secretary of labor are a lahood cabinet secretary with us as well as major garrett from national journalg line-up. but first, this is the full court press. >> a lot of stuff to talk about at the water cooler on this wednesday. how about this? actress jane fonda an out spoken liberal activist has signed onto a role playing nancy reagan variety reporting the eugene allen started working in 1952 for harry truman, worked for the rankans through 1986, forest whitaker will play the butler. >> i thought he was going to play ronald reagan. >> he is a very good actor. >> other potential cast members but not signed yet include oprah winfrey as aen's wife and john cusak as richard nixon. formeda will appear in a handful of scenes. >> i think jane formeda. i love jane formednda. she is going to drive the right-wingers crazy. >> nuts. >> hanoi jane? >> they are going to freak out. >> you watch. >> bill, no winner last night's $366 million mega millions jackponjack jackpot. that makes it now, been going since january, this friday night, worth 467 -- $476 million with a new record for mega millions. >>

you can read more by logging onto national journal. it is the center e piece focusing on the economy. today the issue coming up, will the president commemorate this anniversary? >> the idea he may not speak about this on the anniversary seems odd. with the poll out today, we added up 67% of republicans tlourt the bill or throughout the mandate, not the whole bill. the white house has been talking for two years about educating the public, talking about the benefits of this. doesn't this polling data suggest that people are not buying it. >> polling data suggests in part hundreds of millions of dollars spent attacking it, and what we're focusing on is implementing it so that more and more americans see the benefits that it brings. i didn't make any announcement whatsoever. we are focused on implementing the bill, not on, you know, discussing anniversaries particularly. although i'm sure others will want to discuss this. and i think if you look at or talk to americans and look at the data. by the alternative on this. giving power back to

this republican primary, we're joined on the upon by michael hirsch, chief correspondent for "national journal." his stories available online at nationaljournal.com. thanks for being with us. the headline that caught our attention, "meet mitt romney: the independent candidate for president." what are you reporting tonight? >> i think that the results of super tuesday show that mitt romney just cannot win over the republican base. the idea that two deeply flawed candidates with their own sort of checkered histories like rick santorum and newt gingrich are still in the running, and that romney barely got a win in ohio, an absolutely must-win state, no republican has ever won the presidency without it, suggests that he is not going to be able to win over this base. and his only real chance of winning the presidency is to garner a large section of the independent and centrist voters that he's going to be battling with, with obama. and so he needs to start to do that now. obviously it's tongue in cheek to call him an independent candidate, but because the republican base is so disaffected, even tho

. >>> we're joined by johnson, contributing correspondent for national journal a all the news about the surface transportation reauthorization bill comes from behind the scenes. what are you tracking today? >> to see what happens in the house is the main thing. they've been having trouble figuring out just how to get a large surface transportation bill through their caucus. and there's been some questions about whether or not they would have a long-term bill which would be about five years or whether they would have to shorten it to as short as 18 months. the house republicans very much want to tie surface transportation legislation to new domestic oil drilling, which they feel is a good political point to be making. that of course, will not pass muster with democrats. we need to make sure that we can get all of the republican caucus on board. they're having a little trouble with that from what i understand. >> the conference, the republican conference had a meeting today. what do you know what happened there? >> as i understand it, house speaker john boehner told the members that the o

kristen roberts, an editor at "national journal," joins us now. being here. >> thank you. >> tell me about -- i know you're kicking off the series. let's talk more broadly, explain to people what the series' about. >> restoration calls is a year-long project in which we're trying to really take a look at the deep problems, the deep long-term problems that america faces. i mean, the starting point for this was really a recognition that americans by and large think things are not going well. things are not on the right track. our government and other institutions that we've relied on for decades are not getting out of the way or helping when necessary. so we thought, let's look at that. but more importantly, let's look at the solutions to that. >> it's fascinating, because one of the things i've been struck by is this kind of anxiety that's existed in the electorate. since 2001, you know, the 2002 election, this anxiety, to your point, these big pillars that we always depending on, banks, journalism, the party structures, government, congress. the f

. >>> and we have an exclusive first look at the new issue of the "national journal," and joining meional journal's" yoka dressen who just sat down with secretary of defense panetta on the subject of iran and whether or not there is a military option there. what did the secretary tell you? >> an dreaandrea, the skrat sai there's planning underway for a possible u.s. military strike on iran. we heard yesterday that there's also planning for a military strike on syria. when it comes to iran, the administration is open that they prefer diplomacy, they prefer sanctions, but it's very interesting to know that not only is military force on the table, as they've said before, but planning is under active -- it's happening as we speak. >> there's a lot of pressure regarding syria on panetta yesterday, because he pushed back really hard against john mccain in that senate testimony, saying there needs to be a defined mission before he's going to send young men and women into battle and that syria would be a much tougher target than libya, especially without international agreement. >> he also,

where "the national journal" is hosting a discussion on the 2013 federal budget. you know the house of representatives is debating that issue today, and speakers here include house budget committee chairman paul ryan, the ranking member of the committee, chris van hollen, and the moderator getting underway right now. live coverage on c-span2. >> njpn budget. in addition to taking questions via twitter, we will also be coming around with hand held microphones for the q and argument portions of this morn -- q&a portions of this morning's event. this morning's policy summit would not be possible without the generous support of public notice. here this morning we have executive director gretchen hamel. [applause] >> good morning. happy budget day, everybody. [laughter] aren't we all excited? thank you all for joining us this early morning. as we debate the budget on capitol hill, our nation's economy continues to fight its way back, but our fiscal troubles continue on. with our national debt exceeding the size of our economy and failed attempt after failed attempt to

our guest is michael hirsh of "the national journal." at 8:30 eastern, tim lynch of the cato institute and winnie stachelberg of the center of american progress debate the merits of hate crime laws. and a discussion of the energy department, loan guaranty program with frank rusco of the government accountability office. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] host: it is going to be a tight primary night this southern tuesday, with close contests for the gop candidates. and hawaii and american samoa hold their caucus system. coverage begins on c-span with a simulcast with politico at 7:00 p.m. or watch online nacke c- span.org. meanwhile, president obama and first lady michelle obama welcomed prime minister david cameron and his wife semi of the to the white house today. obama and cameron travel to dayton, ohio, to watch a basketball tournament game and then an official ceremony in state dinner for the british leader on wednesday. good morning, everyone, tuesday, ma

washington post" bob woodward, cnbc becky quick, the "washington post" kathleen parker and the national journal's major garrett. while republicans are having to explain rush limbaugh's hatefulness this week, barack obama is radiating optimism these days. the president is channeling that old ronald reagan morning in america. here he is on tuesday. >> i'm not going to settle for a country where a few do really well and everybody else is struggling to get by. i promise you this. as long as you got an ounce of fight left in you, i'll have a ton of fight left in me. >> a new poll has obama losing to mitt romney by four points believe it or not, even with all of the damage that romney sustained lately. other polls have obama winning or tied. those are snapshots. obama knows history. he knows that the trend in a president's job approval is the key. this chart shows his approval and disapproval since inauguration. right now his approval is going up decidedly, this is going down. jimmy carter and george bush 41, that's the first george bush had trend lines going down during this period in the last year of

our moderator for this morning's panel is jim for the national journal. jim joined us in the tribune washington bureau where he covered energy, the environment and politics for newspapers including the "los angeles times" and "the chicago tribune." he previously worked at the rocky mountain news and the oregonian. she and a colleague at the least one of the 2,007 livingston awards for young journalists for their business as usual series is stories revealing the truth of the high as economic decline. he's also part of the claimant 18 at the toy played a was a finalist for the pulitzer prize. jim? >> thank you for sticking around. i've been delighted with the amount of numbers so far this morning, but i want to start this morning without numbers and start with rough politics. we just heard a lot of theoretical discussion back-and-forth about how numbers and we should do this for 5 trillion here, four chilean their. let's talk about what's going to happen. what does this look like a year from now from a lamb dhaka and going forward? how much do you think we

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the national journal and data analysis of the voting patterns. there is almost nobody in the middle. how do you make a deal if nobody is in the middle? i hope obama offers her a job and puts her in something because you are in charge of something important. -- i hope obama offers her a job and poster in charge of something important. >> it is sad for the person and the senate. she pinpoint the problem. the goal in congress is to block the other side. if you are a democrat, you vote against republican plans. if you are republican, you vote against democratic plans. gridlock has become your highest goal. you are not really there to pass anything or change anything anymore. you are just there to keep the other side -- >> i would put it differently. i do not think gridlock is the goal. both parties are excluding their own ends to the exclusion of everyone else. others want to try to reach some accommodation on policy issue. what is missing in the senate is the notion of respect for one another. that is gone. >> what is going to change it? that is the

major garrett is the white house correspondent for the "national journal," and here is our exclusive their new issue out today and major joins us now. major, olympia snowe has been one of those figures in the senate that frustrates both parties. harry reid would get frustrated with her, her own caucus didn't talk to her after the stimulus vote, which is why, you know, so many of her constituents love her so much. she's an independent, a true woman in the spirit of margaret chase smith. >> yes. and that northeastern brand of republican, particularly in the senate, has really been either retiring off or being voted out. and olympia snowe is one of the last exemplars of that approach to senatorial politics, legislative politics within the senate, and her national party. standing athwart of her national party at times, and standing up for what she considered to be the institutional prerogatives of the senate, which is compromise, negotiation, and working towards legislative end points. right now the senate, and i've never really seen it as intense as it is now, is not about conversation,

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the national journal writing that many conservative groups like club for growth and the family research council as well as heritage action critical of house speaker boehner. they want the whole thing taken out completely. you can read more on this story by logging on to nationaljournal.com. this week is the two-year anniversary of the president signing that historic health care bill. it is the center piece of a new 17-minute documentary that the obama campaign released focussing on the economy and the health care issue among other topics. today the issue coming up, will the president commemorate this anniversary or be discussing other issues this way. jay carney at the daily briefing. >> it's supposed to be the president's signature of domestic achievement. the idea he may not speak about this on the anniversary may seem odd. with the polling data we added up 67% of the public wants to throw out the whole bill or the manda mandate. white house has been talking for two years talking about educating the public. doesn't this polling data suggest that people are not buying it? >> the pollin

and personality, ron brownstein, senior cnn political analyst, and editorial director for "the national journalll cain is a cnn contributor and contributor for theblaze.com. breaking news story in france, 300 police officers are surrounding the home of a suspect o is wanted in the shooting of that jewish school that happened on monday, killed a rabbi, two young sons and a young girl that was killed in the shooting. france says two officers were wounded in a shoot-out overnight and roeuters is reporting sayin he wanted revenge for the killing of palestinian children. in toulouse diana magnay, we heard about this time they were expecting the suspect inside the house would be coming out, turning himself over to police. where does that stand? >> reporter: absolutely. that's what the suspect said that he would do. he's been talking to police. they said he was extremely determined, extremely stubborn not exactly a negotiating position really but apparently he said he would come out at midday. it's midday now and we haven't heard anything. there are around 50 police surrounding the house, 300 police a

our guest is michael hirsch of the national journal. then timl lynch of the cato institute debate the merit of hate crime laws. and then the report on the loan guarantee program. ahead of secretary chu's testimony about the program and lopes to the now bankrupt solyndra. we'll hear from frank rest coe. 7:00 a.m. every morning on c-span. >>> one year ago the fukushima nuclear power plant in japan melted down an after earthquake and tsunami hit japan. you can see the hearing live thursday here on c-span 3 at 10:00 a.m. >>> the center for responsive politics reports super pacs have raised $130 million this election cycle. mitt romney has raised the most money followed by american crossroads. further down the list are those backing newt gingrich and president obama. the common cause today hosted a discussion on theol. >>> good morning. everyone ready? good morning, my name is bill deblasio, i'm the new york city advocate, and also a member of the new york city retirement system boards. $40 billion pension fund and i'm wearing a green tie. w

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a new article in the national journal looks at how far the realities have changed.economics correspondent for "the national journal." thanks for joining me. a fun article to read when you put it in perspective with this game. what happened to the american dream and the game of life version? >> that's a great question. it's the one we'll answer for the next year at national journal and we thought what better way to kick off a series after what's happened to america with the changes in our economy and society with the erosion of fundamental values than by showing what's a better way to do it than by showing how this board game you grew up with has totally no longer represents the america that actually exists. >> right. >> so, i'd be happy to walk you through all of the different ways. >> sure. talk about some of them. let's look at the board. >> first off, i don't know if you grew up playing the game, but i did, way too many game nights with this. you start and spin the wheel and it's flimsy, as always. you have a car with your little peg in it and you have a choice.

and a result attack advertisements >> biggest pressure spender tax dollars promoting himself national journalnzinger record not much different than the democrat he replaced >> increased spending 60% under bush >> purpose of this start supply chain 5000 workers in this district plan had the tens of thousands of others involved automotive >> not something neither of us want to go through republican vs. republican >> could have taken on jesse jackson he chose to run against me down the voters decide in 10 days >> sunday marked the one-year anniversary devastating earthquake in japan red cross accusing government of wasting time when you're later won a quarter million people still living in shelters red cross says stay there another five years. 9.0 magnitude earthquake struck march 11th massive tsunami is across the island churinga meltdown of fukushima nuclear plant worst nuclear crisis since the chernobyl. 60,000 people killed earthquake caused $230 billion worth of damage. fighting ally and i nine years of basketball history another disappointing season and up up and away lego where no lego ha

. >> a recent story from national journal is about -- let's say a counterpoint, or another group working on women's issues, this from the republican perspective. the story is he is-pac. can she-pac help republican women solve their women problem? it talks about how republican women are getting involved in she-pac, a new group that aims to pore millions of dollars into the campaigns of conservative women running for state and federal office. what do you think about this? >> as i said, we need more women to run across the board. i certainly hope that we see more republican women, but i have to say we've got to see more pro-choice republican women. think about when emily's list started 27 years ago, when we started as an organization dedicated to electing pro-choice democratic women, there were so many pro-choice republican women at the same time. now we have seen the republican party move to the right so much that those moderate republican women really have no place to succeed in their party. and so we of course say come on over to us and you can work with us in this endeavor. but i can sa

obama over high gas prices it appears the american public can see right through his lies the new national journal poll shows sixty six percent of americans believe rising gas prices are due to either manipulation of prices by large energy companies or tensions in the middle east the same survey shows more americans trust the president to make the right decisions to bring down gas prices than congress while misinformation often has far too much influence in our democracy and society it's nice to see that this time the american public has got it right the bad republican representative cliff stearns in a meeting with constituents in florida last month stearns told the audience that america needs to sell off a statue of national parks despite stearns's call for a fire sale of national parks fact is that national parks generate a significant amount of wealth for both the federal treasury and from local businesses at the mention they also generate a large number of jobs america's national parks represent our nation's history stern's wants to help improve our economy maybe should stop things instead lik

very little guy in the national journal part are strictly volunteer force to keep current with their current she's on the phone and at the end as even though we run up a fish that. and while we're on the subject of so winning in new canaan connecticut let's talk to the journalist who's investigating what you could call the modern day version it involves a trader who's been busted by regulators and banned from the business in the past but that hasn't stopped him it looks like from trading or from getting in trouble as he tries to bust his stripper assistant first stealing after she was allegedly paid to have threesomes with him and his fiance who also happens to be the sister of a convicted insider trader it's quite the plot and also we want to know does a point to any kind of bigger picture issue to her to tell us is terri buel she's the investigative journalist who is investigating all of this terry first welcome to the show and thanks for being on hi lauren it's great to be here so terry for audience first because you are an investigative reporter you've been your book has been pub

don't you know don't don't encourage just loose talk of war this report comes out of the national journal today breaking news the pentagon panetta pentagon planning for potential iran strikes so we say one thing and do another the very fact that preparations are being made for a strike gets us closer to a war now this war a war against iran will be unlike any other war we've been it because iran has the ability to strike back we have to stop using war as an instrument of policy we have to stop talking about wars so it was inevitable the very fact of this discussion of the inevitability of war. becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy and so then war curse. you know if you read ken follett book the fall of giants you'll see that ordinary people were caught up in world war one and this extraordinary occasion of a war that affected continents across the globe we are on the threshold of a situation where ordinary people by the millions could be drawn into a conflict that would be a cataclysm for our world we must not have a war against iran we must not attack or who you think might face you as. you

according to national journal josh crowshow. >> romney needs to do well, but if santorum can win ohio has strong performances in southern states, it can keep on going on and on. >> also hoping to do well in the south, newt gingrich, who spent all day in his home state of georgia. >> i believe we need dramatic change. i believe it is possible to rally the american people. >> and gingrich is poised well. he has a double digit lead over his rivals in a new poll. >> disney playbook options. >> st. agnes makes a purchase. what are their plans for cardinal gibbons high school? >> and we could even hear a >> and we could even hear a rumble of thunder. but we still may suffer from nasal allergy symptoms. they can hit you year round... indoors or out. achoo! oh to have relief. prescription nasonex is clinically proven to help relieve nasal allergy symptoms... including congestion, runny and itchy nose and sneezing. [ female announcer ] side effects may include headache, viral infection, sore throat, nosebleeds, and coughing. infections of the nose and throat and eye problems, including glaucom

early on, what you can see, what will be interesting is now that these names are out there from national journalhot line, how people in the coming days react, that's what we'll watch for? >> no women? >> in what's been listed so far, no women. but we're inviting you all to weigh in on facebook and twitter. and the first post i got today was from someone saying condoleezza rice should be considered for the vice presidency. last time sarah palin wasn't mentioned early on either. but it could turn out to be anybody. >> interesting. >> and fred, before i go, we're going to do a little 180 here. because joe is always so much fun, and one of the reasons we love it is our wonderful producer who's leaving us today, to whom we must now say goodbye. pamela west, p. west, we love her, we wish her the absolute best. she's brought you so much great television. >> she has. and she works so hard on this program and everything that she involves herself in. giant commitment, way far ahead of anybody else so we wish you the best, and we're going to miss you, pam. >>> okay, let's get welcome back to the race for 2