host: jared bernstein, pro- business group targets of bomb agenda. the u.s. chamber of commerce said it will become as said it will spend $100 million in an effort to stem the rapidly growing influence of government or private sector activity in a major new move by the powerful business at -- obama it ministrations regulatory agenda. guest: would argue that group is missing the point. you have heard the president say many times that he did not intend to get here and pass and $800 billion stimulus package for become a major shareholder in a car company or reaction taken in the banking sector. there are two things to recognize. those are key economic problems. to have ignored those problems because of an ideology like the group is as out lake -- espousing would have been a tremendous mistake, resigning this economy and american families too far deeper economic pain that actually has occurred. secondly, everything i mentioned so far, whether gm shareholders, recovering package, are temporary. nobody is talking about changing the structure of the economy. these a

i think jared answered your question. send in the transcript. -- send him the transcript. >> if korea its have to do this, is that a red line? >> i am not part of the attempt for that. >> i have heard some whispers that the president's speech on thursday could help things breed is that the way you guys see things? >> i will say that the president was pretty clear in cairo about the importance of elections. i think people can be hard hinted that. the turnout far exceeded the last election. -- i think people can be heartened by that. there is a shared commitment to democracy and a sovereign and independent lebanon predicting that is certainly important. i think you look up the effects it to the actual alexian taking place, most people believe that the march 14th coalition was not going to be successful. i would say that they do not think the president was one of those people. i think, just as the president talked about this in cairo, the lebanese people are more interested in a government that builds things up rather than o

>> i think jared is from texas. i am from arkansas. the college very much celebrates its connection to the civil war and to the union army. he was making fun of that fact. he is a college student. he is a good kid. he is a fine young man, but it is not being sold on the campus. >> whenever you go on college campuses like you did on hillsdale, lane and kendall halls and all that, those are people. why do people want their names on these buildings? >> harry kendall -- the big building in the foreground, central hall, is old. that was first built and dedicated on the fourth of july, 1854. kendall on the left and lane on the right are new. those are 3 years old. henry kendall and margaret reid, they just passed away in the 1990's. they gave us $4 million. bob lane, from jackson hole, wyoming, loved hillsdale college. he gave us $4 million or $5 million. the college is a cause. you have to state that cause carefully, because the college is a unique and very odd thing. the college is trying to be what it was 150 years ago, but the world has

jared burton delivers. foul off the 1st base line. burton certainly not in the class of rhodes or cordero or weathers. but still, pretty impressive outings. >> rob: he is a nice bridge to the bridge for the closer. very solid bullpen. something that has been lacking in cincinnati for many years. >> johnny: johnson base hit to right! willingham around third. here comes the throw to the plate. and he goes back to third. >> rob: now, that was a great stop. >> johnny: you are not kidding. looked like he had a full head of steam and less listach wisely held him up. >> rob: nick johnson smokes this into right. bruce comes up throwing. short hop. still, willingham probably would have been dead at the plate. >> johnny: bruce has a pretty good arm. >> rob: not when you have guzman and gonzalez and zimmerman coming up. >> johnny: fouls off the first delivery. so, willingham at third and nieves at second. nick johnson at first. 2-0 ballgame. the best threat the nationals have been able to mount today. and there's one down. guzman grounded to fir

host: jared allen, thafrg you f -- thank you for being on the program. in a minute we will talk to john mcmanus, author and historian from st. louis. we will talk to him about the 65th anniversary of d-day. first, we want to look back at the invasion of the normandy, d-day, and we will look at ceremonies to commemorate the 65th anniversary. president obama will speak at normandy in the tradition of past presidents. we want to show you some of the anniversary speeches of past presidents including president reagan, president clinton and the second president bush. >> here the allies stood and fought against tyranny in the giant undertaking unparalleled in human history. we stand on a lonely wind swept point on the northern shore of france. the air is soft but 40 years ago at this moment the air was dense with smoke and the cries of men and the air was filled with the crack of rifle fire and roar of cannon. at dawn on the morning of the 6th of june, 1944, 225 rangers drufrpd o jumped off a craft and their mission was one of the most differ and daring of the

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. >> jared of charlotte town pei carries canadian hopes.er with the canadian 4 by 100 meter relay team. he, too competed in beijing. and in lane 8 is bernard williams of the united states. he was second to sean crawford in a 200 meters in the athens olympics. so an excellent field. six olympians and usain bolt. as bernard williams poses. the focus in lane 4 with crawford next to him. this is a new track in toronto. a little softer than the one he ran on in beijing. and of course it is slickened by rain. but usain bolt is set to step in. and we are set for the men's 100 meters. fastest time of the year, 9.94 by michael rogers last week in eugene, oregon. >> false starts in what appeared to be lane three or lane 8. you saw williams we saw that infamously in atlanta with lynnford christy. >> that was a tragedy. that was a farce that any athlete would do what he did in that race. but certainly set it up better for bailey. >> so bolt will reset. so 3 and 8 are charged with false starts. >> bolt loads himself into the starting blocks. >> another

. >> johnny: that is jared burton trying to get loose. >> rob: he may give him a hitter or two more. he probably said if this guy gets on, you are done. >> johnny: 101 pitches he has thrown so far. >> rob: it is very humid. very muggy today. >> johnny: harris grabs a bat. he is ondeck. willingham is on first. kearns popped out to the 1st baseman. >> rob: i think man in acta probably senses if the nationals don't get something going soon, they will be facing david weathers, arthur rhodes and francisco cordero here at the end of the ballgame. one of the best bullpens around. >> johnny: line-drive to left field. nieves got a base hit. the nats catcher moves willingham to second. nieves is now 1-2 for the afternoon. >> rob: wil nieves right here, johnny, very simple approach. i'm just going to try to make contact and put it in play. he got a nice base hit but he has done a fabulous job. >> johnny: that is only the nationals' 4th base hit in this game. willingham has two and cristian guzman got one back in the third and nieves cleths hit number -- collects hit number four. willie harris w

we had a number of issues on our jared today. i would like to up to date line that the iranian people need to be given the right to peaceful demonstrations. that the iranian people have the right to have votes be counted and the election results substantiated, that the rights of human beings and citizens are nailable. in context it is desirable that the peace process in the middle east gains progress. that sends out a positive to those forces in the middle east who are not really to be faceful. >> germany and america will work closely together on those just as questions related to arms and reductions. we would like to wish you, president obama, the best of success during your visit to russia. partnership is very important for germany and the europe union, but we have an interest in seeing a good relationship between the united states and russia. we need help with iran, and we want to forge good relations with russia and china. we have done that over the years in the format of the juningses. we dealt with the preparation of the g-

. >> and coming up on "washington journal," reporter jared allen has written a book on detainee tear gations. -- ininterrogations. and

. >> jared is not fully accurate. it we do not actually plan any more new buildings in that area. we have built seven or eight new buildings in the last few years. i am happy to report that those are paid for. they are to classroom buildings, and music, practice, and rehearsal facility, a new dormitory, a new science building addition. you will notice from the architecture, we try to build them so they look like a central hall, and have a vertical beam, because we think in colleges, things should point up. >> there is an interesting piece in "the new york times" about an honor code developed by some people at harvard. masters of business administration at harvard, a bunch of students, clearly upset with what is going on in the world, decided to take an oath. you can find it on the internet. there are 585 students around the country who signed this. close to 200 at harvard have signed up for this. i am going to ask you why you think this is necessary. why do we need this? >> that is lovely. we need beautiful things. that is a very fine thing. if you are saying people should just do

questions that i got the day that the growth number came out that showed contraction in that quarter, as jared said, down 6%. the rate of job decline in december and january changed dramatically. something was happening in the economy in that time. and in those months that caused the acceleration of the deterioration. the point that is being tried to make here, regardless of where that occurred in the downturn was or differently, that core in where the job percentage number was, the unemployment rate, you're still talking about you can shift that curve up, but the plan was always predicated to have that number be 1.5 to two percentage points less than in absence of a recovery. >> this plan, because of the way your specifically modeling this -- in some estimates it says 2.2. >> every economic estimates as an interval of around it. when of the things we are doing and you will see quarterly reports on this, we have real- time data that we add in to our estimates were recipients of dollars report job creation to us. the response to that is, why do you not just count those? that is just one piece o

let's all go get lunch, and >> and coming up on this morning's "washington journal", jared allen has written an article about congressional intelligence briefings on detainee investigations. >> and we'll talk to john mcmanus, the author of "the americans at d-day and the americans at normandy." >> there is still time to get your 2009 u.s. congressional directory with information about the cabinet and the nation's governors, plus district maps. it's $16.95 online at c-span.org/products or call 1-877-on-c-span. >> president obama and german chancellor angela merkel held a news conference yesterday in dresden, germany. during the conference, they talked about climate change and the 65th anniversary of d-day. today president obama will speak in france at a commemoration of the anniversary. >> good morning, ladies and gentlemen. we are lucky to have the american president with us here for the first time after meeting with us at the nato summit. we will visit a little bit of dresden, and later we go to the former concentration camp. i believe this is a trip of a highly symbolic nature. let

>> coming up on tomorrow morning's washington journal, jared allen of the hill newspaper has written an article about congressional intelligence briefings on detainee interrogations. and for the 65th anniversary of d-day, we'll talk to john mcmanus, the author of "the americans at d-day" and the americans at normandy. >> how is c-span fund snd >> private -- c-span funded? >> private donations. >> public television. >> i don't know where the money comes from. >> federally. >> contribution from donors. >> how is c-span fund snd 30 years ago america's cable companies created c-span as a public service. a private business initiative. no government mandate. no government money. >> "new york times" columnist david brooks speaking about president obama. mr. brooks was at the national conference of the american advertising federation as the keynote speaker at the "new york times" luncheon. this is 20 minutes. >> i never get tired of looking at that. we're about to hear from one of the nation's most respected and well liked journalists. he certainly has a lot to talk about these days. when ou

. >> later, jared bernstein on health care legislation. >> and then mary landrieu tauks talks about oil drilling in the gulf of mexico. "washington journal" begins each day with the day's news. >> president obama met with the chairman and ranking member of the committees working on health care legislation. the senators worked -- spoke with reporters after wards. this is eight minutes. >> the president wanted to meet to discuss health care rosm. the main point is, we have to act now together, which is probably one of the more important messages we wanted to make, to revamp the health care system, so that health care costs do not go up as rapidly as they have. so many person families are experiencing an uncon shunnable hike in health care costs. we have to reform the system, reform the health insurance system so people are not denied coverage based on preexisting conditions or health status. and all americans should have health insurance to make this system work, and it's just morally the right thing to do. we discussed various ways to get a yes from the bipartisan bill. the president mad

my name is jared troutman with -- resources. my question s i was wondering if one of the reason iran seems to act up so much it because it feels maybe surrounded. the u.s. has a bases in iraq, kuwait, saudi arabia, barain, turkmenistan, azerbaijan, pretty much every country around iran, turkey, has got a u.s. presence. my question is do you think they would tone down the rhetoric a little bit and things could be a little bit smoothfer we chose to return to a strategy of offshore balancing and reduce our presence in the middle east? >> david, you want to speak to that at all? >> um, i think, that would probably help. oh, i'mary. i think that would -- -- i'm sorry. i think that would -- i think it's more than our posture. that, that determines whether they feel encircled or not. >> how could they not feel encircled if iranians were occupying canada, cuba, mexico, for example. >> absolutely. but it's not the only thing, is what i am saying. they also at the same time have a confidence anew found confidence despite the presence of u

about the incentive effects of taxes and all the good which she says when she does of the paper with jared bernstein. i understand. i am following austin gould, one of the need disguise you will ever meet. austin goal tries to defend the present position of firing wagner. he was as nervous as i would have been but you have got to do it. when you understand policy is not academics. it is not academic research. it is where you go along the political line and that to a large extent is why there's so much of the debate. >> i would say that a huge percent of the academic economists and don't have any relationship with obama are saying-- >> do have a huge relationship. key think universities are independent defense, they are not. even when i was officially with the white house steve, there were always groups that would hang together. it is us versus them and it becomes a very political process for economists. that is what happens and whether it should origin, it does and that is that would gets along. what we do is we see each other has been parts of a different team because steve, there not man