this morning? >> no. no. she couldn't be here today. she's working on the next overpaid corporate ceo story. >> oh, man, please. save us. >> john, what are you here to talk about this morning? >> go ahead, john. >> i'm here to talk about mississippi and the republican attempt to try to retake the senate. i just want to take a little bit with the assistance of color coded maps, what the keys are to democrats holding or losing the senate. republicans need to pick six to go from 45 to 51 in the senate. they've got plenty of opportunities on the democratic side. if you look at these blue states where democrats now hold the seats, you've got incumbents in north carolina, in arkansas, in alaska, louisiana. democratic incumbents who are in changer. you have open seats in places like iowa and michigan where republicans have a chance. iowa also has a primary today. but it only work -- the math only works for republicans to make those gains if they get six of those seat

. >> c-span's new book sundays at eight include gretchen morganson. >> what role should the government play in housing finance? if you want to subsidize how'sing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populous agrees that it's something we should subsidize then put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware of how much it's costing. but when you deliver it through these third-party enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mac, when you deliver the subsidy through a public company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way or subsidizing home ownership. >> read more of our conversation with gretchen morganson and other featured interviews from our book notes and other programs. now available for a father's day gift at your favorite book seller. >> at the direction of congress, the voices and experiences from the civil rights movement of the mid 20th century are being documented in an oral history project. this effort is a collaboration of the smithsonian n