washington journ live at 7:00 a.m. eastern, on c-span. >> kat zhou are second prize winners in c-span's student cam competition. they attend eastern middle school in silver spring, maryland. in their video, they asked the president to make the economy and deficit reduction a priority in 2013. >> we face the greatest challenge of all. a massive debt that is smothering growth and is exceeding the entire size of our company. >> we see now a fiscal mess that affects all of us. >> the nation is on the road to bankruptcy. >> balance the federal budget now. >> these are very big, very political and policy decisions. >> those create large ongoing deficits into the future. >> we must reduce the deficit, which is strangling our economic growth. >> it would affect a lot of different people in a lot of different ways. >> well, there is change and then there is change. >> it is time that we raise the bar. >> def >> the deficit is how our s. >> next estion. >> i'm pretty sure it has to do with the economy and the government. >> lack

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so the question on this end of the journ is, come back on the plane or come back in a coffin?te planes and trains are not, shall we say, unheard of. the widowmaker express. >> that is the choice. that may be the signal to depart at some point. >> yeah. all aboard. whoa, we're moving. here we go. ♪ >> here we go. >> that's it. we are at cruising speed. >> really? this is cruising speed. i could literally outrun this train. >> we could jog ahead and have a nice meal in some recommended restaurant. >> we could catch up with it. >> here we go. this is stop number one of 75. ♪ >> heading north, the scenery opens up. the space between things gets wider, more pastoral, more beautiful. looking around at my fellow passengers, it could be hard to distinguish between the 135-plus ethnic groups that make up the burmese population. the very name, burma, refers actually to only one of these groups. what they all seem to have in common, however is a thanaka, a face paint and sunblock made from tree bark that masks many of their faces. at first jarring to see, it quickly becomes something you

of comprehensive immigration reform as well as border security, manhattan institute fellow at city journing editor, and the mcdonald. so your thoughts on this lack of transparency from the gang of a negotiation. what are we missing? >> well, missing a lot of the backroom deals, but i think we're going to have transparency in the future. i am not so worried about the negotiations up to now, but i think what we need to year is what will be the impact on the 27 million americans without jobs who have only high-school degrees. lori: just a comment on why that strategy, why they're doing it in the specter of fashion? >> i think they don't want the press following all of the trades that are going on. net income you know, that is understandable. they want to get something out there. the republicans, the leaders are pressuring to get something out there based on the fallacy that believe ms. tan's between the republicans and the hispanic voters is amnesty command that is not the case. lori: in other words, areas of preferred legal status of gradual suspension? my understanding that directly? >> n

you know, it's not about us, the journ journalists, it's about the public.own about a lot of the watergate scandal. you wouldn't have known a lot about corporate malfeasance and other stuff unless journalists are able to use and protect confidential sources. >> is there anything you want to say to her if she's watching right now? >> i would say stay strong, have a good lawyer, and protect your source and see if reason will come to prevail in the end, as it did in my case. >> thank heaven for that, matthew, thank you. >> thanks, jake. >>> nasa playing space cowboys. the agency is planning to lasso an aasteroid and park it near the moon. senator bill nelson, a former astronaut and chairman of the senate science and space subcommittee, says $100 million of start-up money will be included in president obama's budget which comes out this week. that will be used to capture a 500-ton, 25-foot asteroid in 2019. that's the goal anyway. with a space capsule. that's how they want to do 0 it, and they want to put astronauts on the rock. it's also considered a key steppi

"washington journ[video clip] >> when he is back to russia, dhs does not share the information with thea. when he comes back in 2012, he creates a youtube channel of his own making where he has radical extremist videos where he is andhing and interacting we're going back to the pre-9/11 fighting. host: your thoughts, talking about stovepipe. and a failure of information sharing. among the federal agencies themselves. it's early to point to far into what was and was not shared. a watchbig database, list of sorts. as to whether or not the information was fully tapped and utilized and extrapolated is the real question. i think six months traveling overseas in russia, that is where you are going to find a lot of information and a lot of clues hopefully that can put together the entire mosaic of the investigation. host: the senator's comments about stove piping. i want to talk about this issue. here we are 11 and a half years after september 11. is there concern about stove pipes coming back in? your guy who helped build up the homeland security apparatus after the attacks. guest: there is t

difference between skeptics and cynics and we encouraged our people to be very skeptical which all journ ists should be but told them there was no room for cynicism and i think that's the major differs. >> judy, you've worked for a number of people, been in the public eye for a long time. it seems like there's a polarization that goes on now. i think the most startling thing that goes on sort of the intensity of e-mails and letters and you come in any day and there be a thousand post cards one stack calling too liberal one stack calling you too conservative. your work sort of takes the high ground. i suspect people react to you somewhat differently but u.s.a. tried to carve out this turf that said we're right down the middle. how hard is that? >> it's tough and increasingly tough in this hyper partisan atmosphere that we live in today. by the way, when you talk about giving both views, that has been the mantra for what was then the news hour and now is the news hour with jim lair all the way. when you listen to the program you're going to get both sides. so we completely identify with th

an amazing rey journalist with a career lifetime achievement award richa so he says richard prince journ irurnalism taught'' and f senior vice president executive director of the first amendment center.ooks, jeff is the author of best selling books and ahe dow contributor writing dow jones with the tv column. [laughter] for the "wall street rquel journal" and our next guest fm is a long time filmmaker, ictur author and herbird of new book, a bird of paradise a is a fascinating look from famiy to dna. and it's an absolutely fascinating look at the diversity within the diversity of america. so thank you all for being with us. and, you know, this package is one where we cover a lot of territory, but first, gene, i want to turn to you to, like, set the table for us. >> thanks. we thought we'd start with some very, very basic numbers to sort of, again, give us a broad perspective on where things are in society and within journalism. reported recently among newborns, minorities outnumbered whites for the fist time in the nation's history. and we were discussing somewhere between 2043 and 2050