. -- kevin baker is saying. you talk about politicians and the belt way and how everything is being manipulated and the lobbyists. that is true. but there is a huge factor that obama mobilized during the campaign, but he is not mobilizing right now. it is supposed to be the dnc that is mobilizing us, getting us to get out there. it wasn't personalities that got obama elected. it helped every now and then to get an endorsement, but it was organization and education. i am doing phone banking for the health clear path -- plan. i add things that the dnc did not tell us to. i looked up my representatives and senators stands and i tell them and they are shocked. for all of this going back and forth about who is on and who is off, they just don't know. guest: that is a very good point. apart from obama or the dnc, we have to be mobilizing our self. i don't think the american people -- our passivity is frightening. we have to be out there fighting about their representatives are saying and doing and holding their feet t

host: our guest is kevin baker from harper's magazine. you can send us your tweaked yourtweet. virginia, go ahead. caller: i read everything you sat down. thank you very much for your wonderful riding. --writing. i was listening to my congressman, and he was complaining about where are we going to get money from when it comes to education? this baffles me because these are the same guys we are spending billions of dollars in iraq. where are we going to get the money to spend in iraq? at the end of this war, we are going to pay over two trillion dollars. no one seems to have any concern for that. when it comes to the american people, we have to think about where we are going to spend money. host: response? guest: i agree with that very much. i was interested in mr. davis's response, work harder and good luck. people unable to get health- care. it seems to be the solution of the republicans in general. there is a ridiculous contradictory thing going on. the consequences of the policies of the last eight years were horrendously expensive. we need to avoid from them. we are also no

kevin baker, contributing editor for "harpers magazine" discusses his cover story about barack obama. "washington journal," live at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> up next, president obama's remarks at the radio and television correspondents dinner. then, former president bill clinton and steny hoyer at a business dinner. after that, another chance to see it the conversation with columnist george will. >> this week on "newsmakers," congressman pete stark discusses legislation working its way through congress. he talks about one proposal that would establish a public health insurance plan to compete with private plans. >> at the end of the day, if you choose to have competition and you choose to have a plan that is dependable and affordable, you cannot do it without having a public plan there. that creates the competition for the private plan. so yes, there will be a public plan in the bill. will the people vote for? i don't know who wants to go home in next year's primary and say i voted against the plan that is going to provide 30,000 people in my district, most of whom are nonwhite, most of

kevin baker of harper's magazine will be here, the author of july's cover stories. barack hoover obama, the best and brightest. that is on "washington journal." we begin at 7:00 a.m. eastern. thanks for joining us. we will see you tomorrow. .. .. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national >> then remarks from senator jeff sessions, a ranking member of the senate judiciary committee and democratic senator , dick durbin. later, charles evans, the president of the chicago federal reserve on the economy. >> today on american and the courts, a few commencement addresses at this year's graduation ceremonies given by supreme court justice, anthony kennedy. and georgia supreme court justice -- that is on 7:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> people do not want to think as the conservation as a policy as much as a passion. he put aside 240 million acres of wild america. now as people are talking about environmentalism and green movements, roosevelt is becoming the key figure to understand because he was the only politician of his day to ab

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