his comments are an hour. >> our guest is john podesta, his fourth visit of the group. he was president and chief executive officer for the center for american progress. he grew up in chicago, earned a bachelor's degree from knox college, and is an alumni from georgetown. he spent his early career on capitol hill. he worked with ted kennedy and

his comments are an hour. >> our guest is john podesta, his fourth visit of the group. the last was in 2009 when he was president and chief executive officer for the center for american progress. he grew up in chicago, earned a bachelor's degree from knox college, and is an alumni from georgetown. he spent his early career on capitol hill. he worked with ted kennedy and later was chief counselor of the senate agriculture committee. in 1988 he founded the well-known government relations firm with his brother tony. he served president clinton as to be the chief of staff and then as white house chief of staff until 2001. he was co-chairman of obama's transition team in 2008. he is the proud father of air force captain gabe podesta. so much for prior review. now to the process portion of our program. anga a gas alliance is sponsoring today's breakfast. our thanks to them, for sitting at the table back there keeping me from the pain of premature retirement. sponsors or not, we are on the record here. no live blogging and no filing of any kind while the breakfast is underway

joining me now is white house council john podesta. john, is this basically the pitch and tenor of the response that you expected from republicans on this? >> well, you know, i think it's a silly response and i think that this rule is flexible. states can implement it according to their own needs. this will produce tremendous benefits for the american people. the public really understands that. the "washington post" just released a poll this afternoon that shows 70% of the american public want action, and i think that's exactly the steps that we're taking now, to give them the action that they need to get better health results, a better energy system overall in this country and to begin to do the job of addressing climate change in an extremely serious way. >> john, you've got to -- we played that tape of sarah palin, you know, saying she would be in support of capping carbon emissions to underscore the point that republicans have come so far in the wrong direction on this issue. and the president and epa issuing these new regulations i

and determined. >> watch the entire event with john podesta online at c-span.org. chelsea clinton spoke about here mother at a recent conference. in her remarks she talked about working with the former secretary of state on the clinton foundation's no ceiling initiative, which tries to encourage women and girls from around the world to participate in current affairs. she also talked about some of the chance currently facing women today. this is 50 minutes. >> good afternoon, everyone, and welcome. thank you all for joining me for the kickoff of the 2014 national conference for college women student leaders. [ applause ] i'm a member of aauw's national student advisory council. and i'm -- love the energy in the room. i'm currently finishing a dual master at oregon state university. [ applause ] i've got to get used to this, awesome. so this will continue in the doctoral studies, focusing on education at the university of washington. [ applause ] it is with great pleasure that i introduce our featured speaker. chelsea clinton, vice chair of the clinton foundation, wo

that is what john podesta has been doing with the white house. you saw the president's remarks. he said we need to think about this more broadly. it is an important question for us as a nation. what are we comfortable with? the idea that you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly difficult to execute. it is just hard. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> the democratic national committee today announced six cities that could potentially host the 2016 democratic national convention. a press release from the dnc says that an advisory committee will now evaluate the cities over the coming months to determine which location is most suitable for the event. a final decision could come out as early as the end of this year. former presidential advisor and lobbyists and gillespie has won the republican nomination for senate in virginia. thenomination came during convention in roanoke where the former rnc chairman faces -- faced three challengers. in other incumbent senator running for reelection this year is south carolina republican lindsey graham. he faces six opp

he is asked john podesta to do a data review of the big review of the possibilities out there.k we as a country need to have a discussion about that. but your thoughts about edward snowden. in a similar -- and an interesting way, you similar to you. you talked about how president bush came up to you and said, what, the issue with iraq and you look at him startled when after 9/11 saying, iraq has nothing to do with it. you blew the whistle like edward snowden did. your thoughts on that kind of parallel and what you think should happen to edward snowden? >> well, there's not too much of a parallel. i resigned, quit the government , testifying before congressional committee and before the 9/11 commission, thee a book revealing what bush administration had and had not done to stop 9/11. and what they did after the fact. how the president after the fact want me to blame iraq for the 9/11 attack. what snowden has done has clearly exposed globe -- programs that were stupid, that i think were it legal, some of them, personally, in my view, and those programs -- some of them have stoppe

john podesta, my friend, said, that congress should mind their own business now.do this. the court ruled last week, no, no, no. first of all, you can be sued. second of all, you can't use this information to broaden the regulations beyond what the law said. and third of all, and very, very important, it said you can't put all of this on small companies. i think we're in a much better place. we've had this same issue on the decision on the financial issues. can you sue back when there are broad class action suits, can you go in as an individual company and say, no, no, not me. prove it. >> yeah. >> and so the courts are beginning to say, they're going to make very sure that the government is not doing the wrong thing. and then the best one was the whole question of could the president, when the congress really was in session, appoint those people to the national labor relations board, and could they do 400 rules. and guess what, the court said no, things are getting better. >> well, the constitution says you have to -- the congress makes the law. >> and the congres

white house counsel john podesta and chief of staff dennis mcdonough are reportedly meeting with them. the claimer will vote on four more of the president's executive and judicial branch nominees. the senate wednesday morning will take its first vote to advance the nomination of sylvia burwell to be the next health and human services secretary. see the senate live, as always, here on c-span2. at this hour including a group of senate republicans including john mccain and tom coburn are holding a press conference introducing legislation they say would provide veterans with greater flexibility in their health care. that press conference has been underway for a short time now, buck see it live on our companion network, c-span. >>> also this afternoon the brookings institution is looking at the results of last week's european union elections. that discussion gets under way at 2:15 eastern on c-span. >> c-span's new book, "sundays at eight," includes financial journalist michael lieu -- lewis. >> we are living through a really traumatic period, and it is not over. and there are real, struct

. >> the guest today is john podesta from 2019 was president chief executive officer for a center forerican progress the he founded in 2003 with a think tank on steroids. grow up in chicago with his bachelor's degree where he is now a life trustee and a lot of you from georgetown where he is say law professor spent his time on capitol hill with the judiciary committee working with ted kennedy and the chief counsel and then in the nationals before serving president clinton deputy chief of staff in white house chief of staff 19932001 and co-chairman of president obama this transition team in 2008 hour twitter followers, a glimpse of him and his son to gather at the airbase. now on to the process portion of the program. and our thanks to the us ceo for sitting at the table to keep me from the pain of premature retirement. notes five blogging or tweeting or no fighting while the breakfast is under way to give us time to listen to what the guest says no embargo when the session ends. the monitor breakfast is one of the last bastions so if you would like to ask the question sent to me us se

and later, john podesta. >> does this met with the founding profit of the church of jesus christ of latter-daynts. the earliest account that we have of the first vision occurs in a book that he began writing in 1832 in the front part of the book he wrote a personal history about his life and in this history he talked about the history that he experienced welders earlier. he had clerks at work running forehand and we finish with this project and we will have about two dozen volumes about 500 pages per piece. >> this we can learn about the rich history and literary life of felt like city utah, saturday at 6:00 p.m. eastern on booktv and sunday at american history tv. >> c-span2 provides live coverage of the floor proceedings and key public policy events and every weekend, booktv, the only television network devoted to nonfiction books and authors. c-span2 is created by the cable tv industry and brought to you as a public service by your local cable and satellite provider. watch us in hd, unlike us on facebook and follow us on twitter. >> today the brookings institution held a conference on the s

this is a much broader dialogue, and that is what john podesta has been done with the white house. use of the remarks on the 17th of january where he said, we need to think about this more broadly. is an important question. what are we comfortable with? but the idea you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly difficult to execute. >> all right. >> thank you. >> admiral, thank you very much. >> thank you. [applause] >> i would like to welcome to the stage robert muller, former director of the fbi. he is currently a partner at wilmer al. and we are going to talk just exactly about what businesses can do when they recognize a cyber threat and the measures that they can put in place. please welcome. [applause] you have had the opportunity to listen to a few panels this morning. the discussion with the admiral. what is your biggest -- >> server security. [laughter] >> you know what, just for you i will start there. [laughter] >> what is the biggest issue facing corporate america right now when it comes to sever security? >> the lack of understanding of the area, the

. >> have you met with john podesta? >> i have. >> how many times? >> i don't recall. it is in frequent? >> it is. >> and as mr. mccarthy met with mr. pesto? >> i expect the she has. >> can you give me the information about the frequency, location, and subject matter. >> i will take that back. >> that was not the question. >> i will take the question back >> politics. it is also not about science. i want to make sure nothing is changed in your view. thirty indicators on your website about how you measure the impact of what you call climate change. i want to ask you a series of yes or no questions about this set of regulations so will this set of rules when police implemented reduce sea surface temperatures? >> i can't answer that. i don't know. >> will it reduce ocean city? >> it will contribute. >> do you have the data to support? , chen wen? >> you cannot predict. >> i will take that as you have no idea. it is that a fair statement? >> no. >> you have no data, no science? >> we have science to show that increased carbon in the atmosphere least a things like a russian

that is what john podesta has been doing in the white house, use of a presidential or marks where he said we need to think about this more broadly. that is an important question for us as a nation. what we comfortable with? the idea they you can be totally anonymous in the digital age is increasingly difficult. >> thank you very much. [applause] >> the government for months cybersecurity. over the next 20 minutes you'll hear from peter dixon, ceo of second front system this, up for discussion and the security breach at target. >> a scrimmage at a border station. 2,000 pounds of education drops. squadrons shot like a rabbit. it is a verse from kipling and those dark words echo in my own better maurice as i recall friends and comrades who were cut down, our nation's pride and cut down in their prime by nothing more than a jug of modified fertilizer, a battery pack, two boards connected by nails. good morning. i am peter dixon, a marine combat veteran. i am 31 years old and i spent the better part of my last decade at war against this nation's enemies and our asymmetric foes. like many

. >> john podesta spoke at the hearing hosted by the christian science monitor and one of the questions was the decision to trade five detainees for sergeant bowe bergdahl. >> the secretary of defense made the determination that the transfer was in the national security interest of the united states and that the threat posed by the detainees to the united states or u.s. persons would be substantially mitigated. and there were assurances given by the qataris. i can't get into that and there are also ways we have to monitor them beyond what qatar is doing. but i think that first and foremost, the president thought that we had a commitment and duty to leave no manor woman in uniform behind on the battlefield and he exercised that and spoke about it several times this week. he thought it was the right thing to do and the secretary of defense who had to make those findings felt like first it was in the national security interest to move forward with this and second that the threat posed by the detainees, now the transf transferees could be substantially mitigated. and that's what the discuss

have you met with john podesta in the course of developing these regulations. >> i have. >> how many times? one-time, three times, five times do you have an estimate? does he have a parking spot outside of your building class is at frequent? >> it is infrequent. >> how many times have your staff met with him outside of regulations? >> not to my knowledge or infrequently. >> has ms. mccarthy met with mr. podesta as well? can you give me the information about the frequency of those meetings in the location of the meetings in the subject matter of those meetings? >> i will take that back. >> the question is can you get me the information? >> i will take the question back. >> this is about love. we talked about that. it's about politics and it's also not about science and i want to turn to science now. i talked to ms. mccarthy about this and i want to make sure nothing is changing your view. we have 30 indicators down from 26226 to 30 indicators on your web site about how you measure the impact of what you all call climate change today. i want to ask you a series of yes or no questions a

. >> john podesta is a counselor to president obama. he spoke on friday about the epa's proposal to cut carbon emissions, the prisoner exchange for the release of army sergeant bowe bergdahl and veterans health care. mr. podesta previously served as white house chief of staff to president clinton. this is an hour. >> our guest today is john poe test today. it is his fourth visit with the group. the last was in 2009 when he was president and chief executive officer of the center for american progress, an organization he founded in 2003 and called a think tank on steroids. he grew up in chicago. earned his bachelors degree from knox college where he is life trustee and law degree from georgetown where he is a visiting law professor. spent his early career on capitol hill where he was counsel on the majority staff of the senate judiciary committee working with ted kennedy and chief counsel of the senate agriculture committee. in 1988 he founded the well-known government relations firm podesta with his brother tony. he returned to the hill

i was very fortunate to interview john podesta before he went back to the white house to become mr.ry loyal but unflinchingly honest terms about president obama's record. >> and you talk about environmental failures. specifically what failure is at the top of the list? >> the piece is largely about climate change and how -- you know, here's a president who came to power saying i'm going -- this is going to be -- you remember the night that he won the democratic nomination in 2008. this will be remembered as the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow. and of course meanwhile, as president, he has not been able to do that. and podesta put a lot of the blame for that on opposition from republicans in congress, but he also said, which i thought was very interesting, that a lot of the problem was with the president's own advisers in the first two terms. people that mr. podesta himself helped to choose. >> which advisers. >> i asked him that. >> did he give you an answer? >> i reminded him -- >> did he give you specifics? >> i said, sir, you were the one. >> any names? >> he sai

this effort is led by secretary of state john kerry and white house counselor john podesta, likely to spark a new battle with republicans over the scope of the president's executive powers." front page story in "the washington post." "the wall street journal" on the issue of sgt. bergdahl. army officially launched an investigation into the 2009 disappearance of sergeant bowe bergdahl, the 28-year-old soldier at the sinner of a controversial caliban -- center of a controversial taliban prisoner exchange. military officials said that they won't make sgt. bergdahl available for media interviews while he is recovering." want to get in a couple more calls. lineis in montana on our for independents. hostcaller: i think we need to y in our own country. we have problems with our own government and we need to clean house and get rid of obama and all his lies and hillary clinton . it is 15 minutes with the missing tapes for nixon and they impeach him. we have all this with the irs tapes lost. that is a crock. we need to keep our soldiers here, secure our borders, and clean our government out an

then a conversation with john podesta, counselor to president obama.ok "sundays at 8:00" includes gretchen mortenson. >> if you want to subsidize housing in this country and we want to talk about it and the populace agrees that it is something we should subsidize, put it on the balance sheet and make it clear and make it evident and make everybody aware how much it is costing. but when you deliver it through these third-party enterprises, fannie mae and freddie mac, and you deliver the subsidy to write public company with private shareholders and executives who can extract a lot of that subsidy for themselves, that is not a very good way of subsidizing homeownership. >> read more of a conversation with gretchen mortenson and c-span'serviews in now available00," for a father's day gift from your favorite bookseller. >> also marking the 70th anniversary of the d-day invasion, another ceremony was held 40 miles to the east of omaha beach, close to the site of another allied landing at sword beach. french president francois hollande spoke at the event. thi