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m-48. they had about 240 of them. c-span who started... >> guest: that was the most advanced tank at the time. c-span: who started the '67 war? >> guest: well, i think it's important to keep in mind, brian, that this is a war that nobody -- very few people wanted and nobody anticipated. c-span: who's prime minister? >> guest: prime minister is levi eshkol. c-span: who is the defense minister? >> guest: the defense minister is levi eshkol as well up until a few days before the war when moshe dayan is brought in as the defense minister. c-span: and what had he been doing? >> guest: he had been in an opposition party to the government with ben gurion. ben gurion had broken away from the labor party to form his own party and had been a very vituperative, acerbic critic of the israel government of levi eshkol. c-span: was it a coalition government? >> guest: it was a coalition government but not with ben gurion in it. c-span: who was the chief of staff of the military? >> guest: the chief of staff of the military was yitzhak rabi

c-span 3. we'll come back to the omni cher m motel in downtown washington for more on white house working familieshis afternoon. president obama is scheduled to speak about 1:40 p.m. eastern. later wrap up comments from first lady michelle obama. that's scheduled for 5:30. you can watch both live right here on c-span 3. missouri democratic senator claire mccaskill hosting another hearing this afternoon looking into campus sexual assaults. syndicated columnist george will recently wrote a column on the topic which generated lots of discussion. here's a brief clip of a conversation we recently had with mr. will. >> george will, college has become the victims of progressivism. >> yes. >> and i think the day we're reporting this, the st. louis post dispatch announced they've dropped your column. >> yes, they have. they now how to appreciate the rebel. but -- but this is my job is when dubious statistics become the basis of dubious and dangerous abandonment of due process, to step in and say, take a deep breath, everybody. what's happened is, the administration has said that 1 in 5 women in college exp

m t c and the state are all chipping in for the 76 million dollar project. >> that sounds awful. that's going to ruin our view. >>reporter: minimal changes and the appearance of the span will not change. but for others, it's not about the look. it's about the money. >> yeah, that's -- that's -- it's a waste of money. it's a waste of taxpayer dollars. it could be better spent, there's a lot more that could be done for the city. there could be more programs for the youth and things like that. >> i think that idea is completely ridiculous. that means they're not going to jump off the bridge. >> used for something else. >> sure. >> people that's homeless, people that's losing jobs like veterans, pick up two jobs just to make one job. >> a lot of things we could spend that money on other things than something in case people decide to jump off. >>reporter: certainly, some heated opinions there. it is important to note that last year, 46 people jumped off of the golden gate bridge. in san francisco, j. r. stone, kron 4 news. >>> alive tonight after his car was hit by an amtrak train, the collision happened around 10:00 o'clock last night near the avenue railroad crossing. th

c-span networks that.s0 will be early afternoon. here's one from daniel new howser from "roll call" -- columbia, maryland, next up. nick on the independent line. hi. in 2012 m -- i think election, there was a big ron tol -- the libertarians need get more into the republicans and try to get -- the libertarians need to get these positions instead of like having liberated e need a government and the government is way too big. by putting bigger government, we're just going to get bigger government. >> nick, thank you for that comment. this is chicago. pat is on the republican line. caller: thank you for taking my call. i just wanted to say i think the republicans get a bad -- a bad break on all of this. they vote on bills, go through the senate, harry reid tables it and a democratic president, what can they get done? i mean, i don't see why everybody is blaming the republicans. i think they should blame harry reid and obama. but plus there's a woman who called earlier who said that people who want to impeach obama are doing it only because he's black and i was very offended by that. i didn't think that was a fair comment. >> appreciate that. back to some commen

." >> the new c-span book, "sundays at eight," includes kenneth feinberg, who oversaw the 9/11 victim compensation fund. try to justify my program on the basis of the loss of the vic m'svictims, i 9/11 yes, 93n why world trade center no. the only way you justify this program as a special carveout is from the perspective of the nation. was,ognition that 9/11 along with the american civil war, pearl harbor, maybe the assassination of president , its impact on the american people was such that this was really a response from demonstrate the solidarity and cohesiveness of the american people towards these victims. of ouread more conversation with kenneth feinberg and other conversations in c-span's "sundays at eight." now available for father's day gift from your favorite bookseller. >> "washington journal" continues. the congressional reporter ,rom politico, kathleen hicks joining us this morning, thank you. guest: thank you for having me on. host: what do you think will be got -- what do you think that they will get done in the house and congress? finishingy should be up the appropriations process. eric cantor put it out there in june on appropriations, talking surprisi