lauren williams?ould i think everyone argue it is great to have updated identification, but the fact is it affects this group is proportionately for real reasons. not having transportation to get to the dmv to update your id. not being able to find your birth certificate or having one or ever having seen one. not having the money to pay to get a new id. that you have to have this id, the name on your id matcher registration or not --wing it is different areas not knowing that you have to have this id, the name on your id match your registration or not knowing it is different. it in an ideal world, we would have the id, but it isn't. you have to look at who is being affected by this. also, who the people being affected most by this are most likely to vote or. host: a question on twitter. protecting voter security disproportionately affect african-americans and the poor? explain this. just dead.nd of they are the least likely to have an updated id. --hink there are of that he there are a variety of reas

track and field olympic stars lola jones and lauren williams. closer to being picked for the olympic team in january. if that happens they will be off to sochi, russia after the 2014 winter olympic games. gold medalist sprinter lauren williams is on the phone with us right now from plan jobs texas. lauren, thanks so much for being with us. in your wildest dreams did you ever think you would become a bobsled center >> i had no idea until about four months ago until i talked to lola. she said give it a try. >> so lola recruited you not long after you won gold in london as a member of the 4 x 100 relay tame. what was that pitch like. did it take much arm twisting to get you on board? >> i was inquisitive about it. i knew there were three people that tried out after the olympics last year and she said it's a ton of fun and thought i had the right build for it. i love to do weight and do powerful thing. accelerating and getting a little bit stronger it seemed like it was right up my alley. >> tell me about the training and what it takes to get you to

then lauren williams gives an update on the political battle over women's issues. "washington journal" is live every morning starting at 7:00 a.m. on c-span. >> a couple of live events to tell you about tomorrow morning. the senate homeland security committee examines the shooting of the washington navy yard and that is at 10:00 a.m. eastern. at 10:15 a.m., the senate foreign relations committee looks at the situation in syria. >> i never expected to write an entire book on cancer until i was diagnosed at a relatively young age of 36 years old. and i was astonished at how different it was going through treatment. than what i had heard and what i had expected it to be. and i sort of expected it, i expected it to be a well oiled machine in which there wasn't obviously a guarantee, the people knew about this cancer and i would be followed and what i found was something really different. so i couldn't help but to write about it. >> a cancer survivor explores the economic impact of cancer in american society on "after words." as part of booktv this weekend on c-span2. h

joining us, lauren ashburn. one williams fox news analyst and mary catherine ham. uren ashburn, with even conservative commentators says the republicans got beat up, is that the case? >> we heard a lot of people saying this was a debacle, this was a mess. when you have those conservatives like dana foreno, she tweeted something that the rnc was going to pick the location of its next convention and it could fit inside ra phone booth because that's how devooif vicive it is right now in the republican party. >> mary cath rip, you may have complaints about the way the media covered this. but the harshest comments coming from your side. this wasn't only coming from the -- >> no. and this is an argument that happened before this strategy was played out and a lot of people want to say, look, i pointed this out before we started this. >> if only they had listened to me. >> right. but i think it's fair to offer analysis that don't necessarily think it's incorrect. the brian williams goes a little far for a news caster, in my opinion. >> he probably shouldn't have said the re

lauren fox, jonathan capehart, jimmy williams, thank you so much. >>> coming up, after all the grandstanding cruz, the affordable care act lives. some call it a wild goose chase. what say you, senator mccain? >> the problem with their strategy was that it was a fool's errand. we were not going to defund obama care. that's why we had an election in 2012. ♪ put the lime in the coconut, she called the doctor woke him up and said, doctor ♪ ♪ ain't there nothing i can take i said doctor ♪ which means it's never been easier to get a new passat, awarded j.d. power's most appealing midsize car, two years in a row. and right now you can drive one home for practically just your signature. get zero due at signing, zero down, zero deposit, and zero first month's payment on any new 2014 volkswagen. hurry, this offer ends october 31st. for details, visit vwdealer.com today. it guides you to a number it guides you to a number that will change your life: your sleep number setting. it even knows you by name. now it's easier than ever to experience deep, restful sleep with the sleep number bed's dualair techn

. >> lauren daniel williams. molly julia yoder. >> yes! whoo! >> oh, my. >> sorry.bc sitcom "welcome to the family." al will catch up with the funny stars of the show. we have all had moments like that, where we crossed the line a little bit a little league game or something like that. i'm inside the studio with savannah guthrie, al roker and natalie morales. >> and we have jenna bush hager here. she has a rare interview the woman behind a shoe brand a lot of us know and have dreamed about -- jimmy choo. what she said she had to to overcome to get to the top and what will leave all shoe lovers drooling. >> that closet. >> the shoe heaven. >> a shrine to shoes. >> it is. i'm salivating looking at all of that. plus, it's savannah's turn to put our judgment to the test with two new fact or fiction stories. i couldn't stump you yesterday. >> i hope so because whoever wins at the end of the week gives $5,000 to their favorite charity. >> any hints on your stories? >> absolutely not. >> okay. >> competitive. >> apparently. >> but first, it's been busy in the weather depar

lauren astley not coming back to him, and he killed her. >> in most murder cases, the question is who? who did it? that's not this case. >> reporter: defense attorney williamullivan, in his opening statement, admits nathaniel killed lauren. >> in this case, there's going to be two questions, why and how. how does a young man-- there's not any evidence of him ever laying a finger on this young girl-- how does he do something like this? i told the jury, "you're going to hear and see some very disturbing facts." >> she died as a result of the combination of the strangulation and the incised wounds to her neck. >> reporter: medical examiner henry nields testified after lauren was strangled with a bungee cord, she then suffered a number of superficial wounds to her neck before her throat was cut. >> why these superficial, shallow wounds? he did that to hurt her. why did he deliver the gaping, deep wound? he did that to kill her. do you recall a party on june 4? >> yes. >> reporter: the prosecution questioned genevieve flynn and other friends about june 2011, the month between high school graduation and lauren's murder. >> i saw lauren pick up her hands and push

. >>> and speaking of that, lauren conrad tweets out a snapshot of her engagement ring and says, yep, we're on with williamshion line. she's quite a cover star on style magazines. people want to follow her lifestyle. this is all part of her lifesty lifestyle, you know, way of living. >> does her appeal spread out among farther than that group of kids that watched her on "the hills "? >> i think it may. she's 27 years old. she's getting married. there are millions of 27-year-olds getting married. they're following their life pattern. >> but not to man named william tell. >> greg louganis did the wedding. congratulations to him, too. >>> next up on the "gma heat index," more than 67 million americans reported having back pain in a single year. now advances in the technology that has been around for years may hold new promise for people with chronic back pain. juju chang, where did larry go? all of a sudden, larry is gone. >> presto change-o. a mom said her back pain was so awful, she was willing to have a device surgically implanted into her back to block the pain. insurance can sometimes pay for the procedu

lauren. >> it will be even better than red bull's. >> you're literally saying adjecti adjectives. >> we're in. >> it could be anything. >> sarah michelle gellar co-stars with robin williamshed it. that's good. three days ago she joined us at the table. >> i remember from back in the day on "all my children" you played erica kane's daughter. >> and you now play opposite robin williams, your dad. >> they're like, that's uncle robin on a light bulb at a bus stop. i always say, robin william. i can't say anything else. those lines don't frost. >> what's he like to work with? >> he's -- you know, it's funny. he's a juliard trained actor so he takes it very seriously. he comes in learning his lines and sometimes you have to push him to rif. you don't know where it's going go. it's going go places where i'm scared. >> so as you start off in the number one position, are you feeling comfortable or pressure? >> i feel pressure. when you're first out of the gate i always worry. it ooh's mary thop, not a sprint. the episodes get better and better. we hope -- we're finding our way through it. i hope people keep tuning in to see where it's going. >> what do you think is the genius of