>> nancy bird: go ahead. >> wertheim: yeah. >> bird: this is real-- this is real life.ed in new york city because of the storm." >> nancy bird: it's the truth. >> bird: thanks, mom. >> wertheim: mom was there when sue was the first pick in the 2002 w.n.b.a. draft. the league w five years old and still trying to find its identity. bird was going through a similar exercise. >> bird: i was kind of, like, looking myself in the mirror, like, "no, no, no, no, you're not gay. this is not you." so nobody in that moment, not my family, not my friends, nobody knew anything about that part of my life. >> wertheim: what do you think was-- was holding you back? >> bird: i don't have a specific story of someone telling me to hide this. i just kind of knew. like the w.n.b.a. was kind of, like, a "sex sells" type of vibe, right? where we were feminine and we were putting that out into the universe. >> wertheim: again, the basketball spoke for itself. it took bird only three seasons to win a w.n.b.a. championship. her starting salary: less than $60,000; roughly one percent of the averag

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. >> we will feature first ladies, lady bird johnson, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words, saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 3, or listen on the podcast wherever you get your podcast. >>> good evening, everybody, and welcome to the law of merchants. i will be the host this evening. thank you for coming and our guest today is hannah farber. i know you have a power point to get going, and you might answer this during that, but we are a group of history people here, and thank you for coming, and i am really excited to make insurance fun because i read your book and it's really interesting. >> all right. we good to go? >> yes. >> i am hannah farber, and this is my first book that just came out two or three weeks, i think. before you all have a chance to back away, let me explain myself a little bit as i talk about insurance. this is my book. there's a couple ways i would talk about what this book is really about. this is a book about finance in the age of the american founding, not just the american revoluti

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. >> and c-span's online video library will feature lady bird johnson, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >>> now we're going to shift a bit moving to our next session, a panel on the evolving relationship between germany and the soviet union from the inner war years through the second world war. we have dr. ian johnson, the assistant professor of military professor at the university of notre dame. pretty cool. and dr. sean mcmeekin. welcome. we'll provide a new interpretation on this topic and then our very own dr. nick mueller before opening up to questions and answers. with that over to you nick. >> well, good afternoon. it's great to see everybody again. it's been my pleasure to welcome our distinguished speakers here. first-time speakers ought our international world war ii conference ian johnson and sean

we will for -- we will feature lady bird johnson, betty ford, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, laura bush obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words. watch saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2 or listen to the series is a podcast on the c-span now mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >> "washington journal" continues. host: at the top of the hour ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky will be addressing congress, 9:00 a.m. eastern time and you can watch our coverage on c-span, c-span.org or if you are out and about on your day, watch on our video app, c-span now. this is a room where the lawmakers are beginning to gather, both house and senate lawmakers, only lawmakers in this room this morning. it is in the capitol visitor center, not one of the chambers and they will hear virtually from mr. zelensky. he has addressed other bodies of government and he started out with european leaders and then he went and addressed virtually the parliaments in the united kingdom, and then yesterday he went before the canadian government and received a standing ovation be

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. >> we will feature lady bird johnson, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy reagan, hillary clinton, lauraobama and milani a trump. watch first ladies in their own words saturday at 2 p.m. on american history tv on c-span2 or listen to the series on c-span now. you think this is just a community center? it's more than that. partnering with a thousand centers to create wi-fi enabled listings so students from low-income families get the tools they need to be ready for anything. comcast supports c-span as a public service along with of these other television providers giving you a front row seat to democracy. >> able to make daylight savings times prominent tuesday with unanimous consent. the bipartisan sunshine protection act was introduced by sanders marco rubio of florida and ed markey of massachusetts and now heads to the house for approval. >> senatores from florida. as an legislative session i asked consent the committee on commerce, science and transportation discharge from consideration of making daylight savings time permanent in the consideration. the clerk will report. >> a bill to

. >> and c-span's online video library will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, betty ford, nancygan, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch "first ladies: in their own words" saturday at two :00 p.m. eastern, on c-span two, or listen to the podcast on the free c-span now mobile app, or wherever you get your podcasts. >> now available for preorder in the c-span shop, c-span's 2022 congressional directory. go there today to order a copy of the congressional directory. this spiral-bound book is a copy of your guide to the federal government, with contact information for every member of congress, including biontech in mid he assignments. preorder your copy today at c-span.org, or scan a code with your smart phone. every purchase helps support c-span's nonprofit operation. >> washington journal continues. host: joining us this morning is gretta goodwin, from the government accountability office . the gao recently conducted a report looking at u.s. capitol security following the january 6 attack. ms. goodwin, what was the scope of your report? guest: good morning and thank

also, new information coming on and how it nancy pelosi and her husband making big bucks on stock trade. while speaker pelosi is an office birdnd it was disturbing report drug cartels, violent ones, operating inside the u.s. taking over a big section of u.s. state too. i am elizabeth macdonald. "the evening edit" starts now. ♪ ♪ ♪ we begin with stocks ending sharply lower today for the economy is rebounding from shut down accented 78000 jobs, this is still for a million fewer jobs versus pre-pandemic. 22 million jobs were destroyed and shut down. now the president acknowledging today inflation at center.5% is eating up average hourly wage growth at 5.1%. note bouts of the state of the union address just 35% of voters approve of biden in a new civics pole. and now this, russia bombs a nuclear power plant in ukraine igniting fears of a new chernobyl. the iaea and you nuclear watchdogs continue to report no sign of radiation leaking out. it is about 1:00 o'clock in the morning he's got more good to see you mike. >> good to see you as well. the nuclear power plant is in a town it is about three hours north of the coast there is a

. >> we will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy reagan, hillarylinton, laura bush, michelle obama and melania trump. watch first ladies in their own words on american history tv on c-span two or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app. >> washington journal continues. host: two reporters join us to talk about the week ahead. siobhan hughes covers congress for the wall street journal. joey garrison covers the white house for usa today. thanks for giving us your time this morning. guest: thanks for having us. host: what do you suspect the white house does as of today and into this week in response to the president's statements in warsaw concerning vladimir putin? guest: president biden unexpectedly to aides and white house officials in his speech in warsaw with the comments this man cannot remain in power, that was in ad lib.. but the white house quickly sought to back trap. -- backtrack. an official clarified he was referring to a good not continue to exercise power in the ukraine region. i think we will probably see mor

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. >> and the online video library will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, betty ford, carter, nancygan, hillary clinton, laura bush, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two, or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now radio app or wherever you get your podcasts. c-span offers a variety of podcasts that have something for every listener. weekdays, washington today gives you the latest from the nation's capital and every week, book notes plus has in-depth interviews with writers about interviews. and our occasional serious features extensive conversations with historians about their lives and work. many of our television programs are also available as podcast. you can find them all on the c-span now mobile app, or wherever you get your podcasts. washington journal continues. host: our guest is the senior fellow and geopolitics team head. thanks for joining us on the program today. both scolded a little bit about your organization, what does it do as far as looking at energy issues, and who is financing it?

. >> and c-span online video library will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, betty ford, rosalynn carter, nancy hillary clinton, maura busch, michelle obama, and melania trump. watch saturdays at 2:00 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span two, or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app over every the podcasts. washington journal continues. host: if you want to text us your thoughts during this open forum, (202) 748-8003 is the number to do so. a meeting resulted in the committee deciding to hold two former trump aide's in criminal contempt. committee voted unanimously to recommend the charges against peter navarro. bass will soon vote on whether to refer them to the justice department for prosecution. that news came as a federal judge in california was ordered to turn over documents to the house committee investigating january 6 in a ruling that concludes that former president trump "more likely than not committed crimes to obstruct the counting of electoral votes." wrote memos outlining options in which mike pence could change the outcome of the 2020 preside

. >> and c-span's on line video library will feature first ladies lady bird johnson, betty word, rose listen carter, nancy reagan. hillary clinton. laura bush, michelle obama, and marshall. watch first ladies, in their own words, saturdays at 2 okay p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span2. or listen to the series as a podcast on the c-span now free mobile app or wherever you get your podcasts. >>> at least six presidents recorded conversations while in office. hear many of those conversations on c-span's new podcast, presidential recordings. >> season one focuses on the presidency of lyndon johnson. you will hear about the 1964 civil rights act, the 1964 presidential campaign, the gulf of torchingan incident, the march on selma, and the war in vietnam. not everyone knew they were being recorded. >> certainly, johnson's secretaries knew, because they were tasked with transcribing many of those conversations. in fact, they were the ones who made sure that the conversations were taped, as johnson would signal to them through an open door between his office and theirs. >> you will also hear some blunt