j. edgar, when i first worked on my book, young j. edgar. i had two questions in my mind. one was a question about how america treats civil liberties in the time of stress. it was 2006, 2007, not that long after 9/11 when our country was still at the height of the war on terror. and second, the question about j. edgar hoover himself. since celebrities do come first in america. let me start with that. j. edgar hoover is one of those people who's image and legend is so big and what was to con issuesly built by friends and enemies it's hard to cut away and see what is reality and what is not. if you ask most people what they know about j. edgar before the movie come out they would make a snide remarking about the old man wearing a dress and high heel. that was the poplar image of j. edgar. it's one the thing that is probably not true. the tact is, for most of his adult life he was a national hero in america. he served as director for the fbi for 48 years from 24 to 19 it 72. it is a remarkable achievement. he served under nine different presidents starting with calvin cool ag

j. edgar hoover it's no surprise then that this was one of the stops on the tour but as we know scandal comes in many forms as to be expected an overarching theme was sex and all the politicians caught with their pants down or with women who weren't their wives apparently and happen all the time where i'm standing right here the side of a very popular strip club in the seventy's called the silver slipper and then there are those scandals that have it all politics sex and drugs here at d.c. city hall to talk about one of the city's former mayors who still reports here to work and the city councilman i'm talking of course about marion berry bitch said i'll be god that bitch that bitch did that to me from the set ups of sung to the

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j. edgar hoover hated robert kennedy. it is interesting.eople do not give enough to force to the key role that character personality plays in politics and power. this telephone call, hoover hated robert kennedy. robert kennedy insisted there be a telephone on hoover's desk so he could call them at any time. as soon as president kennedy died, the telephone is removed from his desk. hoover was very close to lyndon johnson. i found my reaction to johnson, i've never seen a reports on you. in reminds me of robert kennedy. the thing about london is he lies all the time. he lies even when he does not have to. hoover was very close to johnson. here we have two man on a conversation about civil-rights. it is our lead very simple. kennedy did not believe what lyndon johnson told him. robert kennedy, yet the two of them are working together. did they both want the civil rights of murders solved. they are two men who want civil rights advancements. >> you have a phrase that you quote quite often in the books. i want to ask you a "power is where power

j. edgar hoover. >> quite as active and i ought to make a statement about the freedom of the press and so forth. my inclination is not to say so. >> you're right. >> i kind of think i should stay out. what's your public relationship? >> you should remain absolutely silent abbbbbb

j. edgar hoover and radical terrorism at 2:00. at 3:20, neuroscientist david lyndon on why the good stuff feels so good in the compass of pleasure. also this weekend on "afterwards" on al freft nobel and his peace prize. >> there's a myth, always has been, when he established this prize for peace of guilt over his invention of dynamite and i think i say in my book that it's hard to know exactly what's in a man's head and heart, but this seems not to be true. it seems he was quite

j. edgar hoover at the fbi. for good measure, he later went on to the state department and then private law practice. nick katzenbach was 90 years old. >>> when we come back, living the american dream. a good old fashioned success story. >>> finally tonight, a purely inspiring story of success and drive. a man whose persistence and desire to make a better life for himself gives a whole new meaning to the term "work study." our chief education correspondent rehema ellis has his story. >> nearly 20 years ago, this man left his family in the former war-ravaged yugoslavia, heading to america with no money, no job, and no english speaking skills. >> i moved to escape from the political problems. >> he landed a job at columbia university, mopping floors. cleaning mirrors, and emptying the trash. that custodial job turned into an education in the classics and now an ivy league degree. >> the hardest for me was and still is elementary ancient greek. >> but the now 52-year-old was accepted into columbia school of general

j. edgar hoover saying that his brother has been shot, perhaps fatally. emotion at all. after he was shot? in taxes or wait until i get willhe's not really asking. taxes and for robert kennedy to agree it is the best course. when will will after he learned his brother's death, the man he hates is now lure the oath. i said, how was his voice? she said, like steel, controlled. that. she said i was sorry to be doing it but it had to be done. she was a great admirer of lyndon johnson. she said she always tortured him. you can do it. of a woman's head. oath of the word to make sure he was doing it correctly. she was a great help to me. a lot of these people were amazing help. to the left is jack brooks. he is headed the judiciary committee. >> yes. i know he was helpful. go ahead way ahead of the plan? it was supposed to be 50 years after his death. >> how helpful are they? >> to me they are amazing. his first call is to george. this is the night he gets back. more importantly comment a guy lyndon johnson could really count. he was a pragmatic center. he called the very same

j. edgar hoover. >> some people think that this court is active that i ought to make a statement about the freedom of the press and that we aren't trying to sensor them. my inly nation is not to say so. >> i think you're right. >> i kind of think i should stay out. what's your public judgment on it. >> the that you should remain silent about it. >> you would? >> i would. >> in washington, d.c. listen at 90.1 fm. nationwide on channel xm 119 and streaming at vrk spanradio.org. this the c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week and every weekend 48 hours of people and events telling the american story on american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. up next, the senate subcommittee on the federal workforce looks at the shortage of foreign language speakers in government. the state department's human resources director and the heads of the american counsel for international education and the institute for international education are among those testifying. hawaii senator

j. edgar hoover. >> some people think that now that i ought to make a statement about freedom of the press, and that we aren't trying to censor them and so forth. my inclination, for whatever it's worth is not to say so. >> i think you're right. >> i kind of think i should stay out. what's your public relationship that you're -- >> i'm predicting the government, mr. president, is that he should remain absolutely silent about it. >> you would, huh? >> i would. >> in washington, d.c. listen at 90.1 fm, nationwide keer on xm channel 119. and streaming at cspanradio own organize. >> i think this is one of those markets that i think people vote for the -- don't vote for the paeft. i think this is the city of wichita votes for the candidate. i think you've seen a lot more of that, even though it's heavily republican, midwest, which is dynamic, and it's great. but i think you're seeing more of that in the recent years here in the midwest, they're really voting a little bit more for what the person stands for. >> june 2nd and 3rd, book tv and american history tv explore the heritage and literary c

j. edgar hoover's career in 1919. in about four hours, 20 minutes, we'll bring you a glimpse of the life of aaron burr. david o. steward provides details in his biography, "american emperor." david linden and his book, "the compass of pleasure," he speaks from the mitscher nonfiction tent in about five hours. in "city of scoundrels," gary krist details the environment and mood of chicago in 1919. hear the author in about five hours, 40 minutes. and booktv will wrap up our live coverage of the gaithersburg book festival with a panel on the future of the book and bookstore. jim mill yang of publishers' weekly moderates a conversation between ray sag lin, politics & prose co-owner lissa muscatine and publisher sam durant of potomac books. but first, here's author b. morrison. >> located near the book sales tent at the front of the festival. please, be sure to fill out your festival survey to be entered into a drawing for a free nook touch. surveys are available at the back of the tent. enjoy the rest of your day at the f

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j. edgar hoover was aware of a lot of this. the fbi and hoover as you might have gathered by now were not natural friends. and hoover says, you know, ernest, is just the wrong guy. heard about what was going on in cuba and said i cannot think of anybody who is more ill-suited toward this kind of work than ernest hemingway. you know, then he wrote down a couple of reasons, drinking, judgment, politics and whatnot and by the way the fbi kept an eye on him for his whole life even when he was in mayo clinic just before he died. but anyway, this is one thing that the fbi and the oss could have agreed on because they both looked at hemingway and came to the conclusion that this is somebody who we really shouldn't have as a formal part of our organization. kgb, one member know in washington and kgb did not get. got a lot of oss memos but didn't get this one so they tried their hand at it. nobody really got a whole lot out of ernest in the intel business in world war ii. ernest as i say, something he wanted to do. it's something he dev

j. edgar hoover. >> quite as active and i ought to make a statement about the freedom of the press and so forth. my inclination is not to say so. >> you're right. >> i kind of think i should stay out. what's your public relationship? >> you should remain absolutely silent about it. >> you would? >> i would. >> in washington, d.c., listen at 90.1 f.m. nationwide xm channel 119 and streaming c-spanradio.o are rg. >>> a half subcommittee held an oversight hearing last week on the priorities of the fire service community. members examined the current effe effectiveness of the u.s. fire administration as well as priorities for future research, development and training activities. authorization of the agency expires on september 30th. >>> the subcommittee on technology and innovation will come to order. welcome to today's hearing entitled working for fire safe america. i recognize myself for five minutes. today's hearing is being held to review the priorities for the future of the united states fire administration. the usfa. the usfa was established following the 1973 report on fire prevention

j. edgar hoover at 2:00. and david linden on why the good stuff feels so good in the compass of pleasure. also this weekend on afterwords, jay norlinger. >> there is this myth he established his prize for peace out of guilt over his invention of dynamite. i say in my book it's hard to know exactly what is in man's head and heart, but this seems not to be true. it seems he was quite proud of his achievements in the area of explosives. they built today what we call infrastructure, canals, tunnels, railroads. >> peace, they say. sunday night at 9:00 eastern and pacific on book tv, every weekend on c-span 2. ♪ >>> this memorial day weekend on c-span we'll take you to colleges and universities around the country to hear commencement addresses from members of congress and the president's cabinet, state and local leaders, and business executives. and we also want to hear from you about your commencement experience. did you graduate from college this year or attend a ceremony for a friend or family member? or maybe s

j. edgar hoover. >> some people think that now that this court has acted that i ought to make a statement about the freedom of the press and that we aren't trying to censor them and so forth. my inclination, for whatever it's worth, is not to say so. >> i think you're right. >> i kind of think i should stay out. but what's your public relations judgment on, it edgar? >> public relations judgment, mr. president, is that you should remain absolutely solid about it. >> you would, huh? >> i would. >> in washington, d.c. listen at 90.1 fm. nationwide here at xm channel 119 and streaming at c-spanradio.org. >> in a few moments a look at the national flood insurance program. in about an hour and a half a small business administration forum focusing on entrepreneurs. and then a discussion of the federal government's role in the housing market. several live events to tell but tomorrow morning. secretary of state hillary clinton. defense stret secretary leon panetta. and the chierm of the joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey, testify before the foreign relations committee on the relationsh

j. edgar hoover it's no surprise then that this was one of the stops on the tour but as we know scandal comes in many forms as to be expected an overarching theme was sex and all the politicians caught with their pants down or with women who weren't their wives apparently and happen all the time where i'm standing right here the side of a very popular strip club in the seventy's called the silver slipper and then there are those scandals that have it all politics sex and drugs here at d.c. city hall the talk about one of the city's former mayors who still reports here to work and the city councilman i'm talking of course about marion barry bitch said i'll be god that bitch that bitch did that to me from the set ups of sung to the get out of others. this tour covered it all like benjamin franklin he would wear a coonskin cap and. you know the various ladies for hire on the street thought that was a rather rambunctious move and would compete for him and his attention scandal it seems one of the few constants throughout history his. social relations with that woman. by the committee to rea

j. edgar hoofer. >> some people think that now that this court has acted that i ought to make a statement about the freedom of the press and that we are trying to censor them and so forth. my inclination, whatever it's worth, is not to say so. >> i think you're right. >> i kind of think i should stay out. what's your public relations judgment on it, id gar? i'd like to know. >> mr. president, is that you should remain absolutely silent about it. >> you would? >> i would. >> in washington, d.c., listen as 90.1 item. nationwide, we're on xm channel 119. streaming at c-spanradio.org. >>> a report by the senate armed services committee says more than 1 million suspected counterfeit parts are in the defense department supply chain. today's pentagon briefing included questions about how those counterfeit parts may affect the military's mission. this is a half hour. >> good afternoon and welcome back to the briefing room. last night, the secretary returned from the nato summit in chicago. he was pleased by the hospitality shown to him and other leaders by the city of chicago and enjoyed the oppo

j. edgar hoover was on the side of, effectively, the forces of segregation. and these young people did it. and that is a great, great moment in american democ-- i think it's the best moment in american democracy since the end of world war ii. (paulson) if we could go back to the very beginning, you told their story extraordinarily well in a book called the children. and it is a large volume. and yet on day one of covering their story, you probably wrote a 22-inch story, whatever occurred that day that initiated your coverage. did you have any sense on day one that they would make history? i think i knew something was happening. i think watching these young people protest, how well-organized they were, how extraordinarily disciplined they were, the elegance of them, the body language-- we didn't talk "body language" then, but they were erect, their posture. they were extraordinarily well-dressed. i had a sense that something powerful had happened and that they would come back from-- i didn't know the depth of it. i didn't know how well-trained they were. i did

j. edgar h. and at 3:20, neuroscientist david lyndon on why the good stuff feels so good in "the compass of pleasure." also this weekend on afterwards, jay nordlinger. >> there's this myth that he established his prize for peace out of guilt over his invention of dynamite. and i think i say in my book that it's hard to know exactly what's in a man's head and heart, but this seems not to be true. it seems he was quite proud of his achievements in the area of explosives. they built what today we called infrastructure, canals, tunnels, railroads. >> peace, they say, sunday night at 9:00 eastern and pacific on book tv every weekend on c-span2. >>> this is c-span3 with politics and public affairs programming throughout the week. and every weekend, 48 hours of people and events telling the pern story on "american history tv. get our schedules and see past programs at our websites. and you can join in the conversation on social media sites. >>> last year's japanese tsunami created tons of ocean debris t

j. edgar hoover, that caused a lot of concern in this community. the f.b.i.'s current domestic investigation and operations guide permit f.b.i. agents to track racial and ethnic facilities and certain racial and ethnic behaviors. documents recently obtained from freedom of information act requested by the aclu demonstrates how the f.b.i. is identifying and mapping american communities by race, eth nation it, and national origin all over the country to a program you have called domain management. the documents show that f.b.i. analysts across the country are asocial greating criminal behaviors -- associating criminal behaviors with certain racial and ethnicities. using u.s. census status to map where those communities are located to investigate them. for instance, in 2009 the atlanta f.b.i. field office published an intelligence note from your domain management that purports to exam the threat in part by documenting the growth of the black population in georgia. i want to know how does the size of the black population in georgia have any bearing on the number o

j. edgar hoover to tell robert kennedy that his brother has been shot. less than an hour later, the man that robert kennedy hated is on the phone toim askghe formalities of how he assumes his brother's power. the secretary who took down the oath, johnson asked robert kennedy for the wording of the oath. kennedy... he could have asked any one of a hundred people for that. and the secretary... kennedy has his deputy give him the oath. i asked the secretary, a woman name mad ree famer who still lives in washington what it was like and she said his voice was like steel, bobby was not, he had started. i thought "you shouldn't be doing this." >> ifill: jackie kennedy was also... you see her in the photograph. she gave great legitimacy to the passing of power by standing next to lyndon johnson but she had mixed feelings as well about johnson. >> well, you know, she once wrote to ted sorn son "you must know how frightened my husband was that lyndon johnson might become president." this is really after the cuban missile crisis when johnson was so hawkish in the m

j. edgar hoover. >> some people think that now that this quarter's active, i've got to make a statementabout the freedom of the press and that we aren't trying to censor them and so forth. my inclination is not to say so -- >> i think you're right. >> i kind of think i should stay out. but what's your public relations view on it, edgar? i'd just like to know. >> you should remain absolutely silent about it. >> you would, huh? >> i would. >> in washington, d.c. listen at 90.1 fm. nationwide we're on xm channel 119 and streaming at c-span radio.org. >> here are the best selling nonfiction books according to "the new york times." this list reflect sales as of may 17th. topping the list is robert caro's "passage of power," the fourth volume of his series, the years of lyndon johnson. mr. caro has had several appearances on booktv, and you can watch those programs online at booktv.org. second is gregalman's memoir, "my cross to bear." mr. allman co-wrote his memoir with alan light. third is anna quinlan's "lots of candles, plenty of cake." you can send your questions to miss quinlan to bookt

j. edgar hoover to tell bobby kennedy that his brother is dead. 31 minutes later, the man he hated is onelephone asking him for the formalities of how to assume his brother's office, questions which, as kennedy's assistant, nicholas castleback told me, any 1 of 100 officials could have answered. i could have answered it. why did lyndon johnson make that ca call? you might say, you know, you don't really know, but it's a call that's so fraught with human emotion. lyndon johnson's secretary, a woman named marie famer, gets on the phone to take down the words of the oath as kennedy and castenback are giving it to her. she says i said to her what were their voices like? she said, catsenback's was like steel, bobby's wasn't when he started. i kept thinking you shouldn't be doing this. castenback said that the fact johnson called robert kennedy in that moment is just appalling. >> it is an amazing book, the detail. i'm just, you know -- it's a big book. i'm just getting through it. i can't wait to keep reading. you are the most gripping biographer of our day. >> thank you. >> and thank you. th

j. edgar hoover in order to put a dark light on our leaders at the time. at to was not justified or substantiate it whatsoever at all, so it is just another way of trying to divide and conquer and get away from the real focus, which was civil and human rights right here in america and the rights that people should have just because they are basically human. that is not something that we focus on. basically, it is a false premise and something basically made up to divide and conquer as far as the african-american community is concerned and to put a negative light and an unpolite and the african-american leaders during that time. host: next up, renee on our line for independents calling from houston, texas. caller: thank you for taking my call. first, i wanted to say you do deserve accolades and respect because it took a lot for you and your partner to first of all, be concerned enough to raise the money to insure that we had this historical monument. i went to law school in north carolina to do civil-rights work. but here is what i would like to ask. what i

j. edgar hoover. >> make a statement about the freedom of the press. my inclination is to not say so. i kind of think i should stay out. what is your public relationship? >> you should remain solid about it. >> you would? >> i would, yes. >> you can listen. and nationwide, we are on channel 119 and streaming on c- span.org. >> former supreme court justice john paul stevens on monday commented on the decision of the florida recount in the case of bush v. gore. he was nominated to the supreme court by gerald ford in 1975 and retired in 2010. from the american law institute, this is a little less than half an hour. >> justice stevens is in my mind the very perfect justice of the united states supreme court, but let me tell you why. because his life experience is so broad, his compassion so deep, and his intellect so very far reaching, let me tell you how i first met justice stevens, because i think offers an insight into the kind of human being he is. many years ago, in albuquerque, new mexico, justice stevens and his wife took part in a bridge tournament, and one of and one the time hap

j. edgar hoover. i remind you that to talk about and think about the transition and the changes that have gone on in law-enforcement and in the fbi in particular, so that we are looking at how we make the criminal justice system, make it work better and protect our citizens more. i hope that in the course of our discussions this morning, we get to to several considerations that are on my mind as we begin this particular hearing. one is over incarceration. we put more people in prison than any other country on the planet. and with less successful results, i might add. i need to engage you in that issue. when we talk to each other, i am mostly talking to my colleagues. these are subject matters that we need to examine when the head of the fbi is here as our witness. the other problem that i have to bring up, what affect is our overconcentration on counter- terrorism efforts, how has that hindered or affected the fight against crime inside the u.s.? violence, murders. other issues that to do not fall int

j. edgar hoover's war on a new type of american enemy, radical terrorism.at 3:20 narrow scientist david bin laden on why the good stuff feels so good in the compass of pleasure. on afterwards, alfred nobel and his nobel peace prize. >> there's this myth he established the prize for peace out of guilt over his invention of dynamite. i think i say in my book that it is hard to know exactly what is in a man's head and hard but this seems

j. edgar hoover. >> i am going to make a statement about freedom of the press. my inclination is not to say so. [unintelligible] >> she should remain absolutely silent about it. >> we are straining at c-span radio.org. >> null form on how political campaigns use technology and how it has evolved since the first president critics and the first computer was used to predict the presidential election in 1952. this is an hour and 15 minutes. >> election 1952 introduced a new word, univac. the computer became famous overnight. many people here may remember the mere word became as synonymous with modern computing in the 1950's as the word google is to modern web searching today and you can see that in our exhibition. election nights are the smallest part of how technology drives the modern campaign. we are profiled by computers, where mobilized by tweets and hedden for contributions on facebook and mixed and matched in pools of big data. we have a great panel examining the state of the are in presidential campaigns and social media 60 years after univac. chris lahane w

j. edgar hoover. >> my inclination is not to say so. i think i should stay out.y silent about it. >> in washington d.c., listen at 90.1 fm, and screaming that cspanradio.org. >> what are some of the key issues ahead as the senate debates the food and drug in ministration bill? >> the manager's amendment that we all see on the floor today is about the national drug tracing system to track different models of drugs with the serial number as the pastor the system. we will see some amendments on giving the fda more power to investigate things and to give their employees a whistle-blower protection. >> what is the overall purpose of the fda reauthorization? >> it is to give the fda more money to conduct reviews of products like drugs and medical devices and to get money from the companies for a fund to get the product approved. the fda said they really count on this money to do the things for approving new products. >> let's dig more deeply into some of the amendments we are likely to see and debate this week. >> we will see one from senator john mccain on importing p

j. edgar hoove when he said that. >> boy, was he ever. >> ronald reagan said, it's not about what they believe in, it's about what i believe in. >> yeah. reagan got into an interesting point in 1980 when the john burch society, a rather fringe group came out in robust for him. they said, these crazy people are supporting you. he said, you know, they may be supporting me, but that doesn't mean i'm supporting them. that was the end of it. >> this from "the washington post," looking at getting nomination after texas, the republican party will have selected an unlikely zarnd for 2012. a man of moderate temperament and a party fueled by hot temperament, a flip-flopper in a party that demands ideological purity. >> isn't that interesting? that's very well put. >> so how did this happen and what does he do now? >> there's a funny thing about mitt romney. his positions as he has espoused them in '08 and in '12 were very conservative, very in line with party orthodoxy of the right of the party and yet in a funny way, he reads and comes across as a classic republican moderate. that's an interesting diff

j. edgar hoover. >> people pink i ought to make a statement about the freedom of the press and that we are trying to censored them and so forth. my inclination is not to do that. >> i think you're right. >> what is your judgment? >> mr. president, you should remain absolutely solid about it. >> in washington, listen and 90.1 fm, nationwide rihanna on xm 119, and streaming at c-span radio.org. >> last friday the g-8 and a number of african nations announced the new alliance for food safety, designed to improve agriculture in sub- saharan africa. we talked about the plan with the head of the u.s. agency for international development on this morning's ""washington journal." host: rajiv shah is with us. what does global food security mean? almost 1 it means billion people go to bed hungry every night. there are tremendous consequences as a result. hundreds of millions of kids don't have the energy to protect themselves of disease and the die of malnutrition. those children don't necessarily learn well if they have the chance to go to school. then hold them back and told their economies back fo

j. edgar hoover and the american century in addition to teaching and research, she has written for numerous journals and magazines, including the "wall street journal" and the new york times and appears as an historical commentator on the pbs newshour where i discovered her and invited her to come. she has been with the several times. before we begin i would ask that you please turn off your cell phones and electronic devices. please note that photography is not permitted with the exception of the new york historical society photographer to read now please join me in look menard guest. [applause] >> thank you. can you hear us? so, don't you just love the new york historical society? can you believe that we have this panel? [applause] so i am going to guess that everybody here, and we are filled up to the very top up here. you are all political junkies, read? my husband always says that the only time anybody ever knows what they're really talking about is when they talk shop talk. tonight we're going to have the most explicit because we have the most brilliant political thinkers and writers

j. edgar hoover's war on a new type of american enemy, radical terrorism and at 3:20 narrow scientist david linden on why the good stuff feels so good in the compass of pleasure. on afterwards, alfred nobel and his nobel peace prize. >> there is this myth that you get this prize for peace out of guilt over his invention of dynamite. i say in my book is hard to know exactly into the man's head and heart but this seems not to be true. it seems he was proud of his achievements in the areas of explosives. what we would call infrastructure. >> sunday night at 9:00 eastern and pacific on booktv every weekend on c-span2. >> the senate primary house on aging and subcommittee held a hearing on the high cost of hiv aids drugs and monopolies in the market. chairman bernie sanders introduced a bill that would lower costs and increase access by eliminating barriers to generic competition and creating a $3 billion pilots for drug research. witnesses include nobel prize winner and economics and former britain administration official joseph stiglitz. this is an hour and 45 minutes. >> the issue we are disc

j. edgar hoover. >> somebody think i should make a statement about the freedom of the press and that wee trying to center them. >> i think you are right. >> what is a relationship? >> absolute silence about it. >> xm channel 119 and streaming at c-span radio.org. guest: "washington journal" -- >> "washington journal" continues. host: our guest is hector barreto. this week is national small business week. back: we're happy to be for national small business week. every week the president declares one week for small business. small business is the engine that fuels the economy of the united states. 27 million small businesses represent more than 52% of the growth output of the economy and create most of the net new jobs . host: if you like to talk about small businesses, here are the numbers -- democrats, 202-737- 0001. republicans, 202-737-0002. callers, 202-628-ar 0205. a number for small business owners, 202-628-0184. mitt romney, president obama -- how are you looking at their plans and goals? guest: t deposit both of them are focused in on small businesses. small businesses are still

j. edgar hoover. it reminds me that we talk about and think about the transition and changes that have gone on in law enforcement, and in the fbi in particular, so that we are looking at how we make the criminal justice system fair, make it work better, and protect our citizens more. i hope that in the course of our discussions this morning, we get to several considerations that are on my mind as we begin this particular hearing. one is over incarceration. we put more people in prison than any other country on the planet. with less successful results, i might add. i mean to engage you in that issue, and of course, when we talk to each other, i am also talking to my colleagues as well. these are subject matter is that we need to examine when the head of the fbi is a matter of witness. the other problem that i have to bring up, is what effect is our overconcentration on counterterrorism efforts -- how has that hindered or affected the fight against crime inside the u.s., violence, murders, other issues

j. edgar hoover. >> some people think now that this court has acted, i ought to make a statement about the freedom of the press and that we aren't trying to censor them and so forth. my inclination, whatever it's worth, is not to say so. >> i think you're right. >> what's your public relations judgment on it, edgar? >> i think you should remain absolutely silent about it. >> you would, huh? >> i would. >> in washington, d.c. listen at 90.1 fm. nationwide we're on xm channel 119 and streaming at c-span radio.org. >> now, a conversation on the u.s. navy's bat ship a small surface vessel intend today maneuver coastlines. we'll hear from the undersecretary of the navy, robert work. this event, hosted by the cato institute, is an hour, 35 minutes. >> all right. thanks, everybody, for coming, and welcome also to those watching on c-span or online. i'm menfieldman here at -- ben friedman, here at cato, although i notice it says senior fellow, so i accept the promotion, and i assume it comes with a raise. [laughter] thanks, chris. we are hear to talk about the navy and the surface fleet in particu