here is a lectern. i can barely see over it, but there is a lectern. one left turn for me to talk to all of you. there are two lecterns in house. the first time i spoke, i'm so for myself. i thought that i am going to be so persuasive, but i'm going to talk to the democrats or the republicans. and i'm going to look at them and they are going to hear me and they are going to buy my argument. so i went and stood at the lectern in front of the democrats and there was this cast. it is kind of like you're going to get cooties if you touch the wrong left turn. but if you look at the house, what you have is easy to separate lecterns and use separate computers to look things up. if i wanted to go get a cup of soup or read a newspaper or make a phone call, what you do in the cloak room, the republicans go to one cloakroom and the democrats go to another cloakroom, you can't even have soup together. and we have created that system. there are ways to fix this. but what we have created is a system where people don't know each other as friends or colleagues or alli

hour the lectern at the u.n. general assembly will belong to one of the world's most device sieve leaders. the brez of ghana. the person i'm peeking of none other than mahmoud amadinejad. you've heard of him. he's about to make his final address as the president of iran. it is not going to be standing room only especially since the u.s. delegation has just decided that it's going to boycott the whole process. not walk out, don't even walk in in the first place. here is the explanation that the u.s. delegation gave us. i'm going to read verbatim. spokeswoman erin pelton says i quote, mr. amadinejad once again uses his trip of the u.n. not to address the legitimate aspirations of the iranian people but to spout paranoid theories and repulsive slurs against israel. does not seem to be much need to read between any of those lines. in the past years western and israeli envoys have decided to come in but then do this walk right out again once amadinejad speaks. this was the scene in 2009. there they go. up and out. the

but there is a lectern. i can barely see it, but there is one lectern for me to talk to all of you. i thought, they are going to hear me and i'm going to stand there and there was this gasp. it's like you were going to get cooties if you touched the wrong lectern. what you have is that you speak at supper luck turns, you look at separate computers to look stuff up. and if i wanted to go get a cup of soup order the things you do -- republicans go to one cloakroom and you can't even have soup together. we created that system. there are ways to fix this. what we have created is a system where people don't know each other as friends and colleagues. if you are the wrong party, it is to be you and not cooperate with you, because if i cooperate with you, and there are closed party primaries where only the activist vote, by cooperating and compromising, i am going to lose my seat. because that is the incentive system. when you allow the party primary system to decide who will be on the ballot, what you have done is give the activists the most hyper zealous and hyper ideological the ability

i can barely say a word, but there's a lectern. one black turn for me. the first time i spoke -- i'm so full of myself and politicians, so i thought i'm going to be so persuasive thoughts out to the democrats. i'm going to look right at them and they are going to hear me and so i went and sat at the lectern in front of the democrat. and there was this gas. it's kind of like to get cooties if he touched the wall country rock lectern. if you look at the house, which if god is to speak a separate lecturers can a separate computers to look stuff up. and if i wanted to go get a cup of soup or read a newspaper or make a phone call, the things you do in the coat room that republicans go to one room and democrats go to another. you can even of soup together. we have created that system. now, there are ways to fix this. but we've created is a system where people don't know each other as friends, colleagues, allies. if you're the wrong party, my job is to the e.u., cooperate with you because if i cooperate with you and/or closed party primaries were over the did t

heard from congresswoman nidia velasquez of new york and coming on to the stage right now up to the lectern is the governor of the state of illinois, pat quinn. >> delegates and fellow americans it is an honor to be with you this evening and it's an honor to trent great state of illinois, the home of president barack obama! (cheers and applause) tonight i want to talk to you about a scary subject for many, many republicans. i want to talk about facts. (laughter and applause) you know, i watched the republican national convention last week and i heard a lot of things that are simply not true. and one of our founding fathers, president john adams of massachusetts once said that facts are stubborn things. but last week as they nominated a very different man from massachusetts, republicans stubbornly smeared president obama's excellent record of reforming welfare. they went on and on pretending that our president weakened its work requirement. now everyone knows that that is a ridiculous charge even the republican author of welfare reform says romney is wrong. fact checkers have called this rep

by the way, he was reading it off the lectern. he couldn't even remember it. >>> next, the story of chris christie and a reporter. the first one of the season anyway. an event yesterday one reersshre is state's full foreclosure laws, its policies. you know what came up next? >> do you have a follow-up question? >> who are you, by the way? >> jim. >> from where? >> channel 7. >> my follow-up would be, m suhangs true. >> next question. >> this is an urgent -- >> next question. >> why would you blow it off? >> please. >> why would you brush it off? >> do me a favor, don't show up once in every blue moon and think you're goingo dominate my press conference. >>'m n >> thank you very mu. >> your agency -- >> at that same event christie downplayed the effect of comments 47% comments caught on camera, racking it up to a bad week for romney but conceding the governor that if the election were tomorrow, that he sthne saigh lem. >>> flashback to 1960. this ad hit the airwaves during kennedy's face-off with nixon. ♪ kennedy kennedy kennedy ke

heard from congresswoman nidia velasquez of new york and coming on to the stage right now up to the lectern is the governor of the state of illinois, pat quinn. >> delegates and fellow americans it is an honor to be with you this evening and it's an honor to trent great state of illinois, the home of president barack obama! (cheers and applause) tonight i want to talk to you about a scary subject for many, many republicans. i want to talk about facts. (laughter and applause) you know, i watched the republican national convention last week and i heard a lot of things that are simply not true. and one of our founding fathers, president john adams of massachusetts once said that facts are stubborn things. but last week as they nominated a very different man from massachusetts, republicans stubbornly smeared president obama's excellent record of reforming welfare. they went on and on pretending that our president weakened its work requirement. now everyone knows that that is a ridiculous charge even the republican author of welfare reform says romney is wrong. fact checkers have called this rep

world leaders all taking their turns at the lectern. ours has been there as are a number of other top leaders. and today no exception. today netanyahu and mahmoud abbas will be taking the stage. and all of this is coming in just the next hour. mr. abbas will be up first. he's expected to ask the united nations to give his people the palestinian authority nonmember observer status. that's an expanded kind of status than he has right now. this after last year's failed bid to win u.n. recognition of a palestinian state. now, shortly after he speaks, israel's prime minister will take the podium p. and mr. netanyahu is expected to focus on iran rather than on palestinians. he's likely going to warn the united nations about the threat that israel faces from iran's controversial nuclear program, but his warnings take on a new sense of urgency after making it clear that israel would preemptively attack iran if diplomacy fails. netanyahu's threats have put i suppose you could call a significant strain on relations with the united states and pres

he was reading it off the lectern. >>> next the story of chris christie and a reporter.irst one of the season zwraen way. at oon event yesterday one reporter pressed christie on his state's full foreclosureaw itsci >> do you have a follow-up question? >> who who are you by the way? >> jim. >> from where? >> channel 7. i'm not sure that rings true. >> nt question. >> this is an urgent -- >> next questi. >> w wld you b i >> please. >> why would you -- >> do me a favor don't show up once in every blue moon and think you're going to dominate my press conference. thank you very much. >> your agency >> at that same event christie down pladheffth romney's 47% comments racking it up to a bad week for romney but conceding the governor that if the election were tomorrow, that would be a problem. he said that one straight. >>> fckback to 1960. this ad hit averi kennedy's face-off with nixon. >> kennedy, kennedy. ♪ do you want a man for president who is seasoned through and through ♪ ♪ but not so dog gone seasoned he won't try something new ♪ ♪ a m w ono to know but young enough to

stevenson was old-fashioned and traditional about this, and he thought that you got up in front of a lectern and you had a printed page and you read a speech. and, of course, murrow knew a lot differently. so there's this wonderful story of stevenson and he goes to new york and it's--murrow can't go public with this because that would show partisanship, but stevenson sneaks into the studio to get some tips from edward r. murrow, but murrow later said it just didn't work, 'he really didn't want to hear what i was trying to tell him,' and that's stevenson. that's probably the might have been of american campaigns, that you don't learn how to project yourself on tv, you just talk about the issues. c-span: and you were born where? >> guest: i was born in baltimore, maryland. c-span: went to school where? >> guest: i went to school in baltimore and then i went to vassar college and then i returned and got my degrees in baltimore. my phd is from the johns hopkins university. c-span: in what? >> guest: in history. c-span: what got you interested in history? >> guest: well, i--it's that teacher in t

, whose life changed from royal commoner to royal duchess and international diplomat, life at the lectern. in november of 2011, barely six months after they were married, a reporter's question about famine in africa left her flustered. >> i'm struggling, and a huge amount still has to happen with hundreds of children still malnourished at the moment. regard few months later at her first solo public event at the national portrait gallery, she did not speak publicly at all, but public interest only intensified. in march, kate gave her first public speech, which was also at a children's hospice, and less than three minutes in length. >> i'm really sorry that william's not here today. he would love it here. >> reporter: today's speech overshadowed much of the rest of the day's activities for the royal couple. they started the morning at a war memorial for british soldiers in singapore. then it was on to malaysia with lunch with the prime minister and a tour of the hospice before her big speech. kate appears to be getting more comfortable, but today's speech was a safe one and showed she's not

. >> i am very pleased to now call will marshall to the lectern. he is the president and founder of the progressive policy institute, established in 1989 as a center for political innovation in washington, d.c. he has one of the chief intellectual architects to modernize politics. he is the co-editor of many books. i will mention two. "memos to the new president" and "with all our might," published in 2006. will is now on the board of directors along with bill galston of the national endowment of democracy. >> thanks to hudson for organizing this report. it is a rigorous and creative and goes on a series of other investigations over the last decade. i hope it will add some momentum to really do something about this. i do not have a dog in the fight as to what is the kind of scheme for this. so i will yield to those who have been inside and try to make it work. i have my own doubts about the white house as the center for this but that is speaking from ignorance. what i want to focus on, the fundamental question, why hasn't anything happened? why are

stand-in for the president didn't strike him until he was backstage and about to walk out to the lecternted to do three things here with this speech. three things that he says he accomplished. what were they? >> well, the first one was that not everyone in hollywood is a lefty, as mr. eastwood referred to them. and also, that president obama, in his view has not fulfilled his campaign promises. and then the third thing was that politicians aren't royalty or something, that if they're not doing the job, you got to let them go. that's what he said to the convention and they went nuts when he said it. >> now a lot of people have noted that clint eastwood himself had a spell as a politician. wahe an experienced orator? did he have an opportunity to speak in front of large groups of people? >> no. carmel is a small town. things are very informal there. i do have a tie on today but i usually don't wear one to work. so he interacted in a friendly and spontaneous way with his -- with the media, with his constituents, and that's just the way he does it. he told me i really don't know how to give

style dictated by the romney handlers stand behind the lectern, read the speech writ and don't stray explain. >> he had his mom there. who boos a guy in front of his 78-year-old mother other 78-year-old mothers! this is the fun part. further down, it is a dancing year one of romney's advisors has kept a close grip on ryan traveling with him everywhere and make hur -- sure he's used to the brain trust. >> stephanie: he's probably on the phone with sarah palin. >> a brain trust rumor has it that refers to ryan as gilligan. >> oh! >> bam! >> which by the way that makes the romney skipper. let me break some news right here, neither one of them is getting off the island. i'm just saying. they'll both be stuck on the island for a long time! >> stephanie: they're both equally incompetent. >> a three-month campaign. ♪ a three-month campaign ♪ >> stephanie: dana in maryland, you're on "the stephanie miller show." >> caller: good morning everybody. how are you? >> stephanie: we're having too much fun. >> caller: i know. it is getting sweet, isn't it? i wanted to be the official biggest hal spa

his entire life is that the law professor's lectern, at the committee table, or in various meetings. he is never the guy in the front of the room deciding in making the hard calls. he has little if any management experience. suddenly, he is in the most important managerial job in the world. he is president of the united states, leader of the free world. my question was, how does he do it? how does he make decisions? how does he govern? >> the investigative journalist credits president obama's advisors for many white house policy victories. he will discuss his conclusions on "afterwords" on c-span2. "washington journal' continues. host: we're joined by col. cedric leighton. he was the deputy training director of the nsa. welcome. we heard about cyber attacks at two banks. what happened? guest: bank of america and j.p. morgan chase are two major u.s. banks. they were victims of the cyber attack resulted in not getting into customer databases, but they did in of affecting the speed of the websites. when customers into the web sites, they had slower service and could not access their acc

his entire life is that the law professor of lectern, the committee table, but he is never the guy in the front of the room deciding, making the hard calls. he has very little management experience. and then suddenly, he is in the most important managerial job in the world, president of the united states, leader of the free world. so my question is how does he do it, how does he make decisions? >> investigative journalist richard miniter investigates the obama administration. saturday night at 10:00 eastern and sunday night at 9:00 eastern. host: this is donald marron, director of the tax policy center here in washington, d.c. we are going to dig deeper into mitt romney's reference about a 47% of american to do not pay taxes. where does that number come from? guest: it was from a report that we put out of people who pay federal taxes. we estimated about 47% paid no federal income tax. host: when you break that down further, how do those numbers brick town? when you pay no federal income tax, does that mean that they do not have a payroll tax withheld from their paycheck? guest: no, th

his entire life is at the law professor's lectern, at the committee table, illinois state house or u.se or various meetings, but he's never the guy in the front of the room deciding, making the hard calls. very little, if any management experience, and then suddenly, he's in the most important managing job in the world, president of the united states, leader of the free world, and so my question was how does he do it? how does he decide? how does he make decisions? how does he govern? >> in "leading from behind," richard credits president obama's behind the scene advisers for many white house policy victories. this weekend, he'll sit down with forbes.com to discuss conclusions on booktv's "after words" on c-span2. >> the new supreme court term beginning monday, october 1st. tuesday, tom goldstein and los angeles times supreme court correspondence previewed the court's new term. this is an hour and 15 minutes from the cay toe -- cato institute. [inaudible conversations] >> our conference concludes with a look ahead to october term 2012. the court's docket as of today is a bit sparse, bu

ahmadinejab is going to weigh in today when he takes the lectern at the u.n. general assembly.ick around? a lot of times we walk out on these. >> steve: we do. >> gretchen: people who are there in attendance? >> brian: yes, with the head sets on. >> steve: the israelis walked out a couple of days ago, united states sat right there. it's interesting, yesterday when the president of the united states was there, once again he did talk about freedom of speech, but he kept talking as well about that dumb movie and he is claiming that dumb movie -- blaming that dumb movie on what killed our ambassador. if you missed part of the speech, here is 40 seconds of it. >> i know there are some who ask why don't we just ban such a video? the answer is enshrined in our laws. our constitution protects the right to practice free speech. here in the united states, countless publications provoke offense. like me, the majority of americans are christian and yet, we do not ban blasphemy against our most sacred beliefs. as president of our country, and commander in chief of our military, i accept tha

his entire life is that the law professor's lectern, the u.s. senate, the illinois state house, at various meetings, but he has never been the guy -- at the front of the room making the hard costs. he has very little mention -- management experience. suddenly, he is president of the united states, leader of the free world, so my question is how does he do it? how does he decide? how does it make decisions and govern? >> richard miniter credits the president for many policy victories. the sunday, he will sit down and discuss his conclusions on "book tv." >> in the u.s. capitol, it is a live shot. the house is back in session. we will go live here on c-span. so that completes legislative work for the u.s. house this week and most of this fall. members had to their congressional districts to campaign for the november 6 elections. as for now, the chamber will not be back in session until mid november. you can follow the house live here on c-span as always. meanwhile, over in the u.s. senate, a short while ago, majority leader harry reid came to the

his entire life is at the law professor's lectern, at the committee table in an illinois state houseeetings, but he's never the guy in the front of the room deciding the hard cals. very little, if any, management experience, and then suddenly he is in the most important job in the world, president of the united states, leader of the free world. so my question was how does he do it? how does he decide? how does he make decisions? how does he ghorch. >> in leading from behind. the author credits obama's behind the scenes adviser for policy decisions. >> host: our coxs here with professors at columbia university continue on book tv on c-span2 and now we're joined by hem helen benedict, the author of "the lone low soldier." you start your book out with a quote, war happens to people one by one. what does that mean? >> guest: i was struck by the quote because i was following the war home to the heart of every individual fighter, which is the phrase i'm quoting from dh lawrence, and war went to individual involvement, where they be soldierses or civilians. it's a monster. that reaches deep