joining me now to dispute that is lynn mark, the executive director of pennsylvaniaians for modern courts, it's a watchdog group. thank you for being here. pennsylvania is one of these nine saits in gray where you have partisan elections for judges. >> right. >> the fact is most people who are entitled or qualified to vote for a judge are not going to ever appear in fronts of that judge. and the concept of electing judges was seen when it started as being more fair than the old system where people got appointed and no one was accountable for their appointments. >> there was a huge change back in the 1850s. that's a long time ago, with the jacksonian democracy where these systems, judges were appointed. >> and people didn't think that seemed fair. >> and then they went to elected judges. the controversy has really increased more and more as there's been big money in judicial races. there's always been big money and growing money, the executive and legislative branch but there's more and more coming into judicial races and it's even increasing after the citizens united case. >> and the bott

lynn grew up in ohio. she was the baby of the family, the only girl. here she is with her two older brothers, jon and mark. but lynn was not like them. >> she was a tentative girl, whereas my brother and i were very outgoing. >> reporter: their father died ung. mother. >> co-dependent. love/hate. call it what you want. >> reporter:s.he got marrio,, brand-new husband. it didn't work out. ended pretty quickly. but then one day she went to a bau ll game, dodgers versus somebody, who knows? and uhe found him. the right guy. her guy. ed s41ockner. he was almost 14 years older than she was but didn't seem to matter. didn't hurt either that fred was a very successful man. anyway, this time it clicked. they had an intimate wedding on a boat off the california coast. the captain did the honors, and they lived alone together in that house in bixby knolls until finally, after 11 years, they had a son who grew up to be charlie. as parents, they encouraged him to try new things. >> it was one of the olympics. and i turned around to my parents and go, i'm going to do that. and i think like a month later i enrolled in g

considerable our schools that was an excited day foyer san francisco and the benny hoff the benny hoffs mark and lynn as well as the salesforce are pubically stated they want a 10 year or beyond commitment to san francisco publics which is good news for the students so thank you thank you for the opportunity to congratulate our eric k community school last night our deputy superintendant and social combauld attended a farewell summertime for 43 is the and teachers from china now that is a yearly exchange and our students will be visiting them in china later this year but after spending a couple of weeks in east coast and west coast and a list of university those students from china and their adult sponsors spent a few days attending class right here with the sister school and the classmates if you've not been there everyone cooks and everything is really good so thank you to the students that hosted those students if china and part of the exchange our students will be visiting them in china later this semester i'd like to thank you for the opportunity for a quick shout outs to congratulate the live a

lynne cheney. book tv on c-span2, television or serious readers. >>> hurricane katrina was ten years ago. to mark the anniversary, we'll cover a day-long symposium in new orleans to evaluate the city's recovery. with conversations on disaster preparedness, housing, education, the environment, race, and neighborhood development. hosted by the atlantic magazine, live monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> each week american history tv's "reel america" brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. on march 8th, 1965, 3500 marines were deployed to vietnam marking the beginning of the u.s. ground war. by the end of 1965, almost 200,000 americans were in the country. when the war ended in 1975, nearly 3 million americans had served in the conflict and more than 58,000 lost their lives. up next, the screaming eagles in ves nam, a u.s. army the big picture episode documenting the activities of the 101st airborne division from its arrival in the spring of 1965 through january of 1967. >> okay. move out. ♪ >> from out of the skies over vietnam come the screaming eagles, the h

considerable our schools that was an excited day foyer san francisco and the benny hoff the benny hoffs mark and lynn as well as the salesforce are pubically stated they want a 10 year or beyond commitment to san francisco publics which is good news for the students so thank you thank you for the opportunity to congratulate our eric k community school last night our deputy superintendant and social combauld attended a farewell summertime for 43 is the and teachers from china now that is a yearly exchange and our students will be visiting them in china later this year but after spending a couple of weeks in east coast and west coast and a list of university those students from china and their adult sponsors spent a few days attending class right here with the sister school and the classmates if you've not been there everyone cooks and everything is really good so thank you to the students that hosted those students if china and part of the exchange our students will be visiting them in china later this semester i'd like to thank you for the opportunity for a quick shout outs to congratulate the live a

flight with a social media powerhouse is planning to do w >> facebook will lynn test flights of new drone before the end of the year. marked plane to his facebook page. unmanned aircraft is designed to provide internet access to remote regions. it has the wing span of a boeing 737 but weighs less than a car. the plane can stay in the air for months at a time. zuckerberg says this is an affordable way to connect the world. >>> a virginia family is outraged after being kicked off a commercial flight because their two year olson was scared. the family was traveling from boston to baltimore on monday morning on jet blue. they say it was the first time their son his very own seat on plane and as the plane was taxiing he got frightened and wanted to sit with him and started crying. his mom says several flight attendants told her to put him back in his seat and even as she was trying to do so she says the next thing she knew the plane was turning around. >> we were treated like we were criminals. i spent about five, seven minutes settling my son down getting gnome stop crying and when i finally did that, my husband said, they'r

marked classified. >> joining me now, once again, lynn sweet, washington bureau chief, and matt lewis for the daily callernton just cannot seem to dodge this issue. on friday night, she even appeared to make a joke about it. what is the right way to go about this? >> the joke is in the side. you can't get rid of the snap shot about the joke, or any joke. stop the drip, drip, drip. she finally turned over the server. perhaps if there's anything else to turn over, or disclose, i think we're at the end of the road. but just try -- this is classic damage control. i'm surprised they didn't do more of it, to try and get ahead of just the facts, especially since everyone knew the issue of turning the physical server over was out there. >> okay. i want to ask you, though, i'm sure you read the article in "the new york times" that talks about potentially history repeating itself. are you concerned, or do you see echoes of previous hillary clinton presidential campaign here today? >> to me or matt? >> to you. >> okay. well, what i see is that she needs kind of to get out of this, to have the clean start for this ne

lynn cheney is our guest in september. mark in ocala florida. caller: hey peter and hey met da, how are you guys? >> guest: good thanks. >> caller: i want to thank you both for working on sunday. i'm a union carpenter so we pay attention to stuff like that. i'm an 11 year veteran of the marine corps and is would like to thank you on behalf of all veterans that feel like i do that your courage as an american has a lot of physical courage to it and in addition to other types of courage and as a brave male i want to thank you for your brave physical courage. i would also like to thank you for your successful work of getting the truth out to americans, and when the call screener asked what question i would ask you have a thousand things i could talk to you about, but in my experience, medea, on a personal note issue voted for president carter and i served in the united states state department as a marine security guard in central america in the '70s, and there i was also educated. when saw the difference between the haves and the have-nots it was as

lynn. we'll being right back. >> said it, august way ninth marks the 10th >> saturday august 29th marks the tenth anniversary ofurricane katrina one of the five deadliest storms in u.s. history. c-span's special coverage begins live today at 10:00 a.m. eastern with the atlantic magazine's conference in new orleans. and all day event featuring officials, authors and community leaders. at evening at 8:00 more from the atlantic conference with new orleans based poets, activists and others. tuesday night at 8:00 c-span's 2006 tour of new orleans. and then a house hearing featuring new orleans citizens. >> they told us they would take us to shelters where we could get help and get seniors to help. and they loaded us up on these military trucks. then they declared the city of new orleans and the parishes a war zone and it still didn't sink in we were the prisoners of war. >> on wednesday night at 8:00, 2006 tour of saint bernard parish. >> that's your whole life gone. nothing rubble left. your friends family everybody is gone. now it's going year later and still your family and friends you don't see any more that you

lynn a. >> thanks so much forgetting up, hair, make up everything looks great. >> thank you what looks better are dessert. markr's motto here is life is so uncertain we need to eat dessert first. what have you made for us here. this looks good. >> this is our bread basket, freshly bake breads. today we are offering coconut bread, lemon blue bring bread and man get coconut pecan bread. >> we have had some bread. look at this delicious dish. >> this is i strawberry grand cheese cake and then we have a tira messu and something delicious our ice cream sandwich cookie. >> look at that. >> that is ice cream. >> i make the ice cream here. >> look at that. >> what do we have here. >> that is our fruit crumble seasonal fruit crumble to i day is blueberry peach and check late cake served hot so when you cut in to it, it comes out mike and alex we will watch it. >> and then. >> look at that. >> bob, 6:19. >> lava. >> guess what i'm here all morning long. you got it, keep them coming. we will take one of these of these in a to go platter back to mike and alex. >> i hook you guys up. >> homemade ice cream. >> back to you i

lynne cheney. book tv on c-span2, television or serious readers. >>> hurricane katrina was ten years ago. to markthe anniversary, we'll cover a day-long symposium in new orleans to evaluate the city's recovery. with conversations on disaster preparedness, housing, education, the environment, race, and neighborhood development. hosted by the atlantic magazine, live monday at 10:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. >>> each week american history tv's "reel america" brings you archival films that help tell the story of the 20th century. on march 8th, 1965, 3500 marines were deployed to vietnam marking the beginning of the u.s. ground war. by the end of 1965, almost

lynn to talk about the separation of church and state. we will be right back. ♪ >> said it, august way ninth marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrinaone of the five deadliest storms in u.s. history. c-span live coverage begins today at the atlantic magazine conference in new orleans, an all-day event communityauthors and leaders. tuesday night at 8:00, c-span's 2006 tour of new orleans hurricane damage and recovery efforts. and, e-house hearing featuring new orleans citizens experiences during the storm. >> they told us they would take us to shelters. they will us up on these military traps. they declared the city of new parish and jefferson's war zone. it didn't sink in that we were prisoners of war. >> you can't describe it. that's your whole life gone. not only her house, but your community. your friends, family, everybody gone. now, it will be one year later, and yo you still don't see famiy and friends that you used to see. is a hell of a feeling. >> followed by to town hall meeting in new orleans. voted for you. to represent me on the local level. i don't know where else to go. i don't know what else to do. >> thursday night

lynn. she is in cherry hill, reporting clear skies, there as well. 70 degrees, she says it is feeling fresh outside. i like that. feeling good. one more, out to the pinelands we go, markrting generally just couple of clouds overhead in chatsworth in at 63 degrees at this hour. i want to show you frontal boundery will start to get things changing in our atmosphere little more so today. so storm scan, definitely showing that you have got some heavier thunderstorms shall specially over the cincinnati area at this point. but you see how things have been fizzling lit bit? much more robust thunderstorms over central and northern indianna throughout the last couple of hours. but, by the time this reaches us, we are talking scattered shower or under this earl storm as perhaps locally heavy granted but nothing terribly widespread. also notice, just over the big bends area, of florida actually out over the water in the gulf, some heavy thunderstorms and rain, currently moving out over that area. the same issue that was responsible for actually delaying the buccaneers training camp, down in tampa over the course of the weekends we've got our own training camp underway. tomorrow

lynn cheney. book tv, television for serious readers. >>> founded in 1865, the nation is america's oldest weekly magazine still in circulation today. to mark the magazine's 150th anniversary, publisher victor navasky and katrina vanden heuvel had a discussion with timothy naftali. this is 1 hour and 20 minutes. >> i'm sure i don't need to introduce the people beside me. we are honored that nyu is about to be the home of the editorial records and many other records of "the nation" during the period that victor navasky was editor, publisher, and from the current period, when katrina vanden heuvel is the leader of "the nation." it's a great, great privilege, to have the records of a journal of opinion. because the strength of our democracy, i believe, rests on the survival of opinions and the opportunity for the expression of those opinions. so to be in a position, to protect forever this material, is a great, great privilege. we now have the opportunity to learn some of the back story to the materials and to the magazine, which is celebrating its 150th anniversary this year. so i promised victor that i would start by asking him how the heck

lynn, author of requested god and government." we'll be right back. >> saturday, august 29 of march the third an-- >>> saturday, august 29th, marks the 10th anniversary of hurricane katrina, one of the five deadliest storms in u.s. history. c-span's coverage begins today at 11:00 a.m. an all day event featuring community leaders. more at 8:00 with new orleans based poe et cetera, activists and others. tuesday night at 8:00, c-span's tour of new orleans, hurricane damage recovery efforts. at 9:30, a 2005 house hearing featuring new orleans citizens describing their experiences during and after the storms. >> they told us this he would take us to shelters where we could get help and get the seniors to help. they loaded us up on these military trucks. then, they declared the city of new orleans, orleans parish and jefferson parish a war zone and it still didn't sink in we were the prisoners of war. on wednesday night at 8:00, c-span's tour of hurricane damage and recovery at saint bernard parish in louisiana. >> that's your whole life gone, completely, nothing but cement left and rubble. not only your house but your whole community. all your friends, yo

lynne cheney. look tv on c-span 2. television for serious readersøÑ >>> "washington journal" continues. >> next we'll take up our spotlight on magazine series. this week focus og a politico magazine article by contributor markthe pentagon's fight over fighting china about some of the political pentagon infighting over the best way to combat china. mark perry is with us on "washington journal." what prompted you to write the article? >> this is kind of a below the radar in washington terms real fight between the services, army, navy, air force. i began my career as a journalist looking at that fight. my first book is called "four stars" on the joint chiefs of staff and budget infighting and strategies. i thought it would be time to return to that. the new doctrine that doctrines how the u.s. will fight in the future was a real fight. an interesting one. >> this air sea doctrine. what does it cover? >> it's a concept developed by the air force and navy to respond to threats from area of denial and weapons that are deployed by countries like china and iran. and it's a concept that's a post war on terrorism concept that really focuses on the strength of the army or rather that the air force and navy have togeth