and the journal was against that. and basically that was an act where the western mining interests wanted congress to monetize silver so that silver would have more value. and we were on the gold standard at that point so that would be a bimetal centered. well, the journal argued i think correctly that that would be inflationary. that it would benefit the silver miners and of course william jennings bryan made his big speech about the cross ofgold and all that sort of thing . >> and the populists of many eras, there are different kinds of populists but many eras have a lot of easy money. and so the journal has had to fight that over the years, and try to encourage government, money is always, government is always in flux, there's no such thing as the gold standard was about as near as you get but the journal supported the federal exchange act, again with the idea that this would stabilize money at that point , local banks could issue money against gold, supposedly they had in their vaults. they created a national curr

the lights on a whole parts of new york city as is now true in most cities and impoverishes great journalism at a time when we needed most r t correspondent on your power bill looks at the decline of the newspaper industry. one of the last time the you read a physical newspaper if you like many americans you could count on your consumption over the past several years according to journalism dot org the height of weekday paper circulation in the united states was in one thousand nine hundred four with the round sixty three point three million newspapers purchased daily circulation for sunday newspapers peaked around the same time since the mid ninety's newspaper circulation has been on steady decline advertising revenue follows a comparable trend. what happened in the mid ninety's which transformed media the period of the dot com bubble in the united states revolutionized the way americans use the internet by the time it popped in two thousand and one nearly half the population was using the internet by twenty sixteen that number with eighty eight point five percent in two thousand and fiftee

welcome to contact today we discuss the decline of newsprint and its a fax on american journalism with former village voice writers tom robbins and michael musto they're writing now online. but it's for you know it's for developers it's for a politician's it's for people who actually have a personal stake in the outcome as opposed to the citizenry and that's the other voice nominate the village voice is still going to exist as a website so why can't they carry on the tradition of what the voice of held in the uk i wish i knew the answer. was chris hedges the village voice which six decades ago pioneered the concept of an alternative weekly paper announced it would end its print edition although the voice will continue to exist in digital form rather than disappearing as most alternative weekly is around the country have done from the boston phoenix to the philadelphia city paper it is already a shadow of its former self and long ago lost its iconic reporters and columnists norman mailer the great investigative reporters wayne barrett and tom robbins. a columnist michael musto sydney sc

you teach students going into journalism, who is going into journalism now? who at age 22 or age 18 says i want to be a reporter? should we feel good or bad? dr. winston: trump has been very good for us! [laughter] dr. winston: there are a lot of people, who are going into journalism because they want to be on entertainment tonight or espn. i cannot deny, that is one of our strengths. but i have a fair number of people who still want to change the world. they care about human rights, international relations, making the world a better place, they are going into journalism because i think that they can make a difference, they can talk truth to power, that they can comfort the afflicted, their belly is burning and they are there because they believe that telling these stories is the way to change hearts and minds. james: well, that sounds like good news. on that note, let us begin here. [applause] james: yes. >> hello. thank you for your talk. we enforce policy with our tax code and we have enforced the separation of church and date -- church and state with our

finest investigative reporters in the city is now an investigative journalist in residence at cooney journalism school think you have this let's talk about the importance of what we call the alternative press and i was mentioning before we went on air tom and i think you agreed that in many ways the alternative weekly public magazines like ramparts shamed the traditional press. into doing their job can you talk about that yeah that's exactly right and that's what it felt like doing it often because you would work on these stories that. nobody else was following or thought were news and you had to basically have the conviction and i believe that this is a scandal that deserves chasing even though no one else in the major media agrees with me and you keep banging on the door as long as you can and then eventually you break a big story and everybody else is scurrying to catch up you know it's look i have stone was the great sort of four runner for all that stuff you know shamed a nation into like understanding how the vietnam war started and the voice i think sort of ran at least in its political

journals.vement called the open access movement that is trying to flip this on have. we are going to give all the information for free and then authors need to pay to publish. we have been looking at is a subset of the open access movement has come to be known as predatory journals, people taking advantage of his money and taking anything and taking anything in publishing anything because they just want to be paid. carol: it just feels like, you know, so appropriate a story in the world of fake news or allegation of fake news. we like that they were exclusive, we trusted the information, we felt there was deep screening in terms of research or articles that went in. what kind of screening is being done in these predatory journals? caroline: it really varies and that is the problem. you can have perfectly good science in a predatory journal. it is just hard to tell how good it is because a lot of journalists say that they do peer-reviewed, but when you look at the dates from submission to except

i ache for journalism.e of the greatest writers -- dusty heskey wrote 100-word stories for the paper. that's where he got his training, and then wrote a 1,000-page novel, which i loved. twain wrote for newspapers. they all wrote for newspapers. and if we don't nourish newspapers and sell them out to the wire services and to this one and to that one, we will lose writing as an art form in our lives. >> yeah. speaking of writing, i hear, and i've kind of seen the cover of it already, you have a book coming out, like in a few weeks that you have written with ed weinberger. >> ed weinberger, yeah. >> speaking of a great writer. >> oh, gosh. he's got such great shows under his thumb -- >> absolutely. >> or had them. but i do his one-man show, which is called "a man and his prostate." >> which i want to talk about. >> yeah. and we all have one, you know? >> men. you brought yours with you? >> yeah. mine's in good shape. want to see it? >> no, no, no, no. yeah. >> i take good care of my prostate. it's like a puppy

what kind of screening is being done in the open access journals where these predatory journals?varies. you can have perfectly good science in a predatory journal. it is just hard to tell how good it is. a lot of these journal say the new peer-reviewed. when you look at the dates for submission to acceptance, known as the review time, sometimes they are as short as days. you have to ask, if the review time is three days how much reviewing actually happened? a lot of them have very similar names to the traditional journals. with the proliferation of thousands of these journals it is just getting more and more muddy. oliver: dji has a serious problem. carol: that exploded when an army internal memo leak. now the company is making security a top rarity. dune: they have sort of ignored it -- they have not ignored it but it has been a huge part of their messaging. it came up as a big issue earlier this month because the army issued guidance saying stop using dji equipment. this was not a public issue. the memo was leaked. dji's response was we don't make drones for the military. olive

in the leftist media there is no journalism in the mainstream media which is the same thing it's the left this media this from the beginning this russian nonsense has been just that nonsense and c.n.n. and m.s.n. b.c. source spike in their ratings immediately so they're keeping it going when the producer at c.n.n. at mit's that on a hidden camera and c.n.n. doesn't dispute any of that video and says we stand by our producer he's not really involved in that kind of coverage and then van jones is on camera. same organization a project veritas van jones in the street who is on camera two days before this saying this is awful this is terrible and then he says to the guy on camera unbeknown to that he's on camera this is a nothing burger i mean what credibility how do you trust that name ok richard can you reflect upon that because you know c.n.n. hasn't disputed any of these things here and we asked directly a producer at c.n.n. if this is a real story the russia story the russia gate story and and he said it's b.s. it's simple it's not i mean it's it's very transparent ok and if you c.n

>> so google and facebook want to leak into journalism. is it a good thing? should they are involved in digital advertising. we're going to talk about media and digitizing up next. of course one of our favorites and it seems like she is always with us. president of public policy and communications fraud and national commissioners lead. back with us as a social media expert. we will start with first, google and facebook leaking into journalism. john, is it a good thing and what can be the consequences in the fallout? >> so google and facebook send if not most of the traffic to news websites like the new york times and wjla and washington post. they play an important role in helping people discover immediamedia. companies very dependant and gives companies like facebook and google, huge market power. and i think it's important that we talk about that and they are not abusing that power and they are using that power wisely to make sure that consumers like you and me continue to have access to quality journalism. >> that's hard to argue with but i think sometimes

try to do that here on the washington journal. thisnt to show our viewers tweet from bob corker who announced he would be stepping down after he finishes his current term. he will not be running again in 2018. tweeted outer yesterday serving the people of tennessee in this capacity has been the greatest of which of my life and he put out a statement that said when he ran the first time in 2006 that he could not imagine serving more than two terms. the mosthis was important public service he has to offer the country. i want to be able to do that as independently as i did in the first 10 years i did of my senate career. serving the people in this capacity has been the greatest privilege of my life. i reminded that we live in the unit waste where people care about the direction of our country. histor corker announcing retirement yesterday. a lot going on in capitol hill we want to hear especially from these two big political stories. the latest from the health care repeal bill that failed yesterday and roy moore winning the runoff el

and he kept as many of the others did journals of his experience. so it gave me insight was happening inside his head as he traveled that thousand miles. this was a life shaping experience for him. it really gave him focus and direction as a young adult, that meant the changing of history. so for me that was just a bonus opportunity. called "restless fire", first 11 years of his life he lived in scotland which is on the southern side of that, opposite edinborough. it was a small scottish town, seaport town. there was an old castle he played in. there were lots and lots of cliffs and plenty of birds nests, which he discovered. his father had a dim view of his wanderings with the village boys pick you wanted to confined to the garden in the backyard, but john had little interest in that. it was also a place where he received his education. he attended school and he memorized through his fathers influence, especially after he left there to come to wisconsin, he had memorized all of the new testament, three-quarters of the old testament. he could say in

to hear more from twitter, facebook, and the washington journal.e would like to focus on russia's interference and your confidence in the u.s. election system, asking you how concerned you are about election security. a02) 748-8000 if you are democrat. republicans call (202) 748-8001. independents and others call (202) 748-8002. as always, we welcome your comments on our facebook page. you can send us a tweet. we will read some of those as well. we will get to your calls momentarily. we take a look at the washington post this morning in their reporting on the testimony yesterday, close to the door -- closed door testimony for twitter executives. they write, with a picture of that twitters, said on thursday it had shut down accounts that were tied to the same russian operatives that posted thousands of political ads on facebook. the effort first frustrated lawmakers who said the issue was far broader. the accounts linked to that from advertisementsin on their platform in 2016. senators questioned whether they were doing out on their platforms to add

"washington journal" continues. host: we are joined from new york by edwin melendez, with the hunter college center for puerto rico studies, the director of that organization. thank you for joining us on "washington journal." guest: my pleasure. host: we sit here this morning from eight days or nine days after the impact of hurricane maria and puerto rico. you are in touch with people on the island, what are your biggest concerns this morning? well, the response has been a little bit slow out of the gates. islandared the whole emergency situation, no electricity, no running water and the list goes on. you can see the images of people leaving the island, trying to get to the airport. it is a desperate situation. i just hope that it is not too ofe to prevent a deepening this humanitarian crisis, and a hope we are much faster to send troops down there to take control of distribution. supplies seem to be there. it is a question of logistics. i think the only entity capable of taking control of the situation is the armed

. >> "washington journal" continues. host: congressional budget officer douglas holtz-eakin joins us, currently the president of the american action forum and here to talk about the release of the long-awaited republican tax plan. what do you think of it? guest: i think it is very promising. to me, the striking fax are that from -- facts are from the end theorld war ii to 2007, economy doubled roughly every 25 years. that was the route to the american dream, whatever it was for families, go to college, buy a house. these trump projections, it will double and this has been painfully apparent in the labor market. we have had recovery for eight years and we have not seen anyone get a raise. we have seen anemic investment in the united states and we get repeated reminders that our companies would rather be headquartered somewhere else than the united states and all of this says to me the status quo is not working and we ought to try something different. i am open to something that is a growth oriented tax reform that will ge

"new england journal of medicine." -- pursuant to clause 1 of rule , the journal stands approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from florida, mr. gaetz. mr. gaetz: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. gaetz: to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. gaetz: thank you, madam speaker. and i take to the floor of the house today to support president trump's decision as it relates to daca. america must be a nation of laws. and those laws must be passed by the congress. this is the promise made in our constitution and ensured by our enduring liberty. president obama was incorrect to unilaterally act in this program. president trump is correct to put the power bac

. >> washington journal continues. host: welcome back. for then open phones remainder of today's washington journal, which will end at the top of the hour because the house is coming in early. we want to get your opinions on public policy issues and debates . we will begin with the undocumented youth. action childhood arrivals program, daca, so-called dreamers. the president had dinner with pelosichumer and nancy at the white house last night. the democratic leaders said they had a deal with daca. the president agreed to quickly bring it to the floor to protect those so-called dreamers. the white house said that was not exactly the case. the president tweeted out there is no deal, but why would you deport these so-called dreamers, and that the wall is already being built. breitbart.com, which steve bannon is running again, with : --headline, amnesty confusion, trump denies deal with daems. about any sort of potential deal on daca. think the president should agree to protect so-called dreamers? those undocumented youth that came here with

two things to remember about the journals. this is his first journal, 1867, the thousand mile walk. it's not published in his lifetime. it's published two years after he died in 1916. his second journal is his most famous one. my first summer in the sierra. in many respects it's what he called his baptism by light. he finds his vocation and goal in yosemite. he finds his work district in many respects what happened on his thousand mile walk it showed him his limits. it out of a very important lesson in ability and he felt that that was an important lesson for urban americans to know, to. it's important to realize you have a limited finite role in this universe and to live with a measure of humility and not be arrogant that you thank you know the difference between a weed and a useful plant. we would call that a self-interested, egotistical distinction. likewise, between a predatory animal in a domesticated animal. and more importantly, i think coming out the interconnected things. he's really moving toward a whole new environmental way of understanding things of the system as being

"wall street journal." if the senate makes changes to the house's harvey bill which we passed overwhelmingly yesterday to add the debt funding provisions, the house must then approve the same version for sending it to for mr. trump's signature. a senate vote is expected friday. richard, nashville, tennessee. independent. what do you think? i'm 110% behind donald trump and i'll tell you why. host: okay. to make a 's got deal. even in your household, husband, wife, children. sooner or later, someone has to make a final decision on a major has to be bought or whatever and n that house. same thing with our country. majority needs to speak up and that's what you've seen. democrat.republican or what you've got is a lot of emocrats who went to the republican side not because they're necessarily behind trump but because they're behind the getting ng jobs, business back in america, getting control of our borders. getting control. i live in a neighborhood right to where 80% of it is turned into foreigners and when i

. > "washington journal" continues. host: and it is open phones up eastern.00 202-748-8000 for democrats. for republicans. 202-748-8002 for independents others. no house session today. no senate session, they are out next week. steve ay saw return of scalise of louisiana in new orleans. happen, miracles do scalise returns to congress for time. vicki on democrats line, vicki, go ahead. hi.er: thank you for taking my call. 'm calling, i'm a member of common cause. i don't consider myself a left wing. in do a fabulous job keeping track of what is going on. 'm call nothing regard to our administration and applying taxpayer dollars. them penny spent for should be paid back by them. i sit here and understand the and senate is out of session right now, might explain slow response in regard to what puerto rico. i'm appalled at how this ongress is acting, how the presidency is acting and it just entire united sad, states and that includes puerto rico. thank you for your time and more should consider looking at common cause and j

"washington journal" is next. ♪ host: good morning.hese are images from north korea as that country overnight announcing its successful test of a powerful nuclear device, claiming it was a hydrogen bomb capable of reaching the united states. president trump is at the white house this morning monitoring the situation. there is this from the washington post, even if the regime is exaggerating its feats, scientific evidence shows north korea has crossed in important threshold,

c-span washington journal is life now. host: good morning.three will be in :00 p.m. -- 3:00 p.m. we will be with you for the next three hours on the washington journal. we will spend the morning talking about the big issues on capitol hill. how the latest affordable care act replacement failed bid leaders announcing they cannot get enough votes. chief justice roy moore

i run a nonprofit journalism project about helping women under siege. in the red for the guardian in a number of other places. my refugee coverage has been in all, the countries surrounding syria because unlike deborah, i do not have the guts to go inside at this point. i have also covered refugees from landing sites in greece and italy. so you have iraqis, syrians, afghans, but -- now i would like to introduce deborah. i'm going to read here, deborah campbell is an award-winning journalist and author of a disappearance in damascus paid which won the 2016 hillary weston trust prize for nonfiction. her work has appeared in harpers, the economist, the guardian, new scientist and foreign policy. she is the recipient of three national magazine awards for her correspondence. she has got lectured at harvard, berkeley, -- in dubai and the national press club in washington. she teaches at the university of british columbia. and one more thing i would like to tell you, my internet went down as usual in brooklyn this morning so i was not able to print but the las

. >> "washington journal" continues. and "washington journal" trenton, new jersey. this is part of the 50 state the c-span r and on bus now joining us is the leader senate, w jersey state steve sweeney. enator steve sweeney in a recent poll, they found that these were the issues most to new jersey residents, property taxes, jobs and then n, health insurance. 50% said property taxes. do you agree with that? guest: absolutely, if not more. has been a state, we have a lot of government in new jersey and that actually drives the cost of your property taxes, but new jersey property taxes are very high and there is great deal of frustration amongst residents because i $8500 per verage is home now. education.c what is the situation with public education in new jersey is the education association rather angry with personally? guest: well, you know, public an issue new jersey is very proud of. we have some great schools, some schools in the nation. i've been fighting to try to get unding, more fair funding for our schools. the education association was fight withing me over

by 3:00 this afternoon the answer had arrived in the wall street journal. see the head line flynn promoted nuclear plant project while in the white house. this prospect raised by these congress men this morning is answered and confirmed by the wall street journal this afternoon. the journal describes the russian nuclear deal of being worth hundreds of billions of dollars. once he was national security adviser in the trump white house the journal reports mike flynn did direct national security council staff to meet with the companies involved in the russian nuclear project. the journal sites former national security council staffers as being horrified by what flynn was doing, describing what he did as quote outside normal channels and quote not the way things were supposed to go and quote highly abnormal. according to the journal the ethics advisers told flynn to remove himself from this project, but, quote, the activity continued. so if you're keeping track at home, the man who donald trump installed as the top national security official in the white house

. > "washington journal" continues. host: for the last 50 minutes on "washington journal," phone yours to talk about these two big political stories we've been talking about all long, the collapse of the latest republican effort to repeal and replace the roy dable care act and moore's victory last night in republican senate primary. he goes to general election in december. democrats, 202-748-8000. republicans, 202-748-8001. 202-748-8002. what does it all mean? story do you want to talk about? both? give us a rang this morning. the star this morning out of alabama. senate ps strange in run-off there. roy moore with his mother eading to the polling place in alabama yesterday, ahead of that senate republican primary race. nominee to face emocrat doug jones in the december general election. then lead story, front page of new york times this morning, to undoans drop measure the health care law short of votes, mcconnell says g.o.p. shift to overhaul of the tax code, those are the two pages of a ng front lot of national papers

we've had the combination of good journalism, bad journalism, no journalism at all, just people talking and writing and complaining and libeling. when you hear people saying i read it on the internet. everything is on the internet. i think it is at a significantly harmful impact on the reputation of everyone who participates in that process, and that includes all of our great newspapers as well as more tawdry ones and non-newspapers. it all becomes an amalgam now, and that's what the public sees and passes judgment on. >> tom, do you use or have used the term fake news in any of your trials? >> no, i don't. it obviously has some currency but i think fake news to me, and maybe it's the legal training, but i think it's a very imprecise trumpet when i think of fake news what that conjures up in my mind to something that is completely made up from whole cloth, a fiction, which is not our cases. in our cases there's always some elevate of truth or there some element of factual basis for the reporting. what we are arguing is it a substantial incorrect factually. i may talk about sloppy journa

thank you for joining us this morning on washington journal. pleasure. >> we sit here this morning, some eight or nine days after in impact of hurricane maria puerto rico. obviously you are in touch with people on the island. what are your biggest concerns as we speak this morning? responses been a little slow out of the gates, so to speak. we should have declared the whole island in emergency situation with no electricity, half the households have running water, and you can see the images of people leaving the island in shifts, trying to get to the airport. it is a desperate situation. the army should have been sent a long time ago, and i hope it is not too late to prevent a deepening of this entire crisis. i just hope that we react much faster, we send the troops down ofre to take control distribution. supply seems to be there, it is just a question of logistics. i think the only entity that is capable of taking control of that situation is really the army, the armed forces. efforts ramping up quickly in the last couple of days in particular.

washington journal begins live every morning at 7:00 a.m.c-span.here on now, conversation on religion, ethics, and the news media. diane winston at the usc annenberg school compares civil toiety in the reagan era today. this is about one hour and 15 minutes. [applause] >> thank you so much, maureen. thank you to robert franklin. they queue to build 90. welcome to the hall of missions. tom hagan and his family and to all o

be sure to watch c-span's washington journal live at 7:00 a.m. eastern thursday morning. join the discussion. >>> the ceo of equifax, the company at the center of a cyber security breach, has agreed to testify before congress. richard smith will testify before members of the house energy and commerce committee in october. today on washington journal, washington post technology reporting brian fong discussed the recent equifax data breach. >> brian fong is a technology reporter with "the washington post." joins us this morning to talk to us about the recently revealed data breach at equifax. brian, what makes this hack different from other company data breaches that we've heard about? is it the size? is it what was put at risk here? >> well, what's a big deal here is the type of information and the scope of the information that we're talking about. you know, this is something that affects an enormous amount of u.s. consumers. and potentially foreis

shane harris at the wall street journal obtained an e-mail that that republican activityist and donor peter smith sent out to troo i to get outside spefrts on board with his effort to reach russian government hackers to get them to further their attacks on hillary clinton. in that e-mail peter smith offered to make introductions to mr. flynn's son, michael j. flynn who worked as chief of staff in his father's company. in phone conversations peter smith told a computer expert he was in direct contact with that mr. flynn and his son, the expert said an anti-clinton research document prepared by mr. smith's group identified the younger mr. flynn as someone who would be associated with the effort. so mike flynn's son, mike flynn jr., his alleged role in that effort to collude with russian hackers with the campaign that was exposed by "the wall street journal" in june. now, today nbc cites four current and former government officials that he's the subject of robert mueller's inquiry as of course is michael flynn sr. and today things got much worse in the reporting about him. back in june j

but in my mind is really taking journalism into this new world.don't preserve the idea that there really are facts and there are ways to talk about facts, to bring your passions, but leave your agendas out. that is a role we need to continue to play, in a universe of distribution that's not easy to do anymore. >> after the break, the president's repeated misstatements and why they can't be ignored, my essay coming up right after a quick break. ...or painfully dated... ...or something you simply thought was lost forever... ...because it could form a strong bond, regardless of age... if a paint could give any time-worn surface stunning new life... ...you have to wonder... is it still paint? regal select exterior from benjamin moore®. only available at independently owned paint and hardware stores. at ally, we're doing digital financial services right. but if that's not enough, we have 7500 allys looking out for one thing, you. call in the next ten minutes to save on... and if that's not enough, we'll look after your every dollar. put down the phone.

now we know from the wall street journal is that reportedly according to the journal sources, he wasewed by the special counsel's prosecutors about that matter. while he himself continued to oversee their investigation. do you think he ordered the prosecutors to interview himself? this is is weird, right? joining us is barbara. nice to see you. thank you for being here. >> thank you for being here. >> this new news from the wall street journal, you're just absorbing it. it strikes me -- before this it struck me as strange he would be overseeing this investigation when he was an important potential witness to the obstruction of justice part of it. it strikes me as even more weird now, now that we know this investigation he's overseeing interviewed him about this matter. how does this strike you? >> i agree with you. i mean, ordinarily you can't be both a party to a case and a witness to a case. so it would be very difficult for him to super vice a case where he is going to be a witness. you would expect him to recuse himself but because this happened by the report in june or july, it

this is the "washington journal" for september 25.t was yesterday where players of the nfl did not show up or kneel during the national anthem after president trump said the players who participation be fired. in our next hour, went to get your thoughts about the reactions of the nfl players yesterday. is president trump inserting himself into this issue and making it an issue? (202) 748-8000 four democrats. for republicans. (202) 748-8002 for independents. we want to talk about those players on social media. you do so on twitter@cspanwj. you can. on our facebook page. the new york times and others highlight some of the activities and actions by the nfl teams yesterday, highlighting the game between vc at all and tennessee titans, saying they stayed in their locker room and the pittsburgh steelers also skipped the anthem in the chicago. there was a release by the seattle seahawks team talking about the reasoning of why they decided to do what they did. aey said in part, this as team we decided will not participate in the national anth

i think part of it is when you are in journalism, especially tabloid journalism in new york city, theet outside of work is pretty small, and it is usually while you are covering a story because you are working constantly. so i attribute a lot of it to that. >> you have so many bylines right now, maggie. folks who read the "times" and read your work wonder how you get it all done. did you learn about work/life balance, or lack thereof, from your dad? >> that's an interesting question. a delicate question. maybe a little bit. i mean i think that -- i don't really -- i do most things to extremes, and so i do work to extremes. my kids have gotten a little frustrated with it. i've been not as good about it recently, especially as you get older and you will discover as they get older it is a lot harder because they are aware of what's going on. i did the 2012 election pretty intensely with my colleague, alex burns. but my kids were much younger. and now they really are -- all three of them -- old enough to sort of see what's going on and be aware of it. and because national politics is so c

. ♪ >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you.oming up on sunday morning, a other and with nationally syndicated columnist cal thomas about president trump's his -- agenda. as david zeron talks about president trump's response to nfl players kneeling during the national anthem, and the impact of president trump of the america first foreign policy doctrine. be sure to watch washington journal, live at 7:00 eastern on sunday morning. join the discussion. a live look for the march for racial justice in washington, d.c.. organizers marched on pennsylvania avenue and have now arrived at the national mall for speaking purposes, scheduled to start at 3:15 p.m. eastern. that is when we will have speeches were you live. let's listen now. >> i'm one of the organizers behind this march. i was going to do a quick moment of house keeping before we introduce our performers and get into our speakers. if you have to use the restroom, we have ported bodies in that direction. potties in that direction. a want to make sure you have a wonderful and p

host: jesus, you brought it up this morning on the "washington journal." that doll it for open phones segment. we will take the viewers up to new york to the united nationed general assembly meeting, the brazilian president speaking now. president trump expected to speak right afterwards. you can watch it here on c-span we'll see you back here tomorrow morning,

"washington journal" continues. "washington journal" continues. host: on twitter you can make your thoughts known on this set of open phones at c-span wj. you can also post on our facebook page at facebook.com/c-span. for democrats 202-748-8000. for republicans 202-748-8001. independents, 202-748-8002. the bbc picks up on a story after melania trump the first lady made a speech in new york as part of their time together at the u.n. saying that the first lady had set out combating cyberbullying as one of her main priorities before entering the white house. although she does not set up a program as of yet. on wednesday the speech to the spouses of dozens of world leaders, during the u.n. general assembly, was another chance to set out her agenda and focus for he next few years. unfortunately that message was lost as social media's attention turned to her choice of outfit of a pink dress costing a ortunately that message reported $3,000. the bbc also reported saying that others were working to focus on the contents of the speech itself and were equal

ofwe have the combination good journalism, bad journalism, no journalism at all. just people talking and writing and complaining and libeling people and the like. you hear people say "i read it on the internet." everything is on the internet. i think it has had a significantly harmful impact on the reputation of everyone who participates in that process. all of ourcludes great newspapers, as well as the and tawdry ones non-newspapers. it becomes an amalgam. that is what the public sees and passes judgment on. george: have you used the term "fake news" in any of your trials? tom: no. i do not. it obviously has some currency, -- i think fake news, to me maybe it is the legal training -- i think it is a very imprecise term. up in my news conjures mind is something completely made up from whole cloth, fiction, which is not our cases. in our cases, there is always some element of truth or factual basis for the reporting. what we are arguing is it is substantially incorrect, factually. i may talk about sloppy journalism, reckless journalism, bad publicity, bad press. i

let's turn to aaron zitner from the "wall street journal."our take on this. >> yeah, we learned two important things today as catherine said. first, house democrats that have been in contact with executives of companies that were part of the planning proposing -- pushing this proposal to build the nuclear pants. democrats have been talking to company executives and learned that general flynn travels over seas in 2015 and met a number of foreign officials and did not disclose this in 2016 when his security clearance was renewed. that was out this morning. minutes ago, the "wall street journal" reported that once he was in the white house, mr. flynn continued to press on the nuclear plant building project in a way that raised some concerns among nfc staff. he apparently arranged at least one meeting with some of these companies and the government. he did not attend the meeting when he was cautioned it would be inappropriate. >> shepard: what does this mean to the administration, if anything? >> the bigger picture here is robert mueller. there's