mark mclaughlin, starting with you? >> sure. >> thanks for having us here today. it is working.here was four leading companies, all very much involved in the battle for cyber security, a bunch of presidents and ceos who have known each other quite some time coming together to say in the cyber security bat physical we can share threat intelligence information we would usually consider competitive to our companies that's going to be to the good of our customers because the more information we have, think of it like crowd sourcing for intelligence information, the stronger offering to ours customers will be and that's a big way we can get ahead in the cyber security battle. we've been doing it now a number of months, working very well and we look forward to the continuation of this and growing the alliance. >> michael, what have you been able to turn up ins terms of threats and be as specific as you can be, that you wouldn't have been able to otherwise? s has this been preventative? have you been able to see breaches that took place that might have taken longer otherwise? >> withou

c-span: you called mark shields and john mclaughlin, the two radio -- i mean, the television talk show hosts, loudmouths on television. >> guest: well, i did at one time. you know, if you watch john, john doesn`t give much credence to any other person`s opinion, and shields is just in your face all the time. so if you have those interviews, you don`t get much time to express. you maybe get banged on, but you never really get to express your opinion or your opinion is never really taken into focus. c-span: you give us an insider`s view of what happened around newt gingrich and the attempted coup. start that story. >> guest: well, i was whipping. i was chief deputy whip. we had an appropriations bill on the house floor, and i couldn`t find tom, tom delay, anywhere, because we had a problem. we had the coal folks that wanted to keep coal gasification funds in place, and we -- there was an amendment out there for -- to do away with the fire roads into the national forests environmentalists tried to do that. the people who were -- montana and the western folks that needed to keep their fore

mclaughlin avenue. police detained and questioned people as they canvassed the area but have not named a suspect or motive. >>> today marks the sixth anniversary of the death of oscar grand, shot by a bart police officer at the fruit vale station in oakland. family friends and supporters gathered there today for a vigil. christie smith is live in oakland where the vigil just ended. >> reporter: that's right, this vigil did just end, it went on about four hours. oscar grant's mother was here family members, also politicians in the crowd. many who were here talked about how with recent hey-profile events across the country it shows there's still work to be done. >> justice! >> reporter: there were speeches songs and calls for change at a vigil for oscar grant. in the six years since his death, his mother says she sees a difference. >> i wanted to say that change is a fight in me to bring about an awareness that black lives matter that all lives matter and that all should be treated equally. >> the crowd gathered outside the fruit vale bart station where grant was shot and killed by a then-bart police officer who was later c