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this week's guest is kay cole james who talks about her life, career in government, and politics and her work as president of the heritage foundation think tank. that's "q&a" sunday, 8:00 p.m. eastern and pacific time on c-span. >>> saturday on "booktv" at 11:00 p.m. eastern, in their new book, "the education of brett kavanaugh," "new york times" reporters kate kelly and robin pogrebin explore justice brett kavanaugh's recent confirmation process. >> and at the time of the kavanaugh confirmation hearings, the me too movement had been under way for a while and i think there was a backlash brewing that it was going too far and this notion of believe all women was oversimplified and overlooking the investigation part of it that i was talking about earlier. you do have a president who does advocate taking tough stances and has talked about allegations of sexual misconduct, something where you need to deny, deny, deny. >> i think it was important for us to put ourselves in kavanaugh's shoes and really imagine that someone is being falsely accused and really kind of go there and explore th

q&a with heritage foundation with president kay coles james, then president trump's a visit to houston to meet with india's prime minister modi, and speak with indian americans there. ♪ >> kay coles james, after many years as they trustee. you took over the reins in december of 2017, almost two years. what were your primary goals when you took the position? been given i have very specific instructions by our board. interested in settling the organization down. making sure that it had world-class management. taking the very important messages we have from the heritage foundation to new audiences. largely we were focused on washington, d.c., and speaking to legislators, and people within the administration. we really felt like our conservative message needed a voice. demographics that we were not active in. we needed to talk to women. we needed to talk to minorities. we needed to talk to the youth of this country. our conservative values are so important that we cannot ignore those constituencies with a message, we have to win them. >> on your website you talk about how 70% of your fundi

. ♪ ♪ >> kay coles james, after many years as they trustee.eins in december of 2017, almost two years. what were your primary goals when you took the position? mrs. james: i have been given very specific instructions by our board. they were very interested in settling the organization down.

. >> kay coles james on her life, ineer, and government politics, and as the president of the heritageoundation, on sees and q&a -- on c-span's q&a. this weekend on american history tv, today, the 1919 siloed armie film "motor convoy," about a transcontinental truck from washington, d.c. to san francisco. presidency,on the herbert hoover and his world war i relief work. presidency, herbert hoover and his world war i relief work. >> hoover and his mostly american army of volunteers built this into a volunteer organization. it had its own flag, it had its own fleet. its leader, hoover, enjoyed himself some diplomatic immunity and traveled really -- travel freely through enemy lines, perhaps the only american allowed to do so through the entire war. explore our nations passed on american history tv, every weekend on c-span3. house gun violence task force, hearing

kay coles k -- career and her time as president of the heritage foundation.on the civil war, author owski talks about the 1863 tullahoma campaign. he argues that the struggles between confederate leaders in tennessee resulted in their unpreparedness for battle. this was part of the symposium on forgotten battles of the civil war hosted by the emerging civil war blog. doug: first thing i want to say, if you haven't been to north

next sunday on "q&a," kay coles james talking about her life in government and politics and her works the president of the heritage foundation think tank. that's "q&a" next sunday at 8:00 p.m. on c-span. >> life today on c-span, comparing international terrorism to domestic terrorism, live in about 45 minutes, 1:00 p.m. eastern time. later this evening, more from campaign 20 with democratic presidential candidate senator elizabeth warren. she will be speaking in new york city's washington square park. and more from the campaign trail this evening with president trump in rio rancho, new mexico. for a campaign rally live tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern. we will have that on c-span, online at c-span.org, or you can listen live on the free c-span radio app. >> tonight on "the communicators," california ,epresentative mcnerney co-chair of the artificial intelligence caucus, on the future of artificial intelligence, election security and whether big tech companies need more regulation. rep. mcnerney: google is a california-based company. i think if we want to look at how it's doing its busine

. ♪ susan: kay coles james, after many years, first as a scholar -- scholar and later as the trustee.ou took over the reins in december of 2017, almost two years. what were your primary goals when you took the position? mrs. james: i have been given very specific instructions by our board. they were very interested in settling the organization down. making sure that it had world-class management. as well as taking the very important messages that we have from the heritage foundation to new audiences. focused onhad been washington, d.c. and speaking to legislators and people within the administration. but we really felt like our conservative message needed a voice with some demographics that we had not been particularly active in. we needed to talk to women. we needed to talk to minorities. we needed to talk to the youth of this country. our conservative values are so important that we cannot ignore those constituencies with our message -- we have to win them. susan: on your website, you talk about how 70% of your funding -- which is about how much? how much revenue? $90 million? mrs.

. >> kay coles james on her life, career, and government in politics, and her work in the heritage foundation think tank. sunday night at 8 p.m. eastern on c-span's q & a. >> next, a panel looking at ways to improve the budget process held before the house committee on modernization of congress. congress. >> the meeting will come to order. without objection the chair is authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. this hearing is entitled recommendations from previewing the budget and appropriations process. a look at the work of the select committee budget and process reform and i now recognize myself for five minutes to give an opening statement. the 104th congress which convened in 1995 was the last to pass all appropriations bills prior to the start of the fiscal year. that was almost 25 years ago. most house members serving today have never seen a process that works the way it's supposed to where stand alone bills are passed on time. and the joint select committee on budget and appropriations process reform on which i served, along with my colleague rob woodall was establ

this week's guest is kay coles james. >>> saturday on book tv, at 11:00 p.m.astern in their new book "the education of brett kavanagh" "new york times" reporters explore justice brett kavanagh's past. then on sunday at 10:00 a.m. eastern, live coverage of the 2019 brooklyn book festival, featuring a discussion on the trump administration with annette gordon reed and historian historian brenda wineapple. and a look at historical resistance with deray mckesen. then in his latest book "power grab" jason chaffetz argues that liberals are trying to undermine the trump presidency. >> they really do believe on that radical far left side, they throw all these labels like fascist and all these really negative terms on donald trump, but what i see them doing is exactly what they claim the president was doing, that in order to protect our freedom, they need to take it away, in order to make sure the first amendment is in place, they need to take away our rights under the first amendment. it's just a recurring theme. >> at 9:00 journalist michelle malkin discusses her tho

cole cer: k: james -- kay james, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span's "q&a." president trump visited a section of the border wall currently under construction in southern california. joining him were acting homeland security sick terry kevin mcaleenan -- security secretary kevin mcaleenan. he also took questions about his new national security advisor. pres. trump: this has been a very exciting project, as you know. we have a wall the likes of which very few places have ever seen. i want to thank all of the people. general semonite with the army corps of engineers. we are very closely working with them. kevin and your staff. i want to see some of the details of the wall. you can see a pretty good view. this is going to be close to 500 miles by the time we finish most of the areas that are most important. that should be done pretty close to next year. it will be over 400 miles. we think we can get it close to 500 miles by the end of next year, depending on certain terrain conditions. but we are doing all of the most important areas. we have natural barriers lik

cole cer: k: james -- kay james, sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern, on c-span's "q&a." president trump visited a section of the border wall currently under construction in southern california. joining him were acting homeland security sick terry kevin mcaleenan -- security secretary kevin mcaleenan. he also took questions about his new national security advisor. pres. trump: this has been a very exciting project, as you know. we have a wall the likes of which very few places have ever seen. i want to thank all of the people. general semonite with the army corps of engineers. we are very closely working with them. kevin and your staff. i want to see some of the details of the wall. you can see a pretty good view. this is going to be close to 500 miles by the time we finish most of the areas that are most important. that should bee

q&a with heritage foundation with president kay coles james, then president trump's a visit to houston to meet with india's prime minister modi, and speak with indian americans there. ♪ >> kay coles james, after many years as they trustee. you took over the reins in december of 2017, almost two years. what were your primary goals when you took the position? been given i have very specific instructions by our board. they were very