coming up saturday morning, american enterprise institute visiting fellow jim harper discusses the usef cryptocurrency and the future of money. then library of congress will join us and preview the 2019 national book festival. talks about combating illegal robo calls. dave leventhal from the center for public integrity on oversight of the federal elections commission. watch "washington journal" live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. joined the -- join the discussion. ♪ c-span's campaign 2020 coverage of the democratic presidential candidates at the new hampshire democratic party convention. live coverage is saturday, september 7 at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span, online at www.c-span.org, or listen with the free c-span radio app. the american bar association hosted its annual meeting in san francisco. in this portion, a panel of general councils from microsoft, oracle, lyft, and 23 and me discuste

coming up this morning, american enterprise institute visiting fellow jim harper discusses the use of crypto currencies and the future of money. then the librarian of congress will join us to preview the 2019 book festival. combatting alks illegal robocalls. and on the oversight, federal elections commission. watch c-span's washington journal at 7:00 eastern and join the discussion. >> watch c-span's 2020 campaign coverage of the presidential candidates at the convention. our live coverage is on c-span.org or listen with the free c-span radio app. >> this is an hour and 30 minutes. >> all that stuff i said? >> ok, all that stuff i said, it was off the record. all right. i thinwe

saturday morning, american enterprise institute visiting fellow jim harper discusses the use of cryptocurrency's in the future of money. librarian of congress carla hayden will join us to preview the 2019 national book festival. kevin ruby, formerly of u.s. telecom, talks about combating illegal roma -- robot calls. watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion.

our guest for this segment, jim harper, writes about these issues. visiting fellow joining us from new hampshire this morning. as people are piling in, what is libra? libra is a competitive cryptocurrency and there is an argument about whether it is a true cryptocurrency put together by a coalition led by a spoke. the ideas is to have something much like bitcoin, but this consortium would run it using the swiss foundation. the interesting thing about libra is that it has an installed user base. the companies involved have billions of users, so you can really leap to a high user base it isy, and is -- and important because acceptance is what makes money worthwhile. libra is an important player in this game and there interesting questions about other it cryptocurrency. it might be a centralized system, which people are trying to get away from where it masquerades as cryptocurrency. an important player that earned the attention of congress, the senate held a currency, a digital this is senator sherrod brown of ohio discussing his concerns with big compa

saturday morning, american enterprise institute visiting fellow jim harper discusses the use of cryptocurrency's in the future of money. librarian of congress carla hayden will join us to preview the 2019 national book festival. kevin ruby, formerly of u.s. telecom, talks about combating illegal roma -- robot calls. watch c-span's washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern saturday morning. join the discussion. >> this week on newsmakers, guy cecil, the chair of a democratic group. here's a talk about the 2020 election. we also have with us wanda summers, with the associated press. in the white house reporter with axial's. >> supporting progressives and democrats running for office. election, wecular will focus primarily on the presidential race. arm of have a nonprofit priorities that is focused on how we engage in getting more people involved, particularly underrepresented people in civic life's -- life. that includes labor -- litigation about voting rights, communicating with people of color and young people. engaged inm political life. in 20, we spent about $200 million. we imagine it will be

american this morning, enterprise institute visiting fellow jim harper discusses the use of cryptocurrencyn the future of money. then, librarian of congress paul hayden will join us to preview the 2019 national book festival. and kevin ruby, formerly of u.s. telecom, talks about combating illegal robo calls. also, dave leventhal from the center for public integrity on oversight of the federal elections commission. watch "washington journal," live at 7 a.m. eastern this morning. join the discussion. announcer: labor day weekend on american history tv, tonight at discussionastern, a about abraham lincoln and native americans. sunday at 4:00 p.m. on reel filmca, the 1950 army "invasion of southern france." eastern, at 8:00 p.m. the commemoration of the 400th anniversary of virginia's first general assembly in jamestown. explore the nations passed on american history tv every weekend on c-span3. announcer: now, a discussion on the social impact of technology and innovation with mark dean, who worked at ibm for more than 30 years and helped create the ibm personal computer. this took place at t

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harper was best known as mer harper was best known for her role as rhoda morgenstern on the mary tyler moore show. she turned 80 last week. jim axelrod looks back. >> if i can't have it why even look at it? >> if i thought that i'd never watch another ppaul newman movie >> reporter: maybe the highest praise for valerie harper's skill onscreen is that, for many of her fans, she wasn't valerie at all. >> so, you're rhoda? >> reporter: she was rhoda... >> i don't know why i am putting this in my mouth. i should just apply it directly to my hips. >> reporter: ...mary's best friend on the "mary tyler moore show..." >> rhoda, chocolate solves nothing. >> no, cottage cheese solves nothing. chocolate can do it all. >> reporter: the spunky, lovable sidekick. >> rhoda was funny because she was a scuffler.. she was in life, feeling like a loser but somehow winning. >> reporter: harper, who started on broadway in the '50s and did movies like "lil abner," was so successful on the "mary tyler moore show" in 1970 that she got her own spinoff sitcom four years later. >> i really must love you i feel so sorry for you. >> reporter: but her mos

jim and all the people in the book. when they come up and say excuse me can you sign this. the incredible reporter in this book there is a great example he had been to harper's grave so we went together and at that point all the siblings were there and it was like an earnhardt reunion. i don't remember how it started but there would be a bunch of other signatories. ... >> in the name of order and just sort of general, women have the signing the back of the space beneath where you see the magic rants. i was you had to get there. with time. de jure have a copy, go ahead and get in line to sign right now. thank you so much everybody. thank you for coming. [applause] [inaudible conversation] a week, where featuring book tv programs is a preview of what's available every weekend on c-span two. like historians, policymakers, economists, journalists, and scientists discuss their nonfiction books. you'll see authors and bookstores, fairs and festivals and on our signature programs in depth and afterwards. enjoy book tv this weekend every weekend on c-span two. weeknights this month we are featuring book tv programs, showcasing was available every weekend on c-span t

harper launched to stardom in her role as rhoda on the beloved '70s sitcom, t"the mary tyler moore show". jim axelrod has more. >> if i can't have it, why look? more for many of her fans, she wasn't valerie at all. >> so you're rhoda? >> morgenstern, right. >> she was rhoda. >> i don't know why i'm putting this in my mouth. i should just apply it directly to my hips. >> reporter: mary's best friend on "the mary tyler moore show." >> what am i going to do? >> eat some candy. >> rhoda, chocolate solves nothing. >> no, no. cottage cheese does nothing. chocolate can do it all. >> the spunky sidekick. >> rhoda was funny because she was a scuffler and just in life trying to feeling like a loser but somehow winning. >> harper, who started on broadway in the '50s and did movies like "little abner" was so successful on "the mary tyler moore show" starting in 1970 that she got her own spin-off sitcom four years later. >> i really must love you. i feel so sorry for you. >> reporter: but her most challenging role was also her most inspiring, the cravens way valerie harper handled cancer. first diagnosed