kessler: you are a business network.l corrupted because there is no rule that stops you from getting paid what you are worth? you think mike bloomberg feels corrupted? stephanie: but we are not in school. mr. kessler: these are businesses and that is what is important to understand. looking at ncaa best ball, it is an $11 billion contract just for this. the schools on their own cable television networks. as i have anything to do with being in school? schools have sponsorships. they can't drink anything other than gatorade. bill: people get charged for failing those silly rules and that is ridiculous, but there is a great area between that and what is being proposed which is let the market decide to pay one person $5 million to pay best basketball in kentucky. mr. kessler: would you watch duke one game less if the athletes on duke were to make 10% of the coach's salary? stephanie: is it about him as a dude fan -- a duke fan? let us talk about how it would affect the university and all the other sports at the university th

host: ron kessler? guest: to say that the blue -- what is it, the blue line -- that is just prejudice. that is like saying all blacks are criminals or all jews are whatever. you know, to just have a blanket statement like that about people who risk their lives to protect is really reprehensible, in my opinion. host: stephen is up next. texas. line for republicans. stephen, good morning. caller: yes, sir. i am just trying to figure out -- i did not vote for him, but nobody should be put in the position they are put in. but he did choose the secret service man to cover him protect him, however the way it works. but i do not know if it is going to take outside sourcing, as far as navy seals if secret service can't do it. why can't they all work together? i have a lot of respect for the secret service, but i cannot understand why everybody wants to throw secret service under the bus. i mean, everybody is stressed. the secret service is on 24/7. host: ron kessler. guest: as i said, agents say it is a miracle

kessler is on there this morning. a lot of people don't know these situations, alcohol, hitting the bars in front of the white house. it should be something that should be out there. i personally did not know that. if it was anybody else, and any other town in the united states, if somebody had been drawn, and ran into anything, they would be -- guest: absolutely. caller: that is not a fair assumption of what we pay our secret service for. guest: in my book, i reveal the dishonesty that the secret service and in. that of course is relevant to this cover-up mentality. for example, in the secret service, when members of congress come out to visit their training center, the secret service puts on the senate is to show how great the agents are. they find the explosives, and they are presented as spontaneous. in fact, they are rehearsed secretly beforehand. of course, the secret service claims credit for a rest -- arrests that the police make. additionally, the secret service will ask agents to throw out there scores on ph

kessler: certainly not. gains on the government bonds we bought 3-5 years ago. so why should i cede those bonds to the ecb? there is no reason to do that. from the start of the quantitative easing exercise announced in germany, i said it was going to be a problem that the ecb was going to face. i didn't know who was going to cede those bonds to the ecb. large investors like scor were going to keep those bonds. i think the shaping of the quantitative easing exercise it is too late, it should have been done three years ago and not today. it is too late. it is badly shaped. i don't think it is going to help a lot the recovery in europe. francine: you are basically saying -- and this is something that analysts have told us -- because you own so many of these government bonds, that no one in your position would sell them and quantitative easing is way too late. what does it mean for the market? mr. kessler: it means that for the days we are living right now, it is very clear. investors by equities. -- investors b

kessler is on there this morning. a lot of people don't know these situations, alcohol, hitting the bars in front of the white house. it should be something that should be out there. i personally did not know that. if it was anybody else, and any other town in the united states, if somebody had been drawn, and ran into anything, they would be -- guest: absolutely. caller: that is not a fair assumption of what we pay our secret service for. guest: in my book, i reveal the dishonesty that the secret service and in. that of course is relevant to this cover-up mentality. for example, in the secret service, when members of congress come out to visit their training center, the secret service puts on the senate is to show how great the agents are. they find the explosives, and they are presented as spontaneous. in fact, they are rehearsed secretly beforehand. of course, the secret service claims credit for a rest -- arrests that the police make. additionally, the secret service will ask agents to throw out there scores on ph

host: ron kessler. guest: as i said, there has never been an assassination. and that is how important it is to fix the secret service. really, in assassination nullifies democracy. i lived through the jfk assassination. and i cried for days. it was a terrible blow for the country. that is what is involved here. when it comes to who should run -- and outsider, such as a former fbi person, i think is better than a military person because former fbi alreadyare a lot spent. a military prison would be an improvement over clancy, but you know, there will be a very steep learning curve. host: the caller brings up the call -- alcohol issue. your thoughts on director clancy talking about agent using this as a coping mechanism and how they need to be helped? guest: i think those part of clancy's cover up. trying to blame everything on stress and having thinking problems. you know, every organization has some people who engage in excessive drinking it these agents, you know, when to a retirement party. they drink the way all of us do. but then the problem is they got in

of your book under acknowledgments, you say, `through the generosity of henry salvatori, charles kessler brought me to claremont mckenna college as a salvatori visiting scholar.' >> guest: right. c-span: who is henry salvatori? >> guest: salvatori just died >> guest: salvatori just died recently at the age of--you know, i think he was about 97. he was an italian immigrant who was a very successful businessman and made a pile of money developing techniques of oil exploration that turned out to be very successful. and in his later years, he became a major donor to causes and to people who were interested in restoring the principles of the founding. and he established a center at claremont mckenna college, the salvatori center, which is directed by charles kessler. and they brought me out there knowing that i was somebody who could help advance that work. c-span: where were you when they brought you out there? >> guest: well, i'm based in irving, texas, at the university of dallas, where i'm a professor of politics. c-span: is that a full-time job still? >> guest: right. yes. c-span: and wh

kessler is joining me. he knows secret service, ronald welcome. >> thank you.s talk about this. two senior agents, one is second in command on president's detail, he and a buddy went to a coworker's going away party, they went back to white house, showed battles, rammed through tape into a barricade does it surprise you? >> no. i had an op-ed in washington times when president obama appointed joe clancy director, he was acting director since october. saying that obama, headline said that obama guarantees more secret service problem. because joe clancy represents everything that is wrong with secret service, he has been there 30 years, he is part of this culture that condones, corner cutting and covering up. worse is that you know, in a wanted to arrest them, and give them sobriety tests, but a supervisor overruled the officers who are trying to do their job, said no, don't arrest them just let them go home, there is a cover up men fall mentalty. kennedy: you don't know how drunk they are, then a superior said, don't worry, we don't want it to get messy, it make

. >> kessler says nothing will change until the culture changes and clancy is not the man for the job. >> it is a culture that condones coverups and punishes agents who report problems or threats and rewards agents who go along, for attend that the secret service is invincible. >> tim kaine says clancy deserves a little time. >> a new director is not going to shift that overnight. we have to watch the response to see how seriously it is being taken. >> congress will be watching. those two agents have been reassigned and director clancy has task the inspector general for security to investigate. >> it has been two months since the deadly smoke incident on metro. today, a follow-up inspection found more than 20 underground jumper cables are in danger. metro will repair and replace those cables and is including better training for operators and personnel, drills for first responders, and signs on emergency doors to make evacuation easier. an officer says he was in the right place at the right time when he saved a man from a burning car. it happened saturday afternoon. he was outside the

joining me is ron kessler a "new york times" author of several books about the secret service, also an award winning investigative reporter. ron, what do you make of this latest development? >> i think this is a typical cover-up by the secret service. i'm used to seeing that because they tried to cover up revelations in my book the first family detail. "the washington post" reporting on the secret service problems has been very accurate and why is it that these two high ranking individuals were removed from their post and put in non-operational positions. obviously something very serious happened there. and -- >> you use the word cover-up. and programs that's what the evidence will show. i'm far more concerned that their reputations, these men are innocent until proven guilty that their reputations have been besmirched with a rush to judgment. >> you know the so-called pushback is all anonymous. if if really there was a factual basis the secret service would issue on the record statement about it. and the fact that they removed these individuals, tells you that in fact they were involv

. >> kessler buti is the last speaker. >> kefner, i'm here to thank the staff for all their hard work in these extensive deliberation, it's been a long process for them and we also thank the sfmta for the opportunity to provide service again and we ao*f been honored to do that for the last six years, i want to give recognition to the three local business enterprises that will be working with us, this contract requires 20% of the services to be provided by lbe's because they are only doing the unarmed component of it it probably represents almost 35% of the actual labor hours to be provided here and we've made a decision that the community and the sfmta would best be served by dividing that very extensive amount of work amongst three highly qualified lbe's and we were pleased we were selected for that process, with that, i'm here to answer any questions you may have and other than that, we thank you for the opportunity. >> could you come back up, i believe mr. heinicke had a question. >> my understanding is and klek me if i'm wrong i aoep not trying to be flippant about this, the first

i'm tom brooks a 25 year residents of the block jim kessler's next door neighbor my wife and i sent a letter to the board an march 19 standard for review is abuse discretion or error on the law the decision contains two errors in the finding numbers one and two by law exceptional circumstances and preto the property involved but the do not generally apply to other properties and finding 2 requires some circumstances must you result in the practical difficulty or hardship the zoning administrator focused on 3 things lot size, a common drive, and certainly historical significance first 2825 lake has a lot that is the sect largest lot on the block with a buildable footprint of the 4 thousand plus square feet the most common size is 25 by one hundred and 25 or 3 thousand one hundred and 25 feet one could build a house that is almost one and a half times the size of our entire lot and that without a variance 2825 has a huge go size advantage not a disadvantage that's not an exceptional inspector or circumstance and second 2825 shares a common drive all lots have a land and easement and as

mary ann kessler, becker capital management portfolio manager and equity research analyst. >>> closing from now. the nasdaq and the russell 2000, they're bucking the trend. they're in the green. can the s&p do the same? it's, oh, so close. and now less than five p minutes before the polls close in israel in what may be one of the most closely-watched and most significant votes in recent history. we take a look at what's at stake with two top israeli businessmen. >>> and i'm heading to harvard. tomorrow i'll be bringing you exclusive coverage on fed day on what's being called the woodstock of mobile money. face it, mobile payments, it is the hottest topic. facebook in this hour broke news that it's going to make it easier to shift money between friends. the innovation project at harvard bringing together the movers and shakers in mobile payments including a member of the federal reserve who wants to move money for the fed and the banks. stay tuned. i'll see you from harvard. but coming up, it's "after the bell" with david asman and myself, so don't go away. ♪ ♪ the road. it can bring ou

ronald kessler, nice to see you. our thanks to michelle kosinski again as well. >>> millions of israelis heading to the polls right now in what may be a battle for benjamin netanyahu's life. the incumbent prime minister likud party is facing off against isaac herzog and the labor party. israel has a parliamentary season which means they vote for a ruling party and not a particular candidate to lead the country. in a last-minute bid for far right voters netanyahu ruled out the existence of a palestinian state. elise labott is live at the likud party headquarters for us in tel aviv. this is an incredible reversal on this two-state solution. >> reporter: randi, it's something the prime minister has been doing over the last week making statements of this nature to really energize those right-wing voters. we know he's behind in the polls. so he's really been trying to bend toward the right-wing voters who are very concerned about a palestinian state, who are very concerned about the palestinians and today he even doubled

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at 8:40, ron kessler. host: good morning. it is friday, march 20. today marks the first day of spring and the end of another busy week on capitol hill. among the stories we have been tracking on "washington journal" are the release of the congressional republicans' 2016 spending plan. congressional leaders rolled in iranian nuclear negotiations, the fight over attorney general

want to bring in ronald kessler. he has written about the secret service. -- and they're senior in the department. they know the whole world is watching the secret service now. how could this happen? >> there is a culture within the secret service of covering up really a corrupt culture which is within the management. so you have these senior supervisors not only these two agents who were involved in the crash into a barricade at the white house after drinking, but a supervisor overruling officers who wanted to arrest them on the spot and give them sobriety tests. that alone could be obstruction of justice. and what has clancy done about it? he reassigned them. he should have taken away their guns and badges which is happened with the agents in colombia. but those were lower level people. you have this double standard, you have this corrupt culture and mr. clancy who is a long time career agent. he is part of this culture. at a hearing on the hill, he was asked about the false statements that the secret service put out about the intrusion at the white house

. >> reporter: ron kessler is author of two books critical of secret service management.e says the the president appointing long time agent joseph clancy as new director has done little to change the agency's culture. in the past few months most of the senior secret service leaders have been replaced, director has been replaced and this incident still occur. is there still a problem do you believe. >> the managers that mr. clancy replaced have been replaced by other managers who have the same mentality. >> reporter: clancy still has support on capitol hill. >> i believe he is the the right person for this job at this time. he has talk about zero tolerance and i expect him to react a accordingly. >> reporter: the the two agents are on desk duty. president obama knows both men personally. mark albert for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> in the the boston area today a man carjacked by the the a accused boston marathon bombers took the stand in court today. he told jurors that tamerlan tsarnaev jumped in the car, put a gun in his head and ordered him to drive to new york. dunn de

braun kessler writes in "the washington post" today, an op-ed these. mr.essler has been on the show several times. he has authored a book called, "the first family." here's what he had to say, a little bit -- obama is in denial about the secret service. choosing clancy in february to perform the agency, obama ignored the chief recommendation of his own four-person panel. obama turned to clancy, a career agent who earned his trust as head of the president protective detail and who had been acting since october. clancy represents everything that is wrong with agency. there hasn't been any doubt about that. it should have been this held when clancy was stonewalled at a house judiciary committee on whether anyone would be held accountable for making false statements about the intrusion on the white house that happened several months ago. here is a elijah cummings, the congressman on "face the nation" about the secret service. [video clip] mr. cummings: it is externally frustrating to see an agency that is supposedly the number one lb agency protecting the most

after that ron kessler talks about his book and current reform proposals for the secret service. plus we'll be taking your phone calls, facebook comments and tweets all on washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> our road to the white house coverage continues friday in iowa with remarks from potential presidential candidate former governor martin o'malley. live coverage at 9:00 eastern on c-span. >>> this weekend the c-span cities tour has partnered with media come to learn about the history life of columbus, georgia. >> right here inside the museum is remains of a confederate ironclad the css jackson. this was built here in columbus during the war. those oval shapes that you see are actually the gun ports of the jackson. and the jackson is armed with six rifles. the particular brook rifle that we're firing today is one of the guns built specifically for the jackson. it was cast at the selma naval works in selma, alabama and completed in january of 1865. the real claim to fame is directly connected to the fact that there are only four ironclads from the civil

after that, ron kessler talks about his book. current reform proposals for the secret service. we will be taking your phone calls and tweets. all of washington journal. live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. the republican national lawyers association is holding a daylong policy conference in washington dc. featured speakers include bob corker, representative susan brooks. former maryland governor, bob ehrlich. you can watch it on c-span two -- c-span2. >> now isis rears its ugly head. this army is shaky. we should not be surprised. you cannot undo decades of soviet era with eight years. especially when you talk them when you're going to have u.s. advises partner with them. afghanistan -- we currently have 10,000 troops there. we are drawing down to 5000 year. almost down to zero the year after that. we'll see a similar result as we saw in a rack with the isis attack. the army is going to be shaky. >> this sunday on join a on the u.s. fail on the failed u.s. -- what we should have done different. on c-span's q&a. >> this weekend media, to learn about columnist george. >> inside t

co-founders fred parker and jonathan kessler say big retailers are signing on to the experiment.iment here. not widespread yet. it seems to be the one thing here that both management and labor support. back to you. >> all right. nasdaq is wlgell off the session lows at a level of 4908. just about ten points off of the session lows on the nasdaq composite. retailers getting hit today. courtney reagan is here with more on this. >> retail hitting a lot of different things. the port is one of them. stocks are down lower, not able to puck the trend. some names feeling it more thanaries. best buy staples game stop, and nordstrom. while these retailers and others are spending billions of dollars trying to make consumer happy, shoppers are saying it's still not enough. this according to a new survey from accenture. the big problems center around inconsistency between platforms and focusing on e-commerce and then under serving stores. many retailers run it as separate businesses even though shoppers don't see a difference. a huge pet peeve for shoppers is when the same product has a diffe

after that, ron kessler and current reform proposals for the secret service. >> martin o'malley will be speaking friday at the democratic party red white and blue dinner. we will bring you live coverage from the event in davenport. >> this weekend, the c-span cities to our has partnered with media, to learn about the history of columbus, georgia. >> this is the remains of a confederate fighting class, the css jackson. those oval shapes you see are the gun ports it is armed with six rifles this rifle is one of the guns built specifically for jackson. it was cast as the selma naval works in alabama and completed in january of 1865. the real claim to fame is directly connected to the flag -- to the fact that there are only four ironclads from the civil war that we can study right now. the jackson is right here and this is why this facility is here. it is first and foremost the tail and the story of this particular ironclad, to show people that there are more than just one or two -- there were many. >> what all of our events saturday at noon eastern on c-span two's book tv. >> fiscal con

. >> i did, however this show was todd and glen kessler who came to me and they had done damages.u and see what you think. i like what they do and i like them as people. i got to know them and that's how the show began. the cast started filling in and it worked out beautifully. >> there is a great cast. it's a really juicy series. basically to set the stage for people you are one of the brothers in a family. you are kind of the good sheep and the bad sheep brother comes back. and then -- >> the show is based on the whole idea passed to me as a five or six of-year process of where the character develops and the idea i love is you have that time to develop the character and the changes that you go through. the story is about expectations of what we are in families and the roles placed upon us and how they are true and not true and how they change as we are older. the story is about the family who is not necessarily outside forces that are changing and going after it, but the forces within. it's very well written. these guys are really good story tellers. there is a nonlinear aspect.