murf with harry stein and stefan kanfer in a moment. >>> "after words" with harry stein and stefan kanfer continues. >> host: welcome back. i am stefan kanfer talking with harry stein, the author of quite a remarkable book and he's been elaborating on it called the "i can't believe i'm sitting next to a republican." one of the things we were talking about just before hand was a rather courageous man who was a lawyer for landlords and all i recall this passage in the book is not only entertaining but rather brave, the son of a holocaust survivor obviously not afraid of anything, how much kanaby and this is what he had to say about the situation. >> i will read a couple of brief quotes from him. by the way, when i spoke it was amazing, it was like the term on the tape recorder and he just went. he had so many stories he was brimming with the anguish and the been used frustration of dealing with new york city and new york city residents. the first thing anyone learns as a landlord is any situation is presumed to be the bad guy. the evildoer and everyone with whom he deals the tenants, the ci

more with harry stein and stefan kanfer in a moment. >>> "after words" with harry stein and stefan kanfer continues. >> host: welcometein, the authoe a remarkable book and he's been elaborating on it called the "after words" with harry stein and stefan kan called "i can't believe i'm sitting next to a republican." one of the things we were talking about before is a rather courageous man who was the lawyer for landlords and i recall a passage in the book not only entertaining but rather brave. he is the son of a holocaust survivor, obviously not afraid of anything. how much worse can it be and this is what he had to say about it. >> guest: i will read a couple quotes. by the way, when i spoke to this it was amazing, it was like a term on the tape recorder and he just went. he just had so many stories he was brimming with the frustration of the first thing anyone and he elaborates about the indignities, thus lights this guy goes through and it's quite lengthy. he says fighter a lousy employee of the wrong ethnicity in new york city. one landlord had an alcoholic who never showed up for work

. >> author harry stein has talked about how he changed his life by going left to right. >> how with c-span funded? >> mainly through donations. >> there is a sponsor ship -- >> taxpayer funding. >> of the government? -- the government? >> 30 years ago, american cable companies created c-span as a public service. no government mandate, no government money. >> now, president obama talks about health care legislation. this is just under one hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, the president of the united states. >> good evening. please be before i take your questions, i want to talk for a few minutes about the progress we are making on health insurance reform and where it fits into our a broader economic strategy for the six months ago i took office amid the worst recession in half a century. we were losing an average of 700,000 jobs per month and our financial system was on the verge of collapse. as a result of the actions we took in those first weeks, we have been able to pull our economy back from the brank. we took steps to stabilize our financial institutions and our housing market and

>> the author of a new book, "i can't believe i'm sitting next to a republican," harry stein.ry speech keeps okay noxious left-wing activism going. but at least he generally makes open-minded noises. in manhattan offices, the chosen one's acolytes often don't even bother pretending to be civil toward those on the other side." this woman resembles mika brzezinski. >> yet you are so much more reasonable than she is. >> mike, you know this happens. in fact, a very famous agent told you a couple of weeks ago that, this person ain't at all republican, except me. >> exactly. harry, i asked you where the title came from? >> i was searching for a title for the book. i live in the hastings on hutchins. that little left-leaning artistic town. it was during the primary campaign between hillary and obama. of course everyone was singing the praises of obama. i very tentatively -- because i'm not a troublemaker -- brought up the question of obama's inexperience. the guy next to me who normally is literally all -- turned as if i was wearing a nazi armband and a hood and he engineered, "i can

this weekend on afterwards -- after words, harry stein. for the entire schedule, go to booktv.org. henry louis gates, jr. 10:00 p.m. eastern on sunday. susan jacoby on q&a on sunday. this is at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> 26 minutes from now -- open funds for 26 minutes. -- open phones for 26 minutes. you can send us an e-mail. financial reform of the financial-services industry. a concern by many on the capitol hill. the washington post talks about all the principal players in this case or at least this issue differ on their opinions on how to pursue this. we have pictures of each of them. treasury secretary timothy geithner, ben bernanke, john dugan, and sheila bair. and here is a little bit of what the article has to say. it says on the question of creating a consumer regulator, ben bernanke argued that the work the said it does supervising banks' complement its works protecting americans from potentially risky financial products. john dugan said he was wary that this would give states the right to regulate banks interactions with consumers, making it harder for national ban

. >> this weekend, using candid humor, author harry stein talks about how his life was changed after crossing the political spectrum. >> president obama was in ohio today for a town hall meeting on health care legislation. he was at shaker heights high school for one hour. [applause] >> hello, everybody. [cheers and applause] thank you. please, everybody have a seat. thank you. hello. [cheers] hello, shaker heights. hello, ohio. it is great to be here there are a couple of quick acknowledgments to make. please give rick a round of applause for his introduction. [applause] some special guests that we have got -- first of all, the governor of ohio is in the house. [applause] your state treasurer is here. [applause] your secretary of state is here. [applause] the mayor of the great city of cleveland is here, frank jackson [applause] ] shaker heights mayor is here. [applause] the shaker heights school superintendent is here. [applause] not here but a couple of my favorite people, congresswoman and sharon brown on out here today. they had to do work in washington. it is good to be back in

this week, harry stein tells how his life has changed since crossing the political spectrum from lefto right. for the entire schedule, go to booktv.org. clear clear clear host: let me invite you to call in on open phones. the phone numbers are on the screen. you can also send in comments by e-mail, by twitter on any of the things we put on the table this morning, the oversight of the tarp funds, financial markets situation, healthcare, the president's press conference, if you would like to comment on henry louis gates and all that. we will get to your calls as they start coming in. a couple other articles not related to this that i found in the newspapers this morning. first of all, house panel oks 128 billion for two wars and house appropriations committee passed a $636 billion defense spending bill wednesday that contains $128 billion for pentagon operations in afghanistan, and john murtha, the house's top defense budget writer says more will be needed next spring. related to that in "the washington post" this morning, murtha's 12 colleagues back a murky $160 million request. tucked

." >> today at 9:00 p.m., conservative author harry stein talks about his book "i can't believe i'm sittingnext to a republican" on "after words." one of many books you'll find on c-span 2's "book tv." "q&a" tonight. susan jacoby and the house american activity hearings at 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on c-span. >> join the conversation on civil rights and race relations with npr and fox news analyst juan williams, live, sunday august 2 at noon eastern, on "book tv's" in-depth, on span 2. >> "washington journal" continues. host: we want to turn our attention to the issue of health care. congressman tom price is going to be joining us in just a moment. he's in atlanta. republican policy committee chair for house republicans. david brucker is on the fon -- phone with roll call. good morning, david, thanks for being with us. are you with us? put this last week into some perspective. what happened and conversely what do you think is going to happen as democrats and republicans convene against this week? caller: they finally came to the aufs conclusion that it wasn't going to be a vote before t

this weekend on afterwards, using candid camera, author harry stein tells how his life has changed sincesing the political spectrum from left to right. for the entire schedule, go to booktv.org. host: we want to welcome back new gingrich, former speaker of the house and author of his latest book, "wiehl change." that began with what was said in the washington examiner. a fraud and abuse cost taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars a year, more than enough to pay for high-quality insurance for every uninsured in america, but you say, for whatever reason, congress ignores this mass of pot of money, powerful help and insurance commerce committee henry waxman in particular. why so? guest: congressman waxman has been involved in these issues since the 1970's. all that time, there has never been a serious, methodical effort to approve -- and improve the amount of fraud we have with medicaid and medicare. the "new york times" has estimated -- i am not talking about waste -- people who are thieves have stolen about 10% of new york medicaid. it is about $4 billion a year in new york alone, in m