the american civil liberties union and, also, our guest reporter this week, josh smith of the national journal. ms. crump, if we could start with the recent report that the aclu put out on the use of cell phone tracking by police departments, what was this report about? >> guest: the aclu as believed for some time that police departments around the country are tracking people's cell phones on a routine basis often without getting a warrant based on probable cause. that's what we thought, but we weren't actually sure. and so in august 35 aclu affiliates in 32 states around the country filed a total of just over 380 public records with different law enforcement agencies asking for information about their policies, procedures and practices for tracking cell phones. and the report we put out earlier this month documented the findings from that study. >> host: and what did can you find? >> guest: we found that virtually all law enforcement agencies who responded to our request engage in cell phone tracking, that is, in fact, now a completely routine sur sail lance -- surveillance tool that's just c

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the national journal and others say the secret service plans to contact rocker and proud nra member ted nugent regarding comments he made about the president. >>> the white house standing by the men who took a pledge to take a bullet for the president. this morning new details in the secret service prostitution scandal, agents being offered a lie detector test now. >>> she got a ride home from the bar and hasn't been heard from since. the family of a ft. bragg soldier saying she may be in danger this morning. >> she's loved by all of her friends and family, and we all just really want her to come home. >> cnn spoke to her mother and her sister. we'll have the latest coming up. >>> and it is here. take a look. some drivers already paying $6 a gallon for gas. president obama feeling the pressure and promising a new crackdown on the oil markets to reel them in. >> we can't afford a situation where some speculators can reap millions while millions of american families get the short end of the stick. >> but is it just the same type of political ploy that he mocked a few weeks ago? >> good qu

and we'll get analysis on all of it from the "washington post's" melinda henneberger, "national journal's" major garrett, and our own political team, john dickerson and norah o'donnell. that's a lot to cover but this is "face the nation." captioning sponsored by cbs from cbs news in washington, "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> schieffer: ask good morning, again. and welcome to "face the nation." senator joe lieberman who is chairman of the senate homeland security and government affairs committee is with us here. they do have congressional oversight on the secret service. so, senator, let me just get right at it here. on friday, another three secret service agents resigned, and the secret service announced that another agent was under investigation in a separate incident. do you know what this-- this latest person to be identified, what that-- what's going on there? >> right, bob. those announcements on friday were significant in two regards. one is it shows director sullivan at the secret service is pursuing this investigation aggressively and comprehensively. it's clear to me no

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. >>> the national journal hosted a discussion recently on the federal budget and deficit reduction on the upcoming panel former senate staff director steve bell endorsing an approach that would provide immediate stimulus. this is about a half hour. >> next we have our discussion with our panel of experts. joining us this morning, we have steve bell, senior director of economic policy, policy center, laura peterson, senior policy analyst, taxpayera pollack, senior policy analyst, the economic policy institute. our moderator for this morning's panel is jim tankersley, the economics correspondent for national journal. jim joined us from 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 toledo blade" and "the rocky mountain news" and "the oregonian." mr. tankersley and a colleague at the blade won the 2007 livingston award for their business as usual series of stories revealing the true roots of ohio's economic decline. he was part of the coingate peo

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national journal recently host add discussion on the budget, the deficit and the debt. this is about half an hour. >>> next we have our discussion with our panel of experts. joining us this morning we have steve bell, senior director of economic policy, the bipartisan policy center. lora peterson, senior policy analyst, taxpayers for common sense and ethan polec, senior policy analyst, the economic policy institute. our moderator for this morning's panel is jim tankersly, the economics correspondent for "national journal." jim joined us from the tribune washington bureau covering energy, environment and politics for newspapers including the "los angeles times" and the "chicago tribune," previously worked at the "to lead ledo bla" he won the 2007 livingston award for young journeyists of stories revealing the true roots of ohio's economic decline and part of the coingate team at the toledo blade, a finalist for the pulitzer prize. jim? >> thank you so much. thank you all for sticking around. i'm a numbers nerd myself, and i've been delighted with the amount of numbers so

. >> joining us now is correspondent for national journal major garrett.ok at the polls, santorum is expected to win wisconsin -- >> romney. >> i'm sorry. romney is. how long can santorum stay in this? >> i think santorum will stay in until the pennsylvania primary on april 24th. i wrote a piece on how much the candidates have spent based on how many votes they've gotten. rick santorum has gotten more out of his $13 million in campaign spending than anyone else by far. and i talked to one of his senior campaign managers, john rehberger, and says that's why we're in the race. we're not just going to walk away from them because it's gotten a little rough for us. he wants to go to pennsylvania and at least have a showdown with romney there. i don't think there's any chance, no matter what happens tonight, that rick santorum leaves before then. >> we saw all those endorsements, but you don't see anybody jumping up and down, amanda, and pounding on the desk and saying, i am so excited about mitt romney being our nominee. did you hear sarah palin this morning on

and i want to thank the national journal for bringing us all together. you pickedel cexactly the right time to be talking about this issue, since we debated the budgets on the floor yesterday, and, of course, we have the votes today. i also want to take a moment to thank paul ryan, because as chairman of the budget committee, i think he's conducted the proceedings in the committee and on the floor with civility and with professionalism. so i'm grateful to him for that, because we do have very deep differences in approach. but i think it's important that we make those differences known in a civil way. and i think on our committee, we have accomplished that objective. and let me begin by talking about some of the reasons we have deep differences over the republican budget and then talk a little bit about the democratic alternative. we're here at a very important time in our country. i think we all know that. because of the extraordinary actions that were taken over the last four years, as well as the tenacity of the american people and the tenacity of smal

she is energy and environ mayment correspondent for "the national journal."l her @nationaljournal.com. so the president today, with the president of mexico and the prime minister of canada. now, you know energy stuff is going to be on the agenda. i want to ask you what the president might be telling the prime minister of canada today about the keystone pipeline. just when we come back. okay? hold that answer. and, also, if you want to join the conversation here, about guessgas prices, about keystone pipeline about the oil subsidies you have an expert in studio here, carol davenport. you know the number 866-55-press. full-court press, monday, april 2nd. >> this is the bill press show. ♪ just refreshing to hear. no other television show does that. we're keeping it real. it's completely inappropriate for television. >> heard around the country, seen on current tv this is the bill press show. >> things that matter the full court press talking about corewith coral davenport, correspondent for the "national journal." so you know that the prime minister is going to

host: we have been talking with fawn johnson from national journal. you could go to their web site to see her articles. thank you for being on "washington journal." this week, we wrap up our student cam competition focusing on the constitution. after the break, we will continue that theme with a look at the 10th amendment with our guests michael seidman and roger pilon. you are watching the "washington journal." we will be right back. >> if the fluid can routinely buy their way out of -- if the affluent and routinely buy their way out of public goods, do they lose a state in the public's fear and quality of those goods? >> mercenaries can be paid to fight wars. students can be paid to get good grades. you can pay to jump to the front of the line. sunday night, a harvard professor on what money cannot buy, the moral limits of markets. that is part of book tv this weekend. jacob spoke on capitol hill this past week about his abduction and life in the lord's resistance army. >> as always, i was thinking about escaping and coming back home. it was hard to

joining us, our chief political correspondent candy crowley and ron bronstein of the national journaly is newt gingrich still in this race? >> i think there are probably personal reasons. i'd rather not try to analyze him. i think it's tough for everyone to get out, particularly if they're in the twilight of their career. i think there's that. i think he would like some delegates. he has said he wants to change the platform. there's that practical reason. the more delegates, the more likely he can create the florm and there's probably some animus with mitt romney as well. >> he's going deeper and deeper into debt and a lot of people are raising questions about his legacy. >> he's still in the race. i'm sorry. >> we were going to discuss this. >> i think candy is exactly right. we saw when rick santorum got out of the race this week. breaking up is hard to do. running for president is really hard, really draining. it's a difficult moment for candidates to conclude they've hit the end of the line. newt gingrich has like to have his ideas heard. the fact he's running for president makes

on the "newshour" tonight, marcia coyle of the "national law journal" tells us what happened inside the supreme court. >> brown: then, judy woodruff examines allegations that walmart executives in mexico may have violated a u.s. bribery law. >> ifill: in our latest "american graduate" installment, john tulenko reports on an indiana school that's turned to technology to get dropouts back on track. >> in n this classroom at a local college, high school students in danger of dropping out can make up the courses they failed and take new ones on computers. >> brown: we continue our look at the aftermath of the financial meltdown: what's changed and what hasn't on wall street? >> ifill: and from liberia, special correspondent steve sapienza partners with a local journalist to ask why the government hasn't solved the country's water crisis. >> one recent world bank study found coax-- and indicator of widespread fecal contamination-- in 58% of water sources across monrovia. >> brown: that's all ahead on tonight's "newshour." major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: >> and by the

i'll quote one more thing from the national journal.s a vicious cycle voters don't like hard truths so politicians spin us. >> to me, that leaves the banks and the kind of financial system out of this. there's a huge relationship between the breakdown of trust, the deserved breakdown of trust in the banks and the kind of failures of government that led to all of this despair. the guy in the article talks about his wife being laid off from her job in the school system. there's a reason local government has been shutting jobs like crazy because of the total -- the. >> state deficits. >> not just the state deficits. the fact that the stimulus was so insufficient and the reason that the stimulus was so insufficient has a lot to do with who has decision making power within our government. likewise, the reason that obama i think hasn't been able to do more to bail out homeowners again like the one in this article. you know, it's the stranglehold of these banks and the financial industry on our xwhe that led in a lot of ways to these governmen

. >>> the "national journal" writes that 2012 farm bill would cut payments and counter cyclical payments intended to act as a backstop for when market prices fall below a set level and it will cree re place those programs with stronger crop insurance. >>> the chairwoman of the committee just entered the room. she's talking with senator leahy. it would also constitute new tigers programs saving $10 billion. the total deficit reduction from the bill is $26 billion over ten years. >>> politico writes that the new approach to payment with farmers is most popular in the midwest corn belt, and senator pat roberts who chairwoman stabenow talks with right now is close to wheat and crop insurance is supportive, but southern crops which typically benefit more from the current cash payments have more to lose. the senator is saying they're not going to satisfy peanuts and rice. it's just not a safety net while senator john below zeroman of arkansas says to get my support, there's going to have to be some compromise. >>> well, good morning, and welcome, everyone, this morning. i would call the meetin

if a new national journal poll is any indication, equal treatment by the police isn't a black versusaces agree. blacks and whites are not treated the same by the police in the poll. the poll found that 84% of blacks and 51% of whites share that view. joining us to talk about this and the survey's other findings is national journal editorial director, cnn senior political analyst, ron brownstein. nice to see you. any big surprise? what was your biggest shocker out of of this poll? i thought research in this was fascinating. >> it's part of the kickoff of a multi-year project we're doing in partnership with the university of phoenix showing how everything is changing, economy, culture, politics. what was surprising to me about this poll was the sense of americans coming together and pulling apart. on one hand the poll documents as the country because more diverse, daily contact among people of different races is clearly increasing. a majority of african-americans, hispanic, and whites all say that they have at least some friends of other races. you get up to two-thirds of people under

. >> you can find all of our coverage of the national journal discussion on the federal budget and deficit online at c-span.org, include paul ryan's comments on military spending. he said yesterday he seriously misspoke and has apologized to the head of the joint chiefs of staff. >>> live from the spy museum here in washington, d.c., a discussion about the truth behind the 9/11 attacks. participants include authors of books on conspiracies circulating about the terrorist attacks on the world trade center and the pentagon. it's moderated by former special assistant to president george w. bush, david fromm. you can watch live coverage on booktv.org at 6:30 eastern. >>> while congress son break this week and next, c-span 3 features american history tv prime time at 8:00 p.m. eastern. tonight the life of president dwight eisenhower. you'll hear from the architect of the memorial honoring the nation's 34th president, and from eisenhower's granddaughter. then an archival film about general eisenhower, made by the u.s. army. >> when we're warned in the next 12 to 18 months america will suffer a c

reporters asking questions this week, politico's national politics editor and reed wilson, the national journal's hotline editor in chief. let's start with you. >> maybe you both can address this question. with so many open seat races this year and so many races that handicapers see as toss-up seats, how is the presidential race going to affect all of these races in november? how do you see that playing out? >> look, i think the president is only going to be a factor in the agenda of the president's agenda is going to be a factor mainly because all these senate democrats are running against have voted for the things that are the most unpopular agenda items of the president. health care which is more unpopular today than it was when it passed. despite the president's promises and other promises it would get more popular. the stimulus, throwing away $900 billion and putting on the tab. these kinds of things that the senate democrats voted are largely unpopular and we're going to be using those items to bring a case against many of the people we're running against. >> a couple of differences. first

mayor, ron brownstein from "national journal," good morning.many communities where different races come together is most often in the schools. i'm interested in what kind of the atmosphere has been like do you think in your school system sings the sho since the shooting? >> from what i've heard, i've had several conversations with our superintendent of seminole county schools and the chairman of the board, you know, dr. calderon and, you know, they got together real quick with the city when this hit the national spotlight. we had a lot of discussions. we got in front of all the principals that if there is questions or concern or talk that they know exactly what's going on and there's been some great dialogue thus far, you know, when this happened, the students were on spring break for a week, so we actually had a little bit of extra time before they came back to get out in front of it and make sure that we had the discussions with the principals, you know, that trickle down from the principals to the students. from what i've heard so far, you k

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national journal hosted a discussion on the budget, the deficit and the the debt. this is half an hour. >> next we have our discussion with our panel of experts. we have laura peterson, senior policy taxpayer for common sense. our moderator is gym. he covered energy, the environment and politics for newspapers including the los angeles times and the tribune. he is a colleague at the blade won the 2007 livingston award for young journalists for their business as usual series revealing the trou routes of the economic decline. jim? >> thank you so much. thank you all for sticking around. i'm a numbers nerd myself and have been delighted with the amount of numbers. we have heard a lot about numbers. let's talk about what's going to happen. what does this look like a year from now? both from the lake duck and going forward? how much closer do you all think we will be towards actual, you know, fiscal health? towards balancing our budget,s and most importantly, where will those budget balancing measures actually have come from. we'll start with you. >> history would tell

as a rising star in the party made something of a freudian slip yesterday when asked by the national journal if he is interested in the job. >> three, four, five, six seven years from now, if i do a good job as vice president -- i'm sorry. if i do a good job as a senator instead of vice president i'll have a chance to do all sorts of things. >> quinnipiac polling shows rubio trailing governor chris christie on the list of favored potential vice presidential nominees. congressman paul ryan, governors bobby jindal and susana martinez of new mexico round out the list. the obama team is denying suggestions the president was specifically targeting mitt romney's wealth when he said, quote, i wasn't born with a silver spoon in my mouth. romney reacted to the president's remark yesterday. >> i'm not going to apologize for my dad's success. but i know the president likes to attack fellow americans. he's always looking for a scapegoat, particularly those that have been successful like my dad. and i'm not going to rise to that. >> although democrats repeatedly have gone after mitt romney's bank account