host: michael daulton with the audubon society, thank you for being with us. guest: thank you for having me. host: coming up, david drucker, at 8:35, donna hopkins. and drew mccarthy who wrote "the grand jihad." thanks for being here today. we'll be back tomorrow. . [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2010] >> our guest on "newsmakers" this week is the agriculture secretary tom villsak joining us by connection from iowa i, his home, where he just hosted a rural summit. let me start with your midwestern summit on the economy. tell us, you've got some big goals for communities and the agriculture economy. can you give our national audience a sense of where you're leading this effort and why. >> sure. the summit was an opportunity for us to educate america about the important role that rural america plays for all of us. it is the supply of inexpensive affordable quality food, it is the supply of water that we drink and rely on. it helps to make us energy independent and at the same time it's a

satellite corp. 2010] >> tomorrow on "washington journal," jeremy mayer, juliet moringiello, and michael daulton. he is a senior director with the ottoman society, and he will discuss the migratory bird treaty act and how it relates to endangered wildlife. "washington journal" is live sunday on c-span. >> this weekend on "booktv," and noted feminist and author from the university of chicago has written or contributed to more than 20 books on liberal education and other subjects. join our discussion with your phone calls and e-mails on sunday at noon on c-span2. >> next, president obama nominates his choice for national intelligence director -- james clapper. if confirmed, he replaces dennis blair who resigned last month. replace dennis blair who resigned last he would be the fourth director since congress created the office five years ago to oversee the nation's 16 intelligence agencies. this is 10 minutes. >> i have no higher priority than the safety and security of the american people. in the world, we must protect ourselves from threats like terrorists, weapons of mass destruction, transnatio

host: our guest is michael daulton, the audubon society. is congress considering changes?uest: congress is considering one significant change to the law, which is not related to the oil spill at all. they are thinking of increasing penalties in the migratory bird act, because out in oregon some lobbyists were deliberately and intentionally killing protected raptors. when they went to court, the judge really slapped them on the wrist with a misdemeanor. the penalty -- grusomely killing a protected raptor was the same as misusing the symbol of smoky the bear. the misdemeanor misdemeanor charge was not appropriate for the grusome violations that were occurring. so congress does have a change to the law that's being considered now, which the audubon society is starting to support, which would increase penalties for the kinds of intentional violations of the act that we've keen seen out in oregon. >> are there changes the audubon society would like to see put in place due to what's happened in the gulf? guest: we are not advocating anything at ttis point. from a legislative poi