host: justin hollander? there are a lot of factors that contribute to decisions by companies whether to stay or go. in this project i was trying to accomplish managing the impacts of that dislocation. to understand what cities are doing well, or not. there is no doubt there is a way for a community to make it more palatable for new development. when you have a site for which nothing is happening, that is causing blood, what did you do? host: next up, on the line for independents -- causing blight. caller: thanks for your research. this might seem harsh. i have a couple of comments, a suggestion, and question. first of all, i had a teacher who taught me to not only listen to what they say, but also what they do not say. i'm a bit disappointed. many of the callers have been asking for direct questions. we understand these abandoned factories have been around for decades. how old are you? in 38 years old. i have seen this ever since i was a teenager. host: i need for you to get directly to your question as we'r

host: justin hollander, author of "polluted and dangerous, america's worst of an improper visabandoned properties." we will look at the congressional meetings this week. the trip next guest will be david hawkins, come monday. the next two guests will also be with us, the last is an author talking to was about the labor movement. thank you for joining us for this edition. we will see you again tomorrow morning at 7:00 a.m. eastern. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2009] . . >> today on c-span, a health care town hall meeting with democratic senator, mark warner, that's at 6:30 p.m. here on c-span. >> 70th anniversary start of world war ii, tonight presenters at 9 eastern and pacific on c-span. >> joining us on "newsmakers" is wayne clough, he's the secretary of the smithsonian institute, mr. clough, let me ask about the funding for the smithsonian, about 35% from government sources, the stock market is struggling and debt increase, are you looking for other sources of funding? >> we are, we want to be more self-re

also tomorrow, justin hollander looks alt abandoned properties and what can be done about them. that is on "washington journal" tomorrow from 7:00 to 10:00 eastern time. that is all for the program today. thanks for joining us. >> fiscal spending and healthcare by steamboat institute. tony blankley leads this panel. it is about an hour and 15 minutes. >> i have a thrill to introduce our fiscal and economic policy panel. what a thrill it is to have all these wonderful people here. first i would like to introduce, i'm going to introduce each of them. we have a special treat, tony blankley, who will be the panel moderator. many of you have seen tony on fox news. [ applause ] >> tony is executive vice president for global public affairs with edelman. i hope i pronounced that correctly. it is a global p.r. firm. for 25 years tony has been at the intersection of national politics, media and public policy. tony served as press secretary for newt gingrich. prior to his career on capitol hi hill, he was a speech writer and senior policy analyst for president reagan. tony appears regularl