one of the project's biggest backers, john hoeven is predicting that president obama will reject the pipeline when congress is out of town in august. in exclusive interview, the canadian prime minister gave his outlook. prime minister harper: the american people have been clear on both sides that they support the project. there is very peculiar politics in this ministration. -- administration. whether this project goes ahead or not, this will go ahead under a subsequent and ministration. scarlet: getting the project approved has been among his highest efforts. bradyahead, we have tom -- we will talk about his efforts to fight back against roger goodell's upholding of the four-game suspension. what the nfl players association will do next. the next up in brady versus nfl. ♪

john hoeven on climate change and that congress will reject the keystone xl pipeline. washington journal on c-span. phone in order connect to us through facebook or twitter. >> this weekend on the c-span network, politics, books, and american history. saturday night at 8:00 eastern on c-span, netroos nation talks about -- netroots nation talks about illegal immigration. chris christie on national security. he speaks at the university of new hampshire in manchester. on c-span2, saturday night at 10:00 eastern on book tv's "afterwards" michael turner talks about the growing national debt and talks about restructuring entitlement as a solution. and glenn beck presents his thoughts on islamic extremist. and on islamic history --

host: senator john hoeven of north dakota, thanks your time. coming up in the next half-hour, open phones. if you wanted was a call, (202) 748-8000 four about -- -- for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 748-8002 for independents. we will take those open phones when washington journal continues. >> the c-span cities to her, working with our cable affiliates, visit cities across the country. this weekend we are joined by comcast to learn more about the literary life and history of the best at georgia. jimmy dyess was see any we have a medal at the age of 19. he was also awarded a medal of honor possible sleeper's actions in world war ii. >> we are here in the augusta museum of history. they said they would do a permanent military display to honor him. when i did my research on the book i went through over 9000 carnegie medal recipients in the last hundred years. of the 3500 or so medal of honor recipients since the civil war it turns out he is the only person ever to have earned both awards. -- he would almost -- >> he would almost

its clue is in john hoeven -- john hayes' diary. that diary is one of them. he writes that "went to the gardeners stay with mrs. ames. met the president, had ourselves immortalized with the president." who is mrs. ames? she turned out to be sarah fisher ames, a sculpture rest -- sculpturist it was commissioned to do a bust of abraham lincoln. look it up online. not as good as this picture. she had an opportunity to portray lincoln from life, weather in oil or clay, she had problems to begin still and engaged. -- keeping him still in engaged. they almost all resorted to the crotch of the photograph. i can show you several photographs that resulted from this exchange between media, and artist meeting and model. sarah fisher ames goes with abraham lincoln to gartner gallery. she gets to poses -- gets two poses. this great full frontal lincoln i think that is what i call it it in the book. i am almost done, but now that you have given me another minute i will go on. [laughter] the reason it was not in circulation is that she took it. she got the prince. she took

host: senator john hoeven here talking about issues of energy.serves on the agriculture appropriations committee. (202) 748-8000 for democrats. (202) 748-8001 for republicans. (202) 745-8002 for independents. the first call for you comes from maryland. this is robert. robert, go ahead. caller: good morning. how are you doing? guest: good morning. caller: one of the things i am happy about is the energy thing you have going now. but the problem that i, i do think a lot of americans, are having, is i don't think i see anywhere with the government is able to get something done anymore. how can we help your party get sane people in it to get something done again like we used to have in the republican party? it seems like everybody in this party now is totally crazy. how can we help you get some sane people in this party? thank you. guest: well, you make an important point. at the end of the day, this is about getting the job done for the american people. i think we need people who are very practical and realistic. as you know, i'm a republican. i bel

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then john hoeven on energy and climate change and reports that the administration will reject the proposed keystone xl pipeline. "washington journal" is life each morning on c-span. phone in or connect with us on twitter or facebook. >> no pirate in history has ever fought the british navy and one. >> this is unheard of. >> those pirates see the british navy and they run. he started to fight back. >> is sunday night on "q&a," robert curse them on the search for the pirate ship and its wealthy captain, joseph banister. >> he started off not as a pirate but as a noble english sea captain, a gentleman, trusted by the area will be shipowners, to sail the golden fleece between london and port royal, jamaica. to carry valuable cargo like sugars indigo between london and port royal. for years he was responsible and noble, but one day in 1684, for reasons no one can quite determine, he stole the golden fleece recruited a pirate crew and went pirate. >> sunday night at 8:00 eastern and pacific on "q&a." >> today, the justice department announced indictments against chaka fattah on 29 counts, includ