john feinstein, should we care? >> oh, i care and i watch the games.oy these first and second-round games that bill is referencing more than any, because it does involve the smaller schools, where there are not the big bucks. but it's not the bracketology that shields what's going on, jeff. it's television. television presents the best of the ncaa tournament. we see the fantastic finishes. clyy do all these trea stories on these wonderful, quote, student athletes as the ncaa always calls them, as television always calls them. they do these interviews with coaches and players in which, you know, they're all going to save the world, when they get out of college. there's a psa that runs every year during the tournament which says there are 470,000 student athletes in the ncaa who will never play in the nba or the nfl, and you've got a kid who is a swimmer and plays the violin and has a 4.0 gpa, as if he's the typical student. i think that's where they sell it. they sell the tournament and the people playing in the tournament very well. but you can still a

and john feinstein, author of "the legend'sks club."tin to the uninitiated makes march madness so compelling. >> well, i think it's two things. and out nature of the event. it's not best of seven. teams can be the number one seed, number two seed, whatever. bad lose, they have a shooting night, somebody is hurt at the wrong time, they're done. but more than that, it's the true underdog aspect of the so-called double-digit seeds, those teams seeded 10 and higher, who have a real chance inwin early round games and some cases actually get to the final four. george mason got to the final four in 2016. v.c.u. got to the final four in 2011. and butler, which is now in a big-time lead, got to the final four in 2010 and '11, to the championship games. love to root for underdogs us underdogsgives like no other arena does. >> i take your point. is it also the nature of the competition that there are that we're going to keep a special eye on? i'm thinking of a certain from ucla, for instance. >> yes. and the shame of it, though, is that lonzo ball

john feinstein, joe nocera and william rhoden. >> whether it's football or basketball does not care. if you go to a football game and you start to ask people about the exploitation of athletes, they'll laugh at you. if you go to an ncaa game they'll laugh at you. there's a segment of this society that has come to view this as a problem. i'm among those people, something wrong is happening here in the way they're treated both this terms of financial he can ploitation and academic exploitation. but most people don't care. >> politics and march madness when we continue. >> rose: funding for "charlie rose" has been provided by the following: >> and by bloomberg, a provider of multimedia news and information services worldwide. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> good evening, i'm jeff greenfield filling in for charlie rose. donald trump was not exactly the consensus choice of the republican party, roughly one in five gop senators refused to endorse him. so did four of the last republican presidential nominees. but with h

ted kennedy, patty murray, harry reid, dianne feinstein, john kerry, joe biden, feingold, and a whole laundry list of others." i yield. >> i yield back. so now we yield back, go top to bottom. we recognize the gentleman from new york. mr. angle, for five minutes, to speak on the amendment. you, mr. chairman. i moved to strike the last word. i urge my colleagues to support the amendment. side ofds on the other the aisle pass up an opportunity to pet alternative facts about medicaid. it claims the coverage of worthless, and these claims are not too difficult to debunk. the quality of the program, access to care for medicaid enrollees, is on par with those covered by employer-sponsored insurance and across the country, the vast majority of medicaid enrollees report having been satisfied with their health care. at the charges in medicaid spending is out of control, medicaid spending is lower than the spending growth rate of medicare and private insurance. just look at my home state of new york. republican charges that medicaid is inflexible, our state is dramatically revamping the program

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john brennan -- lou: they spy on everybody, pete, don't they? obama apparently was spying on everybody. >> he was spying on, you know, on feinstein, senator feinsteinstaff. lou: you know what i love? brennan denies it to feinstein, and then there's a slight sort of half hearted apology from brennan, and then they move on as if nothing had ever happened when, in fact, the cia was spying on the senate intelligence committee. insane. >> and so the pattern now is they spied on the senate intelligence committee, the democrats on the committee, and apparently they did some spying on the trump administration. and this is very serious, lou, because this is what the american people are afraid of. our intelligence community is spying on american people -- lou: well, hell, they ought to -- it's pretty clear one thing, pete, everybody should be pretty doggone concerned about the spying. pete, we're over, but i've got to say you're right, and then we're going to take this subject, you and i will be talking about for quite a time. thanks so much. >> thank you, lou. lou: be sure to vote in our poll tonight. the question is, do you believe it was speaker paul ryan

dianne feinstein from california, and there are 11 republicans and nine democrats and they will have half an hour, and they may not use that entire half hour but they will have a half hour, john, and the issues before -- a lot of the questions they ask, he is not going to answer. >> no, he is not going to answer. i am told by people involved helping him, he was very impressive. when they tried to break him, and he is prepared to say nice things about merrick garland and he will not step in the politics of that but will compliment him. >> keep in mind also, he knows so much more constitutional law than any of the senators, so the idea that you are going to stump him or tell him something that he is not familiar with or not prepared for, that is not going to happen. >> he is prepared to say he disagreed with the president. he will be careful and won't beat up on the president that nominated him, and everybody should be careful in criticizing a judiciary. >> his mother once sat in that seat, and she was grilled as the epa administrator under ronald reagan, and this man is super prepared to make it seem like he is answering questions and not to alienate democrats. >> if he is ask

here back there and dianne feinstein and senator harris got to get out there the transportation committee is bipartisan there is democrats and rentals on that port caucus and john a friend of mine and good democrats there are some republicans on there had are moderate building in the port and senators it understand the importance of port we have to get to out there especially the money for sea level rise and other issues important i hope that you will go to marry and start a plan for the grants we have to get the grant and need the fund and money and by all go means get the united states corps of engineers they paid for most of that when a problem in new orleans only we need the money so i'll ask you to go and make sure i know many commissioner vice president brandon will be working night and day make sure she's up at 6 in the morning (laughter). >> thank you item of the port commission to washington dc on april 26th-28, 2017 for the san francisco chamber of commerce city trip. >> >> resolution no. 17-11, the award of construction contract no. 2784, pier 23 roof repair project. >> so moved. >> second. >> is there my any public comment at this time on resolution