close relationship with israel medea benjamin a human rights campaigner says people should be concernedabout the nature of the meeting. apac is really a danger to our national security a pac is pushing the policies of a foreign government in israel which is not always in the interests of the united states and i should say is not always in the interests of the israelis either i think this push towards war with iran is disastrous for everybody in the region as well as us here in the united states we're looking at a conflagration of tremendous proportions so much so that there are those in the u.s. military that are trying to hard to stop this because they know how disastrous the u.s. getting into such a conflict would be in fact it would be very easy for iran to retaliate against u.s. embassies against u.s. troops that are stationed in many places around the world so i think that this push by apac is really something that all of us who are rational human beings and know that a war would be so disastrous have to pressure our president not to follow the lines of a pac and instead to pursue

this filibuster and what's next i'm joined by political activist and co-founder of code pink medea benjamin thank you so much for coming on and i think it's been my favorite part of last night was seeing the shout out ted cruz gave the code pink and the sooner the better you know i really thought this filibuster would go on and on and on and i thought that paul would be the single opposition to his nomination in this story and i was kind of shocked of just boom he's appointed now was this all political theater. well it's good political theater and it's political theater we need because i think the thing that it accomplished the best was getting this out in the open having so many americans learn about things they've never heard about before i mean have americans heard about signature strikes have they heard about us counting every male of military age as a combatant where we're using these drones have they heard about the killing of u.s. citizens overseas i think this was quite a lesson of course in the lesson in civics and unfortunate levison that according to our president and our. attorn

this filibuster and what's next i'm joined by political activist and co-founder of code pink medea benjamin thank you so much for coming on and i think it's been my favorite part of last night was seeing the shout out ted cruz gave to code pink in the scene and you know i really thought this filibuster would go on and on and on and i thought that paul would be the single opposition to his nomination in the story and i was kind of shocked of just boom he's appointed now was this all political theater. well it's good political theater and it's political theater we need because i think the thing that it accomplished the best was getting this out in the open having so many americans learn about things they've never heard about before i mean have americans heard about signature strikes have they heard about the u.s. counting every male of military age as a combatant where we're using these drones have they heard about the killing of u.s. citizens overseas i think this was quite a lesson of course in the lesson in civics and unfortunate levison that according to our president and our. turny gener

. >> more with medea benjamin on c-span's q and a. >> in his address, obama talks about the importants of easter. and republican -- talks about the keystone pipeline. >> for many americans, this is a sacred time of year. jewish families commemorate the triumph of fate over oppression. malia, sasha and i join to celebrate the resurrection of jesus christ and easter. these holy days give us the precious ability to slow down. christians we remember the sacrifice jesus made and extended the gift of salvation and we commit to following his example, loving our lord and savior and everyone as the child of god. those are at the heart of

. > more with medea benjamin sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> another judge advocate general of the army will talk about legal issues facing the military, including sexual assault, same-sex marriage, religious freedom, and women in combat. from furman university in south carolina, this is just under an hour. hallmarks of the american democratic experiment and one of the hallmarks of our constitutional tradition is that -- centuries as our public as a republic, we have debated fundamental questions that go to the core of our values and our american identity. we debate the meaning of the freedom of religion and the establishment of religion. we debate the meaning of freedom of speech and what equality means and how it translates into the quality and issues such as race or gender or sexuality. we debate the roles of the different branches of government, the role of the president as commander in chief and as the head of the executive branch, and the rules of congress and the courts and our complex system of checks and balances. , as much asbates their contentious and difficult th

territory well let's go live to washington and talk to one of the activists who attended the protests medea benjaminshe is a co-founder of human rights group global exchange and peace group code pink medea apart from the settlements issue what else is concerning you and what will you actually hoping to achieve by taking part in these protests. we want to show that there are married many americans who feel that apac is really a danger to our national security apac is pushing the policies of a foreign government in israel which is not always in the interests of the united states and i should say is not always in the interests of the israelis either i think this push towards war with iran is disastrous for everybody in the region as well as us here in the united states i also feel that the fact that the united states is going through an economic crisis where the budgets of every organization is being cut and yet apac wants to continue the u.s. spending of three point one billion dollars to the israeli government is something that many of us as americans don't think makes sense especially since israel i

. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night at 8:00. >> house democratic leader nancy pelosi weighed in on the defensive marriage act and predicted it would be ruled unconstitutional. she spoke with reporters for about 20 minutes. >> good afternoon. that was pretty exciting this morning. it was really, i believe, a dignified proceeding. the questions that were asked by the justices i thought were very evoked information and responses that i think were very constructive. this is as big as our constitution, as big as our country at self, something as personal as marriage in our country between same-sex parties. i had the privilege of being there with karen and amy. karen is a federal employee and she has a case at the court about whether her wife amy can --t benefits as a spouse as a of a federal employee. she was married in that window in california before prop 8 took away the opportunity to continue weddings in california. on the basis of what i heard, the questions of the justices, the response of the participants, i am very confident that doma will be struck down. it does not appear t

. >> more from code pink cofounder medea benjamin, sunday on c-span's "q&a." took the president until 2002 to develop an answer. the answer was to states for tuesday -- to states for two people, jewish state in palestinian state, but only when the palestinian state would be a decent, stable, peaceful, democratic, non-corrupt government. arafat hasmeans got to go. >> elliott abrams on the israeli-palestinian conflict, sunday at 10:00 eastern on c- span2. "washington journal" continues. the: gregory angelo is head of log cabin republicans. tell us about log cabin republicans. guest: log cabin republicans was founded in 1978 in response to ronald reagan and is opposition to an amendment that, not unlike a position eight, would have made it in for a teacher to be openly gay in schools. , at tremendous political risk, came out and said it was unnecessary, and he opposed it. after ronald reagan came out in opposition to it, the proposition failed. a local group of gay republicans founded a local chapter and wanted to pay all my to the roots of a quality that the roo

. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night at eight on c-span's q&a. >> the brookings institution hostedion yesterday with former afghanistan war commander general john allen. he discussed the u.s. and nato mission in that country. president obama except a general allen's request to retire from u.s. military in february to address family health issue. he's been replaced by general joseph dunford. this is the 90 minutes. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to brookings. my name is michael o'hanlon. as you all know, we are honored today to general john allen with us, the former commander of the international security assistance force in afghanistan until just last month when he compared 19 months in command. in just a moment i'm going to ask you to join me in welcoming general allen's home and thank him for his service but let me first summarize a couple of highlights from his career that i know many of your familiar with, when the histories of this period are written, as they are already being of course, general allen will without doubt be one of the handful of most important generals in b

medea benjamin sunday night at 8:00 p.m. "washington journal" continues. now on your screen is susan apold. what is say nurse practitioner? that: it registered nurse can diagnose and prescribe physicians.h like --son bring a nursing model we also bring a nursing model. we are nurses and first. we are taught to take care of the whole patient and take into consideration their family background, their perceptions and their knowledge level about health and illness. we bring an extra level of care. we have advanced education and training. host: how much schooling goes into being a nurse practitioner? guest: four years. we also must have a master's degree in nursing. there is a growing trend to have a -- host: you are right doctorate of nursing? guest: i have a ph.d. up.s try to clear this a ph.d. isn't academic research is an. -- a ph.d. degree.c research to gra as folks left after clinical experience. host: how many years of schooling have you had? guest: i have a master's degree and a post master's certificate. rs ave a post maste certificate and a ph.d. 8-10

. >> more with medea benjamin on sunday night at 8:00 p.m.n c-span "q&a." >> now, frank rose, the deputy assistant secretary of state for defense policy. he discusses the need for an international code of conduct for outerspace. he said president obama's administration is engaging the international community for such a measure. this is about 45 minutes. >> thank you all for joining us this morning. thank you for joining us. i am the senior fellow and we are very pleased to welcome frank rose for space and defense policy. now, for those of you who don't know us well, we are a global think tank. we have our mothership in london, and also in other places. the dialogues of the middle east and other dialogues of the asia pacific have been recorded. we also publish survival, international affairs, the 2013 addition of which was once your last week. and some of which are on display. this is a critical part of our network. >> we are here today to hear from mr. frank. frank is responsible for defense and military space policy. prior to joining the dep

. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night on c-span's "q&a."ast hour of "washington journal" on wednesdays, we take a look at a recent magazine article. this radical, written by terrance frank arruda -- garance franke-ruta. how are women performing in higher education and why? doing women are extraordinarily well in a higher education environment. since the 1980's, they have been the majority of college environments. in the last couple of years, the last decade, they passed men in terms of masters degrees and phd's acquired as well. the female population has done extremely well in higher education. host: how are they scoring? guest: on average, higher than men. host: what was the role of government in making that happen? guest: the programs that were instituted in the 1970's to create a quality -- equality within the higher education environment -- this article is an ideas -- cle rather than a strict it includes certain hypotheses of mine. because the government took this role in -- and continues to regulate higher education -- host: title ix.

medea benjamin sunday night at 8:00 on c-span's "q&a." >> monday night, and harrison whose husband dieder one month in austin -- in office. who becomes the president second wife. >> julia was the madonna of first ladies. she loved publicity. she actually posed as a model at a time when that was frowned upon. the rows ofn as long island. by all accounts, she was the witching. which 57-year-e old john tyler. loved being first lady. she had a job for less than a year. marine band to play here -- help to the chief. it was also julia tyler who greeted her guests sitting on a platform with purple plumes in her hair, as if she had receded to that queenly washington-- that rejected. >> we will include your questions and comments about these three first ladies monday night live at 9:00 eastern on c- span. also on c-span radio and at c- span.org. journal"ngton continues. is a: pedro de costa journalist with reuters. he is here to talk about a payroll tax and consumer spending. we will be getting into how consumers have responded to the payroll tax resuming to its higher levels after the 2012 fisc

. >> more with medea benjamin sunday night at 8 on c-span's "q&a." >> and a live puckture there from the -- picture there from the national press club where a civil rights lawyer is going to be honored for her achievements. this event hosted by trice edney communications, the discussion on voting rights and civil rights, also featuring speakers from the naacp. trice edney is the former editor in the chief. our live coverage gets underway now on c-span2. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] knox "money rocks". [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] >> good afternoon. if i could just have everybody to be seated, please. we're getting started. thank you very much. good afternoon. my name is hazel trice edney. i'm president and ceo of trice edney communications, llc, and editor-in-chief of the trice edney news wire. i welcome you to our third annual states women for justice luncheon, honing the vision: the