susan: we want to invite laurie robinson, the cochair on 20th century policing. both during the clinton and obama administrations, she served as the assistant attorney general for justice programs. i should tell our audience that we invited mr. -- ms. robinson's cochair. mr. ramsey got about the listeners that any police commissioner could get on thursday when he learned that one of his officers were shot to death in the line of duty in philadelphia. we regret that news, and certain play -- and certainly also sorry we couldn't be here with us this week. kevin johnson is a national reporter for "usa today." thanks for being here. and sari horwitz is a national reporter for the "washington post." kevin: professor robinson, thank you for coming. i know you have been involved in a real intensive review over the last 90 days. and in one of the first listening sessions of the task force, you heard from a number of police groups, including the fraternal order of police, and the international association of chiefs of police. some of whom sounded very -- fairly defensive

and i will now turn it over to laurie robinson. >> thanks so much, chuck.t has been such a pleasure working on this super-speed panel task force particularly with my co-chair chuck ramsey. i've been in this field for more than 30 years working with the american bar association, about ten years with the department of justice, and more recently in academia. and as chuck said, our time on this task force has been kplesed but really -- compressed but remarkable with the opportunity to hear from so many witnesses bringing such expertise before us. but our in tent with this panel, as he said, was to look ahead. and i would characterize it, that we do have a super-star group here and that was our in tent. so i'm looking forward in a minute to introducing our panel. but before that i want to give our task force members who, by the way, have been wonderful to work with and what an opportunity to get the chance in what i would describe as kind of a bunker mentality as we've moved ahead. and it is something that i will think about for really the rest of my career this

ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [no audio] >> on newsmakers, laurie robinson cochair of the president's task force on 21st century policing. she will discuss the report on policing across the united states and the death of michael brown in ferguson, missouri and eric garner in new york at the hands of police, and make recommendations on how to improve policing and strengthen trust between law enforcement officers and the communities they serve. newsmakers today on c-span. >> you would see a much and jeff combination, or a stickball set. washington is -- was a large man. he was very robust, terrific natural athlete, and madison is a skinny, little guy. >> historian david o stewart on founding father james madison and the partnerships he made that aid in the success of our fledging nation. >>'s gift that i like most is his ability to form remarkable partnerships with the great people of his era. it also alludes to his gift to country of his talents and what he was able to do to help create the first self-sustaining constitutional republic. >> tonight at 8:00 p.m

. ♪ >> next, "newsmakers," with laurie robinson.nse secretary ashton carter testifies before a senate committee on his department's 2016 budget request. after that, israeli prime minister's speech to the u.s. congress. susan: we want to invite laurie robinson, the cochair on 20th century policing. both during the clinton and obama administrations, she served as the assistant attorney general for justice programs. i should tell our audience that we invited mr. -- ms. robinson's cochair. mr. ramsey got about the listeners that any police commissioner could get on thursday when he learned that one of his officers were shot to death in the line of duty in philadelphia. we regret that news, and certain play -- and certainly also sorry we couldn't be here with us this week. kevin johnson is a national reporter for "usa today." thanks for being here. and sari horwitz is