you're speaking to nancy cook. will put you on hold and try to come back to you. next up is chris in memphis, tennessee on our line for democrats. caller: i disagree with your speech.ctive i am unemployed and not by choice. looking at my social media, things made of several billion dollars for people. they are not offering one opportunity in return. in closing, our president himself and his committee. i think you should make a correction to your comment anduse people are tired people like you are honest. i am so sorry to hear you are unemployed. i think it is a terrible situation. i wasn't meaning to imply that people aren't trying to find jobs. a lot of people are sending out dozens of resumes all the time. there've not been able to find work are depicted as a problem that the parties are really trying to work on. they're going to need to work it on before the economy and get back to its full health. host: our next caller is ellen in saint augustine, florida on the line for independents. caller: i think it is government regulations and government overreach. there

host: our guest is nancy cook. you can call in -- the next call from some north carolina on our democrats line. caller: my name is james. i am really concerned with -- everybody is saying unemployment is at a stable level. you cannot say it is 7.5. you have always got to say it is 20 points with everybody dropped out now. a long time ago, they would give you what the unemployment rate was and that was it. there is always a "but" now. that makes people think we are not making no progress. 80 years ago, we are getting in unemployment report saying unemployment was nine points and there were no "buts." guest: the caller is expressing the topline unemployment number everyone talks about does not necessarily give a full picture of what the jobs market looks like. so the economy may have added 175,000 jobs, but the thing is there is still a ton of people and a ton of different groups of people who have a much higher unemployment rate than the top line indicates. african-americans have an unemployment rate of 12%. few hav

some other retail outlets from around the country that may not be as accessible, >> before that, nancy cook with the national journey to talk about the economy and how lawmakers planned to dress poverty. -- address poverty. the headlines, your calls, facebook comments, live starting at seven :00 on c-span. we will be live tomorrow from the center of american progress with a look at afghan elections with bob casey. those elections are about a month away. he will be talking about the drawdown of u.s. forces. at 2:30 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. a criminalt have investigation role. we have an enforcement role. we enforce the federal securities laws to make sure wall street abides by the rules. we also write the rules, by the way, for wall street. we do not have the criminal authority. we have the power to bring civil action, civil fraud action and negligence actions against those who violate the federal securities laws. we cannot send them right to jail, but we can assess civil penalties. is not asof penalties high as we would like it to be. commitrequire those who wrongdoing stooges scorch their

i have a question for nancy cook.he mentioned multiple times about the political will in the capital. it seems to be a great disconnect between the political will of people in the capital and the american people. she couldring if mention if she knows what the political will is of the people on the hill and why they have not done anything in years? thank you. capitol hill has done a few things. they reached a budget agreement that save jobs. the government shutdown this fall -- that was great with the democratic senator patty murray in washington, a real leader in the democratic party at this point, and paul ryan. there have been a few instances where people have done things. with the political will question, it is not necessarily because the two parties do not want to do things. the roadblock is that they cannot agree on how to do things. they both talked a lot up in the past few months about unemployment insurance and anti-poverty programs. it is not that people do not have ideas and it is not that there is not a ton

let me invite to the stage nancy cook was the policy correspondent for the national journal. [applause] thanks so much for sticking around. i feel like these public appearances you make are somewhat rare. the cbo has been under a lot of fire. i think we'll have a lot to talk about. >> i'm glad to be here and to have you here. >> this whole event is about the economy. i wanted to start off with a broad question. five years since the start of the recession, are you surprised they where we are at this point in the economic recovery? >> yes. we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. the people who were more ripe are the one to look at more carefully the experience of other countries and earlier point of the u.s. experience. crises of housing and the financial system. ofy found that these sorts recoveries are very prolonged. in retrospect we put too much weight on not just the postwar experience. we understand this is a different sort of event. is a rapid monetary policy response. that would be enough to fit the economy fairly not in a v-shaped reco

on the next "washington journal," nancy cook will talk about the jobs report and anti-poverty programs. alex wayne looks at the health care laws delay on older health care plans. as always, we will take your calls. you can join the discussion on facebook and twitter. that is live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. on wednesday, prime minister david cameron talks about the situation in the ukraine, and relations with russia and the european union. he says the u.k. will withdraw from preparations for the g-8 summit and reschedule for june in sochi, russia. the u.k. national interest is that the rule of law is upheld. this is about 35 minutes. >> order. questions for the prime minister. prime minister. >> mr. speaker, this morning i have meetings with colleagues and others. in addition to my duties in this house, i shall a further such meetings later today. >> local conservative councils from north hampton to telegraph are minding this campaign. they have also ported this proposal. , inine years in parliament have never heard of a development that had so much public support. for the prime minis

joining me is nancy cook. too, alex. >> you spoke to people on both ends of the spectrum. what did you find? >> i found that it hasn't had a huge impact, and that's really what people feared. so republicans and conservatives and free market thinkers leading up to this really said, you know, this is going to be a job killer. you know, business owners are going to lay off people en masse. and like wise on the other end of the political spectrum, liberals and democrats really had warned that this is going to pull people out of poverty. and what i found is basically three months after these minimum wage increases went into effect in 13 states, it hasn't really done either. so for minimum wage workers, it's been a slight boost in their earnings every week and they're happy about that, but it's not sort of helping people really pay their bills or lead the lives they want. for smul business o-- small bus owners, it hasn't caused them to change their practices or lay people off yet. >> is there definitive data on the i

host: washingtonext journal, nancy cook will talk about the jobs report and the anti-poverty programsthe healthooks at care launch delay on older , theh plans and james director of the national center of learning disabilities, discusses students with special needs. we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. that is washington journal, live at 7:00 a.m. >> coming up tonight on c-span thomas "q&a" with securities and exchange commissioner mary jo white followed by british prime minister's questions with david cameron and then a discussion of latino voters and the tea party. ♪ "q&a >> this week on"q&a," the chairman of the -- " -- theweek on "q&a chairman of the security and exchange commission mary jo white. mary jo white, why did you even consider being the chairman of the securities and exchange commission? >> great question. it is a wonderful agency. i was the attorney general in new york, worked very closely with sec.

let me invite to the stage nancy cook.in a conversation with doug elmendorf, director of the congressional budget office. [applause] >> hi, everyone. thank you for joining us. the cbo has been under fire a bit lately, so i'm glad you're able to join us. >> i'm happy to be here. >> i just want to start off with a sort of broad question, since this is all about the economy. surprised where we are in the economic recovery? >> yes, we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. i think the people who were more right or those who had looked more carefully at the experience of other countries and earlier point of the u.s. experience had that were onses housing and the financial system. , like carmen reinhart, kevin rogoff, and vincent reinhart found that recoveries from those events are very prolonged relative to the post war u.s. experience. in retrospect, we put too much just the postwar experience, but we understood sort of interpretive event. but we put too much weight on a rapid monetary policy re

host: >> on the next "washington journal" nancy cook will talk about the anti-poverty programs. at 8:30, alex wayne will discuss the affordable care act delays. and at 9:15, james wendorf discusses students with special needs. that's "washington journal" live at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. next a senate hearing on syria. then the supreme court oral argument on hall vs. florida, a death penalty case. tomorrow senator bob casey will talk about elections in afghanistan and the u.s. role there beyond 2014. we'll have live coverage from the center for american progress starting at 2:30 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> if more than one entity identifies the key fires of the internet, then by nature the internet will no longer be one net. at the heart, for example of the domain name system is the root services system. very few people appreciate that in order to resolve names on the internet there is a root system that makes that work for the entire planet. in the root all names are resolved to ensure that when you or any otheran.org website name, you go to the exact site that c-span wants y

." >> this morning on "washington journal," nancy cook talks about the job report and anti-poverty programs. later, the executive director of the national center for learning disabilities discusses government funding for students with special needs. as always, we will take your calls. "washington journal" is next. >> welcome to the washington journal. sxsw routinely draws high-profile guests. snowden who is still living as a fugitive in moscow will speak at sxsw later today by live video. that is our topic is morning. we want to hear from you on whether or not snowden should address that gathering. you can also reach out to us online. good morning, everyone. this appearance is certainly drawing lots of controversy. many people, including some members of congress say that they actually think he should not speak at the gathering. here is a statement from congressman mike pompeo.

without further ado let me invite nancy cook the economic and buster posey correspondent for "national journal" in a conversation with doug elmendorf director of the congressional budget office. [applause] >> hi everyone. thanks so much for sticking around and thank you doug for joining us. i feel like this public appearances you make are somewhat rare and the cbo has been under fire lately so we will have a discussiodiscussio n about that. >> i'm happy to be here and have all of you here to join us. >> i wanted to start off since this whole event is about the economy and one that start off with a broad question. five years since the start of the recession. are you surprised they were radar in the economic recovery? >> yes. we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. i think the people who were more right for those who had looked more carefully at the experience of other countries and earlier points in the u.s. experienced with debt crises that were on the housing and the financial system and those people like carmen reinhart in ken rogoff and vincent rein

national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> on the next washington journal, national journal correspondent nancy cookalk about the jobs report, and anti-poverty programs. alex lane looks at the health care law delay on older health care plans. they discuss government funding to help states with the education of students with special needs. as always, we will take your calls and you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. that is live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. >> we do not have a criminal investigation issue, we have a vast enforcement role. we enforce the federal security laws to make sure that they .bide by those we do not have the criminal authority. we have the power to bring, with the approval of our commission, civil action, civil fraud action, and negligence action against those who violate the federal securities laws. we cannot send them my to jeff, but we can't -- right to jail, but we can assess the level of penalty. it is not as high as we would like you to be, so there is some legislation in congress to require those to commit disgorged their ill-gotten gains. we have the pow

the stage nancy cook, whose the domestic and reporter for "the national journal." [applause] >> hello everyone. thank you so much for sticking around. thank you so much for joining us. i feel like the public appearances you make are somewhat rare. the cbo has been under fire recently so i think we will have a lot to talk about. >> glad to have all you here to join us. issince this whole event about the economy, i wanted to start off with a broad question. five years since the start of the recession are you surprised by where we are at this point in economic recovery? we have been surprised and disappointed by the pace of economic recovery. i think the people who are more right are those that look more carefully at the experience of other countries. -- of other countries and have looked at crises on the housing and financial system. those people found those sorts of recoveries from those events are very prolonged relative to the post war experience. i think in retrospect we put too much weight on not just the postwar experience but on the rapid monetary policy respo

nancy cook will be joining us to talk about jobs and the economy.s those issues for the national journal. then we will talk with alex wayne about the obama administration's latest delays under the affordable care act. to the will talk executive director for the national center of learning disabilities about the president's budget, which includes $12 billion for special education. thank you for watching on this sunday. you'll be back tomorrow morning at 7 a.m. eastern time. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] >> today on c-span, "newsmakers" with congressman kevin brady. followed by a look at last week's release of the white house 2015 budget request with remarks by president obama and then minority leader mitch mcconnell from the senate floor. testifyinga burwell on the president's request. mr.newsmakers" > welcomes kevin brady. he is joining us on its own. i want to start this morning. new economic numbers for february have just come out. the number is unemployment at , th

on the next "washington cook on" nancy anti-poverty programs. a bloomberg news reporters looking at the health cost to lay on affordable care act programs. in discussing government funding to help states with the education of students with special needs. as always, we will take your call then you can join the conversation on facebook and twitter. "washington journal," live every morning at 7 a.m. on c-span. >> is more than one entity manages the key identifiers of the internet then, by nature, the internet will no longer be one. at the heart, for example, of is the rootystem services system. very few people appreciate that is all that remains on the internet and there is an actual root system that makes it work for the entire planet. all are resolved to make sure that when you type to thepan.org," you go exact site that c-span wanted to go to all the time every time for the last two plus decades. lacks the head of the internet corporation for assigned names on "the communicators," on c-span 2. >> wednesday, prime minister david cameron talked ab

think a month running, three years ago, when this was cooked up, we were warning about this very scenario but you didn't get fbn at the time. nancybamacare." >> by the way, it's called the affordable care act. it's called the affordable care act. affordable. affordable. affordable. affordable. the reason they changed the name is because anyway wanted to get away -- they, the opponents -- from the word affordable. >> should the house minority leader by more worried about what the law is doing rather than what it is called? >>> forget about the -- harry reid is in a huff over the cia spying on him. he wants to examine the computers for answers. well, i want to examine his computers. i want to command the spy's computers. we were able to get our hands on one of their computers and our deion, who also fashions himself the tech expert, has one of their computers and is taking it apart now and he'll decide for himself what is in there. i hope this is all legal and i actually hope he knows what he is doing. [crashing sounds] at any minute... ...you could be a victim of fraud. most people don't even know it. fraud could mean lower credit

personnel director nancy hogan, not the ethics czar, not greg craig who along with senator risch ard blumenthal had been a study buddy with bill and hillary in the days when bull had cooked up his mama's fried chicken near yale law school. craig's alignment with obama had been a major betrayal during the campaign. aides say it was less that they were against marshall, and more that they wanted one of their trusted own in the high profile role. it was we should have our person, we need our person said one white house aide familiar with the discussion on marshall. it would have been the equivalent of the roles being reversed if hillary was president and us cutting a deal that desiree rogers or valerie jarrett would be protocol officer, the aide said. when you think of it that a way, it's like why would they ever want any of us traveling with them? >> the vetting prosecution worked in such a way that by the time the job candidate reached craig's office, he or she was the only hopeful for the job. if obama rejected her, another candidate would be lined up in the same way. publicly, the obama and clinton camps claimed that they had had put the primary behind them, but here, h

senate, not personnel director nancy hogan, not ethics czar norm eisin, not greg craig who had been a study buddy of bill clinton and hulkly rodham in the days when bill can cooked up his mama's fried chicken to serve to guests debating the seatal war and the future counsel -- in the future first couple's apartment near yale law school. craig's alignment with obama had been major betrayal during the campaign. aides close to obama say it was less that they were against marshall, but they wanted -- and more that they wanted one of their trusted own in the high profile role. it was we should have our person, we need our person, said one white house aide familiar with the discussion on marshall. it would have been the equivalent of the roles being reversed, if hillary was president and us cutting a deal that desiree rogers or valerie jarrett would be protocol officer, the aide said. when you think of it that way, it's like why would they ever want any of us traveling with them? >> the vetting process worked in such a way that by the time a job candidate reached the team in craig's office, he or she was the only hopeful under consideration. it was up or down on marsh

smell director nancy hogan not ethics czar norm isakson not greg pratt who along with richard blumenthal had been a study buddy with bill and hillary rotten in the days when bill cookedup this mama's fried chicken in a future first couple's apartment near yale law school. her alignment with obama had been a major portrayal. it's close to obama's it was less if they were guests of marshall and more they wanted one of their trusted on in the high-profile role. it was we should have our person in. we need our person said one white house aide familiar with the discussion on marshall. it would have been the equivalent of the roles been reversed if hillary was president and thus cutting a deal that desiree rogers or valerie jarrett would be protocol. when you think of it that way it's like why would they ever want any of us traveling with them? >> vetting process worked in such away that by the time a job candidate reached the team in craig's office here she was the only hopeful under immediate consideration. if obama rejected her another candidate would be lined up in the same way. a process that could take weeks or months. publicly the obama and clinton campaigns claimed

cook political report. much.: thank you very this may sound uprising coming from a democrat, i would like to --e mr. wasserman considering nancyosi seem to shut out all of the republicans when they designed obamacare, which i think should be called you think it is possible that maybe the democrats be better off in 2016 if they did poorly in 2014? because then finally the democrats in the house would finally wake up and get rid of nancy pelosi and the remainder of the current democrat leadership in the house. that is my comment. guest: well, there is a chance that we could see some change in leadership in the house, although more pundits right now seem to think that it is likelier to happen on the republican side. speaker boehner has had a really tough job keeping his troops in line in the last congress. i thought that he actually played his hand fairly well during the government shutdown by showing his members where that road would lead for their party and then corralling more support behind him for raising the debt ceiling and other bipartisan priorities. seee is a chance that we do a change in leadership on the republican si