i'd also like to thank national press club staff. that's the last question, and jerry always reminds me of that because i skip over the script. i want to finish with the last question. but like to thank national press club staff, including the broadcast certainty for organizing today's event. for our last question we have two minutes, you can make it short or take the full two minutes, if you had the power to fire one person on the planet, who would it be and why? >> this is such an easy one, isn't it? but i won't do it. i won't do it. too corny. look, we are a great country. we have great potential. let's live with that potential and let's make that potential come true. we need fantastic leadership. we have the people in this country that have the potential to be fantastic leaders. let's use our great minds. we are smarter than anyone. we can do what nobody has ever done before. but we need great leadership and we need it quickly before it's too late. thank you very much. thank you, everybody. [applause] [captions copyright national

ben carson speaks with the national press club. the former director of pediatric surgery at john hopkins university will discuss his new book "one nation." live coverage at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span 2. >> the problem now is future pace. that is your job in germany. by your conduct and attitude while in germany, you can leave a -- lay the groundwork of a key that can last forever, or just the opposite, the groundwork of a new war to come. just as american soldiers had to do the job 26 years ago, so could other american soldiers, your son, have to do it again another 20-odd years from now. germany today appears to be beaten. hitler, out. swastikas, gone. nazi propaganda, off the air. camps, empty.n you will see ruins. you will see flowers. you will see some mighty pretty scenery. do not let it for you. you are in enemy country. be alert, suspicious of everyone. take no chances. you are up against more than tourist scenery. you are up against german history. it is in good. >> in the first of a five part look at hollywood directors wh

what to think the national press club staff for organizing today's event. for our last question -- and we have two minutes. if he had the power of fire one person on the planet who with b? >> this is such an easy one. but i've won't do it. i won't do it. too corny. we are a great country. we have great potential. let's live with that potential and let's make that potential come true. we need but fantastic leaders. we have the people in this country that have the potential to be fantastic leaders. let's look use our great minds. we are smarter than anyone. we can do what nobody has ever done before. we need great leaderships. and we needed quickly before it is too late. thank you very much. thank you, everybody. [applause] if you would like to get a copy -- [applause] if you would like to get a copy of today's program please check out our website. thank you all. we are adjourned. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations]

in about a half an hour or so florida republican senator marco rubio will be speaking at the national press club. he is expected to talk about retirement savings. the associated press say tag he is proposing an overhaul of federal programs to help younger workers save for their retirement. we will have his comments live at 1:00 p.m. eastern or when they get underway on c-span2 until then a discussion on the cost of higher education from today's "washington journal.". >> host: our conversation on the cost of higher education continues with michael stratford, a federal policy reportwer inside higher ed, here to talk about the price but also let's focus in on student aid because we had at love questions about that here when we started our conversation this morning. let's begin with student loans. that is in the headlines lately, the amount of debt. how big is the problem right now? >> guest: the numbers are pretty staggering. the top line, headline grabbing number, americans are $1.2 trillion in in student loans. more students are borrowing money to finance their college education, about 70% o

and next i would like to present our guest with the national press club mug. [applause] >> senator toomey mention this was the first time you've spent at the national press club and we hope that you will be back. [applause] and one last question, if you do become president, which democrat will you invite to your first summit? >> that is a good question. >> the current president has had a few. >> probably joe biden because he always tells good jokes. >> how about a round of applause? [applause] >> thank you for coming today. i would also like to thank the national press club staff including the journalism institute and broadcast center for organizing today's event. if you'd like more information about the national press club, >> i am the vice president and director of economic studies in the brookings institution. i am pleased to introduce keynote speaker and director of the federal housing finance agency. we are thrilled to have the director here today to give his views on finance. are now approaching six years of fannie mae and freddie mac placed into conserv

governor christie keeps telling the national press this is over. i've been exonerated. he has shut down the national press on this, the questions you have been able to get at have become more and more and more pointed in terms of figuring out what happened here. >> it is a head scratcher. the governor said december 13. he asked everybody in the administration if they knew anything. but the day before he expressed doubt to his senior people as to whether bill stepian really didn't know anything about it. he had his own internal doubts. yet went out on the national stage and said "nobody knows anything." that contradiction really need to be explained. >> now seemingly on the back burner, national press, the story is cooking hotter than it has. and sk thank you for being here. >> rachel. thank you. >> appreciate it. it we have got results coming in over the course of this hour. we'll be right back. stay with us. drive... being able to see so clearly... to respond so intelligently and so quickly, they can help protect us from a world of unseen danger. it's the stuff of scie

i mean, to me, the balcony at the national press club was the metaphor for this book. and it certainly was the ugliest symbol of discrimination that i knew of in all journalism. c-span: did you ever... >> guest: that's what i called it. c-span: did you ever ask any male why they wouldn't let women in? well, they let women in the balcony ... why they wouldn't let them sit downstairs? >> guest: of course we did. i mean, there were constant complaints from the women's national press club that went over years, and finally they made the balcony decision. and then we said, "but we're not allowed to cover the story properly. we can't hear the speakers properly. we can't ask questions. we're not equal still." and their attitude was that women would be a disruptive part of the national press club, that we'd make men feel uncomfortable in the bar, that we might ask stupid questions. it's so hard to remember how recent that kind of attitude was. it's better, but not good enough. c-span: why did you write this book? >> guest: i wrote it because the story had never been told before

please join he in welcoming to the national press club -- please join me in welcoming to the national press club senator marco rubio. [applause] >> thank you. i appreciate it. thank you to the national press club for having me. it is my first time here in the three and a half years i've served in washington, and depending on how it goes, it may or may not be my last, so we'll see. but i'm honored that all of you would be here to talk about an issue that's important to me. let me begin by speaking about the night that i was elected on. my mother turned 80 the day i was elected to the u.s. senate. so for me, that night was the culmination of a year and a half and what was a pretty difficult campaign, one that many people, including myself on occasion, had doubts i could win. but for my mother, that night wasn't just an election, it was a living affirmation of the promise of the country he had come to love. when she and my father came to america in 1956, they came with little more than their dreams of a better life. but even with the constraints of their old lives removed, they struggled

, a former international bureau chief for the associated press and the 107th president of the national press club. the world's leading organization committed to our profession's future through our programming with the events such as this well fostering of free press worldwide. for more information about the national press club, please visit our website. on behalf of our members worldwide i would like to welcome our speaker and those of you attending today's event. our head table includes guess of our speaker as well as working journalists or club members. if you hear applause in our audience, not that members of the general public are attending, so it is not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic object to the. i would also like to welcome our c-span and public radio audiences. you can follow the action on twitter. we will have a question and answer that will ask as many as time permits. it is time to introduce our head tables. i ask each of you to a stand briefly as a name is announced. from your right, jonathan sunland, political reporter for bloomberg news and a former national pr

now, i would like to thank our host the national press club and every member and supporter of lmp df for making this important observance possible. it's a tremendous honor to take part in this celebration and to stand with lawyers who participated in the brown case, the families of the courageous plaintiffs who made this landmark decision possible, and with mrs. sissy marshall the wife of the late thurgood marshall, one of our great civil rights pioneers who helped found this organization nearly three quarters of a century ago. since 1940 ldf has perform critical work to rally americans to the unifying cause of justice. standing on the front lines of our fight to guarantee security advance opportunity and to ensure equal treatment under law. your enduring legacy is written not only in the words of legal opinions, but in the remarkable once unimaginable progress that so many of us have witnessed even within our own lifetimes. the fact that i serve in an administration led by another african american bears witness o that progress. [applause] your actions alongside those of countless ci

now, i would like to thank our host the national press club and every member and supporter of lmp df for making this important observance possible. it's a tremendous honor to take part in this celebration and to stand with lawyers who participated in the brown case, the families of the courageous plaintiffs who made this landmark decision possible, and with mrs. sissy marshall the wife of the late thurgood marshall, one of our great civil rights pioneers who helped found this organization nearly three quarters of a century ago. since 1940 ldf has perform critical work to rally americans to the unifying cause of justice. standing on the front lines of our fight to guarantee security advance opportunity and to ensure equal treatment under law. your enduring legacy is written not only in the words of legal opinions, but in the remarkable once unimaginable progress that so many of us have witnessed even within our own lifetimes. the fact that i serve in an administration led by another african american bears witness o that progress. [applause] your actions alongside those of countless ci

thank you very much. >>> we are live now at the national press club in washington, d.c.or remarks in a few moments by the retired surgeon and author ben carson who plays third in the political conferences presidential straw poll. the new book is called one nation what we can do to save america's future. introductory remarks are getting underway. live coverage on c-span2. >> i noticed the members of the general public are attending. so it's not necessarily evidence of a lack of journalistic objectivity. i would also like to welcome the public radio audiences. you can follow on twitter using the hash tag npclunch. we have a question and answer perco and will ask as many questions as time permits. now it's time to introduce the head table guests and i would like you each to stand briefly as your name is announced. from your right, the director emeritus of the journalism washington program. travel writer for the jamestown post-journal of new york state. the assistant managing editor for the christian post. president editorial associates and coworkers might serve today's lunc

and the national press doesn't give a damn? disgraceful. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight, reaction. joining us from boston colonel david hunt and from washington lt. ralph peters analyst. the chairman of the house armed services committee, all right? buck mcken none, is he a republican, all right? republican congressman from california. he says that lovell, the man you just heard, the general over in europe in charge of the afri-con situation. didn't have reliable insight into operational options available during the benghazi attacks. plk ken none basically saying ignore this guy. what do you say colonel peters. >> i don't reads it that wait a minute general lovell, who is a j 2, central intelligence in afri-con never claimed. i heard in his testimony. he said he did not know exactly what options were available militarily. but what he did know, what every man and woman in uniform, what every man and woman who ever wore a u.s. military uniform knew is you do all you can to rescue americans under fire. and, you know, you just can't blame this o

next i'd like to present our guest with the traditional national press club mug.[applause] senator, you mentioned this was the first time you were at the national press club. i'd like to assure you that speakers who return for further engagements, they get multiples of the cup, so we hope you'll be back. [laughter] [applause] and one last question. if you do become president, which democrat will you invite to your first beer summit? [laughter] >> that's a good -- to my first what now? beer summit? >> yes. >> ah. >> yeah. the current president has had a few, if you might carry on that tradition. >> probably joe biden. he always tells good jokes. [laughter] >> very good. how about a round of applause. for our speaker. [applause] thank you for coming today. i'd also like to thank national press club staff including its journalism institute and broadcast center for organizing today's event. and if you'd like a copy of today's program or to fete more information about the national press club, please check our web site at press.org. thank you, we are adjourned. [applaus

and on c-span3 from the national press club, a look at veterans jobs programs including comments from a representative of the american legion. that's live at 10:00 a.m. eastern. and in a few moments, a look at today's headlines plus your calls live on "washington journal." at 11:30 eastern, former secretary of state, hillary clinton speaks the america foundation. naacpst noon, the ncaa -- marks the 60th anniversary of the supreme court's brown vs. board of education decision. in 45 minutes, we will focus on the housing decision. a senior editor with telecommunications reports will take your questions about the sec's vote to move ahead with new rules for noted internet. analyzelook at ways to gross to mastic product with erich strassner. ♪ host: a rather busy news week in washington and around the country. we will want to hear your views on some of the public policy issues that are in the news this week. this morning on "washington journal," you can see the numbers on this rain. if you are a democrat, democrats, (202) 585-3880. republicans, (202) 585-3881. independents, (202) 585-3882.

later in the day donald trump will address the national press coverage. tonight, a conversation about the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent regulations put in place by the bills authors. former house financial services chairman barney frank and former senate inking committee chair chris dodd at 8:00 eastern here on c-span. coming up, michael waldman on the brenner -- brennan center .or justice been talking about the conservative political agenda. rivera on some of the middle east foreign-policy challenges facing the obama administration. join the conversation on facebook and twitter. ♪ host: good morning, everyone. the house is in session this week with legislation blowing to ensure the v.a. controversy. live coverage of the house here on c-span. the front page of wall street journal this month. the obama administration is set to announce new climate change proposal next week. cap and trade and renewable energy options. we will stick with the economy here this morning for the first part of today's washington journal. we want to hear from you. how is th

in a statement, the national press club, the npc likened the police's attitude of that of the president before his murder during a press conference with u.s. president barack obama. akino got it wrong when he misstated the number of journalists killed politically motivated massacre saying 52 had been killed, not 32. the nbc's president said this is a clear indication of plain disregard for the ready plight of filipino journalits he, the president, couldn't even get his facts straight. >> the turkish government is fighting back against criticism for the reputation for jailing journalists. on may 1st, the u.s.-based rights add voc case freedom house downgraded from partly free to not free. the same category it gives countries like south sudan and zambia, not the kind of company turkey wants to keep. the next day thephon minister called on turkish journalists to reject the report. a number of media outlets were happy to comply, including the star daily, and yeni akit. they all ran stories to discredited the sorts by linking freedom house to the u.s. state department, george soros and some

i'd also like to thank national press club staff, including its journalist of institute and broadcast center for organizing today's event. also if you'd like to get a copy of today's program or to get more information about the national press club, please check out our website at press.org. thank you all for being here today. thank you again, dr. carson. we are adjourned. [applause] [inaudible conversations] .. >> the house veteran's organization has a hearing to get an update over failure to supply a subpoena. news today that author and poet maya angelo has died at her home. she was very active in the civil rights movement and was well known were her memoirs and delivered the inaugural poem at the president's clinton swearing in ceremony and in 2011 president obama awarded her the presidential honor of freedom. angelou passing away at the age of 86. the president's statement saying in part that mitchell and i join millions around the world in remembering one of the brightest lights of our time. a brill i want writer, a fierce friend and a truly phenomenal woman. we will have her bock

>> well, what struck me about marco rubio's comments at the national press club versus what he said ats the matter of emphas emphasis. when he was asked a question directly to nbc, that is how he gave the response of how he disagrees with the scientists and doesn't believe that the humans have contributed to the climate change and manmade, but when he was asked a simpler question yesterday, he punted the talk about the scientist human's culpability on it, and focussed on the legislative aspects of it, and he said that he is against cap and trade legislation and any legislation, because it is going to hurt our economy, and it is a tact from the some democrats, but it is how he slid from one angle. >> and now "time" magazine criticizing rubio after those comment s th comments that he may have not only realize or know but by saying the things that he has said, he has made a strong case that he is not ready to run for president, and stronger case that he is not ready to hold the job. that is a portion of what "time" magazine wrote about this, and is this something that he is going to avoid

florida senator marco rubio speaks at the national press club about retirement security. you can see that at 1:00 p.m. eastern on c-span2. and in a few moments, today's headlines in your call to live on "washington journal." at 10:30 a.m. eastern, the senate homeland security and governmental affairs committee will examine plans for improving the dependent -- defense department financial management system so it is ready to be audited in 2017. later, president obama will award the medal of honor to former army sergeant kyle white and you can see that at 3:00 p.m. eastern. about 45 minutes, michael stratford, a reporter for looks at ther ed" rising cost of college education or what options are available for financially. -- 830 a.m. eastern, a focus on the value of a college education. and national review writer discusses his article "drop the dropout," which examines society's push toward obtaining a college degree. ♪ good morning on this tuesday, may 13, 2014. a bipartisan bill to encourage energy efficiency in buildings expired in the senate on monday over disagreements o

[applause] senator, you mentioned that this is your first time at the national press club. speakers who returned for further engagement may get multiples. we hope you come back. [applause] one last question. if you do become president, which democrat will you invite to your first beer summit? >> that is a good question. beer summit? >> the current president has had a few. probably, joe biden. he always tells good jokes. [laughter] >> how about a round of applause? [applause] thank you for coming today. i would like to thank national press club staff, including the journalism institute and broadcast center, for organizing the event. if you want a copy of the program, or to get more information, please check our website. thank you and we are adjourned. [applause] >> a portion of remarks yesterday from marco rubio. a potential republican candidate for 2016. you can watch all of his speech at c-span.org. a live picture from capitol hill. the senate finance committee will hear testimony from sylvia burwell. her nomination is up for consideration to be the next health and human s

the national press doesn't give a damn?take a look at why it is just now gaining more attention. bill: "frozen" is taken the world by storm. let's hear it for the u.s. marines, shall we? >> ♪ let it go ♪ let it go close ♪ your mom could do anything. turn night into day. conquer the globe. stop floods. now she could use a hand, so she can keep living on her own. comfort keepers can help you help her. our professional caregivers are carefully chosen and highly trained to provide a variety of in-home services while truly engaging with your aging loved ones so they can stay happy at home. comfort keepers. keeping the comforts of home. call comfort keepers now to learn more. martha: bill o'reilly blasts in the media ignoring and overlooking the benghazi scandal taking on over the last couple of months on the "o'reilly factor." o'reilly: the obama administration was completely derelict in the attack and was dishonest in the aftermath. national press doesn't give a damn? disgraceful. that failure to tell the american people the tr

we are going live to the national press club, where the legal defense and education fund is marking the 60th anniversary of brown versus board of education. striking down school segregation. speakers will include eric holder, the massachusetts governor, and cecilia marshall, the wife of former justice thurgood marshall. this should get underway shortly. [crowd chatter] >> i am the seventh director counsel of the naacp legal defense fund. many of you know that are six , john payton,el the brilliant lawyer from washington dc, who is well-known to many of you, passed away while he was director counsel. that all the sure director counsel's are represented today. i am absolutely thrilled and happy that someone who was a very early hero of mine is here today and has joined us and that is john peyton's wife, gay mcdougall. a human rights activist in her own right. [applause] i also want to a knowledge the presence of the dean and faculty of howard law school. many of you know that howard law school was the incubator of much of the thinking that went into the early civil rights litigation work.

as for millions of average german citizens hence am just a few blocks from the white house the national press club former nsa contractor turned whistleblower adverts netting received even our award for truth telling. he shared the honors with filmmaker laura returns the first journalist he reached out to the documents. artsy political commentator send faxes the keyword ceremony he joined me earlier i first asked him to tell me about it this is an annual events the end of the organization in the four of war says a book prize or surprise for documentary filmmaking their surprise for courage. there's this truth telling prize which was to investigative journalists whistleblowers and this is what edward starting or fortress the convention the turn was the first reach up to. were awarded today. um edwards and his family was on hands us who was attorney justin redux up whistleblower thomas trigg who won this award back in two thousand eleven was there a member of congress alan grayson is there also. ralph nader a former presidential candidate was there i spoke with him about a few issues after the c

i want to thank the national press club and all the members of my staff for the hard work they put into making this event happened, and i want to thank you for joining us in this terrific celebration. i wish you a sunny rest of the day, and i wish you a great weekend. thank you all very much. [applause] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2014] [captioning performed by national captioning institute] >> earlier, a journalist joined us to talk about nsa surveillance programs, edward snowden, and the state of journalism. 2:00 p.m.nday at eastern as we re-air that segment. here on c-span. several members of congress acting in good faith have put forward plans that address our long-term funding issue, and we applaud them for their efforts, and i know there is going to be more discussion in town this week on those attempts. others are suggesting that the political reality is that we will have to settle for an infusion of cash into the highway trust fund as a stopgap measure. where are you going to get the cash? it used to be there were ways to do it. i think it is a little tigh

and less hurricanes, that is not an accurate statement. >> you can see all of his speech at the national pressclub on our companion network. a conversation with national security advisor susan rice, interviewed by judy woodruff of the pbs news hour. the women's foreign policy group is hosting a discussion. financeral housing agency is looking to wind down the operations of fannie mae and freddie mac. the head of the agency says it is reversing course. until congress passes legislation, the agency will not back away from the mortgage market. >> i am the vice president and director of economic studies in the brookings institution. i am pleased to introduce keynote speaker and director of the federal housing finance agency. we are thrilled to have the director here today to give his views on finance. are now approaching six years of fannie mae and freddie mac placed into conservatorship. ways, there are fundamental structures that are unchanged. the regulator and conservator of fannie and freddie and the , prior to that, a member of the u.s. house of representatives representing the home state of

because as i said go back to that national press club washington jory new and there she is right nextto chevron attends billion dollar we go for crazy stuff and i agree with you on the no more trillions in foreign nations let's keep it at home but that was gerald celente publisher of the trends journal time now for today's big deal. big deal so i'm with my buddy and producer edward harrison now today we're taking a look at a very very elite a. mile high club or. there you go. as you know how there is announced a new luxury which puts most hotel rooms to shame and i mean shame check out some of these pictures coming up and they were designed as a way to challenge you a rival airline emirates yes it's a war of luxury between these two companies more specifically a war to attract a premium customers by offering a premium product so instead of simply reclining into a plush seat at the front of the airplane only customers will now be able to snuggle up in a bed surrounded by riches how premium is premium you might ask well those pictures and these coming up pretty much say it all there fro

obviously what he had to say to jonathan karl did not go over well at the national press club and he'simate change. >> i think this is what happens when you're thinking about running in a republican primary at the same time trying to become a viable national figure. you have to say one thing that on the one hand doesn't alienate the base. in this case, the republican base doesn't want to hear that global warming is man-made or a serious problem. but on the other hand, the majority of americans feel this is a real issue and that it needs to be dealt with at a federal level. so you've also seen this pattern from other contenders. possible contenders for the republican nomination. remember what happened with rand paul when he came out and said that republicans need to stop talking about voter fraud. and voter i.d. he got slammed on the right, even though what he said, this is offensive, republicans need to be careful about the way they're talking about this. it's offending african-americans. yesterday, he walked those statements back, saying, well, i didn't say -- i didn't say that these

. >> athat failure by the national press to tell the american people the truth about benghazi is for one reason and one reason only. to protect president barack obama. >> that sarcasm and apparently a sense of reason or proportion, these things seem to have been lost on conspiracy obsessed conservatives who have turned this e-mail into the watergate tapes. >> i say the media is suffering from benghazi allergy syndrome. they think the story is old, complicated and the country's moved on. o'reilly says the media are protecting barack obama. where do you come down? >> i have to say on mr. o'rei y mr. o'reilly's side. the media had no problem following the valerie plame scandal. every moment of that scandal, none as too small for them to gorge themselves on it. to say this is too complicated, it's been stretching out for two years. >> do you think the editors get together and say this could be damaging to the president, we need to play this down? >> no. i think there is an internal bias where they judge something not to be newsworthy so they don't put it on the air. whereas in fact the b

and the national press doesn't give a damn?e, the equivalent of what was discovered with the nixon tapes. >> it's watergate, it's orwellian? they can't give enough of this fake scandal. we've seen this phony scandal machine before. a.c.o.r.n., fast and furious, the irs, republicans don't have a real agenda, so they're desperate to gin up a scandal, any scandal. because they don't have a positive agenda. joining me now are jo madison and bill press. thank you for being here. >> hi, reverend al. >> do republicans really think the american people don't know what's going on here? >> that's what they think, but they think incorrectly. an to add to the -- what you said, this congress led by republicans, particularly in the house of representatives supported the senate if i'm not mistaken, they have passed fewer legislative bills. then in other words, make law than any congress since world war ii. or the beginning of world war ii. >> today, big news, the president held after joint press conference with the chancellor of germany. big n

press, ben rhodes did not work in a vacuum. he worked for tom donlin. he was running the nationalrity council and i said that's over and over. that's where you are going to do. he was the person designing and running this and anyone who knows him and knows the players just like if you knew the nixon white house and the players you would know and that's the truth we need to get at. >> part of that kind of sound bite timeline that we put together moments ago that we all got to watch, a former white house staffer tommy vietor all bureaucrats do all day long is edit talking points and we've got asz on twitter, if that's what bureaucrats are doing all day long, we have blank too many of them. >> we may have too many of them. that's another discussion for another night. but here's what we do know and pat and ed will certainly weigh in. we've all been in the white house. we've all worked at a high level for democratic and republican presidents and we have all been involved in editing talking points, and when you are involved in a big matter like this, let me assure you remember what you

this lasts for about an hour. >> ladies and gentlemen, welcome to this sponsored by the national press club on finding employment for returning veterans. this is one issue that all americans agree upon. usually we speak on subjects in which there is a great divisiveness. finding employment for anyone especially returning veterans is one that we agree on. we have two gentlemen who will discuss this issu issud are very credentialed. we have steven gonzales and the american region and he is the deputy director for the legions veteran employment and education division. he's worked with members of congress and the executive branch. he's worked on very positive legislation such as the veterans opportunity to work, the veteran bills skills to jobs at, military commercial drivers license act and executive order 13607 establishing principles of education for educational institution servicing serving veterans, spouses and other family members. bill is a former marine, formerly with the air force, a retired air force colonel who spent much of his life on the very subject of which he is discussing

the funny thing is that a lot of primaries, the national press has made this a traditional establishment party narrative for a senate race sort of but it's a little bit limited for two reasons. one, tom tillis is actually very conservative. that was texas and came really pushed through a lot of landmark conservative legislation, lots of budget cuts, a strict voter i.d. law and the other thing here is that the two candidates were challenging him, among others, are not that strong. they haven't raised a lot of money. some of the big conservative outside groups like the club for growth, the senate conservative fund haven't endorsed in this primary. so, look, if it does get to a runoff, anything can happen. as i said, a low turnout could be tough for anybody perceived as an established candidate but tillis has lots of money from outside groups propping him up. jake? >> peter hamby, thank you so much. let's bring in our political panel to dissect this and more. gloria borger and jonathan martin. what i love about this race is that kay hagan is meddling in the race about tom tillis. what is sh

and that failure by the national press to tell the american people the truth about benghazi is for one reason and one reason only. to protect president barack obama. >> so this morning i put together a blue ribbon panel of reporters to get at the truth of this, including carl bernstein of watergate fame. but here in the studio, dana bash and political staff writer glen thrush. >> let's start with the e-mail which is being called the smoking gun. >> they're calling it a smoking gun because they believe this is proof of what they've been arguing for a very long time, which is that there was a political dynamic here and a political imperative here inside the white house to not call this a terrorist attack because it was just six, seven weeks before the election, and the president was running on somebody who killed osama bin laden. so this would have hurt that political narrative. but it's not just the content, it's also the fact we haven't seen it. it wasn't a part of the batch of documents the white house gave up when they were subpoenaed. >> i was talking to a former and national securi

we are going to go live to the national press club in washington, d.c. where the president of gordon college in massachusetts will be presenting the results from his ten year study on power and leadership in america. mr. lindsey says that a few thousand people in the u.s. make decisions that impact the rest of us. he and his team conducted in-depth interviews with 550 government and business leaders to find out how they operate. this event, hosted by the trinity forum, a nonprofit group in dc. introductory remarks now getting underway. >> -- to the rest of the evening. i'm the president of the trinity forum and we are excited to partner with boarding and hosting tonight's presentation. i would like to thank the board and staff for their willingness to partner with us and we are delighted to be joined tonight by a few trustees including suzy as well as the trinity members and holiday bob kramer, the advisory board member peter mcdonald caught into th it at te trinity forum academy trustees. i'm also the way to do that so many trinity forum academy alumni

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this is not getting a lot of national press yet, but this is going to be a big fight between the federal one side and the most profitable industry the world has ever known on the other side. this is getting business press so far, but no politics press. if there was any doubt this fight was coming, this fight has been put to rest with the oil industry' announcement that they think everything's fine. this is going to be a big one. safer and everything is fine. this is going to be a big one. "first look" is up next. >>> good, friday morning, everybody. wicked softball sized hail and damaging winds. >> i don't think i was ever more scared in my life. i was shaking with my face covered. >> will mother nature cooperate with millions hitting the road this memorial day weekend? >>> 11 square miles burning and counting. this slide fire could face tough resistance today. >>> plus billionaire's mark cuban's take on race and he apologizes to trayvon martin's participan parents. >>> hello, everybody. thanks for starting your friday with

step further and this year, we legalized recreational marijuana -- which is funny, because the national presse a big deal of it but it was really not a big deal here because we've had medical marijuana stores, essentially, all over the state for years. now that the fact that you can without a state-mandated card, is not a big change. i think those in colorado really don't even notice it. how has it affected the economy? well, things that were in the black market are now on the open, which means it can be regulated and taxed. i don't think there are many people who see that as a bad thing. >> dara lightle, what about the cost of this treatment, given the fact this is still a schedule one drug insurance companies don't reimburse? for families that may be of low income, what is this costing you? ,> usually depends on weight how much toilet you take. -- how much oil you take. for my daughter, because about $450 a month. two different types. it is about $450 a month. for an adult, it could be up to $900 to $1000 a month. >> dave philipps, what happens then? >> there are people who i've spoken to t

and that failure by the national press to tell the american people the truth about benghazi is for oneson and one reason only. to protect president barack obama. and that's the memo. now for the top story tonight. reaction, joining us from washington leslie marshall and host of media buzz seen on sunday morning howard kurtz. explain to me why the national media didn't cover it? >> most of the media are suffering from benghazi allergy syndrome. knee jerk reaction that this story is old, it's complicated, it's settled and the country has moved on. one more thing and you got backlash when you interviewed the president about. this oh, it's a fox news story. >> now we know it isn't. now we know that the white house mislead on purpose for political reasons in a presidential campaign. so, all of that blown goes to the wayside and now they have to, if they are honest saying this is a big story. it's a big story. >> it's a significant story. in some ways it's incremental advance on what we already knew. the white house was spinning in an election year to try to minimize the fallout on benghazi