kim jong-un era in north korea. host: james person from the wilson center. thank you for being with us.e are going to turn our attention to politics. senator bernie sanders and hillary clinton -- robinson costa from the washington post will be here. big will talk about the meeting between house speaker paul ryan and donald trump. glass, the director emeritus of the national museum of american history. pretty want to visit? you are watching and listening to c-span prostate "washington journal." c-span's "washington journal." we are back in a moment. ♪ >> monday on the communicators, while visiting a technology fred uptonoke with from michigan, chair of the energy and commerce committee and bill shuster from pennsylvania. we interviewed innovators from about new company technology, spectrum issues, and the upcoming spectrum auction. communications, job creation, we are working on a major bill, legislation we have already passed but we are going to see the scc up more spectrums which can enable these devices to be built. ,utting in the legislation taking a look at how you build the road fu

james person of the history and public policy program for the wilson center will talk about the korean workers party, viewed as a key moment for kimjong-un. also, washington post reporter robert costa will discuss donald trump's visit to capitol hill this week. glass -- brent glass will discuss his new book on essential historic sites. washington journal is live at 7:00 eastern. anduncer: president obama michelle obama hosted a state dinner with nordic leaders from tim been, iceland, sweden, and denmark. president obama and the prime minister's of iceland and denmark spoke. this is about 25 minutes. pres. obama: please join me in welcoming the president and first lady of finland. [applause] the leaders of norway. [applause] prime minister and mrs. lohman of sweden. prime minister and mrs. rasmussen of denmark. [applause] pres. obama: and prime minister johannsson of iceland. [applause] pres. obama: now, we know they share a pride in their viking heritage. but i think we can all agree that the vikings could be a little rough. they did not always have the best manners at the dinner table. [laughter] pres. obama: their outfits were n

kim kardashian posting an instagram photo. that's a lot easier to summarize than something more nuanced license the darren wilson case or somethingose lines. >> why would they want top sensor it? >> i don't think this was an intentional -- i don't think it was an intentional bias that's at play here. i think this is just a system that they've put in place that allows people to inflate news basically using something called an injection tool to force news into the trending topics and also suppress news so they can blacklist news. i think when we discovered they were both artificially enflating and suppressing news, that calls into question the legitimacy of the trending topics entirely, right. these aren't exactly trending topics. they're being selected by an >>itorial board. >> gizmodo is a technology website that's focused on the future. we are interested in gadgets and things that will impact our future. social media is definitely a part of that. it plays an important part in our political dus course. that's why we started to look into this. >> what are the implications here, in your opinion? >> the implications are huge. this i