journal" continues. host: meghan mccarthy is the national health care journalist and reported this week in "the national journal," that have been locked in a familiar dance over medicaid. tell us about this dance. facing ae states are really challenging fiscal situation. medicaid makes up one of the largest drops on state budgets. states were required to maintain their eligibility rules that they established in 2009 and now they are asking the government, democrats and republicans, if they can loosen those eligibility rules to make the programs less costly in their budget. host: the governors were in town last week meeting with the white house and some people on capitol hill. were they able to get the message across that they're not going to be able to continue to fund these medicaid programs to much longer? guest: medicaid really dominated in the health-care news world. it is clear to the obama administration. president obama interested in his speech to the national governors association. he did ask kathleen civilians, the secretary of hhs -- kathleen sibelius, the secretary of the hhs, to come up with

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i'm the economics correspondent for national journal. thank you so much for joining us and for what i hope will be a really lively and interesting discussion today, but that's mostly up to jade, not to me -- jared, not to me. i'd like to introduce jared bernstein, he's the chief economist and economic adviser for vice president biden, the executive directer of the vice president's middle class task force which has done a lot of work, deep dives on questions of employment, the economy and this whole idea of what it means to be middle class. this has been jared's work for a long time, sort of a running theme of his distinguished economic career which includes stints prolific book writing and op-ed writing. i can also tell you he owns one of the less mediocre jump shots of the entire obama administration. [laughter] so thank you for joining us and, jared, let's just start with kind of can you give us an overview? what's going on with housing now? >> first of all, there are many basketball players in this administration who are much, much be

covering the week, james kitfield of national journal, john harwood of cnbc and "the new york times," and joan biskupic of "usa today." >> award-winning reporting and analysis, covering history as it happens. live from our nation's capital, this is "washington week" with gwen ifill, produced in association with national journal. corporate funding for "washington week" is provided by -- >> corporate funding is also provided by boeing, norfolk southern, additional funding is provided by the annenberg foundation, the corporation for public broadcasting and by contributions to pbs stations from viewers like you. thank you. once again, live from washington, moderator gwen ifill. gwen: good evening. another week has passed and the crisis in libya has begun to harden into civil war. u.s. officials have stepped up their criticism of the qaddafi regime with u.n. ambassador susan rice calling him delusional. and now a president obama obama himself is finally condemning qaddafi by name. but secretary of defense robert gates to explain why one suggested u.s. response imposing a no-fly zone in lib

. >> david hatch, national journal, is also with us still. >> debbie, there's an expectation that there merger, if it goes through, is going to result in a lot of job losses. do you have an estimate as to how many there would be? and are you comfortable with the fact there would be layoffs? >> we will obviously be looking at that carefully. our first priority as a union is to ensure the employment security of workers at the companies. our experience thus far has been when at&t and singular merged in 2005, increase in employment and membership. similarly, at&t bought centennial. we saw an increase in employment and membership. we will be watching it closely. we care a lot about this. these are the things that we pay attention to in the context of a merger. >> parul, if this deal is approved, do you think it would be crafted in a way that there will be condition that is are satisfactory to consumers union that is would protect both competitors and consumes? >> i think right now -- there's a lot more information to come. the way

host: our guests have been megan scully, a reporter "national journal with, -- a reporter with andtional journal," missy ryan from reuters. we'll talk about libya for the rest of the hour. >> tonight, a female bloggers discuss civil unrest in their countries. you'll hear perspectives from women grappling with religious freedom. >> iran is really bad. but this is one side of the coin. the other side is saudi arabia. we live in a dark area. our stories have never been heard. we are strong in the terms o f oil. islam is the homeland. >> what's the summit tonight at 8:00 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> you have a chance to catch up on the dates you have missed in the first few months. attempted repeal of health care, extension of the patriot act, and patent law reform are all online at the congressional koppel with a time lines and transcript of the recession. search by topic or member act c- span.org/congress. is on "ind depth." join our conversation taking your phone calls and suites for -- phone calls and tweets for ismael reed. you can find the entire weekend schedule online. "washington jour

moderators today's discussion on behalf of national journal is our senior correspondent james kitfield. for over two decades, james has written on the sense of national security and foreign policy issues. he's an award winning writing winning the gerald r. ford award three times on national defense. i believe that's a record. james has twice won the military reporters and editors award as well as in the diehl school of journalism for excellence in reporting for his first-hand coverage of the war in afghanistan and the surge in iraq. he's an author of "war and destiny," and prodigal soldiers" please welcome james and deputy commissioner aguilar of the borders protection. [applause] [applause] >> good to meet you. gerald f. ford was a good man. i miss him dearly. i've been covering this beat for a long time. as we've been watching what's unfolding in japan, the middle east, i forget there's a very serious crisis with the country much closer to us, which is in mexico, which is fighting really a life and death struggle i think for the future of that country with these very poweful drug tra

a recent survey by national journal shows the most conservative democrat in the senate is more liberal than the most liberal republican. this is the first time in over a generation that's going to be that way in the house this time. most of the blue dog democrats were wiped out as the election became nationalized. their local voting records that became relevant but were caught up with the party. their local voting records that became relevant but were caught up with the party. you now have a very, very liberal democratic party in the house of representatives and a very conservative republican base in the house, where you're most liberal republicans are more conserved than your most conservative democrats. the point and not is that a lot of the issues that were always there in congress and the debates are not partisan in nature. secondly, this last election was the last election -- the first election where you have more money spent by nature's group sent by the parties. campaign finance reform, citizens united caved -- the campaign finance reform took money away from the parties. it res

actually, according to the globe and national journal, people are being dis-enrolled and dental benefits are being cut. the democratic state treasurer said if the net the state implements a plan like massachusetts -- if the united states diplomats a plan like massachusetts' we will go bankrupt. i yield back. >> yields three minutes to the committee chair, mr. waxman. >> i like to commend you on the work you have done on the affordable care act. the job you were given is imposing, but you have met the leadership of steadfast commitment. at today's hearing is meant to address the president's budget proposal for hhs for fiscal year 2012. that is very far away at this point. i am much more focused on the threats and the continuing resolution passed by the house. i believe the cuts proposed by the republican budget would be just devastating to the mission of your department. the republican proposal would cut 23% from the centers for medicare and medicaid services. this will devastate the ability of the agencies to meet its basic functions like pang medicare plans, cracking down on fraud, and

we have a budget and appropriations reportser with the national journal. julie has the first question. >> hi, mr. chairman. good to be with you. i wanted to ask the vice president, vice president biden, went to the hill to jump start talks on how to fund the government through the end of the year, just backed by president obama. you were in that meeting. i wonder, did you expect to be invited? does that tell you anything about the pace or the tenor of the negotiations going on right now? >> well, i'm glad the president is involved, finally. i think it is helpful to have vice president on the hill. his old stomping grounds, meeting with leadership. this was an elected membership on the part of the house and senate. and i'm glad they are at it. >> so do you think that they are likely to make much progress in merging the divide between house republicans who have asked for a $61 billion worth of cuts from this year's budget and democrats who have said that they want a freeze for this year's budget or maybe $10 million under that? >> that's just it. we don't kn

. >> suarez: marshal coyle of the "national journal," thanks for talking with us. >> my pleasure, ray. more on libya with president obama's speech. we'll be back with that shortly. >> ifill: in a few moments the president will address the nation on american involvement inibya. for those stations just joining us, president obama is speaking from the campus of the national defense university at fort mcnair in washington d.c., ten days after the american military, nato and the arab league began enforcing a no fly zone over libya, the administration is mounting a full-scale defense of an action the president said again today will be limited both in time and scope. newshour political editor david chalian joins me to give us a sense of what the president thinks he needs to accomplish tonight. >> he has to answer three fundamental questions, gwen. he has to answer why are we involved in this military action in libya. he has to say what are the next steps now that we're moving into this support role supposedly going forward? and the third question he has to answer is what if qaddafi stays sin

policy analyst and robert bell aban antitrust attorney, we are also joined by david hatch of the "national journal." mr. silva what does at&t get for its $39 billion? guest: it gest a lot more spectrum -- it gets a lot more spectrum. it gets t-mobile customers. and it accomplishes the objective of removing one national competitor from the scene. host: mr. bell, what kind of antitrust issues are raised by this deal? guest: well, this is a direct horizontal merger between two direct competitors. this raises a core issue of whether the government should allow the marketplace to move from four major competitors and a number of minor ones to a situation where we would have three nationwide competitors and several smaller ones who are present in many of the local market. historically, the department of justice has reviewed these transactions by looking at very local markets. they are called cellular market areas. the government divides the country into 734 cellular market areas. in previous transactions, the analysis has ben on a cma basis. so you can expect a very granular review of this transaction. h

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host: we have megan scully with "national journal." guest: there have been several proposals on how to address this issue when congress returns. what do you think is the most likely means by which congress will weigh and in? -- will weigh in? perhaps involving funding. guest: i know there are proposals to deny funding for this. i do not think that will happen. we stand behind the commitment. we will support our troops. there is a lot at risk over there. we should have had this debate. my concern is not much that we're there. my concern is how we got there. we need to make sure this will not happen again. presidents ignore the constitution. they think that the war powers act is unconstitutional. the war powers act is all -- is very clear. it is a recapitulation of the constitution. it says the president can commit our troops if there is specific legislative authority short of declaring war. and if we are under imminent attack. none of those apply here. he cannot commit the troops. we needed to have that debate. host: to you support it -

i'm the economics correspondent for national journal. thank you so much for joining us and for what i hope will be a really lively and interesting discussion today, but that's mostly up to jade, not to me -- jared, not to me. i'd like to introduce jared bernstein, he's the chief economist and economic adviser for vice president biden, the executive directer of the vice president's middle class task force which has done a lot of work, deep dives on questions of employment, the economy and this whole idea of what it means to be middle class. this has been jared's work for a long time, sort of a running theme of his distinguished economic career which includes stints prolific book writing and op-ed writing. i can also tell you he owns one of the less mediocre jump shots of the entire obama administration. [laughter] so thank you for joining us and, jared, let's just start with kind of can you give us an overview? what's going on with housing now? >> first of all, there are many basketball players in this administration who are much, much be

national journal the trading day. they've been really quite flat today the big story has obviously been around. the impact of present comments about the potential change in board of directors. suffered actually as a result of that and i think it's been the really underperforming for today i think that reflects you know uncertainty what does it actually mean for for obviously such as a. story. of the world's biggest. increase in net profits. show revenues were up by a third temple in dollars with a profit of two point eight zero solace traded on the hong kong market and shares have been almost five percent on the news because he says. production in twenty eleven. business. here on our team. there is not enough space for them. go down to the room get things nonexistence under the sun. fill the gap of adrenaline. discover deeply hidden secrets. they are seeking. final. and even. talking to god. from. under the ground.

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media changing and forget social networking as they're an explosion of journalism to take their national journalism you know just sort of the beginning of that i mean the idea of somehow restoring islamic caliphate it's just you know it's breathtakingly ignorant to claim that this is the dynamic of this revolution right now if you can we're seeing there are you know going to retrenchment but maybe eight of the waning i think of islamist leadership of opposition singer current summers you can be societies that are organic excrete their own language the representative who we really had in the arab world before i think that's what's so exciting to a lot of arabs today is that different voices are executing their frustrations and their hopes and that's something that because governments american supported governments have not allow for years of even decades i think if we go forward it's probably not quite fair to sail to syria was in the wilderness it's always been the most popular arabic satellite channel and it remained so i think if anything it's been able to ride this wave of revolutionary change i

marcia coyle of the "national law journal" walks us through today's arguments. marcia, it's actually two joined cases. how did arizona free enterprise club versus bennett and... make it to the high court. >> it involves arizona's public financing law. under that law if a candidate qualifies and wants to participate, the candidate receives a lump sum grant at the beginning of the primary or general election. if during the campaign that grant is exceeded by a non-participating opponent's contributions and independent spending by organizations or groups supporting that non-participating opponent, then it triggers matching funds. the matching funds though are capped by the law. the publicly financed candidate can never receive more than three times the initial grant. a lower court upheld the constitutionality of the law, and it was the arizona freedom pack that brought the challenge as well as several candidates in arizona in the second case that brought the challenge to the supreme court today. >> suarez: is it not public financing per se, as much as the connection

here is "national journal" with their story. as soon as tuesday the house is set to cast the first vote -- that is "national journal" reporting that dick durbin was asked about yesterday when he was on "state of the union." >> we are not going to balance america's budget in the next six months. we should be taking care that we don't do things that damaged our economy and a really slow down our recovery. the notion -- as the president said -- of cutting hundreds of thousands of children off of head start that this moment, cutting pell grants for college students so they have to drop out, delaying or stopping research in energy when we see gas price is going through the roof, suspending medical research for six or seven months. it goes way too far and in a direction not good for this country. i am part of a group -- six senators, three democrats, three republicans. we are looking at this in a honest and hard terms on how to deal with this deficit. not in a matter of six months but over a period of time so we responsibly cut spendi

i'm and codirector of "national journal" and political director for atlanta media. i probably have other titles that i can't remember them. we have a terrific panel to continue this discussion of homeownership in america. and let me just quickly introduce, let's see how we are ranged here. sarah rosen wartell, executive vice president, center for american vice president. served under president clinton. jerry hauer is chief executive officer of the national association of home builders and former work with both the national association of realtors and the national association of state housing agencies so he has seen this are many different angles. shanna smith is president of the national fair housing alliance. bravely serve as executive director of the fair housing center of toledo, ohio. and alex pollock, resident fellow at the american enterprise institute, specializes in financial issues, formally served as president and ceo of the federal home loan bank of chicago. last night when we had a dinner that had all of our panelists, as well as some others, it was a ra

the national journal has a new tech website. nationaljournal.com/tech. thank you for being with us. >> on monday, obama will deliver a speech on libya in the national defense university. the actions the u.s. has taken. the transition to nato command. monday at 7:30 eastern. c-span and c-span radio. >> i am not interested in developing a strategy to win the primary and not winning the general. we have done well everywhere. >> rick santorum sits down to discuss a presidential bid in 2012. on c-span. >> as protest continue, and as nato sets to take control find the latest from the administration officials . all searchable on your computer. watch what you want, when yo u want. >> a look between the relations between the u.s. and libya. this is about 45 minutes. van is a securities studies adjufpkt professor at georgetown university and joins us to talk about the relations between the united states and libya both on diplomat and military fronts. take us through the evolution of the relationship between u.s. and libya say from the mid 60s up through the present

before i do that, let me just thank the national journal and the atlantic company for this effort. i have participated in a session last night and was present all this morning, and it struck me that this is the first of many, many, many postmortems on the economic issues and the housing issues that really focuses seriously and hones in on the efficacy of home ownership. because it's right at the heart of what we need to decide for the future. what do we really believe as a country about home ownership? so this is a very important conference, and thank you for your role in moderating as much of it as you have. i remember the moment in 1994 when the head of fha and who now runs the harvard joint center for housing studies came in and said we're looking at economic data that suggests a very strong and potential long expansion. and the opportunity to harness that expansion and make it work for average families through home ownership exists. in retrospect, we know that that expansion was the longest expansion in american history, that it produced levels of employment, reduced unemployme

in remarks at a forum hosted by national journal and the museum general patraeus also reiterated his support for the obama administration's july 2011 date to begin the drawdown of u.s. troops. general patraeus has been and washington to report to the president and congress about the state of the war in afghanistan. his first visit since taking command of the war effort there last summer. this is an hour. >> i want to welcome all of you here. i see that we have all survived st. patrick's day which is very good. probably the first day of the ncaa basketball tournament. my bracket has been shredded. i want to thank the museum for hosting this event and providing the facilities for us here at the national journal for our conversation. eyes only want to thank person late general patraeus and his team to helping us build this event and a special thanks to the ceo of the museum who is not here, but we are indebted to him and the museum for providing the facilities and the arrangements to carry this off. another special thank-you to steve clements of the new america foundation. we thank you.

moderating today's discussion on behalf the national journal is james kitfield. or over two decades, he's written on national security and foreign policy issues, an award winning writer winning the gurled r. ford award for reporting on national defense three times. i believe that's a record, and james twice won the military's reporter and editor's award as well as the school of journalism award for dplens in reporting for the war in afghanistan and the serge in iraq. author of two books, james is a frequent guest on national television and radio programs. please welcome james and our distinguished guest, david aguilar, deputy commissioner and u.s. customs and border protection. [applause] >> that's good to me. i miss him dearly. you know, i've been covering this beat for a long time, and it's easy to, you know, as we've been watching what's unfolding in japan and in the middle east, we forget there's a very serious crisis with a country closer to us which is mexico fighting a life and death struggle for the future of that country with the very serious drug traffic

hosted by the atlantic magazine and "national journal". jared bernstein is followed by a panel of plans to gradually dissolve fannie mae and freddie mac. and effects on low-wage earners looking for home loans. this is just over two hours. >> thank you very, very much. this is one of those great subjects we're all sitting here thinking about ourselves and where we sit on these scales and these answers. before our interview with jared bernstein, let me bring to the microphone and introduce our partner in these affairs, tom wilson, of all state insurance. john joined allstate in 1995. he became ceo in 2007. he serves as vice chairman of the chicago federal reserve. he is active in business roundtable and financial services roundtable as well as number of other groups. we've been fortunate enough to do a number of events and partnerships with allstate really over the last eight years. this one in particular over the last two. so we're very pleased to be partnering with them. all of you have been, many of you have been touched by allstate in yo

we have had great team work with the national journal. we have raised a lot of good issues. have raised new issues from very interesting material. i would like to share some of our own views. there are very interesting things that show up in this poll. first, americans are optimistic and believe in self- determination. believe in the american dream is alive and well. that is a good thing. this is a generation that is what with having a hard time getting a job. they are still optimistic in face of all of that that they can live the american dream. we sought 60% of people believed it is their own skills and hard work back and help them realize the american dream and it is achievable. what was interesting to us about this poll is that home ownership remains a critical part of that dream. for 73% of the people saying that owning a home help them achieve the american dream. that is despite the fact in our power poles they said a number of things. they said this recession was a game changer. they say they are more risk averse. they are saving more and spending less. 27% of america

. >> elaine with "national journal" groups. we know that secretary gates is going to retire later this year. and i'm wondering what thought you guys have about the kind of background you would seek in the next defense secretary as it contains to the issues you're discussing. who is out there question of have to feel obligated to name names. [laughter] >> but at least in terms of background. >> you ask, first and foremost if you had your druthers, which he won't because the president will come to office owing a lot to a lot of defense contractors, but assuming he didn't know anything and he which uses secretary of defense in the first thing he would need is a guy with a lot of guts. more than anything else. i only work for one secretary of defense that had a lot of guts and he had a lot of of applause, and that was secretary mac american but he wasn't afraid of firing generals and admirals. that's scenic one on. everybody they could secretary defense you have to not be afraid of four stars. >> anything else the? >> i don't think

>> well, he was at the national journal for many years. i started at "the los angeles times" two years before i did. he is still there and i'm not. i would have to ad up the years. >> and there's a couple kids in the middle of this? >> a couple kids. we have two sources of boundless energy and enthusiasm for life, one is taylor, who is 10 years old, and one is danny, who is 6. they are a lot of fun, and they were very patient with mom through this whole process. books are more overwhelming than people expect them them to be when they go into it, i think. going back to the five -- clint bullock, david macintosh, bill kristol, ralph reid, and grover norquest -- what other new things did you find out that no one has ever written about these peop that you think will be helpful for people trying to understand? >> well, bill kristol, a very important thing to understand about the school of philosophy he comes from, these are not people of faith, shall we say religion. they believe in religion for other people, but not for themselves, so thishole

. >> ifill: for more on the case, we are joined as always by marcia coyle of the "national law journal." she was in the court today. samar a at first blush, it sounds like the hallmarks of a gender discrimination case, of a civil rights case but that's not what today's arguments are really about. >> it really isn't, gwen. it really bears repeating that this case will not decide whether wal-mart discriminated against its female work force. it will only decide whether these women can join together as a class and go forward with their claims that wal-mart has discriminated against them on the basis of their sex. >> ifill: which could also be a big deal. explain to us what a class action suit is, what it's not, according to the arguments we heard today, and whether this case falls... that's what the judges are deciding, whether this case falls into that. >> exactly. most lawsuits are filed by individuals, but sometimes a group or a large number of people may be injured by the same defendant, company, person, and it's worth their while in terms of efficiency and cost to try to join together

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the three of us have just been designated by national journal as three of the most, if not the most conservative members of the united states senate. we don't believe in raising taxes. but let me tell you, chris. this is such a massive problem, as senator mcconnell just stated, a $14 trillion debt that if we don't get our arms around it now, then we're going to become a second tier nation. and we cannot allow that to happen. so it's imperative that we put everything on the table for discussion. i don't know where we are going to wind up. we're not there yet. but if you look at the debt commission report, you have to address spending. we have to reduce spending in a major way. you've got to address entitlements. we've got to reform entitlements in a major way. and you've got to look at revenue and reform our complicated tax code in a major way. when you do that, everybody does have that skin in the game and everybody gets their score a little bit. >> chris: for you, having skin in the game, means you have to take the politically unpalatable choice of cutting enentitlements. are you willing to sca

he's speaking at an event hosted by the national journal and museum. that's live at 9:00 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> the president of the administration believes we have to be looking very, very closely at the events in japan. >> the energy secretary and nuclear commissioner chairman were on capitol hill testifying on the energy departments fiscal year 2012 budget and nuclear power safety issues following the earthquake and tsunami in japan. watch the complete hearing now online at the c-span video library. search, watch, clip and share. it's washington your way. >> "washington journal" is next. we'll take a look at the news and take your calls. today at noon eastern, a discussion on white house transparency. we'll hear from watch dog groups and members of the obama administration. president obama will travel to brazil today later in the weekend. secretary of state clinton will preview the trip this afternoon and talk about u.s. relations with south and central america. that's live from the center for strategic and international studies at 2:00 p.m. eastern. coming up in 45 m