john: doug hughes flew his gyrocopter right through the no-fly zone around washington penetrating the missile systems, radar and anti-aircraft weapons before crash landing. he traveled more than 50 miles. and sources say the chopper was just that. too small too slow and too low. so it never detected. a witness said hughes was calm as he came in for the landing. >> there was no noise coming from him. he wasn't screaming. he wasn't shouting. john: hughes told friends and family that he wanted to deliver letters to lawmakers demanding change in campaign finance laws. >> and i'm going to land on the capitol mall and front of the capitol building. >> what he wantedo do was very brave and all that. even if a little bit stupid. john: the florida postal carrier revealed his plans to a reporter from "the tampa bay times." >> he called me up at my office and didn't identify himself and he said i'm going to commit an act of civil disobedience. nobody is going to get hurt. john: depending on who you ask this afternoon, the 61-year-old is lucky he didn't get hurt or even killed. top lawmaker says

. >> knee name is a john hughes. i'm an editor for bloomberg first word our breaking news desk here in washington and i'm the president of the national press club. the club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. we are committed to our profession future through programs just like this and fight for a free press worldwide. for more information visit the web site press.org to donate to programs offered through the journalism institute visit the web site press.org/institute. on behalf of members worldwide i want to welcome you to the luncheon and also like to welcome the c-span and public radio audiences. follow the action on twitter #npclunch and the public attends the lunches. applause you hear is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. ofafter the guest speech we will have a question and answer period and i will ask as many questions as time permits. the head table guests include guests of the speaker as well as working journalists who are club members. let me introduce them to

my name is john hughes. i'm an editor for bloomberg first word which is our breaking news desk here in washington and i am the president of the national press club. we are the world's leading professional organization for journalists. we are committed to our profession's future through programs just like this and the fight for a free press worldwide worldwide. for more information visit our web site press.org. to donate to pirg rams offered to our clubs journalism institute, visit press.org/ press.org/institute. on behalf of members worldwide i want to welcome you all here to our live audience to the days newspaper dinner. i'd also like to welcome our c-span a public radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter by using the hashtag npc dinner. remember, the public events or dinners. applause is not evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity objectivity. after a guest speech we will have a question and answer period. i will ask as many questions as time permits. our head table includes guess of o

john hughes, president of the national press club. distinguished members of the npc, distinguished guests, ladies and gentlemen it's a great honor and pleasure to meet with you, and thank you for your kind ini havation -- invitation, and thank you for your taking time today. i know that you are eager to have tonight's main course. i know that you have finished your main course, but you must be more entered in main course, this question and answer session. [laughter] i look forward to that. but before that i'd like to say a few words as some food for thought. recently, i asked one of our very senior advisers who has been working longer than deputy 40 years long-serving advisers. i asked him because i have been so much troubled by what is happening in this world, have you ever seen during your 0-year-plus -- 40-year-plus life such a time when we are having so many fires taking place all around the world at once at a time like this? i can name a list of ten hot spots immediately in addition to a continuing economic tuftties around the wo

republicans and the republican base and then over here he's getting 2500 bucks in the tax credit to john hughnd that's the way he wants to play that. if he gets to a general election he'll be able to say to the middle class people, here's my middle class piece. knowing that they don't begrudge the upper income people. it's sort of a -- the class warfare doesn't necessarily play. >> i think the big problem with it to me is i haven't heard how he's going to pay for all of this. he's going to cut taxes a lot. there's dynamic scoring going on on his side but he's also responsible for the deficit side. >> that's another piece of this that has to be talked about long term. what bowles/simpson said is tough take something off the table. >> they don't have to run for the presidency. i support that plan and i think the president is serious about tax reform will do exactly that, try to aim for a revenue neutral tax reform. you could always add on revenue in the end but you want to aim for revenue neutrality which was in the commission report in which obama never touched. but he's proposing something di

my name is john hughes. for bloomberg first word the breaking news desk here in washington and president of the national press club. the club is the world's leading professional organization for journalists. we are committed to our profession's future through programs such as this. and we work for a free press worldwide. for more information visit our website press.org. to denature to programs offered through our club's journalism institute, visit press.org/institute. on behalf of our members worldwide, i'd like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today's event. our head table includes guests of the speaker as well as working journalists who are club members. members of the public attend our lunches so applause you hear is not necessarily evidence that journalistic objectivity is lacking. i would also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter. using #npclunch. after our guest's speech we'll have a question and answer period. i will ask as many q

i want to thank john hughes, the chairman of the national press club. come and say hello. the chairman of the newsmakers committee, joann, national press club staffer. all of them healthy today's process. our national press club senior he will be taking the mike that will be used for questions by the audience. let's see. also, is. here? -- is eric here? if you can stand, they have had several months at an internship and have done a spectacular job. [applause] this tony here? no. ok. my wife, if you would raise your hand the george washington university medical center, from iowa. the senator is at the center of the action. having sent to the floor the recent human trafficking law and the loretta lynch nomination for starters, we just learned loretta lynch is being confirmed today at 10:30 this morning. sworn in. that is right. if time permits, he could discuss the rationale for the timing also the collection, which the press recently reported you are at the center of. a swirl of activity at the club today on that. maybe how that relates to edward snowden, a complicated ring

hughes: john koskinen oversees the collection mr. hughes of $3 trillion every year. he has been on the job for about 15 months. how has it gone so far? during the first half of his tenure, he testified frequently on capitol hill. questions revolved around allegations of the irs targeted conservative groups to deny them tax-exempt status. when he wasn't testifying, he was wrestling with budget cuts imposed by congress. the irs audited 0.57% of businesses in 2014. that was the lowest rate since 2005. money being used to enforce an -- and implement the affordable care act has attributed to reduced staff on the telephone helpdesk. at one point, koskinen said agency belt-tightening might result in a miserable 2015 filing season. koskinen is no stranger to challenges. he was the acting ceo of freddie mac. his very career has included stints as deputy director of the offices in management and budget and city -- for washington d.c., overseer of the federal government's y2k efforts, and president of the u.s. soccer foundation. no amount of irs trouble is going to put koskinen

. >>> arizona senator john mccain was on the hugh hewitt radio show, harsh words for president obama.ayed a clip of the president on sunday saying that the u.s. and iran are both complicated countries, to which mccain reacted in part here. >> only an insane person would compare the united states of america with a country that is governed by the ayatollahs, who regularly hang people. >> vice president joe biden spent quality time with michael bloomberg's grandson. bloomberg bloomberg's daughter georgeina shared the pic on facebook what's a boy to do when the vice president steals your pacifier? taylor swift revealed on tumblr the results came in and i'm saddened to tell you that my mom has been diagnosed with cancer. i'd like to keep the details of her condition private but she wanted you to know. >>> oh, baby. what a surprise. a mother in north carolina already had six boys. so she decided to have a gender reveal cake made to find out the sex of baby number seven. how about that oh man, i'm having a daughter! >> and the grandmother wants the little girl too. >> you know what it's like

bullet fired by the actor and southern sympathizer john wilkes booth ford's theater in washington the night before. he hoped to reunite the country was gone. hughoil runs philadelphia's grand army of the republic museum. >> it was shocking not only to the people in the north but also to the people in the south. many thought this was the worst thing that could happen to the south. >> reporter: inside the museum sit artifacts that take us back to that fright tepping time. the handcuffs that were to be used in booth' as ported kidnapping plot against the president. a replica of the single shot philadelphia derr gin ranger used in the killing and most intriguing of all a strip of the blood stained pillow on which lincoln died at the boarding house across from the theater. as newspaper headlines blared the tragic news, plans were made to carry lincoln's body by train from washington to his final resting place in springfield illinois. the funeral pro social security arrived in philadelphia late on april 22nd and was greeted by a massive throng of mourners. some half a million philadelphians line the streets to say goodbye to the man who had saved the

but when he spoke to hugh hewitt, he came down much harder on the side of religious liberty as opposed to gay rights. john: here's the quote, right, the longer quote. if you are a florist and you do not want to participate in a gay wedding, you should not be forced to. likewise if someone comes them us to buy flowers off the rack that is some initial vehicle to do. that is one of the more flaccid things i've heard come out of his mouth. he say if a gay couple wants you to provide flowers for their wedding, you should not have to sell them to the full set if they want them for a dinner party, you should have to provide them. i think he is smarter than that. he is known for boldness and rigor. this is none of those things. mark: that is what he said at a fundraiser in san francisco which was originally closed, but his operation is now putting out. i still think that he, like the other republicans, are struggling with it. but now with that statement last night, he has moved himself not where he was before, which was to the right of mike pence. now he is slightly left of mike pence. it tarnished his brand, ma

hughes, the u.s. mail man who made headlines when he flew a helicopter known as the gyrocopter onto the u.s. capitol lawn in an active civil disobedience. the letter began with a quote from john kerry farewell speech to the senate. "the unending chase for money, i believe, threatens to steal our democracy itself." hughes flew about an hour from maryland into restricted airspace and onto the capitol's west lawn, stunning authorities and bystanders. homeland security secretary jeh johnson said hughes literally flew below the radar, going undetected, before landing on the capitol lawn. before taking off, hughes had spoken about his plans to the "tampa bay times." doug: i am going to violate the no-fly zone, nonviolently, for no one to get hurt, and i'm going to land on the capitol lawn in front of the capitol building. i will have 535 letters strapped to the landing gear, and those letters are going to be addressed to every member of congress. i do not believe that the authorities are going to shoot down a 60 euros mailman in a flying bicycle. amy: after landing on the capitol mall, doug hughes was arrested and could now face up to four years in prison on charges of violating na

john kerry saying, then ending chase for money threatens to steal our democracy itself. joining me right now from his home in ruskin, florida, where he's currently there is doug hughes. mr. hughes, congratulations for your message. without getting into big trouble, i completely support your message. let me ask you, what's the condition right now of your detention? are you allowed to walk around, go to the store, go to starbucks, whatever? can you do that? >> no, no, i'm under house arrest. i can't leave the inside of my home. >> the inside of your home. show me your ankle, the bracelet. the country wants to see that. can we look at it now? >> okay. it's just a gps. >> let me look at it. i have to charge it every day. >> you have to charge it? >> it's -- it's not removable, but it can get wet, i can shower with it, but i'm not supposed to -- >> what is your feeling when you first wake up in the morning and you feel that on your leg? what do you feel about personal responsibility, the goal that you set when you set about this mission to fly the gyrocopter to the capitol building, how does it all settle when you first wake up in the morning? you said, dammit, i did the

hughes has now been transferred to d.c. central jail awaiting charges. it is a gyro copter. there are about 65 internal memos. a helicopter is powered by a top motor rotor. >> a john berman fact check. >> we have a whole department that distinguishes. >>> tensions are flaring between two allys in the middle east. abadi criticized the saudis for the air strikes in yemen against the houthis. he says there is no logic. saudi insist there is is no logic to the prime minister's comments. the united states is caught in the middle here supporting the saudi air strikes in yemen and iraq's struggle against isis. >>> the president of iran is not pleased with the compromised reached by the white house and senate giving congress the right to block the lifting of sanctions against his country. president rouhani repeating his claim there will be no deal unless all sanctions are dropped until an agreement is signed. the compromise is hailed by intelligence officials. >>> iran is increasing the precision and frequency of its cyber attacks. at the same time it is involved in the nuclear talk was the united states and other parties. according to the security firm norse, if sanction

john wilkes booth at ford's theater in washington the night before. >> that black crepe you see right there -- inside the grand army of the republic museum in kensington mew hughs us artifacts that tase take us back to that frightening time. the handcuffs that were to be used in booth's a bored kidnapping plot again the president. a replica the single shot philadelphia derringer used in the killing. and perhaps most intriguing of all, a strip of the blood stained pillow on which lincoln drew his last breath at the boarding house across from the theater. boil says souvenir hunter has field day. >> the next few days people would stop into the house and they would want to see where lincoln died and they weren't even asking so much. they were cutting pieces of things. cutting pieces of furniture to keep a souvenir. >> reporter: the funeral procession that would lead from washington to springfield illinois arrived in philadelphia late on april 22nd. it was greeted by a massive throng of mourners. some half a million philadelphians lined the streets to say goodbye to the man who had saved the union. (tolls). >> reporter: lincoln's body was brought to independence ha

hugh hewitt. our live coverage of the festival of book continues sunday at 2:00 with panelists on history, john quinonesand richard reeves. on c span 3 saturday at 8:45 eastern, for an all-day event on the end of the civil war. harold holzer, james mcpherson, and barbara gannon. then saturday at 8:00 and 10:00 the 100th anniversary of president lincoln's assassination with a ceremony at lincoln's cotsage. re-creations from ford's theater and a tour of peterson house where the president died. get our complete schedule at cspan.org. >>> this weekend the c-span cities tour has partnered with comcast to learn about the city life of st. augustine, florida. >> opinions onponce deleon may or may not have been searching for the fountain of eshlgsternal youth. people said he was out for to find land for the king and colonization colonization. we know he came ashore after searching for good harbor, took on water and wood. this area presents one of the few freshwater springs in the area around 30 degrees, eight minutes, and is also the location of the 1565 first settlement of st. augustine, 42 years before the set